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Daily Lesson, (Morning) April 29, 2024.

Part 2: Rabash. Record 584. The Face of the Lord Is in Evildoers.

Reader: Reading from the writings of Rabash In the article: “The Face of the Lord is in Evildoers.” 

Reading Article: (00:23) Rabash. Record 584. The Face of the Lord Is in Evildoers.

“The face of the Lord is in evildoers, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. They cried out, and the Lord hears, and saved them from all their troubles.”

We could ask, But the face of the Creator belongs to the righteous, and not to evildoers, as it is written, “By the light of Your face, you have given us … mercy, and life, and peace.” Only the Achoraim [posterior] is regarded as judgment, when He executes judgment on the wicked.

We should say that this means that those who want to walk on the path of the Creator, on the path of truth, see that they are always doing evil. They cry out to the Creator to save them from that state of evil, and everything that they could do but could not be freed from the evil, as explained about the exodus from Egypt, “And the children of Israel sighed from the work, and their cry went up to God,” and He delivered them from Egypt.

Likewise, we should interpret here that the Creator shone His face to them, and then the concealment that they had departed from them. By “The face of the Lord is in evildoers,” the face of the Creator cancels even the memory of the bad. This is the meaning of “cut off the memory of them from the earth.” Eretz [earth/land] comes from the word Ratzon [desire]. Even a memory of the bad desire did not awaken in them because “They cried out, and the Lord hears, and saved them from all their troubles.”

Reading article again. (02:50) “The Face of the Lord is in Evildoers.”

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:38) What is the face of the Lord, and what does it mean that he shines his face?

M. Laitman: The light that comes from the Creator.

Student: How do I feel it?

M. Laitman: You feel it. 

Student: It's just that there is a state that is not just my personal state, but there are more friends who feel like you were just thrown off, and it's even hard to ask. I don't know if it's even in my strength to do anything. This connection no longer helps.

M. Laitman: I hear you.

Student: What to do? 

M. Laitman: What did you learn all these years? 

Student: To connect, to pray, but he doesn't let me ask, doesn't let me connect, just disconnected me? 

M. Laitman: Well, that's good, isn't it?

Student: Just wait? 

M. Laitman: No. Ask even more. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:16) Look, he says even the memory of the bad desire did not awaken in them. It reminds me what happens here in the country and in the world. Look, he says, even the memory of the bad desire did not awaken, meaning we don't even know we behave badly, we don't know that. And you look at people, and it's unpleasant to say what I think of that, but I just become nauseous of that. And then he says, they cried out and the Lord hears and saved them. There's no chance that the Creator will save, look what he writes here. They cried out and the Lord hears and saved them from all their troubles. If they cried truly out of pain that they care, then there would be a chance to come out of all this. But according to what's written here, even the memory of the bad desire did not awaken in them. They don't even understand that they behave badly. Look at what's happening here in the country especially. You see they don't understand that we summon these troubles upon us. So how can you overcome it? And you look and see. You say, how could it be? So many different things happened, so many hostages, people killed. And you see around you what's happening and you say, they don't get it. And people are saying, look, it's an adventure. Look what's happening and other people  don't understand at all what's happening, how we live. How do you see that? How do you see that situation, where some people slightly understand and the majority just continue with unfounded hatred and consuming each other and overpowering each other. Things get just worse and worse. And some people, their hearts are so blocked, they don't even see how they behave towards kids that were kidnapped and other things. I don't understand. And if you have an explanation to that, I'll be happy to hear. Many people don't understand what's going on here?

M. Laitman: I don't have an explanation, but I'm asking you. Like you are so confident that you do feel what good and bad is and so on, how do you, or how can you, how can you settle all these things, I’ll tell you.

Student: Look, you're a grandfather and I'm a grandfather, so if you saw and felt, not while we're sitting here or in your place. If you felt like, God forbid, you have a son or a grandson who's there, how would you feel? How would you accept things? You would yell from dawn to dusk. Would you be able to just sit quietly and study and say, let's draw the Reforming Light, it's a completely different feeling. How do people dare speak in such a way that his son is taken hostage and let's continue doing what we're doing, this gross behavior? And a person could be certain that he's at the level of the Creator, so how can you think this will be changed? How do you see that? People are just going crazy. The parents who have children there? There's a thing here, I really don't understand, what's going on here?

M. Laitman: All in all, it's an accumulation of all our relationships, to life, to ourselves, to the Creator, to our neighbors. This is all we see inside this war. 

Student: And how do we come out of the garbage, this whole thing? How do you see that something really changes and not at the account of others, that it's on your account, that you will make sure that we come out of this whole story? People say, what do I care that his son is taken hostage? I'll continue with my bad thoughts, and who cares? How do you come out of that? 

M. Laitman: I have nothing to advise you. I don't have an answer.

Student: What should we do? Is there a chance? Look at how many people we have all over the world. We don't have sufficient power to move things. When I think about it, I say we have such force. Someone told you yesterday at noon, said, why, you can't collect ten people who have a force of bestowal to change things, and you gave a very sophisticated answer. You said, I don't think that there are ten people. I think that they exist. Maybe you're hiding these people, kind of, but I don't know. Don't we have the power to change things, that something good will start happening? That we'll start breathing new air here in Israel, please?

M. Laitman: I don't have anything to answer you.

Student: Don't you see our future? 

M. Laitman: There are things that I'm not allowed to talk about.

Student: According to what you're saying, it could be worse?

M. Laitman: I told you I can't talk about this.

Student: Can you give us a hint? What's about to happen?

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: No, we're your students.

M. Laitman: It has nothing to do with it.

Student: No, I'll tell you, seriously, we're completely in despair. I live on the edge. I'm involved in different things. I see what's happening, and I'm saying, something has to happen here. It can't go on, it just can't go on. 

M. Laitman: He who flaws does it in his own flaws. 

Student: So you think I'm casting the flaws on others?

M. Laitman: I don't know. That's what's written. 

Student: Maybe it doesn't relate to us, in regards to that, at least?

M. Laitman: Everything regards. 

Student: That too? So you're saying the flaws I see in others, it's within me? 

M. Laitman: That's what's written.

Student: It's written. Is it true? 

M. Laitman: I guess so.

Student: What can I tell you? I hope you don’t really think that, but with God's help, we'll come out of that well.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:31) I hear the friend, I'm crying and next to me, people are laughing. Maybe we'll turn on the news here. I don't know why people are laughing?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:56) Maybe as an answer to the friend, what is my flaw, it's written that you should say that the people who want to walk the path of the Creator, on the path of truth, they see that they are the evildoers. It's first of all, us. And not those on the outside that aren't walking the path of truth. So, we have the responsibility, and not to start judging others that have no idea they're doing bad. So, first of all, we have to recognize it, and our duty is to see that we are the corrupted ones. And then maybe if we truly recognize this, and see as much as the Creator wants to give to us, and we don't have the vessel, then maybe we will also cry out for a vessel, for the light that will truly correct us. And then maybe we'll bestow to the world. 

M. Laitman: Okay.

Reader: We have another article. 

M. Laitman: There is more, but for now.