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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) December 9, 2024                                                                       

Part 1 Rabash. He Touched the Hollow of His Thigh Record 374. 

Reader: Hello dear friends, today we're studying the writings of Rabash, Volume 3, page 1788, Article 374, He Touched the Hollow of His Thigh. You can find the study materials on Sviva Tova and in the Arvut system and ask questions through these websites. 

374. He Touched the Hollow of His Thigh

Reading (00:31) It is written in The Zohar (VaYishlach, Item 111) about the verse, “He touched the hollow of his thigh,” meaning the supporters of the Torah, that he schemed against him. He said, “Since the supports of the Torah were broken, the Torah will promptly become unable to strengthen further.” In Item 108 in the Sulam [Ladder commentary on The Zohar], it is written that because there is no one to support the Torah, which is Zeir Anpin, as it should be, the supporters of Zeir Anpin weakened, meaning Netzah and Hod of Zeir Anpin, which are called “supports,” and cause that one who has no thighs or legs to stand on, namely the primordial serpent.

It is known that Netzah and Hod are called “two supports of the truth.” We must know that everything one does must first have a reason that will oblige him to do those deeds. Without a reason, man is in a state of rest. But if he has reasons that will obligate him to do those deeds, he will try to do them according to the reason.

 Esau’s minister saw that he could not argue with the learners of Torah because they had the desire and the upbringing to learn Torah, and he could not distract them from learning the Torah. However, he could disrupt them through the reasons, meaning the reason why they learn, what they want in return for their labor in Torah and work, which are called “supports of the Torah,” for through the reasons, he has the strength to learn Torah.

But if he has no reasons, it is regarded as having no support. Hence, since there are two supports to the truth, and his supports, meaning the reasons that obligate him to do things, will not be true reasons, as in “I have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice,” but rather false reasons, in this, the minister of Esau had a grip.. 

A lie has no legs. This means that he took the reason from the primordial serpent, who has no legs, as it is written in The Zohar, and therefore the real Torah cannot be drawn below, since the supports are false supports. In other words, the reasons that obligate him are false.

It follows that the main work on the path of truth is to see that he obtains supports for the Torah, meaning true supports by which he will have a foundation on which to build his Torah and Mitzvot [commandments], for here is the main grip of the Sitra Achra [other side].

On the rest of the things, it does not seem as though he has a grip. It is as the king of Sodom said, “Give me the soul and take the properties to yourself,” as was said, “A prayer without an intention is like a body without a soul.”

The spirit and the soul mean the intention in the matter. This is why the king of Sodom said, “Give me the soul,” meaning the intention of a person, why he engages in Torah and Mitzvot, this will be for him. “And the property,” meaning the Torah and Mitzvot that a person acquires, “Take for yourself.” You can gain as much property as you want, but the intention will be for me. This is why this is the main thing that a person needs to overcome.

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (06:35) What are the two supports in the intention for the Creator?

M. Laitman: Two supports. Two pillars. The qualities with which I am capable of coming closer to the Creator. 

Student: I need to identify these two qualities in me and know that they are my support? 

M. Laitman: They will show themselves in the process.

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (08:50) Reshimot are revealed in the Ten and our different opposing desires and opinions clash. Who is the giver, who is the receiver? The giver is the one that suffers more?  How do we realize these Rishimot that are revealed in the Ten before reception of the soul, and how do we reveal them correctly? 

M. Laitman: The main thing is you have to take care and look out for how to come closer to the Creator, and then you will succeed in obtaining correct things. 

Question (Turkiye 2): (08:57) How can we strengthen the supports of the Ten that have been weakened? 

M. Laitman: In that we will want to enlarge the whole vessel of reception in advance, using this. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (09:38) What is the meaning of the supports of the Torah?

M. Laitman: The supports of the Torah are the actions and qualities with which I strengthen my adhesion with the Creator through adhesion with His actions. These supports with the actions that I perform.

Student: Another question. In the last part of the article, it says the intention will be for me. Why is it important to have intention towards the Creator?

M. Laitman: Because it defines the whole quality of the action, and it's the most important thing. A person can perform a thousand actions, but each time the question is why does he do it and who does he do it for? This is the defining factor.

Question (Women MAK 98): (11:52) False reasons get in the way of the Torah being drawn down. What's the connection between this and the sin of the primordial serpent? 

M. Laitman: We are gradually approaching true reasons of the Torah, and in front of us, we have a lot of cases like this. It's not straight away that we are able to identify the reasons and what is the reason of them occurring.

Student: If it's the real reason, how will we feel this? 

M. Laitman: The real reason is our evil inclination, our ego. It's the easiest. 

Question (Women Moscow 5): (12:53) How do we relate to these characters that often the Rabash references? For example, the king of Sodom. Sodom is what's yours is yours, what's mine is mine. How do we use this in the Ten? Should we think about this? 

