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Daily Morning Lesson: July 22, 2025

Part 3: The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #8.

Reader: Hello, we are reading from select excerpts from The Ruin, we’re in  the subheading of “The Shattering of the Vessels”, we'll continue with excerpt number eight from Rabash. 

Reading: (00:22) 8. RABASH, Article No. 867, "The Governance of Peace"

Man can toil and labor if no correction results from it. But for a small thing, which does not require much effort, if it is on the path of correction, there is no strength, since the corruptions come from the breaking of the vessels of the sin of the tree of knowledge.

Since this is still not corrected, corruptions still reign. This reign gives power, which is not so on the path of correction. This requires a different governance, called “peace.” 

M. Laitman: Yes. Meaning, we can see that through the corruption and the correction, each of them have their own path, and a person has to be built for this and built for that. This way we can check them, examine them, get to know them, and accept them and exist. And through our existence between the path of corruption and the path of correction, we can grow more and more, we can examine using the smallest discernments between them so that in each instance, we'll be able to distinguish between the path of correction and the path of corruption. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:54) What is the control of the peace? 

M. Laitman: The control of peace is likely where through corruption and correction they connect, and then a person who activates the system in this way begins to see how this complementary action through the path of corruption and the path of correction, if they do it together, this pulls all the details of creation toward correction.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:03) He writes here that a person is not capable of working on the manner of correction, he has no forces to work on the path of correction. Why? 

M. Laitman: Because from the outset we are corrupt. We are corrupt, and we can't think about how to combine the will to receive, and even the will to bestow, and when the shattering between them happens, it will correct them because then as created beings we will feel that we're able to maintain our existence in the mutual connection, mutual language, between the peace and the corruption from the will to receive and the will to bestow where both connect and complete one another. And we, as a result of that, will feel the complete world. 

Student: So, what does it mean that we are finding ourselves being under the control of the path of correction? 

M. Laitman: We want it to be in control.

Student: He writes, we have no such desire; that every labor we do, every effort we do, is for the opposite. 

M. Laitman: No. Labor is what we put in against our desire, the desire that's working in us.

Student: He writes, man can toil and labor if no correction results from it. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: But for a small thing, which does not require much effort, if it is on the path of correction, there's no strength, since the corruptions come from the breaking of the vessels of the sin of the tree of knowledge. 

M. Laitman: Right.

Student: So how can you understand this, that specifically in a matter of correction, we are not capable of laboring or toiling? 

M. Laitman: Because then we understand where we get stuck, who is the real, who creates the real obstruction on the path of connecting bestowal and reception. And we must then bring these two ends, reception and bestowal, bring them together to connect and to ultimately bring us through their connection to the end of correction. 

Student: But do we have a desire to make this connection? 

M. Laitman: Gradually it is revealed. We were born without the desire to correct reality, the world, the Creator, ourselves. No. But gradually, we'll begin to discover through all kinds of instances, all kinds of states, that the best possible thing is for us to complete the correction on top of connection and connection on top of correction.

Question (PT 19): (08:06) He writes here. It's very interesting that since it is not corrected yet, corruption still reigns, and this reign gives power which is not so on the path of correction. This requires a different governance called peace. What does it mean that another way that is called under the governance of peace? 

M. Laitman: We didn't learn this yet. We'll come to it. 

Student: Why?

M. Laitman: So what of it? 

Student: So he says here that there needs to be a different reign, a governance called peace.

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: What does it mean? 

M. Laitman: The governance of peace means that we forcefully complete the governance of connection, correction, and connection to work together. 

Student: Is he talking here about three lines already? 

M. Laitman: We'll see shortly.  

Question (Hungarian-Polish): (09:19) Those two forms, the evil and good inclination, how do those two come to peace?

M. Laitman: This is what we are studying as of today. We would like to approach the Creator and the goal with everything we've got, and here we discover that it's not enough. We need to scrutinize, further scrutinize our innermost qualities, and in this way we'll advance. Advancement takes place in us to the extent that we're aware of how much the qualities of connection are not much better than the qualities of shattering, and in this way, we try to reach a state where we connect, complete one another, discover, or rather reveal a place for the Creator to govern us, to control us, and when He fills us, we feel in that state corrected, we feel good. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:33) What is the meaning that the qualities of connection are no better than the qualities of the shattering? 

