Question: There is a parable about a fisherman transporting a person by boat. The passenger urged the fisherman: “Hurry up, I’m late for work!” Then the man spotted that on one oar was written “pray” and on the other “work.” “What is this for?” he asked.

“To remember,” replied the fisherman, ” so as not to forget that you must pray and work.”

“It is clear to everyone that everyone needs to work. But praying is not necessary. Why waste time on prayer?”

“It’s not necessary, it’s not necessary,” the fisherman replied, pulled the oar out of the water with the inscription “pray” and began to row with one oar. The boat spun on the spot.

What do you think about the combination of working and praying?

Answer: This is correct because not everything is in your hands, so there is a place for prayer.

Question: Work is seemingly in my hands, but everything that is not, I pray for. What if the work oar was pulled out of the water, would the boat spin on the spot or still somehow move?

Answer: It wouldn’t move at all. Without difficulty, where would you aim? With what?

Comment: But there is “pray.”

Answer: Well, then pray.

Question: And still there is no movement?

Answer: It wouldn’t move.

Question: Then tell me, what is the most important thing in life?

Answer: The most important thing in life is when a person works, realizes himself, but at the same time realizes himself in the right direction! Not that the work will give him everything, but that he directs it in accordance with the development of nature and humanity. Then one is born, gets married, works, and all of it together.

Question: So when you say one moves in accordance with nature, is there a prayer here?

Answer: There is a prayer here, of course. It is in the general laws of nature.

Question: So if I advance according to the laws of nature, there is a prayer in it?

Answer: Sure.

Question: What do I pray for in this case?

Answer: Our life has such opportunities and probabilities that we cannot calculate. Not because we are unable to, but because there is an upper providence, a force (the Creator). That is why we still need to do everything in our power that the Creator has left for us. But once we have done everything, the rest is left for Him.

In Hebrew it says: “HaShem Igmor BeAdi,” “The Creator will finish for me.” That is, I do all I can, and the Creator will finish the rest for me.

Comment: We usually pray when we hit a dead end or some deadlock situation, or terrible suffering.

Answer: This is incorrect.

Question: Not the right prayer?

Answer: No. This means we do not take the Creator as a force of nature that determines everything and go in accordance with it.

Question: So I have to know, while working, that the Creator will finish for me? Is this the constant movement that has to happen? Is this the right advancement?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If we bring it down to the oars, is this how to move with both oars?

Answer: We move with both oars and pray they complement each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/29/23

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