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Daily Morning Lesson: June 21, 2025

Part 3: Winning the War - Selected excerpts to reinforce the World Kli and for peace in the world. Sub heading: Fighting the evil inclination Excerpt #6

Reader: Hello, we are in a lesson on the topic of “Winning the War”. We will read selected excerpts to reinforce the world Kli and for peace in the world, and we are in excerpt number six. 

Reading: (00:24) 6. RABASH, Article No. 440, "Pinhas Saw"

One should always be in a state of overcoming. This is considered that he is always at war, as our sages said, “One should always vex the good inclination over the evil inclination” (Berachot 5a), and RASHI interpreted, “make war with it.”

If a person always walks in a state of above reason, the Creator says, “Behold, I give him My covenant of peace,” as it is written, “I will hear what God the Lord will say, for He will speak peace to His people and to His followers and let them not return to folly” (Psalms 85).

This means that after the Creator makes a covenant of peace with a person, he has no more wars, as it is written, “When the Lord favors man’s ways, even his enemies will make peace with him.” 

M. Laitman: This is what Rabash writes for us in his interpretation, that when the person moves from ordinary reading and hearing to reading and hearing correctly, then he thus acquires the quality of the Creator, where he begins to understand and feel the internality of what he reads. And all of this happens because the Creator desires him. As it is written, when the Creator wants the path of the person, his enemies compliment him as well, meaning that all those qualities and thoughts and the opposite attitude there is in the person, for which he doesn't hear, doesn't feel the content of what the Creator says, what's written. If that inverts within him from posterior to anterior, then he hears, understands,and feels how the verse seems from the Creator's perspective, or whatever it is that he studies. And that's what we need to reach, to try to understand the whole Torah directly, which means to rise to the degree of Ruach, where it turns out that we observe, we see, we understand and feel the entire world unlike ordinary people, but already in a degree of assent towards the Creator.

Question (PT 29): (05:48) It says here that if a person always walks above reason, then the Creator says - I give him My covenant of peace. What does it mean that he always walks above reason? 

M. Laitman: He is always in connection, a constant contact, and he's concerned that he'll have it with the Creator, and in this way he advances. But for this, he always has to keep working on himself, meaning that everything he reads, understands, feels, accepts, and talks about, it's all on the degree of his constant connection with the Creator.

Question (Merkaz 1): (06:59) We read that a person needs to overcome. The question is, what do I overcome against? 

M. Laitman: Against yourself. Because what you started, you're on the degree of a Nefesh, maybe even less, and what you want to reach - Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida - all those degrees, you feel how you ascend to what degree you belong to, and how you can exchange your state to a higher state, from one degree to the next. 

Student: What does it mean, against myself? Can Rav perhaps specify, elaborate? What does it mean to go against myself? 

M. Laitman: In your behavior, in the way you understand, in your attitude towards your friends, and the whole world, and to the Creator, you make sure you are at least on the degree of Ruach. That's called that you ascended from Nephesh to Ruach. That's it. And so on. On all degrees. It all depends on your devotion to the Creator, and to this world, what you reveal in it, what you feel in it. That's it. That's how you try to behave. 

Question (Turkiye 1): (08:59) In the excerpt it says that a person has to always instigate the good inclination against the bad inclination. How to do that? How to always incite the good inclination against the evil inclination? 

M. Laitman: Because that's how he discovers himself and his environment, and tries to be towards his environment on the degree of the vegetative, meaning, on the vegetative degree, the vegetative degree, means that everything around him he receives not only is still, that this is how he feels the world, but the world that he feels already on the degree of the vegetative, it's felt in him as something changing, as something that there's always more than what he saw before in his regular eyes. Now, his eyes can open even more, if you could say that. We'll learn all the differences in it. 

Question (Holland): (11:07) What makes us worthy of receiving the covenant of peace from the Creator? What do we have to do in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: We begin to feel the Creator's relation, or the upper world as we say, towards us. On the degree of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida, as a general degree, the first lowest degree, which is peace, shalom, or Nefesh. And then, afterwards, when a person tries to adhere to that attainment, to that feeling, adhering to the Creator on the degree of Nefesh, then he gets a greater connection with the light called Ruach, and so on. Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida, of the degree of Nefesh, meaning the general degree is still Nefesh, and then he can enter the degree of Ruach. So then there's Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya,Yechida, of the degree of Ruach, and so on. Every five degrees, and in each degree, five sub-degrees that are included in it. And that's how he keeps going and attains on every degree, to the measure of his attainment, of his ability. That's how he sees himself constantly working towards the Creator, that he wants and he is able to receive more bestowal from the Creator, called the upper light, and on the degree Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida. And that's how he ascends more and more. Five times five.

