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Daily Lesson (Morning), July 1, 2024. 

Part 2 Rabash Letter 60

Reader: The lecture is based on articles from the book Kitvei Rabash. We are reading in The Writings of Rabash, Volume 2, the Letter No. 60 

Reading: (00:14)

To my friends,

I received what you wrote, and in these lines you open your heart, what is missing and what is abundant. May you succeed in the new place. “Arise and go up” means that the place causes. That is, sometimes a person rises by sitting, meaning by “sit and do not do,” as our sages said, “Sat and did not commit a transgression; it is as though he performed a Mitzva (good deed/correction).” Also, sometimes he ascends in degree by rising and doing.

It follows that “Arise and go up” refers to his ascent by rising and doing. This means that the “do” is more important than “do not do,” as our sages said, “Do repels do not do,” since man’s way is to love rest, and in “do,” when he must get up he has more labor, so it is more important.

In ethics, “do not do” is more important, as explained in the holy Zohar. But in the revealed, regarded as the externality of the Torah, where we begin with externality, and then, when we keep the externality, we begin delve into the internality, the order of the work is that “do” is greater.

This is so because initially, man chooses only rest. Hence, where he should arise and not be in “sit and do not do,” it is more difficult for him. And in all the places where there is more labor, it is more important. But once he is used to the work, he considers only the profits.

“Do not do” indicates that the pleasure appearing by Torah and Mitzvot, and there is the matter that a great reward and pleasure appears, which is forbidden to receive before the end of correction, as our sages said, “The pig is destined to return to the Torah” …

And let us return to our issue. We must know that man’s main purpose in this world is to be rewarded with the sweet pleasantness and savor of the Torah. Only when one feels the sweetness of the Torah can he see that he is the happiest man in the world.

But when he looks at the rest of the people, it evokes in him pity at how they are spending their lives in torment, and never feel any flavor in life that will be worth suffering the torments they are suffering in the world in return for the pleasure they are receiving for the toil.

And even they cannot explain why they agree to live under such conditions. But the real reason is that “You live against your will,” and this is why they want to live, and “All that a man has he will give for his life.” And even though according to the calculation that he will do it is better to give up living, still, the “You live against your will,” does not let him think this, but rather man wants to exist.

However, we need to understand why the Creator would do such a thing—that man’s vitality will be only because of recognition and not because of pleasure. Indeed, it is done only for man’s correction. That is, on the one hand he sees that it is not worthwhile to live for corporeality, meaning that corporeal pleasure will not suffice for him, for the labor that one must pay for this. And for this reason, there is room for one to introspect and place all his ambitions in the Torah. If he is satisfied in corporeality, he will never conclude that it is better to move from corporeal needs to spiritual needs. Were it not for the matter of “You live against your will,” every person would immediately commit suicide, so as to not suffer torments. It turns out that “You live against your will” helps him only so as to not escape from the torments.

Suffering cleanses one’s iniquities. That is, the suffering causes him to place all his passions only in Torah and Mitzva [commandment], by which he is rewarded with the vitality of the Torah. We say about this, “for they are our lives and the length of our days.” That is, we want long lives not because “You live against your will,” but because “They are our lives,” which is really life, and this is why we want such days to prolong.

And since now you have made the “Arise and go up,” meaning went into a new place, “And you have not a thing that has no place” (Avot 4:3), you should try to always be as in “Arise and go up,” and not be idle but rise higher and higher and be rewarded with the pleasantness of the brightness of the light of Torah.

From your friend, Baruch Shalom HaLevi,

Son of Baal HaSulam

M. Laitman: Clear, right? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:27) It is written that we need to understand why the Creator would do so that one's vitality would be only out of the awareness and not from the pleasure. If you could maybe explain the matter?

M. Laitman: What should I explain, here? 

Student: We see that all the people follow pleasure, they seek pleasure, at least, and he writes as if everyone is doing it, oppositely. How to bring closer the matter of awareness so that there will be pleasure there, so that pleasure will be there. And what is this awareness altogether; can you open that up a little bit? 

