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Lesson on the topic of "Work with Faith Above Reason" (05.09.2020)

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The transcript has been transcribed and edited from English simultaneous interpretation, thus there may be potential semantic inaccuracies within it.

Daily Morning Lesson: November 14, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded lesson – Sep 5, 2020

Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”. #25

Reader: Hello friends, in the first part of the lesson we'll continue learning about Work with Faith Above Reason. We'll watch a recorded lesson from September 5th, 2020, starting with Item 25 from the compilation of Excerpts. 

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Reader: We are starting the lesson; the topic is Faith Above Reason. We'll continue reading from Excerpt 25. 

M. Laitman: I have nothing to add here. We, as usual, are continuing our lesson from 3 to 4 pm. on Saturdays. These lessons, well, for the time being, we're continuing them on the same primary topic of the morning lesson, which is Faith Above Reason. If you think that there is something we should add to these lessons, something else, well, go ahead. Also, there are some thoughts now about changing it and adding evening lessons each and every evening so that we will have a lesson for an hour, maybe even an hour and a half. Please write and say what you want to our management and accordingly we will truly try to do everything for you. In the meantime, let's continue. We have Excerpt 25, right? 

Reading: (01:44) 25. Rabash. Article 6 (1990), “When Should One Use Pride in the Work?”  Twice

A person should say that although he is in utter lowliness, meaning he is still immersed in self-love, and still cannot do anything above reason, the Creator still gave him a thought and desire to engage in Torah and Mitzvot, and has also given him some strength to be able to overcome the spies who speak to him and poke his mind with their arguments. And still, he has some grip on spirituality.

At that time, a person should pay attention to this and believe that the Creator is tending to him and guides him on the track that leads to the King’s palace. It follows that he should be happy that the Creator is watching over him and gives him the descents, as well. That is, a person should believe, as much as he can understand, that the Creator is giving him the ascents, since certainly, a person cannot say that he himself receives the ascents, but that the Creator wants to bring him closer; this is why He gives him the ascents.

Also, a person should believe that the Creator gives him the descents, as well, because He wants to bring him closer. Therefore, every single thing that he can do, he must do as though he is in a state of ascent. Therefore, when he overcomes a little during the descent, it is called an “awakening from below.” Each act that he does, he believes that it is the Creator’s will, and by this itself he is rewarded with greater nearing, meaning that the person himself begins to feel that the Creator has brought him closer. 

M. Laitman: This means, well, it's written in many places, such things that a person should bless over the good—over the bad as he does over the good. That all of these things come from the Creator and it cannot be that these are bad things but rather, only corrections. Therefore, we should bring ourselves to a state where, the worst possible thing, we accept it as the best possible thing. That it's unrelated to how we feel it in our desires, in our thoughts. But rather, we need to elevate ourselves to a state which is like in the source and Creator where these things emerge from. And they cascade down in the best possible way for us until they come and dress in us. And we're the opposite, we're different, we're bad; accordingly, these things change in order to invert our evil to good. Therefore, we have to bless over the bad as over the good and accept that everything comes from the Creator and in a good way. These are things that should be clear, the foundation of the Providence of the Good Who Does Good of the Creator, this is the foundation of our work in faith above reason and this is how we need to advance. Read it again, please.

Reader: Again, Number 25.

M. Laitman: This means that if a person tries to accept all kinds of different states in his feeling – and maybe also in his understanding – as good states, by that he is truly making a leap forward. And he comes closer to the Creator and to his correction in a very beautiful and significant way. Because he doesn't look at what he feels in his mind and in his heart, that are egoistic for the time being, they are corrupted. But rather, because each and everything comes from the Creator, he is blessed.

Question (Hebrew 10): (09:02) You depicted a kind of work that is very personal that a person does; what a person does himself towards this thing called faith. Is the Ten some instrument that I need, or I can't without them?

