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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) October 13, 2024

Part 1: Rabash. How I Love Your Teaching, Record 31.

Reader: Hello, we're reading from the writings of Rabash, Volume 3, Article 31. “How I Love Your Teaching”. You can ask the questions on Sviva Tova and Arvut.

How I Love Your Teaching, Article 31

Reading: (00:27) “How I love Your Torah [law/teaching], it is my conversation all day long. Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies.”

There are many kinds of “What”: 1) “What is this work for you?” 2) “What does the Lord your God require of you?”

The “Whats” contradict one another. One “What” speaks of moving away from the Creator and the other “What” speaks of nearing to the Creator. Doresh [requires] comes from the words Doresh be Shlomcha [sends His regards]. Yet, both are regarded as Torah, meaning both come to teach us one thing, which a person must learn in practice.

We can understand that “What does the Lord your God require of you” means that one must learn and understand so as to know what to do. But what does “What is this work?” come to teach us?

Since the verse says it, clearly, one must feel this state in all its lowliness. Why do I need all this? Ostensibly, it would be better if man never entered that state, and if such thoughts come to him, it would be better if he did not pay attention to them.

We see that there is no answer to the question of the wicked one other than “Blunt his teeth,” which is as our sages said, “And you shall memorize them, so that the words of Torah will be sharp within your mouth, so that if someone were to ask you something, do not hesitate before you speak but tell him right away” (Kidushin 30a). What can one tell him about this “What”? The other “What,” meaning “What does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear Me?”

In other words, we must know that the first “What,” the Lord your God asked, and not you, meaning that the Creator brought this “What” into your mind, since there is no other force in the world, as it is written, “There is none else besides Him.” 

Clearly, the Creator will not create a creation that is against Him. Rather, He created this thought so as to fear Him, which is the acceptance of the burden of the kingdom of heaven above reason, for through the wicked one’s question, he must take upon himself a new acceptance of the burden of the kingdom of heaven, called “fear,” each time anew.

The power to be able to overcome and take upon himself the burden of the kingdom of heaven is through Torah and Mitzvot [commandments], whereby observing them, a person is cleansed from his evil, for only then will he be able to accept the burden of the kingdom of heaven.

This is the meaning of “God has made it that He will be feared,” that all the bad situation that we feel is only so that man will not remain in the state he is in. That is, unless a person rises on the degrees of greatness of the Creator, he will not be able to overcome, and only when one feels the greatness of the Creator does his heart surrender. This is regarded as having to climb the degrees of fear of the Creator.

It follows that these questions cause him to need the Creator to open his heart and eyes to be rewarded with the greatness for the Creator. Otherwise, he suffices for the fear of heaven he has acquired through his upbringing. But when the wicked one’s question keeps coming to him, it is not enough for him and he needs to constantly ascend up the degrees of greatness of the Creator.

This is the meaning of “How I love Your Torah [teaching].” Through the “What” question, there is a cause and a reason to be rewarded with the love of the Torah, since otherwise, we cannot answer the “What” question, but only to the extent of the acceptance of the burden of the kingdom of heaven in Ohr Yashar [Direct Light], and we can be rewarded with this only though the light in Torah and Mitzvot. Therefore, “it is always my conversation,” since the “What” question always comes.

M. Laitman: Questions?

Question (Kyiv): (07:48) It says that what the Creator demands of you is only fear before Him.

M. Laitman: Fear, trepidation is like before an exam, let's say, when a person is asked to answer something and he must answer because his future depends on that answer, and in that state when he doesn't know what to do, that's called trepidation. 

Student: What does fear of the Creator mean? What does it mean to have trepidation before the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The thing is that a kabbalist feels to what extent he still does not justify the Creator's expectation, what the Creator expects from him, and therefore he is in fear or trepidation. 

Student: There are states where you have fear of trepidation? So, we're before the Creator, like in an exam, and we have to be in a state of tension before Him, pressure? 

M. Laitman: Basically, yes. 

Student: What is this test we have before Him, this exam? 

