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Daily Lesson (Morning) January 31, 2025.

Part 2: The Creator is the Place - Selected excerpts from the sources. #9.

Reader: We will be reading selected excerpts from the sources on the subject of “The Creator Is The Place”, we’ve reached Item 9. You can find all of the texts in the Arvut system as well as Kabbalahmedia.info.

Reading: (00:24) 9. RABASH, Article No. 700, "Covering and Revealing" - Twice

“When Israel does the Creator’s will, their work is done by others.” “Work” means the work on qualities (Berachot 35b). When one does the Creator’s will, he sees no place that he should correct. But then the Creator makes for him the wings, which are a cover, and then he has a place where he needs to work in order to reveal the place and reveal the lack. In other words, the Creator does this work for him, revealing to him the lack.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:58) What does it mean to do the will of the Creator, the will of the Place?

M. Laitman: The will of the Creator? Well, will – desire –, that's clear. The Place, that means the Creator; that is, if we clothe in a desire that matches the Creator's desire, it is considered that we make His place, we make His will.

Student: But he says that then they have no work to do and so, He makes a cover for them.

M. Laitman:. Yes, that's something else already, but the question is that we need to do the Creator's will in the place where we are.

Student: Is the Creator's will that we unite?

M. Laitman: Yes, that we will connect, that we will unite.

Student: So, why does it say that in that state there is no work?

M. Laitman: Because we just need to discover the place, the deficiency there is, and then what will we see?

Student: Do we have a desire to connect, or do we need to ask to find that desire to connect?

M. Laitman: No, the desire to begin with, we don't have it. But if we want to clothe in such a deficiency, then from that, we can see a new reality.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:24) What are the conditions that we need to meet for the lack to be revealed to us from above?

M. Laitman: That you search, you search for this deficiency in the upper one so that you want to clothe in this deficiency. And in such a way you will care for the whole of creation that they will reach their form.

Student: And how can I tell that what I'm looking for is the true lack? With what criteria do I check?

M. Laitman: It is certain that you're not in the right place; that, for the time being, your desires are truly, they bring you out of that place. But, in order to reach the desire of the upper one, you have to make such actions, exercises.

Student: The lack, is it an outcome of some actions I take, and they'll bring me to the lack? What are those actions?

M. Laitman: The deficiency is the result of the place that you're in.

Student: I don't understand, what do you mean the place I'm in?

M. Laitman: In your whole life you move from one place to another, from one place to another. You don't know what places you're incorporated in, if you came in there or you came out of there. You just feel that you, as it is written, if you change the place, you change your fortune, your luck. Each time you have new desires.

Student: So, each and every lack begets a new place? Or does any place beget a new lack?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, it's kind of a journey until I reach the great lack.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And what characterizes the big lack?

M. Laitman: That big lack already brings you to a state where from it, you want to rise a degree. Rise a degree, understand, why and what for, and how I reached it and what is it that I need to do next. What do I have to carry out? There are more questions, for sure.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:49) He writes, their work is done by the others; and then he writes, this labor the Creator does for him. Can we understand from this that he means that what he brought up to the Creator were the others?

M. Laitman: When the others influence him and so his will to receive changes.

Student: Why is it also called “work”?

M. Laitman: Work is called, let's say, the end of the work, the result, the conclusion. And therefore, what he attains now, this is called “the end of the work.”

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:26) Similar to what Rambam wrote, that for women and children, you can't reveal to them the pure work, which is not in order to receive a reward, only to wait until they will grow and be wiser and will have the courage to do this. What are they missing to the women and the young, what are they lacking, what are they missing so that they will be able to become wise and all that?

M. Laitman: You can't depict to yourself what the deficiency could be?

Student: Maybe a strong enough desire? If that's correct, what will bring us that desire, assuming that that's correct that we didn't have and now we have.

M. Laitman: Alright, we're going to have to check.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:38) According to this piece, here, how can it be that the created being does the work of the place before their screens? How can it be that he does his Maker's will? How does he do the work of the desire of the Creator and before the screens, the covers?

M. Laitman: You're right in your question.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:19) He emphasizes, here, to work on the measures. What are the measures, altogether, what do we need to work on here?