Question (PT 10): (14:11) What is this? What does the covenant of peace the Creator make for His people? 

M. Laitman: The covenant of peace that a person signs with the Creator is that he's concerned that a person remains on the degree of Nefesh and He won't let him fall from it, descend from it. That is the way you can understand it. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (15:06) He said that we need to try to hold the light of Nefesh and not let it exit. How do we hold on to it? 

M. Laitman: We don't know how to do that yet, but we have to yearn upward, to yearn for the feeling of the Creator's control upon us as providence. So that's called Nefesh. And when each one will feel inside such a degree of a connection with a Creator, the degree of Nefesh, so then we can start ascending towards Ruach. Nefesh, Ruah, then Neshama, then maybe Chaya and Yehida. It all depends on as much as a person wants to be close, tight with his friends, and through them to the Creator that fills them. 

Question (PT 23): (16:30) Rabash writes that one must always overcome and always make war against the evil inclination. Then he writes that if a person always walks above reason, then the Creator makes a covenant with him, and there are no more wars. The question is, why is there such a situation where all the wars end, if he says in the beginning that a person needs to always be at war? 

M. Laitman: You'll see that on the degrees. When we start attaining them, you will see as much as it is right. 

Question (Kyiv 3): (17:18) It's written that after the Creator makes a covenant of peace with a person, he has no more wars. Is that the entrance to spirituality or the end of correction? 

M. Laitman: It's the personal end of correction. When we finish the corrections on Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya or Yehida, then we are supposed to stop. We live everything we have in that state on that degree. And in this way, we can keep advancing onward. But stopping on a previous degree is necessary, because on that degree, or every degree,  there is Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida, there is NRNHY of Nefesh, then NRNHY of Ruach, NRNHY of Neshama. That's how it works. 

Student: The private end of correction, does it start from the degree of Nefesh? 

M. Laitman: Of course, Nefesh of Nefesh.

Question (PT 11): (18:47) Sometimes when I feel disconnected, I try to connect to you or another Kabbalist. How can I do that correctly? 

M. Laitman: You can get an impression from people, from the world, of the state you're in, on the degree of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida. Nefesh is the lowest degree, it's the beginning. The degree of Ruach is when you already, when you start your attainment, from the degree of Ruach, and so on. Now, we'll learn all this. Through the exercises, we will know where we are and how we rise from one state to the next. What changes for us to a higher degree, what the connection between the degrees are. Every degree divides into five parts. And this way, we advance. 

Question (Woman Spain): (20:50) How to interpret the covenant of peace that the Creator makes with a person? What inner change does that covenant imply, represent? 

M. Laitman: I don't think a person has, well maybe, when he's ascending, so he has a feeling on a greater degree, than from the greater feeling, he understands the degree he was on, that also divides into five parts, NRNHY. That's why, in this way, he goes and he attains, and the more he rises, he can attain the degree that's below him, that includes lower degrees, smaller degrees, and this is how he keeps rising. In short, what we need to know is the technique, how, with what, we can ascend from one degree to the next, meaning, what's connected, what are we lacking, in order to rise, from the lower degree to the higher degree.

Question (Tel Aviv 3): (22:57) Does the degree start from disconnection, meaning under the degree of Nefesh? Is that always how it is, or are we not supposed to descend below Nefesh? 

M. Laitman: It's necessary to start every degree we attain from zero of Nefesh, meaning that we don't feel it, then we start feeling it, Nefesh, and Ruach, and so on. That's how each and every degree starts, and this is how it's depicted in us. 

Question (PT 19): (23:41) It's written in the excerpt that you actually have to attain the Creator's quality, and then he says that the Creator's quality is bestowal. We talk a lot about bestowal. How can you define bestowal? We talk about it and talk about it, but nobody knows what bestowal is. Can you explain bestowal? Perhaps guide us, as directly as possible, to what it means. 

M. Laitman: That's also that he receives more and bestows more, because the degree itself, the degree of bestowal, meaning there's a degree of receiving and a degree of bestowal. So as much as a person can receive more to that same extent - more, less, or even more, he can be in bestowal. That's why for us it's important. Why more or less important. We'll talk about it more. 

Student: So the work in the wisdom of Kabbalah is all about attaining that, attaining that bestowal, actually? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (W PT 23): (25:23) I heard you say in the beginning of the lesson, I heard you interpret, regarding Rabash's interpretation of the text, you said that a person transitions to true reading and hearing, by that he receives the Creator's quality. So the question is, what does it mean to transition from regular reading and hearing to the correct reading and hearing, and how to do that? 

