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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) July 15, 2024
Part 1 Rabash. Record 69. The Reward for Work in Spirituality
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Generally, there are three things in the world: 1) the Creator, 2) the created beings, 3) the delight and pleasure that the Creator gives to the created beings.
In that sense, we discern the world of Ein Sof [infinity] filling all of reality. There is no beginning or end there. Here, there is no room for work because there is nothing to add.
The first receiver, called Malchut, wanted equivalence of form. She said she did not want to receive in a manner where she is the recipient. Thus, the first Tzimtzum [restriction] took place, and the many worlds and Partzufim [pl. of Partzuf] and souls and angels were made over Behina Dalet [4th Phase/Discernment].
In other words, Behina Dalet became the root of all the corruptions and the place of corrections, which did not exist before Behina Dalet emerged, when Malchut, who is called “receiver,” did not want to receive in her own quality.
Since the new vessels of reception, called in order to bestow, are attributed to the created being, this unfolds slowly because we are going against nature, meaning against the will to receive that emanated from the Creator, for the lower one to receive. For this reason, the desire that comes from the Creator, everyone wants to work with this desire..
That is, with the desire to bestow, all of our work is that we must go against the nature that the Creator created. The end of correction is when the general will to receive will be corrected to work in order to bestow. At that time, there will be no work.
It follows that there are only four Behinot [discernments]: 1) Creator, 2) created beings, 3) the gift that the Creator gives to the created beings, 4) the created beings wanting to give to the Creator.
Thus, the labor is because we must work against nature. Conversely, in the will to receive that comes from nature, from His desire to do good to His creations, there is nothing to work on. Instead, work is only on the desire to bestow.
M. Laitman: (04:00) That's the whole short article. Now let's see what you want to ask.
Question (Women MAK): (04:23) What does it mean that my actions of bestowal towards the Creator have to precede the attitude of the Creator towards me?
M. Laitman: When you want to turn to Him, don't wait for any action from Him. Rather, you yourself turn to Him, and in such a way always behave in that manner.
Question (Moscow 1): (05:07) Here it says here that actions numbers one, two, three, four, it seems like there is None Else Besides Him, that’s the first. The second I go to unite, and the evil inclination is awakened. There is disagreement, misunderstanding, and then the gift that the Creator gives, the evil inclination, it's like a gift. And this evil inclination, I pray, I ask for the Creator to help and make it for bestowal, and I turn it to gratitude. The created beings wanting to give to the Creator by identifying the evil inclination, I ask for this evil inclination to turn to bestowal, and please the Creator.
M. Laitman: All correct.
Question (Asia): (06:38) If something a correction on the action, we should remember the Creator does everything and everything will be corrected.
M. Laitman: I didn’t quite understand what you’re trying to say and where the question is.
Question (MAK 39): (07:30) The desire to bestow, is it hidden somewhere, our root, or do we acquire it from outside, or is it inside of us? In the globality of creation, we are in the Creator.
M. Laitman: We're not in the Creator for the time being and we don't yet have a desire for that, such that the created being does not yearn to give something to the Creator. Rather, he just wants to receive, just to receive. That's what we have for the time being.
Question (Turkiye 2): (08:45) What does it mean to give to the Creator?
M. Laitman: To give to the Creator is to observe the rules of nature through which we will pass to Him the upper light, although He doesn't need a thing. He is whole in every possible way, but we do want to give to Him and for it to be our entire fulfillment, only by us passing to Him the filling.
Question (Women MAK): (09:37) I just wanted to clarify, that for the restriction, the Creator created the desire to receive and filled it up completely. So, that's an action on His part. Then Malchut felt that it cannot give, cannot bestow and love the same way the Creator loves it and restricted itself. And after the restriction, these worlds are built, the Partzufim and so on, and this part is created by the Creator, these degrees we have to ascend on, the desire to receive with the desire for oneself.
M. Laitman: Yes, very correct.
Student: So, this is created by the Creator and then when we ascend on these degrees, this is the action of the creation. Here I wanted to ask, there is the possibility to give to the Creator on the degrees of the ladder, then all these steps are predetermined and then all we have to do is to push the world to the scale of merit?
