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Daily Lesson (Morning) March 15, 2024.

Part 2: Rabash. Article No. 18, 1987. What Is Preparation for Reception of the Torah? - 1

Reader: We are reading from the writings of Rabash, the article: What is Preparation for Reception of the Torah? - 1 from Rabash. 

Reading Article: (00:25) Rabash. “The writing says, ‘And the Lord…’”

Student: (34:45) I find it very difficult, look what he says, he says that “it's a preparation for the reception of the Torah, meaning the preparation for the reception of the Torah is that they'll feel that his will to receive is evil. That he has no greater hater or enemy in the world other than his own will to receive.” And then I remember that when I started studying the wisdom of Kabbalah many years ago, I said, great, you know I helped others, I understood and I thought that I was good with everyone, with my wife, children, with people at work, I really felt that I was good with everyone. And suddenly I started learning and I started feeling that I am behaving egoistically, that I'm only thinking of myself, and I don't care about anyone else. Then I thought, wow, look, I'm changing. Maybe you'll stop studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and then you'll be back on track. That is a situation where I'm not a wise person here, but it turned me into a different person. Why should I be a different person, why shouldn't I just be the same thing but just to be better and better and to be even nicer with people? No, I became a big egoist. So, what's the reason, what's the story here? I remember that period where it worked on me in a bad way, not in a good way, why? 

M. Laitman: Out of this recognition of the evil that has awakened in you, from that, you wish to correct yourself. 

Student: That's what I mean, I didn't feel that I was good, I wasn't bad, but I became even more of an egoist, I became worse.

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, in order to recognize it, to recognize this quality in you and to want to correct it. 

Student: But why do they reveal to me that evil all of a sudden? 

M. Laitman: Because a person can only correct what is in him. 

Student: What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: What is in him.

Student: That's the process? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: That I should become more of an egoist and feel bad in order to reveal the Torah? 

M. Laitman: To recognize yourself as bad, as an egoist. 

Student: Can't I just be a good person like everyone else? 

M. Laitman: No, it is not good, you are simply like a good child, a good kid but we know what is a good kid, when he grows up then his evil grows along with him.

Student: So, let me understand If I'm a good person, not an egoist but I'm like me before? 

M. Laitman: Then you are retarded; you are held back.

Student: Then I would never reveal the Creator, meaning the emptier I am the more evil I am, so my chance increases in order to reveal the Torah? That's what you're telling me? 

M. Laitman: Yes, then you have the need for revealing the Torah. 

Student: It works in an opposite way on the mind? 

M. Laitman: I do not think it is the opposite. 

Student: Why not opposite? 

M. Laitman: A person doesn't think he is bad then the bad appears in him and then he needs the Torah, then he reveals the Torah to him. 

Student: Meaning if I don't need the Torah then I can be a good guy not try to do anything but go to the synagogue, do prayers, etc. but I wouldn't progress in any way. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: That works opposite on the mind, you have to reveal the evil inside you. That's what he's saying here. Meaning if you don't reveal the evil in you, you have no progress to the Torah.

M. Laitman: Correct. 

Student: And that was in all the generations? 

M. Laitman: No, not in all generations. There were in each generation there were small groups of Kabbalists who attained the true good.

Student: The revelation of evil?

M. Laitman: Through the revelation of evil.

Student: Kabbalists before like Rabbi Shimon, etc.? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Student: They revealed the evil in the morning and in the evening, they did the work? What was the work that they did in order to progress? How did they reveal the evil between them in order to write? 

M. Laitman: They prayed, and the Creator corrected them. 

Student: What does it mean that they prayed? 

M. Laitman: A person reveals the evil in him, and he prays to the Creator to correct the evil and to turn it into good. 

Student: Wait, I understood. You're saying this: They wake up in the morning they're all nice or whatever but then they suddenly reveal evil. Where does that evil come from; suddenly they're evil?

M. Laitman: From within a person. 

Student: Meaning all of a sudden, they're angry and what's their work there? What do they do in order to progress as you say? What do they need to do? 

M. Laitman: To come closer to one another to see this evil in an even greater way that it multiplies and with this evil turn it to the Creator and turn it into good.

Student: How do they progress?

M. Laitman: Like that.

Student: But how? 

M. Laitman: From the revelation of evil correcting, it to the good.

Student: What do they need to do in order to progress in good? How do they behave among each other?

M. Laitman: Only to ask. 

Student: To ask from the Creator?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How do I need to relate to others? 

M. Laitman: Also try to be good. 

Student: Be good? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What's this concept of being good toward the friend? 

M. Laitman: To be good means to do everything for the sake of the other. Meaning to provide him with all of his basic necessities and teach him how to reach the complete correction. 

Student: Meaning to overcome my desire, to simply annul before him and that's the work?

M. Laitman: For the time being that is what you're thinking, what can I do?

Student: Thanks.

Student: (41:19) He writes that a person needs to try for his actions to bring him to the recognition of evil. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How do we do that properly because it seems a bit that if you come to an action in advance with a desire to recognize the evil then it flaws your ability to devote yourself to the action. 

M. Laitman: I don’t know. I know that we were given Torah and Mitzvot in order to reveal the evil in us and to turn to the Creator to correct it. That is our work. 

Student: When I approach the action of connection like a meal that's coming up do I need to come with a desire with readiness that the act of connection will succeed 100%? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Okay, so where does the effort to recognize the evil in that action? 

M. Laitman: You're not going to recognize the evil. You're going to do good correction, connection, and closeness, and in place of that, you reveal to some extent or in its entirety that it's bad that it's egoistic, and then you have a demand how to correct it and that's what we do. Revealing the bad and correcting it to the good.

