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Daily Lesson (Morning) July 20, 2024.

Rabash. Record 587. The upper one Scrutinizes for the purpose of the Lower One

Reader: We are reading from the writings of Rabash. This is the article 587, The upper one Scrutinizes for the Purpose of the Lower One. Again, the writings of Rabash Article 587, The upper one Scrutinizes for the Purpose of the Lower One. You can send questions, live. 

Reading The upper one Scrutinizes for the Purpose of the Lower One: (00:31) 

The upper one scrutinizes the GE for the purpose of the Lower One (because “a prisoner does not free himself”). The upper one makes a Masach [screen] on the MAN of the Lower One, meaning the rejecting force, until it is in the form of receiving in order to bestow, and only then is the light gripped in the MAN.

That is, MAN is a desire to receive. This is expressed through prayer, where prayer is regarded as raising MAN, and the answering of the prayer is called MAD, Ohr Yashar [direct light], upper abundance, bestowal. This prayer called MAN requires conditions, meaning that there will be the correction of a Masach in the prayer, namely that his intention will be for the sake of the Creator, called Lishma [for Her sake].

One must receive the power to work Lishma from the upper one, since the Lower One is powerless to begin the work, but only in the form of Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], called “will to receive,” for only the Lo Lishma gives the first moving force of the Lower One, for when a person does not find sufficient flavor in corporeal pleasures, he begins to search for spiritual pleasures.

It follows that the root of the work of the Lower One is the will to receive, and the prayer, called MAN, rises up, and then the upper one corrects this MAN and places on it the power of the Masach, which is a desire to delay the abundance before the Lower One knows about himself that his aim is to bestow.

That is, the upper one bestows upon the Lower One good taste and pleasure in the desire to bestow, by which the Lower One feels His exaltedness. At that time, he begins to understand that it is worthwhile to annul before Him and cancel his existence before Him. Then, he feels that all that there is in reality is only because such is His will, that the Creator wants the Lower One to exist, but for himself, he wants to annul his existence. It follows that then, all the vitality he feels is regarded as Lishma and not for himself.

When he feels this, it is considered that he already has the correction of the MAN, and then he is also fit to receive the MAD, as well, for there is no contradiction between them anymore, since the Lower One, too, wants the benefit of the upper one and not his own benefit.

It is considered that when the upper one gives the Lower One Mochin, he also gives him the clothing of the Mochin, meaning that he gives the Lower One the abundance, as well as the power of the Masach, which is the desire to bestow. This is the meaning of “from Lo Lishma, we come to Lishma.”

M. Laitman: Questions, please. No questions. Would you like to read it again? Let's read it again. 

Reader: (05:16) We'll read again. Article 587, the upper one scrutinizes for the purpose of the Lower One.

Reading: (05:23)  The upper one Scrutinizes for the Purpose of the Lower One

The upper one scrutinizes the GE for the purpose of the Lower One (because “a prisoner does not free himself”). The upper one makes a Masach [screen] on the MAN of the Lower One, meaning the rejecting force, until it is in the form of receiving in order to bestow, and only then is the light gripped in the MAN.

That is, MAN is a desire to receive. This is expressed through prayer, where prayer is regarded as raising MAN, and the answering of the prayer is called MAD, Ohr Yashar [direct light], upper abundance, bestowal. This prayer called MAN requires conditions, meaning that there will be the correction of a Masach in the prayer, namely that his intention will be for the sake of the Creator, called Lishma [for Her sake].

One must receive the power to work Lishma from the upper one, since the Lower One is powerless to begin the work, but only in the form of Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], called “will to receive,” for only the Lo Lishma gives the first moving force of the Lower One, for when a person does not find sufficient flavor in corporeal pleasures, he begins to search for spiritual pleasures.

It follows that the root of the work of the Lower One is the will to receive, and the prayer, called MAN, rises up, and then the upper one corrects this MAN and places on it the power of the Masach, which is a desire to delay the abundance before the Lower One knows about himself that his aim is to bestow.