M. Laitman: The reading and hearing, meaning, that's a person's attainment. That, on the lowest degree, he feels that, in some what, he is in some type of connection with the upper light, even though he doesn't recognize anything yet. He just feels he's in it. It's like a baby that is born, and we take care of it, and it could be that he gets all kinds of treatments, but without feeling where it's coming from, and what efforts it takes to take care of him. But he's still, supposedly, he doesn't respond. If he does respond, so we could say that everything he feels, in such a way, that's called the still. And then he ascends to the degree of Nefesh Ruach, meaning Nefesh itself includes five parts, so he ascends on the degree of Nefesh, from Nefesh to Ruach, and then Neshama, and then Haya, and then Yechida, meaning, on each and every degree, he has five parts, Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida.

Question (PT 8): (27:58) When he says that the Creator makes a covenant of peace with him, does it mean that he does so on the degree of Nefesh, while on the degree of Ruach, he can still be at war, because that's his new degree, and then the war will transition to the degree of Neshama, but in Nefesh and Ruach, he'll have peace? Is that how it works? 

M. Laitman: Well, almost. Almost. Usually, he won't attain a degree of Nefesh, let's say, or Ruach or Neshama or Chaya or Yechida, but the degrees that are below it, below that degree, he can feel. And he makes efforts in order to discover it, to remain in it. 

Student: But if he's at peace, then there's no advancement, seemingly, if the Creator makes a covenant of peace with him, how can he advance? How can he advance with no war? 

M. Laitman: Not through war, through connection, through connection with degrees Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida, the person that invites that connection, it's called that he advances, that he rises. 

Student: If he rises, if he has peace, why will he want to rise? Because what motivates him to rise, if there is peace with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: He doesn't have any more. He doesn't have any more. The peace is enough for him. 

Student: It's enough for him. So how does he continue advancing? 

M. Laitman: His coarseness rises. 

Student: So that's the question, exactly, on the degree of Nefesh, he reached peace. Now the degree of Ruach is revealed, seemingly there is a war, right, apparently, it cannot start from peace, right? 

M. Laitman: No, if he reached a degree in contact with the Creator on the degree of Nefesh, afterwards he has the degree of Ruach, so he ascends to the degree of Ruach. So how much does he have on the degree of Nefesh, whatever Nefesh he had, and now he received the degree of Ruach, so the degree of Ruach shines from above, downward. From Ruach to Nefesh, shines the light of Ruach. And on the degree of Ruach, he has Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama is the next action, and so on. We'll still draw it and it'll all be clear. For now, it's somehow to connect ourselves, to warm ourselves up to all these changes that we'll see as much as they are dependent on one another, pushing from below a certain degree, and instead of it, it comes instead of it, and the upper one that was there goes to a higher degree, and then to an even higher degree. Meaning, every time that we make an effort with some light, with some relation, the Creator's relation towards us, so we raise ourselves from one degree to the next. Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida.

Student: Yes, I'm asking only about the war and peace here. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: If you can advance with just peace.

M. Laitman: Yes, if you attain peace, so on this current degree, you connect. 

Student: But when the new degree comes, can you start it with peace, or is it war again? 

M. Laitman: No, how can you start? It doesn't reveal itself this way. Every degree is revealed according to your effort. A war. 

Question (Moscow 1): (33:30) Trying to be on the degree of the vegetative towards the environment when everything is changing. So, with respect to the environment, you develop a certain kind of attitude, a certain approach. You try to support, but you're rejected. Is it similar, that example? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. It's not exactly correct. If you want to rise to a higher degree, let's say, from Nefesh to Ruach, you invest certain forces for that. And the forces you invest, in general, they strengthen you upward. If you agree with them, and descend the degree, you have no hope from above. You just fall down from the degree you attained. We'll draw it. We'll make a diagram, so it'll be easier to understand. 

Question (W Latin 26): (35:27) In the last, pretty much the last line of the text, it says that when the Lord favors man's ways, even his enemies will make peace with Him. So, how can you reach such a covenant of peace in the current incarnation? 

M. Laitman: It's possible, we just have to want it. It all depends on our desire. Our desire is in the Creator. When we want to reach a higher degree, the degree of wholeness pushes us even higher and higher to enter the Creator more. This way we attain godliness, gradually. 