M. Laitman: Talk about it, why not? 

Student: Clarify to what extent our intentions are not egotistical? 

M. Laitman: Yes, to an extent to which we are not on this line.

Question (Novosibirsk): (13:38) He writes here that the angel of Esau said that he cannot argue with the ones that study the Torah, and he cannot get in the way of the study of the Torah. But for false reasons, he can get in the way.

These supports can be in intention and in action? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women MAK): (14:18) You spoke of the qualities that should have to bring us to the Creator. Can we say that the qualities of the Torah is our intention and the qualities of the commandment is the action itself? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, the intention is the potential for the Creator and action, meaning the commandment, is the realization of the intention, the potential. 

M. Laitman: You can think this way, but then it can change also.

Student: True intention clothed in action. So, the result of this true intention that's realized in action. 

M. Laitman: It will be the end of the action and intention.

Question (Women Italy): (15:50) I ask myself how to build the soul. What is needed? What is most important for the building of the soul? 

M. Laitman: Desire. Desire to bestow. 

Student: Faith. Action. All things.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: The most important is the prayer, because we are in luck every day?

M. Laitman: Yes, the prayer. 

Question (Women Moscow): (17:17) The King of Sodom says, yours is yours, mine is mine. Why does he need true intention? What does he ask about this? 

M. Laitman: He wants to make a man similar to him.

Student: But it's the King of Sodom. He shouldn't let the man acquire the right intention. It's more convenient for him that way.

M. Laitman: The question is right. We won't get a reply to it right now, though. 

Student: Can we say it this way, then? Does a person reveal the king of Sodom on each degree, or is this a cumulative state until some kind of measure is collected? 

M. Laitman: Yes, the latter is correct. 

Question (Women MAK 23): (18:22) What does it mean there's no support for the study of the Torah? How do we acquire the support when studying Torah in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: It's when we try to define a question that we raise to the Creator, and we scrutinize from what side does the Creator reply to us? 

Question (Kyiv): (19:04) Here it says in the article that Netzach and Hod are the two supports of righteousness, and then later it says that supports are the reasons why a man engages in the study of the Torah. What are these supports, Netzach and Hod, for us? Are they intentions, directions? 

M. Laitman: The whole system stands on two supports. It can be Netzach and Hod. It can be some other qualities. But it's designed this way exactly. So, it's arranged. So, we have to define these qualities inside ourselves and see how they change. Based on that, we will understand better what we have to do with them. 

Student: Are these the left and right line, the supports, the foundations of the work? 

M. Laitman: Let's say so, yes. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (20:48) When our intention is for the Creator, what does He get from this? 

M. Laitman: Pleasure. 

Question (Women MAK 113): (21:17) When there is an intention for the world, then any actions in the Ten bring to a good result. Is this correct? 

M. Laitman: We will study this. The world is very diverse. We have to understand how to connect it, how to unite it. Gradually, we'll learn how to do that. 

Question (Women Spain): (22:23) Is the soul from this world, from Malchut? 

M. Laitman: The soul is from our world, yes. 

Question (Women Moscow 8): (22:53) Intention is the soul, is this correct? 

M. Laitman: No. Soul is not intention. The soul is a vessel, a Kli. 

Question (MAK 39): (23:14) We should take love your neighbor as yourself as the foundation of our work in the Ten?  Is this the main thing for us to reveal? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (MAK 24): (23:40) Can we see faith and reason as the two foundations in the work? 

M. Laitman: No.

Student: And should we rely on the faith referred to, at the same time there is always the mind, and without it we cannot succeed. We also should use it, lean on it? This is with regards to the spiritual world, and in the corporeal world, can we look at it this way? And the second is the group?

M. Laitman: Yes, you can.

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (24:36) What is the source, the reason, the desire, or the mind? 

M. Laitman: Desire. 

Student: Because I saw Rabash speak that a person seeks reward, so the source is the desire. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Spain): (25:22) You seek the truth. That's important for spiritual advancement, for understanding of the spiritual goal. How is this idea of truth and lies possible in the spiritual goal in the Ten?  How do we work with truth and lies in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: They always exist, one against the other, so we can comprehend it otherwise. We have to look in particular details. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (26:24) Bestowal for bestowal is the main direction when clarifying between Esau and Yaakov?  Can we look at this as the point where the Sitra Achra sucks from? 

M. Laitman: You can. 

Question (Women Rehovot 1): (27:00) How do we acquire that there are strong legs so that the foundation is weak? 

M. Laitman: Through the fact that we, everyone together, laid down a basis, laid the foundation from the get-go, and we want to achieve exactly this, bestowal and pray in the general.

Question (Women Kyiv 7): (27:38) How do we calibrate and check our intention? 

