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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) April 4, 2024.

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Shamati, 179, “Three Lines.”

Reader: Hello, we're studying the articles of Shamati of Baal HaSulam. Today we'll learn the article Shamati 179, “Three Lines.” Study materials can be found online at Sviva Tovah and the Arvut systems. Again Shamati 179, “Three Lines.” Rav, please.

M. Laitman: I have nothing to say, let’s read first.

Reading Article: (00:36) Shamati 179, “Three Lines.” 

There is the matter of the three lines, and the matter of Israel holding to the body of the King. There is the matter of the exile in Egypt, when the people of Israel had to descend to Egypt, and the matter of the exodus from Egypt. And there is the matter of “he who is about to marry a woman will bring along an uneducated man.” And there is the matter of Abraham’s question: “How will I know that I will inherit it?” and the Creator’s reply: “Know of a surety that your seed will be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and they shall afflict them four hundred years, and afterward shall they come out with great possessions.” There is the matter of GAR, the matter of VAK, and the matter of VAK de GAR.

The thought of creation was to delight His creatures, and the Tzimtzum [restriction] and the Masach [screen] were only to avoid the bread of shame. What extended from that is the place of work, and from that extended the three lines. The first line is considered right, regarded as VAK without a Rosh [head], considered “faith.” The second line is considered left, attainment. And then they are disputed since faith contradicts attainment, and attainment contradicts faith.

Then there is the discernment of the middle line, considered VAK de GAR, or Hochma and Hassadim, or the right and left lines integrated in one another. This means that he receives attainment to the extent that he has faith. Thus, to the extent that he has faith, he receives the same measure of attainment. And where he has no faith, he does not draw attainment to complement it, but always stands and weighs the lines, so one will not overpower the other.

And GAR (that appears before him) is called “attainment without faith.” And this is called “the work of the gentiles.” The work of Israel is considered faith, where attainment is included. This is called “the King’s body,” meaning faith and attainment. 

Abraham is called “the patriarch of faith,” meaning Hassadim. Then he will know that anyone who wants to come near Him must first assume the discernment of “right,” meaning faith.

But faith contradicts attainment. Thus, how can they draw attainment when they haven’t the Kelim [vessels] for it? This is why He told him, “Your seed will be a stranger in a land that is not theirs.” This is the meaning of “mingled with the nations and learned from their actions,” meaning that they will be under the rule of the nations, that they, too, were under their dominion, drawing GAR de Hochma. 

This is the meaning of the exile in Egypt, that Israel, too, extended GAR de Hochma. And this is their exile, when a discernment of darkness was extended. 

The exodus from Egypt was through the plague of the firstborn. The firstborn means GAR de Hochma, that the Lord struck the firstborn of Egypt. This is the meaning of the Passover blood, and the circumcision blood, and this is what is written in The Zohar (Emor 43): “When the Creator was slaying the firstborn of Egypt, at that time, Israel went into the covenant of the holy sign, they were circumcised and bonded in the assembly of Israel.”

The left line is called “foreskin,” as it blocks the lights. Hence, when He killed the firstborn, meaning canceled the GAR, Israel below were circumcised, meaning cut off their foreskins. This is called Dinim de Dechura [male judgments], which block the lights. Thus, through circumcision with a chisel, which is iron, called Dinim de Nukva [female judgments], the Dinim de Dechura are canceled. And then VAK de Hochma extends to them.

This means that in the beginning, there must be the drawing of perfection, meaning GAR de Hochma. It is impossible to draw half a degree. And this must be specifically through the Egyptians, and this is called “exile,” when the Jews, too, must be under their rule. Afterward, through the exodus from Egypt, meaning the correction of the Masach de Hirik, they exit their rule, meaning the Egyptians themselves shout, “Rise up, get out!”

And this is, “I and not a messenger.” “I” means Malchut, the lock, which cancels the GAR, by which there is the mingling of the left in the right and the right in the left.

And this is “He who wishes to marry a woman,” meaning Hochma, called “left.” “Will bring an uneducated man with him,” because he is in a state of “right,” which is faith. But he wants attainment. Thus, specifically through the uneducated man he can draw Hochma, since he has repentance, but for attainment, not for faith.

“I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, and my fingers with flowing myrrh, upon the handles of the bar.” Myrrh means “Your Teacher shall no longer hide, and your eyes shall see your Teacher.” “My hands” means attainment, and “fingers” mean seeing, as in “Each one pointing with his finger, saying, ‘this is our God.’” “On the bar” refers to the lock.