M. Laitman: If you want to relate to each moment in your life in the right way, then you will not be able to do it by yourself but only out of the Ten. In the Ten each and every one is in a different state and then, according to this, you can take from them, all in all, their inspirations, forces, thoughts. And then you can always establish yourself as the outcome of the Ten and this is the right progress on your side. 

Question (PT 18): (10:21) When does the work above reason start?

M. Laitman: The work above reason starts when you are going against your own reason, against your own emotion and mind and you say that you are advancing in all goodness and that you are receiving from the Creator all goodness. And whatever you determine in your own vessels – in your will to receive and in your mind, in your heart, which is the desire and in mind which is the thought—it is all out of your ego. And therefore, you're going above your ego in such a way that you are always in the Creator, always getting from Him only good and complete things. Then it is considered that you are working in the work of faith above reason, but you check. You don't shut your eyes over whatever you have like, let's say, a religious person. But rather, you build your state on top of all of the bad feelings, the misunderstandings in your mind. And you make a Tzimtzum, a restriction over it and you say, I am rising in faith above reason. This, whatever I feel, I feel in my corrupted body. How should I have felt in my corrected body – in a mind and heart that are already in order to bestow? If it is in order to bestow, then it doesn't matter what I receive from the Creator, I accept it as a good thing. This is how you advance.

Student: Is the work above reason, does it come from awareness?

M. Laitman: This work, you develop it, it doesn't come from above. The awakenings—they come from above, the Creator gives us the beginning of the work, such points. However, in the end you, let's say, hear it from me and you try to actualize it in your life, in your relation to the Creator. The work above reason is only with the Creator; that is, you are in the world, you are in a group, a Ten, and everything. But it's really towards the Creator that you have a certain relation to Him which is in faith above reason.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:10) What Rabash explains here, and you also, it's rules to work with or it's depicting a state and how my corrected relation to it should be?

M. Laitman: Both this and that. I am describing to you what a person feels. He feels bad in all kinds of different forms – he's confused and everything, that's on the one hand. What it is if he accepts it in such a simple way, frontally; now, he stops himself and he starts to elevate himself to the spiritual state – but I'm getting it from the Creator Who Is Good And Does Good. Therefore, everything that I get, it all comes from Him, and it cannot be that from the Creator comes something if it's not perfect, truly. It’s excellent and it's just what I need for my advancement. Therefore, what I see, that is, what I feel and what I think, all of these things require correction. That is, I, instead of my emotion and my mind, now, I have to elevate them to a degree where it's as if I feel all goodness, and as if I justify the whole of creation and everything that is happening, right? If I do that it is considered that I elevate myself from the degree of reason to faith above reason, this difference is between Malchut and Bina, yes?

Student: What you're depicting is something a person can do only if he's really in this state?

M. Laitman: No, he needs to perform such exercises, more and more and more; and then he will feel how much these things truly are in his hands. These are not images and some, well—these are not fantasies.

Student: It's very tangible and I think each one has been through all kinds of states, exactly what's written here and what you're explaining.

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: But it seems that the ability for this to happen quick, when a person gets this state and not after he suffers and everything. It just depends as much as he invested in the Ten and dissemination, that's it. It's not directly he decides, now, I have to believe and I do it?

M. Laitman: Well, let him do that as well so out of experience, it will also reach something. He has to go through all kinds of different forms, so let him start where he is.

Question (Volga): (16:26) I am paying attention to my work and I see that I still can’t succeed to be in this at every moment. I heard from you that the Ten is the instrument that helps me in every moment not to lose it. Can you explain, again, how the mechanism works? 

M. Laitman: You will discover this mechanism by yourself and I will not explain it to you, intellectually, as you would like. But rather, only you will discover it emotionally by yourself. It's not mechanics so that you can draw it and follow the sketch and do these things. It's only the work in the heart.

Question (Tbilisi): (17:22) An ascent above reason, you try to do it, you try to practice it. And I enter a reality that is prepared or I create it?

