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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) September 2, 2024

Part 2: Rabash. Record 824. Internality and Externality

Hello dear friends. We're reading from Rabash Volume 3, Article 824. Internality and Externality. You can find the study materials on the websites Sviva Tova and Arvut and ask questions there.

Reading Article: (00:36) Internality and Externality

Humility means that in any manner, in action or in intellect, he annuls himself before the other, meaning that even his view he should annul before his friend.

There is “internality,” and there is “externality.” These are called “revealed” and “concealed,” and “action” and “thought.” Something that is revealed to all pertains to action, whereas a thought is not revealed; therefore, a thought is regarded as internal, meaning it is in man’s internality. An act is called “externality,” and within it there is an internal thought.

Therefore, when one must annul himself before his friend, it is not regarded as true annulment unless it is in two manners: in thought and in action.

It is not necessarily the action, but he should also annul his view and say that his friend’s view is more important than his own. Otherwise, this is (not) regarded as “annulment.” When he shows his friend an act of annulment, this is nothing but fawning, where on the outside he shows that his friend is more important, but deep inside he knows that his friend is not half as good as he is.

Question (Women MAK): (03:19) What does it mean, through the Ten, that I receive the mind, the reason that is the true spiritual Kli? 

M. Laitman: It means everything you receive, you receive from the Creator, through your women friends and this is how you feel. That this comes onto you and it makes you into action, it instills a reaction into you. Therefore, a quite peculiar thing happens here. When it's not us, but rather our friends through their thoughts affect us, influence us, and make us perceive internality and externality in our spiritual work.

Student: Before I find this general perfection, what is inside of my friends that isn't in me, and by finding which, I'll be able to achieve correction? 

M. Laitman: There's a certain need inside of you to feel a common desire, a common yearning,  with our group towards the connection between yourselves and the Creator. That is a need of us all, so, that's what we need to express.

Student: What is the Creator's material in the Ten and how to receive in the Ten, correctly, in order to bestow? 

M. Laitman: For this, we need to try and be together – to all the time be together. For this, we need to conduct certain studies together, spiritual work. Imagine, depict, feel the extent to which we exert effort and the extent to which we can unite. And in this unity, we can feel new possibilities, new desires, new intentions, and advance like this. 

Question (Women MAK): (06:27) If in the Ten, everyone is in the perfect form and annulled before the others, externally and internally. How will advancement happen? 

M. Laitman: Advancement will happen exactly as it's happening right now. It goes through the Creator, reaches us, and embodies onto us. It embeds all kinds of indirect desires, and thus, we always change, always fluctuate, and etc. But if we are strictly directed onto the connection between us through the Creator, then we will advance without any turning. We'll advance directly, with no confusion. 

Student: How do we, from this annulment come to true bestowal? Should we start from this self-subjugation; how do I begin to cancel myself? 

M. Laitman: No way, only through intention and direction, and at the end of the action, we will feel how we turn our intentions into life. 

Question (Women KabU 13): (08:02) How do we make sure that we annul ourselves in thought so internally, to our friends, without deceiving ourselves? 

M. Laitman: To an extent to which we understand, we understand. To an extent to which we maybe, not yet, understand, when we find ourselves in all kinds of doubts. One way or another, we advance this way, together with all of this. Prayer has to exist at all times, 

a plea to the Creator, so that He corrects us. And He describes to us where we're mistaken, where we can be more adhered to one another, more united, and with Him. 

Reader: (09:02) I don't understand the reason I have to annul before the friends in the Ten. 

M. Laitman: All your opinions in which you feel disconnected.

Student: With regards to my reason, my thoughts, my opinions, should I use them, should I cancel them? 

M. Laitman: No, the opinions that get awakened in you, the ones that lead to more unity between the friends, are good. 

Student: When I, in relation to the way I express it externally, show that I annul myself, at least I stay quiet, that I could do something, I can certainly stay quiet. Then he says that he isn't worth my little finger, that's how I feel. So, what do I do about it? 

M. Laitman: Try, try, we will gladly hear a review from you, how you succeeded.

Student: In any case, there's no advice how to do it, how to succeed in this? 

M. Laitman: You have instruments for that, so try and work with them. 

Question (Turkiye 2): (10:51) With what inner feeling should we take part in the convention to reveal the Creator's concealment? 

