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Daily Morning Lesson: August 20, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded lesson – Nov 4, 2021

Baal HaSulam. Shamati 47. In the Place Where You Find His Greatness

Reader: Hello, in the first part of the lesson, we will learn from a lesson of Rav Laitman on the November 4, 2021, Shamati 47, In the Place Where You Find His Greatness. 

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Reader: Hello, we are reading in the writings of Baal HaSulam, the articles of Shamati, Shamati 47, In the Place Where You Find His Greatness. You can find this article in the study material button in the Arvut system. You can also find it on the site. You can send questions and selected questions will be asked during the lesson. 

M. Laitman: (00:53) Although, it's a short article, Baal HaSulam, for some reason, spoke shortly here – a few lines and all but it's a great thing. He explains to us about an important aspect: The Creator is the thing through which all creation connects. It's like in our world; I have to be among everyone and connecting everyone. That's how we can imagine the complete system, where each one is in contact with all the others. There are states or one could say, it's always that he receives from everyone and he bestows to everyone. If we're unable to do it each and every moment and to everyone, this is our limitation. We are limited but in the complete system that's how the work should be. Let's say, if we imagine the corrected system of Adam HaRishon in all the parts—although by nature because of the shattering they are disconnected from one another. But when they wish to arrange themselves, seemingly correct the shattering the Creator caused and that's why they yearn for the connection between them. Then they are, they correct the shattering above the shattering and they're in connection with one another without any limitations, without any consideration for all the directions and, or the difficulty for connection. But rather, to return everything to the complete connection as it were before the shattering. 

With respect to ourselves, we divide the work of connection to the part where we reveal His greatness; and the part where we reveal His humility. Because you cannot approach it with these two forces together. Just like in our world, we get AB SAG, we get Abba ve Ima, or father and mother. The force of the father is great, is ruling and heroic, and awesome or terrible; on the other hand, we describe Him as merciful, one who lowers Himself and humbles Himself to be in contact with the created being. This is the part of Bina, the mother, who has no coarseness but only a desire to be with everyone in connection. That's why all of creation is divided into two parts – the force of Hochma, the force of Hassadim, Abba ve Ima. And we need to construct ourselves accordingly so each of us will be included of the force of the father and the force of the mother—Abba ve Ima. And then we'll be able to arrange the correct connections between us in going down to the level of each and every friend. How each one is shattered and we're all shattered. On the other hand, to have the strength to draw the reforming light from above, the force of the father, the light of Hochma will give us an opportunity to rise. Or rather, raise and uplift the friend from below. And, to that extent that we uplift him, we uplift ourselves. 

(05:20) We ourselves have no consideration with ourselves. Only according to this work where we have to get down to everyone's level, equalize with them, get impressed by what they’re moved. Intermingle with their desires and qualities, and lift them up together. Just as we can see how we save people who drown in the deep sea. You jump to them, you come to them, you grab them and then you begin to lift them up. That's what we need to do towards each and every friend. In each friend, there are such states and the Creator arranges for us those states. Those mutual states so we can embrace and lift one another. And so, all of us together, eventually, in those emotional connections, in our mental communications. With great force, we'll be able to raise everyone to a prayer to the Creator, then with His power, we'll perform the correction. Hence, we need to see both the work of the Creator on us in such a way that if we can see how He created the created beings in this lowly, shattered, despicable form where we can seemingly come to Him and complain, how could you do such a thing to us, why did you make us so lowly? 

On the contrary, we have to understand the point, the purpose of creation. That, from the deep, if we climb up—by that, we acquire all the vessels from all the way down to all the way up including vessels of Hochma, vessels of Hassadim. By that, we come to the power of Keter, the Creator. Because the Creator created all the creatures in what appears to us as such a lowly state. This is the correct preparation that points to His greatness, to how He prepared for us the ability, the opportunity, to get to know creation from one end to another as the advantage of light from darkness. Then, we can connect the lowest states with the highest states. And in the gap between them we discover the greatness of the Creator according to the right level, the love of the Creator between us, according to the depth and we come to a state of adhesion in Him. Since we have no forces with which to be grateful, to appreciate His love for us. For creating the lowest things with all His forces, all His powers and He is present in them. He is also willing and able and He is, actually, doing the act of salvation where He jumps into the depth of the nature He created and He is saving us from there gradually, according to our desire. He is willing to tolerate, suffer, many times more than us. It's like children—it's like parents, I'm sorry—that look at a sick baby and how they are willing to take on his sickness and his sufferings only so he would become well; and the Creator is the same.

