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Daily Morning Lesson: July 3, 2025

Part 1: Recorded lesson - Oct 13, 2021. Baal HaSulam, Shamati #19. What Is “The Creator Hates the Bodies,” in the Work?

Reader: Dear friends, in the first part of the lesson we will watch a recorded lesson from October 13th, 2021, from Shamati 19, What Is “The Creator Hates the Bodies,” in the Work.

Reading: (00:39) Baal HaSulam, Shamati #19. What Is “The Creator Hates the Bodies,” in the Work?

Similarly, in the holy work, which is to bring the vessels of reception into Kedusha [holiness], we have a strong hammer, meaning words of Torah that give us good counsels. However, if it is not consistent, but with long intermissions in between, one escapes the campaign and says that he was not made for this, but this work requires one who was born with special skills for it. Nevertheless, one should believe that anyone can achieve the goal, but he should try to always increase his efforts to overcome, and then one can break the rock in a short time.

We must also know that for the effort to make contact with the Creator, there is a very harsh condition here: The effort must be in the form of adornment. “Adornment” means something that is important to a person. One cannot work gladly if the labor is not of importance, meaning that one is happy that now he has contact with the Creator.

This matter is implied in the citron. It is written about the citron, “a fruit of the citrus tree,”1 that it should be clean above its nose. It is known that there are three discernments: A) adornment, B) scent, C) taste.

Taste means that the lights are imparted from above downward, meaning below the Peh [mouth], where there are the palate and the taste. This means that the lights come in vessels of reception.

M. Laitman: As you say, the lights of Taamim (flavor) that expand from Rosh to Guf in the Partzuf.

Reading: (03:22) Baal HaSulam,

Shamati #19. What Is “The Creator Hates the Bodies,” in the Work?

Scent means that the lights come from below upward. This means that the lights come in vessels of bestowal, in the form of receiving and not bestowing below the palate and the throat. This is discerned as “and he shall smell in the fear of the Lord,” said about the Messiah. It is known that scent is attributed to the nose.

Adornment is beauty, discerned as above one’s nose, meaning scentless. It means that there is neither taste nor smell there. Thus, what is there by which one can endure? There is only the adornment in it, and this is what sustains him.

We see about the citron that the adornment is in it precisely before it is suitable for eating. However, when it is suitable for eating, there is no adornment in it anymore.

This comes to tell us about the work of the first to count the iniquities. This means that precisely when one works in the form of “And you shall take for you,” meaning the work during the acceptance of the burden of the kingdom of heaven, when the body resists this work, then there is room for the joy of adornment.

This means that during this work the adornment is apparent. This means that if he has gladness from this work, it is because he considers this work as adornment, and not as disgrace.

Question (Brazil 2): (05:47) I see my friends, they are dragging themselves to bestow to the Creator. They are bringing so many importance and I am so jealous of them. Why is it always something missing? What can I do to help my friends in order to fill the gap? I know the Creator is the only force but how can I help my friends when everything seems like I cannot do anything?

M. Laitman: You can give them an example from the Creator. You can present to them the correct behavior that each one should offer to everyone else in the group, mainly and that’s it. How each one should conduct himself toward the others.—we do not do that.You can do it in the heart but for beginners you also have to provide external examples through action. That's what we need to do towards the friends; each one has to do it, according to a person's nature and character. There are those who are more capable of it, those who are less capable. It does not have to do much with spirituality but rather with the conditions that the Creator placed in them from the outset.

Question (Hebrew 10): (07:43) Baal HaSulam writes here, page 534, in Hebrew, “You should also know that in order for the effort to reach the Creator, to make contact with the Creator, there's a very harsh condition that the effort should be as adornment for the person.’’

M. Laitman: He loves the exertion. Why—he loves? Why? Imagine that you love someone. Loving someone pushes you to do something good for that person. Your entire effort, everything you do for the sake of your beloved, that effort, you love that effort, you love it. Rabash would give this example, let's say the Queen of England; she doesn't have to do anything by herself. She has plenty of people all around her doing every little thing for her but they bring her baby or a grandkid to her, someone she loves, and then what? She'll say, I want to feed him. Is it work? It‘s work. There is a special woman who probably is in charge of feeding this little child but the queen says, “No, I want to do it by myself.” Why?—because it is pleasure; it is not work. It is pleasure. She does it for the sake of loving someone—because she loves someone. The difference between work and pleasure is only in one’s attitude. It's not difficult for me to do anything towards someone I love depending on the level of my love.

Question (PT 6): (10:14) How do we reach a state where I love to do the work?

M. Laitman: Ask, ask the Creator. This is in His hands. Ask the Creator to love the friends. As Baal HaSulam says, “I wish to embrace the whole world.” This is called the love of the world. This is the highest degree of love.

Student: Is there anything in the work that we do between us besides asking that can bring me to this?