M. Laitman: Well not just that, but that's the main thing.
Student: And if I don't transfer to the good side, then it will be harder to correct afterwards?
M. Laitman: No. You'll be given the option to correct.
Question (Women MAK 97): (11:27) In one of the morning lessons, you gave us a practical action of bestowal, that in the corporeal world, it's preferable to do this. I try to bestow and the Creator will complete for me. When we do this, it's very hard. The question is, does our quality speed up the process of our correction? And the second question, when I build such an intention, is it important for me to hold on to the Ten in my heart?
M. Laitman: It's very important to hold the Ten in the heart.
Question (Women MAK 19): (12:26) With our intention for bestowal, it's as if we want to turn this development of the ego from above downwards to from below upwards. Where is the boundary between action and inaction?
M. Laitman: That's in each of your actions. If you want to operate for Him, then you raise your actions towards Him, and if you don't want that, then like always, the aim is from below upwards towards you.
Student: So, our task as a Ten in Bnei Baruch is to unite in this action constantly?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women MAK 104): (13:29) The desire comes from the Creator, we use it, we want a reward. How do we acquire the force that strengthens the desire for bestowal?
M. Laitman: If you want to do these things to come close to Him, then we want to find in us the forces that will be capable of bestowing to the Creator. Then we ask Him for that, and we’ll receive that force, the force of bestowal.
Question (Women Rus 10): (14:41) Did we understand correctly in this article that the biggest gift for us is the Ten that the Creator gave us, thanks to which we can come to the third factor, is the good and delight that the Creator wants to give us?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Is this when we unite in order to please Him?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women Kyiv 7): (15:16): How do we feel from the Creator's side the way He enjoys?
M. Laitman: That we can’t feel yet. If we will have a very clear intention to answer Him, then in that intention we will start to feel that pleasure that we're giving.
Student: And through the Ten, can this be mirrored and reflected through the friends?
M. Laitman: It's possible, but for the time being you need to have the intention in order to bestow and connection through the Ten between you, and then you'll succeed.
Question (Women MAK 51): (16:15) How do we identify when we have to act and when we have to annul ourselves and accept things?
M. Laitman: That depends on you. Talk about it between you, it depends on you. Talk about it between you, solve it between you, decide, pray. That's the main thing, pray between you, ask for forces to connect from the Creator, and then everything is supposed to work out for you.
Question (MAK 39): (17:05) The gifts from above, my quality, quantity effects? Does it affect or not? This gift, let's say I received the gift, but I didn't invest this much, and it's only possible through friends to receive this reward, this gift?
M. Laitman: We can bestow only to the extent to which we are connected between us in the Ten, and the fact that we're aiming our desire from the Ten to the Creator.
Question (Women MAK 19): (17:57) You said that the soul of man will teach him. Is this the special soul of the whole creation? Does it teach each one of us according to his root? And the feeling of desire of adhesion with the Creator, is this the desire of the general soul?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women MAK 25): (18:29) It says here that the desire comes from the Creator, and everyone wants to use it. How do we work with the desires that we don't want to use or that we don't know how to use yet?
M. Laitman: Ask the Creator how to use those desires, whether you can with those desires, aim towards Him your feelings, your intentions.
Student: Should we ask through a prayer?
M. Laitman: I don't know what it means, prayer. You're together, you're sitting, you're thinking, you want to aim to the Creator, that's prayer.
Student: In the workshop, can this be this open discussion in the Ten?
M. Laitman: Yes, it could be.
Question (Asia): (19:46) What will make us change this attitude towards pleasure, to enjoy bestowal instead of enjoying reception?
M. Laitman: The thing is that after the Creator created the created being, he wants to resemble the Creator, to be like Him, to resemble Him. That's why there's a restriction here upon the will to receive, where the created being does not want to use his desire to receive, and only wants to work with the desire to bestow. From this, he already starts to change himself in relation to the Creator, not to receive, but to somewhat change himself, and this is how he's coming to the desire to bestow, and the Creator helps him. In this way, in the desire to bestow, he becomes similar to the Creator.
