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Daily Lesson (Morning), March 18, 2024.

Part 2: Rabash. Article No. 25, 1988. What Is the Preparation on the Eve of Shabbat, in the Work?

Reader: We are reading from the writings of Rabash, the article, “What is the Preparation on the Eve of Shabbat in the Work?” Again, the writings of Rabash, “What is the Preparation on the Eve of Shabbat in the Work?” Study materials are on all our websites.

Reading Article: (00:43) “Our sages said, in the future, the Creator…”

M. Laitman: Thank you, to the reader. Anything urgent to ask about?

Student: (35:08) How can it be that faith is called charity? Charity is given to someone who is poor. Does it turn out that the Creator is poor? 

M. Laitman: Someone who is lacking faith is called poor, and then you give it to him.

Student: Yes, but he says that a person needs to take upon himself the burden of the Kingdom of Heaven, and he is in faith, he is giving it to the Creator. It turns out that the Creator is the poor one who needs the charity?

M. Laitman: Why not? 

Student: It doesn't work out for me because it was the Creator necessitating charity. Is that why I'm in faith above reason? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: It's kind of contradicting everything.

M. Laitman: You want to give the Creator and what can you give him on your behalf? Something that he does not have. What is that, vessels of reception?

Student: How do I give vessels of reception, what's the connection between faith and giving vessels of reception? 

M. Laitman: Because faith is a force that helps you bestow. 

Student: Meaning faith on our behalf gives the Creator a way to come to the vessels of reception? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: (37:11) More than that, he says that charity is a matter of necessity. What, the Creator has necessities? 

M. Laitman: Yes, it is a little strange, a little strange, why? How could it be that the Creator is actually lacking something, right? So, that is how it is. That is the true deficiency that is in Him to receive from the created beings.

Student: (37:54) What is more correct to work with the friends, within reason or above reason?  

M. Laitman: With the friends, who are your friends? 

Student: I have friends in the Ten, is it more correct for me to talk to them, get to know them, what hurts them, what they're lacking, within reason to connect to them? Rather than looking at them from the side and getting heated up about them. Constantly be in prayers to the Creator and I can prevent that whole thing from simple conversations between us. Meaning, what's more correct to work with friends? 

M. Laitman: What do you need?

Student: I want to connect with them to love them, to be closer to them, more and more, so we will be connected. So, that we will have a good atmosphere, we'll have common advancement. 

M. Laitman: What for? 

Student: I feel that this is how it's correct?

M. Laitman: You feel, according to your feelings, which is what you determine? You are writing the Torah in your feeling? 

Student: I'm asking in the simplest possible way because I can be less connected to them, simply in a humane way and to work above reason. All that I see not good in the friend, I address to the Creator, I work with the prayer of the Creator to correct everything bad that I see, yes? That I experience from the depth? 

M. Laitman: Why are you calling that above reason, it is exactly your reason.

Student: No.

M. Laitman: Why, when you see something bad and you are supposedly turning it into good, you are doing it with your mind.

Student: Okay but I'm working opposite to what my nature is telling me, my nature is disqualifying the friend.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: I am praying to the Creator for Him to correct this, that I want to see good things in the friend. 

M. Laitman: You are working according to your brain, according to your brain.

Student: Yes, but opposite my intellect, opposite my mind, opposite my reason. On the other hand, I can talk to the friend, see what is hurting him, bothering him, and connect to him in a simple way. So, I'm no longer thinking bad thoughts about him, I start to connect to him because I see what he's missing, what he's lacking. I'm asking how should I work, this way or that way? 

M. Laitman: So, I am asking you, how do you choose what to work on? 

Student: I prefer the way that now I notice that it's better the way that I connect with the friend. To get to know him more, but on the other hand, I have less appeals to the Creator, less of a volcano inside of me. 

M. Laitman: Well, you have something else? What do you think? 

Student: (41:14) I think he defined it correctly, but I think a volcano inside of him is better because then he can turn to the Creator with that. That's the place of the prayer, that's the place to be nearing the Creator.

M. Laitman: Who thinks, who else? What's up with you all today? 

Student: (41:47) Without coming close in a simple way he also won't discover his evil in him, that he can’t, and he also has to turn to the Creator.

M. Laitman: So, what do you do? 

Student: (42:15) There's a feeling that it's worthwhile to choose something that's not comfortable for the will to receive, that it's to turn to the Creator and for Him to give a solution.

M. Laitman: That is a simple solution, yes.

Student: (42:34) I think it's not even important what, it's more important to scrutinize the goal he wants to achieve. If he's doing it with a friend, then it's even better. If he and the friend have the same goal, then maybe he will attain it?

