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Part 1 Rabash. Three Prayers. 30 (1985)

Rabash. Three Prayers. 30 (1985)

5 Mar 2024

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Daily Lesson (Morning) March 5, 2024

Part 1: Rabash. Article No. 30, 1985. Three Prayers.

Reader: Shalom, we are studying the Rabash article, “Three Prayers,” you can find the article in the Kibbutz system as well as in the writings of Rabash, Volume 1, the article Three Prayers, whoever asks a question throughout the lesson in the hall is asked to stand up, hold the microphone close to his mouth and speak loud and clear. 

Reading Article: (00:30) Three Prayers, “it is written in the Zohar, in...” 

S. (26:52) When the Ten starts to pray does it first need to seek the prayer of the poor as it's written? How do we do that? Do we scrutinize it first? 

R. I think that it is not such a problem to see that a man has nothing and that he must make an effort to achieve a deficiency for the correct filling. 

S. On one hand, he writes that the prayer of the poor has no truth, and on the other hand, he says that it does have the truth, so it's not if there's truth there?

R. There is truth in it because the person knows what he has in his hand. And this is why, if he asks, it means that he checked and saw that he doesn't have it. 

S. He checks, and he sees what he has in his hand is distant from the Creator. That's the whole thing? 

R. Not only that but here, this is the most important because afterward he can ask for getting closer.

S. (28:44) PT 31. How do we come to the breaking of the heart? 

R. Out of the fact that we want, and want, and want to get closer to the Creator, each one in the society discovers to what extent he doesn't have what he was imagining to himself. That he should be close to the Creator, and then, in that he has a revelation of his broken heart, more and more.

S. He continues and asks, if the prayer of the poor was the closest, how do we come to the state of prayer of the poor? 

R. If a person is in an environment that projects on him the conditions and the laws of a correct environment as much as possible, according to that, he discovers himself, that he is poor, and he has nothing. He needs forces in order to get closer to the Creator. 

S. (30:18) How do we examine the quality of the prayer for correction?

R. First of all, according to the inner emptiness that one truly sees there is infinite distance between what he feels and the Creator. The more he asks, the more he discovers that he is far away, more far. He has nothing with which to heal himself. 

S. He continues and asks, who is poor spiritually? Why do the poor have upheaval towards the Creator? 

R. The poor means poor in reason, that he doesn't ask for joy or a better spirit or to make his progress easier, but rather he only asks for the ability to get closer to the Creator. Even though he won't have anything by that, this is what he needs.

S. (32:22) MAK 82. They're continuing, what is a true grievance and how can we come to it? 

R. A true grievance or argument is a lack of forces. Before that, one should give thanks to the Creator that he opened up for him the possibility to see where he is and how much and what is it that he's lacking. He thanks the Creator for the fact that he doesn't leave him alone, and he constantly reveals to him the truth regarding his state. Along with that, he understands and feels that what he discovers, maybe it brings him closer, but it's through a path which is incomplete. He wants to be whole with the Creator, meaning to reach equivalence of form, adhesion, and that whatever he does truly works on the Creator and brings him closer, brings the two of them closer. This is actually his intention.

 S. (34:13) Where is the strength to overcome the evil inclination? 

R. From the Creator of course, from where else? Only from the Creator. So, we need to connect all of these questions and as much as possible to reinforce ourselves and more and more to demand from the Creator forces, states that we're willing to go through, to walk through so that by them we will get closer to the truth, that of course there is infinite distance between us and the Creator, but we want to be directed towards the same goal, in order to be connected in that and that we will have joy in that we are in the right direction, directed or aimed towards the right direction. We can add additional words here.

S. (36:01) I didn't understand, you just said that we need to first thank the Creator for disclosing this deficiency in him and later to raise the prayer?

R. Yes, of course, for the fact that you received a deficiency one should also show gratitude.

S. But here, he talks about him having grievances. He's fighting with the Creator, he's arguing. How can that be together, to thank Him and have a grievance at the same time?

R. Because it is a part of the truth, at least to some extent. One finds that he is connected to the truth to the point of connection, at least he knows where it is and on which line, he can reach it, so be grateful at least for that. 

S. (37:08) So, if we detail this whole matter, truly there's the feeling that we got not such a good deal, we're stuck within our will to receive. That's a given state, not many of us feel it, and there's nothing we can do about it?

