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Daily Morning Lesson: December 31, 2025 

Recorded lesson – Nov 27, 2020

Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”. #41

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Reader: Hello friends. In the first part of the lesson, we will learn from a lesson from November 27, 2020, on the topic of Work in Faith Above Reason, selected excerpts from sources. We will continue from excerpt 41. 

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M. Laitman: (00:47) Our work is entirely in faith above reason, what is faith above reason: To rise each time to the next degree of the perception of reality. The feeling of reality, feeling the general reality inside of it, inside of this force that is organizing it. The force that is putting it together, which is the Creator; this is how we need to advance. This means that from Malchut to Bina, that place that we have attained to some extent with love, with bestowal, coming out of ourselves, this is called, faith. We hold on to it, we feel ourselves in it, and we further rise on top of that new will to receive that awakens in us each time to yet another new degree. Meaning to the degree of Bina, faith above reason and this is how it is each and every time. And all of the spiritual degrees are built in such a way on that, on faith above reason, faith above reason. Each time the degree of faith that we have attained becomes reason. This is why anyone who is going on these degrees becomes wiser, more clever, understanding more, seeing, and feeling more. Because even though he's rising above his reason, however, he's rising to the degree of faith that then becomes his new reason. This is, therefore, why anyone who is following this method becomes wiser, more clever, understanding and feeling more. Opening up for himself more and more horizons. Whereas one who does not rise with faith above reason, he becomes more – how shall I put it – more attached to his own stigmas, to his earlier view, and he truly holds on to the reason of the lower one. That is, there is the reason of the upper one that we rise through faith and then the reason of the lower one that we stay with if you don't rise to faith above reason, then we just stay connected to whatever we have and we're afraid of letting go of that. This is what we see with people who are very much connected to their own opinion; and they are devout people. And you have, also, those in the middle, which is not this way or that way, all in all, there are three approaches. 

And we have the approach that we must constantly rise above our nature to the spiritual nature, it is called from reason to above reason. This is why the Creator created the will to receive in order for us to have work each time according to our choice, according to our effort, to rise above our desire. How do we rise? If we prefer the desire of the group, of the ten, the collective desire which is actually the Creator's desire because, as He says, I dwell among my own people. If we prefer His desire, His view, His reason instead of our reason, this is how we can rise each time from degree to degree and that is the matter of the spiritual degrees. We start to discover them, we start to discover the reason inside of each degree, and above this reason we rise, and there we also discover reason on a higher degree and this is how we ascend. Therefore, everything is built on our will to receive. The Creator says, I created the evil inclination, by that He gave us an opportunity so that we can rise above our reason. Above our desire to a desire which is higher, and this is how each time we, then, attain higher degrees. What was yesterday with faith, today—meaning regarding the degree, yesterday and today; it's not about that they are ordinary day and night, these are just two states – what was my reason, I rise above it and I go in the opposite way from it and I attach to the group. I attach to the Creator instead of being adhered to myself, and then it is considered that I am on the degree of faith, on the degree of Bina, above the degree of Malchut, above myself. When I adhere to that degree, that degree becomes, for me, my reason; specifically, I rose above my previous reason, through faith being above reason. The force of Bina elevates me from Malchut, number one, to Malchut, number two. And, later on, an even greater force of faith raises me from Malchut, number two, to Malchut, number three; and this is how I rise and rise and rise. I always have a greater will to receive which is mixed with Bina and this way I acquire degrees of reason. Meaning, one who ascends in such a way with faith above reason, he actually becomes more clever, wiser, feeling and seeing more. And the world of Bina opens up for him, the world of faith, Bina is called, godliness, God. That way we begin to feel reality which is above us. As it says, you shall see your world in your life. 

Everything is ahead of us and just with that method of rising from degree to degree, by going above our reason with faith against our reason on the degree of bestowal, on the degree of love, on the degree of connection. Always through connection between us, we reach our next degree. We did something, we connected to some extent, we felt it, we latch on to an even higher degree through connection, and this is how we rise. There is a lot to talk about here because the whole wisdom of Kabbalah is actually in this action of rising each time to faith above reason. Even when we depict to ourselves the form of the Partzuf. So again, when we build the Partzuf above my will to receive, when the upper light comes to the will to receive – oh, if we can actually show what I drew here, that's it: This is the will to receive, below is the Razon, the desire; direct light comes, direct light comes from above—it wants to enter the desire. However, here, I place restriction, screen, and reflected light, and I want to push it back. And then by rejecting it, pushing it back, I establish a condition here. That I want to be only in rejection, not receiving inside, not to receive it inside but, rather, to reject it. And then, through this rejection in the reflected light, Ohr Hozer, number two, inside of this light, I begin to feel spirituality. Here, is the upper world and this is what I feel – upper world – here, I feel the upper world, the Creator. 