M. Laitman: Well, that means qualities.

Student: Well, that's what I'm trying to understand since we started studying this morning. We come to the Ten, you go to a Convention, what is the work on the measures? What does it mean to work in the Ten on the measures? What do I need to achieve, what am I working on? On one hand, he says, everything will be clarified in thought. On the other hand, he's saying overcome with all the force of the people that you're with. What does it mean to work and build a measure in the Ten. Let's say, just in the Ten, we come to the convention in the Ten, what is to work on the measures in the convention?

M. Laitman: You have to become incorporated with the people you're with.

Student: Well, so what will happen? Okay, I'll incorporate, cutie-schmoochy?

M. Laitman: Well, if it's in that kind of way, the way you talk about it, then that's what you end up with.

Student: So, bottom line: What do I do with the Ten? We come in the morning to the lesson, we do the Ten, you start talking. There's a band and everything's going on. How do I come out to meet the wanting? Bottom line: How will I solve the problem of my measures here? What do I need to do to reach something?

M. Laitman: I don't know.

Student: What? What is this work for you?

M. Laitman: This is what you need to learn in the Congress.

Student: To learn the Convention, we're learning here for almost 20 years here like this. There are many that even more. What do we need to do? Every morning, we're repeating the same materials but what do I need to do, here, with my friends? They're saying to me - connect, connect!

M. Laitman: You have to know how to incorporate with all of those qualities that appear to you.

Student: Well, wonderful. So, explain to me, how do we do this? How do we? You always say, incorporate, but you're not connected. What do I need to do in order to incorporate and connect? Let's say, he comes from where? From Ashkelon. What do I need to do in connection? He came to me. We're not on the same time. He came; he sat at my table. How do I incorporate with him? How do I connect to him? In the meal, in the question? It doesn't matter what. How do I have a connection? I have no connection with him other than sitting at the table with him. So, what do I do? Bottom line - what do the Kabbalists explain about this?

M. Laitman: You have to understand the central point that exists in each and every one. What does he want to do with it? How can I connect to him so as to help him do that?

Student: To me, for example, if he's sitting at the table, what does he need to do?

M. Laitman: He has to do the same with you.

Student: What? But what?

M. Laitman: Help you.

Student: What's he going to help me with?

M. Laitman: Help you reach the Creator. Why did you come to the Congress for?

Student: No, that's okay, but we need to understand more, that's in general. Explain to me the bottom line, what does he do? We're sitting, we're in a Ten, each comes from a different Ten. How do I need to relate to him, how does he need to relate to me? Because we will advance in this Convention not just to hear songs and eat together and hear you. But we need to do the work between us in the Ten at that table. What do I need to do? That you're always saying to us, incorporate; what's to incorporate all together? What do I need to do with it, I need to understand. What's going on here?

M. Laitman: That's it?

Student: Yes, I'm asking you simple, right? It's simple, right?

M. Laitman: Okay, okay. So just let me slip a few words into this.

Student: Please, please. Come on.

M. Laitman: You, in the Congress, want to reach the revelation of the Creator. There's no dispute about that.

Student: Clear.

M. Laitman: That's clear. Now, in order to reach the revelation of the Creator, you have to build a collective vessel where there are all the discernments, all the aspects connected together in an equal way. How do you portray this to yourself?

Student: Just as we learn, you know, serve him, bring him coffee, relate nicely to him.

M. Laitman: To whom?

Student: To my friend.

M. Laitman: The guy from Ashkelon?

Student: To my friend from Ashkelon.

M. Laitman: To that guy from Ashkelon.

Student: What do I need to do? What do I need to do? Give him coffee, talk to him nicely. You know, well you know in the convention we relate really nicely to one another; we really love one another, we caress one another. Can there be a correction from that, that's what I'm asking you. Can there be a correction coming out of that?

M. Laitman: That could become connection, it could lead to connection.

Student: What connection?

M. Laitman: Connection between you, among you.

Student: You're leaving me with my mouth wide open. I don't know what connection I come out here except for giving him coffee and talking to him nicely, he'll tell me about his wife? What?

