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Daily Morning Lesson: December 2, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded lesson - Nov 3, 2020

Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”. #67

Reader: Hello, friends. We are going to start the lesson with studying a lesson from November 3rd, 2020,  “The Work with Faith Above Reason”, select excerpts from the sources, we will continue with excerpt number 67, please.

Reader: Hello, we are in a lesson on the topic of “The Work with Faith Above Reason”, we are going to be reading from the verses, we are on excerpt number 67. You can find the study materials on our site, to watch them on the Arvut system, just go up to where it says study material up on top and click on it, you can send questions through Sviva Tova or raise your question mark and they will be asked during the lesson.

M. Laitman: (00:53) And once again we are together in the morning lesson, and our problem which stands before us is the acquisition of the degree of faith above reason. These degrees are 125 degrees, through them we come close from the degree of matter to the degree of spirit, from the degree of animal to the degree of Adam, the degree of the Creator. And how do we attain this? The Creator had a question, if you could say so, how can a person be like Him? On one hand, and on the other hand, to nevertheless be a person, besides the Creator, as not to be completely in the Creator, like an embryo in His womb, that is not considered existence, even though he has some existence, but that existence is not at his own expense. Therefore, how to create a person, a thing that could be independent? I once wrote about this, a story that is called “The wizard.” And so, now the question comes, what should the Creator do? And he thought and thought what to do? I think this story is in our archives, it would appear to me that it is. So therefore, it's written there that the Creator thought He was making the person from the earth, from the plants, from the animals, so that there will be something living in the degree of still, vegetative and animal. And then he discovers that that can't be, because there is no one who is independent, that stands before the Creator, and then He suddenly sees and understands that He has to create a very big will to receive in him, that will be completely opposite the Creator, not agreeing with Him, resisting Him, and even annoyed with Him, and hating Him, in short, the whole Sitra Achra [the other side], needs to exist in our foundation, such that from such a foundation, we can truly come to feel, understand, and identify with the Creator, in the opposite way, where a person must be certain that he is incorporated with a thing and it's opposite, from darkness and light, from good and evil. But the evil must be first, and a person needs to examine whether he truly wants to be ridden of the bad, to rise above it - even though he can't disconnect from it completely, because the bad is his nature - but to rise above it.

M. Laitman: (04:48) How is that possible to do? And therefore, what we learn is that the whole preparation for creation of man is not simple. It's a very long process in which there is the creation of a thing that is opposite the Creator - the will to receive. And the will to receive has to develop gradually by the Creator Himself, by the light, and to go through all kinds of stages of connection and disconnection from the light. There are these two desires - the desire to receive and the desire to bestow, the intention to receive and the intention to bestow, and thus the Creator prepares creation through building and breaking, building and breaking, and by building and breaking all the degrees, all the worlds, all of internality, all of Ein Sof. Then He prepares these preparations, these states, one against the other, such that a person then would then be able to be revealed in a reality that would be included of all these states, slowly, slowly including them, and coming to a state in which he will be above them. Above these two states, both from the good and from the bad and above that, and you shall be like God who knows good and bad. And this is why we learn in the study of Ten Sefirot  the cascading from above downwards and the preparation for our state, and then how we ourselves already can attain these degrees from below upwards, as they are already just in a manner that is being revealed to us as shattered, because that's us, and by us discovering the desire for the goal, to be like the Creator actually, the point in the heart that is revealed in us and draws us to the source, to be like the Creator, to be above the good and evil, to truly be towards the goal, towards the point from which creation begins. This is why we need to go on the path in which the force of bestowal is always preferred to the path of reception. And in order to implement this, we must also do so in the connection between us. And in the connection between us, if we realize this, we are not concerned, any of us, for himself, because we are going to reveal the force of bestowal, but rather we need to ask and can be concerned only for the others. And it's as if I don't exist, I am seemingly the point that collects, corrects all the rest of the parts of creation, connects them, arranges them, corrects them. That's why my concern throughout the day is that my friends will not forget about the goal, that they will be drawn towards it, and I don't think of myself. I seemingly don't exist, I exist only through this concern for them. If we were to think in such a way, then we would see how successful we would be in connecting to that same direction, same goal. And on the way, we will discover how that's all the Creator wants of us, for us to come to that which is common to us all - the quality of unity and love.

