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Daily Morning Lesson: December 20, 2025 

Part 2: Live broadcast with Rav: 

Hanukkah - Selected Excerpts from the Sources

Reader: Shalom, we're in a special lesson for the holiday of Hannukah, we will read selected excerpts from the sources. If you wish to ask a question during the lesson, make sure it's one concise, focused question on the study material to help all of us connect more. The matter of Hannukah, concern.

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Reading: (00:27) 1. RABASH, Article No. 9 (1986), "Concerning the Hanukkah Candle"

Hanukkah, […] is the work of correction of creation, which is to obtain the vessels of bestowal, with which we can then achieve the purpose of creation. We can call this “spirituality” because we do not want to do anything for ourselves, but only for the Creator.

M. Laitman: The key to all of our actions, for all of the Mitzvot, all of our commandments, is that we should try to fulfill them. 

Reader: Now, let's read.

Reading: (01:38) 2. RABASH, Article No. 9 (1986), "Concerning the Hanukkah Candle"

Hanu [parked] Koh [here/thus far], meaning that they parked here. This means that Chaf-Hey [Koh/25th] of Kislev [the date when Hanukkah begins] was not the end of the war, but only a pause. It is like an army that wants to start a new, major assault, so it lets the soldiers rest and regain their strength so they can continue the war.

M. Laitman: Again, this is not about an attack against an enemy which is beyond the border, but individually, for a Person that he wants to attack his body that doesn't let us rise and connect all of one's organs, all of one's forces. Everything there is, and then he's able to attack. Next. 

Reader: Excerpt number three. 

Reading: (03:16)

3. RABASH, Letter No. 26

The matter with Hanukah. This is the meaning of Hanu (parked), where the parking was not because of wholeness, meaning an illuminating mirror. Rather, the parking was Ko (here/thus far), meaning incomplete, which is a mirror that does not illuminate. In other words, the war of the inclination is still not over, but we have to come to the real completeness. This is the meaning of Hanu-Ko, parking as in Ko, meaning receiving the upper bestowal so they would have more strength to go forward in the war of the inclination.

M. Laitman: This is something that we need to take into account and see it as our goal, that we want to draw the reforming light, so it will give us the feeling of the greatness and uniqueness of the Creator, so that we will be able to receive His revelation in the correct way, so it will bring us to greater adhesion. And to that extent we will also be able to connect between us and with Him.

Reading: (05:41) 4. RABASH, Article No. 9 (1986), "Concerning the Hanukkah Candle"

Hanukkah is still not the completion of the goal, but only the correction of creation. It completes the vessels of bestowal, meaning acts of bestowal, and this is why it is forbidden to use the light of Hanukkah, since using is an act of reception, and the miracle was only on acts of giving—that they can do them and aim to bestow, which is called Lishma.

M. Laitman: This isn't so clear to the egoistic mind of a Person, because what actually is he saying? We need to draw closer to the Creator in order to discover Him forcefully. And once they receive the upper bestowal, then the Person has the power to go forward in the war of inclination. This is what we need: first of all to receive forces, and then to wage war with them against the evil inclination, to also incorporate it in the good inclination. And in this way he will be able to succeed in that war. Wait a minute, I have questions here.

Question (Kyiv 1): (08:35) When we rise in the connection between us, do we ourselves define this pause? 

M. Laitman: When we gradually rise, we begin to feel these degrees — what we connect, in what we cannot yet connect. And in such a way, in general, we reach the point... We reach the point where all the vessels of bestowal and the vessels of reception ultimately join together in order to be in one action and be filled with the light of the Creator. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:00) Rav, in the first excerpt it writes that Hannukah is the work to achieve vessels of bestowal.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Is the desire to achieve vessels of bestowal already an intention? It's written here afterwards that one doesn't want to do any act for himself but only for the sake of the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So this desire to attain vessels of bestowal, is that by itself an inTenion or we need to also make sure that it's for the sake of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: No, this is enough. It's enough. If we're aimed to give conTenment to our MAker, this is enough.

Question (PT 13): (10:54) He relates to the pause like an opportunity to rest. What is this? How can you even rest in spirituality? What is that rest he's talking about? 

M. Laitman: Spirituality is divided into two. When there is absence of war, and there are a few reasons for that, and the Person should use them for scrutiny, use these reasons. And if the reason is that he's not going out to war, then he needs to check whether it is because he wants adhesion, or it requires certain other peripheral actions. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:43) When can you say that a Ten is going forward and is beginning the war of the inclination? 

M. Laitman: When it sees itself as one body that has one goal. And this is how it continues. It wants to continue until they will conquer this desire with the intention to bestow.

