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Daily Morning Lesson: June 6, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded lesson – Sep 23, 2021 Baal HaSulam. Shamati 4. What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator in the Work?

Reader: Hello, we’re going to read from Shamati, Article Number 4, “What is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels Upon Annulling Before the Creator in the Work?” You can find the study materials on the kabbalahmedia.info site and in the Arvut system, you should click on the study materials button in the upper menu. You can ask questions, both, on the site. Selected questions related to the topic will be asked during the lesson.

Reading: (00:34) Baal HaSulam. Shamati 4. What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator in the Work? -Twice

I heard on Shevat 12, February 6, 1944

We must know the reason for the heaviness one feels when he wants to work in annulling his self before the Creator and not worry about his own benefit. A person comes to a state as though the entire world stands still, and he alone is now seemingly absent from this world, and leaves his family and friends for the sake of annulling before the Creator.

There is but a simple reason for this, called “lack of faith.” It means that one does not see before whom he nullifies, meaning he does not feel the existence of the Creator. This causes him heaviness.

But when he begins to feel the existence of the Creator, his soul immediately yearns to annul and connect with the root, to be contained in it like a candle in a torch, without any mind or reason. However, this comes naturally, as a candle is canceled before a torch.

It therefore follows that the essence of one’s work is only to come to feel the existence of the Creator, meaning to feel the existence of the Creator, that “the whole earth is full of His glory,” and this will be one’s entire work. That is, all the energy one puts into the work will be only to achieve this, and nothing else.

One should not be misled into having to acquire anything. Rather, there is only one thing a person needs: faith in the Creator. He should not think of anything, meaning that the only reward that he wants for his work should be to be rewarded with faith in the Creator.

We must know that there is no difference between a small illumination or a great illumination that a person obtains, since there are no changes in the light. Rather, all the changes are in the Kelim [vessels] that receive the abundance, as it is written, “I the Lord did not change.” Hence, if one can magnify one’s Kelim, to that extent he magnifies the illumination.

Yet, the question is, With what can one magnify one’s Kelim? The answer is that to the extent to which he praises and thanks the Creator for having brought him closer to Him, so he would feel Him a little and think of the importance of the matter, meaning that he was rewarded with having some connection with the Creator.

To the extent of the importance that one pictures for oneself, so the illumination grows in him. One must know that he will never come to know the true measure of the importance of the connection between man and the Creator because one cannot assess its true value. Instead, as much as one appreciates it, so he attains its merit and importance. There is a Segula [power/remedy/virtue] in this, since by this he can be rewarded with this illumination staying permanently within him. 

M. Laitman: Not sure what to say, maybe you should read it again? Why not, we’ll take some questions, if you have them.

Reader: So, we’re reading the article, “What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator in the Work?”

Question (ITA 4): (10:20) What is the difference between revealing that reality is governed by the Creator and the illumination that we receive from the Creator?

M. Laitman: In truth, we are only connected with the Creator always, There is None Else Besides Him, there is nothing else that sustains us in reality. Even when we discover our reality here in this world, in this life and family and the society, human society. In this galaxy, whatever it may be, it is also the appearance of the Creator before us, but only in a very weak and concealed manner because There Is No One Else Besides Him. And as much as we try to reach His quality, bestowal — if we enter the quality of bestowal, meaning Lishma then, to that extent, we begin to feel Him as the root for everything we feel; that's how we grow. Where, as much as we wish to resemble Him which is the reason to come close to Him meaning the condition for approaching Him then, to that extent, we discover that He is the root of everything; there is nothing else, nothing more besides Him and this feeling is called, faith. Then according to the size of our faith, of this feeling, when we feel the root, One, Unique, And Unified, The Good Who Does Good to everyone, this feeling, brings us closer to Him more and more. Now, what we should not forget is that everyone always feels only the Creator, except in various degrees of concealment and revelation. And that depends on the person, as much as he develops his vessels to feel the source of reality.

Question (Holland 1): (13:21) What's not clear is that the article says, we should put all our energy into the work to achieve the existence of the Creator, to achieve this feeling. And one sentence later, we should not be misled; to acquire anything, we should have only faith. So, how do we combine these two things?

