The transcript has been transcribed and edited from English simultaneous interpretation, thus there may be potential semantic inaccuracies within it.
Daily Morning Lesson: December 22, 2025
Part 1: Recorded lesson - Nov 18, 2020
Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”. #23
Reader: Hello, friends. The holiday of Hanukkah is over, therefore starting today in the first part of the lesson, we will come back to study from the series about work above reason. Today we will connect to a lesson from November 18, 2020, continuing with excerpt 23 from the document with excerpts about work with faith above reason. Please.
Reader: We are in a lesson on the topic of the “Work with Faith Above Reason.” We will read selected excerpts. We are in excerpt number 23. You can find the study material by clicking the book icon on the Arvut system, and you can ask questions on Kab.TV, relevant questions may be aired.
M. Laitman: (01:09) Yesterday, the whole day, I was following two phenomena. If I think about myself, how much I can be connected to the goal and to the group, through the group to the goal, how much does that help me? And how much does it help me if I think this way about the friends, about how much they will be connected to the goal, and I care for them? That is, what is more beneficial, what is more important, what is stronger, connecting me to the path, so that I can truly not disconnect from it? Either I ask that the friends will not disconnect from the goal, or I'm concerned that they will not be disconnected from the goal, or I'm concerned that they will hold me so that I will not disconnect from the goal. So then it turns out that, well, there are times for this, there are times for that, however, in truth, it's more important that I will care for them, because my concern is then inside of them, and also I'm aiming them, pushing all of them together. I'm responsible for them. How do we feel that? How do we check that? To what extent I sometimes discover myself that I'm completely disconnected from the goal, disconnected from the study, disconnected from connection? I'm simply thrown out in this world, and when I start searching, I do not discover what I can get hold on, how can I reach back to the right connection, so that I can feel myself that I'm oriented, that I'm in some connection with spirituality, but I'm confused, dazed, and with respect to spirituality, I seemingly have no thoughts, no emotions. And later on, when I do find some connection with the friends, I think about it, I read or hear something, then I start to receive joy and confidence that I'm there together with everyone, and everyone is holding me, and I'm devoted to them. Then I discover that I depend completely, completely on the group. I depend on the group, so much so that simply without the group, I cannot be in any spiritual state. And to the extent that I have a feeling that I'm simply lost, they forgot about me, they left me alone; so then I'm not, I don't exist at all. I'm not on a path or anything, I'm just in midair. To the extent that I feel this way, and to the extent that I feel why I'm connected and I'm together with them, and I have joy and I have confidence, to the extent that the gap between these two states is greater, it is a sign that I am advancing. As king David writes, “You hid your face, I was alarmed.” When the Creator hides His face, the person also loses the Kli and also the light. We're talking about high degrees, but nevertheless, this is what he feels. And the person feels that that's it. He is falling into the abyss, into a place of darkness. And if he connects with the group once again, and again, he has joy and confidence and a good, correct feeling.
M. Laitman: (06:19) So then he is truly like a baby. If he's attached to the mother, he feels good. And if he's by himself, then he feels bad. And it's a good feeling. It is a good feeling. It's a feeling with which we are truly beginning to become babies in spirituality, which is already spirituality. It's already a special state when we are already connected with the group that is connected to our soul, and also to the light inside of the soul. Bit by bit, it will be revealed to us. And my whole confidence and my joy will be not out of myself - that I feel something, I'm there, I understand - but only out of the fact that I am connected with the friends. I get hold of them, just like the baby gets hold of the mother, and I'm together with them. As much as I can give to them, as much as I can receive from them, and on this mutual connection, my entire spiritual life depends. So disconnection from that - we feel it as darkness, helplessness, and connection to the group gives me the full confidence and light and joy. If we feel this way, let's say before the preparation for the lesson, when I'm not yet connected with the group, and after I'm in the preparation and I get into the lesson, so as much as the gap between the state before and the state after is greater, more respected, I'm closer and closer to the goal. I hope that we will find out these things more and more, and we will be in the preparation for the lesson in such a way that we will feel how much the state before the lesson, before the preparation, and the state after the preparation, they are extreme - in greater darkness and also with more light - that's the advantage of light out of darkness. And we will see our progress in such a way. And then confidence, joy, we will have it not egoistically, but to the opposite - I will feel myself that I by myself, am nothing, zero, if I'm not connected to the group, but I'll have all the confidence and joy out of being connected, and then I have everything. If I disconnect, then I am by myself, I'm truly in darkness, I'm zero. Well, let's hope that we will amplify these sensations, because those are preparations for the revelation of the Creator.