Therefore, what am I trying to say? I would like to say that all of our work is, as much as we will develop the Kli of faith above reason. Accordingly, I can feel the spiritual world, the Creator, and myself in a way that is eternal and I elevate myself from the animate degree. On these degrees down below, it is the still, vegetative, animate. On that degree, here, it is Adam, here we have Adam, the speaking degree. This is the difference between this world and—or that world and  – our world, the lower world. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (11:21) When I reject out of myself and I want to build reflected light?

M. Laitman: Well, there is nothing else, it's either you or the society. If it is you and you remain you and the most important is you, then you remain in this world. If you build this form of reception or perceiving reality in the group, in the Ten outside of you where the Creator is, and the Creator is in the Ten. The Ten is, all in all, is the Kli where He is, then by that, you are building a state in which you discover the world that exists outside of you. 

Student: You said that after that, we reach the third, the second Malchut. What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: It's that, what you attain now with faith, with the force of bestowal, when you attain the group and the Creator and something where in that force of bestowal, you start to feel a new reality. That, later, becomes for you, your world, meaning, that degree of Bina that you have now attained, you rose from Malchut to Bina, now you're already there. Then, you elevate yourself to a higher degree, that way through 125 degrees until the end of correction. Along the way, you discover five Partzufim and all of these five Partzufim, each five Partzufim connect into a world. So, you have five worlds, five Partzufim in each world, five worlds, and this is the entire ladder of degrees from here to the end of correction. However, on each degree, you have, besides that: Ibur, Yenika, Mochin, meaning the three degrees in which you have to rise. Which means that you do not acquire the degree at once, you're included in it and, later on, well, you join it as a small one, as an infant. And then you acquire it as an adult, a grown-up; by that, you conclude the degree and then you can rise to the next degree. There is a ladder here but, each time, the degree that you have attained helps you to rise to the next degree. 

Question (ITA 4): (14:37) Every time we reach a certain measure of connection in the Ten from a positive state, positive sensation, gladness, joy, we reach a state of a lack of connection, corporeality. So again, we need to jump above reason, is that correct? 

M. Laitman: Yes, it is correct, and if you do it each time, you will see how much you are gaining by it. As much as possible, try to be above the negative feeling – do not cancel it but, rather, be above it. And then you will see how much you can then step forward – left, right, left, right, and this is how you can advance.

Question (KabU 1): (15:21) I have a question about the drawing that you made: The light that comes from the Creator, the Direct Light, the part that's returned becomes the Reflecting Light. But isn't there a portion of that light that manages to get by the Masach because the created being has reached somewhat of an equivalent form with the Creator and can internalize that light?

M. Laitman: The Inner Light, well, it's when we decide, what are we going to receive in order to bestow? Light, number two, is when we entirely reject the first light, right? The first light comes, the first light that comes we reject it entirely. Later on, we check, how much can we receive in order to bestow? That part we admit it, we allow it to get in and this is called, Inner Light. We have Direct Light, Reflected Light, and Inner Light, we will study these things. The most important for us is just to get hold of this issue of this technique, this technology of faith above reason. These drawings, I think everybody understands that everybody went through The Preface and they learned it. But now, we have to actualize it inside, within us. So, all in all, that light that I decide of how much can I receive inside in order to be in equivalence with the host, as he wants to give to me, how much can I give to him by receiving, following the rejection? According to that, I build my relation to Him. All in all, what I discover is I discover how much I am going with the force of rejection above the force of attraction; by this, I build my upper world. 

Question (PT 25): (18:02) The degree of Bina that we attain, is it felt in the group's vessel or in my personal vessel? 

M. Laitman: It is felt in the vessel of bestowal and, in that, there is both me and the group. It cannot be that I will reach rejection, the correct rejection and later on I'll receive something in order to bestow if I'm not connected to the Ten. I will not be able to organize this form by myself; I must be in the group. 

Student: The same spiritual degree, we will all be included in, yes? There's no one who's alone.

M. Laitman: I didn't understand? 

Student: The same degree of Bina, the spiritual degree you described now, the whole degree, we’ll share it, yes? We’ll share the attainment of it?

M. Laitman: No, no, no, you see, now you're asking in a different way. You're asking, are we all in the Ten doing this work together? Not necessarily, not necessarily – well, not yet not yet. Now, in the meantime, we're talking about how each one, according to how much he is included in the Ten, how much he receives from the Ten, that common force, the force of rejection of the direct light and the force of connection. In between them, accordingly, each one arranges, according to his exertion, he arranges for himself his own individual form. But later on, well, not now, but—we're still not even in Ibur, in conception. But, later on, we will start to check between us, we will start to feel between us how do we build a common desire. And then out of the connection between us, we will start to discover how much between us a common force is created. A common desire when there is connection between us, through our participation. And out of that, out of these Ten parts, we will start to build a Partzuf and out of that we will have Ibur, conception, and then Yenika, suckling, and then Mochin. But in the meantime, we don't yet feel it, we need to yearn to build between us that state. 

