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Daily Lesson (Morning) May 5, 2025.

Part 2: Baal HaSulam. Shamati 25. Things That Come from the Heart

Reader: Hello. We are reading from the writings of Baal HaSulam, article 25, “Things That Come from the Heart.”

Reading: (00:18) Shamati 25. Things That Come from the Heart

I heard on July 25, 1944, during a festive meal for the completion of part of The Zohar

Regarding things that come from the heart, enter the heart. Hence, why do we see that even if things have already entered the heart, one still falls from his degree?

The thing is that when one hears the words of Torah from his teacher, he immediately agrees with his teacher and resolves to observe the words of his teacher with his heart and soul. But afterward, when he comes out to the world, he sees, covets, and is infected by the multitude of desires roaming the world. Then, he and his mind, his heart, and his will are annulled before the majority.

As long as he has no power to sentence the world to the side of merit, they subdue him, he mingles with their desires, and he is led like sheep to the slaughter. He has no choice; he is compelled to think, want, crave, and demand everything that the majority demands. Then he chooses their foreign thoughts and their loathsome lusts and desires, which are alien to the spirit of the Torah. In that state, he has no strength to subdue the majority.

Instead, there is only one counsel then: to cling to his teacher and to the books. This is called “From the mouth of books and from the mouth of authors.” Only by clinging to them can he change his mind and will for the better. However, witty arguments will not help him change his mind, but only the remedy of Dvekut [adhesion], for this is a wondrous cure, as the Dvekut reforms him.

Only while one is inside Kedusha [holiness] can one argue with oneself and indulge in clever polemics, that the mind necessitates that he should always walk on the path of the Creator. However, one should know that even when he is wise and certain that he can already use this wit to defeat the Sitra Achra [other side], he must engrave in his mind that all this is worthless, that this is not a weapon that can win the war against the inclination, for all these concepts are but a consequence he has attained after the aforementioned Dvekut.

In other words, all the concepts upon which he builds his building, saying one must always follow in the path of the Creator, is founded in Dvekut with his teacher. Thus, if he loses the foundation, all the concepts are powerless since they will now be lacking the foundation.

Hence, one must not rely on one’s own mind, but adhere once more to books and to authors, for only this can help him, and no wit or intellect, as there is no vitality in them. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:21) He makes the connection between the ability to overcome the desires of the collective with the ability to charge them to the scale of merit.  If I love them, then they don’t influence me negatively?

M. Laitman: That is a question, yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:09) What is the remedy of adhesion? 

M. Laitman: The remedy of adhesion is such that if a person wants to adhere to some thought, some desire, then it follows that he is incorporated in it. Meaning, he unites with that thought, with that desire and it becomes very close to him. As though all his thoughts and desires reach a correction, undergo a correction, his thoughts and desires surrender to a new thought, a new desire. 

Student: Adhesion is the result, what's the action here? How do I cleave to the actions of the Creator here? How do I adhere myself to the Creator's actions on me? 

M. Laitman: I need to feel how the Creator relates to me, and to study His attitude, and what He wants, and how that influences me. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:42) First of all, I want to tell you that we are hearing a series of lessons from many years ago, and they speak exactly about our state. I can say about myself that back then I couldn't hear anything, and today I'm able to hear. I want to ask, it's said in the article here about adhesion in the Rav. What is that? What is true adhesion in the Rav, what does that mean? 

M. Laitman: True adhesion to the Rav? I don't know. 

Student: How can we, you have talks with your Ten sometimes and we hear the recordings of that. And there you gave a recommendation to adhere to the living teacher – later it will be easier for you. What does it mean to adhere to the living teacher? 

M. Laitman: The living teacher, meaning the one who lives with you in the same times and who seems to you to provide more of an example than the friends. It's a teacher who is not alive due to you trying to bring him out of the books, but rather he lives alongside you. 

Student: Even if the teacher is not with us in this life, is not alive with us, you can adhere to him? Or he must be alive like he is now? 

M. Laitman: No, no, it's not a must, but it's much easier than if he's already gone. 

Student: I thought you said you should hasten it. It's important that we do this while you're still with us. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Let me tell this: when you cleaved to Rabash, adhered to him, what does it mean exactly? There's a certain depth here where we don't get. 

M. Laitman: It doesn't depend on if your teacher is living in the same time, the same world as you. Rather, it depends on the extent to which you manage to see his attitude, and his internality; and where he is, in that respect. 

