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Daily Morning Lesson: September 21, 2025
Part 2: Recorded lesson - Nov 29, 2021
Baal HaSulam. Shamati 77. One's Soul Shall Teach Him
Reader: Shamati 77, Once soul shall teach him.
Reading: (00:08) Shamati 77. One's Soul Shall Teach Him - Twice
I heard on Elul 8, August 24, 1947
“One’s soul shall teach him.”
It is known that the whole Torah is learned primarily for the needs of the soul, for those who have already been rewarded with a discernment of a soul. Nevertheless, they must crave and search words of Torah of others who attained, to learn new ways from them, which the previous ones invented in their innovations in the Torah. By this it will be easy for them to advance in the high degrees, meaning that through them they will advance from degree to degree.
M. Laitman: In other words, there is an obligation here to learn what is written and what other people said, those who have already advanced before us. Because by this, we create for ourselves, we determine our path and our pace of advancement.
Reading: (01:19) Shamati 77. One's Soul Shall Teach Him - Twice.
But there is a Torah that is forbidden to disclose, since each soul should make that scrutiny by itself, and not that someone will make that scrutiny for him. Hence, before they make the scrutiny themselves, it is forbidden to disclose to them the words of Torah.
This is why the great ones hide many things. And except for this part, there is great benefit to the souls by what they receive from innovations of the Torah of others. And “One’s soul shall teach him” how and what to receive and to be assisted by the innovations in the Torah of others, and what he himself must innovate.
M. Laitman: Yes, there are several things you can add here. Repeat it again, please.
Reading: (02:33) Shamati 77. One's Soul Shall Teach Him
M. Laitman (Source Text/Commentary): (03:01) In other words, although they already attained the discernment, the level of a soul, Nishama. I’ll read it. It is written in the Torah “One's soul shall teach him.” Meaning, a person learns from within his own soul, from what he feels, from what he attains. He goes and attains more and more and more. So he says this. It is known that the whole Torah is learned primarily for the needs of the soul. So what we need is only in order to increase our vessel, so as to feel the Creator completely. Meaning, why are we learning? For those who have already been rewarded with a discernment of a soul. So here there's a question: are we learning for those who have already been rewarded with a discernment of the soul, meaning with a vessel of bestowal? So what else is there to learn? What do we need to learn? That's why Baal HaSulam says, Nevertheless, they must crave and search words of Torah of others who attained. Meaning, what others attained, they should take interest in what they attained as well, and add their attainment to themselves. Why? To learn new ways from them, meaning, each one has his own way, and by learning how each of them looks at life - we're talking about people who aren't making mistakes, who are already in spirituality, who are incorporated in one another. So through their incorporation they cause an intensification of their vessels, and by this an intensification of the sensation and revelation of the Creator in these vessels. That's why he says, what is it for? So they will learn new ways from them, which the previous ones invented in their innovations in the Torah. Each one, in other words, has his own Torah, his own progress, advancement, his own ways, according to the root of the soul. By this, it will be easy for them to advance in the high degrees, meaning that through them they will advance from degree to degree. What does it mean, “through them?” We need to understand that there is nothing new under the sun. All the innovations we discover, all the new things we discover, are only through connections of all the attainments in states that we are all discovering. I can't just go and discover something alone. I won't find anything here. Precisely by connecting to others, and each one being incorporated with the vessels of the others, like cells in the same organism, by this we create new organs, new organisms, new vessels, basically, for the revelation of the Creator. All of our progress is through connections among us. But he says there is a Torah that is forbidden to disclose. We think that what we reveal to others is good, but he says - no. He says only so far can we reveal. Why? Because each and every soul should make the scrutiny by itself, not that someone else will make the scrutiny for him. There is this field that I have to plow, I have to raise my crops in it, grow my crops in it. And that's how we advance. There is personal work that no one can do for you, because you have your own special record, Reshimo, which is called the point in the heart, and you have to work specifically from within that point. And besides this, you may learn from others and connect to others, but your personal work must be right here in this place. That's why he says that no one can make the scrutiny for you.
(08:23) Hence, before they make the scrutiny themselves, people, it is forbidden to disclose to them the words of Torah. And here there’s a problem. I received the articles of Shamati from Rabash, and this is something that didn't exist before anywhere, in a way that it's written this way. Never, throughout history, over thousands of years, and through Baal HaSulam, basically, the Creator revealed to us the relations in spirituality, from Lo Lishma [not for Her sake] to Lishma [for Her sake], and then so forth. And Rabash wouldn't give it to anyone, and I, for the ten years that I was next to him or so, I was looking in this notebook that he kept taking whenever we went to all kinds of places, like Tiberias, a few days, for several days a week, we would just leave everyone and go there. And I saw how important those articles are and how innovative they are. I didn't have the intellect, the feeling to understand their uniqueness, that they specifically speak about man's connection to the Creator, and not just about activities or superficial things like in science, the way we see it in other places. Rabash didn't give it to just anyone, these articles. He wouldn't even let the veterans, his own friends who were with him, studying with Baal HaSulam himself, who were his age. So I had this big question, what to do? Because he gave it to me and said, take it. Should I keep it to myself? But no correct usage will come out of it, because the usage can come only through people's connection. So what should I do? And then I gave this notebook to be photocopied. I gave it to everyone. And even if they wanted to turn it into books, books of Shamati, let them make it. Moreover, as long as it's circulated in the world, let it be circulated. If Rabash gave it to me, then let it just go out through me, and that's it. I will take responsibility for what I did.
But in truth, there is a problem here. Are we, because of it, causing a descent or an ascent to the world? Because look at what is happening with atomic energy, for example. For example, look at how much bad it is doing to the world, but also how much good it can bring to the world. Because in everything you have a plus and minus, you have two opposites. It depends on how we use it. So I made the calculation that nevertheless, the gain will be greater than the loss, on the one hand. On the other hand, who am I to decide? I nevertheless cannot keep such a treasure only to myself. And as Baal HaSulam writes about the revelation of the Creator to him, that he writes, then I decided that whatever happens, I will reveal those things that he writes. It's what he writes in his prophecy. He decided that no matter what, I will reveal it to everyone. So that's why I did the same. But I'm continuing to read.
(13:33) So article number 77, “One's Soul Shall Teach Him.”
But there is a discernment of the Torah that is forbidden to reveal because each soul should make the scrutiny by itself. We're reading in the second paragraph. And not that someone will make scrutiny for him. And that's the problem that I feel in people's complaints. And I remember my own complaint to Rabash as well: “Say something, explain it. Why are you silent?” It is forbidden to reveal to a person things that pertain to the root of his soul which he has to discover by himself. It is not a science, it is a development of the soul. So he has to come to the deficiency to open up each and every cell in his soul and find how to tend correctly to every part of the soul and how then to bring it to the Creator, and not that someone will make the scrutiny for him. Hence, before they make the scrutiny themselves, it is forbidden to disclose to them the words of Torah. This is what we feel on ourselves. We reveal something and conceal it. It is written about it, “I reveal one portion and I conceal two portions.” It is the method, the law and revelation that you must always maintain the deficiency and not clog, block a person with the knowledge you pour into him. You have to leave for him a place, a lack for revelation, so he will do it with himself. This is why the great ones hide many things. because it is forbidden to reveal everything. And except for this part, there is great benefit to the souls by what they receive from innovations of the Torah of others. And one's soul shall teach him how and what to receive and to be assisted by the innovations in the Torah of others and what he himself must innovate. There is a part that I myself must innovate and there is a part that I receive that innovation from others.
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