M. Laitman: (10:08) I said that there was great preparation here for the creation so that it will begin to correct itself, so that it will begin to reveal its correct state. You could say that this preparation ended in our times, in our lifetimes, and we are the first group that is trying to adapt itself, to arrange itself such that we will enter the correct path towards the goal. And in this group, which is in this group, and in the surroundings, and all of humanity, where the proper preparations that are necessary are there for us to rise to the first spiritual degree. Spiritual degree is called faith above reason, where we all want to rise from our reason to the reason of the Creator, as the reason of the Creator is called “faith,” our reason is called “our reason.” If I understand and feel what my nature wants, because it all begins from the darkness, and there was evening and there was morning, every degree, it's the same way. And then I am drawn to the reason of the Creator. So I need to raise myself each time to think this way - I am now not working. Thinking according to what I want to do and to think, but rather I now do and think what the Creator wants and does. The Creator is the quality of bestowal, the quality of love. So if I do what He wants, even though it's me who's doing it, what He wants, by this I build a Partzuf, already a system of connection between me and Him, through the group, the Ten or all of humanity, as this is how I think of them, I don't think of myself, I don't ask for myself. I only ask for them not to forget the goal, for them not to disconnect. And then each time I transfer my mind and my heart, meaning both desires and thoughts, to them, to everyone, in order to serve them, deliver them to the Creator, advance them to the Creator, that's actually all my work, and by that I become a partner to Him, as all of reality is before me, and I serve the Creator by being concerned and pushing all of humanity towards Him. And this is how we need to slowly, slowly, delicately discover this tendency as the obligation of each and every person in the world, because to the extent in which each person will hear of this that he needs to care for others we will move from the path of suffering to the path of Torah, to the path of light.

M. Laitman: (14:43) We will rid ourselves, of course, from the coronavirus and all kinds of other things that stand before us. And we will see in all the things that are being revealed that they all come in order to separate, in order to distance, in order to silence us, in order to disconnect us from the previous life, from our professions, from our movies, from everything. Nothing will help us. But if we gently begin to be concerned, each for the others, so that they will think and see about connection between everyone, then all the rest of the things in this world will work out as a result of that. We need to be concerned only with our thoughts, everything will be clarified in thought. If we think during the day from lesson to lesson, from morning lesson today to the morning lesson tomorrow, if we will think about the whole world having to come closer to the knowledge that everyone needs to care for everyone, then for sure we will arrange all the forces of nature that are purposely kind of shuffling up the cards, mixing them up, we will arrange them in the right way. Because it all depends on our efforts, because we as the force of speaking, the highest degree in this world, we will begin to feel our true forces and how we operate. We will also begin to feel the states that were prior to creation. Prior to creation, meaning, before the matter of this world was created, because we are starting to enter into spiritual degrees, and then we will begin to feel that the hidden matter from us in the universe, they say that it's black matter, dark matter that you don't feel, we will begin to feel all those forces that are operating and that operated before the creation of the world, until we begin to discover more and more all those forces that stabilized everything and established it, meaning we will truly enter into creation and start feeling where we are in it, and this is no fantasy, this is the scientific reality, the wisdom of Kabbalah.

But to our point now, it's only to think, each of us not of himself, but rather of the others, where we ask from the Creator, and ask the friends to think of everyone, to think of everyone, and by this we will begin to feel what the degrees above us are, where we start thinking about others, we truly emerge out of ourselves to others. When we exit ourselves to others, it seems to us like it's to others, but it's already towards the Creator, for He is outside the egoistic thought and desire of man. So let's start thinking about this and advance towards our topic, which is “Faith above reason.” This is the path each time to acquire a spiritual degree more and more, higher. 

Reader: We will read excerpt number 67, this is from the document on “The Work with Faith Above Reason”. Baal HaSulam says: 

Reading: (19:28) 67. Baal HaSulam. Shamati, Article 34, "The Advantage of a Land"

We see the difference between what the mind asserts and what only faith asserts, and what is the reason that when something is based on faith, we must constantly remember the form of the faith, otherwise he falls from his degree into a state suitable for one who is wicked. These states might happen even in a single day: One may fall from his degree many times in one day since it is impossible that faith above reason will not stop even for a moment during one day.

