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Daily Lesson (Morning) February 5, 2025.

Part 2: Rabash. 456. Small Talents

Reader: We are studying from the Rabash writings, Article Number 456, “Small Talents”.

Reading: (0:21) 456. Small Talents Twice

Concerning choice: If a person is born with small talents, how can it be said that he will be a wise disciple? After all, his brain is too small to understand words of Torah.

Midrash Rabbah says about this (portion, “This Is the Blessing”), “The Creator said to Israel, ‘Be sure, the whole wisdom and the whole Torah are easy. Anyone who fears Me and performs the words of Torah, all the wisdom and all of the Torah are in his heart.’”

He interpreted this in the “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot” as follows: There is no prerequisite for excellence here, for only by the Segula [merit/power/cure] of fear of heaven and observance of the Mitzvot [commandments] we are rewarded with all the wisdom of the Torah. This is the meaning of “Everything is in the hands of heaven but the fear of heaven,” for only in fear of heaven is there choice, and everything else, the Creator gives.

Reader: Let's read it again, the Rabash Article 456, “Small Talents”.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:10) There were a lot of questions in the previous part: What's in the hands of a person, where are our choices. And here, it says everything is in heaven except for the fear of heaven. So, what is the fear of heaven for us?

M. Laitman: Fear towards the Creator, that He is the upper. He's what we “call standing in the heavens”.

Student: What does it mean, emotionally, to feel that He controls everything? What is fear?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: But should I feel it?

M. Laitman: Probably so.

Student: But I forget about it all the time, so what do I do?

M. Laitman: Write a note to yourself.

Student: And I write what, that the Creator is in control of everything?

M. Laitman: Yes, whatever you're missing, in order to remember.

Student: And why is it called fear, that it's like being scared?

M. Laitman: You probably have to reach such a state where you have fear.

Student: What am I afraid of?

M. Laitman: Of forgetting about the Creator, about His force, His governance.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:58) It's written that we should only choose about the fear of heaven. What is choosing the fear of heaven?

M. Laitman: That man can choose to reach fear of heaven or not.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:42) What's or not; what's the alternative?

M. Laitman: Or not to get there.

Student: Why should a person choose not to reach the fear of heaven?

M. Laitman: I don't know but you see how many people in the world – and how many of them are seriously thinking and scrutinizing what's governing them – how the Creator governs them.

Student: But who’s got choice, who of them has choice?

M. Laitman: Yes, that is indeed, also, a question.

Student: Where do we have to be cautious and not fail in our choice? Where could we fail in this?

M. Laitman: I don't know but you see that you can fail.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:13) It's written that a person can choose to enter a state of fear. And we learned what the correct fear is: That he's concerned that he's really giving Him contentment. Now, if a person can choose the concern whether he's giving the Creator contentment, what does that depend on?

M. Laitman: I don't know.

Student: I don't like to go into this but the greatness of the Creator. You get it from the environment, so a person gets influenced by it. And he wants to take this greatness, he got from the environment, to give Him contentment because he got the greatness. That's the method?

M. Laitman: I don't know; you should think about it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:33) It seems that the choice a person has is to choose the fear of heaven, that's what he has; that's also what you said to the friend.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: If a person reaches the fear of heaven, so he feels that the earth is filled with His glory and the greatness of the Creator. So, where is the choice then? Then it's not clear if fear is in faith or fear is in a feeling. Or in what way is our fear expressed then?

M. Laitman: It's written in the last sentence: “and one shall choose the fear of heaven, and everyone has their own measure”. So, what fear does he want to have, and to what extent.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:54) If a person believes in the Good Who Does Good, is there still a place for fear?

M. Laitman: I don't know. That's a question: Is he checking every moment in his life? How does he relate to the upper force? Then he'll see.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:44) What do the Kabbalists mean when they say that it's an easy thing? What does it mean that it's easy?

M. Laitman: Easy to choose, easy to understand, easy to do.

Student: But the experience shows that it's not easy to understand and not easy to choose, and not easy to do. So, why do they say it's easy?

M. Laitman: I don't know.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:23) Rabash calls this short article “Small Talents”.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, if I understand correctly, a person doesn't need a talent? All the talents of this world, you don't really need them to be a student and draw the light, and so on. You don't need talent for it. And still, what? The matter of the fear of heaven, you don't need a talent for that? Any person can reach fear of heaven?

M. Laitman: You don't need anything.

Student: Anything. So, what is the fear of heaven that every person can acquire?