M. Laitman: You establish this reality by yourself, yes.

Question (Turkiye 1): (17:48) How can we feel that the upper light is taking action?

M. Laitman: I cannot explain it to you: How do you feel. When you will feel it, you will see how it works, this is how it is. 

Question (Florida): (18:19) It's clear how you are explaining the perception of what we should be working with. You mentioned the foundation with this work, can you please explain a little bit more detail? What is this foundation he was talking about?

M. Laitman: No, no, There is none as wise as the experienced one. Start to work and you will see – I'm not allowed to say any more about it. What we say in the lessons, well, we're speaking in general. But the rest of it, each one should attain through his efforts. Listen again to what we say, what we said in lessons, recently. At the time that you have after the lesson in your free time, try again and again.

Question (Raanana): (19:30) What is it preferable in the Ten to pray and see their friends in Gmar Tikkun or to just act that state? What's better, the prayer or the acting or it's the same? 

M. Laitman: The prayer is preferable.

Question (PT 23): (20:04) Is what you said: To annul the knowledge and the feeling. I understand the mind but the feeling?

M. Laitman: You don't need to annul anything, we just build a new attitude to whatever we feel and think. 

Question (PT 20): (21:03) Is it important to know that the friend is working above reason? How should I see it? 

M. Laitman: You cannot know if your friend is above reason or not but rather, you have to relate, you, have to relate to the whole world, to whatever you feel, right, in faith above reason. That is, how would you accept these things if you were on the degree of the Creator instead of your own degree? 

Question (Kyiv): (21:41) The prayer that the Creator will help me rise above reason, should it be simple or does it need a lot of elements in it?

M. Laitman: It doesn't matter, whichever way you see that it should be.

Question (PT 31): (22:01) About the necessities, we say that you don't praise it or you don't flaunt it. If a person sleeps more, works more than he needs, eats more than he needs, is that considered – when you restrict it from necessity, is that called faith above reason?

M. Laitman: No, work above reason is with respect to your attitude, your relation to whatever you receive from Providence, only that. 

Student: What's that restriction we do to our necessities?

M. Laitman: It's not above reason, you do it according to how you live because it simply hinders you. I don't know, nobody is telling you to eat less. What did you hear, that this is hindering you from reaching spirituality?

Student: Sometimes a person works more than he needs?

M. Laitman: Well, bit by bit, one will reach the right balance, this is not called faith above reason or within reason. Faith above reason is only how do I relate to what I feel, how I feel reality. How do I relate to it: Out of my desire to receive, my thoughts of how to receive, or above them? 

Question (New York 4): (23:40) How can I disconnect the hopes of the body from the pure prayer? How to disconnect the aspirations of the body, the expectations – the natural kinds – from the pure prayer, that they won't mix up in there. Sometimes, it seems that the body, the will to receive, steals me in my prayer. 

M. Laitman: Of course it will happen. Slowly, take it slowly, it will be resolved by itself, you don't want to pay attention to it. You don't want to fight with the body, with the thought, that is with the desire, that's not worthwhile. The most important is to rise to the degree of faith. 

Question (Haifa 2): (24:30) If I get a state that I can't rise above reason and I turn to a specific friend in the Ten to help me, to remind me. Is that called working before the Ten or not?

M. Laitman: This is work opposite the Ten, yes.

Question (Piter 2): (24:58) Every morning we write a prayer together in the Ten. Our friend says sometimes I want this, sometimes something else; and to me it seems that it has nothing to do with our goal. How can I work with it correctly? Should we discuss it in the Ten? Should we point on what to do?

M. Laitman: You need to get ready-made prayers from the Kabbalists and read them, study them, instead of creating prayers by yourselves. Because you, indeed, can have such requests, there; bring yourselves into such deficiencies, such lacks, that are entirely not in the direction of Kabbalah, not in the direction of the purpose of creation. 