M. Laitman: Maybe you can understand it this way. I'm not sure you can say it this way everywhere. But the qualities of the shattering is something we need to reveal, to uncover, to demand, to ask to draw onto them the qualities of connection, and then by having one govern the other, correction, connection to govern over the shattering, we'll then see just how by that we reach a good world.

Student: I understand there's a corruption and there's a correction, there's the shattering and there's the connection. A person needs to aspire for connection, or does he have to come to the governance of peace and to come to both these forces together, or somehow working on it? 

M. Laitman: Man has to aspire for peace. 

Student: Which means that he recognizes both forces? Both of the shattering and of the connection?

M. Laitman: For them to connect together, and then we reach peace. 

Student: So it's not that he just wants connection, he just wants the good. He also recognizes the 

M. Laitman: No, no, it's not important to us where to be as long as we are in adhesion with the Creator. That is what we pray for, that's what we want to reach, and that's what's before us.

Student: And when a person is in the qualities of the shattering? 

M. Laitman: He's not in the qualities of shattering. If the qualities of the shattering appear in him, then corresponding to them he acquires a good sensation of what is his own quality, why is he in the quality of shattering? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:20) To continue what he is writing about, it being difficult for us to perform an act of correction, even the smallest one. So the question is, how do you receive forces, where do you receive forces from in order to perform these small actions that we're not capable of doing? 

M. Laitman: The fact that we aren't able, capable of performing corrections, that's true. That's our state. That's revealing our force as much as we are able to be as the Creator. Almost not zero compared to a tall mountain. But what we can do is to ask, to beg, to agree for anything that He does upon me, or on me, all kinds of actions, just that I will see the truth and also see in which way I can reach Him. 

Student: How do we work correctly with this gap? Because there's a feeling that we are making great efforts, but when suddenly a small effort comes along, you're incapable, there's no strength, there's a big gap, it's a kind of frustration.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How do we work with it? 

M. Laitman: But before you, except for the path of corruption and the path of correction, there's also a path where you can connect all the forces of the group into there. Then it won't seem difficult. It's not simple. You have to go follow the writings, but this way you can advance. 

Student: If you can give me a direction. How to use that strength? You said to connect the force of the group in order to overcome in order to advance in acts of correction.

M. Laitman: The acts of correction that we can activate our actions that we raise above everything the connection between us. And this way we will advance. By this special force that we are establishing in the spiritual work between us, we can reach a state that we draw it with our forces, we invite it, we ask, we pray, and it appears.

Question (Almaty 1): (18:13) How can the whole Ten pray with the teacher internally so we will have the strength to all the work? 

M. Laitman: You have a possibility to start connecting between you from the degree of this corporeal world. You can help each other in how everyone feels that he's dependent, needy, deficient from the friends and it gradually brings a person closer to the state where he sees that there's no other choice. He has to be connected to his friends day and night, morning, evening, doesn't matter when, or where, or how. The main thing is that he can constantly walk towards that. Then if he has such a deficiency, so he won't descend from that. When he reaches that deficiency, he outbursts in all the forces he has to a level where he discovers that the Creator is expecting him, waiting for him. And he stands there, he won't fall from it until he gets his answer.

Question (H 10): (21:00) The article we just read, as we learned a few days ago in the article, Rabash wrote that there are many people in synagogues, but only few know how to pray. So is this about, does a person know how to perform the correction, or does he not know how to perform the correction? 

M. Laitman: He doesn't know, but by his efforts to be connected in one vessel, which is called the synagogue, the house of gathering, and being connected between the private souls, just as he is a private soul, in that effort, he can reach connection.

Question (Turkiye 1): (22:14) Why even the smallest action on the path of correction is felt as so difficult? How to deal with such a state? 

M. Laitman: That's because he doesn't fight to connect all the discernments, thoughts, phases, states that are in him only in the group. And by connecting with them, uniting them, and raising them to the degree of the encounter with the Creator. That is something very important.

Question (Woman Spa): (23:28) What is the spice where we have to combine opposites in order to obtain connection and reach the degree of peace or wholeness? Again, what is the spice that we should integrate the opposites in order to reach connection and peace or wholeness? It's the same word in Hebrew. 

