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Daily Morning Lesson: June 24, 2025 

Part 3: The topic of Winning the War, Excerpt 8, RABASH, Article No. 14 (1987), "The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror"

Reader: Friends, we are in a lesson, the topic of Winning the War. We will read selected excerpts to reinforce the world Kli and for peace in the world. Rav will join us momentarily. We will begin to read from the beginning of the document, from Excerpt Number One, and we will continue onwards. Rabash writes in Excerpt Number One: 

Reading Excerpt 1 (00:24) RABASH, Article No. 6 (1989), "What Is Above Reason in the Work?" 

Tzava [army] are men of war. These are people who go each day to fight the evil inclination. They are called “army.” Therefore, after they have been rewarded with redemption, meaning after they conquer the evil inclination and emerge from the control of the evil, their conduct in the work is by way of ascents and descents, which is called Tzevaot [plural of Tzava (army)]. Meaning, at times they emerge from their control, and then are under their control again. Thus, the name for ascents and descents is Tzevaot.

Reading Excerpt 2: (01:23) RABASH, Article No. 6 (1989), "What Is Above Reason in the Work?

During the work, a person should say, “If I am not for me, who is for me?” At that time in the work, they think that they themselves are doing the ascents and descents, that they are men of war, called Tzava, “mighty men.” Afterward, when they are redeemed, they attain that the Lord is of hosts [Tzevaot], meaning that the Creator made all the ups and downs they had.

In other words, even the descents come from the Creator. A person does not get so many ups and downs for no reason. Rather, the Creator caused all those exits. We can interpret “exit” as “exit from Kedusha [holiness],” and Ba [comes] as “coming to Kedusha. The Creator does everything. Hence, after the redemption, the Creator is called “Lord of Hosts.” 

Reader: (02:48) And now we will enter the lesson with Rav, and we will read the excerpt for the lesson, Excerpt Number Eight in this document:

Reading Excerpt 8: (03:06) RABASH, Article No. 14 (1987), "The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror"

Why He has made the work of bestowal so hard was that He wanted the mighty hand to be revealed, as it is written, “for with a mighty hand he will send them, and with a mighty hand he will drive them out of his land.”

In which way is a mighty hand necessary? It is precisely when the other party resists with all its might. Then it can be said that we must use a mighty hand. But if the other party is weak, it cannot be said that it requires a mighty hand to deal with it. It is as the allegory that Baal HaSulam said, that normally, when Two people are disputed, sometimes they move into a fist fight. The one who sees that he cannot overcome the other takes a knife against him. When the other one sees that he has a knife, he takes a pistol, and when that one sees he has a pistol, he takes a rifle, and so forth, until the other one takes a machine gun, and if he has a machine gun, the other one takes a tank. However, we have never heard that if someone takes a stick and wants to hit with it, the other one takes a tank to fight the one who took the stick.

It is likewise in the work. It cannot be said that we must go against Pharaoh with a mighty hand if Pharaoh does not resist very strongly. And since the Creator wanted to show him a mighty hand here, the Creator had to harden Pharaoh’s heart, as it is written, “for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may set these tokens of Mine within him.”

M. Laitman: (05:56) Yes, that is how Rabbah writes: To wage war on the evil inclination. That is our entire spiritual that we have to do in this world, wherever we are right now. What does it mean? It means that we always have certain obstructions, certain behaviors, and they all come to us from the Creator. They are all included in what we generally call, the evil inclination – what gets in our way and we need to try and overcome it. And to continue until we are able to subjugate the evil inclination so it cannot stand in our way any longer.

Question (PetahTikva 35): (07:50) Why did the Creator make it so that the work of bestowal is so difficult? Why does he have to show such great resistance, and not to a lesser degree? 

M. Laitman: The Creator has prepared for us a place of work, meaning a place where we can try and reveal Him, approach Him, understand Him. Specifically, in this reality we're in, which is called, this world. We need to accept it and test it, check it: Why do we need it, to what end were we given this evil inclination? What are we doing when we win the war over it, how can we overcome it? What does the Creator hope to receive from us? 

