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Daily Morning Lesson: March 6, 2026

Part 1: Lesson on the topic of "Winning the War (against the evil inclination)"

Selected excerpts to reinforce the World Kli and for peace in the world

Original lesson date: 03/01/2022

Reader: Hello dear friends, in the first part we'll learn from a lesson on the topic of Winning The War, from March 1st, 2022; the lesson is based on selected excerpts on the topic.

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Reader: Hello, the topic for our lesson today is Winning The War. We'll read the selected excerpts to reinforce the world Kli and for peace in the world. You can find this material in the study materials tab in the Arvut system; you can also send questions, relevant questions could be aired during the broadcast. Winning the War, Rav Laitman, please.

M. Laitman: (00:57) We win the war, not in the physical battlefield but in the spiritual one. This is why we have to see what the Creator does in our world and, accordingly, we see how it influences all of humanity, that there is hardly a nation and a country that is not connected to this war. We need to put order in these things and connect as much as possible everything that happens into feelings, into a prayer, into a response from below upward, from us to the Creator. So, we have work to do, to learn and to carry out such operations in these days, in these times that will complement the work of the Creator, which we will do from below upwards by raising MAN – our deficiencies, our requests, our pleas. And in this way we'll be able to advance along with this whole great flow, correctly; and the world, too, will go with us. We will turn the bad forces into good forces, therefore, let's read what the friends have selected for us as excerpts that pertain to our situation. And let's try to recognize in them the spiritual actions that we have to do and, in this way, unite around them, solidify ourselves. By this, we will actually win the war because all of us are in all kinds of contradictory states toward everyone else. Let's get closer and closer to the center of the connection between us where we are all incorporated as one man with one heart. Please.

Reader: First, Winning the War. The first topic is fighting the evil inclination. 

Reading: (04:02) Fighting the evil inclination 1. RABASH, Article No. 6 (1989), "What Is Above Reason in the Work?"

Tzava [army] are men of war. These are people who go each day to fight the evil inclination. They are called “army.” Therefore, after they have been rewarded with redemption, meaning after they conquer the evil inclination and emerge from the control of the evil, their conduct in the work is by way of ascents and descents, which is called Tzevaot [plural of Tzava (army)]. Meaning, at times they emerge from their control, and then are under their control again. Thus, the name for ascents and descents is Tzevaot.  

M. Laitman: It's from the words Tse and Ba, coming—going out and coming in; meaning, we emerge from the will to receive, rise a little bit to connection and to the will to bestow, and we fall again into the will to receive. Once again, we emerge from it through our efforts and connections and after we achieve something, we fall again. In this way, through these excursions, through these going out to connection and to fall, connection and falling. In this way we correct all the pieces which the Creator has prepared in the breaking of Adam HaRishon.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:42) What should we fight for? 

M. Laitman: For the connection, we constantly fall off from it, this is why it's called, Tzva'ot, Tse and Ba, going out and coming in. First, we have to exit, we have to discover that we are not connected and then we have to—and we can discover it through our work and then it's not considered war. It's just the regular progress – we reveal our lack of connection and we try to achieve connection. And in this way—but, sometimes, it happens as it's happening now – when we see in corporeality what shows—of manifestations of separation there are. And then we all have to fight to bring this separation into connection, into unity. Here, we need to understand that the winner is the one who is fighting for connection so that love will cover all crimes. When we don't want to be under the governance of anyone but that the good connection will win.

Question (ITA 4): (07:43) How can we fulfill this change, this difference between what's happening now and the efforts we put in like the prayer, and the relationship between us, spiritually, what we do every day? How can we complete this gap and not feel that we're so little opposite this big thing that's happening?