M. Laitman: Whether I correspond to His expectations towards me or not.

Student: How do I know I follow His aspirations rather than failing every day? 

M. Laitman: The Creator wants us to be correct students, good students, for us to understand the Torah properly, its laws, and that we'll try to realize this in our relations. 

Student: When you're in an exam, you're in an atmosphere of this tension, as you explained. When you don't feel the Creator, it's as if there's this tension is not there. You study, you go to lessons, but there's no tension that the Creator is watching you, this feeling of connection with Him that He exists, and that I'm in an exam before Him. How do we create this feeling between us so that we would be before the Creator, He's watching us closely, and we feel this tension. 

M. Laitman: It depends on the person. It depends on to what extent he relates seriously to the Creator's attitude to him, to what extent he takes into account his answer to the Creator.

Question (Women MAK): (11:31) What is accepting the Creator's guidance when revealing the question of the wicked one? 

M. Laitman: When questions arise in a person which he needs to answer, then usually he ascribes these answers to the Creator, and he needs to answer them clearly with what answer exactly comes up in him. 

Student: And at the moment when the question of the wicked one appears, what will help us to have the force of rejection that we acquire through Torah and Mitzvot? 

M. Laitman: If a person recognizes that all of these questions that appear in him relative to the Creator, relative to the path, and everything that there is, are all questions that basically come out from the Creator, and a person needs to try to answer this pure-heartedly and in a direct way, without spinning it around. He then starts to understand himself, who he is.

Question (Women MAK): (13:11) When you stand before the Creator in trepidation in this exam, and you pass this exam, and everything is good, and you have this state of lack of strength, that you've done everything you can. What is this state? 

M. Laitman: It's truly a state in which a person has no strength, and that now he just brought out his whole Kli, just poured it all out.

Question (Women MAK 104): (13:52) What do we need to learn by heart that would help us to ascend on the degrees of the greatness of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: And why do we need to do it that way? 

Student: It says so in the text. 

M. Laitman: That's if he prepares himself in advance, so he can answer it right away.

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (14:30) In the article it says, the second question, what he needs to learn and understand how to act. As I understand, when a person is moving on the degrees, he knows what to do with the lights, with the intention, and in our state, this question is movement forward, yearning for the Creator, for the ascent. What does this work give you, this question of the wicked one? If I'm not in spirituality yet, one is my yearning for spirituality, and on the other hand, this revelation of evil that is preventing me from moving. 

M. Laitman: I don't know, I don't understand. Let's say you have that recognition of evil.

Why does it not allow you to move? 

Student: So, this is the force that gives us strength, but it's opposite. 

M. Laitman: All the more so; that's good. Then you know what to put against it.

Student: So, I have two directions. I have to increase both of them, elevate the greatness, and reveal the right line also more and more. 

M. Laitman: Let's say.

 

Student: Or, as it says in the article, that the first question is the Creator's question, and then He comes to work with this. But first, He doesn't need to emphasize. 

M. Laitman: Let's listen some more.

Question (Women MAK 25): (16:23) If we are seeking answers in the depth of our heart, and we find that there is a correct answer in the sources that we study, and there is the reality that’s different. What do we do with this revelation? 

M. Laitman: We try to rise to the degree where our answer will be correct. 

Student: And while it's not so, what should our efforts be just to do every day? 

M. Laitman: Answer correctly as much as you can, and the Creator will finish the rest for you.

Student: If we're in a circle with the friends, is it better to say the right thing? Our honesty should stay inside if it's not quite at that elevated level yet. 

M. Laitman: You cannot answer in that way just because you learned to answer in that way. This is not school. You are examining yourself, and it's clear that the Creator is in this whole process. So, you need to answer what you think is necessary to answer, and afterwards everything will change, get corrected, get examined. You'll see for yourself.

In truth, we need to aspire to be as direct, as honest as possible with oneself. That's first. 

Student: Is it worth cultivating the hope that there will be a correction, there will be a new degree, and it will be more pure and correct?