M. Laitman: Recognition in what? 

Student: In the plan of the Creator, the purpose of creation? 

M. Laitman: Yes? 

Student: The ability to live a real life. 

M. Laitman: And?

Student: I can read again, but if we can open a little bit, please. 

M. Laitman: I don't understand what I need to add, here? 

Student: There's everything here. 

M. Laitman: So, say it, if you feel that you have everything there. 

Student: I can say that I was really impressed from this sentence. 

M. Laitman: It's just words, you're running away from speaking to the point. 

Student: I want you to open up, please.

M. Laitman: I have nothing to open here. 

Student: There's a lot here. 

M. Laitman: So, you're starting with the same record recording again.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:45) He's talking about sit and don't do is better and the commandments of don't do. What's the difference between a person having the forces to block himself, stop himself, suppress the will to receive? And perform actions of do not do, or performing an action of don't do? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Let's say in the Ten, we have the rules of the Ten, do this, don't do that. Let's say, don't open up with critique, so I don't do that. But it's not considered a commandment, or is it? What causes all the things that I don't do to become commandments? 

M. Laitman: The fact that you, let's say, that you're not doing, so, what are you doing when you're doing? What is the purpose in what you're doing because in every action a person decides to do or not to do there's a question before him, right? And then when he decides, that's what he does. 

Student: So, what purpose should there be when I don't do? 

M. Laitman: You have to say it.

Student: To connect to the Ten, more. 

M. Laitman: Let's say that. 

Student: It needs to be to bring contentment to the Creator from this. I'm not doing it, to bestow contentment to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: You can say that, yes. 

Student: And how do I know that it became a Mitzvah because in doing, then maybe it's possible to, maybe it's clearer. But in not doing, you can kind of only stop yourself and not for it to enter into correction or a commandment? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How to put it into becoming a correction, this thing that you don't do?

M. Laitman: Well, you say it. 

Student: The reforming light but?

M. Laitman: And?

Student: Where's the examination now, all that was so far suppressing the will to receive, turned into something corrected? 

M. Laitman: That's according to as much as you decide whether to be connected or disconnected. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:00) He says that the corporeal needs won't suffice for us. We will want more and more spiritual needs. Is that part of our development? Or does it depend on us and how much?

M. Laitman: It's part of development? 

Student: Does it have to do with our efforts or is it? After all, we’re being told that if we don't draw ourselves the light, it will only come in sufferings?

M. Laitman:  Yes. 

Student: So, it depends on all our work for us to come there?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:45) Don't do is better. Is it when a person is scrutinized that he doesn't have the right intention or also when he has doubts? 

M. Laitman: No, only when he's sure. 

Question (Kiev 7): (15:07) It's written, the person shall make calculations for his soul to introspect. What does that mean? How do you do it?

M. Laitman: Introspect, we always learn it from the articles. 

Student: When I scrutinize for myself, I can know that I have the ability? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How? 

M. Laitman: What's before me, what I need to do, what should be the response, and so on.

Student: How do you deal with laziness? What do you do when you don't have the force of desire? 

M. Laitman: It's only through society, the environment. It can awaken me, it can warm me up, to push me in the right direction, to carry me only through society. If I chose an environment and I want to go with them, first of all I have to trust them. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:30) It's the main essence of man, his purpose, is to achieve the delight, and pleasance and sweetness of the Torah. Only when he feels the sweetness of the Torah, he can see himself as the happiest man in the world. Can we define this in words that are clear? What's the sweetness of the Torah and what's that feeling? 

M. Laitman: The sweetness of the Torah is, truly, the sweetest thing, it's the light that reforms. And when you perform such actions or enter such feelings that give you the sweetest thing more than any other, that's it. 

