The transcript has been transcribed and edited from English simultaneous interpretation, thus there may be potential semantic inaccuracies within it.

Daily Morning Lesson: January 2, 2026

Part 1: Recorded lesson - Dec 13, 2020

Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”. #43

Reader: Hello, friends, in the first part of the lesson we'll learn from a lesson on the 13th of December, 2020 about Work Above Reason. We'll continue with selected excerpts from the sources, continuing from Item 43. 

Reader: Hello, we are in a lesson on the topic of The Work in Faith Above Reason. We're going to read selected excerpts continuing from Excerpt Number 43. You can find the excerpts on Sviva Tova and also in the Arvut system when you click the book icon on the top. You can send your questions in and selected questions will be asked during the  lesson. The work in faith above reason.

M. Laitman: (00:58) This is our work: To acquire the force of faith above the force of reception. And this force will change in quantity and quality according to its essence in many modes. It's not in us, it’s on the Creator as He says, He who renews every day the act of creation. What is the act of creation, of Genesis? It means that He created the evil inclination, the will to receive, and above it, we need to reach the will to bestow. That's why—this is how we advance, the Creator adds the will to receive to us each and every day, each and every moment, if we could feel it. And we need to respond to all those changes by wanting in its place a desire to bestow. Meaning, not that He would take the will to receive, because the will to receive that He gives is good, But only on the condition that we can cover it with the will to bestow. This is called, Love covers all transgressions; and this way we ask together in a group. Each one in his group and all of us together in the larger group until the whole world together with us will ask the Creator for the end of correction. This is our work and it is called The Work Above Reason because our reason, our will to receive, just like everyone says, in my view according to what I can reason,  to what I feel. So our work is to rise above reason and, exactly, set up the force of bestowal to be above the force of reception that we receive from the Creator in every moment. 

We also spoke about it in the Congress, the two-day Congress we just had. In my eyes, it was very successful! We got a lot closer to this Kli called, faith above reason. And we will try to, practically, reach a state where each and every friend, individually and all of us collectively will acquire this degree, faith above reason. This form of bestowal that will dwell within us and also from us towards the Creator. Then, this way we'll try to get closer to Him; As He is merciful, so are you and so on. I'm very moved by how we went through this attack, this connection between us where people feel and understand. And even if they don't feel it that much or understand it that much but there's already some fact within them that this is the path. And this is how we're going towards truth and that's what's important. Let's follow these quotes we have here from the sources and move forward. You can ask questions. We can discuss and let's continue. Go ahead, good luck, with God's help.

Reading: (05:04) 43. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 205. “Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets”

“Wisdom cries out in the streets, she utters her voice in the broad places. He who is a fool, let him come here; ‘Heartless!’ she said to him.” This means that when one is awarded Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator, the Shechina [Divinity] tells him that the fact that he first had to be a fool was not because he really is so. The reason was that he was heartless. This is why we say, “And all believe that He is a God of faith. “This means that later, when we are rewarded with true Dvekut [adhesion], it is not considered being a fool, that I should say that it is above reason. Moreover, one must work and believe that one’s work is above reason even though one’s senses tell him that his work is within reason. It is to the contrary: Previously, he saw that the reason did not obligate the servitude, and then he had to work above reason and say that there is real reason in it. This means that he believes that the servitude is the actual reality. Afterward, it is the opposite: His whole work compels him, his reason. In other words, the Dvekut impels him to work. However, he believes that everything he sees within reason is all above reason. And this was not so before, when everything that is in the form of above reason is within reason. 

M. Laitman: (07:10) These are things that will later become clearer to us but, in the meantime, we have to get used to our new vessels. We start from the simple initial fact that we have to reveal to ourselves that the effort that we need to put in is not intellectual. As it is written, It is not the smart one who learns. It's not the smart one who learns spirituality, the spiritual path. It's not intellectual, so no one can say, I don't have the mind or I don't understand. It is said, the heart understands. The more we open our heart to bestowal, to connection, the heart opens up and begins to feel what's going on. 

Specifically, among the people who come to the wisdom of Kabbalah who are, initially, not so sensitive. Not so drawn to embracing and connecting. And it's not so clear to them that we have to open our hearts to each other and embrace each other and cover each other with a single blanket and so on. We each are complete egoists, and we're going to discover our ego in an even greater and greater fashion to the point that we can't look at each other, can't bear each other, want to kill each other, like the students of Rabbi Shimon. The will to receive created by the Creator gradually becomes revealed according to the extent that we can work with it in a correct manner And therefore, the effort should be not intellectual but emotional. The intellect is needed just for how to aim the emotion; the emotion needs to open up. This is where we need to feel that we're blocked; this is where we have to find where we can actually make contact with the others. To do that we also need the mind but it's there only as an accessory, as an assistant to our emotion. Because the desire is emotional and we need the desires in order to connect to the corrected system of Adam HaRishon. It's not exactly the same system as it was before the shattering of Adam HaRishon before the sin. It is, rather, a much more complex system now and, here, we need to work with the mind. 