M. Laitman: That's exactly the same, we don't need to obtain anything but faith. Faith is called the feeling of the Creator. The feeling of the Creator in a person is called, faith. It's the opposite of what we call faith in this world – through religion and what people think. The force of faith, the force of Bina, is the force that, if we receive it, we begin to feel, in Bina, our root because according to equivalence of form with the root, we begin to bestow, even a little bit, with this new quality of yours, you begin to feel the Creator, according to your equivalence with Him. That is what we need, and the feeling of the Creator is attained through the quality, the force of bestowal. The force of bestowal we attain is called, faith, the force of Bina. Just don't get confused about these words, it speaks only of the feeling of the Creator. We feel Him now as well but we can't see Him, we can't sense that it's Him. That everything we receive now is also getting depicted in us—the universe, stars, the Earth, us, still, vegetative, animate, speaking. He also portrays all that to us, but He conceals himself behind this picture because we don't have, yet, equivalence of form with Him. We don't enter into contact with Him where the law is that we need to have the same qualities as Him.

Student: For example, if I get out of bed before the lesson and I don't feel good, I feel bad. But I understand, I don't relate it to myself, I related it to Shechina, Shechina is in the dust, but I don't feel the existence of the Creator. I don't feel His importance and I understand that I have a lack of feeling importance and existence of the Creator. This lack gives me fuel to pray. I cannot understand, if I have the Panim, if I have the existence of the Creator, how can I pray?

M. Laitman: That's a question, you have a problem, then; if the Creator is revealed, you have a problem. In what way are you attracted to Him because He is concealed? You're attracted to that which is revealed according to your will to receive, and then He disappears. You have to construct here: restriction, screen, reflected light, and yearn to come close to Him in order to bestow. This means that you're building a Partzuf or a soul. Therefore, the Creator does not appear in the will to receive the way it is, but only when, above the will to receive, we perform a restriction, a screen, and above that, we wish to bestow to the Creator, as well. To the extent of the mutual bestowal we attain – I to Him and Him to me – and then I begin to feel Him.

Question (Kiev 1): (18:16) Baal HaSulam writes here that to the extent that we increase the importance of our connection with the Creator, in this there is a Segula, power, what does that mean?

M. Laitman: Can they translate Segula into Russian?

Student: There’s no translation, here, it’s written Segula in Russian.

M. Laitman: Anyone who hears and knows they should let us know how to translate Segula into Russian. Segula is a special remedy, let’s say, something that helps me. That is what we call Segula, anything that helps can be called a Segula. What are you asking?

Student: He writes here that to the extent that we appreciate our connection with the Creator, to that extent of importance, we are rewarded with this Segula.

M. Laitman: Right.

Student: We’re rewarded with this illumination remaining permanently in us.

M. Laitman: This is important, meaning as much as I wish to attain the Creator in order to bestow to Him, this is the condition, to bestow to Him. Then, accordingly, I perform various actions in order to attain bestowal to the Creator. I bestow to the group, to the friends, other actions, especially in the connection between us. From the connection between us, I suddenly begin to feel that, yes, I can, to some extent discover that, behind all the people—because that is the highest degree in the still, vegetative, animate and speaking before me, and behind all the people—not just all the people but behind my friends with whom we yearn together, I discover an upper force that is managing us, and that's how we come to the feeling of the Creator. All the actions that we take in order to reveal the Creator, all the means for revealing Him, are called, collectively, Segula. We can talk a lot about Segula, Segula is from the word, Segol. In Hebrew, it's this form of punctuation made of three dots; dot, dot, dot, three dots - right, left, and middle. This is the force of Bina, this is Hochma, and this is Daat; these three dots, three points are called, Segol related to this word Segula. Because if we carry out these three dots, we reveal the vessel for the revelation of the Creator. There is light of Hassadim from Bina, light of Hochma from the side of Hochma, and also the connection between them, the right combination of the two called, Daat.

Student: Do you build this combination through the importance of the Creator?

M. Laitman: Later, yes. This is called Segol, these three points, three dots and from here, we get the word Segula.

Question (Moscow 7): (23:07) On the same point, I have a question: In the last sentence, Baal HaSulam says, and there is a Segula by which he can be rewarded with this illumination staying permanently with him. What does it mean permanently because we develop in spirituality – ascents, descents?

M. Laitman: Yes, but, nevertheless, we step up the degrees each time more and more and even when we fall, we fall into the Achoraim [the posterior] of a higher degree. Of course, each time we fall and we get up, we fall and get up. But, each time, it's on higher and higher degrees. They wrote for me the word, Segula, in Russian is a special quality.

Student: It's something that doesn't disappear?

M. Laitman: In a sense, yes, but we have to attain it each time on a higher degree. And then accordingly we need to work on it, according to the degree.

Question (Tbilisi): (24:49) I'm interested in knowing on what doubting our faith depends? We always want to have faith but we forget about it. How can we practice it so we don't forget about the faith?