Student: What do you recommend we do in order to cleave to the internality of the Rav? How can we go deeper into that? 

M. Laitman: I do not know. It seems to me that adhering to the teacher requires an effort, the effort to disconnect from every other form of attitude – towards the friends, towards strangers. And then to feel, after having performed that action, you now can be adhered to the teacher. 

Student: Should we aspire to adhere to Rav and then to the Creator? Or to constantly hold this picture of the Creator and He will help us adhere to the Rav? 

M. Laitman: I think that, yes, first you have to try to adhere to the Rav. And then, out of that, the force will come to you, the desire, to adhere to the Creator.

Student: Does Rav think we will be able to adhere to him while he is still alive with us? 

M. Laitman: I have no answer. 

Student: Do we need to exert in that? Should that be the central point with which we are moving forward, and nothing else? 

M. Laitman: Perhaps. 

Student: It looks like we are on borrowed time here, that we have to make a big correction here.

M. Laitman: In every situation, in every state, and for every student, there is such a calling. And then, when he wants to act upon it, then, as it is said, it is opened up to him. 

Student: Does Rav think that we are close to adhesion with the Creator? Are we moving in that direction? Can we adhere to the Creator? Or is there still a gap we have to work on? How close are we to it? 

M. Laitman: There is no gap, there are no gaps in this sense at all. If a person is directed towards adhesion, then that adhesion acts upon him such that he receives different forms of closeness to it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:26) I heard you say that in order to be in Dvekut with Rav, we need to connect to the internality of Rav. And it sounds to me that we need to create a space within us to be able to receive that internality of Rav. What is that place within us where I can receive Rav? 

M. Laitman: Say it in your words. 

Student: He's saying that he heard – or that's what he understood – that a person has to create like an inner space inside himself to be able to receive the internality of the Rav inside him. So, he's asking, what is this inner space, this area where he can discover the internality of the Rav inside him? 

M. Laitman: I don't understand.

Student: I heard that you said, the Rav said, we want to connect to the internality of Rav in order to reach Dvekut with Rav. There seems to be a necessity that we also are very internal to be able to receive that internality of Rav. What is this place within us that is able to receive the internality of Rav? 

M. Laitman: He’s saying something! Yes, but it all depends not on states. I would say that it depends on the desire, itself. The extent to which a person – as much as a person is ready. Ready to disconnect from the point of adhesion in him and to move to the point of adhesion, a new point of adhesion, which is closer to the internality of the friends. 

Student: It is written, make yourself a Rav. So, there needs to be a decision to make the Rav. Is this a decision I make once in a lifetime or every day? What is this decision? 

M. Laitman: I would say that that's where a person inclines to, internally, to come close to the center of creation.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:58) How do we keep ourselves to constantly be in this holiness? 

M. Laitman: It seems to me that the Creator is the one that then disconnects us from the thoughts, desires, different forms of the path. And so, we feel that we're more ready to move along with Him. 

Student: Why am I asking: Because yesterday we had a very special meeting and I personally felt that we're here together in a very strong society, the Creator is always changing the conditions to see how much we are willing to change before the system. And that's what we did yesterday, we wanted to understand that the special relation, not only to the morning lesson, but to all our studies, it's felt that we are willing to change to what the Creator is bringing us according to the conditions He constantly gives us. And yesterday, we felt that we're ready to go towards that, to continue what a friend was asking earlier. So, how can we constantly be prepared for these changes? How do we really take ourselves, like you said before, to feel the Creator's relation in every moment? How do we not let go of the special relation from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That's through the efforts that each gives. So, through those efforts, you connect.

Student: What should our efforts be expressed in? It's not enough to come to the morning lesson and sit in here, but we need to constantly be in this movement. What is a special effort that the Creator wants of us, every day anew? 

M. Laitman: The Creator wants us to reach adhesion to the internality of the heart, as much as possible, more and more. And then, He will do this work for us.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:23) He writes here that even if a person reached adhesion, then he can acquire some mind and feeling, and then in the next moment he has to make efforts again to reach adhesion again. Do we have adhesion as a constant state? Can a person constantly be in it, or is it always a certain time? 

M. Laitman: There is. 

Student: And it's attained only on spiritual degrees? Like in our state, there is no such thing? 

