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Daily Morning Lesson: October 29, 2025 

Part 2: Recorded lesson – Jan 10, 2022

Baal HaSulam. Shamati 213. Acknowledging the Desire 

Reader: We're going to move to watch a lesson from January 10, 2022, the Shamati articles, Article 213, the article Acknowledging the Desire

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Reader: We're reading from the writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati article 213, Acknowledging the Desire. 

Reading: (00:40) Baal HaSulam. Shamati 213. Acknowledging the Desire

I heard

The basic, primary principle is to increase the deficiency, for this is the basis upon which the whole structure is built. And the strength of the building is measured by the strength of its foundation.

Many things compel one to labor, but they do not aim at the cause. Therefore, the foundation impairs the whole structure. Although from Lo Lishma [not for Her sake] we come to Lishma [for Her sake], it still requires a long time before one returns to the goal.

Therefore, one must see that the goal is always before his eyes, as it is written in Shulchan Aruch [Set Table (Jewish code of law)]: “I see the Lord before me always.” And one who stays home is unlike one who stands before the king. He who believes in the existence of the Creator—that the whole earth is full of His glory—is filled with fear and love, and needs no preparations or observation, only to completely nullify before the king from his very nature.

Just as we see in corporeality, that he who truly loves his friend thinks only of the best of his friend, and avoids anything that is not beneficial to his friend. All this is done without any calculation, and it does not require a great mind, since it is as natural as a mother’s love for her child, who only wants to benefit her child. She needs no preparations or intellect to love her child, since a natural thing does not require an intellect that will assert it, but it is done by the senses themselves. The senses themselves are devoted, since this is how it is in nature, as due to the love for something, they give their soul until they achieve the goal. And as long as they do not achieve, their lives are not a life.

Thus, whoever feels, as it is written in Shulchan Aruch, that for him it is similar, etc., he is certainly in wholeness, meaning that he has faith. As long as one does not feel he is standing before the king, then one is the opposite.

Hence, one should see that servitude is first and foremost. One must regret not having sufficient faith, that the lack of faith is his foundation, and he should pray for requests and labor, to feel that deficiency, for if he has no deficiency, it means he has no Kli [vessel] to receive the filling. One must believe that the Creator hears the prayer of every mouth and that he, too, will be delivered in complete faith. 

M. Laitman: I don't see any questions for the time being – is it so clear?

Question (PT 7): (04:47) What does it mean, I see the Lord before me always and standing before the King?

M. Laitman: That I have to constantly bring myself back to a state where I'm standing before the Creator, and I'm moving closer and closer to Him according to the equivalence of our qualities, the equivalence of form, as we call it.

Question (Tel Aviv 3): (05:17) He described a few things here: The feeling of standing before the King, the lack of faith. 

M. Laitman: It's all the same, faith means the feeling of the Creator, very simple, the feeling of the Creator is called, Faith; lack of the feeling of the Creator is a lack of faith, how to feel the Creator according to equivalence of form. As much as you are in the force of bestowal, you can feel the Creator, Who is the force of bestowal. 

Student: So, what is the lack that I need to make sure I have? 

M. Laitman: A lack to attain the force of bestowal, we have nothing else besides that. And then you see all of reality, the whole world, especially the group. That you were given an opportunity to increase, to attain, to connect, to combine all those qualities of bestowal, that's how it is.

Question (Zafon 2): (06:32) What are the signs that the Creator sees our prayer? 

M. Laitman: Signs? 

Student: What are the signs that the Creator sees our prayers? 

M. Laitman: You need to try and feel during the prayer how inside your words, your thoughts, the Creator is already present. Even before you disclose a certain feeling towards Him – even before that, He is in it, and He governs you from there. 

Question (Kiev 1): (07:28) He writes here that, He who loves is very much in love. I'll ask a different question, if possible: What is this action that says to believe? If faith is feeling the Creator, what is the action to believe? 

M. Laitman: Bestowal. Faith is bestowal, giving, bestowal, this is the meaning of faith. It's coming out of the desire to bestow of a person; the desire to bestow is the force of Bina, called faith. We have to come closer to that, and by that, we correct ourselves.

Student: He writes in the article that, He who loves his friend through love, he prevents himself from doing anything that doesn't bring contentment to his friend. How do I keep myself in that way?

M. Laitman: I think this has to develop in us naturally, I relate to the friend that first of all will always check whether or not it is to his benefit. Is this what he wants, more than that, it's what I'm doing to him. Does he want that but is unable to attain by himself, and I'm giving it to him, I'm getting it for him? Then this is called, completing for the friend, fulfilling. 

Student: How to complete that correctly? 

