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Daily Lesson (Morning), April 28, 2024. 

Part 2:  Rabash. 832. Dead Fish

Reader: We are reading in the writings of Rabash, the article number 832, Dead Fish. Article 832 from Rabash, Dead Fish

Reading: (00:27) “Live Dagim [fish]” means he has Daagot [concerns] about work, but he is alive. That is, he has the power to work and find ways to mitigate his concerns. But dead fish means his concerns cause him death, meaning that all his powers to work have died and he has no vital spirit, having no strength to work and find solutions. This is called “dead fish.”

In Egypt, when the Klipa [shell/peel] of Egypt was on the Jews, they ate live fish, but the quality of Egypt is called “dead fish,” as it is written, “The fish that were in the Nile died,” unlike the fish of the Jews, which are alive.

If the concerns are in order to achieve the aim to bestow, this is the concern of Israel, who is concerned over why he is not in the quality of Israel. This is unlike the concerns of the Mitzrim [Egyptians], for Tzar [narrow] means that he is under the rule of the Tzar, meaning the quality of mercy. This is the meaning of “The fish that were in the Nile died,” meaning that these Daagot [concerns] yield death, the death of the powers, and he cannot do anything.

Reader: Again, Article number 832 from Rabash, Dead Fish.

Reading: (03:01) “Live Dagim [fish]” means he has Daagot [concerns] about work, but he is alive. That is, he has the power to work and find ways to mitigate his concerns. But dead fish means his concerns cause him death, meaning that all his powers to work have died and he has no vital spirit, having no strength to work and find solutions. This is called “dead fish.”

In Egypt, when the Klipa [shell/peel] of Egypt was on the Jews, they ate live fish, but the quality of Egypt is called “dead fish,” as it is written, “The fish that were in the Nile died,” unlike the fish of the Jews, which are alive.

If the concerns are in order to achieve the aim to bestow, this is the concern of Israel, who is concerned over why he is not in the quality of Israel. This is unlike the concerns of the Mitzrim [Egyptians], for Tzar [narrow] means that he is under the rule of the Tzar, meaning the quality of mercy. This is the meaning of “The fish that were in the Nile died,” meaning that these Daagot [concerns] yield death, the death of the powers, and he cannot do anything.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:50) Why does he compare the measure of Hassadim, of mercy, to Naro? 

M. Laitman: Life or death depends on Hassadim. Because the light of Hochma comes only to that place that is prepared with Hassadim. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:20) Fish, he explains what fish are: Wherever we stumble upon fish, is it always a matter of concerns for the work, is that what fish are? 

M. Laitman: Typically, yes.

Student: Then he talks about this thing called, dead fish, that the Egyptians have concerns for the work. What concerns do they have for the work?

M. Laitman: About death. 

Student: I didn't understand, the Egyptians are those who are concerned in order to receive it, from what I understood.

M. Laitman: Not only that, an Egyptian is someone who cares about living an eternal life, like in the pyramids, that's it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:22) There are always different expressions for animals in the sources. Is there a certain rule that fish, specifically, has to do with concerns, or some other animal? 

M. Laitman: Sometimes. 

Student: What's the rule?

M. Laitman: I don't know the rule.

Student: Is it certain qualities of that animal? 

M. Laitman: Yes, also the qualities. Fish, dagim, are concerns, they don't require air, they're in the sea. They live off of things that are not designed for men, and so on and so forth. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:15) The scrutiny is not precise, at any given moment, if he's with live fish or dead fish. How do I know?

M. Laitman: A person has to yearn for the reforming light. Accordingly, he will understand where he is.

Student: This is not an intellectual scrutiny, it's altogether.

M. Laitman: If you have it.

Student:  Yes, if I'm caring for the others and not to enter into that? 

M. Laitman: No, no. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:05) Both the Israelis and the Egyptians are in Klipot, right? What's the difference between the Egyptians in the Klipot and Israel that are in the Klipot that are in the shells?

M. Laitman: Both awaken the reforming light, the surrounding light. Israel feels his state, that it's not good, that it has to come out of it. And the Egyptian feels himself okay. 

Student: I understand that in the shattering of the vessel all the souls fall, also, the head and the body.

Student: We say that the Egyptians belong to the body of the Partzuf, and Israel is the Rosh of the Partzuf they broke? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: The Egyptians also want to be corrected.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Okay, the one that needs to correct the Partzuf is Israel, the correction is upon Israel. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: The body can't correct itself, meaning Israel needs to draw the forces. 