If we try to raise ourselves to a state where we want to receive an answer in our work, then we begin to understand – one by one, from the lightest to the heaviest, more and more – the purpose of the obstructions and the way we need to overcome them in order to subjugate those obstructions. That's how we advance toward a state where all the disturbances and obstructions are transmuted into not an obstruction, but a form of help. If I wouldn't feel the obstructions, I wouldn't rise against them, then I would remain without the purpose of life, without work. Whereas, if I have obstructions and I accept them correctly. Then it turns out that the obstructions as well help me locate the will to receive that is standing in my way to the Creator. And in this way, I can be precisely aimed at Him, at the Creator. In this way, I continue my progress, my advancement, I acquire more qualities of the Creator. And I leave this war until I reach adhesion in the Creator, which is the goal of the obstructions and the goal of my life. 

Question (Turkiye 1): (12:39) How do we subdue the evil inclination on the path?

M. Laitman: To subdue the evil inclination is not in our power, we have to accept that the evil inclination is sent to us directly from above, from the Creator. When we accept it this way, we can also understand its role, why the Creator made it that way, where it's hard for us to overcome it, and we get very tired and feel very weak. All of that is so that while we cope with the will to receive with an intention, with a hope that we wish to go against it and deflect it from our way. Then we ultimately come to acquire instead of the will to receive, a will to bestow; then instead of receivers, we become givers, in the same direction of the Creator. That is how we can pay attention, and give strength, and everything we have for the will to bestow, through our friends in our small group, through our organization as a bigger group. And this is how we can raise ourselves in both quantity and quality higher and higher, to the point that we come to resemble the Creator as much as possible through all our forces. And that's how we defeat the evil inclination. 

Question (Turkiye 7): (16:13) When the evil inclination takes over a person, a person can respond suddenly and hurt his friends in the Ten. How to overcome above those outbursts,  and what's a person's responsibility towards his Ten, and what's the Ten's duty in this process? 

M. Laitman: The role of the Ten is a very high role, and even in our study, we don't begin from that. Rather, as we advance, and people begin to have some impression from our work, from our states – ups and downs, and so forth – then, based on our feeling in a smaller group or a bigger group, we can relate these things together also with the entire world. Then in such a way, we begin to sort out, to reorganize our environment to certain levels and roles. And then we can better understand what the Kabbalists wrote for us, what exactly they meant. And with what kind of desires, what kind of components we have to fight, as well as what kind of desires we should actually try to bond with. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (18:59) It's written that the Creator wants to work in a mighty hand. What does that mighty hand mean? 

M. Laitman: He gives us a certain strength which is defined, a certain force that pushes us away from the Creator, away from the quality of bestowal. Away from resembling the Creator, and we are in such a state where we cannot do anything. Afterwards, we gradually accumulate strength to work against that. And we begin to work, each one against all the others, meaning I'm in a certain Ten, that has to be. This is something we've discussed many times, and inside that Ten, I have to express myself as a bestower. As the one who gathers everyone to a single force; and then, when we are in such a Ten, we can yearn for getting closer to the Creator. 

Question (Petah Tikva 29): (22:01) What is the prayer? If there's a prayer for the Creator, should there be a prayer for the Creator to show His mighty hand against the evil inclination? 

M. Laitman: Yes, that's something we need to think about, to ask for, and to expect. Then we will feel how the Creator is helping us, in what actions and states, and that's how we'll advance.

Question (Petah Tikva 19): (22:58) Earlier, we were talking about burdening his heart. How can we connect that term to fighting the evil inclination? What's the connection between burdening the heart and fighting the evil inclination? 

M. Laitman: The goal is the same goal: To the extent man's heart doesn't hear and want to realize what he has in his heart. Even if our mind is opposite, we're still inclined to listen to what the heart tells us. And that's how we advance. 

Student: When I'm in the Ten, what does it mean that the Creator is, let's say, burdening my heart when I'm sitting with the Ten here in the lesson? What should I feel? 

M. Laitman: You don't know what a burdening is?

Student: I feel that my whole life, especially from the Ten, but what's the burden in my heart during the lesson, for instance? Now I'm sitting in the lesson, what does it mean that the Creator is burdening my heart? What should I feel?