M. Laitman: It's true fear of heaven.

Student: What is it?

M. Laitman: That you have fear that, let's say, that you won't achieve fear of heaven.

Student: That I'm afraid that I won't achieve what? What is the fear of heaven that I'm afraid of that I won't have?

M. Laitman: Fear that you won't have fear of the Creator.

Student: Everything is in the hands of heaven except for the fear of heaven.

M. Laitman: Right.

Student: Why is it in my hands?

M. Laitman: Because that's the main thing; it's our foundation to achieve fear of heaven.

Student: Why isn't the Creator doing that? Why is the fear in a person also not in the hands of the above?

M. Laitman: So that we have choice.

Reader: (14:29) Why should I be afraid of the Creator?

M. Laitman: That's not the kind of fear that we feel in our life. Rather, it's fear of not achieving our correct realization.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:04) What's the connection between fear and our heart? He says, I need the whole Torah to put it in my heart. So, what's the connection between putting the Torah into my heart? What does that have to do with fear? Why does fear help me put everything in my heart?

M. Laitman: After you try to carry out the whole Torah, then you get to a point where the whole Torah resides in your heart.

Student: What does it mean that all of the Torah is in my heart?

M. Laitman: That all your desires which the heart reveals all of man's deficiencies – all of your desires – yes. So, they all exist in one's heart.

Student: We were talking about our agreement towards the Creator in every moment.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: The Creator brings me all my deficiencies and what does it depend on me willing to take those deficiencies, so He fills them? Because He gives me everything, the deficiencies, too. So, this fear that every deficiency that I get from Him, I'll ask Him to fill it. That's the fear that I can receive all the deficiencies from Him?

M. Laitman: Yes. That you are willing to receive all the deficiencies, you're afraid of that? No. The fear, as far as I understand, has to be from being afraid to not be able to carry out all of the deficiencies, desires, that the Creator awakens in my heart.

Student: So, I have to ask Him to fill all those deficiencies?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:15) Fear is a very strong force; it always gives some result. The fear of not to wake up for the lesson, so I go to sleep earlier or all kinds of reasons; there's always a good result in the end. The question is when do we speak about the fear from the Creator? So, what result do we want from this fear?

M. Laitman: What result do we want from this fear? That it will guard us, that we won't fail.

Student: The will to receive likes to be in small fears. But internally, there is no desire to be in this fear. You know, there's like, if you tell it, if you don't do this, oh, you'll have a mess. You know, something just, there's no desire to be in the fear towards the Creator. And internally someone could really have fear of not having faith in the Creator, of not?

M. Laitman: Of not having connection.

Student: Yes, exactly, connection.

M. Laitman: Yes. Do you want an answer?

Student: Yes.

M. Laitman: I don't have one.

Student: So, the true state is the true state.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:42) There's fear and there's love, are they two opposites that supposedly complete each other? How to keep the fear to give the Creator contentment, and also to try and keep the love towards the Creator because it's as if they cancel each other. How to hold them both – the love to the Creator and the desire to hold this tension – and not to just be on one side. How do you do it? Maybe, I'll give a practical example, if I may: We heard that the Turkey group bought 26 tickets to come to the Congress, and they're still not getting visas to come into Israel because of the Israel-Turkey relationships. Now, on one hand, we want to love the Creator and justify everything He's doing. On the other hand, there's, I'm mad at the Creator. I want to tell Him to help the friends, that they did a lot of exertion, they want to come to us to connect with us above time and place, and they can't live together. The fear, the love, it's two different ends. We want to love the Creator and everything He gives; on the other hand, we also want to not agree with Him. How to include all this thing because we see the friends' efforts in the world Kli. We heard in the preparation that the group of Latin also decided above reason that the whole Ten will come to Israel. So, how to hold the friends on those two ends, that's the question?

M. Laitman: This all depends on the willingness of our hearts to include everyone and hold them all together to a single Ten that can't be dismantled. That's, basically, what we have to do, that's it. It's to envision to ourselves that we are indivisible to all kinds of pieces. Rather, we're all together, demanding this attitude to all of us as one.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:16) Maybe we can see it this way: That fear and love – the fear pushes, the love draws but spiritual fear is like the middle line. Like a mother that constantly thinks of her child. No matter what she'll do at home, organize, the attention. Could the spiritual fear be to develop sensitivity towards the middle line, and not whether pulling or pushing?

M. Laitman: No, I can't answer that. It's not a question.