M. Laitman: There's no problem here if we know only one thing: that love will cover all crimes. No one is right and no one is to blame, it's no one's fault. We just have to rise above these elements – I'm talking about the inner war, and the physical war is a result of it—as a result of it, it will be over, too. If it doesn't end spiritually first, then these battles will stop and these problems will stop but then they will light up again. This is why our work is to fight in such a way that love will cover all crimes. Meaning there is resistance, there are conflicts, collisions. We have to understand that there's no one here who is right or wrong because although it seems to us logical, reasonable, that each of them speaks correctly and reasonably. But we don't get into it – we just don't get into it – the point is to connect the extremes by rising above both. And you can do this only if you understand that all those troubles come – all these bad forces, these conflicting forces come from the Creator. And, therefore, by rising to Him, that's the only way we can connect them, only by rising to their source. Because it may seem to you like one side is right and we have to subdue, defeat the other side. But we don't approach in this way, no one here is right or wrong, we have to think that it has to do with the Creator and There's None Else Besides Him, He awakens these problems. And only by uniting correctly the two contradictory forces, we can win. 

How do we win over ourselves? We win by not following what seems to us, that these are right or these are right. We don't belong to the two lines, we belong to the middle lines – that the Creator is the man of war. He is doing all these things and There's None Else Besides Him, and this is why only by turning to Him and by demanding that He will make peace over the conflict, He makes peace in His heavens, He will make peace on us. This is how it will happen and not in any other way.

Student: I wanted to refine the question: I'm talking about feeling small with everything we do with our prayer and our efforts as opposed to what's happening in the world. That it just seems in huge dimensions, how do we not feel that we're too small opposite something too big?

M. Laitman: We are not small and we have to start uniting among us more and then we will understand how much we can incorporate huge contradictory forces – spiritual ones – until all the worlds are revealed in the connection between us. We are not small, it seems to us that way but, in truth, we are the greatest that can be in the reality that the Creator has created. It all depends on the extent to which we assume this task of bringing the whole system of Adam HaRishon into correction, into mutual complementation.

Question (Almaty): (13:21) It's very clear that the common system split the two and that it's an illusion and that the reasons are imaginary. How do we connect these two, internally?

M. Laitman: We connect the contradictory parties and, in general, everything that is in disorder. It is in disorder because we can't connect them together and attribute them, relate them all to one source. This is why all our work should be in some way above reason, that it came from the one Creator and He demands of us to attribute everything to Him and connect ourselves, relate ourselves also to that connection and, in this way, we come to spiritual operations, we're gradually approaching it. 

Reading: (14:26) Fighting the evil inclination 2. RABASH, Article No. 6 (1989), "What Is Above Reason in the Work?"

During the work, a person should say, “If I am not for me, who is for me?” At that time in the work, they think that they themselves are doing the ascents and descents, that they are men of war, called Tzava, “mighty men.” Afterward, when they are redeemed, they attain that the Lord is of hosts [Tzevaot], meaning that the Creator made all the ups and downs they had.

In other words, even the descents come from the Creator. A person does not get so many ups and downs for no reason. Rather, the Creator caused all those exits. We can interpret “exit” as “exit from Kedusha [holiness],” and Ba [comes] as “coming to Kedusha. The Creator does everything. Hence, after the redemption, the Creator is called “Lord of Hosts.”  

M. Laitman: Questions? None, okay, we'll continue; the important thing is that you have the text in front of you. Afterwards, you can go over it again and talk about it, these are very good excerpts!

Question (Baltia 4): (16:20) Why does man think that this descent depends on him?

M. Laitman: That's the whole meaning of the concealment, this is how we have to, from the beginning, accept all of creation. And, then, we gradually scrutinize, opposite from our ego and our intellect, opposite from the confusions in our mind and heart. We scrutinize the unification, the unity, and the uniqueness that only one force operates and activates all of creation, so everything begins from confusion. The Creator created a complete system, which is Adam HaRishon prior to the sin. Afterwards, He deliberately injected into the system the evil inclination and because of it, the system broke. And, now, we are scrutinizing in every element, where is the force of separation and where is the force of connection? By scrutinizing it, sorting them and positioning them one opposite the other, we come to a state where we scrutinize our place, our source, our origin, the Creator who is revealed through our scrutinies and this is really our entire war. 