Student: If I want to search to come to that and I learned that my implementation in the Ten. What is that thing that I aspire to discover in the Ten, the sweetness of the Torah in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: That you enter such a connection with your friends, that you all discover in the connection between you the internality of the Torah, sweeter than honey, that's it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:35) In the end, he writes to the student that you have to try to always arise and go up. We see that there are states that you can't do, like we talked in the first part of the lesson about The Writings of the Last Generation. That right now there's no possibility for action, let's say? 

M. Laitman: But we plan.

Student: How do you keep the readiness, the energy, that is needed? 

M. Laitman: That each and every moment, from our studies, from every moment of our study. It becomes more clear how to continue to the internality of the Torah.

Student: I am asking because naturally, if I'm told go give out newspapers, or write a post on the internet or anything. If we do it together, there's energy. If you say let's sit, and study and understand, it's hard to keep the level of energy over time. That's how we're kind of built.

M. Laitman: That depends on your intentions, on your intentions. There are those that are drawn to the studies more, to connection through studies. And some are connected to connection, through giving out newspapers. But in both of them the pleasure comes from uniting. 

Student: How does a Kabbalist, like Baal HaSulam writes, in certain places that the generation is not yet worthy, we also see this in you. How does he keep his patience, on one hand, because you have to wait for the Creator to give us signs that it's possible now to do something. And keep the level of energy? 

M. Laitman: Importance, energy is importance: If I get inspired by reading, by listening during the lesson from my friends, so I discover this energy that it will supply me with an ability to work and somewhat. 

Student: You feel it like a battery that's charging you, or? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. Exactly like that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:27) He says something very interesting here, he says that doing is more important in the beginning because it's against the idle laziness of a person. And then he says, the matter of don't do implies that the pleasure that's revealed by the Torah and Mitzvot, like we said right now, it's a great pleasure. And there's a matter of the reward of the pleasure that's revealed is prohibited from receiving only in the end of correction, as our Sages said, in the future, and so forth. He is saying that the pleasure is, actually, not receiving the pleasure. And in doing, it's performing every action that's necessary. And do not do, it's to do the action that you should not do until the end of Correction. How do you not receive the pleasure from the study, from the connection, why not to receive it? 

M. Laitman: Because we have to use it onward on the path. It's not that you waste it, now.

Student: What does it mean not to waste? We came out of a lesson, a connection, or our Convention yesterday. There's a lot of pleasure, there's a lot of pleasure. Why not enjoy it? 

M. Laitman: What are you going to do with that pleasure that you want to enjoy? What kind of joy of pleasure, that's what's important. It could be that you got that from the Congress, you got a lot of forces, and you can't even reveal them now, and it's worth keeping them, for now. 

Student: What does it mean to keep them?

M. Laitman: To keep them means that you'll use them in a more important situation.

Student: How, it's pleasure. How do we not enjoy it and keep it for the future? 

M. Laitman: It's like keeping  bread in a basket; you have it and you're saving it until the right moment.

Student: Can you open that a little bit more? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, let's say for athletes, they have energy inside, but they release it when they need it.

Student: Okay, an athlete, it's clear, he's keeping it for the competition. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: But we are the desire to delight ourselves, to have pleasure, to receive?

M. Laitman: So, you can stop yourself, but you now have to let yourself outburst? 

Student: I'm not talking about the expression of the pleasure or not. But he's talking about a certain inner attitude towards the pleasure? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: He says, the doing is, simply, to do. You have to do what you have to do and then the pleasure comes. But the pleasure, the don't do, is not to enjoy it now? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Where does the motivation not to enjoy it come from?

M. Laitman: The motivation not to enjoy it? From you, that you need to save it for a more precious state. 

Student: What's the more valuable state?

M. Laitman: That with it you can attain greater things, just like we do in this life.

Student: When we do, it's also pleasure, meaning? What, from the corporeal world? Yes, okay, I go, I earn money, and I keep it because I think one day I'll need it. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, that's equated to the pleasure, but I enjoy it. I have more money in the bank, or less of debt. I don't know?

M. Laitman: Well on here too, same thing. 

Student: Maybe it requires more scrutiny.