We must know that the reason for forgetting the faith stems from the fact that faith above reason and the mind is against all the desires of the body. Since the desires of the body come by the nature imprinted in us, called “will to receive,” whether in the mind or in the heart, hence, the body always draws us to our nature. Only when we cling to faith does it have the power to bring us out of the bodily desires and go above reason, meaning against the body’s reason.

Reader: We'll read item 67 once again. 

Reading: (21:21) 67. Baal HaSulam. Shamati, Article 34, "The Advantage of a Land" 

We see the difference between what the mind asserts and what only faith asserts, and what is the reason that when something is based on faith, we must constantly remember the form of the faith, otherwise he falls from his degree into a state suitable for one who is wicked. These states might happen even in a single day: One may fall from his degree many times in one day since it is impossible that faith above reason will not stop even for a moment during one day. 

M. Laitman: But specifically by constantly stopping, having cessations from faith, and renewing it again, and then it stops again, and he renews it again - by all those renewals he actually has steps forward. The number of disconnects and the number of connections that follow define the degree of man. 

Reading: (22:39) 67. Baal HaSulam. Shamati, Article 34, "The Advantage of a Land" 

We must know that the reason for forgetting the faith stems from the fact that faith above the reason and the mind is against all the desires of the body. Since the desires of the body come by the nature imprinted in us, called “will to receive,” whether in the mind or in the heart, hence, the body always draws us to our nature. Only when we cling to faith does it have the power to bring us out of the bodily desires and go above reason, meaning against the body’s reason.

M. Laitman: This is our advancement, to the extent in which we yearn to be more in bestowal and thought of others, in being adhered to the Creator. What would the Creator want for me to think of, for me to do, for me to feel? If I yearn to be in these things constantly, then accordingly I will also feel to the extent in which a certain force will come, tell me that it's the evil incarnation. It's a help against Him, against the Creator. It's the same force that He created that works against Him, and that's how they work in compliment to one another and completing one another in this work.

The Creator needs the evil inclination it's an angel in the hands of the Creator, and then He constantly disconnects us in order for us to want to once again connect to the Creator. And again the evil inclination disconnects us, and again we connect to the Creator according to our exertion. That's why we don't have any point in complaining to the evil inclination, but rather to turn to the Creator to help us deal against it. And then by me turning like a little child who is afraid that something won't work out, so he runs to his mother crying next to her, and then she helps him. So that's how we too need to do. In every single situation turn to the Creator and not try to do anything for oneself. We don't need to waste time on that. Anything that does not work out in our spiritual work, everything that we feel some lack of success in the connection between us, in our mood, in anything we immediately need to turn to the Creator. Not to waste time, as if we can overcome this. It's called the pride of man shall humiliate us. We will just fall from this. But rather as fast as possible, as we look at our friends, as we learn how to constantly be connected to the Creator and ask from Him an ascent from this situation, then by this we will shorten our path and succeed.

Question (ITA 2): (26:36) This movement of ascending the connection and disconnection, is it a steeper and steeper ascent each time? Is the ascent steeper each time? 

M. Laitman: Yes, we could say it that way. It depends on the degree of a person, the experience a person receives from his work, from his life, and so on. Accordingly, the difficulty level will be more. Well, it's just like you learn at school. When you rise from one degree to another degree, you have harder exercises. But accordingly, so that you will be able to overcome them and ascend even higher. Of course. 

Question (Moscow 1): (27:37) The corporeal problems, all kinds of concerns that disconnect the person from the Ten, from this constant direction towards the Creator, are they called part of the evil inclination or it's something else? 

M. Laitman: Those are the conditions a person needs to receive. He needs to try to get along with them as much as possible, but to know that it all comes also from the Creator, but it doesn't mean that he has to agree with it. He needs to try and improve them as well. But again, these are the conditions, let's say at work, at home, and everything that he has, even when it has to do with his health or other things these are the things that actually are one mechanism. They're all as one, the conditions from which he nevertheless each time will renew his connection with the Creator. There's none else besides Him, and specifically the Creator, in order to bring him closer, creates these conditions for him, and he needs from these conditions to get along, to come to aiming himself to the Creator in faith above reason. 

Student: What does it point to if there is a corporeal problem that keeps coming back to the person? 