M. Laitman: We have to resist all the questions, all the disturbances that stand in our way of being in unity with our friends, in direct connection, in unity. Moreover, we need to perform all kinds of actions that will push us towards the center of the Ten, the center of the group so that they would all be directed to the same direction, to share a vector. As a result of it, we will feel that we are being pushed more and more and this is how we will advance. 

Question (Women MAK): (12:22) When the Reshimot remain unrealized, how is this expressed? 

M. Laitman: It is expressed, it's manifested by constant problems in a person's life that do not let them be together with the others, in the group, in the Ten.

Student: The necessity and the realization of the inner potential of each one, does it depend on each one or on everyone in the group? How do we realize this potential correctly? 

M. Laitman: It depends on a person and it depends on how much he – how can I say it – is pulling his Reshimot behind him from the previous states, even lives, maybe. And wishes only for one thing, for them to be under the influence of the upper light of the Creator and get corrected. 

Question (German): (13:55) I'd like to share that I did an exercise when a friend was speaking. I pushed on myself, I made myself listen to him attentively without being distracted into my thoughts. And then I realized that the friend is speaking of great things. Is this a correct exercise or is this a psychological trick? 

M. Laitman: You'll learn that only later but, in general, it's the most right thing you can do, especially when you hear a friend. 

Question (Novosibirsk): (14:44) You spoke of doubt, is this inability to accept caused by the descent, that I don't want to connect to the descent? Or is this a lack of acceptance because of my ego that I cannot see others as great? How to see the difference, how to discern between the two? Are there any criteria for this? 

M. Laitman: Only the ones that we constantly speak of. So, you have to try and connect into a more tight-knit group, nullify yourself before your friends as much as possible. And see what comes as a result of your connection.

Question (Qazaqstan-Kyrgyzstan): (15:47) You said we should turn to the Creator with a prayer so He points out our mistakes and helps us. How do we not get confused between these and our own ego?

M. Laitman: Just agree with the way they come, the Creator wants you to accept them, to realize your state. And then try and change them based on the fact that you will come closer to your innermost strength, thoughts, desires. And this way you will go through the degrees of advancement more and more. 

Student: Let's say, there's a state when I pray a lot but I don't receive a response. What does the Creator want to tell me with this? 

M. Laitman: That you did not add the main desires, yet, into your strength. 

Student: Is this yearning for the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. 

Question (Women Italy): (17:19) Is consolation a turning off the exterior and a turning on the interior. How can we perceive this heightened force internally? 

M. Laitman: We have to try to reveal it we are in an ever-strengthening connection between us. And this way we'll have more and more, we'll be entering the internal feeling more and more, the feeling of the internal state. That's the most important thing, that we would have the feeling of internality, and externality will get added to it. Maybe, we'll have to nullify it a little bit, maybe we'll have to apply it a little bit, but the main thing is the internal part. 

Question (Women MAK 110): (19:04) If the inner state comes from the Creator, then the state of the friend, if we don't reveal the internal and external thought, if we conceal it, yes, will this not be considered theft from the Ten? Not to explain my state to the friend, I'm talking about healthy relationships between us. 

M. Laitman: If you have this kind of a relationship, then you have to be sincere with your friends in everything and then you will succeed. 

Question (MAK 24): (22:02) We come to annulment in the mind through annulment in the action or are these things not connected? 

M. Laitman: Through the annulment in action, yes, the difference between from above to below and below to above, is what's preceding your mind or action.

Question (Women MAK 53): (20:40) How does annulment help us to love the friends? If we cancel an action, how does this help us to love each other, how does this happen? 

M. Laitman: Annulment helps us to come closer to the friends because we remove the obstacle. Annulment, itself, is an obstacle and like this we come closer.

Student: What's the reason for the problem to annul; what's the root of this annulment that's the main thing? 

M. Laitman: The reason is in the Creator, Who organizes the relationships between us, the states, in such a way that we have to exclude them from our communication. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (22:00) Even if I perform actions of annulment, I cannot justify the friend, internally. What should be the boundary of our work in the Ten in the state when we can't annul ourselves? 

M. Laitman: A plea, a prayer, that's what we need the most – to organize in the connection between us and the Creator. And then it's not going to be hard for us, it's not going to be heavy on us. 

Question (Women MAK): (22:56) What's the example of Rabbi Akiva, he's the great one. His Ten was small and he was great, they were small. So, if there's no ability to truly love the Creator then I only care for myself. To confirm this rule, “a thousand go into the room, and one comes out to the light”. This is unfair, how do we do it together? What is this true work of helping the friends? 