Question (Moscow 1): (25:52) Is there some minimum base that a person must need to have in order to succeed in the work? For instance, to be in a Ten five years of study, participating in dissemination. Or any person that somehow came in contact with Kabbalah has a potential to implement this? 

M. Laitman: Everyone has a potential opportunity, each and every one, and therefore we explain it in an open way. Those who are capable of implementing it, they should try and do it; and those who are not capable of implementing it, they will try and maybe they won't quite do it, nobody knows that. Everyone, everyone, of course, it's open to everyone but those who will go for it, they will. Those who will not go for it, well, they won't. This is actually what is called, well, this is the examination – the test – that those who go in the direction of faith above reason, they are called, Yashar El, Israel. Those who do not go there, they are not capable of it, they don't want it, they have all kinds of reasons, they are not called Israel. Because those who go to faith above reason, they are connected with the force of Bina, Bina. Those who do not go with faith above reason, somehow, whichever way it is, they are connected to the force of Malchut.

Question (Italy): (27:46) How can I specifically use what is happening in my corporeal life in order to connect better to spirituality? 

M. Laitman: Only with faith above reason. When you accept this whole corporeal life as signs, signals from the Creator, who, by this, wishes to raise one to the degree of bestowal. It's not simple but in the end, this is what we will have to do.

Question (Jerusalem): (28:22) Is faith above reason something that Baal HaSulam and Rabash started revealing to our generation? Or did Kabbalists always speak about it? 

M. Laitman: Kabbalists were always talking about it and we are reading, also, in their texts, excerpts from them about how they talked about it. This is simply the spiritual work, the spiritual state, it is called so, faith above reason. Those who work in it, those who are on such a level, where for him the force of Bina is more important than the force of Malchut. It is considered that he is in bestowal, it is considered that he is in faith above reason. This is how it is.

Question (PT 5): (29:19) A general question about faith above reason regarding the law of development: It seems that now we are in a stage where the whole of humanity has to enter this stage of faith above reason.

M. Laitman: No, no, no, not the whole of humanity, the whole of humanity cannot do it. Just realize that after the shattering of the Kli of Adam HaRishon, there is a form of integration, Hitkalelut, of Bina and Malchut with such forms of mingling, integration. That there are simply such vessels that are connected with the great force of Bina and they can work from the side of Bina. And there are those who cannot actively work with Bina, but rather to ascribe themselves, passively. You have all the way from Keter to Malchut, the entire spectrum of the souls; and therefore, it's not that each and every one—no way, how come? All of those that are called, Israel, that is, that they are drawn from Bina to Keter, there are very few such souls. The fact that we all connect in the same direction, that is true. But to truly enter the spiritual work above reason, no but it doesn't lower the importance of any soul.

Student: Yes, that's clear. Just to understand it, I remember you were saying that we have to teach in something, to some extent, everybody.

M. Laitman: That's right. 

Student: What above reason is.

M. Laitman: Well, everyone needs to know about it. 

Student: Just to know about it and not work in it? 

M. Laitman: That's right, today I also talked about it. 

Student: Love will cover all crimes—everybody has to understand how it works but not everybody needs to implement it?

M. Laitman: Each one implements it in his own way, this is called, the nations of the world, those souls by themselves—they don't want it, they cannot rise to faith above reason. They take the people of Israel on their shoulders and they raise them to the mountain of the Lord. Everybody gets there, however, the style of the work is different; those work on the side of Malchut – those work on the side of Bina. It doesn't depend on anyone, but rather on the good of the soul that he received following the shattering of the soul of Adam HaRishon.

Student: Clear, so about our group, as we will develop in faith above reason, will we see, supposedly, that Providence should bring more difficult and challenging states so we will have a chance to go above reason?

M. Laitman: Yes, Providence will play with us in all kinds of different forms around faith above reason, specifically, now. Because this is the time when we must acquire this concept, to clothe in it, to jump on it, to ride it, and this way to advance onward. 