M. Laitman: No.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:06) What does it mean that a student adheres to the Rav? 

M. Laitman: That he is trying to be with his Rav in all kinds of actions, in all kinds of corporeal and spiritual actions.

Student: Through the adhesion with the Rav a student needs to reach adhesion with the Creator, or is it something separate?

M. Laitman: That's the goal. 

Student: Is there a difference between adhesion with a physical Rav in this world or a Rav that isn't? 

M. Laitman: Adhesion should be understood and felt in this world. 

Student: Is there a difference between a student that is physically in the same place with a Rav and a student that is watching from the computer? 

M. Laitman: That's not important.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:40) How to relate to foreign desires that turn to me, talk to me throughout the day? Do I have to give them attention? Come out of my thoughts and because those thoughts disconnect me. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, how to relate to that? 

M. Laitman: As to completely foreign things, alien things. 

Student: But they disconnect you from the thoughts you're in. You have no choice; you have to relate to the way they turn to you.

M. Laitman: We need to try not to disconnect from the hearing of the article. And to give an emphasis not to the internality of the group, but rather to the extent in which the group itself is in the article. 

Student: I'm asking not during the lesson, but when we go out and mix with foreign desires. So, we come out of our thoughts because people turn to us, we have to conduct ourselves in this world. So, I'm asking how to relate to foreign desires that you mix with during the day. And you disconnect from the thoughts that you're in?

M. Laitman: You need to try and serve them to the extent in which it will advance you. And that's it. 

Student: When you relate to them, so come out of the thoughts, of the group, of the Creator. You come out of it. That's how the world is built or is it not okay that you come out of those thoughts? How to relate to those disconnections that force you to disconnect? 

M. Laitman: Relate to them, as necessary.

Student: But why and what does that help? 

M. Laitman: It may not be up to you. 

Student: So just to accept that this is how the world is built, that I have to disconnect and come back every time? 

M. Laitman: For the time being, yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:20) Adhesion sounds like something very, very stable, strong, like adhesion. Something that is stronger than any other changes that can happen to us. All our changing desires, all the actions. How do you renew this adhesion all the time? 

M. Laitman: Each needs to try to define for oneself an internal point where he understands that it is now awakening in him and illuminating the way between him and the Creator. And then try to be in this relation, in this attitude, always.

Student: I heard you saying as much as the group is in the article, not a person thinking of himself, but as much as the group is in the article. Is that a condition for adhesion? 

M. Laitman: It's a condition to be aimed towards adhesion.

Student: When we say adhering to the Rav, it's clear that what we ever got was through the Rav and nothing ever not through the Rav. And we constantly want to be in that connection to the Upper One. So, how do we build such a state that that is the most important thing all the time? 

M. Laitman: That is what builds in us that attitude towards the one Creator.

Student: So, just as we want to adhere to Rav, from this we learn how to want the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Usually. 

Student: Is there some faithfulness here or some quality we have to acquire? What should be acquired here in this adhesion? 

M. Laitman: From the point of adherence, a path is built for us, which is where we strengthen and adhere to the Creator, more and more. And we already ask, and turn to Him in a way that is special and exists between each and every person to the Creator.

Student: So, we need to constantly ask for that adhesion? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:42) And what does the next point of adhesion of mine depend on? 

M. Laitman: The next point of adhesion on the path depends on the extent in which your heart is ready for it.

Student: What prepares my heart, what prepares it? 

M. Laitman: Your attitude, your relation to it.

Student: On my behalf? 

M. Laitman: The way to relate of all the points that you've been through; and how you relate to them. 

Student: I'm asking about the moment where I disconnect from adhesion. When I'm disconnected, and the friends are trying to awaken me, they read something to me, they talk to me, but something doesn't turn on. So, what's that force that ignites something in you that wakes you up, that brings you back to adhesion? 

M. Laitman: That's your tendency, your inclination to the Creator. 

Student: My tendency, and if I'm not in adhesion right now?

M. Laitman: Then you need to constantly pray.

Student: How can I speed up the readiness of the heart? That the heart will be prepared more and more for adhesion with the Upper One. 