M. Laitman: Well, we have something to think about. We have something to think about. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:37) The article is called the matter of the three lines, and there is this part here that says, and here Abraham is called the patriarch of faith, meaning Hassadim, and he will know that anyone who wants to come near him must first assume the discernment of right, meaning faith. What is this discernment? What is that first step in coming closer to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That he needs to walk in the right line, otherwise he can't get closer to the Creator. 

Student: What does it mean to go on the right? 

M. Laitman: On the right means to walk in faith, that's why it's called he is the father of faith.

Student: What does it mean to go by faith? 

M. Laitman: Faith, Hassadim, right, the right line, meaning this way we can get closer to the Creator.

Student: And after this stage, there needs to be?

M. Laitman: And after this, we can add the left.

Student: Why is it not enough? Why do we need to add something to it? Why is Hassadim not enough? 

M. Laitman: You need a desire, you need to connect the desire to what you do, otherwise there won't be an action. The right line cannot perform an action by itself. It is only Hassadim. 

Student: What do you mean it's just Hassadim? 

M. Laitman: No, no. If we are speaking of creatures, they have to arm themselves with the right and the left lines, connect them, and balance them in the right way. Then, in this general Kli, in reception for bestowal, the correct state will come. 

Student: Was Abraham missing something? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What was it? If there was something that was lacking, there wouldn't be anything after him, there wouldn't be Isaac.

M. Laitman: He's seemingly in equivalence with the upper light, he's Hassadim, he has equivalence. It's not similarity because the desire to receive that's in the creature also has to be in a state in adhesion with the Creator, and Hassadim is not enough for that. 

Let's ask some, let some friends ask, and then maybe we'll get back to the article and read again. 

Question (Women MAK): (15:17) It turns out that the corrected vessels towards correction are the first level of correction, bestowal for bestowal, then we go into them to fully realize them for the full degree of bestowal, and there we need to direct the desire to receive towards the Creator, and that's the middle line? 

M. Laitman: I'd say so, yes.

Student: When the high-giving vessels come out in a terrible state, far from the Creator, what is the main thing that we need to do in order to go through these states for the sake of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: We have to try it out on ourselves. We have to try it out on ourselves. 

Question (Turkiye 2): (16:36) How can we draw the lot of Hassadim as a Ten, so that together we can come out of the exile of Egypt? 

M. Laitman: Seemingly using the unity between us, through unity between us, and we see this from the flow of the article itself, if we succeed, then we attain unity.

Question (Tbilisi): (17:15) When I came to Kabbalah, there was no greatness of the friends or the Creator, nothing. The Rav gave me the greatness of the Creator, and today I have the greatness of the Rav in the same way as the Creator, and in faith above reason, the friends are also great. How do we receive this greatness of the friends within reason? 

M. Laitman: This will come gradually, don't rush this will come gradually. 

Student: And from our work, we will gradually come to this?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Almaty 1): (18:13) It became somehow scary and unclear, the left line. It turns out that if a person, he is extending the GAR of Hochma, he is extending darkness. Why? How do we orient ourselves so as not to extend more of the left than the right? 

M. Laitman: That's why we always walk in the right line, and we add a little bit, and yet a little more and a little more from the left line. This is the way we walk. 

Question (Women MAK 26): (18:03) In the beginning of the excerpt says how will I know that I will inherit the land of Israel? What is that action of inheriting the land of Israel? 

M. Laitman: Israel means Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator. Yashar is straight, and El is the Creator. So, inheriting the land of Israel means to connect with the desires that are all directed at the Creator. 

Student: Why is this specifically called an inheritance of these desires? Meaning they pass over? 

M. Laitman: They are inherited. All the children of Israel, Bnei Israel, are the heirs of this land, the land of Israel. But it's in the spiritual sense, the spiritual substance, not the corporeal one.

Student: It turns out there are those that do inherit and those that don't? 

M. Laitman: And they will inherit. This depends on whether they observe all the conditions. It's not that you have to be born a Jew. This doesn't mean anything. The only thing that matters is if a person strives for unity with the Creator. Any person in the world. 

Question (German): (21:44) It's written in the beginning, that we need to extend that wholeness of the GAR of Hochma, and the question is, what is the meaning of drawing the GAR of Hochma to ourselves in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: In the Ten, I must unite with all the friends, come to a state so that I can be in connection with the light of Hochma, that there is a screen that is reflected light that I can connect to the upper light and attract it for bestowal.