M. Laitman: Faith is the degree of connection between man and the Creator. It's not coming to a person like that, but he has to develop a vessel of bestowal and this vessel can be called faith. Inside this vessel of faith, he will receive a special light called, the light of faith. In total, the vessel and the light of faith are called, the degree of Bina. That's it and, all the time, when a person goes and corrects himself more and more, and of course, he corrects the quality of Bina, the quality of faith, more and more, that he possesses, that he acquires, and the degree of faith that he acquires—in it he has the feeling of the Creator.

Question (French): (26:28) When we come to the reward of faith, what changes in the work and how do we keep that state in the spiritual development?

M. Laitman: It's only when, each time, we strengthen the connection between us in the Ten and then we see how much we can still reinforce that connection. And, by that, we reinforce the force of faith, the force of mutual bestowal between us that grows. And from within that, we either turn to the Creator or even when we don't turn to  Him, the Creator already exists in the center of the connection between us and that's how we advance towards Him. That’s how we both construct the faith, attain the faith, and, in it, we attain the Creator.

Question (KabU 3): (27:39) Does the development of the vessel depend on the gratitude we have for the Creator, in addition to faith? What is the difference between gratitude and faith? Are they the same?

M. Laitman: In effect, everything depends on the force of faith. That's why we hear, in this world, faith, faith—I believe, I believe, you have to believe. People use that word as if they know what it is. Someone said something to them and they accept it without feeling. This is also what they call, faith, blind faith, it is called. We are talking about the force of faith where I don't see something but I develop that force by myself, the force of bestowal, the force of faith. And to the degree of my bestowal to the Creator—as much as I resemble Him—to that extent, I discover Him. If There Is None Else Besides Him I have nothing else to discover. But only to develop from within my will to receive, above it, faith above reason. Faith is bestowal and above my egoistic force called reason. Faith above reason, if I develop it, to that extent, according to the equivalence between me and the Creator, I begin to discover Him. Here, we have a question: Do I discover Him or I discover the degree or the measure of my faith. In truth, I discover a divine part from above which appears in me, the force of bestowal which appears in me. and I call that, the Creator, Bo Reh, Come And See. Before that He did not exist in me and then I acquire the force of bestowal and it exists in me. That's why the Creator is called this way, Come And See, and this is the only thing we are talking about in the wisdom of Kabbalah. How to attain the equivalence of form with the Creator, how to measure it and develop it until we come to 100% with all our strength to bestow to Him and, accordingly, Him to us.

Student: Does gratitude have an importance on the development of the vessel?

M. Laitman: Yes. And this, the importance of recognizing the Creator in the form of bestowal, does not depend on a person, a person cannot hold onto it because he is entirely made to receive. Rather, it depends entirely on the environment. If a person is connected properly to the environment, he does not forget, he is directed by the environment towards attaining the faith. That's why this is the main thing about our groups, our Tens, that we would aim every Ten and each one in the Ten in the direction of faith, of bestowal, and from bestowing to friends to bestowing to the Creator. These are simple things, except we are so thick, we are sealed off, we can't hear, we can't see because we're confused. Because our ego doesn't let us hear simple things which are so close to us.

Question (Africa): (32:01) What are the vessels in which we feel? We talk of equivalence of form and, accordingly, we feel but this feeling we understand in corporeal terms. Yet, it's supposed to be a spiritual concept that goes beyond death. What are these spiritual concepts we are supposed to feel?

M. Laitman: We feel only the will to receive and all of the phenomena within the will to receive. We need to have these Segulot, plural of Segula, remedies, it's a very important means by which we obtain the force of bestowal. Through such actions that we perform in the connection between us in the group, we will be able to attain the force of bestowal. That's when the Creator, according to our efforts, begins to be revealed in us, according to equivalence of form. How much are we attracted, drawn, to bestowal? Accordingly, the Creator will come closer to us, will shine to us from afar, gradually, until He begins to clothe in us and shine from that.

Student: It's okay for us to feel it, or understand it, according to the physical meaning of it because I understand what it means to feel within this body but what does it mean to feel within the spiritual body?

M. Laitman: Yes, for the time being we have no other choice, we can imagine it only according to our senses, yes.

Student: Is it necessary for us to do this imagination, or are we flawing the work, when we do this?

M. Laitman: No, for the time being we, nevertheless, imagine all those things in our vessels, in our will to receive. Gradually, the upper light influences us as surrounding light and prepares us to an internal feeling.

Student: Is it okay for me then to try to extend my thoughts, my feelings towards the friend so that I want to, rather, start feeling and perceiving what they experience?