M. Laitman: (10:22) There is first the Rosh of the Partzuf, where we use the mind to calculate how to work with the emotion. Tzimtzum, Masach, Ohr Hizer, Zivug de Akkaha, all these things happen emotionally, in our emotions with each other and with the Creator. But in order to manage these emotions and how they connect and how they direct themselves to the Creator, for that, we need the mind. Therefore, we work with faith above reason, meaning not according to our reason as we had before which is the will to receive. But rather, according to the will to bestow. That's how we aim ourselves to work and connect with each other. 

Here, we need both an intellectual effort but it needs to be such that we'll direct our emotions to each other. Then, we gradually begin to understand what this correction of the system of Adam HaRishon depends on. How do we connect in order to be particular vessels of a collective system? All the vessels are, then, working together in a uniform way just like in our body. We’re not yet so aware of it —biologists and doctors and so on but more or less we recognize any change in the system of the body, even though we don't always identify it. But it has to influence the whole system of the body and the whole system of the body must adapt itself to each and every change that is happening in that system. We have to feel the same thing in the group, that we will begin to see all kinds of changes in our friends, in our Ten, in our group. 

Accordingly, I will feel how I am supposed to change so as to maintain the increasing balance. Today, more than yesterday and tomorrow more than today. More connection between us to the point that we feel in that connection who sustains and revives this connection, our spiritual life which is the Creator. Therefore, here, we have to always bring ourselves back to a state where, It’s not the smart one who learns as it's written. Meaning, that our study is about how we connect our broken desires. These are desires that are in opposition, in conflict, in distance, in miscommunication with each other. That's where we make the correction to the extent we can correct ourselves; we achieve the first degree of correction; we already begin to sense the system and the force that unifies the system that becomes revealed. That’s the Creator in small degrees, Nefesh of Nefesh of Nefesh and then so on and so forth. 

Most importantly, is that we want changes, not in understanding. We, rather, need understanding only in order to aim ourselves to connect and support our desires. That our desires will become connected and not connected by way of dominating each other but, rather, complementing each other into a system and that puts us closer to the Creator. 

Alright, let's begin doing that. We have a good preparation for it. We truly went through, I think, an unprecedented Congress. As much as I remember the Congresses and I participated in all of them for the last, what, 15 years or so since we have Congresses? I don't remember that we had such a fundamental Congress in the sense that it gave everybody a change in our progress. In understanding the spiritual degree that we're facing. We need to be thankful to the Creator that gave us this gift! And in the meantime, let's take a look at a few questions and then continue.

Question (Kyiv 1): (16:17) The point of faith above reason that we've attained in the Congress throughout our battle but we've attained it. At some point, it becomes reason to begin to understand at some point that there is a point of connection with the friends, that you can attain it. What, from here is the work above reason?

M. Laitman: It's not the effort in quantity only but the effort in quality. You each time will feel that you need to go for a connection despite various resistances, that the force of bestowal needs to be greater and more complex that what it was. This way, you will always have to appreciate it on top of the separation — appreciate this force of oneness that you achieved as opposed to your individual force. Your individual force will always increase. 

The Creator will set it up this way that your ego will grow and you don't want to connect to them. You don't want to—you're not willing to do this. You'll suddenly kind of say such words that if you saw them from your connected state, you'd think that you've gone insane, that you've lost your mind but that's how we're thrown by this work from love to hate, from hate to love. The more, the faster, we go through these transitions, the faster we get to the goal. Don't be overwhelmed by going through states that are completely opposite to connection. To the point that there is no person I hate more in the world than my dear friend who was precious to me before in the Ten but I forget it. I can't believe that this was so. Today, I see his true face and how much I hate him and, here, there has to be the work of the group. 

The Creator does this deliberately so we will set up the group to throw us the rope or a life buoy so that we will come back to the connection. If it happens through the group, it's as if I do it on my own because me and the group is the same thing. When I fall, it's because both me and the group prepared these states. Then, specifically from the gap between connection and disconnection, the place for the Creator to become revealed is there according to the Aviut, that's the power of the ego and the Zakut which is screen and reflected light that we want to install on top of that.

Question (USA Northeast): (19:48) Are we obliged to realize our work whether by choice in a group or unaware in the imaginary world?