M. Laitman: No, no, no, no. He didn't come all the way from Ashkelon to get a cup of coffee from you.

Student: Nice. So, what do I need to do? How do I need to relate to him, him to me? What are we talking, what do we do? What do I need to feel towards him? What? Love that I don't yet feel, I don't feel love towards him. I'm telling you the truth. What? Do I feel love towards him? He's not my son; he's not one of my kids. I don't feel any love towards him, right now. Not for so many years, what love? I can meet him here and then it’s just, oh, how nice. Hello, friend. What's going on? And that's it. There is no continuation of something that I can say. You know what? I did some kind of force, maybe we even fought, we made up. Maybe something comes out of that. You know, where, suddenly, he's causing me discomfort and I'm trying to overcome that discomfort that he gave me. But in the Convention, there is no discomfort, it's kind of like fun. Everyone comes and it's really fun, we enjoy that convention. So, how do I do it so that the Convention will become a place for work? We're reading here, The Place. How do we make it? Maybe there's no solution, by the way., how do we change the Convention to a place of work, that's what I'm asking? So, something will come out of it, not just to come, eat, drink, and enjoy from one another. We enjoy one another, we're friends, all of us, here. How do I make this into a workplace? He's always saying, the place, the place, the place.

M. Laitman: Does anyone have an answer?

Answer (Petah Tikva Center): (19:54) I'm talking about myself, I'm not talking. We live in corporeality and as far as I'm concerned, the closest thing would be to disconnect from corporeality and experience things that I don't experience, regularly. Whereas, if we were to do the Convention in the desert, where we were thrown there in the desert far from corporeality, there I felt revelation. There, I saw you and cried with you; there I felt things that I never felt anywhere else. I'm saying this about me, I don't know about all the rest. I don't know about a friend or anyone else. But me, personally, I'm missing to disconnect from all. Because, here, I come in the morning to the Convention, sign up, wonderful smiles and all that and come in. But the corporeality is sitting in my head, I didn't disconnect from it. The moment we were there in that distant place, we were thrown there. And even the far, far next to Eilat there, that was I discovered things. I sat next to people on the table that I don't know. And it's as if I had this revelation of things that I don't have anywhere else. That's as far as I'm concerned, it was very important for me to say that.

Answer (Petah Tikva Center): (21:49) First of all, thank you to the friend for the excellent question, I think it's a good question. I don't think a Convention is a place that you come to, oh, I'm getting accommodated there and sit and have a cup of coffee. A Convention is a place that you come to work on all levels. So, I would, first of all, register and sign up for all the duties, to the kitchen, to be an usher. Any duty that's possible to fill, as much as possible, to come and give and bestow. Not with the words but to bestow on a corporeal level. You want to work; there's a lot of room to work. Everyone can go to the friend and say, I want every day in the Convention to have two duties. You will receive it and then there's no questions. You're serving the society and there's no questions in simplicity. Later, all the rest of the things I really thank the friend for the question, it's an excellent question.

Answer (Petah Tikva Center): (23:10) There is this expression in our sages about what the friend said that you cannot defeat the heart of someone who's studying with you. One should not disregard what he's studying, even in the most difficult moments. And if we use expressions like that, what do I have for that? Well, they make me a cup of coffee, and smootchie-wootsy. That's, we have to keep the refinement of our soul when we come to friends. And even when we do that, it's not a thing. We have to take that down from the thought, these degrading expressions in our work that sometimes rise in our thoughts. That's what I want to tell the friend.

Question (W PT 27): (25:03) In what form is a person's desire raised towards the Creator in a way that it's not his and then, he's shown his true state? Why is he shown in that state of the desire of the Creator when he's not ready for it?

M. Laitman: It seems to us that it's His desires.

Question (W PT 38): In the lessons, you and the Creator bring us up to very, very high desires. And then it's revealed that it's not our desire; that it is not, that it was a very, very high degree that was revealed. Why are we given to feel that without us attaining it in practice?

M. Laitman: Yes, okay. I hear that it should be answered. Not now, maybe in a few days we should try to answer that.

Question (Hadera 1): (26:38) It's written in the excerpt that a person is operating with the desire of the Creator. Meaning some of his desires are corrected, he has a screen, and he has a deficiency, so he does work. But a new deficiency is opened up for him, as much as I understood. And he's given wings, meaning a screen. And according to the excerpt, as much as I understood, first of all he is given a screen, and then the deficiency is revealed to him. Maybe that's not, correct?

