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Daily Morning Lesson: September 2, 2025
Part 1: Recorded lesson – Nov 11, 2021
Baal HaSulam. Shamati 57. Will Bring Him Closer to His Will
Reader: Hello, In the first part of the lesson, we will learn from a lesson that was given on November 11th, 2021, from the writings of Baal HaSulam, the Shamati article number 57, “Will Bring Him Closer to His Will.” Note that the first part is shorter than usual, and in the second part we will learn a longer lesson from the “Preface of the Wisdom of Kabbalah.”
M. Laitman (Source Text/Commentary): (00:35) So, it says, article 57 in Shamati, “Will Bring Him as a Burnt Offering to His Will.”
About the verse, “will bring him as a burnt offering to His will,” our sages said, “How so?”
And they got an answer. They gave us an answer.
He is coerced until he says, “I want.”
Meaning, how do we reach the correct desire by all the time being bent more and more? And that's how we come to the right form of desire. This is called, to bring him as a burnt offering to His will, meaning, He brings him closer to the right desire.
We must also understand what we pray, “Let there be a will,”
and something else, some other thing, meaning, what I'm asking for.
Since more than the calf wants to eat, the cow wants to feed, so why do we need to pray, “Let there be a will above?”
If the Creator wants to give more than, even more than we want to receive, why do we need to pray for Him to give? Maybe we should ask for something else?
It is known that in order to extend abundance from above, one must precede an awakening from below.
But He wants to give. Why should I come first and ask? Why do you need to precede the awakening from below?
We must understand why we need an awakening from below. Because of this, we pray that there will be a will above, it means that we must evoke a desire from above to administer below. It is not enough that we have a desire, but there has to be a goodwill on the part of the Giver too.
Meaning that we have to, even though He wants to give, we have to evoke Him to give. Without this, He won't give, even though He wants.
Even though above there is a general desire to do good to His creations, He still waits for our desire to awaken His desire. In other words, if we are unable to evoke His desire, it is a sign that the desire on the part of the receiver, our desire, is still incomplete. Hence, precisely by praying that there will be a will above, our desire is made to be a genuine desire, to be a fitting vessel to receive the abundance.
Until here, I guess it's clear.
At the same time, we must say that all that we do, both bad and good, everything extends from above x(which is the meaning of private Providence),
that in us there are no actions, we get everything from above. Meaning, if something depends on us, it's how we respond to everything we go through in life, only how to respond. And also, it is written to us how we should respond.
That the Creator does everything, yet at the same time we must regret the bad deeds, though it too extends from above. The mind asserts that we must not regret, but justify the judgment, that the bad deeds come to us. Nevertheless, it is to the contrary, we must regret not being permitted to do good deeds,
Which, that's what we should be sorry about
which is certainly a result of a punishment, meaning that we are unworthy of serving the King. If everything is guided, how can we say that we are unworthy, since there is no act below? For this purpose, we are given bad thoughts and desires that distance us from the work of the Creator. That we are not worthy of serving Him, the Creator. For this reason, there is a prayer for this. That this is a place of correction, to be worthy and capable of receiving the work of the King. And we can see why there is a prayer for some trouble. This trouble must have come as a punishment, and it came from above. And punishments must be corrections, since there is a rule that a punishment is a correction. Thus, why do we pray to the Creator to cancel our corrections? Our sages said about the verse, then your brother should be dishonored before your eyes.
That the beaten is your brother. We know that in humanity, there is this method, how to suffer more, as if these torments cleanse a person, correct a person. That's incorrect. That doesn't go according to the wisdom of Kabbalah.
We must know that the prayer corrects a person even more than punishments. Thus, when prayer appears instead of punishment, the affliction is lifted, and the prayer is placed in its place, in order to correct the body.
The will to receive with the intention in order to bestow.
This is the meaning of what our sages said, reward through Torah was not rewarded through suffering. We must know that the path of Torah is a more successful way, is a more successful way, and yields more benefits than the path of suffering. This is because the vessels that will be fit to receive the upper light are broader and can yield adhesion with Him.
If we do it by the Torah, meaning by the connection between us and prayer.
This is the meaning of “He is coerced until he says, ‘I want.’” It means that the Creator says, I want the deeds of the lower ones.”
What deeds? Just to try to connect and to pray, to ask for the Creator to do it, because we, in our actions, we see that without Him, we cannot attain the right connection.
The meaning of the prayer is what our sages said, the Creator craved the prayer of the righteous. For by the prayer, the vessels are made fit for the Creator to later give the abundance, since there is a fit vessel to receive the abundance.
Question (PT 19): (09:37) What is a true desire that there'll be a vessel worthy to receive the abundance? What is a true vessel?
M. Laitman: A true vessel is that it does receive response from the Creator, and the Creator fills him. He's the right vessel, meaning first he asks for correction, he receives this correction, meaning the restriction, the screen, and later he knows how to ask the Creator to help him to measure, to do all kinds of actions of receiving in order to bestow.
