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Daily Lesson (Morning) April 17, 2025.
Part 3: Lesson on the Topic of Pesach (Passover)
Rabash. Letter No. 66
Reader: We will read the Letter 66 by Rabash. You can find it in the Passover book and the Rabash books. You can also ask questions through our websites. Letter 66.
Reading: (00:29) Letter No. 66
March 27, 1963
Hello and all the best to my dear friend,
In Psachim (116b), “Begins with admonition and ends with praise.” Why admonition? Rav said, “In the beginning, our fathers were idol worshippers,” etc. And we also say in the Passover story, (Haggadah), “In the beginning our fathers were idol worshippers, and now the Creator has brought us closer to His work.”
To understand the matter, what we can learn from what they were before, we should interpret this in ethics. A person needs to know, when he engages in man’s exodus from the exile in Egypt (and we see that all the Mitzvot [commandments] are dependent on this matter, because in every thing we say: “In memory of the exodus from Egypt,” which means that it is impossible to keep a commandment to the fullest before a person comes out of the exile in Egypt. Although generally we have already come out of Egypt, but in person, each person must come out of this exile). It is impossible to come out of the exile in Egypt before entering the exile. Only then can it be said that we are coming out of the exile.
The author of the Haggadah tells us about this that we need to know that in the beginning our fathers were idol worshippers, meaning that they were in exile under the rule of idol worshippers, and only then the Creator brought our fathers closer. But if they did not feel that they were placed under the rule of idol worshippers, it could not be said that the Creator had brought them closer. Only when a person is remote from the Creator can it be said that the Creator is bringing him closer, because the absence should always come before the presence, for the absence is the Kli [vessel] and the presence is the light that fills the absence and the darkness.
Therefore, we have to know that we have to prepare ourselves thoroughly, meaning that a person should check himself meticulously and carefully, to see his real condition, what his faith in the Creator is like, if he has complete faith, meaning, is it truthful or superficial, meaning only going by rote, which means that he does it only out of habit and not because of his own desire.
And also whether his qualities are in order. That is, is he in the form of, “All of your actions will be for the Creator,” or God forbid to the contrary, meaning that everything he does is only with the intention to please himself? Our sages said about the verse, “And the grace of the nations is sin. All the good that they do, they do for themselves,” and they cannot do anything for the Creator.
And if a person is placed under this rule, like the nations of the world, then he is in exile, and then he is regarded as an idol worshipper. And then there is room for prayer that the Creator will help him out of this exile. And then it can be said: Now, meaning once he is in exile and regarded as an idol worshipper, it can be said, “Now the Creator has brought us closer to His work,” meaning, to work in the work of the Creator, and to not work for the governance of idol worshipping.
This is called the “exodus from Egypt,” when all the works are for the Creator. For this reason, we relate the commandments to the memory of the exodus from Egypt. Only then, once we have come out of the exile in Egypt, can we keep the commandments because of the Creator’s commandment and not for other reasons. This is the meaning of what the Tanah says, “Beginning with admonition and ending with praise.” This means that when a person wants to begin with the work of the Creator, he must begin with admonition, meaning, with how we are placed under the governance of idol worshippers. Then we can come to the degree of, “Now the Creator has brought us closer to His work.” And this is “ending with praise.”
The order of the work is in two ways, meaning in faith in the Creator, as well as in qualities, meaning that all of his work will be for the Creator. By that we should interpret what our sages said, “Our sages said, when Rabbi Elazar ben Parta and Rabbi Haninah ben Tardion were captured, Rabbi Elazar ben Parta said to Rabbi Haninah ben Tardion, “Happy are you for being caught for one thing. Woe to me for being caught for five things.” Rabbi Haninah said to him, “Happy are you for being caught for five things and you are saved. Woe unto me, for being caught for one thing and I am not saved. You engaged in Torah and in charity, or doing mercy, etc., as Rav Hunah said, ‘All who engage only in Torah is as one who has no God, as it was said, ‘and many days for Israel without a true God.’ What is without a true God? All who engage only in Torah is as one who has no God.’”