That is, the upper one bestows upon the Lower One good taste and pleasure in the desire to bestow, by which the Lower One feels His exaltedness. At that time, he begins to understand that it is worthwhile to annul before Him and cancel his existence before Him. Then, he feels that all that there is in reality is only because such is His will, that the Creator wants the Lower One to exist, but for himself, he wants to annul his existence. It follows that then, all the vitality he feels is regarded as Lishma and not for himself.

When he feels this, it is considered that he already has the correction of the MAN, and then he is also fit to receive the MAD, as well, for there is no contradiction between them anymore, since the Lower One, too, wants the benefit of the upper one and not his own benefit.

It is considered that when the upper one gives the Lower One Mochin, he also gives him the clothing of the Mochin, meaning that he gives the Lower One the abundance, as well as the power of the Masach, which is the desire to bestow. This is the meaning of “from Lo Lishma, we come to Lishma.”

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:45) It says, here, “the prayer is called MAN. It arises, the upper one corrects this MAN and places on it the power of the screen, which is the desire to delay the abundance before the lower one knows about himself, that his aim is to bestow”. What does it mean to correct the MAN? 

M. Laitman: Well, MAN is a deficiency, so the upper one corrects the MAN. It means that he gives the power to bestow.

Student: The lower one raising MAN, MAN is a prayer, right? 

M. Laitman: The lower one raises MAN, yes? 

Student: So that's an incorrect prayer, incorrect intention? And the upper one corrects the intention of the prayer? 

M. Laitman: I don't think it's worthwhile to explain it. When a deficiency is revealed in the lower one, he has to raise a prayer. And his prayer rises up and awakens the upper one. The upper one then takes the MAN of the lower one, that he raised in his prayer,  and over this MAN he brings down from himself MAD. And then over this MAD, the lower one clothes his MAN, and this is how they reach a state where they become incorporated together. Soon, we will talk more about it. More questions? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:53) If I can try: Israel asked to some analogy, we know that the Torah speaks within one person, so upper and lower, it's all relationships between qualities. We've learned that MAN is a prayer, a scrutinized deficiency. So, if we make an analogy, I'm hungry, I go up to the upper one, the upper one organizes this deficiency. Says okay, you want to be hungry, you want to eat, but you want to be healthy. So then, he sets up the screens for the lower one; yes, I want to eat and be healthy without stomach aches. Then the lower one corrects his desire and now, already, eats in order to be healthy, so the upper one sets up the deficiency for the lower one. Is this an analogy to what the friend asked? 

M. Laitman: You can say so. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:06) The schematic is pretty clear but if you could make clear in our work in the series of degrees, a Kabbalah student, who is his upper? 

M. Laitman: His upper one is the Creator. 

Student: The Creator is the end? This is where it, let’s say, corrects all my requests, my mistakes that are described here. 

M. Laitman: Okay, the upper degree. 

Student: But who is this upper degree? 

M. Laitman: It's the upper degree, that's it.

Student: I'm trying to understand. The degree is a word, but what is it in the work for a Kabbalah student, what is that next degree?

M. Laitman: The upper one; well, where he raises his deficiency, and from which he receives his corrections. 

Student: The upper degree or what? 

M. Laitman: The upper degree. What you wanted to hear before, now you can't. Well, more. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:39) A person receives a certain state, a certain deficiency.

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: How does he arrange the prayer, now? He has something internal, some need for correction. 

M. Laitman: Yes, like any deficiency in a person, he begins to scrutinize this deficiency, what it does in him, to what it awakens him. And then he arranges within himself the answer, the response.

Student: It turns out that there's a certain confusion in building the prayer, because at least I understand and feel that it all comes from the Creator. No matter what you receive, it’s from the Creator to guide you to come closer to Him. Through the friends, through the Rav, through the study but from this short article of Rabash, it feels that there's something that. If you jump and everything comes from the Creator, there's something in the prayer that gets lost, and there's no prayer. You don't succeed in taking a prayer out. 

M. Laitman: Well, well?

Student: So, the question is, how does a person bring forth a prayer? We learned that a prayer is something in the heart, but how do we take it out? 