Question (Women Moscow 6): (21:00) What do we give to the Creator at all?
M. Laitman: Our desire, our yearning to come close to Him, to be like Him. That we can give Him. The desire to receive only after the restriction, when again we can open ourselves and to say, I want to receive something from You, because by that, I'm bringing you delight, pleasure. And then the Creator gives.
Question (Women MAK): (21:55) What does the Creator want to give you? How to get it right? [no translation]
M. Laitman: First we need to prepare the correct intention, so that you'll be able to turn to the Creator. You'll be able to have the desire to do something for Him, just like the Creator does for us. When you place yourself before the Creator in this way and want to receive from Him in order to bring Him contentment, and not for yourself, then He gives you, and you feel that He is filling you. Then you'll understand how to act.
Question (Women ITA): (23:15) From the Creator comes joy, and giving to Him, to the Creator is joy. So, when we unite in the one joy, is the intention only joy?
M. Laitman: It could be that, yes, if that’s how you feel. I wouldn’t define it with one word joy, no. Try to be a little more free.
Question (Women Turkiye 7): (24:30) You said that we shouldn't work on the desire to receive, but we should cancel it and restrict ourselves. Is this bestowal?
M. Laitman: No, that's not bestowal. It's a step forward, of course, that you want to rid yourself from the will to receive, because it distances you from the Creator. However, this is still not bringing you closer to the Creator, it only causes a lack of clashing between you and the Creator. And later, based on the fact that you are operating onwards, you are asking the Creator for the force of bestowal, then above your desire to receive, you build the desire to bestow. And by that, you come closer to the Creator and make yourself similar to Him.
Then you can bestow pleasures to the Creator, specifically for Him, and you don't want to enjoy it, because by that you distance yourself from Him. Rather, only in order to bestow pleasures to Him. If you do it that way, you will see the extent to which this fulfills you and makes you have a pleasant feeling internally.
Question (Women MAK 26): (26:29) How do we correctly bestow to the Creator, from the darkness we find in ourselves, or we can only do it through others?
M. Laitman: No, both this way and that way you can do it. That we will learn how we truly need to bestow to the Creator in a practical manner. And it's not dependent on... Well, we'll learn.
Student: How do we solve this problem that prevents others' desires from developing, how do we give it to the Creator?
M. Laitman: Ask in actual words.
Student: Ask Him to fill it up?
M. Laitman: You don't know, to fill, to empty, you don't know anything. You're just asking for one thing. I want to have the possibility to give you something.
Student: The ability to give to the Creator?
M. Laitman: Of course, who else?
Question (Women Heb 2): (28:06) When I decide, not using my mind but turning to the Creator, is that the restriction on oneself?
M. Laitman: Yes, because you're not asking for something concrete. You're asking, but what? That’s like a little child who cries, screams. But what do you want? He can't express it with words.
Student: These states of emptiness are to direct me, find out what He wants from me?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Apart from the restriction, is when I have to prepare, when I free myself of other things in favor of the friends, is this a restriction?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women Moscow): (29:48) Asking for the opportunity to give to the Creator in order for me to feel this, or is this an extra?
M. Laitman: You can ask to feel, of course.
Student: How do we ask in a quality way to seek opportunities throughout the day, or should I do it through the Ten, is this more precise?
M. Laitman: It would be more directed if it's through the Ten, yes.
Question (MAK 39): (30:32) Love towards the friends is the bestowal, right? Love, love towards the friends in the Ten. I feel love towards the friends, is this my bestowal?
M. Laitman: Yes. But you need to continue to develop it.
Student: If we're in this love, in this field of love, the love is sealed, and the ego prevents us from discovering it, but bestowal is also sealed.
M. Laitman: I don’t understand the question. Ask the Creator to disclose this to you.
Question (Women MAK 56): (31:41) What does it mean to be in the Creator?
M. Laitman: I can't put it in words, you simply need to ask for this.
Question (Women Moscow 6): (32:07) Just to clarify, we only have the desire to receive.
