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Daily Morning Lesson: July 9, 2025

Part 3: To be as an ox to the burden and as a donkey to the load - Selected excerpts from the sources.

Reader: We're in the lesson on the topic, “To be as an ox to the burden and as a donkey to the load.” Selected excerpts from the sources, we're going to continue from excerpt number six, “To be as an ox to the burden and as a donkey to the load.” 

M. Laitman: Yes, so it says here, this is from Rabash, Article 37, “Before one is rewarded with purification of the vessels, so they work in order to bestow. At that time, his work is compulsory, and this is called a ‘law’. That is, if the body comes and asks, ‘What is this work for you?’ we tell it, ‘You ask questions according to the mind of the will to receive. I have no answer to this, and you are right. Yet, I do not want to answer within reason, meaning so that the will to receive will also understand it. It would mean that I am working for the will to receive, or it would never agree to work.

Therefore, at that time, a person says, ‘You are right when you ask, ‘What will I have,’ meaning the will to receive, ‘from this work?’ So, I'm telling you that I do not want to work for you. Why? It is because I believe in the sages that we must work for the sake of the Creator above reason although the body does not understand, and I accept this work ‘as an ox to the burden and as a donkey to the load’. 

This is the part of the 37th chapter of Rabash,"What Is the 'Torah' and What Is 'The Statute of the Torah,' in the Work?"

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (03:17) He says here, at the end of the excerpt that we read, the person has a will to receive, and he says, I don't want to work for you. Why? Because I believe in the sages, that we must work for the sake of the Creator above reason, although the body does not understand, and I accept this work as an ox to the burden and as a donkey to the load. That's very clear if we look at reality like a movie, that's very clear. But at the end, we speak about the work of intentions, the work of desires, the mind and heart of the person, so who is this “I”, this self, this desire to receive that comes and says, what is this work for me? Because at the end of the day, the desire to receive is very strong, it's very powerful. 

M. Laitman: The person who scrutinizes with what can I come to the Creator, and it's written that the Creator is complete bestowal. And the person also needs to be similar to the Creator. That's what he does not see in him, the beginning of such desires. So, when he says, when the will to receive says, what will I have, get from the work? So, he says, I don't want to work for you. Meaning, he's saying the truth, that's because I believe in the sages that we have to work for the benefit of the Creator above reason even though the body does not understand. How to work above reason for the benefit of the Creator? Even if a person examines, and thinks, and delves into his desires, his actions, he doesn't see in himself any inclinations to that, any beginnings of that, and that's what Rabash opens up and continues. And therefore, a person says, “you're right asking ‘what will I get from it?’” Meaning, what will the will to receive have from this work? The will to receive, when a person feels how I need to work, he feels that this is completely in order to receive. So, he says, “I don't want to work for you.” Meaning, the person tells the will to receive, “I don't want to work for you.” So, there's already a certain correction that he has, and I have no answer to this. You're right, and I don't want to answer within reason, meaning, so that the will to receive will also understand it. This would mean that I'm working for the will to receive, or it would never agree to work. Therefore, at that time, a person says, “you are right when you ask, what will I have?” Meaning, the will to receive, I do not receive anything from this work, so I'm telling you that I do not want to work for you. Why? It is because I believe in the sages, that we must work for the sake of the Creator above reason, although the body does not understand. Meaning, even though it's against the desire of the body and all of man's reason, he still wants to be in that. 

Student: So, that's what the question is about, because there's this inversion here. It's as if there's something born in a person where he can stand beside his will to receive and say, “I'm not working for you.” It's not just words, it's work in practice, it's this effort in the heart, this effort in the mind. So, where does he get the force to be able to stand up to the will to receive in this heroism? 