R. Why is that not a good deal, why is it a bad deal? 

S. Because we're stuck in that desire?

R. But it's okay, we're stuck in it, but we see what the problem is and that there isn't a reason for it, and the reason is the Creator, who wants to promote us but along with that, on a special condition. 

S. Yes, and we need with His help to ask Him to change us, that's the prayer of the poor for Him to give us, He created us this way, for Him to also change us, God willing, all of us so there's another point here. On one hand, there's the stick that beats because there's no pleasure from this creature that He created at the moment, there's not a whole lot to enjoy from that, and He hides Himself so that we don't blame Him?

R. Yes.

S. Because the person does not enjoy this, and now the carrot is not clear, where are you going, this thing is unclear. For example, the quality of bestowal, I really want to be connected to the Creator. I'm not connected to the quality of bestowal, I don't know what that is but to be connected to something great, we all want. So, there's this lack of clarity when it comes to the form of being connected to the Creator. Or, for us to be in a different quality called bestowal and love, that is the knot here. 

R. Yes, I understand you, but we have to arrange it. That the Creator and the form of bestowal are one and the same. We have to work on that. That is, we should reach the love of the Creator, this means to reach love for bestowal. Love for love. That we are not deceiving ourselves. I love the Creator very much but I don't like to bestow. What is the Creator for you? 

S. These two things are not clear. Not this and not that. But love, I think that for me and for many people also, there's this matter that we want to be under the, I don't know, the sponsorship of that upper one, that where we want to be close, there's something root of my soul that we want to join somehow.

R. If we have an opportunity to join Him. That is correct, and? 

S. But it's wrapped in some wrapping called love and bestowal that you have no idea what it is. You really want to join Him but what is also in this, you know, backpack that they add to your whole thing of love and bestowal?

R. Yes, what can we do.

S. (40:56) Why does a person come with grievances to the Creator and not with grievances to himself? 

R. Because he is still in his egoistic desire, and he operates out of whatever he has. And besides that, how will he turn to himself? It's actually the opposite. The more he sees from one day to the next that the Creator is the one who determines all of life and the whole of reality, so he's actually directed correctly to the Creator.

S. Meaning he needs to come to a state where he's realizing, implementing all the opportunities he has. Only later he can say that he can come with complaints to the Creator because we receive many opportunities. I feel like there are states that I could have done a little more. I didn't hear enough with my friends, I didn't dare enough, I haven’t yet come to a state where I could say, this is because of you, you need to do something, you need to change me. There's a lot of work still on the side of a person to reach such a grievance. Maybe even before that I can come to Him with a just grievance. 

R. Well, there's another argument here also, that we don't even reach what the Creator tells us that we should reach. All in all, the Creator wants us to be in love, in bestowal, in connection, in all the forces that he has, and we do not have and that we will train these forces out of the connection between us when we will connect and ask of Him. But we cannot connect, and also, we cannot ask of Him cleanly, because it's a request for forces of bestowal. It turns out that we're not capable of doing that work that he demands of us. So, what is the solution? Does anyone have an answer?

S. (44:08) Maybe it's connected. I have a question. There's a certain dispute that appears here in my perception, that those who are brokenhearted are close to the Creator. Why? Because they say the truth where they are? But this is not equivalence of form because they're broken, and the Creator is not broken. But with that, we know that I'm in their impurity. Now the question comes, how do we work in these despicable states that are written here, where there is murder and stealing and robbing from that lowest despicable state, the will to receive? How are we with Him, with the Creator, as He is with us in this impurity of ours? How, here do we seek? What, here is the work? How do we gather the forces to talk to Him here?

R. We search for how to get out of our state, how to rise above it. This is the most important, how can I rise above the state where I discover myself that I'm in oppositeness to the Creator? 

S. How to talk to Him? How do we hear Him? The state that I am completely filthy? 

R. But apparently, you do hear Him. Meaning our work is only to reach a state where we ask. If the prayer is in the right place, we immediately get what we want. 

S. (46:21) We learned that only the blessed adheres to the blessed. Here there's something in this article that is different. The prayer for the poor is out of the shattering, out of the breaking? There's a certain connection. What's the difference between these two things? 

R. How are we connected to the Creator through this breaking? 

S. Through the prayer to the poor, the brokenhearted, he calls it. 

R. Yes, there is the breaking, the brokenhearted. The fact that here in our request, we arrange a connection with the Creator, even though He's the opposite of us. 