M. Laitman: Only prayer. Only prayer. To discover a deficiency that we're in. To request with all our forces for that force to connect us together. That's what we need to feel and that's what we want to live in. That's it. 

Question (Philippines): (24:56) Can we still attain total correction without praying, by doing the other spiritual works? Thank you. 

M. Laitman: Yes, prayer is necessary. It's essential. In prayer specifically, you discover your forces, and if you're in the right direction towards a correction. That's why without prayer, that you gather all your forces into it, the connection to the goal. Without that, you can't advance. You must depict for yourself correctly what state you want to reach. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:35) He writes here, on the path of correction, there needs to be a different authority called peace. So, what should come from a person in order for him to be willing to assume a different authority to ask for it? What should be, should he be broken, or should he be desperate, despaired? What should he, what should happen in order for him to take on a different authority? 

M. Laitman: He has to want to scrutinize what forces he needs to advance to the Creator, to connect to the Creator, to incorporate in the Creator. That is necessary. And then, not let go of that point, and to constantly ask for it.

Student: Is it the same point that when we scrutinize it among ourselves in the Ten, a person sees that he's lacking strength to connect, to bestow? How do we make that breakthrough where we ask together for such a strength, such a force that we don't know, don't detect, we don't have it? How do we, let's say, come to a point where we pray for it? 

M. Laitman: You discover that you have no one else to ask from, a new state, an ascent, a scrutiny. You're not able to. Only under the condition that you pray to the Creator, and he appears, he turns his face towards you.

Student: Out of what does he appear? 

M. Laitman: From your prayer. 

Student: From the sensation of the suffering, pain, or from a different place? 

M. Laitman: From you wanting to be in contact with Him in order to realize your goal.

Student: Last question. That desire of wanting to be connected with Him, will it always come out of darkness? 

M. Laitman: Maybe not.

Question (Woman Turkiye 7): (29:26) Not all the friends in the Ten feel, at the same time that it's impossible to attain everything, anything, without the help of all the friends. What do we do in such a state? How can we strengthen the power of the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Only by you discussing it. Connect more, stronger, and from your unity, you will find more words, more tendencies of the heart, of each one of you to the Creator. But you're advancing. You're advancing. 

Question (Latin 26): (30:35) What are the little things that don't require much effort if we are on the path of correction? 

M. Laitman: The little things will correct themselves. Don't worry about them. You need to take the big things, the global things that incorporate a few states in them, a few degrees, and in this way, you advance. 

Student: Can we begin with some scrutiny, prayer, and gratitude? Can we begin with this? Scrutiny, prayer, and gratitude? 

M. Laitman: Start. Start, then we'll scrutinize it. 

Question (Beer Sheva): (31:41) In the last sentence, in the paragraph, it says that since we work without the ability to connect, to correct, the strength comes from the breaking. How do we take the force that exists and turn it into a positive force so we can connect and not work in separation as it's written in the paragraph? 

M. Laitman: We can do that because we connect all of the desires to receive in the group into one desire to receive. We raise ourselves in the group to one Creator, and we want from our prayers, from our pleas to the Creator, He will connect us, and that we will receive that same force, that same force that from it, we can develop the true exertion only towards the Creator and nothing outside of it, no one. And when we go from our state of separation to the state of unity, by that, we feel as much as we are more inward into our system, and that we all can truly incorporate in one head, in one heart, in one body.

Student: (34:35) Can it be said that if we connect the negativity between us, as you said, and from there we draw strength, it's as if minus and minus become plus. Does that mandate that we work in a certain way in this method? 

M. Laitman: No. That whole sentence is incorrect. That we exist in the shattering, we can't from this point, we can't give any efforts, or desires, or forces to connect to more and ascend. We can't. The only thing we need to do is to work on the deficiency. What are we truly lacking in our state? Then we discover that what we're lacking is the feeling of a deficiency. Without the adhesion to the Creator, that that deficiency without the Creator, we won't know what to do without it. That's why we're asking, we're asking, let's say, that the force of the Creator will be revealed to us, will be revealed before us. Then according to that force, we will advance together towards Him and onward, forward. And that will be the correct path of correction. 

Reader: Maybe, why don't we read it? Excerpt nine. 

