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Daily Morning Lesson: February 22, 2026
Continuing the Convention With an Ascent - Selected Excerpts from the sources
Original lesson date: 05/26/2025
Student: Dear friends, in order to continue the ascent from the Congress, we will now study a lesson with the Rav that was done after the May Congress 2025. It's from May 2025; it's based on assorted excerpts from Kabbalists, and it's called "Continuing the Congress in an Ascent."
Reader: We are continuing the congress within an ascent, we will read select excerpts from the sources. We're going to be in excerpt number one. Baal HaSulam writes,
Reading: (00:48) 1. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 26. “One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past”
There are many people in the world who were not given the strength to do the holy work even in the simplest way, even without the intention and in Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], even in Lo Lishma of Lo Lishma, and even in preparation for the preparation of the clothing of Kedusha [holiness], while he was imparted the desire and thought to at least occasionally do holy work, even in the simplest possible way, if one can appreciate the importance of this, according to the importance one attributes to the holy work, to that extent he should give praise and thanks for it.
This is so because it is true that we cannot appreciate the importance of being able to sometimes observe the Mitzvot [commandments] of the Creator, even without any intention. In that state, one comes to feel elation and joy in the heart.
The praise and the gratitude one gives for it expand the feelings, and one is elated by every single point in the holy work, he knows Whose servant he is, and thus soars ever higher. This is the meaning of what is written, “I thank You for the grace that You have made with me,” meaning for the past, and by this one can confidently say, and he does say, “and that You are destined to do with me.”
M. Laitman: (03:16) Okay, so we heard how a person should accept what happens to him afterwards- onwards, in the work. We really hope that what we did at the Congress, we will receive for it, for it a continuation in an ascent, and in everything that we expect in general from the wisdom of Kabbalah. That we will constantly feel how much we owe the Creator, and how much He is giving us.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:36) How do you summarize the three days of the convention, connecting to "There Is None Else Besides Him" that we just went through?
M. Laitman: I think that we received a very special relation all in all from the world, and from the Creator, and from our friends that are everywhere in the world. Let's hope that this is how it will continue. Indeed, now we have daily work to receive more and more supporters from the Creator, who is expecting our advancement.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:48) How do we extend what we received from the convention?
M. Laitman: How do we continue it? First of all, now there needs to be work as we always talked about it. That through the connection we should ask the Creator to help us connect and get closer to Him. And this is how it will continue.
Student: Do we need to try to keep what we just attained?
M. Laitman: More than just keeping it we need to rise higher and higher each time. Not to ask that we will have what we had, but that we will have more. That's it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:58) When you said that we owe the Creator for all that He gives us, we feel how much we owe the Creator.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What is that feeling that we owe the Creator?
M. Laitman: We received from Him upper forces, spiritual forces. We received from Him our society, which is thousands of people who are everywhere in the world. Therefore, we should be grateful and we should respond correctly to His expectations from us.
Student: How do we thank Him?
M. Laitman: We thank Him, as it says, “for the grace that You have made with me and that You are destined to do with me,”- to us.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:29) What are the Creator's expectations of us?
M. Laitman: I can't know precisely how to answer these questions. But in general the Creator wants us to connect between us, and by that we will draw closer to Him. That’s it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:11) Is intention the quality of bestowal?
M. Laitman: Certainly, bestowal means intention, or the intention is to reach bestowal.
Student: Meaning, when we try to connect we're not quite in the right intention. We still get grace from the Creator. And the very fact that we're trying, and when we get the quality of bestowal, then we have the intention.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Reader: We still have questions in the world. We have Women Turkey, Italy.
Question (ITA 4): (10:09) We talked about the spiritual ascent. What does that mean? What's an example for us in this?
M. Laitman: Our participation in a spiritual ascent is expressed in prayer. When we ask the Creator to help us rise to higher degrees on the ladder, and that in this way we will feel how much we're becoming closer to Him. That's it.
Question (W Turkiye 8): (11:09) How can we understand that the difficulties and obstacles we experience are the means of the Creator to bring us closer?