S. (47:30) He writes here that, “The lower one must receive from above, according to what he's missing, according to the truth of the lower one. He has to pray for his poverty, that he has a grievance for the state of his will to receive, and this is all the evil in him that's causing all his troubles. Then he will be given the burden of the kingdom of heaven since he was given vessels of bestowal.” Meaning he is describing a state where in his poverty there are vessels of bestowal. It's like you're seeing the desire to receive, and then there's the prayer itself, which is the quality of bestowal to the Creator?

R. Maybe, I do not know. I'm listening to what you're saying. Well, we will see.

S. (48:34) He's written here that, “The grievance of the brokenhearted is a true one and truth is called close because it is equivalence of form with the Creator.” What does it mean that the truth is close and equivalence of form with the Creator? Then he is close to the Creator by that? 

R. Even though it seems to be the opposite, but they are actually close. The state of the person and the Creator's truth.

S. The person tells the Creator, I am asking for the truth. Then I will come close to you and that is why you have to do it?

R. Okay, it's a bit convoluted but fine.

S. How to correctly do it?

R. We will see.

S. (49:46) It seems to me that, if I understand from the article when a person sees that he is filthy and so distant from the Creator, it's already the truth. It's already a part that, without the help of the Creator, he wouldn’t be able to see that? It is something that comes to him from above so that is actually the point that maybe it is close to the Creator because it is something that does not belong to the person himself. Because a person can only be under the influence of the will to receive, yes? So, when he says that he suddenly sees himself, it is like he puts himself, his point of view, on the side of the Creator. That this is how he sees me and that is what causes him to feel so broken and hopeless at the same time. But at the same time it is really the gift of the Creator and causes you to also feel like, ‘thank you that I can see myself like that’, is that right? That's how I feel it? 

R. Yes. 

S. (51:12) It's written in the sources that the poor is considered as dead. How can it be that the poor is the closest to the Creator, or for him to hear Him? 

R. Because this state, on one hand, is a state of poor, he has nothing. On the other hand, he is close to the Creator. He is close to the truth in which his state is true. 

S. Well, maybe it's related, it's written that one puts himself to death over the Torah. 

R. Well, it's not precisely, but we'll see. 

S. (52:17) Why do the poor want something to change? 

R. Because that feeling of poverty in him comes from the Creator, and that's how the Creator awakens him. 

S. This feeling that he's broken, is it a pleasant feeling or is it unpleasant? 

R. It is not. 

S. How can he even be connected to the Creator in such a state? 

R. The Creator awakens him so he will feel how distant and opposite he is.

S. Yes, but on his side, what pains him? His state that he is broken, or does it pain him that the Creator suffers because he is broken?

R. No, we are not going to go into philosophizing. We are discussing according to his state. He feels that he is broken. He feels that in his qualities he cannot be close to the Creator.

S. Along with that, he also feels that the Creator is giving him this feeling? 

R. That is something else, yes. 

S. It's a state because if he only has pity for himself now?

R. This does not cover that.

S. But if now he pities himself that it hurts him that he's broken. Then it's an egoistic request. What is so special about this request if it's only this kind of request? 

R. It is correct that he received that feeling from the Creator. That you can say, “Go to the craftsman who made me.” That the Creator made that state for him, that nature, on one hand. On the other hand, now that he discovers that the Creator, on purpose made him this way, this to him. Then he has the possibility to discover the prayer for the Creator to save him. 

S. He will save him? Why? Why should He save him? Because he feels bad? Because now in that state he feels bad? 

R. Because he discovers that he is in order to receive. 

S. He discovers that he suffers because of that?

R. Yes, well suffering, yes, he suffers. But he discovers that the Creator suffers from this. 

S. Exactly, that's my question, but to that point, in order to ask a correct request, he has to discover that the Creator is suffering? 

R. Yes.

S. How does he feel or know, or sense, that the Creator is suffering? 

R. According to him, seeing his qualities and the qualities of the Creator, he has a certain light that shows him how far he is from the Creator. 

S. This means that already he has a certain contact with the quality of the Creator, if he can feel his poverty? 

R. Of course.

S. This is what he is thankful for, at that point?

R. Yes, but this is still not corrected, it is the revelation of evil.

S. Sorry?

R. The revelation of evil.

S. Right but he has to hold on to something so that the Creator will stay in the picture. It's not just that I suffer, and I feel bad. 