(10:57) You have to understand that He suffers many times more than us because He knows our entire degree, our descent, our fall, everything that's happening to us on the one hand. On the other hand, He understands that He has to stabilize it and do, go through this entire path together with us. Because only in this way we can grow up with our mind, with our heart, and come to a state where we know all of reality from one end to the other and then we'll be like Him. This is the sorrow of raising children and we taste it to a small extent with our own children. But relative to the Creator, it's the complete reality. You can talk about it to no end because all of creation is included here in these few lines, In the place where you find His greatness, there you find His humbleness. It means that we can get to know the greatness of the Creator by getting to know, to a small extent, how He was obligated to create all these lowly states. And He suffers from it, He humiliates Himself, He humiliated Himself in order to construct them. And He's together with us in order to show us something of that disparity of form, something of Himself, of the Creator, and to pull us out of there. Meaning, that all of His work is not that we would truly enter opposite state from Him. But only to a small extent—to be there, to be impressed a tiny bit by that – and to be afraid of that state. Then, He pulls us out of that state, then, He does it again in a different style of descent and again He pulls us out. And in this way, gradually, through many such actions—and it's many because He can't do this work all at once. We would simply not be able to tolerate it—specifically, with His love, He's doing it little by little. He brings us into something and He takes us out; He puts us into something and He takes us out. And then when we feel bad, He brings us out to a better feeling. And then in the difference between the feelings we acquire the intellect, the mind. So, between two feelings we'll have the mind and that's how we advance. Everything happens according to this and, in the place where you find His greatness, there you find His humbleness. We attain the greatness of the Creator, specifically, when He walks with us. As King David says, “Even when I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I would not fear because you are with me. Even in the worst possible states, I am not afraid and I walk because I know, I see, I can feel, I want to reveal. And I am certain that You are with me, in the worst possible places that can be, You are also there. Except You cannot show Yourself in order to teach us so we would find our vessels there. First and foremost, and later, we'll be able to climb to the opposite states meaning from humbleness, from lowliness, to greatness. That's how we grow up and develop, okay? If there are no questions, we'll read.

Reader: Shamati 47. In the Place Where You Find His Greatness
Reading: (16:05) Baal HaSulam. Shamati 47. In the Place Where You Find His Greatness

I heard

“In the place where you find His greatness, there you find His humbleness.” It means that one who is always in true Dvekut [adhesion] sees that the Creator lowers Himself, meaning the Creator is present in the low places. 

M. Laitman: He can see that because he's in constant adhesion—if not, if he's not in constant adhesion like us, for the time being, he can't see the Creator is with him in every place. But, rather, sometimes yes, sometimes no; this also awakens a person to reach constant adhesion.

Reading: (16:53) Baal HaSulam. Shamati 47. In the Place Where You Find His Greatness

One does not know what to do, 

M. Laitman: When the Creator is concealed, He comes closer and then, again, more distant, and then more closer. There are times we do not feel we belong to spirituality at all and there are times we feel that we are on the threshold of revealing the Creator.

Reading: (17:20) Baal HaSulam. Shamati 47. In the Place Where You Find His Greatness

And this is why it is written, “Who sits on high, who looks down on heaven and on earth.” A person sees the greatness of the Creator and then “who looks down,” meaning he lowers the heaven to the earth. The advice that is given to this is to think that if this desire is from the Creator, we have nothing greater than that, as it is written, “He raises the poor out of the litter.” 

M. Laitman: Meaning, when we feel the Creator picking us up like we take a baby and we dip it in a bit of water and we take him out, we dip him and we take him out. How much joy it gives us and the baby in this little game. The same thing here, if we feel that it is the Creator who is doing it to us, then it is possible that once or twice I am afraid of these things. But if I strengthen my connection with the Creator and then over all the movements in my life, I feel that He is holding me and He is doing it to me—even the scariest things. Then, I begin to rejoice that it is coming to me from the Creator; He is doing it to me in order to develop in me that sensation that He is doing it. And I will be able to cleave to Him on top of these dips in and out of the water, in and out of the tub. It turns out that whatever happens to me, I justify the Creator that everything He does is for me to strengthen the connection with Him. He's giving me an opportunity to be in all the states and to maintain the connection with Him. How long? Until it's not – stops mattering to me what state I'm in, either up or down – I will feel that I'm in constant adhesion with Him. 