M. Laitman: That is according to the expansion of the heart.

Student: What expands the heart, who prepares the heart? How do we prepare it more and more towards the adhesion with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: By me wanting to be in adhesion with the whole group or the Ten.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (46:45) The writings that we read, and altogether all the writings that the Kabbalists are talking about the connection between man and the Creator, about the person’s heart towards the friends. You used to send everybody to teach, to become teachers. And I don't see guidance to how a person should grow a soul of a student. How should that be? I see a lot of wisdom from you. I feel a lot of wisdom from you on how you take care of us. And I really want to learn it, to know how to do it, because it seems like a relation of love. How did you acquire this? Rabash used to teach you how to do this? How did this come – knowing how to take care of the lower one?

M. Laitman: I won't tell you because I don't know. I really don't know. 

Student: For me it feels like you're really doing it. You take a lot of things into account, and this approach supposedly isn't in me, in us, and I don't know how to develop it. 

M. Laitman: I will think about that, I do not know.

Student: So, there's a big difference between teaching and being a Rav that grows a soul. It's felt as much as you're doing it and we don't know how you do it, so thank you!

Question (Asia, PT 6): (49:05) Question about the order of adhesion: Can we adhere to Rav and the Creator? Or should we first adhere to the Ten and to the friends? 

M. Laitman: It's connected to one another as a cause and a result, and the result and the reason.

Student: So, is there an order, or is it sometimes this way, sometimes that way? 

M. Laitman: It's sometimes this way, sometimes that way. 

Question (Rehovot 1): (49:50) What's the difference between adhering to Rav and adhering to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Adhering to the Rav is much easier than to adhere to the Creator. That's something different.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (50:51) I heard that you said that from the points of adhesion, a path is created where you strengthen more and more, and come closer to the Creator. You turn to Him in a special way that exists in each and every one towards the same Creator. Are those points of adhesion that build the path, does every student have them on the path? Or are the points, the connections between the different students? Is it my personal adhesion or between us and each and every part? 

M. Laitman: In every point on the path, of each and every one. 

Student: Meaning, the path is not the path of a person, it's the path of the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: You always shared this example that when you went for a dental appointment and told you teacher, he suggested for you to be in adhesion. What does that mean? The question actually is, you had your way before you, he raised you. We're in the reality of a group today, a big group that now is advancing together. How do we as a group ask from Rav for adhesion? 

M. Laitman: You need to demand to have adhesion between you, and from that point turn to the Creator and demand adhesion. 

Student: And what's Rav's place in all of this? 

M. Laitman: The Rav, in such a case, he's like a representative of the Creator; and he escorts you towards the Creator.

Student: Is this some force that is revealed in the adhesion between us? And that Dvekut called the Rav? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And what's the connection between him and the physical character of the Rav? 

M. Laitman: The connection is the student that feels the Rav becomes Rav to everyone.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (55:07) He describes the adherence to his Rav as a foundation on which you can build a building. But you don't have that foundation, you can't adhere. What's in that foundation that is permanent, that does not disappear, as far as I understand? 

M. Laitman: In the foundation, there is a higher quality that is above Malchut. In Yesod, the Sefira Yesod, there is a quality above Malchut. If a person is on one hand in Yesod, and on the other hand in Malchut, so that's what connects him, between the state he's in, to the state he will receive. 

Student: Also, from Rabash's first article, he starts with the words, we have gathered here to put a foundation for building a society. He doesn't talk about building, but this foundation. How is that foundation built? 

M. Laitman: Yesod [the foundation] is built when you ascribe it to a higher degree. And you're willing to give forces in order to disconnect from your state and ascend.

Student: So, in the example in the article, he comes to morning lesson, and he hears Rav's words, and he agrees, and wants to observe it. Of course, a few hours later, he's at work, there's a break, afternoon break, lunch, and everyone's talking about the new car, or soccer, or something, and like he writes in the article, that washes him, he has no choice in that. In that moment, how can he discover that foundation again that's in him, or connect to it?

M. Laitman: A person needs to depict to himself, to search where he is now, in order to yearn for a higher state. 

Student: When he asks emotionally from the Creator to bring him back to the feelings, the thoughts that are different, what? 

M. Laitman: He doesn't ask of the Creator to bring him back, but he asks of the Creator to be able to overcome more and more. 

Question (W Turkiye): (59:34) Is adhesion to Rav a personal attainment of a person? Or does it only happen together with the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Disconnecting from yourself and adhering to the Ten is actually one action. And that action raises a person to a higher degree. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:02:02) I'll ask a continuing question: What's the connection between adhesion to the Ten and adhesion to the Rav?