Question (Rehovot): (20:47) How do I build the Tzimtzum, the restriction in the ten? 

M. Laitman: I build the restriction in the Ten in that I don't want to receive anything for myself but only to bestow to the entire Ten, towards the connection between us. I only think about that all day and only in that I depict my spirituality. 

Reading: (21:27) 41. Rabash. Article 21 (1986), “Concerning Above Reason” Twice

One must say, “Now I see that the real way is actually to go above reason. And the evidence of that is the fact that now I have been rewarded with some illumination from above, only because I have taken it upon myself to go above reason. This is why I was rewarded with the Creator bringing me a little closer to Him and giving me some awakening from above.”

And this illumination that he has now received gives him an answer to all the questions. 

M. Laitman: That is, now he sees that the fact that he went not according to his mind but according to what Kabbalists say: To connect with the friends, to rise above his own ego; to think about the collective, about the whole world, the whole group, towards bestowal, towards connection. This specifically helped him now to be in a state where he understands better, he feels more, he sees that he advanced in the direction of spirituality. He understands, a little bit more, how the Creator behaves with him.

Reading: (22:48) 41. Rabash. Article 21 (1986), “Concerning Above Reason”

It turns out that this testifies to the above reason. 

M. Laitman: That, this way was the right one, to go on the degree of Bina with his eyes shut, meaning without his intellect. 

Reading: (23:02) 41. Rabash. Article 21 (1986), “Concerning Above Reason”

Thus, what should I do now so I will continue with above reason? There is only to reinforce and to start looking for ways to dress his work in above reason. 

M. Laitman: Now he knows that he has only one thing, one way to go in all the time: To discover reason and go above it, to discover reason and go above it. Meaning, each time the egoistic desire is revealed and he has to go above it in the direction of connection. 

Reading: (23:42) 41. Rabash. Article 21 (1986), “Concerning Above Reason”

It turns out that by that, he did not blemish his faith at all, since he was walking in it before he was rewarded with any illumination from above, since even now he is not receiving the illumination as a foundation on which to build the structure of his work. Rather, he is taking the illumination as a testimony that he is on the right track, that he is in faith above reason. 

M. Laitman: Meaning, it's not that, now, it gives him some confidence that he was working correctly. But, rather, he simply sees that that is the way, and of course on the next step again, he would have to go with his eyes shut, not to rely on whatever he knows and he understands and what he had before. But, rather, again, to cling to a higher degree of faith, meaning to the degree of bestowal, to an even greater connection which is even farther from his ego. 

Reading: (24:53) 41. Rabash. Article 21 (1986), “Concerning Above Reason”

Only in this form of work does the Creator bring a person closer to Him and gives him room to draw nearer to Him, since this nearing will not let him fall into the vessels of reception, which are called “within reason,” since the Creator sees that he is trying to go only above reason.

Reader: We'll read Excerpt 41, again. 

Reading: (25:36) 41. Rabash. Article 21 (1986), “Concerning Above Reason”

One must say, “Now I see that the real way is actually to go above reason. And the evidence of that is the fact that now I have been rewarded with some illumination from above, only because I have taken it upon myself to go above reason. This is why I was rewarded with the Creator bringing me a little closer to Him and giving me some awakening from above.”

And this illumination that he has now received gives him an answer to all the questions. It turns out that this testifies to the above reason. Thus, what should I do now so I will continue with above reason? There is only to reinforce and to start looking for ways to dress his work in above reason. 

M. Laitman: This means that, here, he is actually searching, he is expecting that the Creator will reveal to him reason, something that is against faith so that he will have the possibility to specifically go above reason, to a greater faith and this is how it is each time. Yes.

Reading: (27:01) 41. Rabash. Article 21 (1986), “Concerning Above Reason”

It turns out that by that, he did not blemish his faith at all, since he was walking in it before he was rewarded with any illumination from above, since even now he is not receiving the illumination as a foundation on which to build the structure of his work. Rather, he is taking the illumination as a testimony that he is on the right track, that he is in faith above reason. Only in this form of work does the Creator bring a person closer to Him and gives him room to draw nearer to Him, since this nearing will not let him fall into the vessels of reception, which are called “within reason,” since the Creator sees that he is trying to go only above reason. 