M. Laitman: Think about how the friends are connected with you, and you will be connected together in such a way that the Creator will necessarily enter between you. This is the meaning of, My sons have defeated me. The moment we connect in the correct way, we obligate the Creator to be revealed between us. And this is the meaning of, building the temple. Our heart, our desires that are connected, they become one heart, or the place of the temple, the house of holiness – holiness is bestowal – that's where bestowal is revealed between us and in it is the Creator. 

Question (PT 18): (10:30) He writes in the second part that, The thing that necessitates the person to labor, there are many things, but they're not aiming at the cause, but the labor is only towards the goal. 

M. Laitman: Yes, but there are many causes, of course, everything is all only arranged towards the correction, the end of correction because nothing, rather everything comes from there is none else besides Him. But we can go towards it directly with our understanding, agreement with the mutual action with the Creator. Or that along the way, we have to philosophize and make different twists and turns and incorrect actions until we learn how to advance properly. It's like in our life, we have to teach our children how to walk straight, safely; and the Creator does the same with us. 

Reader: Maybe you will read the article? 

M. Laitman: I will read it? No. What did you think? 

Reader: That you will read.

M. Laitman: Okay, I will try, but help me out here, because I have different thoughts in my head. So: 

M. Laitman (Source Text/ Commentary): (12:03) Acknowledging The Desire.

The basic primary principle is to increase the need. 

It's not enough for us to have a small deficiency towards the Creator called the point in the heart, and we wish to reveal it. But we also need to add to this deficiency the Creator illuminated in us, the point in the heart. We need to add additional force, additional deficiency that's greater and better directed. And it says that we’ll need to grow, to increase the need for 

This is the basis upon which the whole structure is built, 

We want to reach from here until all the way till the end of correction. 

And the strength of the building is measured by the strength of its foundation. 

Meaning, as much as our deficiencies toward the goal can be bigger, then accordingly, we will build, we will construct a higher structure until we reach the height of 125 degrees. 

Because many things compel one to labor, but they do not aim at the cause. Therefore, the foundation impairs the whole structure. 

If our foundation is incorrect, is not aimed at the cause – the goal – then we're already turning in a different direction. 

And although from Lo Lishma, not for Her sake, we come to Lishma for Her sake, 

Meaning no matter what, it's still requiring a long time. It will take a long time for us before one returns to the goal. When we are walking, taking an incorrect path, we discover we are wrong. We have to retrace our steps and continue on the straight path. We see it on our friends, those who leave, stayed on the outside for a time and then come back to us, what can you do? There's nothing to do, you have to accept them and continue with them. Don't believe yourself until the day you die, that's what it says. So, with each and every one of us, the same thing can happen. The condition, the only condition is Arvut. 

Therefore, one must see that the goal is always before his eyes. As it is written, I see the Lord before me always. 

The Creator has to be always before me as a goal. 

And one, like that, as such a person is filled with fear and love and needs no preparation or observation, only to completely nullify before the king from his very nature. 

Meaning, if a person annuls himself each time towards the Creator, and in all the additional things that accompany it relative to the group, the friends and so on and so forth. Then he needs nothing else. This is the straight path towards the goal. 

Just as we see in corporeality, that he who truly loves his friend, thinks only of the best of his friend and avoids anything that is not beneficial to his friend. And all this is done without any calculation, and it does not require a great mind, since it is as natural. 

Love itself guides him, 

Just as a mother's love for her child, who only wants to benefit her child. And she needs no preparation or intellect to love him, to love her child, 

Since it's a natural thing. It's in her desire, it's not in her brain, it's in the heart. 

Since a natural thing does not require an intellect that will assert it, but it is done by the senses themselves. The senses themselves are devoted, since this is how it is in nature, as due to the love for something, they give their soul until they achieve the goal. And as long as they do not achieve, their lives are not a life. 

They are in constant yearning, searching, they don't know what to do. 

Question (PT 35): (17:20) How do we keep increasing the lack all the time? 

M. Laitman: Through the friends, and by studying. Meaning from authors and books, from learning from the books and from speaking with the friends. From that, you can acquire new deficiencies, but together with the books and authors, with your friends, you can aim yourself more clearly at the goal in advance – there are no other means. 

Question (Turkey 3): (18:06) In the article it writes, he who believes in the existence of the Creator is filled with fear and love. What does the fear means mentioned here? 

M. Laitman: Fear that I won't be able to connect with the friends, I won't be able to reach bestowal to the Creator. I will remain outside of bestowal, outside of holiness. I will, God forbid, understand incorrectly what is the meaning of holiness, of spirituality; it's not in order to receive but rather in order to bestow. And that I should agree to it, and I should rise to that degree. This is my concern, this is what I fear.

Question (PT 29): (19:10) It says that the Creator hears the prayer of every mouth. Can we say, based on that, that prayer is an action on behalf of man, that it's a sign that the Kli is willing to receive?