M. Laitman: We need to see this according to what is happening to us. If in our expectations, in our prayers we turn to the Creator and in this appeal we are next to Him, with Him then we need to feel that; and if not, then we should conduct further examinations of where else can we add, and in what can we add in our requests in our prayers so that the Creator will answer us. That is all.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:41) Does gratitude for the past give us confidence for the future?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And if I seemingly thank for the past but I'm not certain about the future, where did I not complete my work?
M. Laitman: Apparently also for the past, you are not calculating correctly enough.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:22) To continue the friend’s question on what the Creator expects of us. Did we already reach a stage in which we are close to being ripe enough to disconnect from our egoistic vessels? Of course, with the force of the society and connection, the force of the light, but are we close to this, or do we still have a way to go? Should we start working with this yet?
M. Laitman: I think that we are able to do it.
Student: Can we start fighting or battling this force with the light? Of course, against the egoistic vessels, and begin to transcend them.
M. Laitman: Yes. Of course in the plan of the Creator, we're still in our egoistic vessels, and we need to ask that we will come out of them and reach the next stage.
Student: What's the necessary effort from us as individuals, as a collective society in order to begin this ascent?
M. Laitman: We need to feel what we had that we were not at all in any place on the path, and then how we started to feel the path, and how today we can also advance. Again, to make a calculation over our state, and what we're expecting, and accordingly advance.
Student: We have egoistic vessels in us that are not revealed, that we still need to discover. How precisely should we do it so that we will be able to expose them and rise above them, resist them, battle them?
M. Laitman: For sure we have vessels that require further corrections. We will have to discover them and raise them with a prayer towards the Creator so that in the upper light we will feel a change in them. And this is how the ascent will happen.
Student: What is the point that we need to work with in order to hasten this process, to bring it closer, to draw it, to enter it? What is demanded of us?
M. Laitman: What's required of us is the usual things. That we will be closer to each other, that we will connect together in order to give the Creator a place to be revealed in our participation, and this is how it is to continue.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:15) I want to ask you, what is gratitude? Meaning, if we say, thank you very much, we had a good convention, we received a lot, thank you very much, or is it something else? Is it some form of connection? What is gratitude, some form of connection with the Creator?
M. Laitman: Gratitude is a special connection with the Creator that I want to thank Him for what He did for me so far, and I truly expect that in the future You will also not leave me, and that I will remain together with my friends in all kinds of processes that we need. We don't yet know what we need, but I want that to happen to us.
Student: So, confidence, I guess, meaning a strong connection that gives gratitude, is it what gives us confidence in the future?
M. Laitman: Yes, yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:37) Rav, I know two kinds of gratitude. One that just comes out of your heart without any preceding scrutiny. The other kind is where we think, we really make calculations what we did in order to justify altogether what we received. And when we do this calculation, we see that we received an impression way beyond what we think we deserve. And then we… a need to give back awakens. On one hand we want to do that. On the other hand we have a real question, a real question of how to give back to the Creator. So my question to you, Rav, is how can we give back to the Creator?
M. Laitman: To do what He’s expecting of us.
Student: What does He expect of us?
M. Laitman: A spiritual ascent.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:40) Also about the same thing, if we look at this convention, we can see that the Creator did everything. He led us in the whole process, truly raised us to higher heights. The question is, when do we disconnect from that contact with Him and once more begin to work on our behalf? Because otherwise, a long time can go by before we begin the work again?
M. Laitman: Yes. We should be expecting that truly from one day to the next we will get closer to the Creator and look forward to spiritual ascents towards Him. And that in the end, it will let us feel, understand, perceive the entire spiritual system and use it correctly.
Student: What is using it correctly, to continue on this wave, or…?
M. Laitman: To continue the ascent. Yes, certainly.
Student: But by continuing what the Creator draws towards or a new wave?
M. Laitman: There is nothing new. I mean, what we received we should now use it more and more correctly.
Student: How? What does it mean to make the most of what we received in the convention?