R. He holds on to the Creator who is opposite him.

S. So he holds both gratitude to the Creator, who revealed to him his state, as well as the suffering that he feels, that his situation causes the Creator?

R. Yes. 

S. Because, otherwise, it could sound like I feel bad, and I?

R. No, no, no. You are asking whether at the expense of who is it that he is feeling bad? 

S. Yes. 

R. Okay. 

S. (56:54) About that point I'll read also, he writes in this article, almost in every article I stumble upon this, before a person reveals his deficiency that he's immersed in self-love and he wants to come out of it, he should not ask for other things. Here he ties two things. One is that the person discovers that he is immersed in self-love, this is clear, and it's even revealed to a certain extent, but he always ties it to the fact that he wants to come out of it. Actually, these two things, that's our whole life, meaning between discovering that I'm in self-love and that I truly want, that I truly want to come out of it seemingly, he always writes that these two things come together, he attaches the two of them. But it's not how it is because I discover that I exist in self-love and I can spend my whole life this way, wasting my whole life without wanting to change? 

R. That is not yet considered that you discover that you're in self-love. 

S. What does it mean that I discover that I'm in self-love? 

R. That it's the opposite of the purpose of creation.

S. The opposite of the purpose of creation. So again, I'm saying that I realize that it is the opposite of the purpose of creation, but the gap between what I understand and what I want, it's an entire world. How do I even bridge this gap? I understand that I'm the opposite of the purpose of creation, I'm entirely for myself. The purpose of creation is for me to be a bestower, but from this state to want to bestow?

R. These are two different things. You want to enjoy being similar to the Creator, or you want to enjoy being under the control of the desire to bestow. That you, well I don't want to get into it. It will take a lot of time to scrutinize. We have     yet to reach that.  

S. (59:40) He writes that the prayer of the poor delays all the other prayers. Each and every degree, this prayer precedes the others. It's the first one with which we can enter. Like the Exodus from Egypt, for example?

R. Meaning, what is the final feeling in order to come out of a degree? 

S. Or the initial one, the first one? 

R. Initial. 

S. It's the prayer of the poor. He writes that it delays all the other prayers. First has to come the prayer of the poor that I cannot bestow to the Creator? 

R. Yes. That's already a complete prayer that needs to be. 

S. So, wait a minute, why does it delay all the other prayers? 

R. Because we don't need all the prayers if we have such a prayer on the other hand. 

S. So, all the prayers are the prayers of the poor? 

R. No. But if you have such a prayer, then it is truly the true prayer of the poor.

S. The prayer of the poor includes within it Moses and David, the prayer of Moses and the prayer of David?

R. Yes. Okay. Well, you be last.

S. (01:01:31) What to do in a state where I feel brokenhearted? 

R. You turn to the Creator. Because he's called the doctor for the brokenhearted.

S. And what should I ask of Him? 

R. Correction. 

S. What does a Kabbalist do when he feels lack of a desire to live?

R. It depends on what's connected to this desire.

S. What do you mean? 

R. That a person doesn't want to live. He has many other desires, thoughts and longings. He nevertheless sees before him something. It's not considered that he doesn't have a future or anything. Everything is dark and that's it. 

S. This means that a person never comes to a state where it's completely black? 

R. We don't know yet. If we were to feel such a thing, we would already be. It's a terrible state. That's called the illumination of the Shechina.

S. What is the salvation in such a state? 

R. What's the solution? 

S. Yes, what saves a person from such a state?

R. To reach adhesion in lieu of that, with that. It's not at once and it's a very difficult action. 

S. What gives life to a Kabbalist? What does a Kabbalist live from? 

R. From the fact that from day to another, he does drop by drop his work in the corrections of Malchut and thus comes closer to the Creator. He transfers from the desire for himself to the desire of the Creator. Like that, back and forth, back and forth. 

S. The last question, this feeling of being poor, poor in reason it stings the heart. How not to run away from feeling that feeling? 

R. That's a question. This leads him back to the group, that he doesn't have nowhere to lean on, only on our father in heaven. 