M. Laitman: Slowly, gradually, all the actions that we do in the group, in dissemination, in the study, as we talk to each other, by going over all these writings the Kabbalists have left for us and we wish to, nonetheless, scrutinize them, ascribe ourselves to it; this work is helping us. Labor, toil—when I wish to understand what a Kabbalist writes about when he is in such a tight connection with the Creator and I too want to be in His state. We awaken the surrounding light and we advance.

Question (KabU 3): (12:06) What exactly is the adornment? Is that joy or an effort?

M. Laitman: Adornment is when I wish to, more and more, grow, increase a certain phenomenon. This is the meaning of adornment.

Reading: (12:39) Baal HaSulam, Shamati #19. What Is “The Creator Hates the Bodies,” in the Work?

In other words, sometimes one despises this work of assuming the burden of the kingdom of heaven, which is a time of a sensation of darkness, when one sees that no one can save him from the state he is in but the Creator. Then he takes upon himself the kingdom of heaven above reason, as an ox to the burden and as a donkey to the load. One should be glad that now he has something to give to the Creator, and the Creator enjoys him having something to give to the Creator.

M. Laitman: That is, from the worst possible state that we are in, if we are able to connect with the Creator, then it can become the best possible state, the most beneficial, the strongest one because from the lowest state, I connect to the Creator who is the highest. Do not disregard states where we feel a descent, a fall, disappointment, helplessness; those are actually the states from which turning to the Creator is the most beneficial, the most beneficial. By that, we truly awaken very big forces from that state that we are in, in the lowest possible state, in the lowest possible world, all the way to the Creator, to the root of all of reality, the highest place.

Question (PT 25): (14:47) How can we turn to the Creator from that zero point, that minus point?

M. Laitman: You take example from everyone, from the friends. Everyone is doing this work. Each and every one is measured, evaluated, not by simply wanting to feel what is going on with him—that's not a man. Rather, each and every person is evaluated according to how much he can connect to the Creator, from each and every state, as much as possible, meaning the lower the state, he wants to connect to the Creator in a more powerful way because, by that specifically, he is carrying out the actions of correction.

Question (Moscow 6): (15:56) What is the upper Malhut?

M. Laitman: The Malchut, the kingdom or Kingship of Heaven, it’s the Creator's will to bestow. It's called the Kingdom of Heaven. The will to receive of the created being is called the Malchut of this world, kingdom of this world.

Reading: (16:23) Baal HaSulam, Shamati #19. What Is “The Creator Hates the Bodies,” in the Work?

But one does not always have the strength to say that this is beautiful work, called “adornment,” but he despises this work.

This is a harsh condition for one to be able to say that he chooses this work over the work of whiteness, meaning that he does not sense a taste of darkness during the work, but then one feels a taste in the work. It means that then he does not have to work with the will to receive to agree to take upon himself the kingdom of heaven above reason.

M. Laitman: Meaning, although I am going through different states—even the worst states—in other words, I don't need to change the state itself, the state itself. Rather, I need to try to change my attitude to the state. That is the main thing because all those states come from the Creator. Therefore, I don't ask him to change the state for me and treat me differently because, by that, I am seemingly saying to the Creator, “Now you are better” and next time, “You're worse” but there's none else besides Him. I get everything from Him. I don't relate to Him by saying, “You should change.” No, rather, I ask Him to help me change myself so that each and every state you will project onto me—it doesn't matter the state—I will accept it as coming from the good who does good. That's what I'm asking for. What am I asking for, in other words, not for the Creator to change and project to me good states but that I should change. That I will correct myself and then accept the Creator's attitude towards me as the good who does good. That's the difference. I don't obligate the Creator to change but I am asking him to change me. That's the whole difference between the correct attitude and an incorrect attitude towards the Upper Providence.

Reading: (19:41) Baal HaSulam, Shamati #19. What Is “The Creator Hates the Bodies,” in the Work?

If he does overcome himself and can say that this work is pleasant to him that now he is observing the Mitzva [commandment] of faith above reason, and he accepts this work as beauty and adornment, this is called “A joy of Mitzva.”

This is the meaning of the prayer being more important than the response to the prayer, since in prayer one has a place for labor and he needs the Creator, meaning he awaits heaven’s mercy. At that time, one has a true contact with the Creator and he is in the King’s palace. However, when the prayer is answered, he has already departed the King’s palace since he has already taken what he had asked for and left.

Accordingly, we should understand the verse, “Your oils have a good fragrance; your name is as oil poured forth.” Oil is called “the upper light” when it flows. “Poured forth” means during the cessation of the abundance. At that time, the scent from the oil remains. (Scent means that a Reshimo [reminiscence] of what he had remains nonetheless. Adornment, however, is called so in a place where there is no grip at all, meaning that even the Reshimo does not shine.)

This is the meaning of Atik and AA. During the expansion, the abundance is called AA, which is Hochma [wisdom], meaning open Providence. Atik comes from the [Hebrew] word. VaYe’atek [detachment], meaning the departure of the light. In other words, it does not shine, and this is called “concealment.” This is the time of rejection to clothing, which is the time of the reception of the King’s crown,

M. Laitman: Maybe again from Atik