Question (Merkaz 1): (18:15) At the moment, all of the additions of efforts in connection stem from fear of the situation. That it will deteriorate, that the war will spread to here. And, now, it's not the purest intention—how to work with that, when the fear goes away, the effort goes away?

M. Laitman: Keep demanding connection all the time and then you will discover how all those problems, all those wars are all artificial. Really, only the revelation of the uniqueness, the unification, is the main thing. That in every act, the Creator begins the act and completes the act. This is what we have to do.

Student: How to work with the fear being what motivates me towards connection and not the benefit of the Creator or humanity? How to work with that?

M. Laitman: Connect with a group.

Question (Focus Group): (19:32) I hope I can ask it correctly: For a long, long time, we worked on trying to feel the friends and caring for them and working towards them and placing the Creator as sort of a remote goal. And it seems from this crisis, that kind of succeeds. You feel the friends as your true children, you care for them, you try to think of them. But then, I noticed that we seem to forget the Creator in this whole thing. How can we connect these two concerns, these two directions: both the friends and continue to aim to bring Him contentment – I can't hold these two things together?

M. Laitman: You can't keep them together, you need to be in this—once in this and once in that. It's like that, Tse and Bo: exit and come in, come out, come in. You always have two parts that you need to connect, the two. Therefore, don't dream that you'll be able to, immediately, come to connection, to the truth. Connection is already the Creator, it is an element, a facet of Him, so we will always, we always come from incompleteness to completeness.

Student: What does it mean to do it one time this way, the other time that way? What do you mean? 

M. Laitman: What do you mean from this way and from that way?

Student: You said we can't connect two things together, we have to come in and come out. So how do I, one time, care about the friends and then remember that I need to bring Him contentment, how to connect these two?

M. Laitman: We have to scrutinize the shattering that we are in and on top of the shattering, we will scrutinize the connection, yes. Just as you do it with lego bricks, you have to sort out the pieces you have, see how different they are, and in what way they can be connected in order to create some complete form or shape. This is what you do except it's done, not mechanically but internally in a person, to the extent that he relates to the friends and to the world.

Question (Focus Group): (22:34) It says, what does it mean that the Creator is a man of war and the Creator is a man of peace?

M. Laitman: He stirs up the conflicts because There's None Else Besides Him. He stirs them up in a very special way that it gives us a possibility to scrutinize how different we are and where we have to make corrections. Then, when we come to Him after feeling all the confusions and the troubles, if we come to Him then He puts order in it for us and shows us how we can be together. This is called, love will cover all crimes; and then, we see the beginning and the end of the operation – why He did it this way and what we achieve precisely by going from the incomplete to the complete.

Student: If He makes peace and He makes war, what's our role exactly?

M. Laitman: To make the connection, to make the connection between the two, that's the main thing. Because out of this, we learn the essence of the Creator, we become incorporated with this operation and it puts order in us, in the beginning and the end of this act, this work. Then, we grow up, we become wise, united, as inclusive as He is. By this, He teaches us what it means to be the Creator.

Question (Focus Group): (24:30) What does it mean to fight the evil inclination?

M. Laitman: All the forces of separation, on every level and manner are the evil inclination. 

Student: How do you fight it? 

M. Laitman: By asking the Creator to connect, and then I see the evil inclination as an angel; a higher force that performs such operations that bring me to need the help of the Creator.

Student: Can you try to explain what exactly is the goal in that the Creator does actions that He separates, on the other hand, you have to ask the Creator to connect?

M. Laitman: By this, you study creation, how separated it is, broken, dismantled, broken. And to what extent, precisely through the upper force, it can reconnect and become uniform, united, but by mutual complementation. It's not like the Creator created a rock and this is all that exists but, rather, those myriad pieces of that rock. When you know how to connect them, how to complement them in a way that they are all contradictory but you know, through the development of your good force, the bestowal, the force of Bina, how you can connect all those pieces of Malchut. By this, you study the profession of being the Creator where through the connection, through connecting, you attain, well, you can say, His essence with respect to us.