M. Laitman: I don't know. We should feel what exactly is included in our ascent. Then we will discuss it and continue onward.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:07) Is it correct on our behalf to close our egoistic vessels and be inclined, or in a trend of only giving, to abstain from them?
M. Laitman: According to our state, we should be expecting, we should ask to see, to discover the vessels of bestowal.
Student: To reveal the vessels of bestowal, how should we relate from that inclination that you talked about towards the vessels of reception? Should the trend be only like you said, and then we will be able to abstain from the vessels of reception? Does it require an effort to resist those egoistic vessels?
M. Laitman: No. If you think about the vessels of bestowal and how you will work with them, then necessarily you already exit the vessels of reception, and you enter the vessels of bestowal.
Student: And constantly try to be in the Ten, and from that place, and from...
M. Laitman: Yes, of course. Clearly, this is how it should be.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:45) What does it mean to think about the vessels of bestowal and how you will work with it? What does it mean?
M. Laitman: I want to feel that the vessels of bestowal are awakening in me, and that I understand better and better how I can work with them in order to connect with the Creator and truly be face-to-face with Him.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:37) One of the very special things we felt in the convention was a constant innovation and a renewal of the prayer, where we truly ended one and entered the next. It was like this constant renewal of prayer. And also yesterday, we sat with a few friends, and we talked about this longing of constantly being in this prayer and not letting go of the prayer, that this is how he wants to continue the convention. I wanted to ask about the work with this. How, when a person truly empties his entire heart in prayer for the Creator, he feels like he poured out all that he had, how does he renew this new prayer at this point, an additional new prayer?
M. Laitman: In the prayer, as we pray according to the prayer book, so we have the morning prayer, or the other prayers, that every such prayer includes in it something that pertains to the general request and a more individual request. When a person turns to someone who is greater than him, someone who is lesser than him, and the friends who are on the same degree, the same connection so, it is important for us that we will see precisely where we are and how we can connect with the Creator, how we can change our connection with Him; and in such a way to connect to constantly be in such a way towards the Creator, in the ascents towards Him.
Question (W Laitin 26): (27:40) Our Ten is virtual, and our friends were in conventions around the world in Hungary, Chile, United States, and Mexico. How can we make the most of now returning to our virtual Ten in order to build the correct prayer?
M. Laitman: As usual by connecting between them, and wanting to feel their body, their mass, where they exist, that in the connection between them above the differences in languages, or mentality, and so on. They will feel how much they are nevertheless in a single spiritual Kli.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:11) Many friends went out to conventions around the world, incorporated there, and now they're coming back to their convention. There was an expanse, and now a constriction again. So, what am I bringing to my circle, to my group?
M. Laitman: My impression from the place that I was in. From the group that I was in.
Student: And that volume of connection, we felt like one very big vessel, and now what do I need to do? When I return once more to my group, to my Ten, and to focus within it; or not, should we continue to seek this big global feeling?
M. Laitman: I can't be in one group but thinking of another group. This is something that is not whole, and so it does not exist in spirituality. But rather, we need to be incorporated with each other, and reach a single prayer.
Student: So, to understand; so, in the convention, I expand the range of connection with the whole world Kli, I incorporate from this huge, immense thing. And now after the convention, I need to restrict the range to my Ten?
M. Laitman: No. But you don't increase the changes that are in all kinds of vessels in the world, but rather you want them to all enter a single connection.
Student: Can I ask? How to identify in the next moment what the Creator wants from me? How to identify the demand for the Creator in this adjacent moment, not in the future?
M. Laitman: The Creator wants that in every moment when we now return to our place, every group to its place, every person to his place, that we nevertheless will carry with us that impression, that love, this connection, that inclination to it so that it will live among us.
Student: The friends are asking you what you expect of us after the convention. You're saying spiritual ascent, more connection?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: But that's our routine, more and more connection. It's a renewing routine.
M. Laitman: I don't think that it can happen in this way where we simply discover it within us. But rather that we do want to feel to what extent we exist in a single body.