Question (Spain 1): (20:19) What is the meaning of the verse, “He who sits on high, who looks down on heaven and earth”?

M. Laitman: I explained that the Creator is doing all these exercises with us in ups and downs. And it can be not exactly as it is with a baby but actually much greater things, in economic crisis, a health crisis. Or the other way around with a beautiful connection that is taking place in the break between the falls, that's what we feel on ourselves. 

Question (French): (21:36) How to appreciate the greatness of the Rav, correctly, when he lowers himself to the level of the students so we can draw more light during the lesson? 

M. Laitman: If you're speaking of me, we always have to depict ourselves as being together, this is our work. I'm not greater than you, higher than you, I'm together with you in each and every state. It comes from the fact that I appreciate you, I love you; the important thing for me is how we, together—neither me nor you – but rather, together, we will go through the required number of ascents and descents in order to become sensitive to an understanding in heart and mind of what the Creator is doing to us. So, we begin to get to know Him and from this recognition we grow more and more like children who are growing up. We'll get to know this upper force and what it's doing with us until we get from describing Him to ourselves. And our feelings will begin to reveal Him more and more; the Creator is not revealed in our corporeal feelings but rather in our internal feelings. How they become more group like, more human, like more in bestowal, more inclusive. Meaning, from love of the created beings to love of the Creator, as we say. That's how we'll reveal Him and I'm one hundred percent with you. 

Question (Latin 2): (24:02) How can we feel the suffering of the Creator and His joy beyond our egoistic qualities? That we don't want to suffer but we do envy His greatness, the Creator's greatness?

M. Laitman: We need to talk about it; we need to imagine it just like I'm talking about it now. We could have read this article several times, probably, because it's short. But not get into, not try to make it tangible. Rather, what we need from the level of the baby, who doesn't understand what's going on with him. And then to the extent he knows his parents, and when they do these things to him, he understands it's to his own good. And when people who love him, when he loves them, when they do it to him. And the attitude of the parents to the baby is one of eternal love and whole love. And the attitude of the baby to the parents is egoistic love, and then in this way, we can imagine those connections here. And we also need to understand that the concept of parents, of the Creator, is something we create ourselves. From the connections we form, to the extent we tell one another, we talk to one another, we depict who is our upper one, who's doing all these games with us. To that extent, we begin to approach the revelation of the society, the group, the Ten. And in it, in the group and only inside of it, because without a vessel, we won't discover anything. So, we discover inside the society the Creator, the force that moves all of us, that shakes us up. That He's the first, to everyone, and to all our states, and that's how we advance.

Question (Latin 2): (27:03) Why does it cause us so much fear to think about our suffering when we see something, when we are afraid of something so great?

M. Laitman: Because you're not connected. We see that even people who are fearful, who are small egoists and according to their ego, and they're all afraid not to harm themselves. Even if they look to be like the strongest bullies around, nevertheless, when they connect, when they think of one another, together, then they transform the fear of themselves, their egoistic fears, to worry, to concern. And there's a difference: Fear is on a beastly level and worry is already a human worry, a group worry; and that's how we raise ourselves.

Question (Volga): (28:15) In the article, it says, a person who is constantly in true adhesion doesn't know what to do. What is that state? 

M. Laitman: Well, if he's in contact with the group, and he discovers the connection with the essence of the inner group called the Creator. Because the Creator doesn't have a vessel. We have nothing by which to hold on to Him. Rather, when we connect together, in the connection together, we reveal the Creator. So, it turns out that this is how we come to attaining Him, from love of the created being to love of the Creator. You can't reveal the Creator any more than the connection, the kind of connection that's between the friends. It has to be in this way, it must; we are still on the path and we still can't  explain ourselves, obligate ourselves that this is happening specifically like that. When we come to a state where we are certain, truly, inside we don't forget that through the connection between us. Only in this way we come to the revelation of the Creator, the feeling of the Creator, adhesion with the Creator, this means that we reach the level of Bina.

Question (Belarus): (30:20) How not to let my ego, my habits, use the principle by which we as a Ten have to go down to the friend to his lowest states. 