M. Laitman: It's not from the get-go. Originally, we wish to work with what we have. Later on we wish to attract more light in order to strengthen the force of our intention for the sake of bestowal. That's how we grow. 

Question (Women Turkiye 10): (29:05) How do you say we should move forward with the intention to expand our desire to receive? How can we hold on to the right intention when our desire to receive expands? 

M. Laitman: We want to reveal the desire to receive more and more so that it would be under the intention for the sake of bestowal. 

Question (Hadera 1): (29:43) If we have two systems, the heart, the desire, and the mind, only if we work in the desire, and this desire to receive or to give, we want to come to intention, in thought, and this is faith against the reason, and then we have these forces we speak of Thanks to the mind and the heart, this is the most inner thing that's in us. Thanks to these two foundations, we want to come to the Creator, to bestowal, and so on. These are foundations. The question is faith in the desire to come to bestowal. So, that these two systems for bestowal, these are two of our foundations? Can we put it this way?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Italy): (31:12) Desire is very important. It's the search for something very precious. How does this change thinking? 

M. Laitman: The search happens through raising the desire, MAN, and then we filter this. We raise our search to a higher and higher degree, and this affects our attitude to what we clarify. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:24) He writes here that in order to study Torah, he needs a reason that would give him strength to study. Whoever comes to study Torah, he has a reason to study it? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What is the desirable reason that I should have preferred? 

M. Laitman: We don't take this into account, because a man that comes, he has all kinds of thoughts, desires that the Creator filled him with. He has his mind, his heart, and then only after a certain time, when a person mixes the forces of bestowal and reception, only after this he can understand in some way how he builds himself. 

Student: So, if I study on false pretense, the reason is I want to fulfill myself, basically. I want to use Torah in order to get something better for myself.

So, is there any use from this study? Something happens? 

M. Laitman: Yes. There is use, of course. Everything is useful.

Student: But there is a short path and a long path. So, ultimately what will happen? The Torah will correct my intention from false to true?

M. Laitman: Gradually, but it will happen. 

Student: A lot of people in the world are studying Torah from, let's say, false reasons. Why does no change occur? There are people who came for the right reason, and there are people who stayed in the Torah and they even materialized it. How does a person merit to reach the true reason? 

M. Laitman: I would say, the reason for the falseness, it doesn't come from the man himself, but the Creator that spins a man around like this, and he puts in certain false reasons and thoughts and desires, and the man becomes confused.

Student: How can a person shield himself in this case, when the Creator is leading him this way? 

M. Laitman: Yes, he confuses him, and then many years pass in this way, and not for eternity, the way he will fight with him, as it is written, and the Creator helps him to ascend. So, see a slightly higher state, and see what he wanted and where he is now. 

Student: What's the reason for these years of confusion? 

M. Laitman: It's so that the man accumulates desires and thoughts that are not towards the Torah, and now it will be possible to work with them, to remove them through the reforms, working only for bestowal.

Student: So, what supports him throughout all the years when he studies and he's confused, and the Creator confuses him this way? What will keep the person? 

M. Laitman: What will hold the man is that there is a point in the heart, and it holds him. 

Student: What's the reason for a person to exert efforts, because his point in the heart will act no matter what? 

M. Laitman: No, that's not how it works. He will fight with his point in the heart for bestowal.

Question (Asia): (37:49) These supports, reason and above reason, righteous and wicked, that support a person in the work? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women KabU 13): (38:11) The first paragraph describes a state where Zeir Anpin is weak and can't provide support. A woman going through the process experiences this state as a painful, unbearable lack of Zeir Anpin. It feels like she has to stand her own man and own woman in one, standing completely alone, opposite and similar to the Creator at the same time and holding everything inclusively, Zeir Anpin, because he is like not available.

What can a woman do to help Zeir Anpin to mature and enter his own place and task in the purpose of creation? 

M. Laitman: All of this depends on the word Kli, to what extent we will understand that what needs to be is that we will all come to a spiritual desire and then it will feel like a single Kli in us. And then we can reach the essence of our goal.

Question (Women Spain): (41:23) The text mentions that if Esau cannot contradict the people studying Torah and he cannot stand in their way, how is it possible for the outside influence? How can it take us off the spiritual path with all kinds of manipulations and obstacles towards the studies, and how can we use Netzach and Hod in order to strengthen our goal? 

M. Laitman: I think that without us knowing what is Netzach and Hod, the main thing is to know what we can do in this state So that we unite between us, because between us are people, who are beginners on the path, and there are those that have been through many states. So, let's see how we can come out to this.

Question (Women MAK): (43:09) In the last paragraph. It says Nefesh Neshama is…  The king said, give me the soul, meaning the intention of a person, when he engages in Torah and Mitzvot, this will be for him. So, is the soul intention? Because you replied no to the friends from Moscow. How do I understand these sentences then? 