M. Laitman: By a person feeling what comes from the upper one and how he should respond to it, so he musters the strength, the reactions he has in him. And he elevates them to the upper one, and this is called a prayer.

Student: This thing that the person raises upwards, does this need to come out in words, or is it his inner sensation?

M. Laitman: It doesn't matter, the upper one doesn't need your words. 

Student: Why do I need to feel like there's some kind of Shenzi in the prayer, so it doesn't come out like that? 

M. Laitman: Well, it's a feeling.

Student: What do I do with it, I know everything that you are saying right now about the prayer. But it always feels like there's, that I can't breach, you know, break out with it,  I can't penetrate with it. 

M. Laitman: You need to feel this more and more, to live it, to clothe in it, and to raise it to the upper one. To try to stand in front of the upper one, to face the upper one, and try to bring yourself closer to the upper one. It's work. 

Student: The last thing, I'm sorry. The end of the prayer, is it something that eventually a person feels, that he managed to give a prayer, or does he have to feel like it was more of a deficiency? 

M. Laitman: The end of the prayer should be in you being incorporated in the upper one. 

Student: What does that mean, that he's incorporated in the upper one? 

M. Laitman: Annulling before the upper one and being in Him. 

Student: But this leads me again to the beginning, that I know the deficiency comes from the Creator.

M. Laitman: No, then you didn't exist, now you've built yourself, where you want to be incorporated in the upper one. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:00) Does the lower one have a screen or not? 

M. Laitman: Of course, the lower one has a screen but not on the MAN of the upper one.

Student: It sounds like he's only working with the screen of the upper one. That he doesn't have a screen of his own, according to what he writes here. 

M. Laitman: Yes, you can say that that's the situation. 

Student: And when he receives MAD then he's working with his AHAP. He's working with his AHAP but with the screen of the Upper? 

M. Laitman: I understand what you're saying, but it’s not, well let's say it is. 

Student: Now, the correction of the intention that the upper one gives to the lower one, it's something that he actually can work with his own screen, that's the correction? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:19) Even the first sentence, the beginning, the upper one scrutinizes for the sake of the lower one, the Galgalta. And then he says, because the lower one doesn't free himself, and the upper one makes a screen. Meaning   we can see that everything actually starts from there.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What is our role when we sense it, when there's some feeling? 

M. Laitman: We need to raise a deficiency to show, to reveal a deficiency, to show it. Otherwise, the upper one can't do anything.

Student: The moment we feel that there's some force, we need to raise a deficiency? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:27) He writes, and this prayer that is called MAN needs conditions. Meaning for there to be a correction called the correction of a screen, that his intention to be for the sake of the Creator will be Lishma. What are the conditions for the prayer to work? 

M. Laitman: That the lower one feels the upper one, feels what it receives from the upper one, how it's connected to the upper one. And that now it has a deficiency to position itself toward the upper one. 

Student: And after he did that, when he raises the prayer, a deficiency is created. And it needs to come out from an assumption that the answer will not answer the deficiency like I want, but as He wants. The question is how do you create such a state that I appeal, and it could be that the answer I receive will not be pleasant? The answer of the upper one will not be pleasant, so how do I create it in a pure way, so that the request will be clean and not, because there’s a certain worry here. 

M. Laitman: It depends on your work, you need to ask from the upper one to take care of you. That what you raise is your deficiencies which you want to correct. 

Student: And here we need, so that the prayer will succeed, so we’ll succeed to create a prayer. We need to create confidence and faith in the upper, that when you ask something you also have inside this confidence that whatever the answer will be, I will accept it and it's good for me.

M. Laitman: This you have to have before the prayer. 

Student: Before the prayer, and if we don't yet have that, how do we develop that? 

M. Laitman: You pray, you ask. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:51) What are the clothing of Mochin? 

M. Laitman: Mochin is like light, and clothes of Mochin are clothes on the light.

Student: After the lower one raised MAN, and the upper accepts his MAN and lowers the MAD. In such a manner that the next Partzuf will have room to work onwards; and He has to fill the lower one, his desire, and that's it. He lowers the light of correction and gives him new vessels to work with. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Is that correct?