M. Laitman: Our work is only in the group; the spiritual work is in the group. And then, with the external world, to them we just have to disseminate, what we decide that is appropriate for them, to disseminate to them. Our spiritual work is only in the group but because we want to bring all of the system of Adam HaRishon to correction, then we are obligated to also disseminate outside the Ten. In practice, we basically have the work in the Ten; and the more I connect in the Ten, the more I prepare my Ten to connect with other Tens of BB Tens And so all the Tens prepare themselves this way. Hopefully, our next Congress which we will do will already be one where we behave as a single Ten. Where we are not in a gathering, not like in a time that we are now sort of, you know, as if we're in some assembly room. It's not an assembly; you will then feel that the Congress is not an assembly. It's simply a state that we've achieved: That we are one group that is comprised of a hundred or a thousand Tens. I really hope that this is what we'll achieve next time! And if not next time then the time after that but it's close to us. That's what we're facing. I think it's within our reach!

Question (UK): (22:18) We start within reason, discovered it's incorrect, and we need to ask the Creator to rise above reason?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Spain 1): (22:45) What's the importance of — what does it mean that adhesion obligates him to work?

M. Laitman: That I want to reach the system of Adam HaRishon where all of humanity becomes connected, all the souls, more accurately. Because the bodies, we will soon stop feeling them. We'll begin to feel more of our internality, the desires. The bodies are just the imaginary world; the desires are what the Creator created and that's what exists. We'll begin to feel how our desires can be in connection; and in their connection, even though there is an ego within each and every one, a rejection. 

Then, despite the rejection, nevertheless, we put together the connections between us. Then, we start discovering in these connections that there is a resistance to connection and, above that, there is a force of connection that we ask of the Creator and that He gives us. This way, we come to a state where we have this inner Aviut, coarseness and resistance and, above that, we cover all these resistances with connection between us. This is what's called faith that covers the reason. This is how we go with faith above reason.

Question (MAK 2): (24:38) The Congress has gone to many meetings, many lessons somehow up till this moment. The connection was expressed in the form of meetings, going over material. Suddenly you have technical problems, the internet drops. Then you become aware and you ask yourself, are you truly connected? Are you truly integrated in that vessel in the friends? How to behave here? How to measure yourself, this new feeling that arose?

M. Laitman: I wouldn't measure all these things but, rather, accept them the way the Creator sets up these things. And the main thing for me is to be as much as possible connected to my friends, to my group, my Ten, with all of those emotional communication channels and intellectual channels, where I'm somehow with them. Only renewing the connection between us is essentially what takes us to the right state where the other is revealed, only that. Don't work with the mind too much but with the emotion. However, to awaken the emotion sometimes takes many years, many years but we don't have a choice.

We have to just keep, more and more, looking at the others, being envious of them, that they are emotional, that they can sense the others and I can't. So, why, why can't I? I remember myself. I was very much blocked and to this day, really, I'm very blocked to sensing the other. I'm very stiff, not easily impressed by others. I have criticism, I have resistance, it’s nature, what can you do? When I hear one who's greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than himself, that I have a greater evil inclination than others, perhaps it tells me that it's the right preparation on the Creator's part and I should justify it. Still, they advance. They feel. Some friends are already sensing spiritually and I just understand, I hear that this is what they talk to each other and this is how they understand the material. They already sense the Creator somewhat and I just, I look into the book, I look into TES, there I'm willing to study. Because that's, that's the intellect.

Like our friend from the Moscow group who demanded us to study TES. We need to study TES, true but to the extent that it doesn't, doesn't hinder our main work. I don't want to die with my intellect, that I went through 2,000 pages of TES. I want to come to a feeling before I die, to a feeling, to a degree of equality with the Creator, equivalence with the Creator. For that, I need bestowal and I need the articles and the directions that Rabash and Baal HaSulam give us. All I want to say is, what the mind doesn't do, time will; more and more connections, as much as we can. And even if you do them without any flavor in the Ten even though the Creator detaches us, does all kinds of exercises to us, still, anything but leave, anything but leaving the group even if I just sit there like a chair. The chair is there and I'm there but I bring myself after the study, I bring myself to participate as much as the Creator lets me. I keep asking Him to give me an opportunity to better and better participate with the friends. 

There are people between us with a strong will to receive and, yet, a will to receive that is not sensitive, not subtle, not built to sense—for intellect, yes, but for feeling, no, even though it's a great and egoistic will to receive, so egoistic that it doesn't hear anything from outside, only what happens to it on the inside. And what happens on the outside, it can barely, barely identify. It lives within itself. These people, actually, perhaps they advance slowly, as opposed to their friends. But they advance a lot farther. Most important is anything but leave and the feeling will come. It can come within ten years, within twenty years but it will come. It is said, The wise student is tough as iron. Because, specifically, the great Kabbalists, those wise ones—they were very stiff, very tough, very egoistic, very much inside themselves. They couldn't feel anything outside themselves. There were such who were just devoid of emotion and then, bit by bit, as the upper light works on them, time after time, it cleanses them more and more and more. To the point that, ultimately, they begin to feel more. Through the feeling, they begin to understand. and just as they discarded the understanding at first, they then come to a point where the heart understands. They begin to understand again through the emotion. When the emotion changes from time to time, through the differences of emotion, they feel the new mind that arises from the gaps between the emotions—that is already a spiritual mind. We'll come to that!