Student: How to discover this enemy called the inclination in the ten? How to identify it and attack it? 

M. Laitman: Well, this is what we study all the time. We talk about it all the time. Everything is around that, all in all.

Question (French): (13:55) I also wanted to know how to pause in a constructive way, in a way that's not egoistic? 

M. Laitman: Well, the fact that they were at war with other forces, and now they become other forces, complete forces of the Creator. And with them, they intend to succeed in the war of the inclination and give room for the Creator to fill them. This actually is what the Maccabees do here.

Question (French): (15:08) I would like to understand how, where, at Bina, where is the pause that we're talking about? Is that in Bina? That's where we pause to then continue the work? And then Bina needs to receive in order to bestow? Or we just actually park in Bina? 

M. Laitman: When they stand in Bina, it's a sign that they achieved the power of in order to bestow. And right now they don't need any more. And afterwards we continue to receive in order to bestow. 

Question (Turkiye 1): (16:22) The question is in relation to the pause or the parking. How can we attack as one man and one heart during that pause again, how to accumulate the strength and go out to attack as one man and one heart? 

M. Laitman: We have, let's say, Ten People and we study and we talk about the fact that we all want to be in a single desire. This means in one heart and think about a single goal, about a single Creator. So it turns out that already we are in a single desire. And we can see that the goal also ends in one Creator. And so we have nothing more to think about, but to unite to a single desire, meaning the Ten, the group as one, with its goal as one. And certainly here, after we connect our goal with the Creator, then certainly we have additional obstructions along the way. For sure we will have them. And this is how we get closer to the solution.

We pray to the light that shines and then we attain it and it shines on us. It connects us and it fills us with a single force. 

Question (W Turkiye 7): (19:34) What enables the Person to strengthen and receive forces during the rest or the pause?

M. Laitman: Why, when a Person receives forces, he focuses his forces, and he directs them, so that they will all be as one MAN in one heart, even though they come from the entire group, and later on, he expects to feel them in his one heart, with the anticipation that all of these forces will join, and the light that will influence them will connect them into one great light, and then it will be, the Lord is one, and his name is one. The Lord means the light, and his name means the vessel, and then when one directs himself in such a way, he becomes the one who connects between the Creator and the upper light that fills him, and then it turns out that he corrects creation. 

Student: What holds a Person in this war, and what makes us fight? Because we cannot, all of us cannot fight. How can we fight? 

M. Laitman: What helps the Person, the group, that he is together with the friends, and it's clear to all of them that there is one goal, that they have to connect, one and the other and the third, all of them, the entire ten, around the Creator, and be ready for the Creator's action, that he will connect them, that he will unite them and pull them to the final goal. 

Question (MAK): (23:27) When I'm in a state when I completely agree with the Creator, where to take the demand for the light that reforms to correct me? Though I agree with the state that I don't have such a demand.

M. Laitman: It's very true. This is exactly the beginning of this desire that we have to reach. So, start with that, to process this state that is, I want to be connected with the friends, connected with myself, with the Creator, with all of our states, connected to such an extent that we feel ourselves detached, disconnected from any other states or goals, and then we can raise our eyes to him and demand, save us, because what we reach, our most important goal is not to receive something that is out there lying on some shelf, but rather it's in order for us to get to know that all of this is under the control of the Creator, the quality of bestowal, the quality of love, the quality of connection, it's under the control of the Creator, and we must truly beg Him, persuade Him that He, so that He will help us, by this the revelation of the Creator to a Person is summed up. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:49) What work do we need to do in the pause in our spiritual work in the ten? What's our work from below upwards? 

M. Laitman: As it is written, to be as one MAN in one heart.

Student: What causes us to Persuade the Creator in our work? How do we convince Him to give us the force of bestowal? 

M. Laitman: Our force of persuasion is in that, in spite of the thoughts and desires that each one has of his own, we do not move away from each other, but rather we turn to one Creator from all of us, and we hope very much that He will help us. 

Question (Moscow 1): (27:24) How does it happen that a Person sees that his vessels of bestowal are not corrected yet? 

M. Laitman: It's manifested in a Person in a way that the Person asks the Creator for correction, and the Creator understands that this is His part in the correction of the whole of creation, and therefore He corrects this part, and the Person begins already, he rises one degree higher. This is how it happens.

Question (W PT 33): (28:23) In my feeling, each of us is in a Personal individual war at a certain frequency and speed, and he receives strength from the group to continue the war. What will transform us, if need be, to an army that fights together against a common enemy, if that's needed? 