M. Laitman: Yes, correct. 

I continue, we didn't reach the end yet. 

M. Laitman (Source Text/ Commentary): Thus, whoever feels that this is like that will surely be in wholeness. 

And if he feels that he's similar to the force of bestowal, like the Creator, then surely he feels himself in wholeness, meaning that he has faith in bestowal. 

And as long as one does not feel he's standing before the King, then one is the opposite.

He does not feel it, but it also awakens him to advance. We will later learn how we need to approach the Creator, that there needs to be a restriction, screen and reflected light there. We can't open up our senses to Him and grasp Him with all our senses; rather on the contrary, we attain Him by rejecting Him in bestowal from us to Him. 

Hence, one should see that servitude is first and foremost. 

Meaning, I come to serve, to give, to bestow, first and foremost, and after having it, meaning this is called restriction, screen, and reflected light, then according to my efforts, according to what I've attained through the screen, the restriction, the screen, and the reflected light. Through the force of bestowal in total which is above the force of reception, the force of Bina, above Malchut, faith above reason, then accordingly I can come into contact with the Creator, since it will certainly not, it's not going to short the circuits. 

Hence, one should see that servitude is first and foremost, meaning bestowal, and one must regret not having sufficient faith, and the force of bestowal is still lacking for him. 

And the lack of faith is his foundation, the lack of bestowal, 

Lack in his brain and his heart to think and feel that he wants only to bestow. And therefore, 

He should pray for labor and desire to feel that want, 

That he lacks love and the importance of bestowal. Where will I obtain it? How do I activate it? 

Since if he has no lack, it means that he has no Kli to receive the filling. And since when does he receive the feeling of the Creator, the revelation of the Creator? When he has a vessel of bestowal. Then he receives the upper bestower, 

and he must believe that the Creator hears the prayer of every mouth, and that he too will be delivered in complete faith. 

Meaning in total, only the request, only the prayer to have a desire to bestow, a desire for the upper force to bestow, that's what we need. This is the matter of the article, the acknowledging, the need, the desire, the revelation of this desire for bestowal. That's what we need. And we have to check if we have it, if we advance in it or not. We do it in the Ten, and I immediately can see if I'm rejecting the friends, or I want to accept them. Do I pay attention to their corporeal forms, or is the most important thing for me their points in the heart? Although the point in the heart of the friends is not yet expressed correctly. It's possible that they're unable to express it correctly, but it is there, otherwise they would not be with me together. I trust the Creator for bringing me such friends and saying, take it. By them, you will be able to reach me, and I'm trying to do it through them. A lack for connection, a lack for bestowal to the friends, and through them, a lack for bestowal to the Creator. That's what we need, to acknowledge, to reveal that deficiency.

Question (Brasil 1): (24:56) In the last paragraph, it says that a person should be sorry that he doesn't have proper faith. What does that mean?

M. Laitman: To regret that he truly wants to obtain the force of bestowal, love of others, and he does not have it, and that's why he regrets it. He should regret it in the group, where he sees the friends have it, and he does not. Look at your friends, try to see what exists between them. You'll see that between them, there's a lot more connection and participation compared to what you have between you and them. And then you should envy them because the envy of counters, you will increase wisdom. You will want to reach the force of bestowal, you will ask of the Creator, and you will receive.

Question (Hadera 2): (26:09) About the second paragraph, he gives the example of one who loves his friend with true love, and then he continues and compares that to a mother who loves her child. But for the mother, the love for the child comes naturally, and true love for the friend doesn't come naturally. 

M. Laitman: Right.

Student: So, how do these two examples coincide? How can I take the example of a mother towards her child?

M. Laitman: No, the example of a child to his mom, or a mother to her child, this is natural love, and it exists also on the animate level. It doesn't exist on the speaking level. The speaking degree is us, we need to obtain, to attain the force of love. What does it mean, the force of love? It means that there is a desire that on the one hand, is found outside of me; on the other hand, I raise it above my head. It's more important to me than anything. This example is truly the example for how do we love small children, babies. A mother towards her child is ready for anything, nature obligates her. Now, what do we need? Of course, through the upper light when we try to establish between us various activities and actions, we also wish to reach such love for the friends. And through them, when the friends become, for me, parts of my spiritual body: Let’s say, this friend is hands, and this friend is the feet, and this friend is the shoulder, and this friend is the belly, and this one is the brain, and so on and so forth. Each, every friend is a part of my spiritual body and in this complete spiritual body, the Creator already enters and enlivens that body. And then we all, that's how each and every friend needs to be, all of us, we enliven our soul. And this depends on each one of us and on all of us together. 

Student: If I don't see it, I need to pray for it? 