Student: What ends up being the role of man if the Creator keeps putting you in separate situations?

M. Laitman: Our task, our role, is to turn to the Creator and ask Him to put order in things, like a child asking grown-ups to help him when he's playing with his Lego bricks or something.

Student: What exactly are you putting together? With Lego, there's like a picture I'm trying to build, and in this case He keeps messing it up for me every moment.

M. Laitman: No, He doesn't break it on the same level where you put it in order. 

Student: But on a higher level, He messes it up.

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. 

Student: What am I arranging if He keeps messing it up?

M. Laitman: By this, He promotes you because you understand more and more what is destruction and what is connection. In this way, you study creation, the operations of the Creator in creation, and then you actually attain Him.

Student: It turns out that the human we develop is our ability to ask the Creator to complete what we see as disconnected?

M. Laitman: Each one, each person must do this because each one has a task only in this: to connect to others and together with them become as one man with one heart. Asking the Creator to connect all the broken pieces which are us – just imagine that you are just a broken piece out of thousands and thousands of pieces. And you, who is connecting to other people and to forces of nature, you are connecting only on the corporeal level which doesn't even count, it counts only for the purpose of your initial existence. But what you need to do is to demand, to ask, to plead for connection, for what we call connection of the hearts, for all of us to connect in such a way that we will all feel as one. There are no words for it, no words for it.

Student: It turns out that all of man is your ability to pray, that's basically your power, how you can pray to the Creator to connect. How do we develop this ability to create a prayer for connection?

M. Laitman: Normally, it's through the group, when you learn from others; the Creator, after all, brings us to a state where you do get an explanation, what you need to ask for.

Question (Focus Group): (30:31) How can we help friends who are in distress, finding suddenly such great hatred they cannot overcome and they're just helpless. Can't listen to the lessons, can't hear you or other friends, can't overcome the hatred? What can be done, how to help them?

M. Laitman: Help them, nevertheless, in any way you can, over and over and over, try to connect them to us, what can you do? We all know that there is a limit to the pain or the joy or in other states, and, after that, we can disconnect and it's hard for us to return to the connection between us. We, nevertheless, need external help.

Question (Kyiv 3): (31:51) The shattering between two nations is very clear now. The question is whether the reason for the shattering depends on the shattering within each of these nations?

M. Laitman: That too, of course but the main reason is not this, the main reason is the desire of the Creator to show us the shatterings in the Kli, in the vessel of Adam HaRishon. Now, this shattering is being revealed in this way, and we must continue to perform corrections. Don't think, specifically, about nations and all kinds of physical operations. Think about how we do it on the spiritual level – there, is where we can perform corrections – and these corrections are great and very powerful and contain what regular people can't do, only we can. Let's focus on what we can add to the corrections that the world is trying to do. Precisely through our intentions, we can put order in all the corporeal operations of the entire world in such a way that they will be directed, these operations, in the right direction toward connection.

Student: It turns out that we are then working with what's revealed now. 

M. Laitman: Now we're working on all the efforts that all the people in the world are doing so that their actions will acquire the right intention. That's it, this is our work. 

Question (Kiev 3): (34:23) The correction in the world begins from us, right? We have to think about that first and not try to guess why problems happen in the world.

M. Laitman: Yes, of course.

Student: Why is there always a desire to distract yourself, to look at someone else besides yourself?

M. Laitman: Well, that's on purpose so we can make the corrections from the lowest degrees. Because all the degrees, all the corrections begin from the degree of Malchut, the lowest level, from our ego. Then, in our egos—we first of all come with our egos, we want to destroy everyone and kill everyone and arrange everything – afterwards, we have to position ourselves correctly. And think about how we perform the right action and rise from corporeality to spirituality where there are both the reason and the result that should be.

Student: You give an example many times, comparing the Creator or the relations with the Creator like to a mother. Now, it seems like the mother has gone mad, yelling at us, blaming us, and we don't understand what we did wrong?