M. Laitman: That you wanted to be connected to all the friends, and with them, you wanted to get closer to the Creator. To rise to the Creator from the will to receive that typically controls you. So, to rise means not to allow the will to receive to govern you, and that's what you want.

Student: What should I do? How do I behave? Even internally, what should I do? 

M. Laitman: To ask. 

Student: What to ask?

M. Laitman: According to your life, according to your history, you see that you are incapable of subduing the evil inclination. Then all you have left is to ask the Creator, that He who created the will to receive, also knows how to diminish the will to receive, or decrease the will to receive. That's what you need to ask from Him. He also wants that, but He can't do that unless you ask for it with all your might. 

Student: Are you speaking about making efforts to annul towards the friends? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (PetahTikva 14): (26:50) Everything comes from above, and when a person feels the war of the inclination outside of himself, in the whole public, is that an opportunity to see the war inside me? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What does that mean, that if somebody comes to me with a stick, I can't come with a tank. 

M. Laitman: Where will you take such forces? 

Student: So, from those forces of the collective, I can get even more. From these disturbances in the public, I can ask for more forces to deal with the Pharaoh in me?

M. Laitman: Well, try and see how much you can or cannot do it. 

Question (PT 31): (28:45) Working in bestowal is unpleasant for the body, it demands a lot of effort. How, by being persistent in the work, does that change our attitude towards the work? 

M. Laitman: We first want to change our attitude and so we overcome the will to receive as much as we can. And wherever we can't, we turn to the Creator, that's the main thing, that in our prayer we do ask the Creator for help. Just like He essentially created everything, both positive and negative forces – if we can call them that way. And we ask Him for strength for ourselves. Meaning to have an ability to grab hold of the will of the evil inclination, subdue it, take it off the ladder where it is, and make it into zero. Then, with the positive force that becomes revealed, we can fill our desires, our vessels, with a light of bestowal; and thus advance to our Creator.

Student: What qualities are demanded of a person to be a good warrior against the evil inclination? 

M. Laitman: Only to find the central point that is between us and aim us to the Creator; and by that, we'll succeed. 

Question (Petah Tikva 33): (31:55) in the same direction, when you're in heaviness, it's hard to keep going, but we also say there needs to be happiness. So, where does that come from? 

M. Laitman: This comes to us on the condition that we receive a force from above, a force of bestowal, and by that force, we become closer to the Creator. In truth, what prevents us from being in bestowal, from resembling the Creator? Only one thing prevents us – that we ourselves don't want it. And that's why we have to better connect between us, compress ourselves. And from the connection between us, to turn to the Creator and demand it.

Question (Kyiv 3): (33:27) That, mighty hand, are blows that come onto Pharaoh? 

M. Laitman: That usually depends on how the person interprets it this way or that way. The main thing is that we wish to show the Creator how much we are willing to overcome our evil inclination that separates us; and to connect, that's what helps us. 

Student: Can that strong hand be revealed without a prayer? 

M. Laitman: No, you're not going to feel it as strong, only to the extent of your prayer. 

Question (Latin 11): (35:01) How can we know that the mighty hand is revealed in our spiritual work? 

M. Laitman: According to disturbances. Try as much as possible to do actions of bestowal, prayers, and you'll see how many disturbances exist. Smaller disturbances, bigger disturbances—that you simply don't know what to do with them. 

Student: What should I do if I know that to begin with the Creator did everything? 

M. Laitman: There are such actions – specifically towards you – that He is doing only according to the request. The fact that He guards all of us and helps all of us to rise a little bit more each time, that's true. If we wish to have personal progress, it's only according to our request that the Creator can help us. 

Question (Petah Tikva 8): (37:11) How can we separate between the part in us that wants to connect to the part that receives the blow? Between Pharaoh and Moses inside us? 

M. Laitman: How do we tell the difference? According to the goal. The goal of Pharaoh is to rule on the level of this world; the goal of the Creator is to raise us and give us control each time of the spiritual degree, more and more. That's how we tell the difference. 