M. Laitman: Yes? 

Student: Meaning that the filling for the lower one is the ability to raise additional, new MAN. And each time a feeling of vitality is the constant force to turn to the upper one. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:09) A person feels that there’s Providence in the world, general and personal Providence. The moment he grasps that, is that his prayer? 

M. Laitman: What he receives, he receives from his upper one. 

Student: But he has a certain, I don't know, imagination or feeling that this force. I'm asking if the way he depicts it in his mind and the way he feels it, if that's his upper? Because we always say turn to your Upper. 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: So, we say, there's Creator, there's some general force that I don't know who or what it is. But there is something there that governs everything. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: It's kind of general but there's also something individual that's grasped in my sensations, in my feelings. I imagine, I feel that there's something that's managing me, that's providing for me, that's supervising me. Do we call that personal thing the upper one? 

M. Laitman: You could, as well. 

Student: With time that changes, what was a year or two ago is no longer today. That’s the process? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:35) From all the deficiencies that awaken in a person, he needs to stabilize one deficiency which is to bestow to the Creator? Can he do that? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And that is through connection with the friends and through that we can  move the control to the upper one, actually. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, the question: A person during this process, they acquire a certain process of his own? Or in the process, does he realize that it's preferred for him to nullify before the upper one and adhere to Him, more? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: One of them, is there something that he acquires himself or just experience? 

M. Laitman: He acquires the need to annul before the upper one. 

Student: He has nothing of his own? 

M. Laitman: This is what he has. 

Student: What does he have? 

M. Laitman: The need to annul before the upper one.

Student: Does that need grow each time, more and more, and he becomes more adhered? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:00) We say that according to the law of equivalence of form, if the lower one has a deficiency, a correct deficiency, the upper one fills him, immediately.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And here, he says, even if the lower one doesn't have a deficiency because his request, also, the upper one corrects. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What differentiates in us that insufficient deficiency that needs to be corrected? 

M. Laitman: The upper one always feels the deficiencies of the lower one. You can say that the lower one is in the upper one, it feels Him. Therefore, he does everything in order to correct it, to make it more sensitive. More ready for reception of bestowal from the upper one, yes. 

Student: It says, sometimes, a prayer emerges from the heart, truly from the depth of the heart, as we say. You feel like it's not from the upper one that's giving it to you. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: But still, it's not, it doesn't reach that power that Rabash is talking about, here. Kind of like, what can we do, because we're also asking in the most technical level to the most heartfelt way. But it's still not that MAN that the upper one expects to receive from us. Meaning, what can we do in addition to reach that necessary MAN for it to be the most correct request for the quality of bestowal? 

M. Laitman: Become incorporated in the Ten and arrange the plea to the Creator in a more organized way, that's it, we have no other possibilities. Everything else is the correct reaction to the upper one awakening us. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:36) A question about prayer: The prayer is, actually, where there's the state that a person has, there's the upper degree, and the desire of a person to be in the upper degree. 

M. Laitman: Well, not necessarily to be there; but yes, toward the upper degree.

Student: Okay, towards the upper degree, now about that desire for that change. The yearning that a person has, I wrote it down, it's a good thing I wrote it. What actually corrects a person's request so that it will truly be a correct request? 

M. Laitman: From when does it come to a person to ask, correctly? 

Student: Yes. 

M. Laitman: From the Creator.

Student: The picture a person has about the request, is like what we learned in the lesson and the society. 

M. Laitman: An impression. 

Student: Yes, those impressions and the request is created from that, but still, what calibrates it so that it will be correct. So, it will work because a person who builds this request from his will to receive. 

M. Laitman: It depends on how much a person tries to be adhered to the upper one  however he can, in anything he can. And by this, he doesn't allow himself any place of weakness. 

Student: What's the difference between the upper one and the upper degree of a person? 

M. Laitman: It's to the extent that a person can depict to himself the upper one. This is called the upper one with respect to the person, whereas, the upper degree is already kind of without relation to us, regardless of us. 