M. Laitman: Nine, okay. This Kli, called receiving in order to bestow is the complete opposite of the Kli called the will to receive for oneself, which we attribute to the Creator, who created it existence from absence. Hence, if we want to work only for the sake of the Creator, if we want to work only for the sake of the Creator and not for our own sake, this is hard work. Since we must fight against the Kli that the Creator created. From this work come all the lacks we learn about, such as the departure of the lights, the breaking of the vessels, holiness, impurity, the other side, and the shells. Also, all the names we see explained in the Zohar, that are explained in the Zohar and in books of Kabbalah, extend only from the correction of creation. This is so because we attribute the vessels of the correction of creation to the creatures, as it is written in the beginning of the Tree of Life. And, as he explains in the study of the Ten Sefirot, that the first will to receive, called Malchut of Ein Sof, that she does not want to receive in order to receive but in order to bestow. We have to read it a few times, then you will understand what he means.

Reader: Should we read the excerpt again? Excerpt number nine. 

Reading: (39:47) 9. RABASH, Article No. 26 (1989), “What Is ‘He Who Defiles Himself Is Defiled from Above’ in the Work?”

This Kli, called “receiving in order to bestow,” is the complete opposite of the Kli called “will to receive for oneself,” which we attribute to the Creator, who created it existence from absence. Hence, if we want to work only for the sake of the Creator and not for our own sake, it is hard work, since we must fight against the Kli that the Creator created.

From this work come all the lacks we learn about, such as the departure of the lights, the breaking of the vessels, Kedusha, Tuma’a, Sitra Achra [other side], and Klipot. Also, all the names we see explained in The Zohar and in books of Kabbalah extend only from the correction of creation.

This is so because we attribute the Kelim of the correction of creation to the creatures, as it is written in the beginning of Tree of Life, and as he explains in The Study of the Ten Sefirot, that the first will to receive, called Malchut de Ein Sof, said that she does not want to receive in order to receive, but in order to bestow. 

M. Laitman: Okay, let's take a few questions.  

Question (ITA 1): (41:52) It's difficult work. So, in order to choose the right path of correction, should we always choose what demands more efforts and exertion from us? 

M. Laitman: No, that's incorrect. In order to come into the action that you want to be in, to be connected with all the details in it as much as possible, then you take its state of the thing that you want to be connected to, as much as you can adhere to it.  

Question (Woman Spain 1): (43:13) How can we work with the will to receive that the Creator created in us in an active way, without falling, and to keep working in bestowal? 

M. Laitman: We were created, we were born, and we exist with all our qualities, internal ones, and with all of our worlds that we exist within, only in order to feel how much the path of correction, although it's difficult ,and long, and not simple, but at the same time, we need to advance only on that. We have many more excerpts about that, and it’s ahead of us.

Question (Woman Heb 1): (44:46) I wanted to ask about these states that you attain something through the friends, and then we completely lose it, and we attain it again, or what you have attained is kept? Is it lost and grows, lost and grows, or is it kept and grows? 

M. Laitman: It is kept, and disappears, and comes back again. A person needs only to see his path, how he advances in his will to receive toward adhesion. 

Question (Woman Ukraine 2): (45:42) It says that he who prays for his friend receives first. And if he prays and sees that the friend receives and he doesn't, so there's a lack of correction? 

M. Laitman: If a person sees that the friend uses a lot of energy, makes great efforts, participates in all the group activities, etc., then he understands that this is his work. And vice versa. We need to feel where we really need to be, each of us and all of us together. We should be at the center of the desire for the Creator, so that all of our desires will assemble together, unite, adhere, and yearn for the Creator. That's the most important.

Question (Woman PT 8): (47:35) We are praying these days, the group, the men, the women, a lot of prayers together. How do we reach the prayer of the many? That will be very strong and very deep. How to reach this vessel of prayer of many?

M. Laitman: In the same way that you are now going, just don't get off of it. Don't veer off from it. That's it. 

Question (Moscow 4): (48:27) It's written in number 9 that it's difficult work. The fight against the vessel that the Creator created, that's where all our deficiencies came from. So, what work do we need to do so the shattering won't happen in an external way, like when we see all kinds of problems in the world, but that it'll happen between us in our work. 