S. (01:04:54) He has this scrutiny of the prayer of the poor, poor in reason, the person who walks the path says, I'm willing to give everything, but on the next day or two days later, or a month later he sees that he didn't give everything, there is more that he could give. It's a meaningful point, but it becomes clear on the path. So, the question is this prayer of the poor, its intensity in parallel to this also accumulates prayers to Moses and a prayer to David on certain levels that they are delayed and in fact, the greater deficiency, the prayer for the poor, is only at the end of correction, when everything becomes clear? 

R. Yes, that's undoubtedly, that only at the final correction you'll have all of that. 

S. No, but it's not the way your logic says that when you read it, when you say, first I have to make the prayer for the poor, it doesn't work like that for one who walks the path?

R. No, that's truly a salad, a mixture, a piece from here, and a piece from there, and from all this accumulation of individual small states, the degrees are put together within which we ascend. Yes.

S. (01:06:31) I tasted the prayer of the poor, I tasted a little bit of the prayer of David, but I don't understand, what is the prayer of the Torah? The prayer of Moses?

R. The prayer of Torah? 

S. The prayer of Moses, sorry. In the article, it says the prayer of Moses is the prayer of the Torah, but I don't quite understand it. He speaks about the Tefillin and this and that, but I don't really understand it. 

R. We will open that up, it will be clear to you. Not immediately now, and not from our words, but from experience, from the work.

S. There are no words that you can say in general?

R. No words. 

S. Where should I even direct my prayer? 

R. No, stay hanging in the air, that's okay.

S. (01:07:46) Tel Aviv 3. A poor is delighted in mercy or is a delight in mercy considered poor?

R. A poor is delighted in mercy.

S. (01:08:05) Turkey 8 Women. How can we stop expecting from people all kinds of things and reach the feeling that only the Creator will save us? 

R. That's very prolonged work. Until a person feels all kinds of desires and fails in them, in solving them, and gradually comes to a state that there's no one to help him but probably the Creator. And from the despair he agrees with the help, with their help. 

S. (01:09:07) Turkey 1. When does the Creator make us see that state of being brokenhearted? 

R. Dark? 

S. The broken state?

R. The broken state. This could be in any given state. A broken state is actually a good state, where a person sees that this thing is broken, and I need to correct it, to receive something new, to move to another side or something. A broken state is good, where a person sees before him that this path is not correct, this action is not correct. That's a good state. The Creator is discerning it and clarifying it, and the person gets it ready.

S. (01:10:15) Rav, what is the true prayer that we must reach in order to build vessels of bestowal and correct our qualities? 

R. The true prayer is actually simple. That I am willing to do everything I'm capable of and beyond that, what the Creator will give me in order to observe the will of the Creator. Meaning the annulment or cancellation of the true existence, in my essence.

S. (01:11:30) MAK 4. When a person is in a state of poor, it exhausts him, he loses all of his power. The question is, is the prayer of the person accepted, or should all the friends raise a common deficiency together? 

R. Well, of course, together is good, but if a person does the prayer alone, then there are states in which the Creator helps him and activates himself as a helper, as a friend and a person discovers the help of the Creator and advances. 

S. Yes, this is clear. Please tell me, when a person has a lot of time in that state and he's incapable of entering a connection with the Creator, what should one do? Simply continue or maybe the Creator really wants everyone to do the same work together? 

R. Of course, we need to be connected. Now, the question is whether, in the Ten, there are many people that are now in these stages in which they're seeking how to raise MAN to the Creator, to make it as correct as possible, as powerful as much as possible, connected as possible to the society, and nevertheless, how to connect, exert, like we are in some heavy luggage or freight that we need. What do we do? We need to try and be in one prayer. In many cases, we need to even turn to friends and ask them for their participation in something special, unique. It's like we see where God forbid, a friend is sick, and we collect money to help his family.

S. Thank you. Thank you. 

R. Turkish 8. Is Zier Anpin here in the article, is that the poor man and can he not receive the Torah without entering the kingdom of heaven?

R. Yes. 

S. (01:15:24) Unity 3. What does it mean that I am Hesed, the light and mercy, but the poor one has a great deficiency. And the lighted and mercy is supposedly the one going without the shirt and doesn't need it.

R. No, if a person does not feel a deficiency, then with what does he cover the deficiency? There has to be a deficiency, and as big as possible, and a person should be able to cover the deficiencies if he doesn't have it. And then he is called the delighting and mercy, or desire and mercy. His level of desire and mercy should be according to his degree where it's revealed.