M. Laitman: The soul is the correct intention of a person. 

Question (Women MAK 36): (43:58) Can I say that good and evil inclinations at a certain point become pillars of righteousness, supports of righteousness? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, they become supports at the moment when there is a foundation of a true intention for the sake of the Creator. So, how can I strengthen the strength of this intention for the sake of the Creator, because it's as if something silent that one can feel. How do I turn up the volume of it correctly? 

M. Laitman: Yes, you're right. We will feel this in the nearest lessons. 

Student: So, it's just temporary and, basically, we need time to absorb it.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Moscow 6): (45:19) When the Creator is twisting us, what is needed from us for the Creator to help straight away? 

M. Laitman: Give ourselves to the Creator; let Him do what He wants. This is what I suggest. 

Question (Women MAK 51): (45:54) How can we distinguish true desires from false desires? 

M. Laitman: There is no way.

Question (Woman Turkiye 7): (46:32) I want to make Creator happy. The Creator will be happy if I do what He wants. How do I do what the Creator wants? Why does it seem as a very complicated stage? 

M. Laitman: So that I strengthen myself in request to the Creator so that He helps me. 

Question (Women Almaty): (47:19) Do I get it correctly? From one hand there is a Ten, the other side there is a Klipa, and these are two foundations, two supports, and I just have to keep on annulling myself. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (47:43) The article mentions intention, and I’ve had this question in my head for a long time. There is an initial intention when a person enters the path originally. It's like a root of a soul, something natural to him. Does it change in time, or does it stay the same and he’s encircled, that activates him? Or can study changes his intention in such a way that it won't resemble the original intention at all, or everyone will be closed in his own circle? 

M. Laitman: This is something we have yet to clarify. It's ahead of us. You described an advanced state that is yet for us to clarify. 

Question (Women MAK 30): (48:50) It is written in the text that true Torah cannot pull you down because the supports are false. So, then basically the general prayer is what can help us in faith above reason. Shall we walk like this? 

M. Laitman: A general prayer does help. 

Question (German): (49:28) in relationships with a partner, how do I stop blaming the partner in the relationship? And why does the Creator depict in such a picture that the partner is to blame? 

M. Laitman: We will come to this. 

Question (Women Turkiye 10): (50:32) Intention is the faith that we have to turn back to at all times, or is intention something that comes to us spontaneously in our hearts and it affects our state that is not under our control?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Spain): (51:04) Can we say that love is truth, and the world is the opposite?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: If we know it better, He will reveal this for us. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How can we keep Torah with the help of unity with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Torah is in a force. If we hold on to the Creator and we desire to reveal his attitude, his construction, we'll go through the whole of Torah. 

Question (Women Turkiye 5): (52:31) What quality do I have to have in order for the Creator to be on our path? 

M. Laitman: Love in relation to the whole world. 

Question (Women MAK 97): (53:05) Can we say that the Creator is Himself clothing in those characters, Esau, the king of Sodom, in order to awaken our evil inclination all the time? 

M. Laitman: No, no. He has enough secondary characters like this. 

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (53:46) Did I get it right that everyone is building his own personal Torah and his own commandments, and that everyone has his own? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what distinguishes Torah of one and the other? 

M. Laitman: Because each one has a different root of the soul. 

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (54:19) When in the work, I add the lack of the friend and I support only his true intention, the upper part, so to speak, I include in myself. How do I treat the embodiment of this lack? Do I have any opportunity to perform an effort in order for this not to embody at all? 

M. Laitman: No.

Student: So, I always am dealing with two parts of the desire, and I only address the upper part, or I also have attitude towards the incorrect part of this lack? How do I scrutinize? How do I use it? 

M. Laitman: Ask so you get the explanation, the revelation; then you'll know what to do.

Question (Women English 1): (55:43) It says that Netsach and Yod are the supporters of the Torah, Zeir Anpin. Is it correct to say Netsach and Yod are these qualities like persistence, humility, patience, ability to become? What are the qualities of Netzach and Yod that will enable us to continue in this path so that we don't fall over? 

M. Laitman: The qualities of Netsach and Yod need to complement each other and unite.

Question (Women Brasil): (58:18) How can you work with a personal desire, only through the group and through the Ten? So, how you work on your desire through the Ten, but at the same time not to forget about your personal desire for spirituality?

M. Laitman: We have to do certain exercises to come to what you ask, to clarify this question, and you'll have the answer.

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (59:15) I want to be loyal to the Creator and come back to Him, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to connect with Him. So, what do I do? 

M. Laitman: Unite with the friends, and together with them come to the Creator, and then you will be obliged to reveal what you ask for. 

I'm sorry, but this part of our lesson is over. We'll see each other tomorrow. 

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