Question (Latin 1): (32:43) About ten years ago, you gave us an exercise to pay attention throughout the day to our emotions and to our attitude, to our thoughts and our desires. That gave us certain oppositions to work with during the day. Is it valuable to go back to that exercise in order to try and feel, pay attention to the states we're going through? 

M. Laitman: Yes, our exercises are, of course, all aimed at the states that we're going through. We need to be sensitive to what we go through in the heart. Our mind, we need it only to relate to what the heart is going through, what's going through the heart, How the heart is aimed at each and every friend, at connecting all the Ten together. This is why I need the intellect standing behind the emotion, understanding what's happening to the emotion. What the Creator does first is changing our emotions. By the upper light that influences us, it changes our emotions and then, we see a changing world. We see emotionally, through our emotions. For instance, our corporeal world. After that, comes the mind and begins to feel in the mind. Oh, that's what I felt yesterday, that’s what I feel today, how did I change and so on? That gives us the sensation of the flow of time. But really, the mind stands behind the emotion and it is given to us in order to decipher the feelings. We should always think of, how am I connected to the friends right now, how the friends are connected between themselves? To what next future state we need to achieve in our connection, in our emotional connection, to the point that this emotional connection will be the place for the revelation of the Creator?

Question (Volga): (35:42) The absence of feeling or sensitivity to the friend, we have a method called, faith above reason. What kind of sensitivity, this method conceals inside? What should I feel using this principle?

M. Laitman: I heard from Rabash for a few years that we have to go by faith above reason and that to me was just a mantra. How would you say that? Like a slogan, slogan, like a code so, abracadabra, you know. I didn't understand. What does he want? I looked at him like a baby looks at a grown-up trying to tell him something but the baby, you know, is just, you know, opens his mouth, looks with his eyes but doesn't understand. Same with me. same it was with me. When did I start understanding what he's talking about, what does he want? When I started investing a little bit in connection. Even when I started investing in connection with the friends, it was because I had envy. I was envious that they have such relationships, systems of connection and I'm not in it. I don't know what they want from each other. Why are they connecting? Studying, I understand. I used to be a student, also, so I understand studying together but what's needed here? What's the kind of feeling that's needed here? Some love between the people? What kind of love? Between a man and a woman, I understand, children and parents, I understand and that's love but love between a few men? We need to go up to the skies and to the Creator. 

So, it was very, very difficult to understand how our connection is a connection of desires, of emotions, the development of emotionality between one person to the other. Why is it so difficult? Because that's where the shattering took place and the higher a person's soul is, the shattering in it was more powerful. That makes him farther from understanding that specifically in connection, is where he finds his place, his corrected place in the system of Adam HaRishon. 

I remember myself; I was just opaque. I looked at other people that I was studying with, the veteran students who even studied with Baal HaSulam, who remembered Baal HaSulam and I didn't understand. I didn't understand what was going on but, bit by bit, I'm telling you, let the light work on you. Then, you will begin to feel after years but you'll begin to feel that this is how it works. The entrance to spirituality, entering spirituality is what we need to be doing throughout our life and whatever we do is not lost. It doesn't go away. Each and every effort joins into a great sum total and that's how we advance but, again, the main thing is to try to find, to look for an emotional contact with the friends in the Ten. That's why the Ten is so important. 

And it doesn't have to happen through words. The words, you could be talking in opposite words where you don't show the good attitude of love, of giving. It could even be some form of disregard. We will read at some point about Kotsk. We read about Kotsk, that there were Kabbalists of Kotsk, such a place in Poland, a village where they lived. And so they treated each other with contempt, with kind of a disregard, I don't care, I don't want to hear you and all of that and, specifically, through this wild behavior, they would give each other a place to overcome, to do inner work. How he tells me that he doesn't want connection, is to give me a place to work so that I overcome this external impression and specifically connect with him internally. That's how it is and there are many stories about that, about how kabbalists behaved in that way but that's already for people who can, who can tell the difference between the true attitude and the game-like attitude. That to awaken the friend to add more effort and judge the friends to the scale of merit even though he—one sees that the others are completely disrespectful of each other and so on. 

Okay, slowly you will see how these matters of connection between us is where we need to go through the whole process and the Creator will be revealed. And the Creator will instigate feuds between us more and more like between the students of Rabbi Shimon and we'll learn, we'll learn and until we come to the right connection between us.

Question (Latin 3): (43:02) We have seventeen people in our Ten. What depends on me? What is up to me so they will all be connected?