It is difficult to understand this excerpt. We should interpret that the main thing that a person should do in the world is to make all his works be for the Creator. And since man was created with a quality of delighting only himself, to the point that it is impossible for him to do anything unless he sees that some good will come out of it for himself, then how can one work for the Creator?
But the Creator has given us commandments between man and man, by which man accustoms himself to work in favor of his neighbor. By that he comes to a higher degree, to having the ability to work for the Creator as well. Otherwise, even though a person engages in Torah and Mitzvot, he cannot engage for the Creator. It therefore follows that if he engages only in Torah, and not in doing good, he cannot work in order to bestow because he lacks the quality of love of others. It therefore follows that although he engages in Torah and Mitzvot, if it is not for the Creator, it is as one who has no God, for if he truly had the sensation of Godliness, he would certainly be engaging in order to bestow. But if he had engaged in doing good, then he would have the quality of love of others, by which he would also come to love the Creator, and would have the ability to observe Torah and Mitzvot for the Creator.
It turns out that a person should have the power and force to overcome his qualities, to turn them into being in favor of others, for by that he will later be rewarded with working with those qualities for the Creator.
Because once a person has already been corrected in his qualities so he can work in favor of others, he can work on the matter of faith in the Creator, for then he is fit to be rewarded with faith, for then he already has equivalence of form, called, “Cleave onto his attributes,” as in, “As He is merciful, be you merciful.”
And may the Creator help us come out of the exile and be rewarded with the complete redemption soon in our days, amen.
May you rise in the degrees of blessing and success and happiness, and happy and kosher festival.
From your friend who wishes you and your family all the best,
Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag, son of Baal HaSulam.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:49) He writes that if he would work in charity, he would have the quality of love of others. We see that in this world, those who engage in charity aren't rewarded with this remedy. Sometimes it's the contrary. It grows the ego. You see a lot of people collecting charities and things. So, what is to work in charity and spirituality? What does it mean to engage in charity?
M. Laitman: That one who is observing the Torah and commandments, meaning wanting to come to God's salvation, he wants to reach charity. You could say that the Creator gives him a great favor He understands truly the meaning of observing the Torah and commandments, which is something we don't know, and only individuals, only a few individuals are rewarded with that. And then they can give thanks to the Creator.
Student: It sounds like it's the Creator who rewards a person with Hassadim, with mercy for his attempts to work in love of others?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Student: And here, it says one who engages in charity or doing mercy is rewarded. So what is, from a person's point of view, what does it mean to engage in charity or in doing mercy?
M. Laitman: It means that he tries on every occasion to do charity to his teacher, rather, to the Creator.
Student: And that gives him love of others?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: We work in the Ten relative to the friends, out of a desire to be of contentment to the Creator, and he rewards us with love of others?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:32) Why should the Creator do me any favors?
M. Laitman: He doesn't do you a favor. He sets conditions which, if a person meets, he comes to receive what the Creator wants to give him.
Student: Because here it says a person has to examine himself meticulously. Clearly, what is this process?
M. Laitman: Well, I cannot say exactly, but those who want to reach the revelation of the Creator, they undergo what we call the seven examinations, seven tests.
Student: What does it mean to check myself relative to others and the friends in charity and doing mercy? What commandments will let me know that I am engaged in doing charity to the friends?
M. Laitman: First of all, it's all about doing everything possible to assist them, to enable them in observing the commandments of the Torah. Whereupon a person receives from above a special illumination, which allows him to engage in the Torah in practice.
Student: I heard your lesson a while back, and you said if you have a friend here who is not enough here in the connection between us, it's because we don't do enough here. Those who are here seemingly aren't doing enough. As if we take the responsibility upon ourselves.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: How do we take this special connection we want to build between us each time and approach the Creator? How do we do it so it will be like charity, doing mercy, and we'll do everything needed? How do I check myself?
M. Laitman: It's to the extent that you relate to the friends. The Ten is the first thing. What we want is for all of us to connect as one in the Ten.
Student: What else can I do to give them importance? We keep saying the importance of the goal, giving examples. What else can I do to ascribe it to charity? That all I'm doing is to ask the Creator that I know I did everything for the friends. Or is it something hard to measure?
