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Daily Morning Lesson: September 1, 2025

Part 3: Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Inner Observation. Chapter 5. #24

Reader: Hello, we're studying TES, Volume 1, Part 1, Inner Reflection, 6th chapter, Item 24. 

Reading: (00:21) Baal HaSulam. The Study of the Ten Sefirot - Inner Observation

Chapter Six

It is impossible for the will to receive to appear in any essence, except in four phases, which are the four letters HaVaYaH.

24) Let us elaborate a little on this matter, to fully understand the end that occurred in Malchut. First, we will explain what the Kabbalists have determined and is presented in The Zohar and the Tikkunim, that there is no light, great or small, in the upper worlds or in the lower worlds that is not arranged in the order of the four-letter name HaVaYaH.

This goes hand in hand with the law presented in Tree of Life, that there is no light in the worlds that is not clothed in a vessel. I have already explained the difference between His self and the light that is expanded from Him, that it is only due to the desire to enjoy that is contained in His expanding light, being a disparity of form from His self, for He does not have this desire. This defines the expanding light by the name “emanated being” because due to this disparity of form, the light emerges from being the Emanator and becomes an emanated being. It is also explained that the desire to enjoy included in His light is also the measure of the greatness of the light. It is called the “place” of the light, meaning it receives its abundance according to its measure of will to receive and craving, not less and not more.

It also explains that this matter of the will to receive is the very innovation that was generated in the creation of the worlds by way of making existence from absence. This is so because this form alone is not included in His self whatsoever, and the Creator has only now created it for the purpose of creation. This is the meaning of “and creates darkness,” since this form is the root of the darkness due to the disparity of form in it. For this reason, it is darker than the light that is expanded within her and because of her.

Now you understand that any light that is expanded from Him instantly consists of two discernments: The first discernment is the expanding light itself, before the form of “desire to enjoy” is revealed in it. The second discernment is after the form of “desire to enjoy” is revealed in it, at which time it becomes coarser and somewhat darker due to the acquisition of disparity of form. Thus, the first discernment is the light, and the second discernment is the vessel. For this reason, any expanding light consists of four phases in the impression on the vessel. This is because the form of the will to receive, called “a vessel to the expanding light,” is not completed at once, but by way of operator and operated. There are two discernments in the operator, and two discernments in the operated. They are called “potential” and “actual” in the operator, and “potential” and “actual” in the operated, which make up four discernments.

M. Laitman: This is what Baal HaSulam writes, and basically, we are studying, we're hearing, we understand that this is how it happens. 

Question (Turkiye 1): (05:22) How can we receive the light for the Ten, and change ourselves, and reach a complete prayer? 

M. Laitman: That's something we still need to learn, but essentially, our success depends on how connected we are. And we expect our friends, that we will all be connected, and then the upper light will influence us from the source from which the Creator fulfills it. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (06:25) It's written here that every desire is related to these four discernments. And also on our level, each thought and desire made us all related. Is it all related to these four discernments, or we can't feel it yet? 

M. Laitman: We can't even say that, because we don't feel, but in principle, yes. 

Student: So, how can we rise even higher than this fourth discernment in order to really integrate in the… 

M. Laitman: We're going to learn now all the four phases, why they create each other this way, phase one, two, three, four, and how and what can we do with that? Why were they given to us in the way that they did? How should we perceive them? 

Student: It says here that there's light and vessel. Those lights that emerge from the discernments down to the fourth discernment, what is it related more, to the light or the vessel, what you have in the first three discernments? 

M. Laitman: I can't answer you, I don't see the same picture you see. To me, it's a different picture. The light is what stems from the upper degree towards the lower degree, and we have to see it from the lower degree. We have to do certain actions in the lower degree, and then we'll feel changes in the upper degree that changes itself, adapts itself in such a way to be closer to us. That, in principle, is all that we need to do. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:07) In five weeks, we have a congress, and we're building a certain process. We want to come to the congress with an already ready and complete prayer. So, there's a process that we're building here. We start wanting now, and eventually, this is what we want to come to. What can we learn from the light about how to correctly build this desire? 

M. Laitman: We want the light to influence us with its nature, and that it will transmit to us its nature. Very simple. So we also want to bestow, to receive from the Creator the qualities that we need, and that's it.

Student: How do you learn from the light? How do you receive from the light what it wishes to give us so that we'll come to the Congress ready, prepared? 