M. Laitman: In the Ten, everyone is trying to exit from the darkness towards the light, and they do that for the friends. 

Student: What is the help to each other if I see everyone as perfect? 

M. Laitman: There's no such thing, if we were perfect, there would be no work. We would simply exist in a state of bestowal, absolutely everyone towards one another. And that state would be called a corrected world. So, don't consider yourselves and your friends as perfect. We understand that we all are in an incorrect state and have to start with it each time. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva 33): (24:51) About a Reshimo that stays unrealized, where is this expressed? You said that this is in problems in a person that prevent a person from working with the friends. How does this revelation of Reshimot happen, how do we work with them correctly to realize them? 

M. Laitman: Simply, interconnect with all the friends in your Ten and try to nudge them in the direction of the Creator and be connected together as much as possible in our innermost feelings. Ask the Creator so that he would help my friends. 

Question (Women Spain): (26:41) What does the length of the states of descent depend on? Does it depend on the Ten and then on the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes, to the extent to which we ask, is to that extent we receive faster help.

Question (Women MAK 43): (27:13) When a person can adhere to the actions and thoughts of his friend, does he become nothing? To use the friend's desire for bestowal, does this ability to annul ourselves give us the tools to enter our opposite nature? 

M. Laitman: Of course. 

Question (Women Moscow 8): (27:56) With what intention do I enter an action of bestowal? What do I want to happen eventually? 

M. Laitman: You have to scrutinize it. 

Student: This is an active action? 

M. Laitman: Yes, more so, you have to scrutinize what you want.

Question (Women Moscow 1): (28:30) You said there are internal tools how can a person check the inner part of this? 

M. Laitman: Together with the friends.

Student: Can I understand the quality of my inner work only afterwards or can I inspect this during my self-annulment? 

M. Laitman: You can scrutinize it in any of your states, just think about it. 

Student: Just clarify, just be in this discernment. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Moscow 18): (29:28) Why in spirituality should a person cancel himself before the Creator, to annul everything the Creator gives him and not thank Him for this? It seems wrong to try to change what He gives us. 

M. Laitman: It's because he sees the deficiencies that separate him from the Creator. So, he wants to correct this state that separates him and the Creator. Actually, he sees himself opposite to the Creator, for now, and then afterwards, when this distance becomes smaller, then he'll be able to ask the Creator differently about the result. 

Student: He'll be able to be grateful, to express gratitude, feel the contact.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women MAK 36): (30:31) How can I help my friends to detach from the external things to come together to the Congress? 

M. Laitman: You have to register, between you, you have to discuss who's going, who's not going, what we can do. How to maintain connection between us, even if there are those that are not going to the Congress, anyway. They have to feel the connection with you, with those that are coming.

Student: It speaks in the article about two kinds of annulment – in mind and in action. What do I do with the feelings that occur as a result of the annulment of the thought? 

M. Laitman: Are they getting in the way of your advancing? 

Student: It's simply as if there's two kinds of feelings: There's a feeling of fulfillment, and sometimes there's a feeling of lack, both as a result of annulment of thought. It's as if there's a layer of adhesion to the Creator behind it. How do I reach this state, this level of adhesion so that I rise above the feeling? 

M. Laitman: The same way as with the previous one but it's higher, much higher.

Student: It's as if I lack the forces, all the time. 

M. Laitman: That's correct, it's correct that it's lacking because it's the next degree.

Question (Holland): (32:51) How do you take care that the actions and the thoughts are aligned correctly? That we don't fall, let's say, in the pitfall of falling, that it is felt as falling in the group? 

M. Laitman: I think that all together we have to have several workshops about this and as a result of these workshops, there needs to be such a movement. Such a tendency to connect, to unite in all possible ways in the group, in the Ten. And always think, always think about the fact that you want to talk to the Creator, directly.

Question (Women Spain): (35:04) What is the state, exactly, the state of annulment towards the friend? It seems as if we're distancing or we're limiting ourselves, and then this exactly blooms when we try to annul.

M. Laitman: You have to continue your effort until what you want to happen happens. Ask the Creator to help you to perform several steps forward. 

Question (Women Turkiye 10): (35:57) I see a big change in my friends and I see something very deep. But I cannot work like this with my feelings and I'm afraid that I'm lacking, lagging behind them. What do I do with this fear? 

M. Laitman: Get closer to the Creator and then you'll see that all your fears don't have a place. 

Question (Women MAK 48): (36:48) We have in us a healthy ego that advances us, the good ego, and there's a so-called evil inclination. Often, we only understand what's what as a result. How do we learn to see it during the process? 