M. Laitman: Each one should measure it for himself.
Student: One more question. He says that only then, after you come out of the Exodus, you can perform the commandments because the Creator commanded and not for other reasons. But we say from Lo Lishma to Lishma, so that's the only way we have the Exodus? Only afterwards the true work starts?
M. Laitman: Before that, you're under your own will to receive.
Student: What is from Lo Lishma to Lishma?
M. Laitman: That is the meaning of Lo Lishma.
Student: What he writes here?
M. Laitman: Not what he writes here, if you observe the commandments, because they have no cover of the will to bestow, then you're doing them not Lishma.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:47) He writes, how could there be ability for a person to work for the sake of the heavens? But He gave him commandments between a man and his friend. What commandments do we have between a man and his friend?
M. Laitman: Quite a bit. And most important is to be connected in the Ten and to help everyone in the Ten reach the state where everyone is in a circle.
Student: He also wrote that the order of the work is in two manners, meaning in faith in the Creator and also through the qualities that all his doing will be for the sake of the heavens?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What are those two manners? It's not so clear what they are.
M. Laitman: We'll get to understand that. We'll learn.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:07) What does it mean, complete faith in the Creator?
M. Laitman: Complete faith?
Student: Yes.
M. Laitman: That… I can't explain. It's only something that man's heart can feel that it's getting closer to it.
Student: Does that have anything to do with the light of faith that we learned about?
M. Laitman: All right. Well, what will it give you if I'll say yes or no? That too is hidden.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:47) He says that whoever engages only in the Torah is like someone who has no God. And he says, because he's lacking the remedy of love of others.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What is that remedy of love of others?
M. Laitman: That is love of others. That if a person is in love of others, then through that, he begins to contact the Creator.
Student: Why is it a remedy? We said the word Segula, remedy, always related to the light that reforms. So now...
M. Laitman: The remedy refers to anything that can help me advance towards the Creator.
Student: So, the remedy is engaging in love of friends, or is it by reaching love of friends?
M. Laitman: It's both. Mostly, it's reaching love of friends.
Student: Our effort to work in the Ten and reaching love of friends, that brings some remedy.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And that, again, what is that remedy?
M. Laitman: Getting close to the Creator, feeling the Creator to the point of adhesion with Him.
Student: It's something that we don't have but we receive it from the effort in that work?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Is there a connection between cause and effect here?
M. Laitman: No.
Student: Or we just reach love of others and...
M. Laitman: No, we reach love of others because we really want to reach love of others. And from love of others, we come to love of the Creator.
Student: Why is it a remedy? A Segula. If it's a simple process, what's a remedy about it?
M. Laitman: It's not a simple process, and it's not something easy and small. Rather, by that, we come to adhesion.
Student: In the introduction to TES, he says that the fact that you open the books and read the holy names, it gives you some kind of remedy that helps a person advance to attaining the goal.
M. Laitman: Okay. That's in general.
Student: And here he says that the remedy is by loving the others.
M. Laitman: Yes. That's an individual approach. A person who's in a group has to achieve love of friends.
Student: So there it's general, and here it's private?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:06) How does love of friends help a person come out of Egypt?
M. Laitman: It attracts him from the will to receive for himself to the desire of the Ten. And by that, he rises from his narrow, small desire to a greater desire, where he begins to see himself, and the entire world, and the friends, and all created beings in a global way.
Student: Love of friends is a condition to come out of Egypt?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And a person that already starts loving the friends, so the next stage is exiting Egypt?
M. Laitman: I don't know what you mean to see the friends.
Student: To love the friends.
M. Laitman: Ah. What?
Student: To love them.
M. Laitman: Oh. Yes. Yes, you can say it, too.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:32) I heard that we need to gather forces. What exactly should we strengthen inside? Which qualities?
M. Laitman: The qualities within us that we have to strengthen to care about strengthening them in order to come to the exodus from Egypt, most likely. Love of others, that's what we need. That all created beings will seem to us that we will see them as belonging to a single group, to a single quality. That's what we need. If we come through our labor to a quality of love of others, then we first connect in the Ten in a perfect way, and then from the Ten we come to love of others. And from love of others to love of the world.