Question (Tel Aviv 1): (32:54) What does it mean to follow the Ten with your eyes shut?

M. Laitman: It's that you are included in the Ten and you try to be like them, like a baby who annuls towards the grown-up. 

Question (Tbilisi): (33:19) When you try to rise above reason, your knees shake. Is it fear? 

M. Laitman: Oh, it's not too bad, it's not too bad. It's your ego and it is still unscrutinized, not sorted. Reader?

Reading: (33:47) 26. Rabash. Assorted Notes. Article 71 “The Meaning of Exile”  Twice

When he began to work, there had to be some pleasure and reward for which the body agreed to this work. Afterward, when he was permitted to see that there is the matter of “for the sake of the Creator,” because a Mitzva induces a Mitzva, and he had to ask to be delivered from exile, then he runs from the exile.

How does he run from the exile? It is by saying that he will not succeed in this work. Thus, what does he do? He commits suicide, meaning leaves the work and returns to corporeal life, which is regarded as “The wicked in their lives are called ‘dead.’”

It follows that where he should have asked for redemption from exile, he runs from the exile and commits suicide. This is as it is written, “The ways of the Lord are straight; the righteous will walk in them, and transgressors will fail in them.” However, he should go above reason.

A descent in spirituality does not mean that now he has no faith. Rather, now he must do more work, and the previous faith is considered a descent compared to this work. 

M. Laitman: Meaning, the whole spiritual ascent, there we have differences between the degrees. As much as we go in force of faith, a force of Bina upon the force of reception, the force of reception also keeps growing. And we, along with that, go to a stronger, greater force of faith. That's how it is: Receiving faith, receiving faith or reason faith, reason faith. In this way, we walk on two legs, right and left, right and left. The left is reception, the right is bestowal. The left is Daat – reason, and the right is faith above reason. That's how we advance, that's why, on each and every state, we need to pay attention, how we receive it in the correct way. The states always come in a shattered form and we need to organize our relation to them correctly. Again.

Reading: (36:41) 26. Rabash. Assorted Notes. Article 71 “The Meaning of Exile”

Question (Heb 10): (38:27) He says that we don't have to run from the state of the exile but to ask for redemption upon the exile.

M. Laitman: Yes. That you don't run away from each and every state that you get from the Creator. Each and every state that you get from the Creator is established in your heart and mind; this is how we perceive the world, reality, our lives, everything that exists in our mind and heart. And you do not erase it like a little child, you shut your eyes, it doesn't exist—you don't want to accept it this way, no. You say, now, I need to relate to this in the right way as the Creator relates to whatever he sent me. He sent it to me, to my egoistic will to receive and to my egoistic mind, with the intention that I will relate to it the way that He relates to it. That is, that both in my mind and in my emotion, I will elevate these things with the intention to bestow. And I need to see these things as things that are corrected and good – corrected and good – and not bad, until I see the whole world as the holy Divinity because there is nothing bad in the world. Rather, everything is good and doing good. 

You might say, what, have you gone mad, how is it possible? Look what's happening in the world. That's right but you must reach a state where you see it like the Creator, and not the way that your evil inclination is portraying it to you. So, you'll be told that you're not realistic – that's right, of course I'm not realistic! I'm not going according to the reality of my ego but rather, I'm going according to the reality of the will to bestow. And then, even if they make fun of you, well, nobody actually knows about it, but even if it would be so, it doesn't matter. The most important for me is to see the world that the holy Divinity is filling up the whole of reality. The Creator is standing behind this whole reality, and he wants to be revealed. And I, through my effort, doing it like this, I operate in order to discover Him. 

Question (Tel Aviv 1): (41:34) What you just explained, can you say that we constantly need to go through truth and false, and not through sweet or sour?

M. Laitman: We don't need the lie, false, or anything, I want to see the world like the Creator establishes it, and not the way that I feel it in my egoistic vessels.