Student: We have this state in the Ten that it seems to us that we are lacking experience with it. And there is this turmoil. We tried to clarify, through this article, the correction of the Masach de Hirik. It sounds like a solution to the problem. What is that state in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: We are far from this. This is not for today. Masach de Hirik means not to be afraid of a small state. 

Student: How do we cope with the Egyptians in the Ten? You are saying that they are leaving the Ten completely? 

M. Laitman: We simply exit from Egypt. We leave the Egyptians. We distance ourselves from them. This is the correction.

Question (Women German): (24:36) Continuing this question in this article, it seems like the killing of the firstborn brings us to the goal of coming out of Egypt. What are those firstborns in the Ten? How do we understand it? 

M. Laitman: Firstborns, usually it’s GAR de Hochma.

Student: Can we recognize when these firstborns are born and ask for strength? 

M. Laitman: No, we are not there yet. Why are you jumping? We are not talking about this yet at all. 

Question (Women Almaty): (25:30) The fear to sacrifice the firstborn. This is the deficiency for the prayer? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: We need to ask a lot. Do we need to ask for the light or for faith? 

M. Laitman: Faith, of course. 

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (25:50) You said this is far from us and the article is truly complex. We are talking about combining the right and the left lines. It is not just a compromise. But it is as if towards me and from me to the Creator becomes one whole. Can you clarify what is this quality? How does this process happen?

M. Laitman: A little more. A bit more patience. 

Question (Women Rus 10): (26:32) How do we find the quality of faith and attainment in the group to realize the purpose of creation in three lines?

M. Laitman: We will study this. It is a while until we can reach that state.

Student: Why do we wish the Creator only in attainment, not in faith? How do we realize this in the work in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: The quality of faith you cannot adhere to the Creator because faith is reached through the qualities of bestowal from below upwards and attainment needs to be from above downwards. 

Question: (Women Ukraine 2): (27:38) What is the difference between simple faith and faith above reason? 

M. Laitman: Faith above reason is the highest state of faith. 

Student: Why can’t we reach half of that state? 

M. Laitman: Because otherwise, it is not faith. 

Question (Women MAK 25): (28:09) Is it safe, this opposition between the qualities of faith and attainment and all of the states of our path and can we balance out these states? 

M. Laitman: Oh, harmonize, combine them. Yes, we can. We'll learn this in life from examples. 

Question (Women MAK 51): (29:11) The transition from the left line to the right. Is this in man's hands or only the Creator does it due to our request? 

M. Laitman: No, the man does this.

Student: The middle line is the result of this transition or are there more actions there? 

M. Laitman: The middle line is the result of a good combination of the right and the left. 

Question (Women Latin): (30:05) It is written he who is about to take himself or wants to marry a woman needs to bring an uneducated man. Can you explain this?

M. Laitman: No, it's not yet what we're studying. 

Student: What is Malchut? What does it mean it is the lock? 

M. Laitman: A lock is when we lock up and close up the lights. 

Question (Women MAK 30): (31:05) It says here that the right line is the quality of faith, GAR. the first three, and the left line is the quality of attainment, and the middle is Hochma and Hassidim, quality of attainment. Hassadim is when Malchut enters Bina, then it turns out the quality of Hassidim and Hochma together. We cannot attain the left line. We cannot reach attainment and we're only yearning for this. How are we going to be in the left line? 

M. Laitman: Gradually this left line is created in us. 

Question (Latin 12): (32:45) It says here in the state of the left line, the goal is to attract the GAR of Hochma. What is the state of the left line where the GAR of Hochma is attracted? 

M. Laitman: When we work with all of the vessels that we have in the left, without attaching the right to them, then we can reach GAR of Hochma, but we're incapable of receiving it. We cannot receive it.

Student: But they were under the domain of the nation to attract Hochma. They want to put the Pharaoh above as the head of Israel. 

M. Laitman: Yes, there are such states but it cannot exist.

Question (Women MAK 114): (34:11) Please tell us, to enter the land of the upper Malchut, this is bestowal? 

M. Laitman: I think it's not enough because there needs to be the desire to receive, the desire to give. There needs to be a mix, the correct one, between them, and out of that there needs to be the quality of bestowal from below upward.