M. Laitman: Try to see it out of your connection, you have to be connected between you to the fullest extent, in the maximum closeness. Then, you'll begin to discern different details of your relationships and it won't be difficult for you to turn to the Creator and ask Him for cooperation.

Question (Asia): (37:57) Why is it in relations between the friends we measure our relation to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: How would you do it? 

Student: I don't know. 

M. Laitman: I'll explain the reason: The Creator gives us options, opportunities, to connect between us. And in such a way we attain closeness with Him. How can you do it, differently? 

Student: How do you measure that? 

M. Laitman: You measure that by our desire to bestow to each other. 

Student: And only He feels it? 

M. Laitman: We can also feel it, this is our desire to bestow between us. 

Student: How can desire to receive tell us about the desire to bestow? 

M. Laitman: We can feel it to the extent that we are far or close; and then, thanks to this, we can ask. 

Student: There has to be a connection with the Creator, not only between me and friends, right? 

M. Laitman: This is, also, correct. 

Question (Tbilisi): (39:57) My mind gets in my way, constantly, that sees bad things in my friends. And in faith above reason everything is perfect and the Creator is The Good That Does Good, and the friends are corrected. I always find myself in gratitude, and I have a feeling that I want to run away to this state. What does it tell me, and how do we have to use faith above reason during this Congress? 

M. Laitman: One hundred percent. Use faith above reason. 

Student: And the fact that I run away, is okay, yes? 

M. Laitman: To faith above reason. 

Question (Women French): (41:00) What will allow us to speak with the Creator, directly? 

M. Laitman: You will be in the same qualities, the same aspirations, as Him. 

Student: How important for that is to have a desire to reveal the Creator?

M. Laitman: Of course, this is necessary – the main reason for why you are dealing with this wisdom of getting closer to the Creator. 

Question (Women Moscow 6): (41:42) If the private level of nullification is more or less clear. But when the Creator is dealing with the Ten, we can feel that we get disturbances, not private ones but that He relates to our Ten. In action it's clear., we have to keep on trying but what's internal? How do we nullify internally as a Ten? 

M. Laitman: Internally is when we unite between us and the Creator. 

Student: So, keep the prayer in action, and here, keep the thought that we want this unity.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Turkiye 5): (42:46) If a person has good thoughts and bad thoughts in spiritual work. When we work with our thoughts, do we need to work with the good thoughts or only with the bad ones? 

M. Laitman: We have to think only good thoughts about our friends, want to be united only in good relationships between us. And then the Creator will help us and will give us the opportunity to be in this. 

Question (Women MAK 26): (43:35) Can we differentiate correct annulment that has as a result of it the state of gratitude; and the wrong one is when a person becomes passive and ignorant, and doesn't want to do anything? 

M. Laitman: Of course, they are two different states. 

Student: What do I do with the second type of annulment when a person wants to nullify himself and he does, he performs this action. But it's as if we're losing him, the person becomes passive and not participating. What's the error here? 

M. Laitman: We have, as if, to hold him in our arms, as if let him try and we'll help. 

Student: Sometimes a person has an opinion different from the others and the others do not accept his opinion and it's as if he's nullifying himself. But, at the same time, this person is losing all the strength and cannot do anything. So, what's a person to do? 

M. Laitman: What should such a person do that he has no strength, that's right because he doesn't have the true correct desires. That's why in the ego he can't receive the forces.

The main thing is to pray, to ask the Creator for the strength. To have understanding of

What kind of state he was thrown out to. And from all this, so that he would receive correct feelings and from these correct sensations he will send to the Creator, gradually. You will see, you just have to ask.

Student: I also have the question: How does the group act? You said that the group has to keep the person in its hands. What kind of support does it have to be? We have to say that we love you anyway, or should we listen to what the person is saying? 

M. Laitman: You don't necessarily have to listen to this, the main thing is to accept them. And gradually, he will be able to free himself from our help and hold on to himself. 

Question (Women MAK 19): (46:48) The Creator is constantly hiding, being concealed and I want to be in the work—and it's a serious work—and also being in joy. Simply from one thought about the Creator but the states come, the negative thoughts come, what can I do at this moment? There's a point where I can truly choose, what I can win in this moment. What can I salvage from the state? 