Student: When a person raises his prayer, he wants the change. How does he ask from the upper one? Or does he yearn to be in the upper degree, what's the request, actually? 

M. Laitman: Yearning for the upper one, or being in the upper degree, could be the same. But yearning for the upper one is yearning more in the intention, in adhesion, in feeling the upper one, in bringing contentment to the upper one. Whereas, being at a higher degree, I don't know what he feels. He may be feeling more bestowal in this than now, also adhesion, a feeling of more feeling, I don't know. It's all how a person depicts it to himself. 

Student: How do we find ourselves always wrapped in this tendency of this nation towards needing help? 

M. Laitman: It's a society, a person can't be in one deficiency, all the time. Only the society can, constantly, awaken him to different deficiencies. 

Student: In the letter that we read from Baal HaSulam, how Baal HaSulam operates upon a student. And here we're in a state that's a little different, where the society kind of operates upon a person, creates certain pressure on him. What's the correct pressure? How do we measure the degree of pressure in the society that we need to activate so that a person will act? 

M. Laitman: Through example, through example, you don't need anything. Not to talk, not anything, through example. When a person feels that you are in an elevation, rising toward adhesion with the Creator. And you're willing to do anything for the society  because you're dependent on this in order to rise up. Then that's it, you don't need more than that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:25) You said, also, now that the upper one doesn't need your words. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, what is the material of prayer? 

M. Laitman: Desire; raising MAN, raising a deficiency. 

Student: And the entire inner process of scrutiny, what is it done by in a person? 

M. Laitman: The deficiency?

Student: The deficiency, yes? 

M. Laitman: A person needs to check, to scrutinize, his deficiency, what he wants, what he wants. What demands he has from the upper one, yes.

Student: And this desire actually that he has, is scrutinized through thought. 

M. Laitman: Everything is clarified through the thought, yes? 

Student: Where are the words coming into play, here, are there words in prayer? 

M. Laitman: There are or there aren't.

Student: When the Kabbalists write a prayer, say a prayer, what are those words? Because the upper one doesn't need those words. 

M. Laitman: The upper one doesn't really need the words, but the words are like a sign that the lower one understands what he's saying. 

Student: Does the lower one need to say those words to himself or to depict certain words to himself? Or is it enough to just think about it? 

M. Laitman: It's desirable to say words because feelings without words is not a correct enough feeling. 

Student: Meaning correct scrutiny needs to end with words or maybe even also without words? 

M. Laitman: With words, that's the best.

Student: How does the Ten establish the deficiency for the correct prayer? 

M. Laitman: The Ten, after, once it's already on the way through several stages. It can speak within itself and in this, too, they help each other. Where one, so that when I don't find the words, I hear it from others.

Student: And the words of the others? 

M. Laitman: The words of the others become my words and I use them in order to turn to the Creator. Or to turn back to the society. 

Student: The correct prayer is the prayer of a Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And my private, personal prayer where I feel like it comes out to the upper one. Is there such a reality? 

M. Laitman: There is, but it's not a real prayer.

Student: It's not a real prayer? 

M. Laitman: No because in order to connect to the Creator, you need to be incorporated with Ten. 

Student: And that not real prayer, does the upper one refine it, bring me back to the Ten? Is there a response to a not real prayer? 

M. Laitman: Yes but it takes a long time before a person processes it, digests it. 

Student: You said that a personal example in the Ten, in the society, is the main thing. Also, without words, that's the main thing in the end of the day. So how does that personal example lead me to a prayer in the end, meaning from example to prayer? 

M. Laitman: By increasing the deficiency. The more we think, the more we influence the Creator. 

Question (Women MAK 53): (41:16) What does it mean that the lower one is annulling itself? How can a person practically do so? 

M. Laitman: Well, such things happen that the upper one has to annul Himself in order to allow the lower one, give the lower one the possibility to bestow, to perform some action, yes.

Question (Women PT 38): (41:41) Is the intention a result that comes from prayer? 