M. Laitman: This is how we need to try to go, to walk and to not be afraid that it's irrational, illogical. How can it be, how come I will perform such an action which is above our intellect? Rather, specifically, those who want to expand their intellect, to make it bigger, they have to go in such a way, towards faith above reason. Something that is the opposite of the intellect, it is above the intellect; then, my intellect grows to the degree of Bina. The more I rise to the degree of Bina, I, seemingly, pull my intellect also up to the degree of Bina – and then, I become wiser! Whereas one who is not going above reason but, rather, within reason and even below reason, he becomes more fanatic, more limited. This is what we see with many people but we have such and such, we see that people also come to the wisdom of Kabbalah. And if they are not persistent on going along together with everyone, annulling themselves towards bestowal and connection, then they drop to below reason and they become religious, let's say – they fall into all kinds of other kinds. 

Question (USA Northeast): (29:56) If in this, when we come to this state of dropping below reason to—in order to search on how to elevate above reason, is this in specifically where the development occurs? 

M. Laitman: Development takes place above reason when I acquire it and I stand on it and then, in that place, I start to feel what is it that I have attained: The connection between Malchut and Bina. These two things are what give me the feeling, the understanding, the understanding, and the feeling of connection with spirituality, with the upper force. However, in these states there are many degrees and it's not that, from the very first degree, that we start to feel that we are connected with the upper force. It's like a child when he's born, a baby, what does he understand, what does he feel? He doesn't even know how to use his hands and legs or anything. He can't even see, he doesn't hear. Bit by bit, within him, develop the Kelim – the vessels, and he starts to, then, enter the world, and he starts to have mutual interconnection with us. This is how it is with us in the upper world. Now we are, just before our opening up to the upper world. Until we will reach a state where we will start to feel that we are in the upper world, it will take a few such times, a few such actions by us. And then we will start to discover it gradually, to feel it. Those first few degrees are called, the degrees of Ibur, conception. It's not conception where we think of, like an embryo within his mother, that he doesn't feel anything; it's just a piece of a mass of flesh, it's not the same with us. We, even in the Ibur, we know, we feel, we understand something: How do we exist inside of the upper one, how does the upper one control us? As it says that an embryo within the belly of his mother sees from one end to the other, he discovers a lot! Ibur in spirituality is also revelation of the upper force towards that embryo. Well, let's hope we will reach that quickly. 

Question (Qazaqstan): (32:55) How to habituate myself so that faith becomes a foundation, a set, fixed foundation in the work? 

M. Laitman: Well, don't wait for it that faith will be always invited to within you, just like your ego, just like your reason. No, that will never be, you will always have to fight in order to elevate yourself above reason. This struggle will always be there and, always, faith will be higher, and you will have to perform actions. Use means in order to reach it and the main action is in the group. If you depict the group as being above you, then when you will come out of yourself and enter a connection with the group. By that, you are already performing an action in order to enter into faith instead of your reason. Let's put it this way – the reason of the group, if there is a group, and it is connected. Then the reason of the group is your degree of faith. And your degree, that's your reason, the degree of the group, that is faith. This is why each time incorporating in the group, incorporating in the group, incorporating in the group. This is how you can always truly, without cessation, even rise to the degrees of faith until you will start to discover it with your own senses and to feel it and to control it. 

Question (Tel Aviv 1): (34:49) Each time we rise above reason and then it becomes reason and, again, we go through this process again and again, is that right? 

M. Laitman: That's right.

Student: Then, in the end, is there anything remaining of our regular emotion and reason? Or are we on a different sphere? 

M. Laitman: We discover how to connect the whole of Malchut to the whole of Bina.

Question (PT 17): (35:19) How to help a new friend who finds it difficult to follow along with this whole thing. He feels that he's repressing his desire, he's walking blindly. 

M. Laitman: Look, this style of ascent in spirituality, with faith above reason, it is a very strange, foreign style to a person. Because all in all, we don't have such a thing in our world. Even people who believe, who have faith, they say, oh we're going forward with faith, blind faith, etc., it's not what we have in spirituality. For them, faith is below reason and for us, faith is above reason; therefore, we don't have much to say but just, again and again, to explain to him what is faith above reason and how we should reach it, rise to it, and that there is no choice. Rather, in the end, the whole of humanity will have to reach it. Otherwise, we will just stay and remain in this world. According to the plan of creation, that is not going to happen. Rather, suffering will come, blows will come, and they will compel us to connect to the degree of Bina. 

Question (Nikolaev-Sochi): (37:05) A question regarding this new state that is being revealed with respect to humanity. Now, it seems that everyone has to undergo a revolution in their perception of reality, to accept the degree of, the state of faith above reason, the whole world, all of humanity. What's our role in this? 