Student: Let's say, we want to connect, we're asking to connect. So, what does the Creator do? He gives it a burdening, then everyone can feel that there are many forms of burdening. Then a person is entirely immersed in it, and he can't make the separation. And we say here, it's a result of wanting to connect. So, now there's a part of him that asks for the ascent, and a part that feels that he's entirely in the disturbance. So, how do you make the difference between the two? 

M. Laitman: It's only by connection between the members of the Ten. Only by the connection can we turn to the Creator, and cry and demand from the Creator to raise us to the spiritual degree. 

Student: So, only the part that connects between us belongs to the higher degree? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: But each one will feel the blow personally on himself? 

Question (W Europe): (39:47) If the war against the inclination ascends and descends, it's all the deeds of the Creator. So, what's our true freedom on the path? Where is that point of choice that the Creator, Himself, is directing also the darkness and also the redemption? If the Creator controls everything, what is the point of freedom, what's that free choice? What's that point inside us? 

M. Laitman: Our point of freedom is in the Creator, inside the Creator. We have to ask from Him each time to catch us and raise us higher and higher to Him. Then at that point where we connect with Him, we'll feel freedom, and an ability to perform actions of bestowal. And to understand the friends and to overcome our evil inclination – all of that is only from asking Him to raise us. 

Question (Petah Tikva 37): (41:49) Can we bring the burdening earlier? For instance, like coming to the lesson, especially when feeling good and in this way building a second nature?

M. Laitman: The Creator will do this without you, you should think of how you overcome what you've got. Ad if you don't see, pray to see better to what extent you are immersed in a will to receive in a state that is the worst. 

Question (Hebrew 10): (42:39) What does it mean to work on the disturbances from easier to difficult, if we can even see the difference? 

M. Laitman: Yes, we are able to tell the difference, every time we will have more vessels to weigh our will to receive and start from small and then go to something bigger and bigger. So, what we can do is to always pray to adhere to the Creator with our desires and our connection in the Creator. That is what shapes our ascent, that's what takes us out of the will to receive and raises us to the will to bestow. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva 33): (44:20) Can we understand from your explanation that actually the bigger the disturbance, it's a bigger help? 

M. Laitman: Yes. If we overcome a greater disturbance, then correspondingly, we have a greater spiritual degree.

Student: But naturally, in the most difficult disturbance, it's the most difficult time to turn to Him and remember that it's help from Him. 

M. Laitman: But you then receive. If you succeed, you receive greater reward.

Question (Women Petah Tikva 33): (45:25) I heard that what disturbs us is that we don't really want to be in bestowal, we don't really want to overcome the inclination. So, when we come to that understanding and feeling that we don't really want that, what's the advice then? 

M. Laitman: My advice is to become incorporated with the friends and try to receive from them the force of ascent that they wish to attain and realize – that's the main thing. Man, a person, typically, cannot rise to a higher degree by himself. He doesn't have the strength. But if he looks at others, if he connects with them, then it turns out that together with them, he does it, even if he doesn't think of it. It's like at school, where I go into a group of friends who yearn to get to the end of the lesson in a good way, then I follow them, and I do the same. Through that, it becomes easy to me.

Question (W Turkiye 8): (47:55) What promises a person that he won't get stuck in those disturbances that come up? How does he make sure he doesn't fall behind?

M. Laitman: The person cannot get stuck in the middle of the road because he exists among people who advance. And to the extent they advance, he's influenced by them, then he, too, also must advance because he, each time, feels that his disturbances are greater and greater. So, he doesn't have a lot of options left but to overcome, to connect, and to make a request for correction. 

Question (Salt Lake City): (42:29) What is the final purpose the Creator wants to achieve for us by hardening the heart and overcoming it? 

M. Laitman: The Creator wants us to ask of Him to raise us from the will to receive that governs us to the will to bestow. And to the extent that the will to bestow will fill us with something, to that extent, we'll begin to feel through it the spiritual world, the Creator. That is what the Creator expects.