Question (Kyiv 1): (10:11) I also went through a certain path today in the morning, started from zero, and then from thinking of the friends, I started to gradually pray for them, and then at the end of preparation, you come to a state of joy and confidence. How can I continue this feeling now into the lesson, to not just enjoy it?
M. Laitman: I also enjoy it, yes, but my enjoyment is that I, through the society, get confidence and power, and then with the confidence and power that I receive from the society, now I see what is important for me. What is important for me is the society, this is my soul, the general Kli, the ten Sefirot in which I discover all of the spiritual reality, and then I act in order to strengthen this Kli. So, I ask myself, what can I do in order for me to live in this Kli, first of all, permanently, that I will not disconnect from it, not in light, not in darkness, in all of the different states, that I will discover in this Kli all kinds of different states, that everything is replaced, and everything there keeps changing, and I feel it as my spiritual life. So, in them, I will have ascents and descents, and the revelation of the Creator out of that, because He is inviting these states, and He is giving me the possibility to be involved in it, and this is how we will advance.
Student: But how do you pass it on to the friends, especially now in the lesson? We have like a certain kind of language limitation now; I can't actively connect with them.
M. Laitman: First of all, in the thought, first of all, in the thought, in whatever you do, think out of the group, that you are a part of it, and you would like to promote them, and how can they advance together with you, and in such a mutual way, you are holding each other. They are also thinking, not far from you, it's not only you in the group, but also everyone is in it to some extent, each one according to his point in the heart, but all in all, those impressions, when we connect them together, by that, we reach a sufficient impression, distinction between light and darkness, between lack and confidence, and confidence in the group, between the right yearning for the Creator, the right passion, in order to give Him contentment out of the connection between us, and this is how we advance, we build the Kli. Our Kli is a Kli of sensation, it's not the intellect. This is why it says, “It's not the wise who studies.”
Question (MAK 3): (13:46) In what situation we lose the Kli, and in what situation we lose the light, or is it the same?
M. Laitman: I can't feel the difference between the Kli and the light, because all in all, we get it as one thing. If there is no light, then there is no Kli, and if there is no Kli, then there is no light, and it only depends on how we define what is the light inside of the Kli. The degree of our ascent above reason, that is the Kli. The degree of my feeling in connection with everyone and with the Creator, this is the light. We will talk more about it.
Question (PT 6): (14:46) How can we improve our common preparation before the lesson?
M. Laitman: Yes, it is preferable that we improve the preparation before the lesson, so that we will feel how much before the preparation we were in the feeling of darkness, lack of confidence, lack of orientation in terms of our connection with the others, our thoughts, our intentions, an inclination that wasn't really quite spiritual towards the group and the Creator. Here I was thinking about myself, about my feeling, and it's not that my feeling stems out of me being adherent to them, supporting them, that I'm happy about them. So here are the scrutinies, being more and more disconnected from myself, from my ego, and more and more connected to the Ten and to its common purpose. So there has to be a feeling and a discernment of what I achieved, where I was before the preparation, let's say, half an hour before the lesson. We connect for 15 minutes in our groups, each one in his group, and another 15 minutes we are in the general preparation of all of the groups that have already prepared themselves, each and every one of them, between them. Each group, after 15 minutes of preparation, they feel themselves pretty much as one body, as one man in one heart, and then all of these groups where each one of them is already as one, they come together. And then we reach the beginning of the lesson truly as one group, one Ten, all of us together. Well, it happens sometimes, sometimes it doesn't, but the efforts towards this direction, that's something we have to do.
Student: Many times we don't get into the lesson that way. Sometimes the scrutiny of where we are, what's happening, extends through the whole lesson.
M. Laitman: Well, the preparation needs to be this way, nevertheless. The lesson can be about how to advance these things, how to study them, to delve into them, maybe that is the topic of the lesson. But it is desirable that before the lesson we will already position ourselves so that each one is connected to his Ten correctly, and he's there truly included in it, and all of the Tens also pretty much are connected. If they're not integrated together, then at least they connect and they feel themselves as a single body.