M. Laitman: Everyone in the Ten being connected depends only on me, only on me, no one else. Just as now, I see them far from each other, even hating each other. I see it through my eyes and I can't say what's the true form of relationship between them. Maybe they are in love but I see it as rejection, as hatred. So, one judges through his own flaws. I need to correct my flaws until I see them connected. The same way, we'll see the correction of the world. The correction of the world depends on my correction until I reach a state where I think they're all connected. And it seems to me that I’ve come. This means that I've come to the revelation of Divinity where I see they're all connected and the Creator fulfills all of them. This means that one judges through his own flaws from here until the final correction, so I can't say what others are feeling. I can only say on my part what I see and how I judge.

Question (KabU 3): (44:53) You say that the Greek Kabbalists were initially emotionless, probably because they have to work with their reason. When and how precisely can we go from the emotionless stage to the stage of love?

M. Laitman: Only through envy, envy; it’s a very special thing! When I look at the others, they seem to me worse off. On the other hand, I see that they are connected. They are closer to one another; I begin to envy them. Why does the Creator do this to them, and I can't do it? I don't want it, I forget about it as well, that I don't want it, I can't, I'll be alone. Later, as I learn more, I hear again that the most important thing is together, that it can have the revelation of the Creator, which is what I want. Why am I alive? Not only the condition that He is revealed in me, and this revelation can be only on the condition that I'm connected with the Ten. 

Meaning, envy is the most important thing we have, and we need to quietly, between us, an agreement between us to do such actions, to do such favors to each other to awaken envy in each and every friend. Even Rabash used to do it intentionally. He would give the wine that he was drinking to someone special, and something else to someone else who was special. When I would look at him, waiting, you know, when will I get something? He would say, no, I'm not going to give you anything. You know what it feels like to hear that he's not going to give you anything before everyone? Why am I not going to get anything? What am I doing less than them, I try, I'm in all the lessons, you're not going to get any. 

Meaning, to awaken envy, to awaken these things, we need to do it. Each friend needs to do it towards other friends. This is the meaning of; Each  shall help his friend. Help, how can I help? In what? I can awaken the force of envy in him. This is the greatest thing that exists in a Person, and by that he advances. This is called, Help against, because envy is a great force in our ego, but that specifically helps us come out of the ego. This is called help against. He's inside the ego. It's the greatest force, and it gives us the impulse to come out of the ego. So don't forget about envy. Try to work with it, so the friends will be impressed by the envy in each one, and would want to advance. 

Question (Merkaz 1): (49:13) What is the quota of the spiritual effort built from, what more, emotion or intellect? 

M. Laitman: Both of them together — I can't say, but first I have to care about the feeling and the mind. I have to use the mind in order to advise myself in my emotional development. The mind is needed to develop the feeling, so much so that we would feel that this is the Creator. 

Student: And how is it possible to work more with the mind and the heart? What's the exercise that I can do? I mean, what can I do to be more with the emotion than the mind?

M. Laitman: We have to give importance to the feeling as much as we can develop the heart, because the Creator seeks the heart.

Question (Turkiye 2): (50:51) We have just completed an intense and powerful congress. How are we going to feel that this light would affect our work properly? 

M. Laitman: We need to create summaries of the congress. You can write it down; you can talk about it. This will be a summary, a recap in a person of what I got from the congress. In that how do I move forward? What was there before the congress, what did I get during the congress, and now the new state I'm in? I think there is a lot to talk about. You can summarize the results from the congress. You should write about it in different languages. We will summarize it all, let's say in English, which is a general language for everyone. What new things did we receive? We'll summarize it and we'll continue. It's worthwhile to do it, it's always worthwhile to do it because it means that we're attaining the collective conclusion. 

Reader: (52:43) Well, I can say that if you think the summaries should be done collectively, they can be sent to BoardWorldKli. And should the summaries be as individuals or Tens?

M. Laitman: No, no. In Tens, less than Ten, it's irrelevant. A Person has to do it in his Ten, summarize it in the Ten, write it down, preferably in English, and send it to BoardWorldKli at this address. And we will process these things, and we'll create a general summary. But everyone, it's not like we're going to get it and we're going to do it. Rather, that mailbox where they write to, everything is going to be open, everybody can see it, everybody can participate in it. We'll think of how to do it because this work actually brings us together. So we need to look at it, to take it not as a work of the summary of the Congress, but rather as a work of connection. It helps us connect more in our brains, our hearts, and that's why we need to do it. Okay, all we have is Hebrew Ten. 

Question (Heb 10): (54:19) Part of our study, we dedicate to workshops. We do workshops in the Zooms as well, and it's really the unique thing. It's a new device through which we find some reflection of how much we're different or close. Now, we talked about heart and mind. Sometimes the workshops appear like it's some sort of an intellectual speech. Sometimes we run away from the question itself. The question is really about the workshops. How does a connection workshop look like with regards to the heart and mind? 

M. Laitman: I can't quite tell you. First of all, I couldn't hear well what you were saying, the connection is very bad. I don't know what to tell you. Let's get back to this question after some time. Maybe the connection will be better. I couldn't hear you well. You also couldn't hear well? 