Student: If I could ask more? So what prayer is demanded of us so the Creator helps us to come out of exile?
M. Laitman: What is now required of us is that we feel the connection, connection of the hearts. That is what takes us out of in order to receive and into the quality of the Creator in order to bestow.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:58) You were speaking about a big common desire in the Ten that grows with time. Does that become the commandment for me?
M. Laitman: Love of friends in the Ten is a necessary first condition. Then we have to unpack that love even more to the point that it envelops the entire world. That's all.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:53) A person asks to adhere to the qualities of the Creator or to the Creator himself?
M. Laitman: That is a question that is indeed sometimes asked, and I can't say. Are we talking about the quality of the Creator or the Creator? To us, it's the same thing, essentially.
Student: There's something that doesn't let you devote yourself all the way to acquire that quality of the Creator.
M. Laitman: Well, that's because he exists in a completely different dimension than where I am.
Student: In what way can a person acquire that quality that he's making efforts in acquiring? Because the Creator gave us this labor. So, in what way does he connect it to the Creator himself so it doesn't stop him in the work?
M. Laitman: Through love of the world. In loving the world, I get closer to a state where I come to knowing the Creator and loving the Creator.
Student: So, it's going as deep as you can?
M. Laitman: Yes, yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:31) He's speaking about qualities. They're kind of remedies. What qualities in the Ten today should we increase or emphasize?
M. Laitman: Love of friends, love of others, love of the Torah, love of the Creator.
Student: It's hard to reach love. And a feeling of unity that will bring love, that would help. Like paying attention to little details. Should we pay attention to the little details that it will increase the love?
M. Laitman: Yes, we'll start there.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:19) What is a love of the world?
M. Laitman: Love of the world is already that which includes all created beings. That is the greatest quality of love.
Student: A person who develops love of the world, how does he relate to the world?
M. Laitman: How does he…
Student: Relate to the world?
M. Laitman: As love of the world, as it says. A person reaches love of friends, and from love of friends he comes to love of the world, which is something that for him constantly expands, this boundary of the world, and then he comes to love.
Student: What expands that boundary?
M. Laitman: His work, that he's always working on expanding that boundary.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:42) Expanding the boundary, what I just heard, does that help me acquire the God of truth?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What's expanding the boundaries?
M. Laitman: Expanding the boundary, meaning that one has a Ten, then he has, let's say, the greater group, until he comes through that to love of the world where he sees the whole world as a group.
Student: I can acquire all love of the world, like we're saying now?
M. Laitman: I don't know, haven't reached it yet.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:40) What is love of friends?
M. Laitman: Love of friends means that I love everyone who is with me in my small group, in a way that we are connected, that I'm connected to Him above all that I could think about, anyone else in the world.
Student: That's the gift we get, that's the remedy?
M. Laitman: It is said that it's a remedy or a condition, but it's a must to attain that.
Student: What's the feeling that comes before love of friends?
M. Laitman: Before love of friends, there are many states. Before love of friends, love of friends is, I would say, the initial love that one attains. That's it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:21) I understand that I'm connected to the friend, that I'm dependent on the friend. What does it mean that I love the friend?
M. Laitman: To love the friend means that you wish to arrange everything that has to do with you in a way that the friend will be rewarded with love of the Creator. So, love of the friend is that I'm concerned that he will reach spirituality, that he will reach the Creator?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: How is that expressed in our feelings, this thing?
M. Laitman: I can't tell you about feelings, but that's what there is, as much as we can explain.
Student: I see that I'm concerned of him, that's called love?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: He writes that love of friends, that's something you get from above?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Rabash writes that a person has to see his true state whether he has faith in the Creator on the path of truth, or is it just a habit?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: How does a person know what really motivates him?
M. Laitman: He feels, he understands.
Student: In our society…
M. Laitman: Yes?
Student: It could be that I'm also working from habits or agreements we have here. I'm working without even paying attention.