Question (Zichron 2): (42:13) I heard that you said that our prayers in the Ten have to be prayers prepared by Kabbalists, and the ones that come out of us are coming from the wrong places?

M. Laitman: I don't know what they are doing, and I'm not going to investigate and correct your prayers, whatever you pray there, for all kinds of tiny egoistic things. But rather if you realize what Rabash writes for you, how the Ten should be established and accordingly, if you correct your desires and thoughts, then it's okay. And if not, then take the prayers of Kabbalists, there are such, and read them. Read Psalms, what can be safer and better? Psalms.

Student: We see, let's say, in preparation to the morning lesson that every ten that's on duty, they put together a prayer. So is that right to do?

M. Laitman: I think that it is right if you all hear and see that it's okay – yes, maybe. But he told me that to begin with, people add to it all kinds of personal things of their own. That's not going to work, that's not why we're praying; in general, we should not pray to the Creator that He will change our lives. But rather, we have to pray to Him that He will change my outlook on life. That, instead of this whole world, I will see the holy Divinity – that the force of bestowed love is filling the world. That even now, the whole world is in the end of correction, however, we do not see it.

Student: I was paying attention that when we work in the Ten, we added all kinds of states that demanded us coping with it and coming close to one another. And I saw that it raised us and helped us advance. It was an opportunity. If the Ten reaches a state and working in the Achishena, so every state that will be revealed will seem as an opportunity to work above reason? 

M. Laitman: Yes, for sure. 

Question (PT 29): (45:17) From the excerpt, he had to ask to come out of exile. Come out of exile means to ask for connection in the Ten?

M. Laitman: Yes, that’s it. 

Question (PT 12): (45:34) When you come out of the state that's detected now, so there's like a feeling that we missed something, that we didn't work correctly.

M. Laitman: I don't know what feelings you have. Look at what it says, read more, and you'll see.

Question (PT 33): (45:53) You've mentioned that you don't explain to our minds. Can we not organize this work in a logical, technical way? For an example, in above reason there's like four or five actions I can do and write them down. And instead of being confused, to try and work like that. Or should we constantly be confused and scrutinizing? 

M. Laitman: It's better if you're confused because if you write it down before you, later on, each time, you'll simply be doing what you wrote down – even if it is incorrect, or maybe it is correct. So, it's better to work together with everyone, dynamically; that you do not rely on anything, how it was yesterday, everything is erased, and you're putting together a new order of work today. It's not about pedagogics or education, you are not educating someone else, or rather, you are performing all kinds of actions so that the upper light will correct, will educate you.

Student: Towards the general public, shouldn't the method be more organized, rational? Or for everybody it will be this approach? Or do we need to organize it as something. 

M. Laitman: It is confused for you, this, you great pedagogue, it's all confused, but nothing really is confused. And faith above reason has nothing to do with it because it comes to people who are on the path and each time you have to fall and get up, fall and get up. It's not for you and don't you relate it to pedagogics, or education, don't relate it, it's something totally different, this is for a few unique individuals. And don't take anything from this to what you're doing, putting together some educational system, G–d forbid. 

Question (Moscow 1): (48:18) You said that every person is potentially ready for this work. Is there a sign that somebody in a realistic way can realize this work?

M. Laitman: We have no signs, seemingly – well, there are signs, but you cannot discern them – that a person has a high, great soul, or a small one, a low one. You cannot discern it. Therefore, whoever is with us in our permanent study framework, he gets this knowledge and he gets this system; and those who will be able to implement it, and how much of that already depends only on him. And do not shift or do not pass faith above reason to our circles that you teach to beginners, it doesn't belong to them. 

Student: What determines that a person will succeed?