Where do we get the impulse to bestow to the Creator? Where do we get the desire, where do we get the forces?
M. Laitman: Those forces exist in us in the necessary quantity. Beyond that, there's no point to ask. Whether you do it with asking the Creator or without asking, without any connection, that you want to do this or that to Him.
Student: I feel some kind of egotistical desire.
M. Laitman: Well, from what? It's all okay. Do so delightfully, turn to Him freely.
Question (Eng 1): (33:03) Why does work against nature sometimes seem like it's against an external resistance and sometimes against an internal resistance, and should our request be different?
M. Laitman: I can't say, because who knows how you feel it this way or that way, and when it's this way and when it's that way. I would recommend to you, just invest yourself in it more and more. And then the understanding will happen to you, you'll reach the light.
Question (Hadera 1): (34:08) How do we correctly treat love, as a feeling or as a force that needs to be realized?
M. Laitman: Whose love to who?
Student: I have to look at this as a feeling or as a force I have to realize?
M. Laitman: This is a force you need to realize practically, between you and the friends.
Question (Women ITA): (34:45) Being free inside is necessary to grasp every aspect of the brain, but is it also necessary to feel the Creator within us always?
M. Laitman: Yes, it's very worthwhile.
Question (Women MAK 30): (35:58) Bestowing to the Creator, it's possible to share the good with the Creator, but we have to correct our problems, we try to correct them.
M. Laitman: Probably, you’re right.
Question (Woman Moscow 8): (36:39) The effort of correcting, does this engage the whole upper system to act upon us, to correct us?
M. Laitman: Yes, yes. Let's move to the next article.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:08) First you said that we have to turn to the Creator first, without expecting any action between the person and the Creator. Should a man turn to the Creator first?
M. Laitman: That we will learn that, it's not simple. I turn to the Creator because He awakens me. I feel it or don't feel it. The Creator is always first, and therefore, we need to check these things.
Student: And our approach is that we are always reacting to the Creator?
M. Laitman: No, not always. Sometimes in request, sometimes in question, sometimes in gratitude.
Question (Women PT 23): (38:08) We have two questions from the Ten. The gift that the Creator gives to the creatures, what is this gift?
M. Laitman: What is the gift that the Creator gives to the created beings? He gives them light by which they can rise and rise towards Him, until they are truly included in Him, incorporated with Him.
Student: You said that a person should ask the Creator for the force of bestowal and
we have to split between these two states; if he asks for the force of bestowal to enter him through the Ten to the Creator, or for the Creator to give the force of bestowal to the Ten?
M. Laitman: I think that together it's more certain that you'll succeed.
Question (Women MAK 36): (39:27) What's the difference between these two forces when the bestowal happens in a rejection and from gratitude?
M. Laitman: You have to check whether it comes from an inner resistance, or above the inner resistance, meaning without it, or with gratitude. These are three different steps of a person in relation to the Creator.
Student: Which is preferred?
M. Laitman: It's best if a person feels that altogether, meaning he has no belonging to the Creator, and he has to overcome himself in order to begin to feel a connection with the Creator, and then to come closer to Him. To examine, think what he can do for the Creator, and then to ask the Creator to help him take himself out of that state and raise himself, so that he will turn to the Creator with a request and will advance in this way.
Question (Women MAK 43): (41:11) If a person doesn't have any desire to ask anything from the Creator, how do we make an effort if I don't have any desire to do anything apart from pleasing the Creator? Is this a mistake or am I on the right path?
M. Laitman: I think that for the time being, it's still… These are small, internal, persistent egoistic discernments. It's good that you're in this state or not.
Student: Well perhaps, I don't know, I hope so.
M. Laitman: Does he want to see you in such a state?
Student: No, he wants me to work even more.
M. Laitman: So, what do you need for that?
Student: Be in the group, study the sources, correct my desires for bestowal?
M. Laitman: It's all correct, so you need to express all of that in prayer, and to try and bring that prayer to the Creator. I feel like it will succeed for you.