M. Laitman: It's a sign that you need, each time more and more to take care of all the rest. But together with caring for it, you need to constantly care for your attitude to the Creator as the source of the problem. Meaning you must accept it and relate to it seriously, because it stands before you on the way according to those conditions in life that you receive from the Creator. And from those conditions you need to be in adhesion towards Him. And then you will see that slowly, slowly, it will really advance you. Time after time, if you relate correctly to the whole situation, you will see the extent to which this enters you into a connection with the Creator. Whoever the Creator loves, He shall prove. Specifically, those people that He loves, that the Creator loves and wants to bring them closer, He gives them harsh conditions. But it doesn't mean that we have to sit in those conditions. We need to advance from them. That's what we need to say. It's not them, nor the reward. Meaning, I need to work in such a way that they will disappear, for them to be for me different conditions to advance to the Creator. I don't have to love those conditions specifically. But to see in them a trigger, a means, an awakening means, a reason, that helps me emerge from one degree to another.

Question (Turkiye 3): (31:08) We can't come to a state that all the evil inclination comes from the Creator and has a purpose. Why is that happening? Is it because we don't recognize Him? 

M. Laitman: Because you're not connected enough between you and the Ten. Otherwise, you would learn from the friends that this is how it needs to be. And it doesn't depend on the extent in which you're physically connected, but rather, if you would want to be better connected in the Ten, from them you would see, even though they're not like this, it's not important, but you would learn from them that they are together and connected in such a way to the Creator and receive His care in such a way. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (32:21) You said that we build through such work the system of connection between us and the Creator, called Partzuf. How do we do this, after all, with prayer, with connection of all these pieces, maybe as a gift, as a work that we do each time anew? 

M. Laitman: We simply need each time to renew and renew the work above reason. We have selected excerpts on the work above reason, which we just read from excerpt number 67. And we need to read also, throughout the day, from there, all kinds of verses. Yes, that's how we have to do. 

Student: So, let's say, during the day we gather as a Ten and we read these parts, then what, every friend turns to the Creator?

M. Laitman: That's how he needs to be all day long not just when you're gathering for a few minutes. That's how he needs to try and be all day long. It's not just for the time of the Ten meeting where I sit or hear and am them in some physical connection, so I am also in an internal connection with them. I want to be in a constant internal connection with them all the time, just like a mother who has a baby at home, and she goes to work because there's no choice that she has to work, but her heart is completely there with the baby, and she's thinking and feeling all the time what's happening with him there at home. That's how we need to constantly do all kinds of work, but our heart needs to constantly be with the Ten.

Student: So, basically, all the activities that a person has in life, they just need to happen automatically, and this is the most important thing. 

M. Laitman: It's written, make your Torah permanent, and your work temporary.

Question (Moscow 7): (34:56) In the last paragraph of item 67, we just read, Baal HaSulam writes, when a person clings to faith, it gives him the power to bring us out of the bodily desires and go above reason. What is that? 

M. Laitman: Our problem is that the word faith confuses us. We think from what we understand from religions and philosophies and from our life, faith is the force of bestowal. It's an upper force, it's a force of bestowal that we want to rule us and give us the ability to carry out acts of bestowal towards all the others and through all the others to the Creator, because the Creator includes all of this system of humanity. He stands behind all of it. So we need to understand that we have two levels of behavior. The lower level, which is reason, what I discover in my will to receive, that, for the time being is what I see in my five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. And there's another level where I operate not according to what I discover in my will to receive in my five senses, but rather how I want to reveal and work in Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin and Malchut. In those five spiritual senses what's the difference between the five corporeal senses and the five spiritual senses? Through the five corporeal senses I want to receive, through the five spiritual senses I want to give, to bestow. And then accordingly I have a mind and I have a heart, both for this system and for that system. And I will constantly be inside the system of reason, meaning to receive, and in the system of faith, in bestowal. Malchut and Bina, Malchut and Bina - each time we will have to rise and raise those parts from Malchut to Bina, and correct it that way. 

Question (MAK 2): (37:39) You say that every time we feel descent, and decline, and rejection, we shouldn't wait and turn to the Creator. However, we can't ask for ourselves, so how does it work? Do I, what I feel, I have to ask it for the friends? That's how it works? 

