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Daily Lesson (Morning) January 28, 2025.

Part 2: The Creator Is the Place - Selected excerpts from the sources, #6.

Reader: Hello, we’re at a lesson on the topic of “The Creator Is the Place” in the world. So, “The Creator is the Place”. Selected excerpts, we're in excerpt number six now.

6. RABASH, Article No. 20 (1991), “What Is, 'There Is Nothing that Has No Place,' in the Work?” - Twice.

Reading: (00:21) We asked, What is “There is nothing that has no place” in the work? It means that this thing that a person wants to obtain, meaning the desire to bestow, which is what a person feels he lacks, a person must first work so that the thing he wants to obtain, namely the desire to bestow, must first have a place, meaning a real lack.

This is expressed in two ways: 1) to feel deficient, 2) to feel that only the Creator can help him, and the person himself is utterly unable to emerge from the governance of the will to receive for himself.

This is the meaning of “There is nothing that has no place.” It means that the order of the work is that one must first prepare the place, meaning the lack, and then the Creator gives the filling of the lack.

Reader: Again, item six.

Reading: (02:12) 6. RABASH, Article No. 20 (1991), “What Is, 'There Is Nothing that Has No Place,' in the Work?”

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:11) First of all, it's great fun to hear Rabash's words talking about your state. I wanted to ask, how do I know where to take my heart? To what place? Who to give it to? What to devote it to? He says that there's room for everything, and you can receive a filling for it. I don't know how to answer this question.

M. Laitman: At least you feel a deficiency. Now we need to find a place where you can glue your deficiency, and there you receive fulfillment. 

Student: It's all lifelong like this?

M. Laitman: Okay, let's try.

Student: What to try?

M. Laitman: Each and every moment look more and more for the place that can fulfill you, satisfy you.

Student: Exactly, that's what happens every single moment. 

M. Laitman: Keep going.

Student: It appears as if it's not improving. It's like I'm not getting closer to this place. 

M. Laitman: That is part of the work of the Upper one on you to bring you to a state of helplessness, hopelessness, insecurity. And you have to respond to it.

Student: And how can I respond to this? What should I devote myself to? Who should I devote to? I don't know. 

M. Laitman: But don't you get it from the state itself? What would you like to scrutinize about the state you're in? 

Student: Where to give it to? Who to devote to? The people, to the walls, to the books, to Rav, to this. I don't know who to give myself to.

M. Laitman: But when you're in the lesson don't you find answers in the lesson?

Student: The answer is that He just awakens this thing in me deeper and deeper. We learn the Avut, it deepens it even more, these questions.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: That's it. So, this awakens in me the point of the lack of silence and lack of rest, those essential questions, what's the meaning of life, all those big ones that are in the books.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And that's it. And here it stops, not that it's bad, but how can you expand the heart? I understand that we need to reach one man and one heart, but how can we expand on this even more so that we will truly get there? 

M. Laitman: Yes. I hear you. What do your friends say about it? 

Student: You know a person is trying to find all kinds of engagements for himself and they know that it doesn't help. 

M. Laitman: Yes. Good. Let's continue. Let's keep going. We'll keep scrutinizing what is the biggest, most painful question, the one that grabs us the most, that suffocates us? We need to scrutinize that.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:44) It was written there that a person needs to feel that he's lacking, and feel that only the Creator can give him. This is where the work the environment enters, right? If I don't feel that I'm missing or lacking towards friends the bestowal I have nothing to ask for. Is it correct to see it this way? What is to want the quality of bestowal without connection with the friends or with others? 

M. Laitman: You can't.

Student: Exactly. So all our work, you could say, correct me if I'm wrong, that the location of what I'm lacking in the quality of bestowal only is only dependent on the connection with the friends. Maybe it's an answer to the friend who asked what to ask, where. It's as if I'm coming here every day, and I'm sharpening what Kabbalist write? Or rather, I'm doing work before that with the friends, I'm discovering that I don't have the quality of the stool towards them, I can't come closer to them, and then that's what he asks. Like that? 

M. Laitman: Could be.

Student: Can you add? 

M. Laitman: No, I don't want to add. The friends can add. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:12) I was abroad for a few days. I heard the lessons, of course. And I kept having this feeling, this is a question of how to feel gratitude for these states that we receive. Because we very much want to reach something, but when we get there, we feel distress. And Rabash says that never mind what you discover. First of all, you have to have gratitude. Learn from there to ask. It's not to remain in that place of what to do, but rather to have gratitude for having received this privilege, and then from that point to ask. And this seems to me quite lacking. In all those states that are revealed, how to perform this technique? It's not even a technique. It's something that has to be done seemingly, because without gratitude, the person remains in place. How to maintain that? 