Student: I'm asking what you can hold on to because spiritual ascent and more connection is hard to hold on to. It's clear, that is our work, but I'm seeking a more clear goal or destination. What's more here?
M. Laitman: A spiritual ascent.
Student: What is a spiritual ascent?
M. Laitman: That I will feel myself every moment that I'm on a higher spiritual degree.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:21) If the Creator expects a spiritual ascent of us, but let's say a person feels like he doesn't deserve that spiritual ascent. It seems like a really stuck situation.
M. Laitman: Why? We reach a spiritual prayer on a higher place than before. Then of course we feel ourselves to be lesser than what's written in the prayer and what we would like to ask the Creator. Rather, that's how it is. So, we need to speak correctly to where we are, with regards to where we are, and also speak correctly regarding where we wish to be.
Student: It seems that on behalf of the Creator, I heard you say that He's expecting.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: It could be that the state will remain this way, that He's expecting, but we're remaining in the same state. We are the ones who have to exert towards Him. Right? To look at it that way?
M. Laitman: The exertion is through prayer. Yes.
Student: So how from our current state to feel that we want to complete His expectation? How from the current state that we feel, I don't know, maybe like after a convention and there's heaviness, a state that doesn't reach a spiritual ascent, how to complete it to a state that the Creator is expecting us to ascend?
M. Laitman: The Creator expects that we connect as much as possible on the corporeal level and start arranging a spiritual prayer for spirituality. Meaning for Him we need to demand of Him- make a demand; Where is our ascent? Where is our new place?
Student: What are we demanding?
M. Laitman: A spiritual ascent.
Student: Why are we demanding a spiritual ascent?
M. Laitman: Because that's what the Creator wants from us. A spiritual ascent means that we now receive greater forces of reception by which we can rise to greater forces of bestowal. And in that way to advance.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:25) There is a great gratitude for this Congress because it was felt that there was a new quality of connection between us. It felt very internal. How did you perceive the quality of connection in the Congress between us?
M. Laitman: I think that the development of the connection that we can derive from having been in the Congress and now we return to our places, now we can demand a spiritual ascent, spiritual connection. And then it will become more clear to us where we could be. And then to ask for that. Actually, that is all.
Student: And this Congress was very special because we had Congresses around the world: Kiev, Mexico, Pennsylvania, and it was felt that each Kli brought a special taste of connection. South America more fire, Kiev very internal. So, how did you perceive the different Klis in the world and their taste of connection?
M. Laitman: In such events as a Congress, we influence more - we have more influence between group to a group, between person and person. Meaning it's more direct between us. And now as we each return to our regular places, we now need to give thanks to the Creator for having bestowed upon us, revealing to us some new states. And that we can be, with respect to our friends, we can be as a group, the whole group wanting to advance.
Student: We came to this place by directing ourselves to connecting to Ein Od Milvado. How do we direct ourselves now in the next phase of the Derech, of the path?
M. Laitman: We all want to be connected together in such a way where nothing can divide us, separate us. And that's what we hope will happen. Other than us making an effort during the Congress, now, after the Congress, we need to think deeply about what happened to us, what's happening to us, what will happen to us, to connect all these states, all these different times together, and in that way to continue.
Student: There's a huge gratitude for each friend, and especially for you, for guiding us. Toda Raba Rav.
Reader: There are many more questions from the world Kli of Santiago. Santiago, please.
Question (Santiago): (44:49) We're so happy that we had such a beautiful, deep connection. Our heart is burning. The friction between the hearts brought up a flame that covered the whole world Kli. So we're very happy and grateful for it. Our question is, how can we make the corporeal uncertainty - that it seems like a bad future with uncertainty in work and so on, how will that affect our spiritual work with the friends?
M. Laitman: It doesn't matter so much that we skip from article to article. In our spiritual path we take our steps one at a time, one after the other, and so we know that in each and every state we'll ever be in we'll try to remain connected in the right way which is compatible, suited to our current spiritual state. And we'll see how in corporeality we're also changing. We'll see in comparison, we'll see group compared to group, and that's how we'll advance. Right?