M. Laitman: No, not necessarily, not necessarily.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:01) Earlier, you said that a created being has all kinds of deficiencies, many lacks. Can we focus, is there one lack that includes all the deficiencies and it's the main, most important one? Instead of dispersing into all kinds of deficiencies? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What is it? 

M. Laitman: The deficiency to be adhered to the Creator.

Student: So, if you focus there, you lock onto that, you won't miss and won't be dispersed? 

M. Laitman: Yes, that's a deficiency you come to at the end of the corrections. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:44) To continue the friend’s question, in truth, it continues a friend’s question. There are many problems outside in the world. As time goes by, I start to feel that I agree with the Creator that only this way we can truly demand the revelation of the Creator in our world. Meaning that what we have to ask is only for the connection between us, for the friends for the revelation of the Creator. Because actually all of reality is pushing us to that awareness that we have nothing else to do outside, except for praying for this; is that correct? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:34) You told us that we need, that a person needs to depict the upper degree. My question is does a person need to depict it to himself? Or do we as a society need to depict this upper degree? 

M. Laitman: It's better as a society. 

Student: If it's better as a society then do you think that we are ready for such a thing? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Now, when you answered the friend, you said that the Ten, when the Ten is on the way several stages, it can scrutinize the lack. I wanted to ask, what does it mean that a Ten is several degrees on the way? 

M. Laitman: Along the way, as it advances from stage to stage, from side to side. When it has more raising of MAN, when it understands better each time where it is, to whom it turns, it is concerned about the connection between the friends. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (44:42) You answered the friend that the correct lack, and the only one, actually, is to adhere to the Creator. Now, the Creator throughout our lives sends us all kinds of states, some pleasant, some less pleasant. How can a person who is now in a certain state, let's say a health issue, that is truly pulling him into that state, he can't think about anything except for Him to correct this state for me because I'm really suffering. How does he work with that, correctly; he still wants to hold on to the lack, to adhere to the Creator, how to work with that? 

M. Laitman: As much as he can, there's nothing you can do here. 

Student: But what does he need to say to himself in such a state? 

M. Laitman: Whatever the Creator awakens in him, he should be in it. If we're talking about real sickness. 

Student: If I can just understand a little thing. Does he need to think about his health or the adhesion with the Creator? Where does he focus? 

M. Laitman: If he can think about adhesion with the Creator, of course it's better. But the question is can he? 

Question (Turkiye 7): (46:02) How do I avoid being a bad example when I'm not in an ascent? 

M. Laitman: So, I shut myself up and I try to be incorporated in the friends. 

Question (Holland): (46:33) When, let's say, concerning raising MAN, the upper one erects this MAN by placing on it, let's say, the power of the Masach. So, how is this desire to delay the abundance expressed in our prayer? 

M. Laitman: This is something that probably demands several steps until it leads to a demand for the abundance, yes. 

Student: And what needs to be added, let's say, in our prayer, let's say, to be able to delay this abundance, which is coming to us, this MAD? 

M. Laitman: We don't need to do that, we just need to ask how to change correctly in the direction of the Creator, in accordance with the Creator. But to detain, not to detain, don't think of that, okay?

Question (Kyiv 2): (48:12) You said that the prayer of the Ten is more corrected than a personal prayer. How do we make the personal prayer closer to the prayer of the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Adhere to the Ten and then you'll have one prayer emerge together with them. 

Question (Turkiye 2): (48:40) How does a person build the screen until he comes to receive in order to bestow? 

M. Laitman: A person builds the screen in wanting to adhere to the friends and wanting to adhere to the Creator according to equivalence of form with them. And that's how the screen is built in him, that’s it.

Question (Ashkelon 3): (49:18) For years, you've been saying that the only thing we should do in the Ten is personal example, you also said it this morning. On the other hand, we see that the friends in the Ten are not impressed by any personal example. If a person decides to come for one hour to the morning lesson, then he comes to the morning lesson for one hour for years. And if he decides not to do anything besides the morning lesson, that's what he does for years. He barely comes to the Congresses and what not. So, what more can you do besides personal example? 

