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Daily Morning Lesson: October 26, 2025

Part 2: Recorded lesson - Oct 22, 2021

Baal HaSulam. Shamati 29. When Thoughts Come to a Person

Reader: Our next lesson is from October 22, 2021. We are in the writings of Baal HaSulam, the articles of Shamati, Shamati number 29, “When Thoughts Come to a Person.” In the writings of Baal HaSulam and on the site. “When Thoughts Come to a Person,” Shamati 29.

Reader: We're going to continue in the writings of Baal HaSulam. We're now going to be reading Shamati number 29, “When Thoughts Come to a Person.” 

Reading: (00:37) 29. When Thoughts Come to a Person

I heard in 1943

“The Lord is your shade.” If one thinks, the Creator also thinks of him. And when the Creator thinks, it is called “the mountain of the Lord.” This is the meaning of “Who shall ascend on the mountain of the Lord, who shall stand in His holy place?” “He who has clean hands.” This is the meaning of “Moses’ hands were heavy,” “and a pure heart,” which is the heart.

M. Laitman: Okay. Well, Baal HaSulam said it probably at a meal or at an occasion. And Rabash wrote it and from this we got it. 

M. Laitman (Source Text/Commentary): (01:27) The Lord is your shade. It's written in the Torah, in Psalms, that the Creator is a person's shadow. If a person thinks, meaning he's in doubt, he has all kinds of thoughts that are not on the straight path. And of course, we can't advance directly toward the goal. We're always diverting and deflecting, and we don't know. In our world, and in technology, and in science, we know that we can never advance directly straight. Rather, we always have some sort of an angle toward the goal. But we're constantly maintaining the goal. I'll draw it. There is a goal here, a target. And this is where we are. So, we can't reach the goal directly. This is impossible. Instead, we are going in kind of this way. We deflect a little bit and correct it, deflect a little bit and correct it, more and more and more, until we reach the goal, the target, until we hit the target. Why? Because we can't feel that we are in the right place. Let's say, I'm here. I always have to measure myself with respect to what I am in my state. So, if I don't feel my deflection, my diversion from the path, then I am in a state of zero and I have no way to advance. This is why the road in all our organs, in our hearing, sight, touch, smell, everything that we can feel, we can feel it only between truth and falsehood, bitter and sweet, between some two things. And only in this way can  we begin to understand where we are. This is how it is in everything. So, in the wisdom of Kabbalah, we also learn that we come to all kinds of states, we come to arguments, we're unhappy in the family, at work, in the group, in all kinds of places, we're always in all kinds of changing states, good, bad, this, that. There's a reason for it, because precisely through two opposites, between light and darkness, in everything, we can distinguish ourselves only in this way. And the more advanced things are, then even if they are advanced, they become more subtle, more subtle. As I drew here, that if we begin from big things, and afterwards we come to smaller things, subtler things, in this amplitude, in these states. From state to state to state to state, right? But the more we advance toward the goal, then here, the more we seemingly have smaller discernments, they're actually more important discernments. Then it turns out that the gap between the two lines, this gap, this delta, this gap will become more and more significant,  important. This is the plus, that's the minus. That's what it will be like. More important than here. Say, for example, what is here, between the plus and the minus. This is just like in every science and every wisdom, where if you take a certain expert and start to talk to him about tiny little precise things, you can talk, and you could see there's a sea of conditions, and wisdom, etc. Whereas with children you need, or with simple people, you need something that is - to see a big picture kind of. So here too, all together, we need to try and understand in the relations between us those fluctuations, the differences, the changes between good and bad, and to differentiate between the two. You cannot have good without bad or bad without good. We already talked about this also in our corporeal life, in our family life, in the group life. But we need to understand that all these things were given to us not so that we will relate to them seriously, but rather for us to relate to these changes as to the means to reach the Creator, as He will always be on our scope, on the goal. We will talk about this. These are things that later we will see how we work with it in above reason, below reason, etc. 