M. Laitman: He examines himself, and he sees that from all of his aspects, he's not built, he's not capable of working in order to bestow. Therefore, the person then says, I continue, that “you are right in asking, what will I have?” Meaning, what will the will to receive have from this work? So, I'm telling you that I do not want to work for you. Why? It is because I believe in the sages, that we must work for the sake of the Creator above reason, although the body does not understand. Meaning that there is a solution here for his situation. That even if I have no excuse and you are right, and I don't want to answer within reason, meaning so that the will to receive will also understand it. It would mean that I'm working for the will to receive, or it would never agree to work. So, what's the solution? Therefore, at that time a person says, “you're right,” meaning the will to receive, when it asks, “what will I have from this work?” So, let's say it will agree to make actions of bestowal. So, “I'm telling you, I do not want to work for you.” That's how a person answers the will to receive. And that's because I believe in the sages that there's another approach, that we must work for the sake of the Creator above reason, although the body doesn't understand. How will he do it? Unclear. What for to do it? Also unclear. Seeing this demand in front of him, from above, from the Creator, he doesn't know how to do it. So, it would mean that I'm working for the will to receive; otherwise, it would not agree to work. Therefore, at that time, a person says, “you're right when you ask, what will I have?” Meaning, the will to receive from this work. So, “I am telling you, that I do not want to work for you.” Why? It's because I believe in the sages, that we must work for the sake of the Creator above reason, although the body does not understand. And I accept this work as an ox to the burden and as a donkey to the load. Meaning, there's no other choice, I have to do this forcefully. And if he approaches it that way, to solve the question, then he begins to see that this is exactly the right path, and that the Creator is right. 

Question (Nikolaev-Sochi): (13:58) Speaking about a person who's already in faith in the sages, it turns out that he has this upper motivation that can make the body go into this burden. In our state, in the Ten, how do we acquire this faith in the sages? In our current state, that's shame or envy in the friends.

M. Laitman: It's true, but we have to start somewhere, doesn't matter where. What each and every one has, from that he should begin, and thus gradually he'll also put his mind and his thoughts into it, into what Rabash writes. 

Student: But can we say that first we work with the friends, and then we work in faith of the sages, and only after that we work in order to love the Creator? And that way we rise up each time, first we make the efforts towards the friends, and then in order to touch the faith in the sages, we'll be reinforced, and then the body can work in the burden, under the burden, like an ox.

M. Laitman:  No. Here we have to approach it in a bit of a different way. We'll see. What other questions do we have? 

Question (Hadera 1): (15:58) Yesterday, when we worked on questions, a question awakened. How does a Ten ask questions? There's a method where each friend asks what he wants, and that's our questions. Or we can maybe do it in another way. Every question the Ten discusses, and then if the question is more refined, more precise, it can actually come, then we don't ask questions. How is it correct to work here?

M. Laitman: I don't understand your question. 

Student: I will repeat. The question has to do with asking questions. Does a Ten need to, each friend, let's say if he raises a question, and one friend writes down all the questions, that's one option. The second option is that they discuss every question in the Ten and choose one question that is after a common scrutiny of the Ten. What's the correct way to work? 

M. Laitman: The main thing is that a person wants in every next moment to be closer to the Creator. That is actually the purpose. And in which way his desires will develop, he has to check it and discover.

Student: So, there shouldn't be a question for a Ten. A question you receive from a friend from the Ten and that's all, right? 

M. Laitman: We didn't learn yet how to connect every person in the Ten into one man. We still don't feel that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:26) What's the main difference between working for the will to receive and working for the Creator? What's the main difference between working for the desire to receive and working for the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Working for the Creator is supposedly against a person. And working for the will to receive is like there is something in there for a man, because still, his nature is the will to receive. 

Student: Also, when I work against my nature or my desires, in the end, it's showing as if I'm working for the will to receive. So, where is this discernment where I can say, now I'm working for the benefit of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: You're right. I can say that I'm working for the benefit of the Creator only under the condition that I reach the state that I feel when will my desires be directed to me. And then, when I work against those desires, in this case, I can say that I'm not working for myself but for the Creator's benefit. 

Student: How, if I discover that actually all my desires aim towards me, then what can I do to aim it towards the benefit of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That's the condition. That is the condition.

Student: It's like I'm saying, I work with the Ten in order to work outside of me. I work to bestow to them and then to the benefit of the Creator, but here too it's being revealed that it's for my own benefit. So, where else do I have some field that I can, some area that I can turn it to the benefit of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That's the question. When can we feel that we are truly working towards the Creator? And in this way we can keep going until the Creator will agree with us and discover that intention in us. Only to work in giving contentment to Him. 

Student: Can it be as a condition before every action or is it actually after all actions, after all attempts? 

M. Laitman: No, no, no, it's before.

Student: But what before? What can I do before? Because later then it's revealed again that it's for my own benefit. So what before can be such a condition or such an intention that really will be to bestow to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: If you feel yourself that you're truly yearning to become to be moving closer to the Creator, bestowing contentment to Him, to do what's good in His eyes. So if you can hold yourself in that, it's still not an action, that's an intention. Now try and add an action to that. Any action you want that you can do. Then your relation to the Creator and your relation to the action you're performing, it will all be to bestow.