M. Laitman: I think so too. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:35) What can you recommend to people who don't receive enough fuel from the study? 

M. Laitman: Maybe, they need to search for more sources, more in the sources. I remember, there were times that I started reading Baal HaSulam's writings, in writings that we didn't study together. And it gave me forces to keep going and keep enjoying. I was able to put all his writings together into one. Just like that.

Student: What's all sources? Five hours a day we're reading sources, what, more sources, I can awaken a person, more? I'm asking about something else, what besides the sources? If it awakens, there's no question. But I'm saying for those where it's not enough fuel for them. Let's say, right now we learn religion, the whole religion is based on ceremonies and customs, why? Because Baal HaSulam wrote there used to be an ideal and not many people could follow that idea for a long time. So, therefore, we need ceremony, we need customs, we need something, habits, I don't know, to give out something. So, what do we do, if not that? 

M. Laitman: In our times, even though we're allowed to do everything but to begin with, we flaw all those opportunities. We just flaw it. 

Student: So, only study remains, nothing besides that. That's why I'm asking, if a person feels it he doesn't get enough fuel from that? 

M. Laitman: To be together in a study is something very important, it's something very important. With your efforts, you gather from all the friends everything they attain. And that is what gets accumulated in you.

Student: Okay, I understand that but still, what do we do with those people who are with us, and at some point, I don't know, it's not enough fuel for them to just sit and study. What can you do, maybe it'll come back in six months or in a few months, who knows. But for the time being he's not capable anymore. And we don't have seemingly something additional to give. And the person does want to be connected to the purpose of creation. He does understand, he's willing to help friends and everything, but he's not capable? 

M. Laitman: So, he has to be connected to us.

Student: But to be connected to us is only to study, we don't have anything besides that. 

M. Laitman: But jump on that wagon that is going towards the right direction and coming closer to the purpose of creation. So, if he doesn't jump on the wagon, what can he do? He must reach that, he has to connect himself to society that is moving towards in a tangible way.

Student: It's clear but what is that string of connection, besides the study? What else can it be? Or could there not be one? 

M. Laitman: He can do all kinds of other things with them. 

Student: But there aren't any other things?

M. Laitman: Yes, in our society there are many things. He can go, I don't know what, to some kind of department and participate, yes. Baal HaSulam students went out to give newspapers; they did all kinds of little events, what they could do at those times. Maybe you can try, too? Around us, there are many organizations that draw people in some kind of way. Why shouldn't we learn from them, that's what I think. You accumulated some fat, and it's hard for you to move!

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:06) Is there room to initiate actions that there is no need for them, only in order to enable another person, a framework of connection. For example, to give out newspapers, today there is no need for it because there is an internet, it's much more efficient, on one hand. But, on the other hand, maybe giving out a newspaper that will unite friends and take them out to action, or not?

M. Laitman:  I don't know, what do those societies think that still do put out newspapers?

Student: There are still several that do that, that give out newspapers but most of it is in the internet. It's not a matter of the newspaper, we'll think about something else. We'll do meals every day, something that will cause us to do more actions. Do we need to do more actions that will help a person connect to those who have difficulty, let's say, with the studies and the sources in such periods? Or not, to be focused on the study and that's it.

M. Laitman: Just not focused on studies that you feel. That while you're studying that you're participating, that you'll feel a need for connection, for ascending, for coming closer to, actually, to what you get from that. 

Student: You said that being together in study is a very important thing. That in this action, you're actually collecting, accumulating all that all the friends are achieving. Is this internally, actively? Or does it happen inevitably, just doing the study like that? 

M. Laitman: No, it's an action that you take what's in the mind and heart of the friend. Both, there's two types of work, of mind and heart, but still, you can receive that from the friends.

Student: How do I collect what's in the heart and mind of the friends? 