Question (Almaty): (46:35) We had a wonderful convention. More than 300 friends from Petah Tikva, 30 friends came, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey. There was a big expansion. And now us, the small group who hosted, how can we go deeper inside? What does it mean that we're going back to our regular corporeal form?
M. Laitman: The connection is of course preserved in your group. Maybe it's not so clear, it's not so obvious, because in the Congress you were connected together. There was pressure, external pressure, great external pressure. That's why we need to incorporate with these groups, the pressure they want to receive from the others. In any case, all groups want to advance. So, from this day on, we are in a new stage. We've entered the stage that is post-convention. In short, we need to agree in the group to determine in the group how we can get closer to each other, to reach an agreement between the groups how we can connect together, how to communicate. And the main thing we want to achieve is that each group will be responsible for others. Maybe that's enough for now. After that, we'll continue advancing.
Question (Turkiye 1): (50:15) How can I express, how can we express the gratitude towards Rav and the friends on a daily basis in order to increase the connection between us?
M. Laitman: We need to show, to serve as an example for how to come closer together with the group that was in the morning lesson as the higher group, the superior group. And in that way, you’ll always be able to manage your advancement.
Question (W Heb 1): (51:20) I heard you say that now we have daily work to receive more and more supporters from the Creator. What does it mean?
M. Laitman: That we now try to be connected, and through our connection to try to rise to an even higher degree of connection. And from that, it will become more clear to us what the Creator is on the next degree. Is that clear?
Question (Kyiv 1): (52:27) First of all, we'd like to say thank you for the wonderful convention we had in Kyiv. It was a local convention, about 200 people came here physically. We also want to thank the representatives of Bnei Baruch who came here, that's Semyon Vinokur and Sonya Ischenko. They added greatly to our convention. The question is, how should we depict our next spiritual degree in the best way?
M. Laitman: The next spiritual degree is built on top of today's self-annulment. You annul yourself today more than yesterday. And in that way you give a way, an opportunity to the upper light to promote you.
Question (Turkiye): (54:10) How can a person annul his ego in all the states that come? And remember that the Creator is the Good Who Does Good, to aim himself towards the vessels of bestowal?
M. Laitman: What does it mean that he can? He must. He must organize things like that, arrange himself that way with his friends, and in that way to arrange his prayer. And it's good if he even writes it down throughout the day on some piece of paper what exactly he's adding to what he asked the day before. How exactly he aims towards the Creator, aims for the Creator and how the Creator can be connected with him. And so he advances.
Question (W Rehovot 1): (55:49) I heard you saying that we have to be in connection with the Creator, with ascents towards Him. We have to change the connection and be in ascents towards Him. What does that mean? What to change in the connection with the Creator?
M. Laitman: To change, that everything we do in terms of increasing the connection between us, that we want to get closer to the Creator, to bestow upon Him, to ask of Him all the best for our Ten, for our group. And then we will feel an inner change in us. We then return to Him and thank Him.
Student: What's so special in the connection between us and...
M. Laitman: What's the problem?
Student: What's special in the connection? I'm trying to... What's so special in that connection?
M. Laitman: What's special here is that you feel a connection with Him. In this connection you want to preserve. You want to preserve it, maintain it, so that you always feel yourself getting closer and closer to Him. Or, more correctly, that He is closer to you.
Question (W MAK): (58:44) I wanted to ask about gratitude. What is true gratitude? Is it gratitude for a reward, for gifts the Creator gives? It feels like we have to give gratitude on all states, that it's preparations for the ascent. So what else should we add? What should it come out from?
M. Laitman: Proper gratitude needs to emerge from recognition of my initial state and recognition of the final state, the ascent. And when I see that the Creator did all this for me, from that I need to imagine to myself, to think how would I thank a person who'd serve me in that way? How would I thank him? That's all. It's a very, very powerful action, giving thanks to the Creator. So let's try to achieve it.