Question (W Rehovot 1): (36:48) What inner preparation, what conditions must be met in order to reach that covenant with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Inner preparation, like we say that each one has to see their friends as part of him and together with you, they're building the spiritual part called a soul, Neshama, and in this way we advance on the ladder of degrees.

Student: What is the difference between the prayer that a person has and the power to overcome? What is the difference between them in terms of defeating the evil inclination?

M. Laitman: Through prayer we should constantly be aimed towards the Creator and the action we read about in the prayer, and by overcoming we also make an effort to be together and to adhere to the Creator, but it doesn't matter which degree, if a person doesn't know exactly what degree he's on, so he has to depict that effort inside him, to be together in the Creator, together with the Creator, to be, sorry, together with the friends, to be in the Creator, and to rise with the group, with the friends, together with the Creator to an even higher degree, that he raises the Creator in his eyes. 

Question (W Moscow): (39:17) In our Ten, we have six friends, six members, two weeks ago we had another join, we want as many as possible to join us, but this is a friend that didn't have much experience working in Tens, she switched between many Tens, and after a short time she started criticizing the way we work in the Ten, she started trying to teach us how to do things correctly, telling us we're working incorrectly, and then she announced she wants to leave. We want advice from you, what should we do? Should we help her, support her in staying, or what's your advice? 

M. Laitman: What to do? I don't think you have to hold anybody forcefully, if she wants to leave, if she has criticism, or the way you study, so let her go, she can go. But you yourselves, need to scrutinize between you and understand that there's nothing better than being in a Ten, and along with your Ten to constantly rise. Through which path exactly. through scrutinizing which questions, that doesn't really matter, the main thing is your intention. If you all want to be connected between you and all of you together, rise. 

Student: We want to be together with her, the question is does she?

M. Laitman: So try, see if you're ready for that. Maybe she's behaving in a way that you're not her friends anymore. 

Question (Latin 7): (41:54) If we're talking about bestowal, you said that the degree of bestowal comprises two degrees. The person receives, and on the other hand, the person has to bestow. So what is exactly, what does the person receive exactly? 

M. Laitman: A person gets a portion of the upper light, that's why he feels pressure, that's what pushes him into thoughts of how to receive. What else? That's it. Now he receives that light in order to bestow. It's a new light. It's a higher degree in a person, for now. And then all the lights that were in him, and according to that, they can go lower in a degree, below this new light. That's called that a person rises. Then it turns out that the NRNHY of a person is entirely measured according to the new light that he receives. 

Question (W Heb 1): (44:00) Is it correct to say that not returning to folly, means that from one's personal war, he comes to the understanding that victory can only happen in the joint war of the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes, that's also right.

Question (W Spa): (44:30) If rising from Nefesh to Ruach indicates an ascent of degree, so rising from Malchut to Bina, is that also considered rising? And you don't go through the Sefirot in between? 

M. Laitman: No, no, no, you can't jump. It's all gradual. Either you rise from one degree to the next, one degree to the next, or you descend. Also, every time from the degree I was on, or I'm on now, to a higher degree, or to a lower degree. But it's always towards the adjacent degree to my current state. 

Question (Haifa 1): (45:48) We want the Ten to be like a strong team. We make every effort to reach that. In the workshops, everyone speaks very nicely, we build our intention together and we feel that. But when it comes to taking action, then we have all sorts of mundane excuses which obstruct our advancement in terms of participating in the morning lessons, for example, there are even some friends who don't listen to the lesson afterwards. So how can we help the Ten advance? What does the Creator want to tell us here? Why can't we do the maximum possible for the Ten to become strong and so that we can work in full force? Or is it just my ego saying that, and it's my correction? 

M. Laitman: If you want to see your Ten on the highest degree, so first you need to work on yourselves. In order to rise to that degree, then you can depict for yourself what every friend in the Ten can do for that uplifting. 

Student: And my mission is to help them? 

M. Laitman: Yes, your purpose is to help them. 

Question (W PT 8): (47:30) The first entrance from our state to the state of Nefesh, is that a certain jump? Is it not regular advancement? Is there some kind of skip? 

M. Laitman: No. Obviously, we can exchange that feeling of the world around us, that feeling on the ascending of the degrees, but it's all still in my jump, in my degree. And in this way, each one. 

Student: How does this transition occur? The person has to restrict himself. What do you need to do for this article to be realized? 

M. Laitman: What has to take place? A person needs to understand that everything depends on how he demands from his Ten, efforts. 

Student: What exactly does he need to demand of the Ten? What efforts? 

M. Laitman: That's according to the degree. 

Question (Latin 1): (49:26) When we talk about how we need to receive more in order to bestow, so what is the theme that we receive?