M. Laitman: Initially, we did not engage in corrections, this is why these corruptions have accumulated and, now, they are bursting out like an illness that wasn't treated, this is what's happening. For years, I would even say decades and centuries, these corruptions have been within humanity. And here and there, they burst out like an illness; here and there, you can see the symptoms of the inner illness. And we have to understand that, as Baal HaSulam writes, that if it's revealed, it's a sign that that corruption was already there. We have to, even be happy about these corruptions because it is precisely through these corruptions, when we correct them, we come to the end of correction.

Student: At this point, where I'm afraid and I don't know what I'm guilty of and I'm trying to ask Him, what did we do wrong?

M. Laitman: You didn't do anything wrong, it's the wrong approach. The Creator prepared the shattering, this is why, from the very beginning – to begin with, nothing is our fault – we received a broken world with an egoistic force that is in it, controls it. And we must only discover it and ask the Creator to correct it. Because by this, I attach myself to the Creator. We have to arrange our thought with relation to the Creator correctly. He does everything, not we. We should only, on top of all the problems that are revealed, turn to Him because we understand that He did it and He did it on purpose so that we would turn to Him and demand of Him corrections. This is called, My sons defeated me.

Student: It's hard to overcome the offense, the insult. 

M. Laitman: There's war in the corporeal background about which it says that if someone comes to kill you, kill them first, that's true because that's on a corporeal level. But in a spiritual sense, we need to ask of the Creator to make peace between us, peace between all of us. In what way? That's already what He's going to do, there are two levels of our actions, here. On the corporeal level, I have to fight, in corporeality we have examples of this from King David. He fought for 40 years, all the time, he would fight; alongside that, he wrote what we have from his writings which indicates how much an eruption of love he had towards everyone, that is truly called, spiritual work. Here, we see practically what the Creator did, and how bad is the world that appears between us, and it's not to the full extent yet. We have to correct it with our relation to it.

Question (Moscow 7): (41:01) I just heard from you, I even wrote it down that the main reason for the wars is that the Creator is showing us that the Kli, the vessel of Adam HaRishon, is broken. Two questions come up in this regard: First of all, why am I so stupid that the Creator has to show me in this way that the vessel of Adam HaRishon is broken?

M. Laitman: That's not a question, it's the only way He can show this to us, there's no other way. Next question?

Student: How long do I have to understand that the reason for the war is the shattering of Adam HaRishon – until all the participants in those events feel it and come to me and ask this question?

M. Laitman: Try, try to digest this as quickly as possible but, again, we are inside creation, here; it's not planet Earth or some small part of the universe or something. We don't understand where we truly are, what we are actually dealing with , so take this seriously and most important for us is, through Your actions we know You. Meaning that we do all the actions of connection and as a result we will discover the essence of creation.

Question (Kyiv 1): (42:47) We say that the war, physical war that's happening is happening because we didn't work enough on connection. And it awakens even more hatred between the nations – the fighting parties – and that it's possible to connect, to correct the hatred through connection. But this hatred throws the nations even further from each other, why is the Creator making our work more difficult? Because to correct this huge hatred as a result of this war, through our connection in the Tens, in the world Kli, is becoming even more difficult? Why is the Creator making our world more difficult?

M. Laitman: The Creator doesn't make our work more difficult; rather, He's giving us work according to our ability to do it, according to our progress. Just like in our life, the more you advance in some work, the more important tasks you are given, according to the level of professionalism that you're at, and then accordingly, also is your salary and so forth. There's no question, here, with regards to the Creator, we have to correct what's already in creation and all of it opens up to us to the extent that we're capable, to the extent that we are organized based on each and every one's root of the soul. In each and every one of us there is an inner desire through which he's connected to others and he has to correct his connection to others. And everyone, in doing this work of connecting to all the other souls—he has to connect all the desires from his perspective. And he has to be, towards the Creator, a representative of all the souls, all the vessel of Adam HaRishon. That applies to each and every one, and that's how we achieve corrections—each and every one achieves his correction. By that, one corrects the root, his root in Adam HaRishon.