M. Laitman: Yes, because what do I feel? I feel that I'm in my egoistic desire, and then how can I, what will I ask for the Creator? I need to ask Him for something that is to the point, some act, some action, some operation. And the operation I'm asking of Him is for Him to put me through the society into all of this concept called faith, bestowal.

Student: To bring me to it, or my friends? Because again, it appears that I ask for myself. 

M. Laitman: No, no, no, no, no, no. If I'm asking to be in the friends, that's already the correct request. Because I want to advance them, I want by this to strengthen them, to push them forward. In the quality of faith, it can't be that you're asking for yourself. No, because the degree itself, the degree of faith is disconnected from Malchut. Just like we talked about it yesterday, the day before yesterday, I explained to you that I am in my will to receive, and I want to depict to myself that instead of my will to receive, I want to be in the desire of the group, in the desire of the Creator. This is called to move from reason to faith above reason. But nevertheless, it's me who's asking. It's me who wants to be in them. It's me who wants to be in bestowal. Who am I? I'm sorry, from the I we don't disconnect. No matter how you spin it, you're building it all upon the Malchut, on the will to receive, slowly, slowly. The words sometimes don't give us the true feeling of it.

Student: So it's not that I dissolve in the friends and feel that the friends are the new me?

M. Laitman: Yes, but it nevertheless remains you. It's not that you disappear completely. Even though you say, I who disappears, it's a state that you are inside the friends and don't feel your desire, but rather feel their desire operating in you and operating you.

Question (ITA 4): (41:12) To be always thinking about the Ten and to cling with all our power, does that mean to build the Partzuf between us so that we feel this reality in the right way, to feel this world in the right way? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Tel Aviv 1): (41:46) During the day, we really feel this connection and disconnection, and yet it also feels like it doesn't come from me at all. So where is my work here? 

M. Laitman: Your work is in asking the Creator to sustain you in the degree of giving above receiving, bestowal above reception. That's your work all the time, to be in that and to try to not fall. And if you fall, then you fall. That's a sign that it was arranged for you that way so that you will exert in prayer, it's mostly in prayer, to be once again in the degree of faith above reason.

Question (PT 34): (42:42) Let's say that a flaw appears in the connection between the friends. With what strength, how do we overcome that brokenness if we see the shattering between us? With what power do we overcome? 

M. Laitman: When you talk about what Rabash writes in his articles about the society, and that's it. Then you each annul themselves towards the others. What question? 

Student: So with reading together and prayer and… Through all the means that stand before you. 

M. Laitman: You're asking such things that ten years ago you could have asked. 

Question (MAK 2): (43:41) The will to receive, the will to bestow. Who is the “I” who chooses each time, who prefers the will to bestow to the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: That's the point in the heart. A point which includes within it already from the shattering that was before you that already includes the two forces, Malchut and Bina. That's a point. And then it acquires for itself some coarseness, kind of like some flesh that it connects to itself, more desire than the Malchut. And you, through your exertion, attribute it to Bina. And this is how you grow through these two forces. Malchut, Bina, Malchut, Bina, Malchut, Bina; and that's how you grow from those two forms until you begin to build between them the middle line. Then you start to see where you are between the two of them, and this is how it arranges itself. 

Question (Belarus): (44:59) Following the question about the problems that repeat themselves, what does it mean to ask the Ten for help? 

M. Laitman: Integrating in it is enough where you connect and you read some article, it's preferable to do so with the Rabash articles, they're seemingly, they're a little shorter, you talk about it for a few minutes. Upon that, it's best not to talk about the problems themselves, but to take a certain article that someone there is responsible for in the Ten that chooses it in advance, and this way you talk about this article and scrutinize things and advance that way, but each time see the extent in which you can clarify your state in a very short way and rise from that degree to the degree of bestowal, to the degree of faith. Where you're nevertheless coming to a new desire, a common desire, a common goal, where you are all and the Creator is with you. To the extent in which you can for the time being build this form later you'll start to feel that it truly works this way, that it works this way. And also when you discuss the extent in which your desires are as such, you go and receive a higher desire, more bestowal, more giving, and then you adhere to it. Yes, I say, don't want to do something, but actually, according to what I understand the Creator did want me to do it, or something else, so I do this in place of that. That's called, make His will your own, and this is how I advance from one state to another. You will see that if you work systematically on this you suddenly receive pleasure from replacing one desire with another, where the ego will suffer. But your pleasure will be from replacing the egoistic desire, the egoistic command to the Creator's command. And there is fulfillment in this.