M. Laitman: We should acquire this degree as quickly as possible, realize how it is working, this technology. How do we rise to it each time, each time from our state to above reason? And when it becomes, then it becomes reason and, once again, to an even greater above reason, etc. When we will acquire experience in this way, we will also be able to explain to everyone. We will explain to everyone what does it mean—faith above reason and how we do it. In the end, this technology, it's not for everyone, it's not—it's only for those who are yearning for the revelation of the Creator. But the others, they just join it, only that, and they do not acquire it by themselves, personally or in a group, that degree, they just have to support it. Just like in our world, you have a big audience or public, the whole of humanity. And you also have people who have to act according to their matter and according to the state that they have. So, we cannot demand of everyone to go with faith above reason – we don't even have to explain it to them but only to those who truly show a personal yearning towards the revelation of the Creator. We can see how much we would like to publicize our dissemination to the whole world, and how much people are not quite running for it, chasing it. So, only those who truly come to us and they want it very much, to them, we explain what is faith above reason and how to reach it, but not to others. The others, out of lack of choice, that nevertheless, they do have to attain some connection to the source of life, they will become connected through us, just like the AHP with the Galgalta Eynaim. 

Student: There needs to be a form of connection, already? 

M. Laitman: No, no, no, don't go, don’t run quickly too much!

Question (Rehovot): (40:08) What is the foundation, the main thing within reason that connects us to above reason? 

M. Laitman: The foundation within reason that ties it with above reason is that from the shattering of Adam HaRishon, there are sparks of Bina, also inside of Malchut. Therefore, even though we all exist in the Klipot, in the shells, in Malchut, we also have—why is it called, Klipa, shell? It means that within the will to receive, there is a tendency to use the Creator, to use the in order to bestow, however, in order to receive, so, to draw, to pull the upper lights so there is a connection. The connection is through the Klipa, it is called, that the Klipa, the shell, protects the fruit. Until the fruit grows, matures, the shell wraps it, envelopes it, like, let's say, an apple, inside of the shell, the peel. And only after the apple is ripe, you can use it, you can take the peel off of it, clear? 

Question (Haifa 3): (41:32) How can we accelerate the rise from degree to degree? 

M. Laitman: Only through connection between us, we can accelerate our ascents.

Question (Merkaz 1): (42:03) By what do we merit going above reason?

M. Laitman: By annulling before the friends, out of that, we also annul before the Creator. And we start to feel, what does it mean, annulment, and how, with all of our desire, we can annul? In practice, this is how it happens. You have, even in this world, all of the systems that you can use in order to reach faith above reason through actions of this world.

Question (Ashdod 10): (42:47) In a practical sense, if inside of the Ten I'm being complimented and helped, do I need to perform a restriction, screen, Reflected Light on this? 

M. Laitman: No, you need to adhere to them in heart and soul.

Question (Belarus): (43:12) We are given a new degree through the scrutiny of the resistance and even hatred. How to work correctly with this coarseness and not to go into personal issues? 

M. Laitman: Well, we need to help each other, Each will help his friend, in order to give an example of how much I have inside of me rejection from the group. But I, nevertheless, rise above it and I do connect with them, that's it. So specifically, these two forces: the force of rejection and the force of attraction that I develop above the rejection. These two forces, I need to scrutinize them, emphasize them, and also show them to everyone as an example so that they can see it; and in such a way, also, that I can learn this from the group. 

Question (Tbilisi): (44:28) If I understood it, correctly, my desire turns towards the light and I have to shift my sight, not towards the light but towards the Kli that needs to be filled with the light, shift my focus. If you all do it in a group, it awakens a spiritual ascent. How can I control this leverage, this technological method, like you said? 

M. Laitman: You all need to give each other an example of how each one wants to help the other, that's it. Even if you don't want to, and there's no opportunity to do it; regardless, you need to act it out, it's the only way for you to advance quickly! Don't wait until the Creator brings down to you all sorts of states where you reject each other, you grow distant. Don't wait for that, no, do it the other way around! Before discovering such states, that is called, I awaken the dawn. Whereas if it's darkness, as if these are bad states—I already begin to discover that I want to be connected to them above that. 

Question (MAK 6): (46:16) How can a person show the Creator that he wants to go with faith above reason? 

M. Laitman: He doesn't count on his own reason but on what the Kabbalists say and write, and he tries to do what they write.

Question (PT 5): (46:40) I notice that in the Ten, in the work, the feeling is not that I'm within reason, now please help me to rise above it, as he writes in the articles. Rather, you always feel the righteousness of the path, that you have the articles supporting you, you have Rav supporting you, etc. How can we truly help each other to find that place of above reason? Is it only through example, from afar?

M. Laitman: No, but you can describe to yourselves a state where you're all connected. You have this concept of the center of the group, that you feel you need to be there with heart and soul. So help everyone be just there, to feel that you're there in a single desire, a single thought, a single sensation – try it, that's the main thing. 