M. Laitman: Nothing but only his urgency, his necessity. I saw such people, it could be that they started to study and they studied and studied and did not understand at all what faith above reason is. And I was also in that a little bit, and later on after many years, they started to feel that there is here this issue of faith above reason, and they were successful. And there are those who succeeded after two or three years or five years, which is not considered a long time in the wisdom of Kabbalah. And there are those who do not feel it, and for them, that's not what it's about. Rather, they are drawn to the organization, the structure of the Olamot, the worlds, the charts and diagrams, which are also needed. We see that Baal HaSulam also held on to it. But the spiritual work is entirely in faith above reason. 

Question (Moscow 5): (50:46) How in the maximum speed can we build the correct relation like the Creator towards everything?

M. Laitman: Try to be lighter, more flexible, because all in all, what is going on doesn't depend on you. What depends on you is only how you relate to reality, that's it, not reality, itself. And then you'll succeed. 

Question (MAK): (51:31) The prayer, it's not a text, prayer is working in the Ten.

M. Laitman: That is true. 

Question (Chelyabinsk-Omsk): (51:53) When some state comes, I take it in faith above reason. Does it change the development of how things happen?

M. Laitman: Certainly, because the change of states also depends on how you relate to them, and also according to how you relate to them, they will change. And it all occurs within you, and if you want to know a little bit more, then remember what we learned about the perception of reality, that there is no reality. But rather, it's how you decipher what seemingly exists before you, that the whole of reality exists only within you. 

Student: What is the sensation of faith above reason? 

M. Laitman: This feeling is a feeling that we get everything through the force of bestowal. 

Reader: From Rabash, Assorted Notes, 289: The Creator is meticulous with the righteous. 

Reading: (53:18) 27. Rabash. Assorted Notes. Article 289. “The Creator Is Meticulous with the Righteous” - Twice

The blow that one receives from the Creator, when He takes from him the flavor of the work, by this itself He heals him because then he has no other way to serve the Creator but with faith above reason. It follows that the blow that he received from the Creator, from this itself he can be healed, for otherwise, he will remain in separation.

By this we understand what our sages said, that by the blows of the Creator, He heals (Mechilta BeShalach). In other words, this is the healing—that He gives him room to work with faith without any support.

Also, we should understand what our sages said, “The Creator makes a decree and a righteous revokes it” (Moed Katan, 16). This means that the Creator makes a decree, taking from him the pleasure of the work, and there is no harsher decree than taking from someone the vitality in the work.

But the righteous revokes it. That is, if a person says he wants to work without any reward of vitality and pleasure, then the decree is revoked in any case. Moreover, now he rises to a higher degree, for now he is in a state of pure faith and is regarded as having no self-interest. 

Reader: Again, 27. 

M. Laitman: Okay, any questions about this? 

Question (Hebrew 10): (56:56) It turns out that if there is something for myself, there will be a blow from the upper force, and that will be the remedy, the healing, the blow he got? 

M. Laitman: Who will get a blow? 

Student: Rabash writes that the blow given from the Creator is like a healing. And thanks to this process, it turns out that there is no self-interest. 

M. Laitman: I don't follow what you're saying, did you read it twice? You should read it a few times, and then ask. Well, not today, because soon we will finish. And, well, that's it, I have nothing to say, I have nothing to say. 

We get a blow – for the time being, we're speaking about it in a very superficial, simple way – we get a blow. There is some reality which is unclear, confused I don't understand it, I don't feel it. It's also in the study and in my whole life, this is how it is. I continue physically to take part in life, just like everyone. And inside I have to constantly feel myself that I am in a complete, perfect world. The Creator is revealing all the goodness that He has in His world, this is what we need to do. Then you do not exist under the control of your ego. It is considered that you get out, you rise above your ego, that's it. We're not yet learning what we acquire later on through rising in the spiritual degrees. That is a different method and story. It will come, rather, how do we now, in the time being, accept each and every situation with faith above reason, only that.

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Reader: Friends, we summarize the main points from the lesson, in a short workshop. 

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