M. Laitman: Our ego is disturbing us. Our ego pushes us in the wrong direction, in the opposite direction. Why didn't I get it yet? Where can I get it? Where's the source of the fulfillment? And so on. And in this way we burn our possibilities.

Student: If you add gratitude to that, the state is revealed. Why didn't I get all the… everything you said? That's what floats, floats out. So, how to always give thanks for it immediately, and from there to continue? 

M. Laitman: You don't see in what you're receiving an answer. That's why there's no reason to keep going.

Student: Again, I return to that because in many articles it doesn't matter what a person discovers regardless of what state it is, good, bad, or even worse. He has to, first of all, connect to some kind of gratitude for having been chosen to have this state revealed to him. And if not him, then his Ten. It doesn't matter how a person relates to it exactly, but from there to continue. It's kind of a trap, because if you don't do that, you remain in the state. But if you don't, it doesn't erase, it doesn't erase the state, but it gives you a vessel to start working with. So, how do we adopt this habit, or the right way to conduct ourselves? 

M. Laitman: There are a few possibilities, at least, to pass it to the Ten, give them a game that will obligate them to connect, and give an example. To activate this new mechanism that we are able to receive more and more portions of the states of the Arvut, mutual bestowal and so on.

Student: So, there needs to be such an atmosphere in the Ten that holds us in gratitude and joy for whatever is revealed. 

M. Laitman: And whatever happens the face of the Ten should always be towards the goal. 

Student: And then when a person receives some individual state, he immediately comes out of that towards the Ten.

M. Laitman: And in this way each and every one adds himself to that tendency, and eventually we all attain.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:54) How can we change our attitude towards the lack? When you say, I need to be in gratitude, it's not just gratitude, because the feeling is that we truly have to transform the way we relate internally to the lack such that the lack is a good thing, it's a connection with the Creator, with the friends, because ultimately the ego always does the opposite to you. So, how do we change our relation to the lack? As the friend said previously, this lack, we shouldn't live within that lack, but rather through that lack, we want to get closer to the friends, to ask the Creator for a different attitude. So, how do we change our attitude towards the lack?

M. Laitman: By the general relation man will help his friend. 

Student: What does it mean, a general change of attitude? You also said that we need to constantly be in this motion, to constantly be in motion within the Ten, within the system?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How do I make myself be in that motion, to rise above the ego and to feel the lack as a good thing?

M. Laitman: Join it to this movement, this motion and try to reach a state that everyone understands that only if all of us, each and every one with the hands and with the legs, with whatever he has, he enters attaining the true deficiency. And then that answer comes from above, and it is the solution. 

Student: How important is it for me to bring my lack to the Ten? Actually, my lack is the Ten's lack. If we truly want to feel as one, all of us, how do I change my attitude towards my lack, seeing it not as my own but as belonging to all the friends? I bring it before all the friends, and I let the friends, let everyone feel that this is our collective, our common lack. 

M. Laitman: I don't know. I think the main thing is to speak about it, discuss it.

Student: So if not to talk about it, then what to do? To ask more?

M. Laitman: More to be concerned about the connection. 

Student: Rav said before not to talk about it. It's not the solution. 

M. Laitman: Where else do we have points where we can connect between us? To reach one another in a way that, except for those points, the rest of the universe is just a vacant space. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:34) Let's continue scrutinizing the biggest, most important question that makes us suffocate. That's the thing that needs to be scrutinized. How to move from a state of personal, individual pain to feeling the pain of the entire Ten, of all the friends? 

M. Laitman: That isn't revealed to anyone. Only in the work and the group. 

Student: I feel my own individual pain, and I try to feel the friend's pain. I try to feel what we have in common in order to reach a prayer.

M. Laitman: Yes, well? 

Student: It's a question. Is that the process? I try to feel, from my pain, I try to feel what we share, the pain of the friends. 

M. Laitman: Let's say so.

Student: And there is a matter of not erasing it, right? Certainly not the friend's pain, but with my own pain do I need to erase it or try to? What do I do with it?