M. Laitman: Look, that's simple. If we are in a family, which is our smallest circle, so we care for that to some extent and then we get closer to a state where certainly everything that I care for also exists in such a circle for me.
Student: I'm asking about those commandments that happen through habits. Is there a danger in our society that I'm working from a habit? Or it doesn't matter, even the habit is a good thing because it's working on me.
M. Laitman: It's good. It's good. Habit is good too.
Student: And how not to work from a habit but from faith?
M. Laitman: This is... It's a very wide field. I can't even do it in such a way that we will be able to find our way through it. To find our way? Yes.
M. Laitman: I can't say. But in any case, trying to reach the love of friends, even in a small circle, is a big thing.
Student: And again, if I work from a habit towards my friends through actions of care and support, and I have nothing for it from the inside, nothing.
M. Laitman: That's what the Creator gives you. But you need to prepare a field for that.
Student: So my job is to prepare the field, and the Creator will give me the love. So He will bring me the love?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:58) I wanted to ask about the expansion of love. In the May Congress, we're going to gather in different areas and different languages. Let's say we'll be in Hungary, or Kazakhstan, or Kyiv, America, South America. And Petah Tikva, and there'll be different areas. What is in such a gathering, a local gathering, that is like a transition between the Ten and the world?
M. Laitman: Wherever our friends are gathering, they also establish a certain kind of circle, a special circle that they make. And it operates in some independent way on everyone else.
Student: So, for the first time, it's going to be something that we're doing at the same time. Some of the activities will be independent, not on the same time frame.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And Tens will come there as Tens, with all the efforts and the struggle. And there'll be something that is more than the Ten. What is there that is more than working in the Ten?
M. Laitman: More than working in the Ten is what each and everyone in the Ten also has to connect, not personally, but through the Ten, to hold himself in a desire to connect to friends in the world.
Student: So, we can connect right away to all the friends in the world. Why does He need someone that are like closer to Him in language or in an area? What's in that station in the middle?
M. Laitman: It's through the Ten, essentially. The force of the Ten is not an individual force, it's a spiritual force.
Student: How does that force expand?
M. Laitman: By the Tens, when they gather, and compress themselves, and connect between them, and then greater Tens are made from them.
Student: What's in the bigger Ten that isn't in the small Ten?
M. Laitman: Power, first of all. A force that expands them, so to speak, or disperses them, as well as holds them together.
Student: So it's a greater intensity?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva 33): (44:22) How does a person know that he is in love of others?
M. Laitman: If he examines himself and learns from his behavior to what extent he's getting closer to love of others.
Question (Petah Tikva 6): (44:50) How to coerce my heart to love?
M. Laitman: Prayer. Only the Creator can set that up. A person needs to try and always think about it.
Question (Haifa 3): (45:15) How do we use the story of Passover to get the remedy to connect to the friends and the Creator?
M. Laitman: To discuss it, to study it, and thus, we'll go broader and deeper into the remedy of connection.
Question (Petah Tikva 8): (45:50) How do we pray for many people together? Prayer, that is for a special deficiency of each and everyone.
M. Laitman: Deficiency of everyone connects to many other deficiencies, and then they all are felt in the connection between them and the Creator. Prayer.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (46:30) Working for the benefit of the friend. That's called love of friends? To love the friend?
M. Laitman: No. That's called Mitzva.
Student: So, in that Mitzva, commandment, acquiring the faith in the Creator, he says that if I work for the others, I'm acquiring faith in the Creator.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: How does that help me when I work for the friends? Does it bring me faith in the Creator?
M. Laitman: I can't set this up in one sentence. Yes. But we'll feel it, and then we'll understand it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:39) If our desire is a result of the light, so love of the Creator is a result of love of friends?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:58) Love of friends, we can attain and feel the greatness of the Creator?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:13) About love of friends. I need to reach a relation where the friends in my reality are most important.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What's the reason to reach such an attitude? What is the right reason that… That's what I need to feel towards the friends?
M. Laitman: That's what we have. There's a Ten, and there's a greater broader group, and between this and that, I can relate myself each time to a more internal form as possible.