Question (Turkiye 1): (24:05) In the excerpt, it begins with saying “before one is rewarded with purification of the vessels so they work in order to bestow, at that time his work is compulsory. He was asking, what is the main effort, what is the precise work that a person needs to do prior to being rewarded with the purification of the vessels? 

M. Laitman: The work is that a person sees his connection, his connection with the others, as the most important the most important action. 

Question (Moscow 6): (25:51) What allows a person to dictate his desire and get what to do, like in this excerpt, and not obey it? 

M. Laitman: I can't understand what you're saying. Repeat slowly. 

Student: What enables a person to dictate to his will to receive what to do? 

M. Laitman: To dictate to his desire? If he knows his will to receive, and what's happening to him, and what desire he is, then from that he understands from that he understands what to change in him. 

Student: He's asking where a person has the strength to resist his will to receive, to control his will to receive. Where does he get the strength or the forces to. He manages me, I don't manage him. So how do I manage him? 

M. Laitman: How does a person manage his will to receive? He goes through a certain stage, and it's either this way or that way, either to think of himself or to think of the Creator, let's say. That's why he can then hold his will to receive in his hands, and direct it in order to bestow. 

Question (Croatia): (28:00) What kind of integration do we need in order to accept the burden of the Kingdom of Heaven? What kind of integration do we need to create between us? 

M. Laitman: That I want to be the transition, the pipeline between the Creator to all the other friends, to the whole group, let's say. If I want it to happen in such a way, by that I work. I think about it, I intend towards that. 

Question (Latin 4): (29:31) How can you identify in our daily life when we're working above reason? 

M. Laitman: Above reason is a special kind of work that it's clear to the person that he doesn't want to work in that way. He doesn't see any benefit in it, any self-benefit, but then it opens up for him that he can do that action, but it's only for the benefit of the Creator. Only for the benefit of the Creator, and then he works, then he goes from in order to receive to in order to bestow in his action, and he gives contentment to the Creator.

Question (Kyiv 1): (30:57) When a person is integrated in this desire to delight the Creator, how to make it so it doesn't move to within reason, because he already feels that he's giving it to the Creator, that it's connected to Him.

M. Laitman: But he's with him in connection only in the intention. He relates to the Creator only through the intention.

Student: And how not to enjoy it, meaning not move it to within reason, what's the next step to extend this action? 

M. Laitman: It doesn't matter what the Creator is telling the person to do, it doesn't matter. The main thing is that we change our intention, and everything that is revealed in that state, that's what we want to pass back to the Creator. And we can say that in principle, in any given moment the state ends.

Student: You also said that we have to add an action when we do such a thing, how to add the action in the right way? 

M. Laitman: We talked about actions, when we talked about the intention, that the intention on its own doesn't mean anything, you have to add an action to it. An action in spirituality also isn't something we can pass from one hand to the other, the action is also not material. I just pass the beginning and end of the thought from myself, all that towards the Creator. 

Question (Haifa 3): (33:47) What to do where the will to receive is more powerful than the faith in the sages? In your intellect you understand that they're right, but you can't, it's like you're looking from the side and it's laughing at you, it's doing whatever it wants with you. 

M. Laitman: That's right, but it happens that way, and we need to give gratitude about that, and even if the Creator is right, that this is how we feel because it comes from Him. We accept it, and keep going, that I feel the Creator's actions towards me, that this is what He does. And I want only one thing, that the result of the state of men will be felt in all the friends, and also in the Creator. That's it. 

Question (W Turkiye 7): (36:08) I heard that the desire to receive overcomes a person every day. What is the force that lets a person rise above reason, despite the questions of the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: Again, what is the force? 

Student: What is that force that gives a person the possibility to rise above reason? 

M. Laitman: Obviously, that force comes from the Creator. No question about it. But, how can I scrutinize it? How can I scrutinize that? Again, the question. 

Student: The question is, what is the force that lets a person rise above reason? Despite all the questions of the desire to receive that are drawn to himself, what's the force that lets a person rise above reason? 

M. Laitman: By being similar to the Creator, he will be a bestower. 

Student: And that gives him the forces to rise above his reason?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Qazaqstan-Kyrgyzstan): (38:12) What is the action in spirituality? 