Reader: Yes, I couldn't hear him well either. 

Question (PT 31): (55:43) How is it preferable to play, to act out towards the friends, to awaken their emotion? 

M. Laitman: Just like that, as much as you're capable. But this game should be real. 

Student: But with regards to envy — the importance of envy, is it important to advertise who was in the lesson, who was in the Zoom, to awaken envy? 

M. Laitman: Of course, in the Ten, of course, it's needed, it’s a must. But you come to a connection between you, let's say twice a day, and you can't see who's there and who's not there. How many are you after all? Ten? A little more, a little less? 

Student: Those who weren't there don't know who was there or not. 

M. Laitman: He's not curious, he's not going to ask? We have to announce it to him? How do you do it with someone who's not in the Ten? You don't call him immediately, awaken him, pull him in, maybe something happened? 

Student: So in the middle of the day, if someone doesn't come to the Zoom, would you recommend calling them? 

M. Laitman: Of course, of course. 

Student: We’ll do it!

M. Laitman: How come you don't want to call? How come you're so indifferent to it? If you would know that without this friend, you can't make it to your spiritual goal, that you're meeting in the Ten without him, you cannot reach the level by which you can come close to the Creator, you're just leaving it like that? Let it be,  I'm not calling. And I called. You have even more pride. I am in connection with the Creator. I'm in a united connection, not a positive connection, this is a negative connection, not for creating this excitement in each one to come to this meeting. And also there needs to be care and concern in each one's heart. Why did someone miss it? 

Student: What do you do with friends who have a habit? They come once a week, once in two weeks, and you mentioned in the Congress that they are friends or less friends, what do you do with them? 

M. Laitman: You must come to a state where everyone is there.

Student: So always call all the friends. 

M. Laitman: What are you doing when you meet, let's say twice a day, what are you doing there?

Student: First of all, there is Shatz and Gabay, they prepare the article from which we read, including a question for that Zoom meeting and everyone is answering the question. Sometimes someone wants to add something from the heart, then he adds. 

M. Laitman: I recommend to read Rabash articles from beginning to end, however many articles there are. The articles you have there, 400, it doesn't matter, I recommend to read them. First of all, you see that you are advancing physically, you are reading an article, one article after another, even if you stop in the middle, it doesn't matter. But you are eating it, you work together in a Ten. A Ten that has gone over all the Rabash articles, has certain assets, he was impressed, all of it, together, by everything Rabash wanted to say. Then Baal HaSulam, articles or his letters that have to do with the society, especially, not so much to the intellect, but to the emotion, where he speaks about the correction. 

Student: This we do at 5 p.m., we take out principles from the writings of Rabash. 

M. Laitman: I recommend to read the articles, read them.

Student: Not to ask questions?

M. Laitman: No, no, don't ask anything, you have no one to ask anyway. Only read and get integrated, mingle with what Rabash is saying. Don't waste your time on asking questions of one another but listen to what we are all going through, give importance to the fact that we are all hearing the same thing. We are all included, integrated in what our teacher, the Rabash, is telling us. 

Question (PT 18): (01:01:35) I heard you say, Speak of TES, and the question is, what needs to happen so that I can finally understand something in Talmud Eser Sefirot, what needs to happen? 

M. Laitman: In order to understand the study of TES, you need to read the articles of Rabash and Baal HaSulam on how to open the heart so the wisdom of the Torah will enter the heart. And then the heart will understand. And this means that I am learning the wisdom of Torah, and not just any old wisdom. 

Question (Internet): (01:02:29) Yesterday, there was a good connection, now a friend doesn't come to the lesson again. I have a feeling of anger towards him. Someone remembers that you said, that one who doesn't come is a traitor. How do I relate to this state? Try to cover it with love, or just don't treat him as a friend? 

M. Laitman: Call him throughout the day, all of you, each and every one, separately. And start asking, why aren't you showing up, what’s happening, what’s up? Call him. How many are young ten, maybe more? Everyone should call the person who was not there. You should feel how much everyone notices it, and how much is missed. Let's see what's happening there with him. 

Question (Internet): (01:03:24) How should we cope with negative emotions, like anger or suffering? Do we try to control them or suppress them? 

M. Laitman: We need to talk about them more. If we have such states of anger in the group, and it's like in a family, and we have it every once in a while, we need to have a scrutiny around it, but a short one, a short scrutiny. Without the eruption of anger, of the ego, we won't be able to advance. But we need to know, in a practical way, we have to relate to all those phenomena.

Question (Kyiv 1): (01:04:35) We talk about how first the emotion appears, then following that comes the mind. If we talk about a feeling of mutual hatred that awakens in the group, what's the right way to activate the mind because this feeling typically activates the mind. Is there such a way of mutual mind? And what's the right way to activate it in the group? 