M. Laitman: Always. That always needs to be there. You need to start from that. 

Question (Women MAK 25): (18:51) And if the answer that's direct can bring a descent in the friends, in the Ten, someone will be disappointed. I would like to bring a positive example, elevate the group, bring it closer. What should I do in this situation? 

M. Laitman: You need to act in the correct way, because this is how you weigh out that this is the correct way to do so, according to what you feel in that moment. That's how you need to act. Therefore, the Creator is expecting from you the right answer, the more direct answer. 

Student: Even if this affects the group negatively, as it seems to me? 

M. Laitman: I don't think that the correct answer can bring someone to the side, can push them off to the side, I don't think so.

Question (Turkiye 2): (20:03) I know that our heart is in the hands of the Creator. How can our heart come to the realization of His greatness? 

M. Laitman: The Creator fills up our heart, and I need to feel this fulfillment within my heart. That's it. And to accept it in a way that I love and want to feel Him close to my heart, and in this way to advance.

Question (Women Moscow 6): (20:51) Fear is love. How do we tell the Creator we love Him? 

M. Laitman: Trepidation is the recognition of the height of what you're researching now. If you're feeling love together with fear, this is a good feeling. 

Question (Women MAK 43): (21:30) When I feel it's becoming harder and harder for me to find mistakes in my intention, does it mean the ego is building a defense mechanism, and I have to break these barriers actively by checking each of my actions in the Ten, and do deeper work on trepidation and faith above reason? 

M. Laitman: Yes, try to act that way.

Question (Women MAK 97): (22:04) How do I know if the question is from the wicked one or from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: I can't even say. If it's a question of your wicked one, then it's clear where it's coming from and where it's leading you to. If it's a question from the Creator, then it will also be clear to you where it's coming from and where it's leading you to. 

Student: The Creator knows what each person has in their heart. Why do we have to respond to the Creator, give Him the answer? Does this create a connection with Him? 

M. Laitman: Of course, it establishes a connection with Him. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (23:20) What action can a person use to open his heart and eyes and include the Ten in this?

 

M. Laitman: Only through prayer. If a person turns to the Creator, then only a prayer can help him, for the Creator to open his eyes and heart, and even to teach him how to speak correctly. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (24:17) What's the difference between trepidation and the question whether this work is for you? 

M. Laitman: A person needs to know what the difference is. Let him check with himself. 

Student: Another question. When a person feels fear, should they perform a check, whether it's for themselves, or it's from trepidation, or there's not enough connection with the friends? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Asia): (25:08) You said that the prayer is our connection with the Creator. I thought maybe it's altogether unity with the friends. Is this connection with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Also, the connection with the friends. This comes through our prayer to the Creator, and we receive through the Creator in return through them. 

Student: Unity with the friends is what brings us to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva 33): (25:55) What's the difference between studying Torah out of love, or out of necessity, duty? 

M. Laitman: Whoever studies from an obligation just receives knowledge, and whoever studies and wants to reach love, then that's already the correct study. A person advances to this, and he sees according to the results if he is truly advancing towards love, or did he come down from what he had? 

Student: What's the connection between what is for us, and what the Creator demands of us? 

M. Laitman: It's a really big connection. What is this work for you? This is a question about the work. And the second question: What does the Lord your God demand of you? This is already a more internal question about the work and the heart. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:46) It is said only at the time when a man feels the greatness of the Creator, then his heart surrenders. What does this mean? 

M. Laitman: That our heart is the center of all the thoughts, desires, problems. Everything passes through the heart, and if a person is already in a connection with the Creator, then he feels to what extent his heart has become softer. Then he's ready to lower his head, and to work for the Creator. 

Question (Moscow 4): (29:07) Sometimes there's this melancholy and anguish to achieve love. and you said we need to ask to achieve love. I'm wondering whether I do actually want to attain this state. Where is this connection between this strange dissonance with your message? 

M. Laitman: No, this is just how you perceive it. 

Student: Yes, there's a desire for big love. What changed? 

M. Laitman: The expectations changed. You don't know what's better, whether to receive the Creator's love or to love Him. 