Question (Women Hebrew 13): (35:01) I received a huge impression from your support in the method, also in the prayer that we raise every hour. We have some friends, and two of the friends are working a lot, and there is no free time. One of them is a is a doctor and is always on her feet. Can I pray for them at this time so as to not break the chain of prayer? 

M. Laitman: It's possible. Yes, it's possible. 

Question (Women ITA): (35:58) Does the union come from an openness from above towards us to which we have given total attention or just from our own efforts? 

M. Laitman: Out of our efforts. Efforts, prayers, out of our work. 

Question (Women Moscow 5): (36:50) Do we understand correctly that in the Ten we attract the light of Hassadim, and the light of Hochma is added by the Creator, and we interact and receive wisdom, Hochma, and we go on these degrees, ignite more and we get Hochma, and we go on.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Hadera 1): (37:22) What is the difference between the Dinim de Dechura, male judgments, and Dinim de Nukva? 

M. Laitman: It depends on which vessels we’re working with.

Student: When we work, when we remove the foreskin, do we remove the judgment of Dechura, and only afterward can we receive the judgments of Nukva?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What does it mean in the work?

M. Laitman: We’ll see.

Question (Women Spain): We always have to hold onto the middle line when there are obstacles, disturbances? 

M. Laitman: Specifically, thanks to the disturbances we can be aimed to the middle line.

Student: And in the Ten?

M. Laitman: Yes, also the Ten.

Question (Women MAK 70): (39:04) From the article, what does this expression mean in our work in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: That it evokes such a flow of love that it brings the quality of that lock.  

Question (Hadera 1): (39:46) We learn that in the preliminary phases the vessels grow from above downwards and the weakest light enters the highest Kilim, the Kilim of reception. Can we say that the vessels of bestowal that grow from below upwards are the biggest ones starting from the beginning as in the reflected light?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, the process that's described here is, it seems to me, that two of these lights at the beginning, the vessels of bestowal, grow and then the light enters, and the first contact happens in the Guf, and this in essence is described in the article, and there it enters the right line. At what place in the body? It seems to be in the Chazeh.

M. Laitman: It's not written about.

Question (Women MAK 26): (41:13) By the foreskin with a special knife, meaning the qualities of Nukva, what is this special knife? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. I think this is the circumcision knife. 

Student: This special knife doesn't mean anything?

M. Laitman: No.

Question (Women Polish): (41:47) What's the difference between attainment in faith and attainment without faith and how to draw the line between them? 

M. Laitman: The attainment in faith is the attainment in the reflected light and the correct form of attainment, and attainment without faith is within the ego.

Question (Women Lithuania): (42:22) You said that Malchut is something that conceals the lights in order to open the lock. We need effort and the key that turns inside the lock. Can we say that the key is our intention in which the force of the Creator is revealed and this turns the desire to receive into the desire to bestow and opens the lock?

M. Laitman: Absolutely correct. 

Student: And the key will always be the intention. It will just become more pure and through the desire to give to the others we come to the desire to give to the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Hadera 1): (43:12) You said that the right line is the quality of faith and from below upwards, and the left line is attainment from above downwards. What I don't understand is the quality of attainment is the action of the creature or is this a gift from the upper one? 

M. Laitman: It's also an action of the created being. 

Student: What is true attainment? 

M. Laitman: True attainment is that both the Creator and the created being work in front of each other, and their vessels connect such that the light of Hassadim wraps them, wraps the two of them. 

Question (PT 29): (44:23) It says here that the quality of the left line is called the foreskin because it blocks the lights. What does this mean? 

M. Laitman: That we don't give space for the light of Hassadim to shine, so then there's a blockage on Hassadim, and in this way, the light departs.

Question (Women MAK 97): (45:07) So it turns out that there is the right line that we always have to use, the line of Hassadim, but there is also the left line that we strive for, but we have to use it with great care, and we have to perform circumcision and come out of Egypt. What do we what do we cut off this desire to get pleasure? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Azerbaijan): What's the difference between the feeling of truth and attainment? 

M. Laitman: This is something a person already feels in the middle line. 

Question (Women ITA): (46:14) Faith and attainment lead to different discernments about the role of the left and the right. Can you explain what the King's body represents? 

M. Laitman: I'm going to hold on to the King's body means that they have a connection with the Creator. 

Question (Women MAK 86): (47:07) Is it correct the understanding that attainment of the right line is attainment through the quality of bestowal and attainment in the left line is attainment through the quality of reception for oneself? 