M. Laitman: Okay, I see that something is going on today, there is something in the air. 

Student: (43:18) From what you said to the friend it sounds like there's another solution that we're not at all talking about, it's just not clear what it is, how the appeal to the Creator needs to be. What's the work that we need to do in such a case? What is faith above reason?  

M. Laitman: Okay.

Student: (43:50) Maybe, to simply concentrate all the differences in us, in the Ten, and to turn to the upper force without there being a feeling in the upper force, but to turn to Him and ask Him to connect us. And to give the friends all the light he prepared for them. And also, to try for it not to be for a reward, but rather for him to see that suddenly how the Ten is growing and flourishing and he'll see all the good results, but rather from this work, a person receives his right direction towards the friends. Maybe something like that.

M. Laitman: Okay, more.

Student: (44:46) First of all, I want to say that it's something that really keeps us engaged for some time now, that closeness with the friends and also the extent in which you know these problems, difficulties, and deficiencies. It could be that you've been with a friend for years in the Ten and you don't even know what he's working at or even some basic things in his life and here it's really a question. Because I think that without knowing the friend and the problems and the work and his troubles, what am I going to ask the Creator for? It sounds very amorphic, what, give him spirituality, give him light? There has to be a certain incorporation and I feel like it's really missing that on the humane level we're lacking this closeness.

M. Laitman: Meaning I'm willing to be connected to everyone with all the friends and only through the connection I'll be able to see the truth, what the path is, and from here I'll also learn how I can approach the Creator. 

Student: It's like starting from that and then there's an appeal to the Creator. Otherwise, what should I ask for? 

M. Laitman: What else? 

Student: (46:30) Baal HaSulam writes in one of his letters that he commands his students to begin to delight in the joy of his friend and to incorporate truly into their personal experiences. We also see this in other places, that the friend is your spirituality, we also learn in the Arvut article that we have to fill all the needs of the friend, so he won't have to be concerned with himself. There are many hints as to where a person should concentrate all his efforts, where he's going to get confidence, and the feeling that releases a person, that anything that the corporeality prevents him, also needs to be worked on. 

M. Laitman: Okay. 

Student: (47:26) Not just for this article, but for all the articles of Rabash. There's a certain point in the article that talks about the work and above reason and this point opens another stage in the work in a person, in everything. We're constantly scrutinizing around this, what exactly is that work for Adam? Many times, it seems like it's not touching this work because it's something we have yet to reach. How will we come closer to the standing of faith above reason, of work above reason? 

M. Laitman: Okay, I hear you.

Student: (48:17) We can say that we can ask the friend how he wants to connect to him and one time it'll be this way, and another time it'll say the opposite, even. But to be aimed to how the friend wants to connect with him.

M. Laitman: Yes, yes so in this way you reach the connection.

Student: According to the desire of the friend. 

M. Laitman: Okay, well?

Student: (48:51) I can look at the work of the friend as a way to adhere to his qualities, as He is merciful, so you are merciful. The fact that he's my friend, he's in the Ten, he’s there and it seems to me, and it’s revealed to me, just to teach me a certain Sefira, a certain measure from the qualities of the Creator, and I investigate him endlessly, until I get this goal of the friend that I didn't see thus far. What I feel now is part of this intensity of the gift that I'm receiving from the friend.

M. Laitman: Okay. 

Question (Women Turkiye 6): (49:38) It's written in the first paragraph that in the future the Creator brings the book of Torah and places it in his bosom. What does it mean that he places it in his bosom, the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Help translate it. 

Interpreter: In the first paragraph, the Creator brings the book of Torah and places it in his bosom. So, she's asking, what does it mean that the Creator places the book of Torah in his bosom?

M. Laitman: That he's hugging it. Well, he's saying that whoever engages in it will come and get his reward. Obviously, I don't know all these words, what their true interpretation is but everyone engaging in the Torah will come and get his reward. Well, who wants to run to the Creator if that's what he's offering? Standing with the book of the Torah accepting everyone and throwing out such a sentence, right? He puts it in his bosom and says, whoever engages in it will come and get his reward. Who's willing? You’re willing, why? And the Creator tells them that everything you did you do for yourselves. And they told him, dear God, give it to us in advance and we will do. And he told them, you are fools. Whoever labored on the eve of Shabbat will eat on Shabbat and whoever didn't, what will he eat on Shabbat? Better to run away from all this, this invitation. Okay, we will let go of it for now.