M. Laitman: Adhesion with a Ten is personal adhesion. Well, I wouldn't say that, sorry.

Student: Can I ask it again? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What's the connection between adhesion to the Ten and adhesion to the Rav? 

M. Laitman: Adhesion to the Ten is a general adhesion. Adhesion to a person to the teacher is a personal adhesion. 

Student: There's adhesion in the Ten, and there's adhesion in the Rav. Are those two different things?

M. Laitman: Different. 

Student: Where do they connect? 

M. Laitman: In a person's heart.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:05:30) Is there a possibility to get involved or influence the personal choice of a person, or the free choice of a person here? 

M. Laitman: From his friends? 

Student: Yes. 

M. Laitman: Actually, yes.

Student: Let's say we can clearly see that a friend is adhered to something else. I don't know, something is taking him aside – doesn't even matter what, it's clear. How much can you influence, really, from within? Outside, we can do all kinds of actions. I'm not talking about that. Or should we accept that –that's what the Creator wants and that's it. Where can the adhesion between us influence the free choice of a person? 

M. Laitman: A person is in that action of ours. That's what affects him.

Student: Meaning, don't despair. 

M. Laitman: Despair, obviously, it's not written anywhere, and we don't need to let it happen. Except for despair, all the states, the internal states, they have a place, except for despair. Because despair is the opposite, it leads you to the right decision. Despair is actually the most correct feeling on the path. That a person is despaired, takes a decision, and goes ahead. The point of despair is a point of connection with the upper force.

Student: But don't get despaired from the friend. Let's say the friend says that his work is more important, his wife is more important than the lesson. Something else is more important than the fundamental things that we have. And we want, from the adhesion between us and to the Rav, to change that. But it's his free choice, how much can you change that? Where can we influence if there's a matter of free choice in this process? 

M. Laitman: Again?

Student: To what extent can a Ten or a group influence a person's free choice when he says, right now, my work is more important to me. Or something else is more important to me than something on the path. 

M. Laitman: That's his decision. 

Student: So, you can't, we want to pray, to ask, to do so he decides differently. But can you at all ask for something that is his choice? 

M. Laitman: If we determine in advance that we need to go on such and such states, so the decision is everyone's decision. 

Student: The decision is everyone's, but someone's deciding not to observe it, to do something else that's more important to him. Can you get involved in that decision of his?

M. Laitman: No. Not of his decision. 

Student: So, simply to continue. 

M. Laitman: Yes. There must be the influence of the whole on the individual.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:10:43) It's written that a person cannot save himself from the house of imprisonment. What eventually takes a person out? What or who takes him out of his personal prison? 

M. Laitman: The gap between him and the general state of that society or environment that he's in.

Student: The gap between him and the state of the environment takes him out? Is that a force? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: A force of what? A force of the Creator? A force of the society? 

M. Laitman: A force of the desire. 

Student: The force of the desire of the society that's more powerful than his own? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And how does this take him out? 

M. Laitman: That he wants to come out. 

Student: So, it's like a rope that you hold on to? 

M. Laitman: Yes, pulls him.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:12:16) You said there's personal adhesion, which is to the teacher, and more general adhesion, which is to Ten. 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: That's what I heard in the article he talks in, also the friend talked about it in the beginning, that he can't tip the scale of merit of the world, so he gets swallowed in those desires. I wanted to ask, you said that adhesion in the Ten is more general. In what can it assist? We go out to the light of day, and there's personal adhesion with the writings and the Rav, and there's a Ten in between us and the world. Is there a certain role or a certain matter in which the Ten for the friend needs to be like an adapter towards the world, towards the desires of the world? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How does he use this correctly? Now he goes out to the world, there are many desires, and friends we saw in the lesson, maybe we felt a little more together. Maybe I might even go out in degrees in which the friends will appear as individuals for me. Is there something that the friend takes with him to the day, which is his Ten through which he returns to the right attitude towards reality? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How does he use this correctly? What can he do with this? 

M. Laitman: Increase their force in him that they will influence him more, and in this way keep going.

Student: You said in the lesson that a person needs to exit the internality of the Ten to see if they're adhered to the article, to want them to be adhered to the article. Let's say today, it's a regular day, there's no article, let's say. Or maybe the article still exists and we still have that desire that the friend wants to watch over the friends who are adhered to the topic on the lesson today that we're going to learn? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

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