M. Laitman: An action in spirituality is a revelation of a new desire that now, in that desire, I want to be in contact with the Creator. 

Student: Can you give an example, if it's possible? If there's an example that can be given, possibly? 

M. Laitman: An example? Any example you'd like. 

Student: For example, I bring coffee to the friend, I fill his desire. How can I add the intention to bestow to the Creator to that? 

M. Laitman: Your intention, together with the coffee, you give to the friend. You pass to him the matter, that which you prepared for himself and what you're doing for him. And that's it. He can take that coffee. And when he takes it, it can also be in the intention that he is doing it in order to grow and preserve the connection between you. And then, in such a way, it is realized.

Question (Latin 2): (40:42) Could you explain a little more what it is to work on the reason? Could you explain a bit more what it means to work above reason? Because the reason is what I get as a result of experience. So, what does it mean to work above reason? 

M. Laitman: Above reason is where I work not according to my desire. Rather, according to the desire of the friends or the Teachers. And then I leave my understanding, and in its place, I truly receive the understanding of the Friend. And I work with it as if it's mine. And, of course, when I work in this way, I need to make an effort. And after I receive this desire, this foreign desire to me, with its filling, which is actually the filling that comes to me from the Friend, then the desire and the filling together, as they operate in me, they perform an action in me which is such that I let go of my previous desire and enter another desire. 

Student: We all must grant each other in the minimum possible measure. Does the Creator measure the effort? So, we need to bestow on one another in the minimum possible way. So, does the Creator measure our exertion? Is the connection between a person to the Creator different than someone who exerts more or less?

M. Laitman: Of course, there is each time, not only according to the size, but also the form, the color, the manner, according to many things that are in it. Yes.

Question (German): (43:41) If the ego is right, so why do I listen to the sages? 

M. Laitman: And the ego isn't right, I don't know for now. That's how I accept it. But I want to process what I'm receiving, so it will go through me and be in the form of bestowal.

Student: But if the ego is right, why do I listen to the sages? 

M. Laitman: I don't think the ego is correct. We actually want to scrutinize, despite the ego who's saying this to me, who is it that I choose? 

Student: If I understand this question, so he writes, a person tells the will to receive - justice is with you. And eventually he can reject it by saying, I believe in the faith of the sages. So where is the force from? Why isn't the ego sneakier and knows how to resist the faith of the sages? What suddenly stops the ego and he accepts it? 

M. Laitman: That's how it is. That's the situation. Maybe next time it will be deeper, even deeper.

Student: What's in the faith of the sages that stops the ego? 

M. Laitman: In the faith of the sages, a person has the ability to see his state in a way that I don't understand. Again, the question and answer. 

Student: The original question, if the ego feels he's right. So how is he going to go and believe in faith of the sages? 

M. Laitman: The ego doesn't feel that it's correct. But in order to move to the next stage, next step, the next stage, a person must exit that state of the faith in the sages and rise above it. 

Student: What will be there in that state of faith of the sages that helps a person rise? 

M. Laitman: The state in which a person feels himself that he is with the opportunity to ascend.

Student: When a person is wrapped in faith of the sages, what does it give him? So he has like an ability to deal with his state, where he inverts from the faith of the sages, he probably falls. 

M. Laitman: No, that he wraps himself in faith of the sages, it's like a shield. So with that, he rises from the state he was in to a higher state.

Student: And what is sages in our state? 

M. Laitman: That is what he accepts upon himself, this degree of faith more than he had before.

Student: What do I get exactly? What is faith of the sages? What do I get that will help me defeat the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: You receive the force and this force raises you above, above that height that you were at before.

Student: What is faith of the sages? What does he get? What does he believe in? 

M. Laitman: It depends on what he wants.

Student: Faith of the sages that I accept what the teacher says, what's written, what the friend says. What is faith of the sages? 

M. Laitman: That's what you had. That's called the faith in the sages.

Question (Bulgaria 1): (49:26) A person's dialogue with his will to receive, it happens when a person is in Lo Lishma or in Lishma? 

M. Laitman: When a person isn't yet in Lishma, even before that. It's the same degree that enables him to rise up to Lishma.

Student: So that means that I need to get that force to the Creator in order to ascend.

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. 

Student: And faith in our sages is a force that comes from the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course.