Question (PT 31): (47:46) According to how I feel in going above reason, there is a feeling that you're entering a process that you don't know when it will end – sometimes you succeed more in it, sometimes you succeed less. And as a result of it, many times there are inner tensions. How can we cope with them correctly?

M. Laitman: I'm not looking for some goal that's greater than to be in above reason, right now. It means that, right now, I adhere to the Creator, that's it, I don't plan ahead a thousand states. It's only this state that I want to be in and that's it, and when I'm in it, I don't need anything else besides. You see a ladder, more degrees in front of you and, so, it's not spiritual. Spiritual means that I feel that I'm in wholeness, in the wholeness that I've now attained.

Question (Latin 1): (49:00) How can I give a good example to the friends? What is a good example? 

M. Laitman: A good example is like what Rabash writes where I surrender before the friends, like a zero before the one. I make sure that everyone is connected, I'm willing to serve them so they are as together as they can be, and that's it and so on, that's called, a good example. You can see what Rabash writes about the group. You need to go over what he writes again over these articles, all the time. 

Question (Ashkelon 3): (49:42) In the excerpt, it says that the person takes that illumination as testimony that he is going on the right path. Is that a kind of inner light that I get, that illumination? 

M. Laitman: I don't know what inner light is, we haven't learned this, yet, I don't feel any lights, inner, outer lights. I don't accept such questions because it's still not clear what we're talking about. 

Question (Focus Group): (50:22) Should I demand from the friends that I will act in above reason? That they will talk, and smile, and behave as though they're all loving. Or should the demand be only from myself even if they appear to me to do the opposite?

M. Laitman: It's like Rabash writes in his own articles, I don't explain anything outside of what he writes. Just, you need to keep repeating, going over what he writes, period.

Student: How to relate to a friend who is constantly demanding from his friends to act in love of friends, and he is dissatisfied with the way that they're acting? 

M. Laitman: You need to discuss it together, maybe it's truly so, and you need to discuss it. Maybe he's right, maybe you don't understand him; you need to discuss this, because his complaint may be a good one.

Reading: (51:26) 42. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 207. “Receiving in order to Bestow” - Twice

It is only because he had had prior preparation by taking upon himself the above reason.

This means that through engagement in Dvekut [adhesion], he attached himself at the root. By this he was awarded reason, meaning that the reason he has obtained by the discernment of faith was a true revelation. It follows that he appreciates primarily the above reason, and also appreciates the reason, that he has now been rewarded with the revelation of His names to extend abundance.

This is why now he should strengthen further through reason, and take upon himself a greater above reason, as Dvekut in the root occurs primarily through faith, and this is his whole purpose. This is called “reception,” the reason he extended in order to bestow, and by which he will be able to take upon himself faith above reason to the greatest extent in quantity and quality. 

Reader: Again, Excerpt 42. 

M. Laitman: Yes, each time the ascent through the degrees of the ladder from here to the end of correction, which we have to accomplish coming out of this world, which is the zero degree, to the first degree, which is spiritual, and so on. Or rather, and onwards, it's all by us attaching ourselves to Bina, from Malchut to Bina, from Malchut to Bina, and so more and more. And when we rise that way, we rise to a degree of understanding, to a greater degree of reason. Because Bina comes from the word, Havana, understanding, and so, the fact that we don't want to remain with our previous reason, but rather want new reason. That's what elevates us more and more, the new reason is faith, and the previous reason becomes something which is factual. And then we always elevate ourselves through faith, we raise ourselves from reason to reason –  from reason to reason. It's called, Know the Lord your God and serve Him. Always that way, the power of faith, the Bina, which we add to our will to receive, that helps us. It makes us able to understand better, to feel better, to feel the Creator, better, because He is the power of bestowal. So you add Bina, the power of bestowal to Malchut, and the more we do so, the more we can come to resemble the Creator, to feel Him, to understand Him, to adhere to Him. And that's the meaning of climbing the spiritual ladder.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (56:30) It's not clear, what is happening with this force of bestowal that we acquire when we shift it from Malchut to Bina?

M. Laitman: We only work with; we don't disconnect from Malchut. From this Malchut, well, I cannot disconnect from it, by myself. I, through myself, elevate myself to the degree of bestowal.

Student: Then what happens when it becomes reception, again? Where does this force of faith disappear? 

M. Laitman: It expands the Malchut for me and that's how I rise from degree to degree. Where Malchut, on a higher degree, is a higher and stronger than the degree of Bina that I previously attained. 

Student: And now, in this new Malchut, can we use the previous force? 