Reader: Sixty eight.

Reading: (47:50) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

Right at the entrance (entrance is a constant thing because every time he has a descent he must begin anew. This is why it is called an “entrance.” Naturally, there are many exits and many entrances) he tells his body, “Know that I want to begin to serve the Creator and my intention is only to bestow and not to receive any reward. You should not hope that you will receive anything for your efforts, but it is all in order to bestow.”

And if the body asks, “What is your benefit from this work?” meaning, “Who receives this work, that I want to exert and toil?” Or he asks more simply, “For whose sake am I working so hard?” The reply should be, “I have faith in the sages, and they said that I should believe in abstract faith, above reason, that the Creator has so commanded us, to take upon ourselves faith, that He commanded us to keep Torah and Mitzvot. And we should also believe that the Creator derives pleasure when we keep the Torah and Mitzvot with faith above reason. Also, one should be glad at the Creator’s pleasure from his work.”

Thus, there are four things here:

1. Believing in the sages, that what they said is true.

2. Believing that the Creator commanded to engage in Torah and Mitzvot only through faith above reason.

3. There is joy when the creatures keep the Torah and Mitzvot on the basis of faith.

4. One should receive delight, pleasure, and gladness from having been rewarded with pleasing the King. And the measure of the greatness and the importance of man’s work is measured by the measure of joy that one derives during his work. This depends on the measure of faith that one believes in the above.

M. Laitman: It seems like we should read it again. Again, it's not enough once.

Reader: Again, item 68, Baal HaSulam says: 

Reading: (51:02) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

Right at the entrance (entrance is a constant thing because every time he has a descent he must begin anew. This is why it is called an “entrance.” Naturally, there are many exits and many entrances) he tells his body, “Know that I want to begin to serve the Creator and my intention is only to bestow and not to receive any reward. You should not hope that you will receive anything for your efforts, but it is all in order to bestow.”  

 

M. Laitman: Meaning, at every single degree, every next state, I want to more and more give and not receive anything.

Reading: (51:45) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

And if the body asks, “What is your benefit from this work?” meaning, “Who receives this work, that I want to exert and toil?” Or he asks more simply, “For whose sake am I working so hard?”

M. Laitman: Because our will to receive is built this way. His complaints are just. 

Reading: (52:36) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

The reply should be, “I have faith in the sages, and they said that I should believe in abstract faith, above reason, that the Creator has so commanded us, to take upon ourselves faith, that He commanded us to keep Torah and Mitzvot. 

M. Laitman: Meaning, through the force of bestowal, we will do all kinds of acts of bestowal, which are called Torah and Mitzvot. 

Reading: (53:10) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

And we should also believe that the Creator derives pleasure when we keep the Torah and Mitzvot with faith above reason.

M. Laitman: When we resemble the Creator in acts of bestowal and connection, by this we bring contentment to the Creator.

Reading: (53:33) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

Also, one should be glad at the Creator’s pleasure from his work.” 

M. Laitman: Yes, we need, it's written this way, Kabbalists who attain the Creator, attain these actions, attain the upper force, the upper world, raise ourselves above our reception to bestowal, meaning above our life and above our death, and they tell us that that upper force that is there has the feeling of good and bad according to our states, and enjoys the states of bestowal and connection that we do. 

Reading: (54:20) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

Thus, there are four things here:

1. Believing in the sages, that what they said is true. 

M. Laitman:  Without us taking upon ourselves, and trying to implement it, there is no beginning. Because the upper force, the Creator, operates through these people, these great ones, and tells us about the whole process, about the whole system. So we have no choice but to try that which they told us. There are people that shut their eyes and say, we don't want. They go back to the state like before, meaning to the degree of animal. But those who have a strong Reshimo, from the shattering of the Kli of Adam HaRishon, and feel that they must implement it and move forward, then they have no choice. Then they go. And those people eventually remain with us, and we build from them a Kli more and more revealed to discover the upper force, the Creator who will be revealed between us. In our times, here and now, in our times, it's truly practical. I really hope that we practically, in the near period of time, will start to discover more and more how according to the building of our Kli, the Creator is being revealed between us more and more in a way that we feel Him, where the divinity, Shechina will dwell amongst us. 