M. Laitman: We first have to want to receive the light, the quality of the light. We have to try and be in connection between us, and thus we'll get closer to each other and all of us together to the Creator, and that's what will happen to us. 

Student: So, what is that first step, that first point of grip that helps us? 

M. Laitman: The first grip. We do whatever we can so as to hold on to the light. That's it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:25) In the text, he explains that any light that expands has two discernments. The first one he calls the Atzmuto of the expanding light. What is that if there's no vessel to feel it? 

M. Laitman: This is still when the vessel is missing, which reveals to us the nature of the light. 

Student: It's unclear, because he says that there can't be a light if it's not felt by a vessel.

M. Laitman: We feel it, but it's still not a revelation. 

Question (Florida): (12:57) At the end of the item, he writes here that there are two discernments in the operator and two discernments in the operated. They're called potential and actual in the operator and potential and actual in the operated, which make up four discernments. What's Baal HaSulam trying to tell us here? What do potential and actual mean? 

Student: The friend refers to what is written in the text. Repeating the question. There are two discernments in the operator and two discernments in the operated. They're called potential and actual. The friend is asking, what does Baal HaSulam want to tell us here? 

M. Laitman: That we have a force from which the light emerges, and the light contains or has the same nature of the source it emerged from. That's one. Two, that we have a place that receives the light. We enjoy it, it close to our nature. That's how we first divide all of creation to the part that gives, that shines, that fills, and the other part that receives and that is dark. And that's what happens to us in the meeting with the light. 

Question (Philippines): (14:40) Is there a measure of restrictions in all the four worlds? Because it seems that they do not receive the same quality or intensity of light that has been emanated to them. 

M. Laitman: We measure. Yes, we measure. Not immediately. But after the light expands, goes through several discernments, then we can measure the light, we can measure the vessel, the connection between them, what stages each of them goes through opposite its corresponding discernment. We learn all of that, of course.  

Question (W Heb 1): (16:12) Those discernments between an Emanator and emanated, the essence of the qualities of light and vessel. When we engage in this, does that enable the light, a greater light to enter the vessel? The very study of that matter? 

M. Laitman: Yes. As we study, we also activate ourselves in such a way so as to come closer to the light. We open up to the light, and so on.  

Question (W Almaty): (17:14) A question about prayer as we search. We pray to Ein Sof, to the place where we're all corrected. In the Ten, we see our friends as not corrected. We're not satisfied with them. At the same moment, I understand that it's just an opportunity to turn to the Creator so that He will move that form of how I see the friends for me. And for me to look at them differently, to give me the ability to see them corrected like the Creator. Is that the main prayer that helps us connect? 

M. Laitman: Continue. I didn't hear the question. 

Student: Yesterday, we asked about prayer and in cooperation with the Rav, can we say that, first of all, we pray to see the friends in the Ten corrected, and the next prayer is for us as a Ten to be able to also adhere to the Rav as a higher up degree where we connect between us in order to rise to the Rav and to adhere to him in continuation as an extension of it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, that is correct. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:01) What's the impression of the vessel? 

M. Laitman: The impression of the vessel? It's what the light awakens in the vessel through its influence.

Student: To continue, I heard from you a few moments ago, that we need to distinguish the lights that we receive in the light. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What does it mean to discern these lights?

M. Laitman: We need to connect together amongst ourselves in mutual bestowal, each one towards the other, and he towards the others, and so on, in the Ten, or maybe more, maybe less, depending on how many people there are, but it's all about the quantity and quality of the connection between us. And then we awaken the light to bestow upon us. And He does it. So, through His connection between us, we better understand His nature, and why He does what He does, and what He does.

Student: The thought of creation is to delight His creatures. And then he says, after the form of the desire to enjoy was revealed in him, he feels it as darkness. Why is it felt as darkness, the desire to enjoy? 

M. Laitman: It's felt as darkness, because after the will to receive was revealed, well, then we see darkness. That's what we reveal within that will to receive. 

Question (Krasnoyarsk-Sakhalin): (21:27) When the upper degree illuminates the direct light to the lower degree, when the upper degree changes its attitude towards the degree below, it's in accordance with as much as the lower degree worked with the reflected light and the restriction? 

M. Laitman: Yes, we will learn about it. There are many variations here.

Student: All these actions that we are scrutinizing in TES, all this mechanism, it's all what I scrutinize dependent on my upper degree, my Ten, and then according to those scrutinies, everything accumulates? 