Student: What's the main thing here? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. You need to answer that.

Question (Tbilisi): (30:30) I'm suffering. My suffering is that I cannot adhere to the friends, to the Rav, to world Kli. I call this my trepidation towards the Creator, that I don't do what He expects of me and in this is my whole prayer. This is what I ask the Creator to give me the strength to adhere to everyone. Is this the correct trepidation towards the Creator? 

M. Laitman: It's very correct. Continue, my dear, and you'll see how the Creator will open up your heart and will connect it with all the other hearts. 

Student: We want to pass this information to you that one of our great friends left, passed, and to the end, regardless of the pain he went through, he was in the lessons and he participated with the friends. 

M. Laitman: We will remember his holy life.

Question (Women Brasil): (32:20) In order for us not to fall into that endless conversation with the evil within us, and so for us not to be confused, what approach do we need to take? Is it not to pay attention to this? How do we seemingly not feel those judgments and for our eyes to open up so we can justify the Creator? 

M. Laitman: We have to try to feel as close as possible to the Creator, open up the heart to Him, to ask for closeness, to get closer to Him in all the qualities, so that the Creator wouldn't leave me, and I would only get closer and closer to Him every time.

Question (Women Spain): (34:01) Why do we need to direct these things? 

M. Laitman: Because you love the Torah. 

Student: Why do we need to direct it that way? 

M. Laitman: Because it's like our prayer. The more correctly we ask these questions, the faster the Creator will give us a response. 

Question (Women Italy): (34:51) What I understand that my direction to the Creator. How does purification act in my best interest? 

M. Laitman: When we unite with all the friends and together with all of them, we ask the same question.

Question (Women MAK 88): (35:52) You were talking about knowledge in the heart. What is the difference? If something opens up in my knowledge, then I feel that in the heart. How can we differentiate things here? 

M. Laitman: There are things in the head, and in the heart. We always want to feel it in the heart. 

Student: What does it mean if we feel it in the head? 

M. Laitman: As knowledge, as reason. 

Question (Women Piter): (36:35) Can we say that thanks to that first question, what does this word give you, then a person wants to get to know the Creator's greatness and attain it. And thanks to the second question… 

M. Laitman: This is not very precise, but these are good questions.

Question (Women MAK): (37:12) How do we reach the Creator's greatness? How do we understand this greatness? Inside with our brains, we understand it, but the heart is so stony that it doesn't melt and doesn't recognize any trepidation. We attain a certain level, but we can't seem to go further. You read, you understand, everything is clear, yes. He created everything, everything is from Him. But what's further? How do we break through that wall and raise the greatness of the Creator to a higher level? 

M. Laitman: You can ask to reach a higher level, only in case you have a desire, this yearning to feel the Creator. 

Student: Another question. When we're not honest with ourselves, is this the ego that's afraid of the Creator's reaction? 

M. Laitman: Yes, this is your ego.

Question (Women Rehovot 1): (39:05) In our morning Zoom, my whole Ten, say their intentions, and it's really interesting that everyone was truly incorporated in one intention, and they say the same answer, like the friend said it before her. Is this an advancement as if reaching that same form? 

M. Laitman: Yes, this is already an advancement.

Student: It's great that it's happening, that we're always working in that direction. At first, it was the opposite.

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (39:56) If a person feels that sadness for a long period of time, how do we understand that it's from the Creator? And secondly, if he does feel it, what does he do with it? How do you use it maximally in order to advance? Is it prayer? 

M. Laitman: Pray. Express it to the Creator. Splash the Creator with it. 

Question (Petah Tikva 20): (40:51) A person is in a state where he doesn't have the strength to act for himself and for the sake of the soul, even less strength to act in that direction, and it stops him from doing actions in the group, in the lesson. 

M. Laitman: Okay, let him rest in this state.

Student: How does he come out of it? 