Student: Is there anything to improve technically, the actions we do before the lesson in terms of what we do today - reading together, workshop?
M. Laitman: I now talk to the one who is in charge of our visuals on what we see on the screens. I told him, I'm not pleased with those images that you see. Now, let's say, you see me, and next to me there are many groups, right?
Student: Right.
M. Laitman: That's now, but usually each one only sees his Ten. Usually, right?
Student: Yes, but if you want, you can open the picture of the groups with everyone else, like you are seeing. We have this option.
M. Laitman: I have three big screens. On one screen, I see the reader, who's the reader today. On the second screen, I see all the groups. Well, not everyone, but as much as they can put in there. Show everyone what I see on the second screen. Okay, that's what I see on the second screen, and then I choose which Ten or who's going to ask out of this screen, and those that I choose, I see them on the third screen. No, not this. Let's say, yes, let's say I chose now a friend from PT6, right? So, this is the third screen. So, I have three screens. Sometimes, even that third screen, which is actually common to everyone. Sometimes they split it. I don't do it. They do it. So that I see, let's say, myself and the group that I talk to. Well, now they're showing me the North America groups. So, I don't know, it seems to me that it's very important for us to see all of the groups. Well, not everyone. We can't put all the groups in there, but at least what they're showing us now. And on this background, I can already see the group or the person who is talking right now. Let's say, the friends that we now talked to. So we need to think about how do we make it so that this visual form will give me a maximal connection to the world Kli. It's very important. And the connection is through seeing. This nevertheless is our primary sense; seeing, hearing, sensing, smelling, and touching. Not this way. Well, it's impossible, it the whole world Kli, but that too, it's good to see how much we all, we're all there. Well, in short, think about it, discuss it.
Student: Just to say, technically, the friends are reminding me that there is a link, BB Kli.one, where everyone can open in a screen or in another screen, if he has one, to see the same picture that you are seeing. Just to mention that, BB.Kli.One.
Question (PT 6): (21:34) How can everyone shorten the time from being invested in yourself to a point where you begin to be a part of the Kli that the Ten is building, a part of the whole world Kli?
M. Laitman: By reading. I don't want to see images from yesterday. I don't want to be impressed from me seeing faces. I get up early, let's say. I get up a lot before two and a half, when the preparations begin. And I try to read something, as I used to do with Rabash. We would be reading something from Baal HaSulam. And this way we would enter this inspiration. This is what I do. Besides this, well, I have the additional obligation. I feel myself responsible for the entire Kli, for all of the students, so I am truly under stress. And preparing myself, well, before that I go to look at the broadcast. It's on the same floor where I am. And I see how everything is getting organized and people are getting ready. And I also read, mostly I read the same passages that they prepared for us. Let's say, today I was reading from the excerpts, number 60 something, on that same document. But the most important, I'm saying it again, the most important is to see how you are impressed when you're becoming ready before the lesson with the excitement that you entirely depend on the society. And it's not that you depend on the society, but that too is egoistic, but rather how much you are devoted to them. You already disconnect from yourself and you try to be inside of them. And this actually is already the preparation to entering above reason with the lesson.
Student: How do you come out of your own Kli and start living in a different one?
M. Laitman: But for me, the work is easier than it is for you, because I have an obligation, a duty. I must be connected to the world Kli. I must be concerned about everyone. I'm afraid that I might not be able to function in such a way, and I will not give people what they're expecting. Well, for me, this concern is, let's say, out of my role, my duty. But in fact, each and every one of us should be in this duty, and each one should be thinking about it, because we are all considered as one. We're equally important. I'm just the organizer. But with respect to the elevation of the group and connecting with the Creator, each one has a point in the heart, and it is unique. And if he will not create contact for everyone with the Creator, then we won't have wholeness in our connection. We will not truly be adhered to the Creator. It depends on each and every one, who, as much as he creates his personal contact with the Creator, and through this contact, is passing the connection from the Creator to everyone and from everyone to the Creator.
Student: I want to ask about us. We don't have your role.
M. Laitman: I don't think that should make a big difference. However, for me, it's more of an administrative role. I have to be ready for it, and from this point, I have to pass the materials to you. But indeed, inside, each one of us has the same role. Truly so.