Student: So we need to pray to the Creator in order to do that action? 

M. Laitman: That depends on a person, of course. How a person will place himself before the Creator. Where he wants to be connected with the Creator, in a state of adhesion, Dvekut, with the Creator, in all his states, in descents, in ascents, yesterday, today, tomorrow, he simply wants to be connected with the Creator. If he yearns for that state, then he begins to see how he can be connected with the Creator. 

Student: That means that you have to do all this in Lo Lishma?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Hungarian-Polish): (51:29) How a person separates himself completely from the ego, how to get the complete faith that helps him to do that each and every state, each and every desire, each and every moment. Thank you. How a person separates himself completely from the ego, and gets the complete faith in each and every desire, in each and every moment. How does he separate himself from the ego? Does he look at the ego from the side, and gets the complete faith? 

M. Laitman: If he could replace his ego with another ego, Well, then he would certainly, already with the new ego, feel himself different. But if he can't do that, then he remains in what he is, in what he's in? 

Question (W Spain 1): (53:05) How can we annul the reason completely without any attempt to understand or get a reward and call that truth? 

M. Laitman: We don't know. If I were to know in advance, it wouldn't be a problem whatsoever. There wouldn't be a question standing here. Rather, the fact that we don't know what the truth is, specifically that actually gives us the possibility to expect an answer.

Question (Zichron 2): (54:31) There's like a conversation with different parts of me. It's like scrutinizing in the brain about a feeling. Is there a time I just have to stop scrutinizing in my mind and go into a heartful effort? 

M. Laitman: It could be that, yes.

Question (W Unity): (55:08) What does it mean to connect the intention to the Creator for an action to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The intention for the Creator for what? 

Student: An action. 

M. Laitman: An action for the Creator. Well, that's how it can be. Intention and action. 

Student: To want the same? 

M. Laitman: No, it's not the same thing. But try to connect them.

Question (W Rehovot 1): (55:52) Why is working in rejection called a law? What does it mean that working in rejection is a law? Why is working in coercion called a law? Law says that in the source. Well, what does it mean that working in coercion is a law? 

M. Laitman: Because this action is arranged exactly according to the will to receive. Exactly according to the will to receive. 

Student: I heard you saying that holding the will to receive in the hands and directing it in order to bestow. What does it mean to hold the will to receive in your hands when it constantly has tricks? It fools us. How can you always defeat this inner dialogue? In which action or exercise can we truly defeat it? That it will always be directed to bestow in the work of the Creator. 

M. Laitman: That we're not capable, but we do that. If we try to do it from above reason, then we receive a special force from the Creator that helps us ascend from the previous degree to the new degree.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:57) Who's that “I” who doesn't want to work for the will to receive, and is willing to go in the faith of the sages? Who is that in me?

M. Laitman: Every person who has reached that.

Student: It's a person. It's not something more internal. 

M. Laitman: No, no, no. We're not going to such scrutinies.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:44) The ox to the burden and the donkey to the load are two types of self-annulment. So, that's also already coming closer to the Creator, or should another action come in addition to that? 

M. Laitman: An ox to the burden and a donkey to the load, well?

Student: That's self-annulment in two ways. So, is that a condition that if you already keep it, you're already coming closer to the Creator, or do you need an action to do it also?

M. Laitman: Those states are called actions.

Student: What's between self-annulment to working in order to bestow? What's between the both? 

M. Laitman: I don't know what to tell you. Thank you, with God's help. 

Question (W Moscow 8): (01:00:15) Continuing that question, we don't want to work for the will to receive, but to serve the friends and the Creator. How does faith in the sages help us? Is it special help from above to answer our prayers, or is it an effort that we're doing? Or it's an illumination of the Torah? 

M. Laitman: It's when we can exit ourselves and adhere to the faith above reason. 

Student: The faith above reason we're acquiring as a result of our actions. 

M. Laitman: Only as a result, as a reply to our actions, when we nullify ourselves before the friends.

Student: So we're adhering to the sages that already did the correction? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (W Latin14): (01:01:46) How in the Ten do we develop a feeling that we're working for the Creator? How in the Ten do we develop a feeling that we're working for the Creator? 

M. Laitman: We hold on to one another, and that's how we all together want to pass along the confidence, this fact, to one another. And then, eventually, if there is a connection between us, we all receive this assurance, this promise from faith above reason. All right, I have to conclude.