Student: I'm speaking about the reason. This week, I felt towards my son in a natural way that it's the most important thing. He was in some competition, and it really I was all in that. It's a natural reason, I don't even ask why. But here, I'm with the friends, I don't have a connection with them except for the one that's the question. What is the reason? What is this connection I have with the friends that should be the most important thing to me in life?
M. Laitman: It's the attainment of the Creator. You're going to attain with them something that's the greatest, most important most precious is the center of reality.
Student: I really feel that they're my partners on the path, that they have an inner desire that is close, but it's not igniting the heart.
M. Laitman: That needs work. I don't have any other answer. That's it. When that will touch the heart and really ignite the heart.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (50:32) I heard earlier that to love the friend is to organize everything inside you so the friend is rewarded with the love of the Creator. Can you elaborate on that?
M. Laitman: There is no higher state in a person than having love of the Creator, and therefore, that’s what we can wish for a person, to be rewarded with that. That in his heart, there will be a true deficiency to reach Connection with the Creator, contact with the Creator, so that he feels in response what is the love of the Creator.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:49) In order to do it, you have to love the friends.
M. Laitman: Of course.
Student: So, I have to pray that I will love the friends in order for me to pray about them so they will get closer to the Creator? Or should I just perform actions?
M. Laitman: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Actions, requests, it doesn't matter. What matters is that you wish for them to advance.
Student: Because a person shouldn't pray for himself.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: But can he pray for himself to love the friends, and then it won't be for himself?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: In the family, every time a child is born, you invest in him, you love them. In the Ten at one moment, we got 17 kids. You don't invest in everyone equally. Not even all of them are home. Some of them are overseas, some are, I don't know, come more or less. In order for this one child, this great love in the Ten, that it will be created, so we need in every action we do for the benefit of the friends to want the result of it to go into the whole Ten, into the center of the Ten, that everybody will be washed with this wave of love that will bring everybody closer to this one love? Or how do you do this so there'll be one great big love for everyone in the Ten?
M. Laitman: That will come. We can't raise such desires.
Student: But the purpose is that each one in the Ten will love one another equally. That they'll be in the heart one Ten.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (54:11) How to check that you're really doing everything for the benefit of the Ten?
M. Laitman: It's endless. It's endless. Everyone can examine and see that this is lacking and that's lacking. And this is because there's a difference between the… between the circles and the line, as we learned. Because we can't do actions that belong to the circles, but only to the line and the square. We will learn that. For now, let's remain with a question. That's it.
Reader: If you want, there's another short article from Rabash that we can read.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Reader: So we'll read. We will read from the article “When Pharaoh Sent the People.” You can find it in the Writings of Rabash, in kabbalahmedia.info, in the study materials tab, in the Arvut system. Article 382, “When Pharaoh Sent the People.”
Reading: (55:46) Rabash. 382. When Pharaoh Sent the People
BeShalach, January 1981
“And it came to pass that when Pharaoh sent the people, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, for it was near, since God said, ‘The people might change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.’ So God led the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea.”
We must interpret this according to the prevalent reality. When one wants to walk on the path of truth, each one asks, “Why?”
“And it came to pass that when Pharaoh sent the people,” meaning that the body as a whole is called “Pharaoh,” and he must choose to let the people come out, meaning all the powers and thoughts will be the Creator’s and not under his control. This means that all his powers will serve the body, but he will use them for the sake of the Creator.
Why did the Creator let them walk to the holy land—a land flowing with milk and honey, which the Creator promised to give the inheritance of the land to our holy fathers—through the far away road and did not give them the near road, as it is written, “And God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, for it was near.”
“Near” and “far” mean that which is close to the mind, which the mind approves of doing. Also, it should be close to the heart, to coincide with one’s heart, meaning what the will to receive feels is to its own benefit, as it was with Adam HaRishon before the sin, when the scrutiny was by bitter and sweet, as it is written in the “Introduction to Panim Masbirot.”
M. Laitman: Did you hear? So what's the question that we usually ask of this? Yes, friend?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:42) How to prefer the path that is far from the mind and heart?