Student: Still, if possible, I see that I used to run into the lesson with a different Kli, egoistically, and today it just doesn't work. I feel like I have to come with a different Kli, otherwise I can't receive anything from the lesson. So how do you do that? How do you replace these vessels? I don't know. I can't get a method to do it.
M. Laitman: When you come before the thought, before the contact with the group, you feel yourself that you are lacking orientation, you're confused, you're foggy, you're not organized according to your thoughts and desires, you have no orientation, no direction. Do you feel it?
Student: Of course, total helplessness.
M. Laitman: Excellent. The more you'll have this feeling each and every day - helplessness, lack of connection, I have nothing, I do not belong - it is very good. It is very good. This is an egoistic form from which we start each day. A new portion, a new slice of our ego is revealed to us, with which we have to work. Now, I make all kinds of efforts in order to connect with the group. And then I begin to receive from them, from the verses that we have to study; I begin to get an awakening, an inspiration, connection. And then I reach a state, like I said already, in the beginning of my talking, my words today, that I feel that I depend on the society, that I'm connected with them. That my connection with the Creator depends on them, it passes through them. Gradually, I need to get a feeling that I don't have direct contact with the Creator, but only on the condition that I connect through them. Then I receive a connection with the Creator, once I connect through them. And then in that connection which I have achieved, now I can take whatever they need and also pass it to the Creator by myself. But at first, it's only through them that I begin to feel how I can reach to the Creator. And then I take their deficiencies and I serve them to the Creator through me. And that way, I prepare myself before the lesson.
Student: How does this transition happen when you begin to, I don't know, despite the resistance to connection, you just run to it each time?
M. Laitman: Because I feel myself, let's say, when I get up in the morning, I'm like an animal, a beast. I'm just a beast. I have nothing. I get up like this. Even though I have all kinds of desires and thoughts, but it's all disorganized. It's all kinds of fluids. Then I have to arrange myself. As we talk now, as much as I feel myself that I am disconnected, emotionally, most importantly, emotionally, bit by bit, I arrange my connection with the group through the texts, through the texts, through thoughts. Usually, I immediately run to the excerpts that we have to study in the lesson. If these are excerpts that talk about connection with the Creator, faith above reason, all of these things, but this is how we start the lesson, with such excerpts. And then we come to TES, or to the “Last Generation.” So that's it. Try, try, and you will see how much this awakens you, and how much there will be a gap between how you are before the preparation and after the preparation. This is considered that you are preparing the Kli. And about the quality of this Kli, meaning the gap between the beast in us and the Adam in us, that is before the preparation and after the preparation, this gap, we need to be concerned that it will be as great as possible. But it will happen to you, it will happen in each one, more or less, but we're in it. We are already arranged. They don't want to show us where we are, so as not to confuse us and to leave for us more and more room for exertion.
Question (Africa): (31:58) When does preparation start?
M. Laitman: At 2.30 a.m. according to the Israeli time. If you're asking, when? If you're asking me, not according to the clock, then the preparation is always. Always we are in the preparation and in the study, always. A person should always be preparing himself to exit a state and enter the next state, always. And the preparation, that's the deficiency, establishing the lack for spirituality, so that it is as true as possible, so that we will depict spirituality as correctly as possible before us. Each time, of course, it's according to our degree, however, the preparation is the creation, the preparation of the Kli. It's the yearning, it's the form of the yearning, and therefore it's all done inside of the group. Look what it says in the Zohar. We should extract these passages from the Zohar about the preparation of the group of Rashbi, what they did and how they wanted to kill one another before they started the preparation and the lesson, and how afterwards they would reach unbounded love, connection between them, and then they discover all the upper light, called the Zohar, between them. They write about it.
Reader: (35:17) 23. Rabash. Article 23 (1991), “What Is the Meaning of the Purification of a Cow’s Ashes, in the Work?”
In faith,.. we should make three discernments:
1) For example, if a person gives to his friend $1,000, and the person accepts it, and he is completely sure and believes, since this man is my friend, and a meticulous person, so if he gives the money, there must be $1,000 there, and there is no need to count. This is called “faith below reason.” In other words, he believes him because his reason does not object to what he believes, meaning there is no contradiction between believing him and the reason. It follows that to him, faith is below reason, and the reason is more important. That is, he believes him because reason does not object. However, if this is in contrast to reason, he will probably not believe. This is still not regarded as faith above reason.