M. Laitman: We simply need to insist on it, not to be afraid of asking more and more out of our vessels, to ask for connection and adhesion, etc. We do it, except we need to be more active in this. 

Question (Woman Spa): (49:38) This is a question from the Women's Ten of Argentina. The Creator constantly shows us that we don't have a deficiency to bestow. We always talk about it in the Ten, but we do feel that we want to bestow. So, we're doing all the actions in the Ten. That's clear, it's felt. So, what are we lacking in order to keep that intention for the force of bestowal? 

M. Laitman: To try to make each lesson we go through enter the heart of each one. And in this way, we will soon come to a state, where the vessel will open up to us. Nine, right? 

Reader: Now we're in Ten. 

M. Laitman: Number Ten.

The essence of man is the heart. The heart is the Kli, the vessel that receives the Kedusha, holiness, from above. It is as we learn about the breaking of the vessels, that if the Kli is broken, everything you put in it will spill out. Likewise, if the heart is broken, meaning the will to receive controls the heart, abundance cannot enter there because everything that the will to receive receives, will go to the Klipot, shells. This is called the breaking of the heart. Hence, a person prays to the Creator and says, You must help me. Because, that's what he tells the Creator. Because I am worse than everyone. Since I feel that the will to receive controls my heart. And this is why nothing of Kedusha, holiness, can enter my heart. I want no luxuries, only to be able to do something for the sake of the Creator. Anything, the smallest thing that no one else will want. And I am utterly incapable of this. So, only You can save me. By this, we should interpret what is written in Psalms. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted. That is, those who ask the Creator to help them so their heart will not be broken and will be whole with everyone and with the Creator.  

Reader: We have 11. 

M. Laitman: 11, yes. Our sages said, Dispersion is good for the wicked, and gathering is good for the righteous. This is according to what the ARI said, that in the worlds of Igulim, circles, one Igul, circle, does not touch another, and there the breaking happened until it was corrected in the world of Yosher, straightness. The meaning of the matter in the allegory is that the mind of the Igulim, the circles, is that it is as one who surrounds and encircles himself when becomes separated from his Maker. It seems to him that he will lead himself by his own will, as “I will rule.” Likewise, among the wicked, and they cannot connect like the circles, as it is apparent, evidently, because they will not be able to sit together. And this is why separation is suitable for them. Conversely, although each of the righteous serves his Creator in a different style, they all aim at the same thing, their Father in Heaven. And they gather and assemble one by one as one man with one heart, and each one diminishes himself and glorifies the work of the Creator in the world of straightness, and unite with one another. It's a very important excerpt, very important. Because we need to know that what we received from above is the beginning of our spiritual path. So, let's unite our efforts, and try to reveal during the day to be as one man with one heart.

That's basically what we need to unite. 

Reader: I'll read it again, this special part from AvoDa'at Yisrael, the work of Israel.

Reading: (57:47) 11. Avodat Israel [The Work of Israel], Portion Shlach

Our sages said, “Dispersion is good for the wicked and gathering is good for the righteous.” This is according to what the ARI said, that in the worlds of Igulim [circles], one Igul [circle] does not touch another, and there the breaking happened until it was corrected in the world of Yosher [straightness]. The meaning of the matter and the allegory is that the mind of the Igulim is that it is as one who surrounds and encircles himself, and becomes separated from his Maker. It seems to him that he will lead himself by his own will, and he is haughty and says, “I will rule,” and this was the shattering.

Likewise, among the wicked, the heart of each one is haughty, saying “I will rule,” which is why they are in the world of separation and cannot connect, like the circles, as we can evidently see, for they cannot sit together. To them, dispersion is good.

Conversely, although each of the righteous serves his Creator in a different style, they all aim at the same thing—their father in Heaven. They gather and assemble one by one, as one man with one heart, and each one diminishes himself and glorifies the work for the sake of the Creator, who gives him the strength and intelligence by which to serve Him. Hence, one will not be arrogant toward his friend, and they are in the world of straightness and unite with one another. 

M. Laitman: Yes. Clear? Does anyone have any urgent questions according to this excerpt? None. Okay. So, we'll see you tomorrow. All the best. 

Reader: Thank you very much to the Rav. Thank you, other friends. Let's go to a summary of what we got and received from the Rav. Let's go to the lesson summary and the Tens , please.