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Daily Lesson (Morning), May 4, 2024.

Part 2: Shamati 14, What is the Exaltedness of the Creator?

Reader: Our next article is Shamati 14, “What is the Exaltedness of the Creator?” Writings of Baal HaSulam, in Hebrew, page 525. 

Reading Article: (00:18) Shamati 14, What is the Exaltedness of the Creator?

The Romemut, [exaltedness/sublimity] of the Creator, means that one should ask the Creator to give him the strength to go above reason. This means that there are two interpretations to the Romemut of the Creator: 

A. To not be filled with knowledge, which is intellect, with which one can answer one's questions. Rather he wants the Creator to answer his questions. It is called Romemut because all the wisdom comes from above and not from the man, meaning that man can answer his own questions.

Anything that one can answer is regarded as the person answering everything with his external mind. This means that the will to receive understands that it is worthwhile to observe Torah and Mitzvot [commandments]. However, if the above reason compels one to work, it is called “against the opinion of the will to receive.”

B. The greatness of the Creator means that one becomes needy of the Creator to grant his wishes. Therefore:

1. One should go above reason. Then one sees that he is empty and becomes needy of the Creator. 

2. Only the Creator can give him the strength to be able to go above reason. In other words, what the Creator gives is called “The Romemut of the Creator.”

Reading Article Again: (02:53) Shamati 14, What is the Exaltedness of the Creator? 

The Romemut, [exaltedness/sublimity] of the Creator, means that one should ask the Creator to give him the strength to go above reason. This means that there are two interpretations to the Romemut of the Creator: 

A. To not be filled with knowledge, which is intellect, with which one can answer one's questions. Rather he wants the Creator to answer his questions. It is called Romemut because all the wisdom comes from above and not from the man, meaning that man can answer his own questions.

Anything that one can answer is regarded as the person answering everything with his external mind. This means that the will to receive understands that it is worthwhile to observe Torah and Mitzvot [commandments]. However, if the above reason compels one to work, it is called “against the opinion of the will to receive.”

B. The greatness of the Creator means that one becomes needy of the Creator to grant his wishes. Therefore:

1. One should go above reason. Then one sees that he is empty and becomes needy of the Creator. 

2. Only the Creator can give him the strength to be able to go above reason. In other words, what the Creator gives is called “The Romemut of the Creator.”

M. Laitman: (05:18) Questions? 

Question (Kyiv 1): (05:28) What does it mean that I want the Creator to fill my questions? 

M. Laitman: If I don't answer my questions, but the Creator answers my questions, then I learn how I should answer. Meaning, I ask my questions from the Creator, I ask Him, and He, the Creator, answers me. 

Student: What does it mean that I ask the questions and get the answers above reason, because an answer is something that I get in reason?

M. Laitman: I grasp the Creator's answers with faith above reason, otherwise I won't be able to understand them correctly. I have to understand them at least on the same level at which He speaks to me and this is with faith above reason.

Student: In what way does the Creator answer man's questions?

M. Laitman: In any way, in any way. There is no condition that the Creator answers only this way or that way, He answers, in general, the questions, the overcoming in a person. He answers in any way, in a way of the Upper Light, and then we grasp it in the way that we can grasp that light, to the length and to the width.

Student: I am trying in all my forces to overcome myself, to connect to the friends, and from this state to ask how to behave this way or that way in life. What does it mean that He answered me? How could it take place? 

M. Laitman: (07:54) [No translation].

Student: Is that in faith above reason? That's where I get the answer? 

M. Laitman: You will discover.

Question (H 10): (08:50) In the state that I feel empty, how can I work with it, what should I hold on to? 

M. Laitman: To having friends, and I connect with them as much as I can, and I follow them as the last in the chain with my eyes closed.

Question (ITA 3): (09:46) It seems that in this game we are sucked into corporeality more and more, we're supposedly on a spiritual path, but it drags us into corporeality more and more. How can we help the friends in such states?