Question (Beer Sheva): (50:55) My question is about the first paragraph where he mentions, the mighty hand will drive them out of his land; then he says that you have to deal with the ego gradually. If there's a small blow, so I have to give a bit of a bigger blow. So, is that the attitude when you get vessels of reception to work with? 

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: The will to receive takes us out with a mighty hand. 

M. Laitman: Yes. By giving strength to the one who wants strength to ascend from the will to receive to the will to bestow.

Student: So, we learn from the Kabbalists that in the war, you should use trickery, meaning to trick the ego. If he does something difficult to me, I have to do something else so he leaves me alone and I can keep working and bestow. What is the right way that while we're still in the will to receive and didn't pass the Machsom yet, because that's what determines the work? 

M. Laitman: The fact that we exist in a will to receive and we haven't yet crossed the Machsom, the barrier, it only indicates to us where we are. That we're still far from getting close to the border of the will to receive, so as to enter the will to bestow, which is beyond that border.

Question (Tel Aviv 3): (53:10) We feel more and more dependent on the forces that the Creator sends us. Sometimes, it seems that our day is like just waiting for the forces to be sent from the Creator. How do we make the prayer itself bestowal and connection, instead of a day that just goes by waiting? 

M. Laitman: From the Creator comes a spiritual force and when the spiritual force influences us, it can give us everything. Now the question is: What do we ask, in what way, who can teach us how to ask? That's why we're in a Ten because the person himself would certainly get confused. He thinks, how do you make your prayer every day such that every day it will be greater than yesterday, and then greater and greater, greater in quality and quantity, and mostly in quality? You should already be succeeding with that – you should be successful in that.

Question (W PetahTikva 23): (55:12) I heard that you said that the Ten's role is very exalted. When we start organizing our environment and take duties according to what the Kabbalists wrote us, what desires should we try and fight, and what desires should we use to connect? What is this sorting out? 

M. Laitman: That's what we need to do in order to better depict to ourselves the next degree that we want to rise to. And to make it clearer to us what do we aim for and what we demand from the Creator to do for us. 

Student: Am I building such a system in my heart with different friends in the Ten? Or is the action in a different desires than me? 

M. Laitman: No, in your desires.

Student: If we need to find the central point between us in order to reach the Creator, what is that central point and how to attain it? 

M. Laitman: The central point between us could be from the same point in the heart, in the depths of the heart. That we want to be connected through that, all of us together; and then, the Creator certainly sees it or feels it, He will do the same action with us that we ask for. 

Student: How to attain that point? 

M. Laitman: We learn that, we were discussing that – just be in it with more of an open heart to the friends, that's what matters.

Question (W Rehovot 1): (58:19) What parts should we fight, and which desires should we try and connect? How does the Ten know which parts to connect, if we're still in the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: Yes, I understand you, what parts? For sure, each and everyone's heart has a desire to bestow and a desire to receive. And we wish to connect between us in the desire to bestow. And with this common collective will to bestow, including men, women, when we connect these desires to bestow. We want to bestow to the Creator from that, and that the Creator will enjoy our work from our collective desire that's aimed at Him. 

Student: When we are in the Ten and we have to do the work and connect, how can we see that we're truly annulling towards the center of the Ten? And not just some desire, how can we see that? 

M. Laitman: But you are discussing amongst yourselves. 

Student: Yes, we always talk about it, but we really want to annul into the center of the Ten. That it will truly see that we're annulling in the center and not just some random desire. How can we make sure? 

M. Laitman: If you are all doing a collective action, let's say, all the women of the group of the Ten, and you're thinking about one thing, more or less according to whatever words you can compose. So that means that everyone is asking for that and then the Creator certainly joins you, and is going to do that; it all depends on prayer. 

Question (W Moscow 8): (01:01:58) Is it right to think that the disturbance that comes, we can overcome it by creating a new form by coming even closer in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes, you continue and see how is it better to express it, to say it. 

Student: There's a big resistance, the ego really resists that new form. How can we break it in a good way? 

M. Laitman: You shouldn't pay attention to the ego, the main thing is try to all be together and feel each other. And from that common feeling, ask of the Creator, that's all. We’ll conclude this lesson, now; we’ll meet tomorrow, be well!