M. Laitman: You still can't see it. This might be the topic for our next Congress, and we'll advance towards it gradually. But that's what needs to be there, and this is exactly where each shall help his friend, in truth. We'll learn more about how important it is for us to come closer, to connect internally to one another. Because this is how we are from the beginning of creation, and up until today, we've developed but we need to continue; but this time with our own forces, with our participation. Thus far, we've advanced with the upper force. From here on, we need to advance in partnership with Him. 

Question (W MAK 6): (30:15) It says, the primary principle is to increase the need. What do you do when the need is very big, and it goes out of its boundaries? How do you direct it towards the bestowal?

M. Laitman: First of all, we need to sort out the deficiencies that we have: How much of the deficiency is for the goal or against the goal? Where against the goal is also good – all the deficiencies are good, all the desires, all the thoughts. Except there are those with which we can continue in the same direction, and there are those with which we need to work, but in the opposite direction. It's like at sea, we have a ship with sails, a sailboat, and we use different sails that are going for the wind, the gust of wind, at a certain angle to the wind according to how we need to navigate at sea. And the same is here, there are no good things or bad things, everything is about how do we use them, and that's how we shall advance.

Question (Vancouver): (31:44) It says that one who believes in the reality of the Creator, that the earth is full of His glory, He's full of fear and love, and He doesn't need any preparations. The question is, if there's no fear towards the friend, then there's also no true love towards the friend? 

M. Laitman: Yes, love grows on top of fear, trepidation, it can't be any other way. And fear, or trepidation, can be of different levels, you can have small and insignificant or incorrect degrees of fear. Or you can have such degrees where we advance correctly with this fear, trepidation. Meaning, throughout our entire ladder until we have correction, we check ourselves against the degree of fear. What are we afraid of, what scares us? What do we love or hate? The main thing is the fear, the trepidation – that's the way to diagnose it. 

Question (W MAK 35): (33:04) It says, like we see in corporeality, that one who loves his friend through love only thinks of the best of his friend and avoids anything that is not beneficial to his friend. What does it mean, something that is not beneficial to his friend?

M. Laitman: That according to what I see, I need to act toward the friend. I need to relate to him only in his benefit. And mainly his spiritual benefit, but also his corporeal benefit, which helps him advance spiritually, as well. I see the friend as a part of me, certainly not 100%. I'm still not on that level, but I still nevertheless see him as a part of me, where together we advance towards the purpose of creation. 

Question (W Hebrew): (34:05) It says, as long as he feels that he doesn't, is not standing before the king, then it is the opposite. And so, one should see that servitude is first and foremost. What does it mean, servitude is first and foremost? Does that mean serving the friends even when you have no taste of it?

M. Laitman: Of course, how else can I advance if I have servitude, have taste and servitude, we don't have that and when will we have it? It's only in the condition that I do everything above reason, only in this way. Like it or not, the importance of the goal has to obligate me to do it. We will never come to a state where we want naturally to perform acts of bestowal and connection. Rather, when we make efforts above our nature, we will receive from above certain help. And then the upper light influences us according to the purpose of creation. It will advance each and every one of us towards the force of bestowal, and then we will feel that we are born in the force of bestowal, and accordingly we advance – accordingly, we advance. 

Question (W Belarus 6): (35:52) Faith is mentioned in the last paragraph. Can you describe what is faith in the right way so it's clearer, how to feel that concept?

M. Laitman: Faith is a feeling of bestowal; for the time being, it's enough.

Question (W Unity 3): (36:16) Turns out that lack of faith and an increase in the sense of the lack is the basis to come closer to wholeness. How does the sense of lack translates to the feeling of complete faith?

M. Laitman: I'm amazed by women's questions! It's hard for me to answer those, those are precise questions – they are very manly, I would say, I don't hear them from the man. I'm highly impressed, well done. Wise, sensitive, understanding, and truly studious! So again, the question? 

Student: So, on the one hand, it turns out there's lack of faith and the sense of the increase of the lack, and this is the basis to come closer to wholeness and faith. So, how does the lack translates to faith and complete faith?

M. Laitman: We cannot reach faith without a lack or deficiency for faith. And when we attain the faith, the deficiency for the faith remains, because it's not, it does not exist in us naturally. Therefore, it's written, Love covers all transgressions. The transgressions remain, and they will remain as such until the end of correction. However, we need only to cover them with love, and we know that it will not extinguish the deficiency.

Question (W PT 5): (38:27) The article ends with the words 'complete faith.' Is it complete bestowal upon the whole Kli, all the friends?

M. Laitman: Yes, it says, And he will be delivered in complete faith. What can be said about that? Complete faith means that I receive the force of bestowal on top of all of my desires, all of my desires, whichever they may be. I receive above them the force of bestowal, and then I can use them 100% in order to bestow. This is the meaning of complete faith.

Reader: We will now summarize the main points we heard in the lesson. 

Song: (45:36)