M. Laitman: I just stand atop it so as to disconnect from it, and to rise above it and integrate in Bina. It's this way: I integrate in Malchut, Daat, reason; I then integrate with above reason, the power of Bina. But I'm with the Malchut, I cannot be rid of it, but this Malchut is restricted in me, I don't use it right now. Right now, I want to use only the power of bestowal, only the power of Bina. But Malchut is within me, determines the degree of faith in which I am. And then I integrate with the power of Bina, and when I acquire the power of Bina, by that I can join Bina and Malchut together and elevate myself to a higher degree still. 

And so each time I flip, flip-flop like that between degrees, it's difficult to put into words. But the truth is, the same processes, they happen in our world also, they just don't require of us active, conscious participation. But any form of life, form of existence, even inanimate objects, and much more so with the vegetative and animate, and in the brain, various tissues. Regardless of where, it's always that way, you have kind of exchange, interaction between Malchut and Bina, Bina, and Malchut. It's always, that's how everything advances; but here, it's required of us to do it with our own inner form, with the powers that work on us so that we can acquire them and rise to the degree of the forces that operate on us. And to rise above this degree of the still, vegetative, and animate, so we become active, Becoming as God, knowing good and evil. 

Student: The transition between one degree and the other, is that continuous, or is there a detachment and falling to the next Malchut? 

M. Laitman: We always have a pause, but it's a pause in a constant, it must be like that. Between degree and degree, you have a fall into Ein Sof; other Reshimot, which change. Well, everything seemingly returns to Malchut of Ein Sof and back, Malchut of Ein Sof and back. We don't feel it, but that's how the system works. Well, it will come. 

Question (ITA 3): (01:00:30) Where should I focus my thoughts? Because throughout the day, I'm in many thoughts. 

M. Laitman: I think that if you bring yourself back to the group and want to find the power of connection through this actively in practice. And also you want the upper force to be revealed, the Creator who arranged for you, the whole Ten, and the system, for Him to be revealed as the power that connects everyone. You don't need anything more; you don't need anything more because there you discover everything through to the end of correction. 

Question (Volga): (01:01:29) In order to depict it yourself and with respect to the Ten, again, if you can explain it? What is the meaning of Malchut and what is the feeling of Bina in relation to the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Malchut is my knowledge, my feeling, my sensation of the reality in which I'm in, that is called Malchut – meaning the self. Where I exist, and I feel, and I understand, and everything I have. This world, in short, my world, the present one, it is called, Malchut. When I want to rise to the degree of Bina, where I describe all of my reality, I see it within myself, right? It's not that we have any reality outside of us, there's nothing outside of us, it's all inside of us, in our own vessels, as we learn from The Perception of Reality. So, I need to perceive, to describe a more true reality, meaning that I will grasp, I'll perceive this whole reality as being very tightly bound to a single force, the force of bestowal residing in it, dwelling in it, and I'm in that. That's how I grasp it, it occurs within me, that's what I want to describe. Or you could put it differently, the world is shattered, you have a pandemic, all sorts of nonsense happening, it's completely, it's destroyed, ruined. And I depict it as not being so, the power of Bina, the Creator dwells in it, but I cannot see it. As it's written, they have eyes, yet they do not see. So, I'm in a perfect world, an interconnected world, the end of correction. But if it appears to me that it is not so, that is the gap between me, in my mistake, in my egoistic desire, the gap between that and the true state which I need to attain, which exists, but I do not attain it. And so, that's the gap between Malchut and Bina; so, you can envision it that way. Soon, everything, all comes together, and you will see! Another step and another, it's like a baby starting to open up his senses, starting to perceive the world. And so, gradually, it all accumulates and aggregates into a single whole picture.

Question (Africa): (01:04:23) We wanted to ask, how do you then separate the sparks in Malchut from the Guf?

M. Laitman: What is the Guf, the body? 

Student: Yes, Rav, you said that we learned today in this lesson that in the shattering of Adam HaRishon, there are sparks of Bina in Malchut. So, we wanted to ask, with the explanation you just gave – that we're already in above reason. We wanted to ask that how do we separate the sparks of Bina, which is in Malchut, from the Guf in the body?

M. Laitman: You don't need to separate anything; it's all the work of the upper light. You don't understand anything about it, and you cannot perform it; you're asking about things which are not in your hands. If you feel all these things to the finest detail, all those powers and forces inside. And you still have such questions, questions from your actual life now, because you know how to do all this and you know why you need all these things for your life, then you'll do it. For the time being, don't ask about things which don't pertain to you for the time being. Ask about what we need to do, otherwise, you'll never reach spirituality. What you all need now is simply to achieve a connection between you, where you can feel the power that connects you together, which is between all of you, the power of the Creator, which is within the group. That's the first thing we have to attain. 

Question (Turkiye 3): (01:06:24) How can I feel that I am rising up the ladder? 