2) He tells him, “Here is $1,000.” The receiver counts it three times and sees that there is the stated amount there and says to the giver, “I believe you that there is that amount here, as you say.” Certainly, this does not count as faith.
3) He counts the $1,000 three times and sees that one dollar is missing, but he says to the giver, “I believe you that there is $1,000 here. Even though the reason and the intellect say that there is less here, he says that he believes. This is called true “above reason.”
M. Laitman: We talked about this a few times. If there are still questions about it, go ahead.
Question (Heb 10): (38:03) How can a person live and stay in deficiency?
M. Laitman: I don't understand the question.
Student: If he sees that there is only one dollar and he lacks the rest of it, how can he have the deficiency and advance and live that way?
M. Laitman: The most important is that he will go along with the group, and as for his lack and his advancement - it will happen, everything will work out. That's it. If he doesn't yet have such discernments within reason, below reason, above reason, these three options, then he should simply go along with the group, and bit by bit he will also receive from them the intellect and the emotion for how to see himself in the right way.
Question (PT 29): (39:02) Can we say that the above reason is the level of connection I feel in the Ten?
M. Laitman: That's not what it's about. No. It's not the degree of connection in the Ten. The degree of connection in the Ten is just the preparation for determining faith below, within or above reason.
Question (Beer Sheva): (40:05) He counts and he sees he has the exact amount, but in truth, he doesn't have that amount. So, why is he lying?
M. Laitman: He wants to be in the same view with that person who gave him the money, and not believe what he sees, but rather believe what the other person who gave him the money says. This is considered that he is going above his own reason, he is going along with the reason of the friend, let's say. It's a kind of an exercise with which view, with which reason you live. We get from the environment all kinds of views, all kinds of foundations - think this way, talk about that, that way, etc. And out of that, we build our own foundation through which we look at the world. That is, the world establishes for us our view, our reason, it's no longer my reason, it's what I get from everyone, they inject it into me, and out of that, I already look at the world. In order to get rid of whatever form, whatever outlook at the world, it was established in me by the different media, and all of my educators, and reach a state where I would like to see the world not the way that I do now, looking through their eyes, hearing through their ears, and through all of their senses, I would like to reach a new sense, my sense. How will I do that? About this, it says, “They have eyes but see not, they have ears but hear not”. That is, I truly need to determine for myself a new approach towards the world, so that I will see the world in a way that I'm disconnected from the egoistic Kli, that I'm disconnected from whatever the world is filling up my egoistic Kli with, establishing it in such a way. I want to reach a different vision, a different outlook, a different perception of reality, which is considered that I'm going to perform actions of faith above reason, that I would like to ascend above my own view, my reason, it's called above reason, what exists above reason is called faith, that way I reach a state where I will see the spiritual world, the eternal world, the Creator, and for that I don't have to perform some other actions besides what we are talking about together, and we want to do it in the group.
Question (PT 22): (44:00) Still, many times we are glued to our emotions and we have to do actions mechanically, but still, I tell myself, no, it's not real, it's not what I feel.
M. Laitman: What's the question?
Student: How to overcome that?
M. Laitman: Well, overcome it by clinging to the group, then you'll overcome it.
Question (PT 12): (44:23) Is it correct to say that the missing dollar is a flaw I see in the friend and I correct myself nevertheless?
M. Laitman: Well, of course, you see that it is missing. But that's in your eyes. There is another level through which you can relate to life, not according to your level, not according to “They have eyes but see not, they have ears but hear not,” but rather according to a different kind of seeing and hearing, where you are going in the form of bestowal, in a form where you are elevating yourself through the view, the reason of the group, the reason of the Creator. Then you will see a different reality, and of course, it is against the true reality of now, against your own senses, but this is how you reach a new world, a new galaxy, truly a new universe. Otherwise, you cannot. Otherwise, you will just stay within your beast, and this is how it will keep on rolling.
Question (Latin 7): (45:52) What exactly does it mean, to believe?