M. Laitman: The exit is to bligh his prayers, his requests, and in such a way move forward. 

Question (Women MAK 104): (41:30) Each day we're closer and closer to each other. It's really felt, not just in the group, but also between the groups. Will the greatness of the Creator appear through our strengthening of our connections? YAnd how do we develop a more heartfelt connection? 

M. Laitman: Think about this more.

Question (Women MAK 104): (42:05) It's said that a person needs to come to accept the Creator's control and rule and faith above reason. But that's in a state when you're justifying all of creation and all of the actions, is that correct? 

M. Laitman: Generally, yes.

Student: In everyday life, we measure everything relative to ourselves. Is it good and safe or not? I'm wondering, how does this all come together? Because I seemingly need to justify all of the actions of creation. How do I know that I'm not doing some nonsense? 

M. Laitman: If you want to justify the Creator and all His actions on the creation, you can together get closer to the Creator.

Question (MAK 24): (43:16) Sometimes it's completely unclear if it's the answer that's answering or if it's the egoistic desire. How do we clarify this? Only through actions? Or do we just put these answers aside for now? 

M. Laitman: You don't have to analyze straight away or do something with it, but after some time, come back to this again and then you'll see how much this changes, depending on your state, on the group, and on everything. 

Student: Meaning, to come to an action only when you're sure it's not for your own sake? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Question (MAK 24): (44:06) In the article it was written that we need to accept the Creator's control, and there's no other force besides Him. It turns out that everything that we do, and we want, is all from Him?

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. 

Question (MAK 24): (44:32) Sometimes in the group we have certain scrutinies, and it turns out that if someone does some actions incorrectly, not even consciously, and then when we scrutinize these things, we ascribe it to Him, that it was His force and His control, that maybe through me He expressed that incorrect action. Can I ascribe this to the Creator, or are we just running away from the things we're doing incorrectly ourselves? 

M. Laitman: I think it's too early for us to delve into these subtleties, because we'll come to the realization of the correct clothing of the actions of the Creator on us. 

Student: Can we ascribe everything to the Creator, nonetheless, everything we're going through? 

M. Laitman: Try, but don't get disappointed when you face obstacles.

Question (MAK 24): (45:46) There is this delicate question to take responsibility for one's actions and not to hide behind the Creator, to do something and then just say none else besides Him. It feels like something's wrong here, to just hide behind, there's none else besides Him. It always seems like none else besides Him is something high, and you need to use it in order to reach this complete service towards Him, not just to hide behind it. So, there's some dissonance here.

M. Laitman: This is correct.

Student: Does our accumulated knowledge disturb us or does it help us to advance? 

M. Laitman: Eventually, it doesn't disturb, it doesn't get in the way. We have to do some things for now, but it doesn't get in the way, eventually. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (46:56) What does it mean to lower one's head and to work for the Creator, according to what Rav previously answered to another student? 

M. Laitman: So, to bow down one's head? Bow your head, like this, and when a person bows his head, he puts the man in him down, so to speak. Then according to this, he rises in the question how to become closer to the Creator. 

Question (Women MAK 26): (47:51) Can we say that the question of what this work will give me is a deficiency that I try to understand what I'm receiving from the Creator and what I want?

M. Laitman: What you want is a question towards the Creator. 

Student: That is written about this, right? What does this work give me about that? 

M. Laitman: What does this work give you? The work for the Creator? You have to ask Him, clarify it with Him. Only ask Him. Ask about this all the time, and after some time, you'll start to receive here and there some specific responses that will make up the general response. 

Student: What does it mean that a person must feel the state of, what this work gives me state, in all his lowliness? 

M. Laitman: Where does it say this? 

Student: Beginning in the third paragraph. What does “What is this work?” come to teach us?  Since the verse says it, clearly, one must feel this state in all its lowliness. Why do I need all this?

M. Laitman: We’ll get into all this.

Question (Women Petah Tikva 38): (49:54) You told another student when the study is correct is when we are studying to reach love, and a person sees whether he's advancing towards that or not. How can he check if he's examining that or not? 