M. Laitman: Yes, just as the Rabash writes and Baal HaSulam writes about the friends. This is the only Segula, the only remedy, meaning the only means at our disposal to bring the Creator closer to us.

Question (MAK 6): (35:09) We learned that annulling before the Ten, you have to annul before the Ten in order to come to annulment before the Creator. And it feels like this is what causes fear to disappear from this world. But the Creator is in everything around us why don't we learning to annul before the environment because there would be no reason for fear?

M. Laitman: I don't want to annul before people who don't have a spiritual goal, what's the question?

Student: The question stems from the fact that the Creator is in all reality?

M. Laitman: So what? If you annul before the whole world then I have to take from them their goal and what will I get out of it? The whole world is manipulated in a concealed way, and I don't annul before Him, the Creator, but in this external form the world is in, this incorrect form. They want to help me reach the Creator, the revelation of the Creator, revelation of the Creator.

Student: But we learned that the whole world is a theater that the Creator presents to us.

M. Laitman: So get into this theater and leave us alone, if you don't understand the principle, how do we get out of the theater and enter the world of truth. Which is only when I have a group and I see in it, the only means for revealing the Creator.

Question (Holland 1): (36:54) It looks like in this article that the power of gratitude is really huge. That you can expand your vessels with it and you can also get to more feeling and depth of the feeling of the Creator. How does that work, that power of gratitude?

M. Laitman: I don't understand, repeat, please.

Student: With what can you magnify one's vessels? The answer is, to the extent one's gratitude and thanks to the Creator for having brought him closer to Him. And later he also says, it's the part of gratitude that expands the vessel.

M. Laitman: Through the importance, he expands the vessel that he increases the illumination that the Creator shines on him through the importance. How do we do it? Only inside the group because by yourself you always remain an egoist.

Question (Karmiel): (38:41) What does it mean to pray in order to praise the Creator?

M. Laitman: To the extent that I exalt Him in my eyes to that extent I make my vessels of bestowing, and this way I make myself closer to Him.

Question (Rehovot): (39:06) What type of heaviness the article discusses? Is there a certain type he aims for?

M. Laitman: Heaviness is by feeling how difficult it is to think of faith, speak of bestowal, to be in it. It is to annul myself before the Creator, before the quality of bestowing is very difficult, this is called heaviness. So, how do we overcome the heaviness? By appreciating the power of bestowing, nevertheless, that it is always high in our eyes above our nature. And we understand that jumping in order to obtain that power of bestowing I can never do it alone, only through the group. And with the group it seems more difficult for me to jump and reach bestowing. Then I begin to realize that no, I don't begin to jump, I need to go into the group. And there, in the connection between, us I achieve this force and there is where the Creator is.

Student: Why, specifically, in the holidays do we have this heaviness?

M. Laitman: Because many strange people, foreign people, engage in matters of the holiday. This is why during the holidays there is more heaviness – more idleness and so on.

Question (Tel Aviv 1): (40:53) It says here there's no difference between a small and great illumination, so I understand small and big corporeal concepts?

M. Laitman: No, great and smaller are not great and small illuminations. Great and small relate to the desire, they talk about the upper light, so there is no great or small illumination, it's all according to the vessel that receives the light. So, if you are saying a small light or great light, it's not as it is in this world – we have a small or big flashlight. In spirituality, it all depends on the will to receive; on how adapted it is to the will to bestow. And accordingly, it reveals the light as great or small, but it is all inside the vessel, not outside of it.

Student: The vessel will be to such an extent it can receive everything?

M. Laitman: At the end of correction, all the vessels will connect and come to a state where they reveal everything, yes.

Question (Salt Lake City): (42:09) It says, the essence of the whole work one should do to achieve the revelation, the sensation of the Creator. How do we combine that we  study, and we should not go after revelation of the Creator? That we should not go and receive anything?

M. Laitman: We need to aspire only to bestow contentment upon Him. If the Creator wants to be revealed, then we will reveal Him in order to bring contentment to Him. And then His revelation will not be an egoistic action on our part.

Question (Siberia): (43:08) In the first paragraph he writes, as if the whole world remains as it is only, and only He disappears from the world. It's not clear, how it's related to the state of heaviness?

M. Laitman: Because it all depends on the importance, what is more important: The revelation of the Creator, as opposed to other worldly things? Or do you see in this world all kinds of things that are more important or less important? We build the importance, a person builds the importance for this, for this, for this and that, and accordingly he advances. The important thing for us is to come to a state that the Creator is the most important and his greatness is above everything. Then, it won't be difficult for us to go and reveal Him.