M. Laitman: To believe, well, it's not the way people in our world accept the view, the reason of another person who is telling them something. And they don't see it with their eyes, they don't hear it with their ears, it's not with all of their five senses, but rather they just get an impression that somebody else said something, and he passes it on to them, well, usually by speaking or reading a book or something, it doesn't matter, that is called faith. Faith, means that I accept the view of somebody else, even though for him too it can be not reason, meaning not facts. That is called faith. We are talking about faith above reason in a totally different way, not faith the way that people use that, and not reason the way that people use that. Faith for us means the force of bestowal, and reason is what I now discover, see or get from others, that this is what I have, and above it I build a new level of the perception of reality. That is, I now want to see reality in a different way, relate to it in a different way. This is called faith above reason, that is, I want to relate to reality not the way that my senses are talking, are showing it to me, but rather the way I hear it, I'm impressed, I'm inspired by the Kabbalists who are telling me about it, and they want to elevate me to a new level, a new perception, so that there are other Kelim, Kelim that are called the Kelim of Bina, not the Kelim of Malchut, and through the Kelim of Bina I'd like to see reality. That is, through the Kli of the bestower, like the Creator, the way that the Creator sees reality, this is how I would like to see reality, it is considered through the Kelim of Bina.
Question (Moscow 1): (48:44) This perception, seemingly it is the opposite of how we are used to seeing the world, and clearly fear comes out of that, fear of becoming an abnormal person, insane. A person has to work and educate his children, etc., so I don't understand where inside one approach fit in with the other? How do they complement each other?
M. Laitman: I saw many Kabbalists, and in our world there are many people who are in faith above reason, in little degrees, small degrees, but it doesn't matter, still they are in it. And it doesn't prevent them from being in this world and doing all their businesses. No. Like, Baal HaSulam writes about the teacher who taught him, and then he discovered that he passed away, that he was a known merchant in the city and in the world, but no one knew that he was a Kabbalist, and how he appeared to Baal HaSulam. These things are not connected, it's two levels. A person exists on both, and one doesn't hinder the other, and doesn't confuse him also. Now, when we don't yet have faith above reason permanently, only here and there maybe some of us have that feeling that we rise to a new perception of reality through bestowal, through Bina, it's still not much. We'll advance, and you'll see that it doesn't pose any disturbance. On the contrary, it's a necessity for all people in this world to reach a state of seeing reality through the force of bestowal, to see reality the way the force of bestowal, the Creator, sees it. In this way, we will live and exist. This is new matter, it's new perception, it's new reality, to the point that the reality of this world completely disappears from our perception, and we all rise to perceive the spiritual reality. We need to understand that if we were built differently, we'd see the world differently. It's not that the world has some reality, that this is how it is. It's how we depict this reality in our own perception. So, understand that if we had other senses, we would perceive the world in a different way. That's what the wisdom of Kabbalah wants to show us, how to accept, receive the true reality, which is the abstract light that paints different shapes in the person. So we can change the qualities of the person, and then the upper light will show us all kinds of different states, different worlds. And we will then understand how and why we exist. We come to a state where we can change reality by changing our qualities. The upper light is abstract light. It's constant, and it fills all of reality. And if we can change our qualities, we will see a different reality each time. So throughout the 125 degrees, this is happening, until we probably come to perceive the complete reality, which is the complete upper abstract light, filling all of the Kli that is with it in similarity.
Student: I'll phrase it this way. I understand that the world is my inner system, and I understand that at least a part of the system that I see exists egoistically. I don't understand how I can take part in this system when I'm not corrected. How can I function if I will move away from the egoistic approach?
M. Laitman: You will see how much one thing does not disturb the other. You're going to be in two worlds. And it's not like in one world you will be a thief, and in the other one you'll be righteous. But you're going to see. You're going to see how one does not harm the other, does not disturb the other in the meantime. But now all of humanity also is going through stages of ascension from this world to the spiritual world. You're going to see soon how perceptions will change in people, their attitudes. You'll see how we talk differently about matter, about the planet, about our life. You'll see. It's difficult to explain this if a person is not even somewhat in these qualities. Try to acknowledge this, but it's not that you're already starting to play with it. No.
Question (Volga): (55:28) You just explained, and I understand that, it's individual work of the person in the morning, when he builds for himself a new outlook, a new perspective. In that context, I don't understand what the Ten is. What is it for? What is it?
M. Laitman: The Ten is the Kli where I feel the spiritual world. Just step outside of your ego. How do you perceive the spiritual world if you're not going to a state of faith, to a state of devotion, to a state of exiting yourself? Then where are you going? Specifically because you have a Ten and you integrate in them, by that you prepare yourself to feel in the Ten, to feel the spiritual world to the extent that you rise above your “I.”