M. Laitman: However you understand that it is possible, there's no one answer here. It depends on which friend, to which friend, how you approach him, how you clothe in him, how you work on his question together, there are many things here. He says about it that it's like a group of people seeing someone drowning in the river, so they discuss what they can do. Maybe they can jump over to him, maybe they can reach him, maybe they can grab him through his hand, through his head, through his feelings, through his intellect. It doesn't matter how, but this is the work. 

Question (New York 2): (11:02) He describes a state where the will to receive understands that it is worthwhile to observe Torah and Mitzvot. How do we come out of such a state, how do we come to such a state?

M. Laitman: The will to receive has to see some benefit in Torah and Mitzvot, in commandments. I don't know where it can see the benefit, the profit. If I were to receive money for it, or honor, or power, what's important to the will to receive, then I would follow the will to receive, but when I am in this world and I don't see any satisfaction, any profit, any gain, then why observe Torah and commandments? I don't see anything that tells me it's worth your while.

Student: Do we ever come to a point where the will to receive is not part of that equation of whether or not we follow the Torah and Mitzvot? 

M. Laitman: We will want this, to live this way, where our will to receive is not involved in our decision-making process but it's a lot of work. It's through the many restrictions that we come to it. 

Question (Latin 1): (13:56) How is the empty place created in our mind, in our reason so the Creator can bestow to it? 

M. Laitman: The most important is to be together, all of us, and to want to adhere together to the Creator, and that's it, that's enough. All the other forces we get from Him.

Question (Turkiye 2): (14:55) How does the Creator give a person the forces to go above reason? 

M. Laitman: That's His business, He gives us light, and through that light we can go with faith above reason. From where does it come? From the Creator's desire to give, desire to bestow. 

Question (Women Turkiye 8): (15:47) How can I discern if I got an answer from the Creator?

M. Laitman: How can I discern that I got an answer? You will feel it, both according to the questions that will awaken in you and according to the answers from the Creator. You will feel how it happens. 

Question (Hadera 1): (16:23) What's a better way to work when we get a question, should we check and awaken a dispute in reason or to turn to the Creator?

M. Laitman: First of all we turn to ourselves and organize ourselves, how we are positioned with respect to the question. Is it a question that requires us to be within reason or above reason, and afterwards, we work.

Student: Only when we come to a dispute that we can't solve in reason, a deficiency is created for above reason? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (17:15) When I sit in the lesson and pray for the friends and want to adhere to the Creator, what does it mean that a person has a question?

M. Laitman: You would like to get an answer or advice from the Creator.

Student: Here it's said that the greatness of the Creator is that when he needs the Creator to fill his needs. What's the difference between a request and a prayer? 

M. Laitman: By a person awakening in the Creator the opportunity, the chance to satisfy a person, to fill a person, by this he awakens in the Creator the greatness of the Creator.

Question (Women Latin 10): (18:18) There's a feeling of emptiness, but it's a different feeling, even a pleasant feeling, so what actually changes? 

M. Laitman: What changes is the will to receive which now opens in a different way from before. Okay, what are we doing next? 

Reader: There are a few more questions in the hall, or we could go to the next article, “The Love of God and the Love of Man.” 

M. Laitman: Well, ask them but quickly and concisely.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:06) If I may, he says that the greatness or exaltedness of the Creator has two interpretations. In one, he writes that he should go above reason and he wants the Creator to answer his questions. In B, he writes that he becomes needy, that the Creator fills his wishes. What's the difference between one and two, because all in all, he wants the Creator to fill his answers and here he needs it. 

M. Laitman: Needing means he has a real desire.  

M. Laitman: Okay, let's read “The Love of God and the Love of Man,” and where you have questions, ask. 

Reader: (20:00)  We'll sing a song first, and we want to remind the friends that on Saturday, Sunday 18 and 19 of May, the World Kabbalah Congress, Rising Above Reason. For details go to the website, Convention.Kli.One. Let's sing a song.

Song: (20:19)