Question (Africa 1): (08:49) In the previous article, the feeling of emptiness, is it different from the feeling of death? 

M. Laitman: Emptiness is felt more heavily than the feeling of death, maybe. And maybe they mean it as the same thing, and it could be that death is altogether where I don't even feel emptiness, and it could be that death I define as beginning to be interested in things that are not so important in this life, in corporeal life. It depends on the person and how he defines it. Emptiness and death, each according to how one defines it for himself. But in truth, death is where a person is interested in egotistical fillings. And emptiness is what he feels, that he's empty usually, both from bestowal and from reception, and he has nothing to do, and he's in the middle, and he has no strength to do anything with himself and also not to turn to the Creator, and then only the Ten. That's why we're in this special world, the corporeal world, as through all kinds of corporeal actions that have nothing in them, but by them we can awaken ourselves and begin to rise to spirituality. That's why it's really important for us to establish certain actions in the group, like lessons, like our conversations in the middle of the day, every day, a meal on Sunday, a convention that we will start having soon, and all kinds of other things like that in order to awaken ourselves. And also as each takes upon himself a certain corporeal commitment that he does in the group, or in Bnei Baruch all together, all of these things awaken us and bring us from all kinds of such discernments of emptiness. 

Question (Zafon 2): (11:38) Rav, what is the state of heart in spirituality, and how does it operate within us? 

M. Laitman: Heart is feeling. There's the individual heart of a person, which is… The main thing is the general heart of the group. Whether there's a common feeling between them, that's called the heart of the group. 

Question (Zichron 2): (12:09) How should the Ten work correctly in order to bring back every friend from his deflections into the right path? 

M. Laitman: Only through examples. In the best ways, by example, also towards a friend, also towards our children, there is no better correct influence than giving a personal example. 

Student: And if the example doesn't give the friend the strength?

M. Laitman: Then it's a sign that you're not acting in the correct way enough. 

Question (PT 18): (13:00) What do you do if, when you talked about preferring to die than to live, when it's not ten minutes, and you're not a successful created being, and the guys here next to me would love it if I were out of here. What do you do if unity is not the most important? 

M. Laitman: I don't understand what you're mumbling there. Talk nicely and correctly. 

Student: I'm asking, what do you do if preferring to die than to live? It's not a matter of ten minutes, and it doesn't go away. 

M. Laitman: Because you're not getting rid of this state. So, what do you want? It's there. Until you dispel it. Or maybe the Creator has mercy on you and is changing your state. But you need to relate to it correctly. 

Student: You see that you're not successful, you're not a successful being.

M. Laitman: In what are you not successful? 

Student: You weren't created to succeed. 

M. Laitman: In what are you not successful? Tell me. 

Student: In being with them. You see the guys next to me? Ask them who I am. 

M. Laitman: Who are you? If you're dust and ashes, then you're close to Moses. Okay? Just don't be proud of it.

Question (PT 20): (14:35) You just spoke about the frameworks that we keep throughout the day. If not the whole Ten, does the whole framework, does it weaken the friend? 

M. Laitman: Of course, this weakens friends. But let's hope that by the example the whole Ten tries to somehow give themselves, then everyone will advance towards a certain one body. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (15:16) Concerning the diagram you drew, you said that the more we rise, the situation is more important. 

M. Laitman: When we enter such resolution, such precision, that what we had before, the scale that we had before, as a foot, now it's as an inch, we become more precise, more delicate, more sensitive in feeling the changes in each and every one, and in all together. 

Student: It's just that I fall, but... 

M. Laitman: No, it's not just like that. I'll tell you, it's a matter of the worlds. Let's say, this is the world of Assiya, and Yetzira, and Beria, and Atzilut, and Ein Sof. Let's say AK.

Reader: friends, now we will move to a live lesson with Rav, and we'll sing a song together. 

Song: (16:46)