M. Laitman:  What does it mean that we're receiving more? We're just receiving more fulfillment that comes from the Creator to us, to each and every one, whoever's rewarded with it. Then we feel that this fulfillment fills us. It helps us rise like air filling a ball.

Student: What is that fulfillment? What is that fulfillment and how is it connected to the prayer or the lack of the person? What is that fulfillment? What does it correspond with? 

M. Laitman: Towards that desire that fills us. We get the desire according to the degrees, but that a certain light will enter that desire, that's according to our prayer, according to our degree, our request, and according to the equivalence between the light and the desire, we fill a certain degree.

Question (W Heb 1): (51:50) You said that we need to demand efforts from our Ten. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: If I try to awaken my Ten towards connection towards the Creator, but I feel kind of silence or even resistance, how to relate to that? 

M. Laitman: Work on yourself and to do everything the friends are demanding of you.

Question (Almaty): (52:37) In the article, it says that you need to always be overcoming, and here there's a question regarding the right choice on the path. If I feel comfortable with friends from other Tens, am I making a mistake here? 

M. Laitman: It'll be correct if you feel that you always want to be more and more filled with the light of the Creator, and along with that, you will be in contact with your friends, because in this way, they give you forces, that portion that you can fill as a pipeline towards them, and in this way, you arise. 

Student: Regarding overcoming, what do you overcome? 

M. Laitman: You overcome your ego that is pulling you down.  

Question (W Spain): (54:13) What is the role of the screen in making that covenant of peace with the Creator and what inner action should we make, or can you make, through this, with its help? What is the role of the screen in the formation of the covenant of peace with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The screen determines on which degree we stand in the connection between one another. There is a screen between friends, screens between each one and the upper light, or each one with the Creator. It's all according to a person, as much as a person decides and is able to ask and receives help from above. 

Question (W Turkiye): (56:36) We read in the excerpt that we are in war against the evil inclination and then the Creator makes a covenant of peace with us. He gives us peace. So the question is, does it mean that we failed to win the war and then the Creator had to help us? 

M. Laitman: We have war with the Creator because every time we want to rise more, and He supposedly disturbs us. That's why we feel this way. 

Question (W Unity): (57:39) The transition from degree to degree comes about when the quantity of exertion is transmuted into quality or when a person sets new boundaries? 

M. Laitman: Through borders. 

Student: You said that when we practice it more, we'll understand what to do. Perhaps you can give us some kind of exercise we can do today so we can understand? 

M. Laitman: No, you can't define it because you still don't have the precise feeling of the light, the ability to weigh it, whether to ascend or descend towards it, you still can't. 

Question (PT 19): (58:36) Without a war, is it impossible to attain the quality of bestowal? 

M. Laitman: Correct.

Student: So in your opinion, do we have enough wars in Bnei Baruch to reach the quality of bestowal? 

M. Laitman: No, there aren't such wars. 

Student: So perhaps you can elaborate a little, or maybe it's time. 

M. Laitman: We are coming to that once, twice, then we'll talk about it in practice.

Student: Yes, but what is the war? What war are you talking about that needs to happen between the friends? What are you talking about? 

M. Laitman: I am at war against my ego. In order to ascend above it, to enter a higher degree. 

Student: Who gives us this war? Do I initiate this war, or does the Creator bring these wars to us? 

M. Laitman: The Creator.

Student: The Creator does it? According to what? 

M. Laitman: As much as a person is able. 

Student: Just so? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (W Latin 26): (01:00:10) In the Ten, how can we overcome correctly after being in a war for so long? How can we overcome correctly after being in a war for so long?

M. Laitman: So, we need to overcome the war, because the war is opposite to the Creator and we are in this struggle between us and the Creator, that’s one thing. Second, that we except that we need to understand and feel what the degree of the Creator is, we want to be above it. And this way we have to be connected between us in higher and higher degrees.

Question (W Latin 15): (01:01:56) You said that we can also descend on degrees, not just rise. So when you descend a degree do you lose the work you already did or how does it work?

M. Laitman: By descending we relate to what we attend as something that was and passed. That is why we can’t interpret the state we are in.

Student: How can we avoid it? How can we avoid falling the degrees and always rise?

M. Laitman: Only connection. Before it, each one can hold to the general screen between us and not fall.

Student: Will a person know at some point what degree he is in or we will never know the degree we are on?

M. Laitman:  Of course, we need to know what degree we are on and how we can rise from one degree to the next one, and we should feel in the next degree and how to hold on to.