M. Laitman: It all gathers in one person. And he needs to be aimed such that his vessels will feel. Will feel the light's bestowal upon him. 

Question (W ITA): (24:09) When it comes to disparity of form, it gives us the great yearning for the Emanator. How to feel that drive like a force of overcoming? 

M. Laitman: If we want to know the Emanator, to get close to Him, then we perform various actions which open up the Emanator for us. And then we need to come closer to actually do that in that way. 

Student: What's the connection between the place of the heart and the records? 

M. Laitman: The heart is the place in us where we feel bestowal. Where we feel the external bestowal from He who is before us, in front of us, and we respond with the heart. 

Question (W Laitin 26): (26:08) You said that we should want to receive the quality of the light. How to want correctly to receive the quality of the light in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Bestow upon one another, help, support, give. And then we will discover that the outcome of such actions is very beautiful, very good. And we'll also want to be in that. 

Reader: We can continue. He continues in 25.

M. Laitman: I don't know what to do. We have more wanting to ask. 

Question (MAK ): (27:24) I heard you saying that we need to hold on to the light. What does it mean to hold on to or to grip the light? 

M. Laitman: I meant that we need to always, always think about how not to part, not to grow distant to the light. Not to make, divide gaps between us and the light. That's very important.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:00) What does it mean that the will to receive is a part of the expansion of the light? Because usually, we distinguish between the will to receive - a part, the light - a part. But here we're learning that the desire to receive is a part of the light. What does it mean that I'm a part of the light? 

M. Laitman: The will to receive is created, was created by the upper light. And as it descends from degree to degree, it comes to such states which are opposite to it. And so the will to receive is born, which is opposite to the light. And emerges from it as an outcome, result. 

Student: What does it mean, not that he's differentiated, but about my connection to the Creator and the light, that I'm a result of Him, part of His expansion? What does that mean? Is there a certain message in this? 

M. Laitman: You are a part of the upper light. And if you try to get closer to it, come closer to it, and then you'll feel how he bestows upon you, and you'll feel how you're getting closer to it, and ultimately, a connection will form between you. 

Student: So, the fact that I'm part of the light, is that something correct in our perception of reality? Can it bring me closer somewhat? 

M. Laitman: No, that's not right. A part of the light, well, that's not us. We are opposite to the light. And as we create the right reality where there is a connection between us and the light, then we can draw the force of bestowal from the light. And that force will change our qualities.

Student: But the fact that we're the expansion of the light, that brings us closer to Him, no? 

M. Laitman: If we ask, if we want, then yes, it'll bring us closer. 

Student: But it's a fact. We are part of the expansion of the light. It's written. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, that can bring us closer to Him. We're not disconnected from Him. 

M. Laitman: Well, let's say so. 

Student: So I'm asking whether, if we work on that feeling, can it help us with our prayers, with our nearness between us, this closeness that we were created from Him? Can that help us somewhat? 

M. Laitman: If we want to get close to the upper light, then of course, it'll affect us, and it'll bring us closer to Him. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:35) He writes that only this form itself, His existence from absence, that is not included in the Creator. And only now, the Creator created it for the sake of creation. What does the emphasis on only now, mean here? 

M. Laitman: Only now, means that it's only after the full emergence of the will to receive in its entirety, existence from absence, then through that will to receive, we can influence the Ohr Ein Sof, the light of Ein Sof, and change our ways to come closer to it. 

Student: It seems in this point like the Creator changed himself here, because he says that before that, there was a state of Him and His name were one. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And in this creation, He kind of like split Himself to light and desire. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, what is this renewed creation? Is the Creator reinventing Himself? 

M. Laitman: No. We learn that the light, after it fills the created being, the Creator does, then the created being changes itself. He wants to be like the light, to receive the light, to get closer to it. And so they begin to bestow upon one another. 

Student: He says that there's a wondrous unity in Him and His name is one, and that you cannot distinguish between them. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And then from here, suddenly the desire appears. Like suddenly, there's… what did He do in this point? 

M. Laitman: Were there one? 

Student: Before that, there was Him and His name is one, and then there's some renewed creation. What happens with this desire? Suddenly, this thing called desire appears.

M. Laitman: He changed the desire, and the desire to receive, the will to receive, awoke from its state. It can no longer receive, because when he receives, he feels himself to be opposite to the light, opposite in form. And so, it follows that the will to receive, other than wanting to get closer to the light, also rejects the light, or is rejected by the light. And then he makes his calculations to see what he should do. And then he returns back towards the light, to contact with it, returns to contact with the light, and the light then departs from him. 