M. Laitman: According to the heartfelt connection between you and the friends; that's the only thing you can measure, and influence, and attain, even to measure, soon. It's the only thing you can determine.

Question (Zafon 2): (01:07:04) How can you do the work in joy above reason? 

M. Laitman: We don't have joy, I don't understand you, I don't understand how you cannot be joyous? You are all in the wisdom of Kabbalah, and this brings you grief? So what, if you want to forget about it, there's no problem! We can instantly cancel everything and be like regular people off the street, and then you'll be happier? 

Student: How to pass this joy from our hearts to people on the street? 

M. Laitman: That's a different question, you're not asking about how you're sad, you say, you know, I am glad I have joy, they're sad. So that's a different thing altogether! 

Student: Yes, that's what I'm talking about. 

M. Laitman: Okay, so I misunderstood you, fine. If so, you need to give them a picture of your life, where everything advances towards the end of correction. And we can attain everything through connection between us, and there are no hindrances to our connection except for us, ourselves. So, let's try to connect together, and then we will attain this joy in the connection between us. Such joy which will cover like, Love covering all crimes – explain that to them.

Question (Bulgaria): (01:08:51) Throughout the day, we are going to meet other Tens from the world Kli. How will this meeting help us reach faith about reason? 

M. Laitman: Discuss it, discuss it, rather, read those excerpts together and discuss it, that's the best. And you will see how you'll feel more and more new discernments in this. 

Question (Hadera 10): (01:09:22) Why, in incorporating in the center of the Ten, I get the force of faith and the greatness of the Creator? Why specifically in such a form?

M. Laitman: You don't have the ability to connect to the upper force if not through the center of the Ten. 

Question (MAK Israel): (01:09:54) How can I learn to be jealous, to be envious? If I see in the friends the intention to connect?

M. Laitman: You need to see how all your friends are connected together much more than you are connected to them. And you need to be worried about why you don't have this envy for that. Because as they connect, their engagement in connection, by that they build a vessel for the revelation of the Creator. So it may be that very soon, or maybe already, they feel the Creator being between them. Maybe in a kind of foggy way, but you're completely outside of that. So, worry, worry about having that.

Question (PT 20): (01:10:48) Throughout our development, reason grows. How can we overcome this increasing reason each time? Does it become more difficult or easier? 

M. Laitman: We don't need to annul reason, we need to rise to Bina, above reason. I don't erase my reason, I don't make of myself some idiot who doesn't know, doesn't understand, doesn't feel. No, the other way around, I develop myself more and more. And Bina, the Bina which I acquire, expands my reason, that's why Bina is called, Havana, or understanding. Bina is the degree of Divinity, and so I don't annul reason, ever. One who annuls reason becomes stupider, becomes a fool – usually that's what religions do. We don't, we rise towards faith above reason, meaning that the power of bestowal will be above the power of reception. 

Question (Holland 1): (01:12:09) You said reaching connection is the most important thing now. And I'm here with my Ten trying to connect but I'm also drinking a cup of coffee, and I was wondering: This is also a corporeal desire, should I put some kind of restriction on this, or is it just like you treat your body like a dog? If it needs some coffee, you use coffee, and there's no calculation, here. Because this corporeal desire takes me a little bit out of the connection, I feel. 

M. Laitman: I don't feel that my desire for coffee brings me out of the connection – the other way around for me; it awakens me, and makes me better able to focus on the connection between everyone. We shouldn't really pay attention to the corporeal actions which nature compels us to do. Give nature its due, what my beast deserves, right? The main thing is that my beast will also help me participate in the spiritual ascent of the soul. 

Question (Baltia 1): (01:13:37) Now we're studying the topic of faith above reason, and soon we will shift to TES. And I can see, according to the Ten, that everybody is already exhausted like a lemon, and TES will surely finish us off, everybody will fall asleep! What can I do? 

M. Laitman: Well, very simply, we will now have a good rhythmic song, everyone will wake up a little, and yes, we will do something. 

Question (Latin 1): (01:14:22) What is the difference between annulling reason and hiding the intellect and the thoughts from the friends?  

M. Laitman: I don't need to hide anything, I just need to reveal, to disclose love. I need to reveal connection and my willingness to be in the group. Just don't jump on their heads, don't pressure them too much. You have such people who constantly need to show how they are. No, in a normal way, where the main thing is for us to consistently act in the direction of our ever-increasing connection.

Student: Rabash says in We Shall Do and We Shall Hear, that we have to hide the thoughts and the intellect from the friends. This is why I'm asking about it. 

M. Laitman: No, no, that's not simple. We'll learn this, don't deal with that yet. The main thing is to think about how to be connected.

Reader: Let's summarize the main points we heard in the lesson.

Song: (01:22:05)