M. Laitman: I'm not a psychologist; I can't answer all those things. I think it's redundant to pick into all those discernments that are all still within my egoistic desire. And if I engage in that, then I only fill my ego that wants to work in this, how much it's this way or the other way, and so on and so forth. I want to be in faith above reason. And for that, I need to aim all of my labor, meaning how much I want to belong to the force of bestowal compared to the force of reception. To raise myself above everything that's revealed in my ego, and to make an analysis, a synthesis, it doesn't matter if this works by using my intellect — how much this is like this or the opposite of that. This is wrong in my eyes because I'm in my will to receive, in my corporeal mind. I'm now trying to investigate what's happening to me. What for? Am I a scientist, a psychologist, psychiatrist? Who am I? If I want to be a Kabbalist, I have to raise myself to the force of bestowal, and then, as much as possible, to be in the force of bestowal, to keep myself there. 

Student: Answering the previous question, you said that we need to dedicate five minutes in the group to scrutinize. If we caught ourselves in this feeling of hatred what do we do in these five minutes? 

M. Laitman: We will explain to one another that the ego that awakens in us evokes in us the feeling of hate to one another, rejection, misunderstanding, division, all those expressions of each person's egoistic desire towards others. And we need to understand that it is the Creator who awakens it in us, the Creator only. There Is None Else Besides Him, He is sustaining our will to receive, our evil inclination. And awakens it in different ways in order to give us an opportunity to rise, to grow above it. As much as He changes the will to receive, I want to be above the will to receive and that's how I grow up, because the spiritual ascent is always above the growing ego, and I am trying to be above it. So, we need to explain to the group, inside the group, how we can ascend in this way. Give examples. 

Student: So, let's say the group sits down, we are six people, and what does everyone say in those five minutes, if we discovered hatred? 

M. Laitman: Well, I thought everyone, each and every one is a lot. Talk about how the Creator awakens the hate between us, and how we need to strengthen each and every friend in the connection between us so that whatever comes to the group comes from the Creator intentionally, in order to advance us towards the goal. And that we must rise above our growing ego, that grows in each and every one in different ways, and we have to each time raise ourselves above it — like on a flying carpet. Like on a flying carpet, we sit on this flying carpet, we are on this flying carpet, and that's how we are holding ourselves. And down below, the ego is growing but we are above it. The carpet is a screen and we are above it. That's how we are building the society. 

Question (Moscow 6): (01:09:52) We're talking a lot about envy.  What's the right way to work with it? How to learn how to advance the friend because when I see that a friend wants to impress and give inspiration, besides rejection, it doesn't awaken anything in me. And the same thing, when I try to inspire, I see the same response. So, how to learn to be in envy? How to work with that? 

M. Laitman: The fact that you are looking at the friends with a critical eye, it's clear. But when you wish to show the friends a form of bestowal from you, try to do it in a subtle way. They will have fewer opportunities to criticize it. I have nothing more to say. Everything else you will learn from life. 

Question (Africa ): (01:11:01) A question comes back to the same thing you've just talked about, envy. These stories of attainment you share with us are very inspiring –  with the Rabash and how you transcended such states of our views using envy. But our question is, how does envy work in a current virtual environment like the one we find ourselves in? And how best can we awaken it correctly so that we won't send out the wrong impressions to others? How can we work with envy in our current virtual environment? And how best can we awaken envy in our friends without sending them, without causing them a bad response? 

M. Laitman: Do it as gently as possible, you need to tell them – as if to say that I truly need you, I can't succeed without you – that's why I come to you and I draw you in to participate with us together. Because we are a small group and people are weak, and you, if you connect to this group, you truly add a strong, powerful, high quality force, so don't leave us. We believe the Creator is giving us all an opportunity to come close to Him, so we ask for your participation. That’s it, not full of pride, but subjugation, but one where it's clear where it stems from, that we can't come to any spiritual achievement alone. 

Question (Tel Aviv 4): (01:13:12) Is all of the distance in the Ten hatred? And how do you work against this lack of connection? 

M. Laitman: As usual, as we spoke about this lack of connection, what we have to do, I spoke a lot about it and that's nothing new.

Student: Because I see lack of connection in the Ten. Is that for me, the wicked who are becoming revealed? 

M. Laitman: I don't know what you're looking for, the wicked that are revealed? Just speak plainly. There's a mutual rejection that appears, what do we do then? We need to discuss, connect, and discuss how we are covering this hate with connection. We should talk about it like doctors who sit down and discuss a patient: What to do with this patient. And so should you connect between you and speak about the disease that is among you, that is the outbreaking between you, this is the attitude. 

Question (Zafon 2): (01:14:34) In spiritual work, are there more tools for us besides mind and heart? 