Student: He writes here that a person needs to try for his actions to bring him the recognition of evil?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So as I understand the recognition of evil is an active action on behalf of a person. It doesn't come from above.

M. Laitman: Correct.

Student: What are the active parts of mine precisely in the recognition of evil? Is there some kind of scrutiny that I need to do? How do I do it? When? 

M. Laitman: Yes. We'll get to that, and you'll see. We've read a lot about it so I think you'll remember these things. Okay? 

Student: (43:45) If your enemy hates you and you feed him bread what does that mean? 

M. Laitman: The enemy as we learn is the will to receive who is showing himself as opposite from the purpose of creation from the Creator. That's why we need him in order to advance to the Creator. Other than the will to receive, no one will show us the direction for development.

Student: You said earlier that you need to supply it with some kind of basic needs?

M. Laitman: Yes, we provide his basic necessities and receive from him the direction and guidance and in this way, we advance. The most important thing is to provide the will to receive with the strength and the energy to allow him to invert himself to in order to bestow. 

Student: How do we know where the boundary is, so he doesn’t take it for himself?

M. Laitman: We learn everything along the way.

Student: If they will receive the Torah, they'll have good and if not, so that'll be a burial place. If I engage in the Torah, should I have a feeling of fear so that that awakens a deficiency? 

M. Laitman: Fear accompanies a person so that's good. Without fear, you can't do it. 

Student: Recognizing the evil in me is the hardest thing. How can the Ten help in the recognition of evil? 

M. Laitman: Use an example. I need to show friends to see examples in the friends of how they reach the revelation of evil and then I can follow in their footsteps. 

Student: What causes the Creator to show me my evil inclination? 

M. Laitman: What makes the Creator do it? My willingness for the Creator to show me the evil inclination so I'll be able to ask Him to correct it. 

Student: Does the evil that is revealed inside me influence the whole of reality? 

Yes, of course. Ultimately, we are correcting all of reality. Okay? 

Question: (46:45) The evil we read about what is that evil that a person wishes to enjoy from life? Even corporeal enjoyment, is that called evil? 

M. Laitman: Yes, the will to receive for itself in all situations. 

Student: But if a person looks at the moment it could be the best possible thing, he wouldn't understand that that's evil.

M. Laitman: True.

Student: So, it's evil in relation to the next degree in relation to the opportunity to become more bestowing and higher in relation to that it's evil, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, a person who doesn't understand, who is not in that, can he feel that it's evil? 

M. Laitman: From reading, from his connection with the friends, all kinds of things, he gradually reveals from all these situations that he is in evil.

Student: Does he need at the same time that he doesn't feel that he’s evil, to make himself use the will to receive less? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Question: (48:11) The state Rabash depicts in the article where the Creator is at the top of the mountain and all the nations are at the foot of the mountain. Can we depict that with the sentence of the Creator is high and the low will see?

M. Laitman: Maybe, maybe.

Student: (48:46) Before I start, and I have this excerpt to read I want to say that we're in a great yearning toward our Unity Day on Purim and I found some things that connect to that, and I'd be happy to hear the answer from you. Simply, it's something that we're waiting for Purim to come to the third stage of development, and we'll read. Page 502, the last paragraph, and it said that, “What is the reason that they are now willing to receive the Torah? They have no other advice, but they need to say that they're evil, meaning the knowledge that they received in thought, in the intellect, where they have the thought of being in a descent because they have evil in the heart, that's similar to a vault that is coercive and they have no choice, and this is regarded as the mountain controlling them at the bottom. And then, what we should ask, they have no other advice, but they need to say that they're evil, and this is regarded as the mountain controlling them at the bottom.”

“It means that through the miracle in Purim, our sages said, kept and received. Rabbi Raba said that the Nevertheless, generation received it in the days of Ahasuerus, that is, as it is written, the Jews kept and received, and Rashi interpreted that it was for the love of the miracle that was done for them.” The question is Rav, the convention that's happening soon on Purim, can we come to the same process that is depicted here, that Rabbi Raba showed us?

M. Laitman: It has nothing to do with any date. We have to reach it. That's it. We'll try to reach it, to reach connection, with love, with all those things that we need to do.

Student: Is there a special meaning to the miracle of Purim and to our work?

M. Laitman: Of course, there is. Okay, so we'll conclude.

Reader: What will we do next? In the next part? Now it's nearly five, so we thought that we'll probably do a report on the Unity Day of Purim in this part. Should we start? Okay, friends, we'll do this report on the Unity Day that's coming up.

Student: Rav, just one minute before you go, I wanted to ask you. I'm here in the article, we now read, he concludes in the last paragraph that “there was a miracle in Purim, that they kept and received, and then there was the miracle.” So, I wanted to ask, what does it mean that they kept and received? How do we do such a thing? From that in which we keep and receive, we receive the miracle of Purim.

M. Laitman: We bring the lights closer to us, and they complete the correction. Through prayer, through their cries, it's written.

Student: So, what is it for us to keep, to observe, what should we observe in order to receive the miracle?

M. Laitman: Connection. I don't think there's any other word that can include our entire correction.

Student: When we work on connection, miracle is something that depends on us, or it's independent of us?

M. Laitman: It depends on our work. With our work, we are awakening these forces that when they activate everything, they also activate the miracles.

Student: What do you expect, this miracle that we're coming to, what should we do for that?

M. Laitman: We expect to reach the end of correction. Very simple. The end of correction.