M. Laitman: If you don't understand that through the example from each and every one the Ten improves and gets closer to the Creator, then you're not moving forward whatsoever from your place. You need to be in responsibility to how you bestow to friends, to others, and how the society advances from that. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (50:22) When the lower one raises MAN and becomes incorporated in the upper one and wants to annul his existence and only feel the existence of the upper one. In that state, what is regarded as a screen? 

M. Laitman: What the lower one creates in order to be corrected in the upper one.

Student: It says here that afterwards the upper one answers with MAD. The answer, the MAD, is it an answer to the initial deficiency of the lower one? Or is it the deficiency of the lower one that changes it? 

M. Laitman: It depends on what relations there are between them, but it usually happens according to the deficiency of the lower one. 

Question (Women Moscow 6): (51:27) When we are facing the upper one, how can we bring ourselves closer to Him? 

M. Laitman: Thanks to being more similar to Him, that’s called the law of equivalence of form. 

Question (Women HEB 1): (51:53) How can a person, in all the areas of his life: family, learning, friends, have the right intention, so he will correct his intention in everything? 

M. Laitman: Again, friend? 

Student: How can a person turn to the Creator, every action he does in life: work, family, learning, connection with the friends. So, he will correct his intention, so it won't be simply actions? 

M. Laitman: Well, he'll correct his intention out of feeling the bestowal from his friends upon him, that's how he corrects his intention. And people, he is a person who has the right intention. He identifies with the friends, and thus, adheres together with them to the Creator, yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:03) Can a person have exaltedness of the Creator only after he has the taste of the soul?

M. Laitman: Yes, exaltedness of the Creator is a very high degree. Okay, so, well, last one. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:29) When a person raises a prayer, besides yelling into the air, can you also focus yourself on the direction of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: But how is it the prayer, if not to the Creator? Who else can you raise a prayer to? 

Student: Usually, the feeling is that?

M. Laitman: You first need to find the direction before you call upon Him and it's not from you, and opposite, or to the side, or something. You have to precisely depict who the Creator is that you now want to be connected with to such an extent that you're bestowing upon Him with your deficiency.

Student: And what is this work of finding this, finding the direction? 

M. Laitman: That's a search, the search after the Creator. 

Student: Another small advice: Where to search? 

M. Laitman: In your feelings, in you, there's no place that He's revealed to you like this, like the friends are. In your feeling, you need to search for Him, where He is, where the Creator is. And then you truly, you seek Him, until you find Him.

Student: And only then do you pray? 

M. Laitman: And that's what you adhere to and pray to. 

Student: And where is the Ten, here, or is it something personal? 

M. Laitman: The Ten needs to help you, yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (55:19) Searching for the Creator, is it a prayer before a prayer in order to awaken Him? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Afterwards is a prayer called MAN, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (55:39) You just used the word, searching, for the point to which we pray. Can we say that I'm kind of building because the Creator is different every time, He changes. 

M. Laitman: You're searching for Him, yes, in your senses?

Student: So, I feel like it's not, the prayer is not directed to the right place. 

M. Laitman: Then try to aim it, correctly. Where is He hiding, who's hiding from me, who's managing me? Turning me each time, spinning me, yes. He's the one that you have to locate and pray to. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (56:36) How does the Ten help you find the point of the Creator to which to turn? 

M. Laitman: Everyone looks for that point of the Creator, then of course it's easier for each and everyone.

Student: How does the Ten help a friend find that point of turning to the Creator, in his feelings? When he's looking for that point, how can the Ten help him? 

M. Laitman: Also, in searching; it doesn't necessarily have to be in the same point, of course, not from the same deficiency. But it's seeking the same point of adhesion with the Creator. All right, friends, the time is 5 am. What are we doing? 

Reader: We can move to the next part of the lesson.

M. Laitman: What is it? 

Reader: The Ten is an Environment for Spiritual Development for Everyone. 

M. Laitman: Excellent, exactly in place. 

Reader: We move to the next part of the lesson. Thank you.