The Daily Direction 8/5/2014

The Daily Direction 8.5.2014

Selected Excerpts from Rav Laitman’s Words, Daily Lesson

“Each one must pray that his friend will have the prayer”

This is how we reach the quality of bestowal

If I want to be in bestowal I need to take care of the fulfillment of others, what the others wish for, my friends to bestow. Therefore, I need to do everything that is within my hands in order to bring them to a state that they will make an effort, that they will want and be able to bestow, therefore I pray that they will receive what they wish for, that they will have the craving to reach bestowal, will want and be able to bestow, so they will have everything, and for myself it’s enough only to pray for them.

If I’m satisfied with this, then it is like the real quality of bestowal. I don’t want anything for myself and I pray only for others, that they will have the ability to bestow, because this is the highest and most exalted of all.

And this is the true and correct prayer that man can perform and the Creator will listen to this prayer. Also, before, the Creator listened to all prayers, to all the desires that we feel, and even everything that we are not aware of, it is always inside the Creator.

But thanks to this prayer, I truly feel and know that I am within the power of bestowal, inside the Light, inside the Creator and that I awaken Him to bestow to others. That means I’m already included with the Upper Light in the same quality of bestowal towards my group.

and my group becomes the vessel which I bestow to.

And I suddenly discovered that on one hand, I’m connected to the Creator, asking Him to bestow upon them, and on the other hand, for myself I ask for nothing. I only ask for  the Creator to realize my desire to fulfil them, in their ability to bestow. Then I’m completely purified from the will to receive and make myself a passage. Roughly, this is how we reach the quality of bestowal.

The Right Student

The right student is always in a state that he does not understand the teacher. He always goes towards the step where the teacher exists, and therefore he (the student) does not always understand him, does not get him, but is willing to do what the teacher says. It is always like that in “faith above reason,” otherwise, how you would transcend? Therefore, towards what to do: You will always find yourself in a situation where you do not know what to do, and yet you are doing.