M. Laitman: This comes to us from talking about it in the Ten, reading articles about it. We need to organize additional help between us, where if we need to open up a certain desk, a place where if I find something good, short, and beautiful from Baal HaSulam and Rabash, then I can put it up there like on a message board of sorts. And they will translate it into other languages, so we'll be able to be first of all connected with one another, and we'll be able to expand the topic. I think that's what we need to do, try to talk about it, how do you organize it, and it will help us greatly. First of all, this will bring about a greater connection, which is the principle and goal between us. We would feel more and more the internality of the friends, and add faces or Partzuf. And that's how we'll advance – it's time we started to feel that we're connected in the hearts. And not that there's a Rosh, a head that speaks.

Question (Almaty 1): (32:37) It says here that the Creator is in the low places. How does a person discover the Creator in these low places? 

M. Laitman: Only with the help of the friends because he, himself, when he goes down to those states where he feels lowliness, emptiness, helplessness, and so on and so forth. In those states he can't, he doesn't have the strength, first of all, by himself, he cannot rise from such states. As it's written, a prisoner does not deliver himself from the house of bondage. It's like in our world, friends need to come and help him come out of prison, break free. And in this way, meaning, only the connection, if we wish to improve our state, improve spiritually, it's only by forming tighter bonds between us.

Question (Kyiv 1): (33:59) A person comes to the lesson, he's kind of absent-minded, he's distracted, he feels blurry. What does it mean to discover the Creator out of this lowly place? 

M. Laitman: I told you how Rabash used to wake up to the lesson. He would wake up as if he can't see, he can't understand. He takes those slow steps to the bathroom and then to wash his face. Come back to the table, sit down, put on his robe, get dressed, and sit in front of the table. Still, he says nothing, he's not talking to me yet or anything. I would put a cup of coffee before him, he would drink a little bit, a bit more. He would turn his head around and start to come out of the state. And it was a great deal of effort, it would take him many such efforts, a long time before he would recuperate, because he was in these special falls. And then accordingly, he who is greater than his friends, his inclination is greater. So, when he gets back to the state where he would say, okay, let's study, it could be ten minutes, maybe 15 minutes. But I would feel, I can't testify to his inner efforts, but in truth, I could see the depth from which he's climbing. And then he begins to recover, to read, to speak. That's how you wake up.

Student: But after this cup of coffee, was there a prayer or some efforts, some intentional inner efforts?

M. Laitman: I can't tell you, even if I'd known, I wouldn't tell you because you have to attain it by yourself. But I'm telling you about those external efforts, that which you could see. 

Student: But here, Baal HaSulam writes that a person discovers the greatness of the Creator in the process. How can you discover the greatness of the Creator in such a state? 

M. Laitman: Try, try, I have nothing to say, each and every effort that you put in, you'll see that it's advancing. It will take another six months or another year, but in the end, you too will begin to discover how to rise from a deep hole to a tall mountain. Like that.

Question (ITA 4): (38:06) Earlier, you spoke of the feeling of the Creator. It's not clear to me because how can I distinguish, discern the feeling of the Creator? I just feel an egoistic feeling like when I'm sitting with my friends now. But the feeling itself of something that is outside of our nature, a different frequency. How can I not make any mistakes and feel and identify exactly the feeling of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The most correct, truest way is to connect all the friends into one image. I don't know how it's done today in cameras but previously with cameras, if you wanted to take a picture, you had to focus the lens. So, when you looked, you had two images and then you had to gradually combine them into one image, one picture, right? I don't know if it's done that way today, it might be according to pixels or numbers, or maybe it's done automatically. But you turn these things until what you see becomes from two to one, and then it's clear to you that you are facing that object that you want to take a picture of. And that when you take a picture of it, it will fit correctly into your frame, into your lens. And it's the same here if you have in front of you. With the Creator, it's a little more difficult because the Creator is the upper light. And when it spreads and permeates the Sefirot until it comes to you, to Malchut. So, if you add to yourself, as one image all your friends, that you see in them not images but one desire that yearns for the Creator. This directs you exactly to the Creator – directs you even though you're looking at them, at how they are directed at the Creator. So, it turns out that by this, you come to, you reach the goal. In this way, through the group, specifically thanks to the group and only in this way can you come to the Creator. To identify Him and start moving closer. And of course, the more the closer you come, the more you'll have to refocus how you bring together all the friends into one image, into the same frame. And so, in the end, they form for you the image of the Creator; this is called the Creator is standing behind the friends, which you put together. And that you really do reach Him. Until you discover in all the friends, all the qualities that are different and contradicting. And still you bring them all together, until it turns out that you, and the friends, and the Creator become as one. This is the end of correction.