Question (ITA ): (56:52) Which are these qualities that can reach us, they call the faith above reason?
M. Laitman: There are no such qualities. If a person has a point in the heart, and the Creator attracts him and brings a person into the group and tells him, “Take it,” puts the person's hand on the good faith and the person accepts it and tries, then he comes to a state where he builds for himself in the group, in the Ten, he builds the Kli to feel the spiritual world, to feel the Creator.
Question (Latin 6): (57:56) Is there a point, a limit to how the friend can feel the deficiency of the Ten in order to bestow to the Ten?
M. Laitman: I don't know what you mean by that point of boundary. There's no boundary in bestowal. You do as much as you can.
Student: Is there some innovation, some novelty in the perception of reality where we feel this darkness not as a Kli, but something that I want to reject?
M. Laitman: I don't understand what he's saying. Maybe he's saying it's right, but the translation maybe; I don't understand the question. These are not words that I'm using. Maybe it's the translator translating this way, I don't know.
Question (Zafon 2): (59:08) How do the new senses work and exist inside of us in this perception of reality?
M. Laitman: Through the force of bestowal that we try to come to, that's where we establish, detect, and find the new senses. They are senses of bestowal. That's why the preparation for the lesson is so important. By that, we develop the senses of bestowal.
Question (Belarus): (59:53) If I see the results in the eyes of the group, or in the eyes of the friends, then I'm certain, I'm confident, like in this example with the $1,000. If the friend gives me, and he's confident that in the envelope there is $1,000, I check, and I don't find $1,000 there, but the most important is that he, the friend, is certain about it, he's confident.
M. Laitman: I don't understand what you're saying. He gave me an envelope with $1,000, and he says this is $1,000. So he knows it's $1,000. Now, I take it, and I know that the friend knows that this is $1,000. Now, I can count, or I may not count. One of the options, if I count and I see $1,000, that's called faith within reason. If I count and I don't see $1,000, now I have two options. Either I accept this and trust him that it's $1,000, nevertheless. This is called faith above reason, above the fact of my count. And if I don't test, if I don't count, and I trust him that it's $1,000, that's called faith below reason. Sorry, before that, I wanted to say below reason. Anyway, these are the options I have. So I don't make a calculation of whether what he gave me, he believes it or not, that doesn't matter. I'm not talking about his attitude. His attitude ends with him giving me an envelope and saying there's $1,000 there. That's it.
Question (PT 3): (01:02:23) What is the lesson from this $1,000? Because we always distinguish between spiritual work towards the Creator and the revelation of the Creator, not with respect to businesses of this world.
M. Laitman: It doesn't matter. It's about a fact. Each and every corporeal fact, how can I rise above it to a spiritual state? This is called faith above reason. So in order to be in faith above reason, should I count or not count? You need to have reason in order to be in faith above it. So yes, but there needs to be a difference between faith and reason, and the greater the difference between the desired state and the existing state, that's how I raise myself. So we need to develop both reasons, our vessels of reception need to grow, and also Bina, the force of faith needs to grow. So we have greater faith above reason, and the gap between them needs to be greater from one degree to the next.
Student: So this means, I still don't get it, in what way the $1,000 in practice, we're not talking about $1,000, are we?
M. Laitman: Why not?
Student: Because when do we attribute our spiritual work to possessions and things of this world?
M. Laitman: We relate to the spiritual world, work to possession and to everything we have in this world and everything we feel in our vessels of reception, because we build spirituality above the vessels of reception, Bina above Malchut. What else do you build your spirituality upon? How will you build your spirituality, if not on a corporeal basis? Why do we need to exist in this world?
Student: Corporeal means that I want in order to receive, I'm not willing to feel emptiness, I feel rejection and…
M. Laitman: Okay, and then how do you do it if not by counting the money and knowing in your five senses that which gives you all your basis?
Student: What do I count?
M. Laitman: You count what you have in your vessels of reception. And accordingly, you can build a relation to spirituality, and spirituality is measured by how much you have a perception above that.
Student: How is this related to the Ten? How is this related to my attitude to the Ten?