M. Laitman: That is correct, yes.

Student: But we learn that the opposite is correct, that we build a deficiency and then a screen.

M. Laitman: That's from below, but from above, that's first, that's the case.

Student: Well, if he's given a screen already, what is his work?

M. Laitman: To properly understand what's being done with him.

Question (W Turkiye 6): (27:58) The place is called, the deficiency, but if the Creator is whole, how can you talk about the deficiency in Him?

M. Laitman: The Creator is whole, and we are talking about not the deficiency of the Creator but the deficiency that is in us, towards us. And how we can correct our deficiency and join it to the Creator.

Question (Moscow 1): (28:58) My question about the preparation for the Convention. A Convention is an intensifying and increased concentration of the work in the Ten? Or is it more work when the friends connect between them and, seemingly, leave their Tens and leave them aside?

M. Laitman: Yes, when all the Tens connect among them and each Ten influences everyone.

Question (Italy 3): (29:50) How to come to the Convention with a more powerful prayer than the voice of my ego?

M. Laitman: Say it again?

Reader: How to reach the Convention with a prayer that is more powerful than the voice of my ego? How to come to the Convention with a more powerful prayer than the voice of my ego? And the voice of my ego, that's talking to me.

M. Laitman: That is indeed a question. Alright, is there an answer? Do you have an answer for this?

Answer (Petah Tikva Center): (30:49) The answer is that it's all dependent on the preparation to come to the Convention. You told us that everything depends on the preparation for the Convention and here we can do the work. And to continue the friend's question also, not to wait for the Convention. But about the deficiency, there are several very simple scrutinies. Rabash tells us that yearning is a Kli. Rabash says, if Rabash says, I also want but where will I receive this yearning if I am I still a beast, from where? So, this needs not to leave me, I need to be in unrest. Because this is what I'm longing for, and I want it to be in me. The Creator is the good that does good and He's waiting for us. And together we will succeed.

M. Laitman: Did he not answer you?

Answer (Petah Tikva Center): (32:06) It is truly too bad that not everyone in the world hears us. From experience, we know that if we prepare for the Convention in the Ten. Go over all the topics and the subjects, and they're very deep and important, Lishma, Arvut, the wisdom of our Sages, prayer from the depth of your hearts. We come to the Convention as a Ten, ready, and we sit as a Ten in the Convention, specifically as a Ten. We don't disperse and we enter as the force of the general Kli. It's a very special feeling, maybe it's not even allowed to say about this. But I wanted to say in advance, in continuation that the feeling is like as a Ten, we rise and then I hear questions from other friends from the Ten, that I entered the forest. I received a dark state, later I checked. It's not just an individual, there are many friends that are receiving these states, it really surprised me. Because we're doing the Convention, we're making efforts, the duties, the preparations, so that the friends will rise up and not to receive a dark state. What are we doing, so that every friend will feel an ascent?