S. So what are those two things equal, the poor and the light in mercy? 

R. No. The light, actually desire and mercy is filled with, he doesn't have anything and he doesn't need anything. He's got the light of Hasidim, he desires mercy. And the poor is someone who has empty vessels and he can't cover them. And if he brings himself to a state of desire and mercy, that's already through a lot of work and a high degree. 

S. (01:17:21) French 1. Why do we read the burden of the kingdom of heaven? Why do we call it Emunah, faith? He's asking, why do we call the burden of the kingdom of heaven faith?

R. If we annul before the kingdom of heaven, before heaven then we attain the degree of faith.

S. (01:18:21) Holland. Morning dear Rav.

R. Morning. 

S. What makes us identify the delaying of the prayers? 

R. We discover how much the prayer of the poor is more important than the rest of the prayers and this is why it delays all the other prayers. They give it, they kind of allow it to go first.

S. What causes this delay of prayers? 

R. Importance. Importance of the poor. Who feels that he has nothing so he can be the closest to the Creator.

S. (01:20:06) New York 2. Question from the Ten. It's easy to complain to the Creator about the things He does, but how do we go from complaining and accusing the Creator to asking Him to change our nature? Before He bribes us yet again and this prayer is forgotten until next time? 

R. After we complain to the Creator, by this we take half a degree from our request and then we come to the second half of the degree, the degree of our request, where we ask Him for help. They complement one another. 

S. (01:21:10) Women Latin 24. Greetings to the world. I have two questions about my scene. We have two questions. The first one, why do they say that the broken heart is far from spirituality? 

R. The heart is the vessel, and the broken vessel means it doesn’t have the restrictions, the screen and reflected light on it. It has nothing to perform a spiritual act. Therefore, it is far from spirituality. The second question.

S. In which state of the prayer is the shattered heart? From a state where it can ask for a second nature? 

R. I don't understand? Repeat. No.

S. In which stage of the prayer does the shattered heart come to the request for a second nature? To determine its nature as a second nature?

R. When he really wants to rise from the degree of a broken heart to the degree of a complete heart. It is only through the reforming light. 

S. (01:22:45) ITA 3. Good morning, Maestro. Good morning, Rabbi. 

R. Good morning.

S. I wanted to ask a question from David, which he cannot ask. What does it mean to build the right environment, and what are the good conditions to help the friends with a shattered heart or in a state of being poor so not to run away from the group? 

R. The right environment is that in any situation that I am in, it can shape me and position me in facing a correction and hint to me, or even reveal to me what I can take a step forward toward correction. This is the right environment. That I am in it and it helps position me. Like when we stand, position a little child when we want to teach to walk. We stand him up. We want him to see that he is standing with our help on his two legs, and then we leave him. We leave him like this, a little. We move away from him. Then he starts, he doesn't start. We get him used to feeling that we are catching him or not. We also need to do the exact same thing in spirituality.

S. (01:24:42) H 4. What does it mean to work in one body and correct your measures? 

R. Correcting the measures or the attributes in one body means that we agree between us as much as we can, that we have to correct one specific thing. In this way, we approach corrections. We pray together, we talk about it, we learn about it, and this is how we advance.

S. (01:25:27) Baltia 4. Can we, through the suffering that comes from the Creator can we help the suffering of the friend or the lack of our correction? 

R. Again.

S. Is it possible, through the Creator's suffering, to organize something that is lacking in our connection, the suffering of the friend? 

R. You're right. We should do it. Then we will succeed in answering the Creator exactly as He demands of us. 

S. (01:26:25) Women, Mark 56. Good morning, world Kli and dear Rav. Question from a friend. What to do in a state of complete despair that you don't feel any connection with the Ten and you have no ability to connect to the Creator through the friends?

R. When you feel your own loneliness, your own nothingness, complete helplessness from all your efforts and attempts, at the same time, you need to try to feel joy. Joy, because you have attained the correct point. Because in a place where a person cannot do anything there, a possibility opens before him to hold on to the Creator and see that the Creator gives him an opportunity to rise. 

S. (01:27:50) New York 2. So, if I pray for something and don't receive it, I understand it's for my best. But if I'm praying for a friend and the friend does not receive what I'm praying for, is that also for his best? Should I see it in the same manner?

R. This is how we should relate to it. Because we always get an answer, but the answer doesn't go according to our will and to our understanding, so we feel as if we didn't get it. That's it, right? Yes. Good. Niv, what's next?