Question (Guadalajara): (01:01:00) We made connections with friends from new Tens throughout the Congress. How should we relate to the friends that are outside of my Ten?
M. Laitman: Continue. Continue being in contact with them.
Student: There's my Ten that I'm in contact with.
M. Laitman: With your Ten, that's constant, that's permanent, that's where you are. Now, during the Congress, you were connected with another Ten?
Student: I mixed around. I connected to other friends.
M. Laitman: Good. Now, after the Congress, where to be? In what Ten?
Student: I'm back with my Ten. So, what is my relation with the friends that I've made contact with during the Congress?
M. Laitman: That is a common question. And what can we say here? From my own personal impression, my own personal observation, when I return to my group after a Congress, I try to be, as much as I can, I try to be in a higher state. And from that high state of connection with my group I try to bestow to the group that I was connected to during the Congress, and to the group which was the foundation for the Congress. And that's how you can advance.
Student: When we speak of a spiritual ascent after the Congress, we're speaking about it in my personal Ten or between Tens?
M. Laitman: After the Congress, I need to return to my own Ten.
Student: I heard from you in the lesson and in the Congress that we're connecting more to connection between Tens, between groups. What is this form?
M. Laitman: Yes, we receive this influence.
Student: From one another?
M. Laitman: From group to group, individual to individual.
Student: And now we need to continue it?
M. Laitman: We can't continue it. I now return to my group that I had before the Congress. And yes, and that's how I continue.
Student: What about the rest of the groups, the rest of the Tens around me?
M. Laitman: It's over. I receive some partial influence from them, impression. No doubt this works on me, and so I continue.
Student: Why did it finish?
M. Laitman: Not just physically, but also spiritually.
Student: My Ten has to think of other Tens to work towards them? Or no, not to look at their direction, to only look at our Ten.
M. Laitman: You came out of your Ten and incorporated into a…
Student: And now I'm in a different Ten, that was in the Congress, but the Congress is over. Now I'm back in my Ten.
M. Laitman: Yes, so what returns then?
Student: Physically, I'm sitting with them now.
M. Laitman: Physically, what about other than physically?
Student: I come back to the prayer with my own Ten now.
M. Laitman: What do you lose from that?
Student: Connection with more Tens. Maybe I'm not missing out on anything. I think maybe I'm missing out.
M. Laitman: No, you are, you are missing out. So what do you think?
Student: So I'm asking, is the spiritual ascent we're expecting in each and every Ten, or is it between Tens?
M. Laitman: I don't understand that. When I return, and I am with my Ten today, this Ten, maybe it underwent some changes.
Student: For sure.
M. Laitman: And I also return, not myself, but myself with that same Ten that I…
Student: That I was incorporated in.
M. Laitman: Yes. So, what do you do?
Student: So we connect between us. We exchange impressions. We reincorporate, and something new is built.
M. Laitman: Well, let's hear it. Quickly, though.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:08:13) We have acquired new vessels when we connect to other Tens from around the world. How to take care of those vessels from within my Ten?
M. Laitman: That I do not know, that's exactly what we're discussing.
Student: How not to let go of my Ten?
M. Laitman: I don't know. That's it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:08:42) If I connect with my Ten so I have difficulty. It's like I'm digging out a new coarseness every time. On the other hand, if I go back to what we went through in the Congress, there's a strong feeling of a group, and I can, like, skip over my work in my private Ten and jump to some connected, big, strong place. The question is, what work to prefer? What's more correct?
M. Laitman: I don't know. Why don't you ask your friends?
Student: Was this revealed after the convention? We talked about it.
M. Laitman: Alright. Well, and whoever has such questions, who should he address them to? Do you have such a group?
Reader: Yes, we have a general address for all the requests of the friends. There’s management too, with every question you can turn to us. I think we should keep scrutinizing it during the day too.
Reader: Next friends, we’re going to do a workshop and summarize our impressions from the lesson. What are we taking to implement in the Ten?
Song: (01:18:54)