Daily Lesson (Morning), July 10, 2024. 

Part 2 Writings of Rabash, Letter 63

Reader: We’re reading from The Writings of Rabash, this is Letter #63

M. Laitman: It’s short, and we will see.

Reading: (00:24) Rabash, Letter 63.

I received your letter from the 23rd of July, as well as a letter from… from the 20th of July. And since this week I came to England, I will begin to reply to each and every one of the letters.

Regarding the gathering of the fellows on the eve of Shabbat, it is very important, and I do not understand why the orthodox cannot gather without the fellows. I think they are already grownups, and do not need the support of the fellows to be the foundation without which they cannot get together. They can sit by themselves, while you fellows sit by yourselves. Therefore, I believe that none should be postponed because of the other.

And regarding… he should take upon himself the burden of persistence, and not think so much about such serious problems. But most importantly, I see that he is afraid of the truth, that he might, God forbid, see some truth and will have to surrender before it. Tell him, “Buy truth and do not sell.” Selling means revealing outwards, meaning that one who wants to buy truth not for himself but in order to have something to sell to others, such a man should fear that he may have nothing to sell.

But one who has no interest in life other than to live in the world of falsehood in a truthful way does not care. If he can walk on the path of truth when he sees the truth, then he has nothing to regret. And if it is hard for him to walk on the path of truth, it is still worthwhile for him because he has contact with the truth, and he sits and waits for a time of good will when he can take upon himself to walk by its way.

But fearing that he might, God forbid, see the truth? I have never heard of a person being afraid of that. Although it is written, “Happy is he who is always afraid,” but there are many interpretations to this.

I have no time to elaborate now, but in the coming letters I will write in greater detail.

Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag,

Son of Baal HaSulam

M. Laitman: Is there anything to ask? Yes, well?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:43) It says here, but fearing that he might, God forbid, see the truth, I have never heard of a person being afraid of that. What is that state, to be afraid of seeing the truth, is there such a state? 

M. Laitman: Yes, in any case there is, even though he writes that seemingly there isn't but there is. A person is afraid of seeing the truth. Whether it will be completely the opposite of what he depicts to himself and then what will he do? To invert himself, does he have the strength for that? Maybe he'll just continue as he is now, with this weakness. 

Student: What to do? How to work with that state? 

M. Laitman: To gradually work against this approach to truth that he had, previously, where the truth you need to buy and not to sell. Meaning, the approach to truth needs to be very direct. That he will constantly check himself, that he will try to see himself from the side. That he will enter into the friends and replace his position with the friends without the friend knowing. Simply, to see himself from all kinds of vantage points, and then, he'll see how he recommends to himself some change. There are many things that we can talk about, these things, and you can extract many means. Or how could you put it, that these are things that we need to understand. That we need to engage in them. 

Question (Turkiye 8): (07:08) It says, happy is a person who is always afraid. Why should he always be afraid? 

M. Laitman: The moment I am not afraid, I do not feel that I am going over to the desire of the Creator. 

Student: What does it mean not to move to the Creator's desire? 

M. Laitman: That I start receiving for myself.

Question (PT 23): (07:36) Kabbalists and you, also, always speak about the importance of persistence. What can you do if a person has such a quality of weak difficulty in persisting? 

M. Laitman: That is clear that it is, that everyone has a difficulty to be persistent. Some have it more, others have it less, but it is always difficult. What do we need to do, we need to organize a society around the person. That they will care that he has friends around him, and that they will hold him. And as much as he feels that he lacks strength, really, has zero forces. He needs to increasingly connect to the friends and to invest in opening toward them. And then in such a way, they will progress, both he and the friends.

Question (Women Hebrew 1): (08:51) How not to be afraid of the truth? What strengthens us to stand before it? 

M. Laitman: It's a problem because, subconsciously, we're rejecting the truth that is unpleasant, and we don't want to discover it, we don't want to discover it. What will it give me? That I'll be in a low state, that I'll be in some kind of, well, except for a bad mood, I'll have like a bad attitude towards the studies, everything. Even in the studies, I won't feel and won't understand what I did earlier but in a low way, in a corporeal way. So, we don't want such a thing but if we understand that we have to advance to the truth, that that is the goal; so, we need to open the truth before us in whatever we can, in everything we can. And as it's written, buy the truth and don't sell it. That I don't exchange this approach, these revelations, into anything else, to anything else.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:31) He says to buy the truth not for himself, but in order to have what to sell to others. That's not a good state.

M. Laitman: No, no, it's not a healthy state. 

Student: So how do we come out of that? How do we make it so that we're clothing it not for himself?

M. Laitman: He should think of the others more.

Student: What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: He should think of the others more, how he should relate to them and how he reaches that in practice. And then he can keep this state and gradually get into it. 

Student: Meaning the truth is something that should benefit if a person clothes himself with truth, it should benefit someone.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:43) Can we say that bad and good, that works on me when I feel bad or feel good? It's until the stage of faith above reason, and then truth and false is revealed, can we say that? 

M. Laitman: No, it can be this way or that way. There's a lot of transitions in there.

Student: Because he divides it in Lo Lishma and Lishma?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Where truth and false is work Lishma, that it can work above reason. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:22) You said earlier that, subconsciously, we reject the truth and don't want to discover it. Now, in many actions from within, we know what is correct to do. Many times, there's these hints of what is correct to do but eventually we go according to our intellect. And it turns out that we were mistaken, when you look back, see the Creator hinted. He gave you a sign here and there; so, the question is, how do you develop the ability to listen to the signs, to listen to the Creator, to this being this refined, delicate sensitivity? 

M. Laitman: That is through the atmosphere, the right atmosphere in the group. It doesn't depend on anything else, only as much as all together, the group yearns to be above itself.

Student: In order to understand where we need to develop towards. So, a Kabbalist manages to develop this sensitivity of his soul to identify these signs? And it's enough for him to get a small sign, then he goes for it? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And a Kabbalist, also, in those definitions and those abilities of developing his faith. He also doesn't make mistakes, seemingly, or does he make mistakes? 

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: He doesn't make mistakes? 

M. Laitman: No, unless the Creator aims him to do something like that. 

Student:  You said that thanks to the Ten, we can develop that soul, and if it's on the level of the individual, there are many times signs. But there's not enough courage to do the action, this is just the right action, but you don't have the courage. You need faith for it, because your intellect tells me to do x, but inside there's this delicate voice that's telling you that's the direction. But that courage to act in those small signs, is that something you can only receive from the Ten, from that work in connection?

M. Laitman: Like Nashchon, you shut your eyes and jump into the sea. 

Student: Oh, to jump into the sea? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: The question is whether, well, that a Kabbalist can see a small sign and he jumps. But we, on our level, it could be that we see a sign?

M. Laitman: No, how do you see? You see where you're jumping, how you're jumping, what's waiting for you, and so on, so that's not a jump. A jump is that you're now, you jump to the hands of the Creator.

Student: Okay, now another point on this: I noticed that a blow comes from above, the Creator gives the blow from above. I look back at it and I see that He revealed to me the same signs that were there that I didn't pay attention to. There's no bad, the Creator is always aiming you in the right direction. And He certainly needs that sensitivity, that inner sensitivity, to identify it all the time. 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. Succeed. So, what are we doing next?

Reader: (16:09) We have The Study Of The Ten Sefirot, and we also have select excerpts from the sources on the topic of Equal As One.

M. Laitman: Let’s do the excerpts.

Reader: We're going to move to the next part of the lesson.