M. Laitman: I didn't understand your question so well, please repeat. 

Student: Let me clarify a little bit: We constantly have two different states, yes? When you have negative thoughts, it means that the Creator is concealed right now, right? 

M. Laitman: Correct. 

Student: And thoughts about the Creator, themselves, if they arrive there's an internal joy, there's also external manifestations, expressions, how do I combine it? Joy has to be silent, like inside or do I have to express it somehow?  

M. Laitman: You don't have to express it in any way, what's important for the Creator is your feeling in the heart. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (48:50) You tell me to think good about the friends and I do but a lot of times it turns out that I'm thinking good things about myself. And it's not the same thing as through them, I reveal good things about me. What do I have to do with it? 

M. Laitman: It's okay, in this case, you feel good, right? 

Student: Of course, but it doesn't come to my desire to receive. 

M. Laitman: Try to connect other details, uncorrected details, to this.

Student: I have to think about correcting something? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women MAK 97): (49:47) We say that if each friend nullifies herself in the mind and in the heart before the friends. And by this we free space for the Creator, and He, in turn, finishes the action that we have established in the beginning of our meeting? 

M. Laitman: Yes, we can say so.

Question (Women Spain): (50:34) I have a feeling that it simply weakens, what do I do with this rhythm, with this speed? 

M. Laitman: I didn’t understand your depiction. You'll feel that this is not a question of personal effort, this is called, “the Creator will complete the work”, and I shouldn't be doing this. 

Question (Women MAK 25): (51:40) What's the difference between good thoughts about the neighbor and a naive outlook through the pink glasses, so to speak? 

M. Laitman: The truth, the differences in truth and lies. 

Student: The good outlook should be truthful. 

Question (Women Hebrew 13): (52:10) You said that we have to hold on to the Creator and then you said gradually learn how to be self-sufficient. What does it mean to be self-sufficient, it's a little bit frightening. 

M. Laitman: I can position myself with regards to the Creator, using the group and the friends in any state. 

Question (Women Kyiv): (52:52) How do I work after self-annulment? Before I try self-annulment and I have no desires, no nothing. How do I advance further after that? 

M. Laitman: What does it say about this? 

Student: Work in three lines, work with the Creator.

M. Laitman: Yes, and then it says that you have to yearn for connection with friends. And through connection with them to work in connection with the Creator. 

Student: Let's say, I establish the connection with the friends, with the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Do you feel these connections between you? 

Student: Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

M. Laitman: And what do you do next? 

Student: And then the light comes and that's it, I cannot stand. 

M. Laitman: You need to pay more attention and dedicate more time to this. That's the main thing, so that the connection between you and the Creator becomes constant and maximal.

Student: How from our connection do we reflect the light so that we don't receive it, so that we would only receive it for the sake of bestowal. Is it the intention that we're building? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Turkiye 8): No translation

M. Laitman: You just have to understand that our corrections can exist, be performed, only if the Creator influences us. It's not that we correct ourselves, the Creator affects us, influences us, this is what we need. And that's why we have to try always and understand what I lack in order to be connected with the Creator. How do I achieve these definitions, these feelings? How to ascend to the next degree in these feelings and constantly in speech, in intention, and in action, in the deepest and strongest mutual guarantee, Covenant. 

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (56:33) You said that a person that is not able to hold himself, it's as if the group is holding this person in its hands, so it means that it's in the descent. What's the difference when we say that I can consciously lower myself in descent, and I enter my Aviut, and if I'm not able to deal with it, I just have to fall from this ladder? 

M. Laitman: You have to work on this more and then you'll succeed. 

Question (Kyiv): (57:25) In this article, it says, specifically, that self-annulment talks about two things, it's external and internal intention. So, if a friend tells me, buy bread for the fellows at the Congress, and I go externally to buy this bread. But I don't do calculations in the intention. So, it's not self-annulment without this analysis, without this intention? 

M. Laitman: Of course, the action is only if there is counteraction, then the action is considered taken into account. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva 33): (58:11) At what point does a person have to say that the Creator will finish for me? And when does a person need to continue and exert effort in the work? 

M. Laitman: This depends on a person's inner feeling, I cannot explain this. This is just that a person feels that he has done everything that's possible. And all that's left is for the Creator to complete this correction; it is, as it is said, the Creator will complete the work.

Question (Women Italy): (59:03) What's the connection between a big avalanche and a connection in the Ten, if we understood correctly? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, this doesn't speak of the storm, so there's nothing to say. 

Okay, we'll finish the lesson, and we'll see you next time.

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