M. Laitman: Through connecting with them; that you're drawn to incorporate in them. 

Student: And this happens during the study.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What is this called, study? That we're in the morning lesson and we're opening the sources together with the Rav?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And during the day, if I'm in a discussion with the Ten, with the friends, and a connection, that's not in this time called, the morning lesson. Is that also considered study?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (35:06) I want to continue the previous friend: You once gave an example of Rabash, who said that when you were walking by a stadium that there's, I don't know, a blessing, or holiness, or something like that, in the fact that people are doing something together. If there's a state where people are drawn to all kinds of things, I don't know, not study. And we organize or make room for a common activity of people that will be our people there. That there's the power, the forces of love and connection, does that influence people? They're coming, they're drawn to something corporeal, but because they're in the right environment it works on them, yes, correct? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, maybe it's worthwhile for us to go in that direction because we have people that are good and are proficient in all kinds of fields. So maybe, I remember once we talked about when we have a building, we'll open all kinds of activities and clubs, and stuff that maybe we should do? 

M. Laitman: I think so but the fact that we talked about it, good, but are we doing it or not, I don't know.

Student: We probably just want to simply be certain that we're doing the right things that it will really be beneficial, that this force in our society. Yesterday, we felt, and many people talked about it, that there's love in the air! There's a feeling that we're really, when we gather, there's a great power in the society. 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: How to do such events that people will be drawn through their natural desire, and then when they come, the environment and the force will operate upon them. 

M. Laitman: So, start doing it, once every two months, let's say, at least.

Student: I don't think that will work because it needs to be something on a regular basis. 

M. Laitman: So, once a month. What do you mean, every morning? 

Student: No, but there's let's say some kind of engagement, someone loves something, he has a certain activity, here. Then he comes on a regular basis to that place where he develops.

M. Laitman: We have a place with all the abilities and all the everything.

Student: Just an example: We have people that are good with, I don't know, filming, doing movies, doing all kinds of things that we can teach others. Or, I don't know, any field, actually. 

M. Laitman: It could be, I don't know, it depends on the desire, it depends on the desire. And we can give it a place and invest in it, as much as possible.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:12) I'm not certain that I'm expecting an answer from you on this matter. But what came up and also friends who came here from all kinds of places in the country. That, once we had many Kabbalah Olam centers in Israel, and people had a place to concentrate, there, and connect and take care of the building. And women worked there, and they did remodelings, and there was a lot of activity around this physical place. And at some point in time, we decided and understood that we're moving towards something more internal, something that we don't need to take care of the external bodies, like that. And also, the time led us to, there was COVID and a problem with the gathering. 

What I felt yesterday from many friends who turned to me from all over the country, from the South and the North, that they're looking for something that will sustain them. Something that, they're also saying, it's not enough for us to meet on the Arvut system, like this, and on the screens. We don't have enough something that kind of holds us, that grips us. And maybe we need to invest some thoughts and see what we can give in this matter. 

M. Laitman: I don't know, I'm not in this, this is something you know, already, and I'm not going to get back into it. It's not the time that I can work and organize and do anything. That's something you need to do.

Student: No, it's clear, I'm not expecting that you. Maybe idea, maybe direction?

M. Laitman: There's no direction, there's no idea, you know what you need to do. You have to perform actions as much as you can in connection. And to invest in it as much as possible. 

Student: But, nevertheless, we also see in these activities that exist today. It's very difficult for people to come long traveling and there's traffic jams, and workdays. And it demands a lot of investments?

M. Laitman: So, what do we do? 

Student: We need to think, I don't know. 

M. Laitman: Either they do it in their own place, or they can do it through the internet, I don't know. That's what we have in our hands, what can I do? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (41:18) I don't quite understand these questions? The friend, actually, said that there are many plans how to get to become a leader, an instructor, artificial intelligence, all kinds of things that will help us pass along the message. We're not just studying to enjoy, here, and for us to have fun. We're learning how to pass along this method and the wisdom to everyone. And there are many fields where we can engage in and study how to be more proficient in these things, how to learn these professions. Many, and I heard from another friend that there are plans, courses, are thinking of doing that; so, it's not just to gather in some place and play ping-pong. Or make ourselves busy by giving out newspapers and things that are just for the sake of being busy but to serve our goal. 