M. Laitman: That is why Pharaoh doesn't want them to leave Egypt.

Student:  Why, in Egypt they can't, why does he want Israel? Why doesn't he push Israel to run away from Egypt, to deal with the crater, and then save him?

M. Laitman:  Pharaoh doesn't require it. 

Student: How will he return to adhere to the Creator if he remains in Egypt too?

M. Laitman: He doesn't feel it, for the time being. 

Student: When a Jew sits before an Egyptian?

M. Laitman: Where?

Student: I'm saying there's such states where we sit and let’s say we talk, I don't know, I'm trying to understand. The Egyptian doesn't want to be corrected? What does he want, he wants to remain in Egypt? How can I feel on the Egyptian that he also wants to be corrected? 

M. Laitman: The Egyptian wants to be corrected in Egypt. Explain to yourself first, then you'll see. 

Student: Okay, if Israel correct themselves, they'll feel that also the Egyptians want to exit, something like that?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:58)  What's the difference between the Jews who eat the fish, and the matter of living fish of Israel, the concerns? He says that in Egypt, it was upon the Jews, but they ate live fish. He says that if the concerns came to in order to bestow, then it was the what was those? 

M. Laitman: Those are degrees in concerns.

Student: What's the difference between the Jews and Israel?

M. Laitman: A Jew is one who wants to rise from his state. Israel is a higher degree, they wish to rise from their state and pull the rest of the world behind them.

Student: It's okay, I understood. At the end of the article he writes, I mean, the forces, he's not capable of, that they're the death of the powers and he cannot do anything, meaning he blocks it. What do you mean he can't do anything, what's the advice to come out of this? 

M. Laitman: I connected to their state; their state is such that in order to enter the Klipa, they don't even need to fall, they're already in it.

Student: Meaning, if you come to dead fish, then what, I still didn't understand?

M. Laitman: You don't have any true concern about the correction of the world.

Student: Let's say I identify that, and I understand that here I need correction. He still says that I have nothing to do here. 

M. Laitman: Try to come closer to it, to pray.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:32)  Can we connect this to, he says that the concern of Israel is why he doesn't have the discernment of Israel. Can we connect this to what we go through in Passover, the world Kli, there's something very special here.

M. Laitman: What's special?

Student: It's like there's a certain measure of deficiency in the air, I don't know. Something that's a very strong connection, also the friends that arrived are adding.

M. Laitman: We are in a special state: On the one hand, the state calms us down, on the other hand, it awakens us. It awakens this concern that we would not stay this way all the time, that's it. We have to scrutinize these states. 

Student: What in this state is considered the concern of Israel?

M. Laitman: The concern of Israel is to connect everyone to an upper force, only to the Creator. 

Student: In the regular world, concern is not a good thing, everyone does everything they can to not be in worries. 

M. Laitman: No, this is impossible here, we can't be without concern. The question is not to be without concerns, but which kind of concern to have.

Student: How do we get more precise in being always in that discernment of Israel, meaning, not to let go of that concern.

M. Laitman: To be aimed at the Creator. To take a step forward each time toward Him.

Student: I heard you saying that we are on one hand in this calm. On the other hand, we are from this, we have to be concerned with the right concern. Can you say a little more about this state that the world Kli is in today?

M. Laitman: We'll talk about it more. We'll talk about it. Any other questions? No.

Question (Women Rehoboth): (17:32) What are live fish and what are dead fish in the work in the Ten, and how to understand this correctly? 

M. Laitman: These are concerns, worries that can enliven a person and bring him to correction, those are live fish. And dead fish, where there's no hope to reach correction through them.

Question (Woman Hebrew 1): (18:02) what concerns cause death? 

M. Laitman: Those that put a person to sleep. 

Question (Woman PT 38): (18:17) If a concern awakens in me to something I don't see vitality in, how do I deal with that concern?

M. Laitman: I must awaken, come close to that friend as much as possible and shake him up in whatever way possible. 

Student: What to do with disturbances and necessities that bring us to concerns that are not aimed at the Creator? 

M. Laitman: I didn't understand, again?

Student: What to do with disturbances and our necessities that are aimed not to the Creator that bring concerns to us.

M. Laitman:  What to do with them, try to bury them. 

Reader: (19:37) There's another article if you want. 

M. Laitman:  Okay. So, let's move to the next part.