Student: If it turns out that we did not perform the correction on a higher spiritual level and this question became a war on the physical level,

M. Laitman: No, no, no, no, that's incorrect, that's not correct. It's not that we have made a mistake, we haven't done this or that, we can't make these calculations. It's not correct, that's not right. We do everything we can, we try to do what we can and about this, it says, every day will be new to you. Meaning, you can't really make calculations based on yesterday; we haven't done this so now we're not getting that. No, that's incorrect. You, each time, must acquire a new attitude: this is what I'm facing. This is what I'm doing. Every day shall be new to you, in your eyes.

Student: What is this ability that was revealed to us now that you said that through this war the Creator is emphasizing that we can correct this shattering? What is this ability that's revealed in us now that the Creator gave us a war on the physical level?

M. Laitman: That's because we are advancing – because the Creator keeps shining new and different lights on us. And by these lights we become corrected, and we connect more and become more interdependent. And then the feuds appear on a level that is unlike it was before – it's not because we made mistakes, it's because the light shines on us to a greater extent and then we discover how disconnected we are. Before, it seemed as though we were connected, so we haven't seen what was so strongly standing between us. The depths of the shattering are becoming increasingly revealed and that puts us in new wars, new conflicts. What we didn't correct before, we couldn't correct, it wasn't clear at all, we just lived the way we lived. Now, something appeared that we can't stay calm towards; that's always the case, the Creator adds light from above and that light clarifies. It's like when you turn on a light bulb and, then, you turn the light stronger and stronger and then you can see, this is dirty, this is broken and so on. The light clarifies the vessels, the deficiencies.

Student: You said we have advanced to the point that the Creator revealed to us the shattering on the physical level. But if we interpret these words directly, we might understand that the more we advance in spirituality, the worse corporeal states the Creator gives us?

M. Laitman: Not necessarily, not necessarily, that's not true – well, the fact that, typically, spiritual and corporeal troubles arise and there's a connection between them, we'll have to learn that, it's not so simple. But we see—we've read, heard what the Creator says, that if we come to the revelations that are before us for the final correction, that means the War of Armageddon, Gog and Magog, the Wars of the Messiah. There, we're talking about huge troubles, plights that appear. But these troubles will already happen with us having the right inner weapon for each of us and all of us together to fight with these troubles. I hope that we will go through these wars in a correct way and part of them we're already present in. Part of the wars of the final correction, the wars of the Messiah, we're already there so let's hope we will go through them quickly and spiritually and thus move into the illuminated world.

Question (Tbilisi): (50:53) You teach us that the entries and exits are all holy, they all come from the Creator. I'm very troubled by the question: when the light exits, is it an opportunity, is there a way to bring contentment to the Creator when it exits?

M. Laitman: If a person tries to always be connected with the group and through that receive the light that reforms and, each time, connect stronger and stronger. And if you try as a result of that to aim at the Creator, then you work correctly, there's no more to add here, no more. All the rest, just think about it more and you'll understand it better.

Question (Florida): (52:00) At the end of this article, he says, hence, after the redemption, the Creator is called Lord of Hosts. What is he referring to, Hosts, Lord of Hosts?

M. Laitman: I’m not sure. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (52:29) At the end of excerpt number two, it is written that after all the exits and coming in, coming out, it turns out that everything—the Creator did everything. This is why after the redemption, the Creator is called the Lord of Hosts. He's asking, what does this sentence mean? What is Hosts? 

M. Laitman: Tzva'ot, or Hosts, means that in all of the exits and all of the returns, ins and outs, the Creator does it all. We were just present there so that He builds the correct vessel for us for the final correction. This is called, the Creator is actually the King of war,or the Hero of the war or the Instigator of the war. He did it all, He made it all happen so that we will be—we’ll get an impression from all of those ins and outs, these entries and exits. And from that we will achieve such an impression, such a sensation of this concept called, Tzva'ot, or Hosts, which comes from the words, Tse Ve 'Ba, Come in and come out, and, from that, we will understand all of creation, all of those detailed pieces of creation within us.

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