M. Laitman: You can't see anything in the quality of receiving for yourself. 

Student: Maybe I'm a bit wrong. It's not attainment for oneself but attainment in the quality of reception, so the left line is the ego. 

M. Laitman: The left line is the ego, that's correct. So, we need to use it very, very carefully. 

Student: This is clear that we have to use it with great care. I just wanted to clarify and you've already answered that through faith above reason, by working in the right line, when we all strive for this this is attainment through the quality learning to bestow and the left line is through reception. 

M. Laitman: Correct. 

Question (French): (48:43) Faith in the sages is a simple faith? 

M. Laitman: Faith in the sages is not above reason. It's simply faith in the sages. 

Question (Women UK): (49:18) It says in the article that specifically through the uneducated man we can draw Hochma since he has repentance, but for attainment not for faith. What is it? What is this uneducated man? 

Moderator: Maybe you can tell us where you read the article because the article is a little long. In which verse do you read the quote? OK, I will read the sentence.

The third paragraph: And this is “He who wishes to marry a woman,” meaning Hochma, called “left.” “Will bring an uneducated man with him,” because he is in a state of “right,” which is faith. But he wants attainment. Thus, specifically through the uneducated man he can draw Hochma, since he has repentance, but for attainment, not for faith.

She is asking what does this mean? 

M. Laitman: What is it? 

Moderator: He who wants to marry a woman. What does this mean? 

M. Laitman: He wants to marry a woman. He wants to attain the right work in Malchut.  Then he needs to yearn for the light of Hassadim and for the light of Hochma to dress in him as much as possible as well.

Moderator: She is also asking what does this mean, an uneducated man? Man of land, literally. 

M. Laitman: An uneducated man it's someone who doesn't want to receive the light of Hochma and is just content with that. This is also a degree.

Question (Women Heb 2): (52:13) In the last article he says. “I rose up to open to my beloved and my hands dripped with myrrh and my fingers with flowing myrrh upon the handles of the bar to open to my beloved.” What does this mean, I rose up to open to my beloved. It's from the Song of Songs. 

M. Laitman: What does it mean I rose up to open to my beloved? She wants to open up to her beloved, to the Creator. “… and my hands dripped with myrrh, and my fingers with flowing myrrh, upon the handles of the bar. Myrrh means “Your Teacher shall no longer hide, and your eyes shall see your Teacher.” “My hands” means attainment, and “fingers” mean seeing, as in “Each one pointing with his finger, saying, ‘this is our God.’” “On the bar” refers to the lock. All of those conditions that need to be so the Malchut of the Shamayim of the heavens will be able to reveal the Creator. That's it.

Question (Women MAK 113): (54:03) Each one of us has relatives and this is like our flesh, and the Creator gave us the group, the Rav gave us the laws of the Torah, and what we feel in the group is a state that you are drawn to them more than to your family. You want to give to them not less than your close ones. Is this the exit to the middle line when you want to embrace the whole world and share everything you have with them?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, my dear one. You said everything correctly.  

Question (Women Moscow 6): (55:09) We have different periods when we have to focus on ourselves or when we have to focus on the world Kli and on connection between us, and now there's a feeling that we have to concentrate on the world. How should we approach this work? 

M. Laitman: Think about the connections between you and the Creator and ask the Creator for Him to make the connection between all of our friends in the whole world, men, women everyone, everyone. For Him to connect everyone into one common force and that we, out of this common force, will be able to will be able to turn to the Creator and to accept him. That's it 

Question (Women MAK 56): (56:35) What defines faith when there's the description of faith in the place or together? What defines faith in the place?

M. Laitman: The quality of the desire to give, the desire to give that rises from below upward to the Creator. It determines this faith. 

Question (Women MAK 56): (57:17) How is this connected to faith? How to feel this correctly?

M. Laitman: Faith is the quality of bestowal, the quality of love that we want to fill up and delight all of our friends. 

Student: Faith in the Creator. How is this defined is this what I feel? How do I know what I feel is faith in the Creator?

M. Laitman: I can't explain this. It's impossible. You'll receive such a feeling within you and then you'll understand. 

Question (Women MAK): (58:25) If there is envy towards others attaining more than I am, is this one of the desires, the 613 desires to receive, and how to direct this at bestowal?

M. Laitman: This is a lot of selfishness. This is a lot of selfishness. And you must do everything to get out of it and become equal with your friends, and together with them rise to the Creator.

Be healthy, my dears, may everything be good, peaceful, well-fed, and love for you. 

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