M. Laitman: None, only the mind and the heart, Mocha and Liba, the brain, and the heart. What else do you have, what other vessels that belong neither to the brain nor to the heart? We simply don't have any, there aren’t not only us, all of creation, you won't find any. There is the will to receive created by the Creator, which is from the outset in order to receive, and we need to gradually turn it from in order to receive to in order to bestow. This means to raise it from the shattering to life; and this is how we move towards correction. So, our work is only on the desire and in order to correct the desire, we need to have next to it a system called, the mind, the intellect, that would help us approach the correction of the desire, correctly. That’s it, in this system of intellect there is memory – there are many subsystems – but they all belong to the mind, to the brain. But it's in order to correct the desire from the evil heart, which is the will to receive, in order to receive, thinking only of itself, and then it closes itself off in its egoistic circle. And to bring it to a state where the desire opens up, and then he would feel all the rest of the things outside of him, and he will attain in it the complete, eternal, spiritual world. 

Question (ITA 3): (01:16:50) The emotion comes from the effort that we make in the Ten to feel the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes, the correct feeling comes from the effort to delight the Creator. Effort, we need effort, nothing else. We don't succeed but as a result of the effort we receive a spiritual ascent each time. Effort never brings us the desired result, rather we put in labor, and when it reaches a certain portion of labor, then the Creator brings the power that corrects this labor to in order to bestow. And then we discover in this corrected labor another part of the attainment of the Creator, of the force of bestowal, that's how it works. We never come directly from exertion to revelation; rather, we only put in a certain level of exertion, a full portion, and then the Creator corrects it and fills us. 

Question (Siberia): (01:18:32) We have a very active friend who studies with us, he's also active during the day, and in dissemination. But he has a problem waking up for the morning lesson. He turned to the group many times, we tried to help him and wake him, but even now he didn't wake up, and we talked about family and all that. How can we help such a friend? 

M. Laitman: I don't know how you can help such a friend if it's been going on for years and still can't get up, that's a problem. He doesn't understand where is the exertion. The exertion is first of all, to rise in the early hours of the morning. Kabbalists used to get up and start to study at midnight. Although, back then, people used to go to bed early, and there were no TVs, there was no electricity. Rather, 5, 6 p.m., everyone went to sleep. If you ask me, when am I going to sleep? 7 p.m. I sleep, or at least in bed, for sure. That's why I have time; and later during the day, I have the energy. But without rising to the morning lesson, a person cannot advance, he simply does not advance. Whatever you tell me, there's no such thing. If he wants to advance spiritually, he shouldn't make the wisdom of Kabbalah into the wisdom of dissemination and other things. This is all negligible, he has to participate with us in the morning lesson. The amount of knowledge, the intensity, that inner feeling he gets in the morning lesson, together with everyone, and with me. He will never get it throughout the day, it's a certainty; it's recommended to be together with us when we are in the morning lesson. This is the first condition for spiritual development. 

Question (MAK 6): (01:21:13) Now, after the Congress, there is a great descent in the spirit sensitivity towards what the friends say. What do you do with that? 

M. Laitman: Work on it, work on it, it will pass. There are many states we have to go through until we begin to open our hearts a little bit, our feelings. And they begin to work according to the spiritual states the group is going through. And for the time being, the heart is blocked and that's why I don't feel that I need to get up and participate. On the contrary, there is the burden of the heart, I fall asleep. That's how it works, I understand it, I also used to go through these things. I understand that I've been in it for 40 years, also with Rabash, and 6-7 years prior. And I cannot see that it's possible to do it any other way. 

Reader: (01:22:37) Just a few questions came about what you said regarding reading Rabash writings during the day. Today, the reality is that Tens are having two or three meetings a day. And among other things, they hear excerpts from the lesson during these meetings. The question is whether now, when we're reading the Rabash articles, which are the new recommendations, is there no point or what to do with the short excerpts from the lesson? 

M. Laitman: Maybe it's better, as you said, to stay with these excerpts that you say, taking them out and discussing them, but it has to be super practical. I don't know, I can't really scrutinize it and feel what's preferable and what's less.

Reader: Another meeting in the day usually is also dedicated to the summary of the day. It's typically the last meeting of the day. So friends are asking? 

M. Laitman: I don't think we need to summarize the day, I don't think you can get something intense out of it, something practical. It's better if we study a source. 

Reader: Okay, and another thing about the summary of the Congress, for instance. So now, if we're reading the articles, then still can we do one meeting for a summary of the Congress in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: We'll try, but make sure it's not just talking. My question is what is more beneficial? There isn't a lot of time, what is more beneficial? That's it, and then you can choose – I have nothing more to add. 

Reader: So who needs to decide what's more beneficial? You also said from the lesson?

M. Laitman: It should have 15 meetings on it and then decide what's more beneficial. You understand? And that's how it always works out. Lots of talking. 

___________________________

Reader: Okay, before we go to the next part of the class with Rabash, let's summarize the main points we heard from the lesson. Then before the next part of the lesson, let's sing together.

Song: (01:31:33)