M. Laitman: How to pass on..?
Student: How to prefer it?
M. Laitman: To prefer it…
Student: Because he says that the Creator didn't lead them through the near path but actually the far path from the mind and the heart.
M. Laitman: Yes, and? So that's the question?
Student: How to prefer it, the far path?
M. Laitman: Well, let's say that's the question. That's right. In general, that's the question in this short article. So, what do we do?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (59:38) Not what to do. The question is, can we prefer it before the mind grows tired? Can we prefer the work of the heart before the mind grows tired from all these works? The mind is occupied by a Pharaoh. He occupies it strongly and doesn't allow it to reach the heart. The question is, will we continue this work until Pharaoh gets tired and their cry rises up at some point? It's enough. There's even a desire that awakens that I want to cross the barrier just to help my friends. There's a feeling. You also describe it beautifully in the first two lessons, this whole work in the corrected system, how a Kabbalist essentially every moment pushes towards this exodus from Egypt, and you tell us to connect. We hear. We do. We want. And, well, we can't connect. The question is whether I should relay it back to you, you are the representative, to turn to the Creator in our name, tell Him we want to connect, but we can't. We can't, Rav.
M. Laitman: You can't. Are you doing something about it? Except for listening to what's written.
Student: I'm certainly not doing enough, but when I look around, I see that the friends are doing everything. They do everything. It's either the Creator gives me this illusion to see that they're not connected. As I said, I want to enter that system already, to benefit the system. It's a different program. I'm clear. I understand that it's a different thing. I can't even think of how it's managed. It's just a waste of time of this scrutiny. How to break through that barrier?
M. Laitman: We need to perform the demands, I guess, that they have performed, and that's what they were left with.
Student: So now, let's say my request to you, does it help the general Kli or…
M. Laitman: To me? No. It's better to demand from the Creator.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:03:02) A person invests strength and thoughts in what's close to his heart, to his will to receive. To convince the friends or myself to come to lessons and meals, that you can somehow push that. How can you push the heart to want love of friends?
M. Laitman: To ask from the heart, from the Creator, from the friends, that you want specifically to get inspired by their relation to the Creator. That will help.
Student: To be impressed by their relation to the Creator. What will it change in me? To be impressed by their attitude to the Creator.
M. Laitman: It will affect your heart to also ask for a connection with the Creator. And the Creator will help.
Student: What is complete love for the friend?
M. Laitman: It's a waste to even speak about it. The whole qualities that are whole, belong to the Creator.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:04:50) The Ten is a spiritual force. Does it have to be our mutual effort every time anew to yearn for this force?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: It doesn't depend on the presence; it depends on our effort.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What else can we add here? How can we better recognize it as so?
M. Laitman: Connect your hearts.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:05:25) Well, it seems, it feels that Pharaoh, on his part, he's not going to let go.
M. Laitman: Pharaoh himself, of course, he won't let go.
Student: It seems like… so, what's needed? Just to agree with the plagues?
M. Laitman: No, that's what he's telling you, what you need. To try to still make the feeling in the heart better, that we won't be able to hold on in any way in Egypt. Not able to. And then, you cry out.
Student: So, it's only to reach a state of no other choice.
M. Laitman: No other choice, that is the cry. That everything is mixed up.
Student: What does it require of us, ultimately, in practice?
M. Laitman: It demands of us to ignite one another.
Student: Ignite what?
M. Laitman: To escape. Escape from slavery of the will to receive. That is forcing each and every one of us, and all of us together, and is holding us under the control of Pharaoh.
Student: So, he doesn't agree with anything in Egypt, he just escapes suffering.
M. Laitman: Okay.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:07:42) I feel that every word of the friend separates me from the Creator. Can we say that these flaws I feel are the deficiencies I take upon myself?
M. Laitman: You don't want to feel them. That's why you can't say that you understand them.
Student: In this case, what is the inversion point that I want to take it upon myself?
M. Laitman: To ask, only to ask. Alright, we're done.
Reader: So, we will go to a summary of the lesson in the Tens, we will summarize the main concept we discussed in the lesson with Rav.