Reading: (56:22) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

2. Believing that the Creator commanded to engage in Torah and Mitzvot only through faith above reason. 

M. Laitman: That only if we raise ourselves from the degree of reception to the degree of bestowal, from the degree of rejection and hatred to the degree of connection and love, then in such a way we start to feel an upper reality, because it is all felt inside of a person. And it all depends on the quality of the desire that is in a person, rules a person. If my desire is just in order to receive each time, then each time more than this world, I won't feel any more than that, and I will die just like I was a beast, and that's it, and nothing more. Where there would be no difference between a man and a beast in this world, but rather man is a little bit smarter, but also all those smarts are just to his detriment. You add more knowledge, you add more pain. And the higher degree is where we already rise above our will to receive and are in the quality of bestowal, and it's expressed in the connection between us. The Creator on purpose did a Kli of one desire, shattered it in many pieces. We feel this mutual rejection. Then we have exactly the place where we can work, connect between us. Do connect, don't connect. We feel more spiritual states, less spiritual until we connect ourselves in such a way, until the Creator is revealed between us. In order to implement this nevertheless in a practical way, then it's enough for us to do this in a small part of the shattered desire, which is called the Ten, where the Creator arranges us in such a way and brings a person to the good fate and says, “Take it,” meaning, start connecting at least the way you are now in the Ten. And if we arrange the relations in the Ten according to the first spiritual condition, then we will feel the first spiritual degree and the Creator inside of us. And second and third, in that way, 125 degrees, meaning five worlds, five Partzufim, five Sefirot in every state, and advance that way. It's all before us. 

Reading: (59:08) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

3. There is joy when the creatures keep the Torah and Mitzvot on the basis of faith. 

M. Laitman: It's impossible to carry out Torah and Mitzvot if not on the basis of faith. You can't do it on the basis of the will to receive. That means that you'll have what we see in this world, all kinds of actions that have no spiritual outcome. So, to do it on the foundation of faith means that we raise Malchut to Bina, we connect the will to receive with the will to bestow, and then by this special mixture between them, integration between them, we make actions that are receiving in order to bestow.

Reading: (01:00:05) 68. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two"

4. One should receive delight, pleasure, and gladness from having been rewarded with pleasing the King. And the measure of the greatness and the importance of man’s work is measured by the measure of joy that one derives during his work. This depends on the measure of faith that one believes in the above. 

M. Laitman: Yes, we need to pay attention to that. All the actions that I do, am I happy that I'm bringing, I'm going to bring joy to the Creator? And the more I imagine the Creator as the general force that connects us, then I need to work to make the friends happy, make the Ten happy, connect them as much as possible, so that it will be felt between us, and so that we will feel great joy in that, and we'll begin to feel that He's with us, and He is content. This is the general force that we will then feel is between us and dwells there.

Question (Latin 2): (01:01:51) Where or from which point does the “I” come in each of us? In the Ten that we need to hold on to in order to rise from Malchut to Bina. Again, what is that point in the “I” of a friend in the Ten, of every member of the Ten that needs to hold on to in order to rise from Malchut to Bina? 

M. Laitman: He needs to include himself in the Ten and try to bring the Ten a thought of connection and joy. And the goal is that they are going to connect until the Creator appears between them. 

Question (MAK 2): (01:02:46) Can we say that faith above reason is an action before understanding, and that the Creator is bringing His quality?

M. Laitman: No, it's not that faith above reason is that I do an action before I understand it. No, that's just an action of someone dumb, someone not sane. I feel everything. I understand everything. Everything's in its place. But I want to raise myself to a degree where I work as though I have the force of bestowal, as though I'm going to fulfill the Creator's will. Because Bina, which is the degree of faith, it's above the Malchut. And therefore, the Creator is called Bina. Bina, towards us, activates, performs the action of the Creator. And we have to try to reach it. We have to connect Malchut to Bina and do our actions this way. We can't disconnect from the Malchut. We have to connect with the Bina. And then, in the right merging between Malchut and Bina, we build our vessel each time in a way that is more and more complex each time, between Bina and Malchut.

Reader: We're going to move to the next part of the lesson, but before that we will sing a song together. 

Song: (01:04:38)