M. Laitman: Wait. It'll change.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:26) Gratitude is a matter of confidence and the knowledge that you're not alone and never will be. That can bring one to a constant, permanent gratitude. It grows. It's like a baby learning how to walk, speak, and so on. And us, as Bnei Baruch, we are meant to serve as a vessel, to relay things on. And certainly we're supposed to learn many, many things so as to be able to receive that light, so as to relate onwards, and so as to do the work we have to do between us. I think that the preparation for the Congress makes each and every one as though explode from within so as to come closer to that, each one on his level. But again, right now we're reading about it being a nation not an individual. Do you have any sentence that we can hold in our minds, maybe so as to unite everything?

M. Laitman: All of you together need to connect, and to find some point of deficiency that will be the central point that from it, you develop.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:41) You said that we need to find more points around which we can connect together. How to find more such points, more of these lacking places between us?

M. Laitman: I don't know. I don't know.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:23) It feels like exchanging a lack between me and a friend. Purchasing a lack and selling a lack. First of all, how do you buy a lack from a friend? 

M. Laitman: How to acquire a deficiency? 

Student: Yes.

M. Laitman: Like in our life you see two children play, so each one gets a deficiency from the other. 

Student: How to sell a lack? 

M. Laitman: To sell a lack? I don't know. That's already not about the buyer but the seller. And the seller has to show that he has something. Something that he... I don't have words. But it will be revealed soon.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:17) Are were supposed to look for a collective lack, or to simply continue adding to each other powers or lacks? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Which one? I mean, this state of adding powers and lacks to each other, this is a cumulative state, a process of accumulation at the end of which the lack is revealed. So, what exactly accumulates? What brings us to the required amount?

M. Laitman: The deficiency comes to a form that doesn't let a person relax without a person attaining the fulfillment for it. And there is no relaxation. He has no rest.

Student: There is nothing more than the building of the lack. This is all the work, the goal.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:46) To continue that, when the people of Israel received the Torah, they said, we shall do and we shall hear. Were they happy?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What were they happy about? 

M. Laitman: That there is a path before them that leads them to the point of truth, and they can receive what they want and come closer to the Creator. 

Student: So, on the one hand, this is, as our great friend says, this is a dramatic state, right? Either hear you all get buried, or you accept it, right? But also at the same time there was, there was joy in that state or having reached it.

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes, you're right. Because of the deficiency, that's already attainment.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:25) You just said that the place of lack is the attainment itself. We've read many times that the lack comes together with the fulfillment. It's a single unit. And what we've been hearing in this past week is a lot of yearning, inner pain from the friends, and many others who just open themselves up, their souls to all the friends. It's very powerful. So, we see the lack. Now, regarding the fulfillment, how do we define that fulfillment?

M. Laitman: How to call the true correct deficiency?

Student: The fulfillment for the lack.

M. Laitman: The fulfillment for the lack. That... I don't know. How to call it? The fulfillment of the lack is... Well, how should I say it? Well... 

Student: Asking to bestow, it's as though beyond what we... I need to ask for the desire to bestow and not the ability to bestow, right? It's very confusing terms here, but perhaps you can explain what a lack for a desire to bestow is. Maybe something on that.

M. Laitman: A deficiency for a desire to bestow is that you live from within that foreign deficiency. Let's say like a mother that feels the deficiency of the baby. That's it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:12) In one of the excerpts he writes that the fulfillment is the will to bestow. In what we just read, that's the fulfillment of the lack. He writes that you have the will to bestow, which is the light, and there's the lack for the will to bestow. So maybe that's the answer. But then you can ask, what's the difference between the lack and the will to bestow, which he describes in the text as the vessel and the light? 

M. Laitman: That's the difference between the light and the vessel. 

Student: It sounds almost the same thing. The lack to bestow, wanting the will to bestow. So, you have the place, the lack, and then you receive the desire for it. The will. 

M. Laitman: Yeah. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:27) What is the lesson? The mother feels the lack of the baby and the friend in the Ten feels what?

M. Laitman: Just like the mother, from her closeness to the baby feels what he's lacking, this way each and every friend from the closeness to their friends, he feels what the friend is lacking. 

Student: This friend or the Ten? 

M. Laitman: What did you say? 

Student: One's friend or the Ten? The friend or the Ten?

M. Laitman: The friend. 

Student: So, each member of the Ten needs to work towards the lack of every other member of the Ten? Or towards some picture of a common lack that the Ten has? 

M. Laitman: You can work on the depiction.

Student: The common depiction. How to depict it? 

M. Laitman: That each one tries to be in his own framework, and feels from within that framework, as much as he must supply support to the friends that they will have a perception, confidence, that they are going to attain what the friends want.