M. Laitman: Yes, well?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:36) About our growing, you said that there are organizations around us that are growing, people are joining, and we don't. There are three big religions in the world, you see that Christianity and Islam are religions of billions. And Jews, there's like five, ten million, they're smaller, they're not growing, really. I kind of thought that it's because Judaism doesn't promise kind of rewards, it's not good at marketing. It needs to be like that, or is it supposed to be another way? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How is it with us, can we market ourselves in a different way? 

M. Laitman: Try.

Student: I'll give an example: There's people that invite people for a Shabbat meal, they feel pleasant. Maybe from that they'll get in there and do more things. Is that right for us? 

M. Laitman: It could be that, yes, it depends what you do, besides the fact that they come and sit down. You're telling them, what, the portion of the week? You explain to them certain verses, something? 

Student: I'm not speaking about the content, I'll make sure they feel pleasant from that. They'll want to come again and gradually you can do more. But I'm asking if that's the right approach.

M. Laitman: Correct.

Student: And in order to grow, we know that the organization is built out of circles and circles. So, for that you have to give responsibility to other circles. And we are very opposite, we work in the center. I heard you say somebody wants to publish something, he has to check with us, a censorship. It's not an approach that's good for expanding.

M. Laitman: I don't know but here it depends on what he can do. To what extent he can cause damage?

Student: That's what I'm asking, how do we balance the desire to grow, or be precise? 

M. Laitman: That's always a problem, that will always be a problem. There are organizations that have a broad line, a broad approach. And they can't barely divert from it; and there are those that everything can be important and can destroy. 

Student: So, where are we in that balance? 

M. Laitman: We're not here and not there. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:41) In order for us to want changes on the outside, so as we learned it has to be inside us first. I feel a lack that what we learn in the books and from you, how we implement it in the Ten. There's still a gap between the implementation of what we're learning to what's actually happening, in practice. It's felt how it can be done, if we do it together in the Ten. Why don't we give that more of a place, socially? To every Ten to actually give them a defined place, we have short meetings during the day, preparations for the lesson. But, like we're absorbing in the lesson, there's still a big gap to implementing this.

M. Laitman: Then it's all in your hands, that's what I'm hearing. So, go ahead!

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:02) This is part of the answer, “we need to know that the main part of man in the world is to be awarded in the sweetness of the Torah. Only when a person feels it, he can see himself as the happiest person in the world”. And the words here, the Arvut in the Torah, I  thought Arvut is between the friends. But Arvut comes from a different source, that's where we need to focus ourselves. Can you maybe explain that a bit? 

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: But that's the direction we have to search in.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:48) In the past, we used to avoid publishing our content in religious groups. I see, for instance, on our Shabbat table, my son comes back from the synagogue with a flyer that a group that also learns Kabbalah in their own way. They supply his content, and he got like a magazine and many people read it. So, why don't, why doesn't he come back with our flyer? So, is that because we still, are we still trying to stay away from publishing to religious circles? They're growing so isn't it time that we somehow start seeing how we can talk to them and give them taste in our words? 

M. Laitman: It's possible, it's possible, I'm just saying that it all depends on you.

Student: I'm asking because it was clear to us why not to do it in the past, towards those groups. But today I don't feel that it's a real, people don't really see the difference in one way or another. 

M. Laitman: Right.

Student: Give them something pleasant, even if it's Torah that awakens something internally, and they will, whoever's drawn to it. And if these words of the Torah can be something from us wrapped correctly for them. it can also work. 

M. Laitman: 100%, I'm with you, we need to do, in short; all in all, there are ideas, here, and many ideas. And every idea can be divided into several more. We just need whoever can implement and realize these things.

Reader: (50:03) Announcements Weekly portion with Oren Levi

M. Laitman: Very well, we will do that. Okay, what are we doing? 

Reader: (51:08) Chapters of the Fathers. So, next part of the lesson.