Question (PT 35): (35:50) What's the meaning that the light obligates to clothe in the vessels, and how is it connected to the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: The light bestows upon the will to receive, pushing it to be revealed within the will to receive. 

Student: Why specifically the restriction and the distancing of the light create the true vessel for revelation? 

M. Laitman: When the light departs, the will to receive doesn't fulfill it as it did before. Then the vessel begins to feel empty, that it is now empty of light. Yes, and then it has, it has new work to do due to that.

Student: If so, a question from the connection. How can you understand that the light and the vessel are dependent on one another mutually? 

M. Laitman: That is why they need to get closer together. It didn't happen yet, but they need to come to discover how each of them is dependent on its opposite.

Student: If so, what's the difference between the direct light and the reflected light in the connection to the work of a friend in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: It all depends on how these two types of lights operate between the parts of the vessel. 

Student: If so, how does a friend operate that discovers in the Malchut in him, and what is the meaning of that in the work of friends in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: A friend who discovers the upper will acting within him, who feels Him, warms him up pulling him towards a connection. He needs to continue working on that. He needs to continue.

Student: We will continue together.

Question (W Turkiye 7): (39:46) How does the expansion of the light remove and disconnect the created being from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The expansion of the light distances and disconnects the created being from the Creator, because the Creator includes within Him all of the light of Ein Sof, the infinite light. And the vessel incorporates only a small part of that light. And so, they are distant to one another. And only by actions on the side of the vessel that the vessel performs, only through these actions, we say that the vessel discovers the light. And by that, they come closer together; the light and the vessel.  

Question (W Moscow 6): (41:30) How can we take from the light the force of bestowal?

M. Laitman: We need to do what Kabbalists advise us to do, and then to receive the proper response each time regarding what we need to do to get closer together between us and to the light. 

Question (W Turkiye 8): (42:32) How to connect correctly between us in order to discover the darkness in our vessel and enable the upper light to work on us? How to do it correctly? 

M. Laitman: We learn how to do it correctly. That's what we're learning. The main thing for us is to hold to that quality that belongs to the Creator. The main thing we need to do, that is to get closer together between us and to think about that one desire, that one will that will reside in us, in all of us, in the Ten. Maybe a little more and a little more, to the extent that we can expand that will, we must do that. And then, what happens is that our will to receive will change and hold within it the upper light. And we'll want to connect with other wills to receive which have light within them. So, we come to a state where in all of us there will be a single will and a single light. 

Question (W Rehovot 1): (44:33) I heard you said that our success depends on how connected we are to one another, and expect our friends to be connected, and then the upper light will influence us from the source that the Creator fills. What does it mean that we're expecting from our friends? I'm supposed to expect something from the friends, or is the feeling just from myself? 

M. Laitman: I didn't hear the question well. The last sentence.

Student: I heard that you said that our success depends on the extent in which we're connected to one another and expect from our friends for us all to be connected and then the upper light will bestow upon us. The question is, what, are we supposed to expect from the friends? Am I not just supposed to be responsible for the expecting from myself? 

M. Laitman: Of your own powers? No. You have to incorporate all the desires that you will feel that you're connected to your friends. And how important that is to you. 

Student: How is it expressed, that I am expecting something of my friends?

M. Laitman: That is a matter of the desire. So, I can't explain it further. If you have it, then you do. If you don't, then there is the prayer for that. There are exercises that we need to do. We will get closer to that desired state.

Question (W PT 8): (46:38) I heard you said that besides him wanting to come close to the light, he's also rejected from the light. So, he makes his own calculations of what I should do and goes back to a connection with the light. My question, when we're in our environment here, we're constantly looking for the connection with the light and the Creator, but there are many hours a day that we're truly losing it, and it's hard to go back to that. How do we search for this connection with the light at a time that we're not in our Ten? 

M. Laitman: That depends solely on our prayer. And how we ask the Creator to be connected to the light, to the force of bestowal, to connection, and all these properties that typify the light. 

Student: When we are in a surrounding of foreign strangers, do we have some kind of obligation there? 

M. Laitman: Ask yourself.

Question (W PT 33): (48:02) It also touched me when you said that besides the desire wanting to come close to the light, it's also rejected from the light. The question is whether that point is where we need to open ourselves more? We talk a lot about this matter of opening the vessels, opening degrees and states. So, does that enter that point where the desire wants to come close to the light? And on the other hand, it also is rejected from the light? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, what is this action exactly to open ourselves? 