M. Laitman: The Ten helps me do it. But this is always the rule. One who's greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than himself. One's friend can mean my previous state. Each time I grow in my will to receive, and so I can grow to the form of bestowal this way. And if I won't have desires to receive that grow each time, how will I rise to the quality of bestowal?
Student: So we can say that the thousand dollars are with respect to my work of connection in the Ten?
M. Laitman: You can do that too, sure. What does it matter if it's a thousand dollars, or calories, or physical efforts, or anything else? It's just some measurement; some equivalent to something you're doing.
Question (ITA 3): (01:06:44) What does it mean to be in Arvut during the preparation?
M. Laitman: What does it mean to be in Arvut during the preparation? We have to reach a state where each and every one comes to feel. The main thing is the feeling, not the understanding. The inner feeling that his success depends on all the Ten, that what he wants to attain, he attains in desires and connections of all the friends. And that can be done only on the condition they all think together. They're aiming at one goal, and they long for it together. And they begin to feel in their preparation that there is a conductor, an upper conductor, the Creator who's guiding them in this and thus promoting them to Him. That's the right preparation.
Question (New York 4): (01:07:58) How can I tell if I had a successful day?
M. Laitman: A successful day means before I go to sleep, I have to make an account of whether I invested in the group, whether I invested in dissemination, whether I invested in searching for vessels of bestowal. Did I fill my quota a little bit more in terms of my effort to connect, connection between us and connection with the Creator? That's how you look at your day.
Reading: (01:09:15) 24. Rabash. Article 23 (1990), “What Does It Mean that Moses Was Perplexed about the Birth of the Moon, in the Work?” - Twice
We must believe in the sages, who tell us that all our work, however we work, if the person attributes the work to the Creator, even if it is in utter lowliness, the Creator enjoys it. The person should be happy that he can do things while in a state of lowliness.
The person should tell himself that He enjoys this work, which is entirely above reason. Reasonably thinking, this work is not considered “work,” meaning an important act that the Creator enjoys. Yet, he believes in the sages, who told us that the Creator does enjoy, but this is above reason.
Reader: Again, excerpt 24.
M. Laitman: Meaning that we don't have in our vessels, in the mind, the heart, no proof that we are in contact with the Creator, we don't feel anything in our senses. Rather, trying to carry out the advice of the sages who told us to do this, we should be happy about this, and truly we don't want anything else, anything more. It's very opposite to our vessels of reception, it's very not characteristic of the will to receive, but what can you do? If we have to rise from the degree of Malchut to the degree of Bina, to bestow, then how can we see our vessels of reception that we are in right now, how these vessels feel if we rise to the quality of bestowal? In our vessels of reception, we don't feel anything, not in our minds, not in our emotions, nothing, it's like we're just empty and dumb, ignorant. But what is holding us? What's holding us is that we are carrying out what is written in the books of the Kabbalists. This is called faith in the sages. Meaning, what they do, we follow. And I don't care what else happens. “They have eyes and see not; they have ears and hear not” - I don't trust my own senses. If I come to such a state, then from here on I have an entrance to spirituality. From here, I begin to work with the vessels of bestowal.
Question (Florida): (01:14:17) Whenever I feel that there's something that's against my reason, is this precisely the Creator trying to get me to go above reason?
M. Laitman: Yes, of course, everything is designed by the upper force. There's nothing here that we actually do on our own. We're like kids in a kindergarten, and the kindergarten nanny organizes us and orchestrates all the actions. We don't do anything on our own. But to the extent that we nullify ourselves to the actions of the Creator upon us, we come closer and closer to what is called the work of the Creator. It's His work, not our work. Our work is just not to disturb Him, to detach from ourselves as much as possible, to turn ourselves into people who are willing to accept His providence no matter what happens. He tells us, connect - we connect. He tells us to try to rise above reason - we do that. With that, we have to carry out things in this world, in our vessels - we do that. So we start dividing ourselves to two worlds, where I am in bestowing as much as possible in faith above reason, and where I am in this world, with my work, with my life, and within my reason. And this is how we want to build our observation on reality, living in two worlds.
Student: I feel this, all my work is to pray, all my effort is just to pray to the Creator to help me to go above reason?
M. Laitman: Yes, but to pray means that you are doing all kinds of preparations, and from that, you're asking. You need to be clear on what you're asking. Just saying the words faith above reason is not going to help. You need to do all sorts of actions that are closer to spirituality.