M. Laitman: What will transform us into one body is our goal, that the Creator is one, and He created in us one desire, the will to receive, and this will to receive, we want to correct it through the upper light. And so we have to connect between us and raise a prayer upwards, and that is all. There is no cleverness here, but only to ask. 

Question (W Turkiye): (30:16) What does the third quote mean, the mirror that does not illuminate? What is it that we should see but cannot see? In item three, it's talking about a mirror that does not illuminate. The question is, what is it about? What should we actually see that we cannot? 

M. Laitman: The mirror that doesn't shine, it's our connection. The connection between us. Where our desires do not connect, they do not shine. And we need to correct the form of connection, the purpose of the connection. So that our connection will be a great, strong desire that is filled by the upper light and passes the light that it receives, the upper light, to all of its parts. This is what we need.

Question (Philippines): (32:11) Is it possible that we obtain the light without requesting it? If so, how does it feel? 

M. Laitman: Certainly, we have to ask for the upper light to come to us, to correct us, to fill us, so that we will be the correct partners of the Creator. And this is how it will be renewed. And we will ask of Him in the right way. And it will be clear that we have already done our part. And now we have a question mark. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:32) The friend is also asking, is it possible to obtain the light also without asking for it? 

M. Laitman: Without asking for it, it won't be the right light. It will be a light that is small, first of all, because it won't come through our force when the heart opens the way for the light. And therefore, that is not the final station. 

Question (Rehovot): (34:30) The state of Hannukah is when Malchut rises to Bina. Can we look at that state, as we learned from TES, that it is the iniquities of the double concealment that rise to the first heaven? This is the last revelation of the providence of reward and punishment. 

M. Laitman: Well, if you take away from it many other nuanced discernments, then you'll get the right solution. 

Question (Almaty): (35:22) The miracle of Hannukah is a miracle about Bestowal, about the vessels of Bestowal. And it seems like in the pause, we take this decision. The question is, in the pause, who takes the decision? How do we take a decision? How does a Ten know, or how should a Ten decide that now we're going to do a pause, you know, to scrutinize and move on to the next state?

M. Laitman: When we connect together in our desire, we end up with a very powerful Kli. And here, there's an opportunity to navigate. What does it mean? To decide which way I want to receive, what do I want to receive, and how. We just need to come together, try to define among us, within each of us, what is the meaning, what is the most important thing for our progress. If we ask the Creator, in what way would we like to receive what we wish to receive from Him? And all of that is our main choice. And here, today, I think that we're closer to it than ever. We're closer to the decision, to the solution of the problem, meaning that we will unite as one, men, women, from all corners of the world. And then, we'll be able to receive from the upper light, its portion which will fulfill us. 

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (38:35) You said that if a person is in a pause, it can be for a few reasons, and he needs to check if it's because he wants adhesion with the Creator, or it's because of other external reasons. So, how do we do such a check correctly? 

M. Laitman: I think that when a person is already in such states, he'll already be able to notice. When does he have one desire, or, say, two desires? When does he want something from the Creator? When is he expecting something? All of that will become much clearer to us. 

Student: So, a person doesn't go out war before he makes this scrutiny?

M. Laitman: We’ll clarify that. Today, that's already, won't be enough for that, but we'll do it. 

Question (Moldova): (40:05) Hanukkah shows us that actually it is possible only if we go with faith above reason, meaning if we're in reason, first we will bring the oil, only then we will light up the temple. But they discovered this law that you must not wait even one moment, but do everything right now. And they went exactly, precisely above reason, and then the miracle of Hanukkah happened. 

M. Laitman: The question is, 

Student: if we go above reason, then in such a state, does the miracle become possible? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. I don't know. If you have a Kli, a vessel, and in it you have your energy, your light, then certainly it's possible that the light from your vessel will come, upper light, and light it. That's the whole question ... And with regards to the way in which we can awaken the upper light, that it will reach our light and kindle it, light it, that is in principle what we learn. We have to search for it within us, that the upper light has to be a light of bestowal, a light of love, so it doesn't demand anything in return. And then we'll begin to understand how this works. 

Question (Moscow 7): (42:37) One of your advice was to demand from the Creator that He will correct us and fill us. The mind that fills us, the question is, how to ask for the filling in the right way? 

M. Laitman: Ask for fulfillment so that the heart will wish for the quality of bestowal and the connection with the Creator. That is from the heart, and the mind will wish to acknowledge this state, become aware of it, and connect with it, so that this state will enter me, enter my heart, as an intense desire, that I only want that. 