M. Laitman: Where can he see, according to his questions that appear in him, and how he can respond to them, how much he understands how he's advancing on the way to the Creator, and to what extent he becomes closer to the Creator, to an extent that he’s in adhesion with Him. Do you hear? 

Student: I hear, but I'm not sure that I understood it correctly.

M. Laitman: Well, I don't know. Write to me. Write it for yourself. Write it to me in Russian, and I'll respond. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (51:13) On Rosh Hashanah, there was this state, and we understood afterwards that a few friends in the Ten had it, where we got this complete disconnection, as if we were in space, without anything to grip on.  Mind and heart didn't work. I was very pressured by this, and it was hard for me to understand that this too came from the Creator, and that this was advancement. He seemingly just took my ability to advance away from me. What do we do in such states? How is it possible to prepare ourselves for such states? 

M. Laitman: No. You can't prepare yourself in advance for these states, and we can't descend from this level. If there is a question, even though there are many questions, at that moment, when I receive them, I'm not able to hear them correctly, and all the more hear, react, do something, then I put it to the side. Sometimes, maybe it's worth writing it down, but I don't do it, and I try to respond to it. 

Student: So, in the state when you seemingly feel the mind works, but the heart doesn't, what do you do? You simply wait for it to pass? 

M. Laitman: Great! Then you also enter the state, disconnect yourself from the feeling, from the perception, and influences, and you'll see what's happening. After several minutes, maybe you'll have a different opportunity. You'll have a different opportunity to connect with the whole creation. 

Student: So, when the Creator disconnects us, He does this so we can renew that connection? 

M. Laitman: Yes, He wants to tie us closer together, and to sharpen our feelings as well.

Question (Women Piter): (53:39) How can we be direct and honest with the Creator and still be in this trepidation as if He is revealed? 

M. Laitman: And what's the problem with this? 

Student: It doesn't contradict one another, I just wanted to know clearly how to act here. 

M. Laitman: I can be completely direct with the Creator because what do I have to do? I’m completely naked before Him. Then I attain such a connection that I understand what He wants to say and how I have to respond to Him. You'll see that His questions, and your responses will match completely. 

Question (Hadera 1): (55:11) Do we need to feel the Creator as none else besides Him? There's a gap between the good that is good that we feel versus what we truly feel and our work is on that gap to truly ascribe everything to Him? 

M. Laitman: Yes. This is our work. We need to feel that it's all Him, both the good and the bad.

Student: We need to work on the gap in those feelings, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (56:05) I just saw these two states, one of which is aspiring to Him, so it's a connection with Him, and this gives a certain Tension, pressure. Whereas the second state is the desire to just melt in everything. What is that second state? Is it an intermediary state, because here I feel a more relaxed state?

M. Laitman: No, it's not relaxed. It's more advanced, closer to the Creator. Got it. 

Question (Petah Tikva 6): (56:58) Can we say that the Ten is a Klipah, a shell? And only when we pass into spirituality it turns into something holy? 

M. Laitman: No.

Question (Women Petah Tikva 33): (57:22) A friend asked a question about a state when he's disconnected between degrees, and he has no strength to advance, and you told him to continue in that state. It's written that Israel hastens times. When do we need to move and when do we need to speed things up? 

M. Laitman: We'll find several articles on this topic, and we'll study them. 

Question (Beer Sheva): (58:03) With your permission I will read from the second to the last paragraph. And to accept the burden of the Kingdom of Heaven is through the Mitzvot that will cleanse his evil and then he will accept this burden. Question is, around this Mitzvot and practice according to what Rabash explains in this article it’s given to us just to reveal the evil, meaning a person that has the good and then he's only working below reason?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva 23): (59:08) It seems like we're expected to clarify things by ourselves. How does a person learn how to do these scrutinies and to work in this place when he's uncertain? 

M. Laitman: From what we study here, from the discernments of Rabash. 

Student: If he receives some answer from the Creator and he doesn't understand what he's expected to do so then he should open up the articles? 

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes, let him read articles. Look at what is said in these pages and then you'll get closer. 

Okay, good day everyone and until tomorrow. Bye.

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