M. Laitman: To connect to the light.

Question (W Unity): (48:57) Can we say that the vessel that emerges from the light, the real vessel, is only that screen upon the will to receive? At every given moment, do I go through those states or not? Does it depend on a screen or not?

M. Laitman: It depends. 

Student: So, what action of the screen or what state can we consider as a vessel at any given moment? 

M. Laitman: The most central desire. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:46) Every desire, feeling, or state that we go through escapes through all the discernments until it reaches a certain essence. How do we work in the Ten with the same discernments? On one hand, the situation, and on the other hand, that same reason for the state, the root of the state. How do we come close to the reason for what we're going through? 

M. Laitman: How do we work? We need to work on it, to talk about it, after reading each and every part of TES, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, and after that, to try and connect, to bestow each one through himself upon the others. And then we will reach a feeling, an understanding of what we're going through.

Student: And what part resists the desire itself? Meaning, resists in order to come close to that desire of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: I don't understand. 

Student: What in a person, what part in him resists the will to receive? Meaning, in order to come close to that light, to that reason, there needs to be something in a person that resists as well. 

M. Laitman: In a person, there is only the will to receive, which is opposite by nature towards bestowal, like the light, and being united with Him, and so on. That's how it is. 

Student: The question is, how to resist that resistance to come close to the light? How to resist the resistance to come close to the Creator? I have a natural resistance to come close to the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Yes, that's what I said. To resist the resistance against connection with the Creator. For that, first, a person has to feel that it is really so. To feel what his desire depends on. And to what extent he wants to be close or far away from Him. And then he continues.

Question (Moldova): (52:42) We always speak of the vessel as some sensory vessel that feels entry and exit. In what way can the vessel feel the light? We always say that the Kli, the vessel, is what feels the light. The light enters it, feels that it enters, exits, feels that it exits. In what way? 

M. Laitman: The vessel is the will to receive. The will to receive. And since the will to receive wants to receive, then to the extent that it pulls the light into it, it enjoys it. And that is called a vessel.

Student: Meaning, the will to receive feels the pleasure, and in such a way, feels the light. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (W Turkiye 7): (54:04) What is the relationship between the expanding light from above and the connection between us? 

M. Laitman: There is no direct connection. Connection between the friends that can exist in each and every situation and the light which expands from above, that is all the upper light, which pushes them, brings them closer, it all depends on the light itself. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (55:13) When we connect between us and the Ten, do we reveal light, do we feel light? 

M. Laitman: We discover the extent to which our actions are similar to the light. By that, we can feel it. 

Student: And that light that we begin to feel, how is it connected to the expanding light? 

M. Laitman: Expanding, that is the light of Ein Sof. And we want to receive it, to be filled by it, that is what we want to happen. And the expansion of the light in us, that expansion depends on the extent to which we discern within the light actions of connection with us. Actions of connection that is the expansion of the light, and not connecting, that's the opposite. 

Student: Eventually, all the light of Ein Sof, all the light that expands is felt in the Ten? In the connection between the friends in the Ten, is that the vessel to receive all the light?

M. Laitman: Not in each and every action, but ultimately, after corrections, the vessel will feel all that light, the light of Ein Sof, the infinite light, filling it completely.

Student: How do we come close to the light? Through connection in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Only through prayer.

Student: Through prayer. And the connection in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: The connection in the Ten is one part of the prayer.

Student: You mentioned the prayer. Now that that's the main thing to come close to the light. And in a month and a half, we have a convention, and its topic is in one prayer. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How do we come to such a convention where we're already in such a feeling of prayer? Not that we're talking about prayer, and we want to reach prayer, but we really come there in prayer. 

M. Laitman: For that, we need to choose from our thoughts and actions those through which we can bestow upon the upper light, and draw it closer to us, and to be included in it. 

Student: And that's an action we can do? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: I can look at my thoughts and say, let's say, I'm choosing this thought and that thought, this action and another? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And what is the thought that will really influence the upper light, bring us closer to Him? 

M. Laitman: A thought where you will see that if you carry it out, you are included in the upper light. 

Student: Is a person capable of being in that all day long, in such a thought? 

M. Laitman: That's something else. No. You can't be in that all the time, but the work with the upper light depends on the extent to which a person is connected to it, yes.