Student: Yes, indeed, we would have liked it to be like that, but it just seems that when you ask for a filling, we learn that we're not supposed to ask for ourselves, so it seems like there is an egoistic side to it, and the question is about that, how to process it in the right way. 

M. Laitman: You can process it correctly only if you think about it from a state of love. We'll talk about that more. You're right. It's not completely clear. 

Question (W Moscow 8): (45:54) Can I say that the stop depends on us, right? How qualitatively we will make this stop.

M. Laitman: Again. Again. 

Student: The pause that we were talking about, it depends on how much we were able to pause in a high-quality way, and the continuation of the war depends on the Creator. So, we don't need to hurry up or perform actions towards that war. 

M. Laitman: No, that's incorrect. That is not correct. We have to try to feel all those desires of the Creator and all these items that were mentioned here, that they all point to the next desired states of ourselves. 

Question (W Ukraine): (47:17) What is the little, the small can of oil that we now have in the Ten? How do we check that? What is the small jar of oil that we now have in the Ten? What is that small jar of oil that we have in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: That's something we need to work on. If you now generate between you a single common desire to be connected among you, and to turn that to the Creator, then you'll feel it. That will become your desire. That will become your desire. And afterwards, you need to make it so that this desire, it will fill itself, and you will feel just how much this desire is linked with the Creator.

Student: How do Kabbalists know that the pause is over, and now we have to reach the state of Purim? When do Kabbalists know that Hannukah, the pause, is over? 

M. Laitman: These are very opposite states. When you think that you need to end your war in Hannukah, then you feel, what is that next state called Purim.? Meaning, it isn't according to your desire, rather it happens because that's how the degrees on the ladder are built. 

Question (W PT 8): (50:18) heard you say before that a Person or the heart should open the way to the light. How do we open the way to the light? 

M. Laitman: That you wish to receive this degree in order to bestow. 

Student: But I don't see the degree. Should I try to imagine it? 

M. Laitman: You have to feel it.

Student: Should we try to depict the light coming and connecting and bringing us closer, or there is no correct depiction of it? 

M. Laitman: Try. Try. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:25) What do we lack in order to realize Hannukah? 

M. Laitman: To be connected. That the power of connection between you will be stronger, will be more unifying, than all the forces of reception that wander in everyone's heart. That's what's important. 

Question (Astana): (52:33) In the Ten we work in a spiritual way. We meet every day for meetings, for lessons. How to depict the state of pause in spirituality, the state of rest? And what should we do during that time? 

M. Laitman: How to reach a state of rest or pause in the spiritual movement? 

Student: And what do we do during that time of rest? 

M. Laitman: We are connected between us in the quality of mutual bestowal, in a way that each one will feel the concern of the entire Ten for him, or the whole group for him. That is all. 

Student: But we need to accumulate forces during that time.

M. Laitman: You will feel it. You will feel that you have the strength, as you come mutually closer, when you have the understanding of the goal of getting closer among you, and that it ends up at... You come to feel the single common desire you have, and you wish to aim it at the Creator. 

Question (CzechSlovak 4): (54:51) What should all the Tens focus on right now? 

M. Laitman: All the Tens should now focus only on connection in each and every Ten. So it's clear to each Ten What is its origin, its desire? And what does it want to realize? How does it want to realize the desire? But that's all.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (55:45) We are in the holiday of Hannukah. And the holiday of Hannukah symbolizes the entrance or the acquisition of the light of Hassadim. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Now, three days ago, we watched a recorded lesson by you. By the way, it was a recorded lesson, but it felt very much alive. And there you gave us guidelines on how to perform this entrance, how to acquire the light of Hassadim. Do you have guidelines today, more precise guidelines, as to how do we acquire, how do we draw the light of Hassadim, the first entrance to spirituality? 

M. Laitman: The first entrance to spirituality is to care that the concern that your desire, the collective desire of the Ten, is it will give you it will give you force with which you can do all the actions in the Ten that you need to do to make another step towards the purpose of creation. 

Student: A short continuation question. Will we require Rav's support in order to make that step? It seems like the group is truly ready, it's ripe for it. Will we need Rav's support, or we will be able to do it on our own? 

M. Laitman: No, on our own we can't. On our own we cannot do it. Whether the Rav is alive or rose to a higher degree and no longer is felt as alive, that doesn't matter. We have to understand that the connection between us is the vessel that is very unique, that we can show to the Creator as empty in order to receive fulfillment into it. I don't see any more questions. All right, I don't see any more questions.

Reader: We reached the end of the lesson, the end of this part of the lesson. Yes, thank you very much, Rav. And now we will move together to a summary of the lesson in the Ten, then we will continue.