M. Laitman: All right, I hope they heard.

Answer (Petah Tikva Center): (33:42) I also want to relate to the questions, I think they're very important and we're talking, according to my understanding about a matter of a measure. A measure is also a quality, it's also a quantity, it's like a certain border of sorts. We know many examples where the border is a kind of education, like the story of a little elephant that was connected to a little stick and then when he's big and he weighs four tons, he still doesn't contemplate that he could possibly tear the rope and drop this little peg. And this is how it is when we come to the Convention, the question is whether we're ready to deal and to peel this shell. Because to come close to the friend is scary, it's difficult to put down our boundaries and our walls. That's why, it can take decades and if we don't decide to break this border, then we'll be like that elephant, four tons in weight but he can't pull that little string. And that's something that's opportune to us every day. But in the Convention, we can intensify this, increase it, create this momentum, like you're saying, I'm going to break this rope. And the most difficult thing is to come close to the friend that's next to you. It's difficult and that's work, there's a reason why you keep coming here because it's stronger than you. And the friend is us all. Of course, I'm talking for myself.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (35:30) When I hear the friends’ question, it's just a reason to continue more love to the connection between us. That's like a stimulus that the Creator put before us in this deficiency and an immense lack to cover with love all the, seemingly, revelations. I have known our friend for years. It's not what came out of his mouth or from his heart; it's simply in order to stimulate us to come even closer to one another, make the gaps between us smaller. Make room for the Creator and the Convention, as far as I'm concerned, I have giant friends. I'm looking here at this building and what's going on, here. A week ago, work was put forth here. These are my friends, all our friends. If they wouldn't labor, we wouldn't be in this place. So, first of all, this is great gratitude, great thankfulness to the Creator, to the friends. And we have huge friends, no matter where they're sitting. From the north, from Siberia to Australia, to the United States. And I'm expecting to see the friends that are going to come from the United States, I'm committed to come, the whole Ten. It's already a month and a half; I have no rest because I have a huge friend in the Ten that didn't sleep all night. And the reason he drove and came here because I can't drive. It used to be that I'd come here alone. So, what friends do we have? What states we have? And how much love is between us and all that we read about Arvut and being a virtuous people! I see this every single moment. Look at these screens, at the yearning that people have. Convention, as far as I'm concerned, I suddenly became an egoist, I'm praying for them to give me the forces to be able to come to the Convention, which I never thought about. I was always on the other side, of the partnership to do these things. This is an immense feeling because, actually, this is our way to change reality. To realize what we learn in all the writings of the Kabbalists. I read a virtuous people, I'm talking about reward, I'm reading about the brotherly love, of the kingdom of priests. And this connects all these segments, that it's all in the heart of each and every one of us. So, thank you to the friend that brought up this subject because it just gave us another opportunity, and of course to all of us, to cover with love all the lacks that the Creator discloses to us; and that's one of the deficiencies. So, thank you very much and to all the giant friends, and also to those who organized for us all this wonderful work in this building, in this structure, truly great gratitude.

M. Laitman: Thank you, very much. L'chaim!

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:47) What's the meaning to find a place for correction in the desire that's been revealed?

M. Laitman: Does anyone have an answer?

Answer (Petah Tikva Center): (39:32) About the question – about how can a person come to the Convention with a prayer that's stronger than his ego. I remember what we read about this basketball player that was very famous. That he could tell the difference between those who play for having a good game and those who played an excellent game – a game like they never played before. So, just put it as a goal that I'm going to come to the Convention for me to have a prayer that is stronger than my ego. It's pretty simple and to hear him, to hear such a player saying such a thing, that's the difference between a good player and a player that's once in a generation.

M. Laitman: Excellent.

Answer (Petah Tikva Center): (40:39) I hear the complaints of the friends and it's legitimate. On the other hand, I take 10, 15 years back, and what I learned from the writings of the Kabbalists. And I look today, simply this understanding changes from one lesson to the next. And this is what we're learning, here. It's not to say that, oh, we hear each time the same story, the same lesson every day. We hear, we discover worlds, you're simply revealing worlds. And the whole goal, actually, where you're sitting before a friend and you don't know him and you start to develop a conversation with him, you discover a whole world, you discover a world. That is our path. We have a certain path that the Kabbalists are giving us, and we just need to persist, that's what remains. Desire, persistence and I'm strengthening our friend, who talks from his heart. And I have nothing else to say beyond that, that we need to simply continue to adhere to the path that we've been rewarded to receive. L'chaim to everyone!

M. Laitman: Good luck!

Question (Salt Lake City): (42:20) Can I ask a question on incorporation?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What is the importance that we need towards our intentions for incorporation so that we are not incorporating, sorry, so that we are incorporating for the correct reasons?

M. Laitman: We've learned it in a few of the morning lessons, lately. That our incorporation needs to be connected to a deficiency; that we really want it to cover us. That we'll all want to get there, to achieve it, which is how to get to adhesion between us. Because the Creator is a result of the adhesion between us, we all want to reach Him, Him, where is He? How will I jump so high that I touch Him? But in truth, the adhesion with the Creator is the conclusion, or the outcome, of us wanting to touch each other. So, let's hope that we'll repair such a deficiency and get there.