Student: So, what do you think, that today we don't have a true desire for such a vessel?
M. Laitman: I don't know. Check.
Student: How can we reach a true vessel? That's the question.
M. Laitman: That's how it says, here it says, to examine, am I in a true vessel, meaning am I in connection with my friends, and out of our connection we turn to the Creator, and we're asking Him to correct our connection, to be worthy to receive light from Him, from the Creator, a fulfillment, to receive the fulfillment from the Creator in order to bestow.
Student: Only in working in the Ten you can reach it?
M. Laitman: Only in the work in the Ten, and only through requests for correction of the connection, and later in the connection itself. Yes? Is this new?
Student: No, because we're constantly trying to do it, and it's not really working.
M. Laitman: It's not working. If you hear it for the first time, how will it work?
Student: If we could get advice, how to reach it quickly.
M. Laitman: Don't let go of this during the day.
Student: What do you mean? I have work today, what should I do?
M. Laitman: Don't let go, always think how I'm connected to my friends, and if you're not connected, it's also good. I have what to ask from the Creator, in the Ten.
Question (Moscow 1): (12:41) If the records cascade in a good way, and changing states accelerate to the point they become static, this is the Creator?
M. Laitman: We'll talk about it later, we're not looking for the Creator, we're looking for a way to connect between us, and from the manner of connection between us, from that we'll start feeling what's the essence of the Creator, and how to be connected with Him. Before the connection between us, you can't ask about the Creator, anything. You don't have vessels, concepts, connections, preparations, nothing.
Question (MAK 3): (13:38) Can you connect these two things: on one hand, we need a desire to give Him contentment, on the other hand, we're asking for Him to have a desire to give us pleasure.
M. Laitman: We're not asking this, where did they see such a thing? All we're asking is one thing, to have a desire and strength to give Him pleasure, to cause contentment to Him, to fill Him.
Student: In the article it says that we're asking to have a desire from above.
M. Laitman: A desire, yes, that's correct. We are asking that the Creator will have a desire to fill us in order to give Him contentment. You are a bit confused still.
Question (Belarus): (14:55) I heard this excerpt, and I understood towards the end of it that I don't understand it. You have to know that the path of the Torah is more beneficial than the path of suffering, and that the vessels that are able to receive the upper light are broader. How should I understand it? Is it because I am working in the Ten and not by myself?
M. Laitman: That's one thing, and another thing is because you're drawing the reforming light.
Question (Tel Aviv 2): (15:32) I understand intellectually that I need to pray on one hand. On the other hand, how do you make a bridge towards a true request?
M. Laitman: Through the connection, through the connection.
Student: How? I can't understand this point.
M. Laitman: Through the connection, I tell you. That's it. If only there you'll put your emphasis and you won't move away, then you'll start feeling how to do it. You can't pass it by words.
Question (Tel Aviv 3): (16:15) When we're asking for connection, what are we actually asking for? A desire or a state?
M. Laitman: Both are possible. The main thing is that we want to truly correct the shattering, a distance between us. When it's clear to us we're not connected, it's clear to us we don't have a desire to bestow, there's no love, and that's why we're asking for connection, love, incorporation to be between us.
Question (PT 2): (17:03) How can there be a prayer without suffering? How could the will to receive suffer from not being able to bestow?
M. Laitman: By the light that reforms, which I receive mainly through the friends. There's this matter of I myself drawing some illumination from above, some light that reforms from above, but when we work together and I can ask through the friends, that's the main thing that organizes the right vessel for me. I start feeling them, I start caring about them and they about me, and this way it's already, we organize everything.
Question (Latin 7): (18:06) A few days ago we learned that a person has to be prepared to take his present state for eternity, and now we're learning that a person has to raise a prayer for his prayer to be answered. How can you connect those two observations?
M. Laitman: Try in the group to talk about it and to scrutinize and then we can try to answer this.
Question (MAK 20): (19:02) Is it true that in the article the main idea is the Creator wants us to think above reason, that every correction depends on prayer, our constant prayer.
M. Laitman: Correct. Very, very much. Absolutely.
Question (Kyiv 3): (19:40) You said that if we advance towards prayer, that's hastening of the path, and we get a broader vessel. I wanted to ask if the intention is, are we only going according to time, or does something change in the final result? Because it seems that it doesn't matter in what way we reach that final state.
M. Laitman: There is a path of Torah, and there is a path of suffering. We're talking about the path of Torah, how we draw the light that reforms in our awakening from below, and we advance ourselves quickly, sparing the suffering towards the purpose of creation.
Student: Could I say that in the end, we still have to reach Achishena [hastening]?
M. Laitman: Of course, but it depends on how long, and in what way.
Question (Kyiv 3): (20:51) Can I ask about the connection around the prayer? After the lesson, we build a mutual prayer with the friends, where each one adds a few sentences from himself. During the day, when we connect to one another, at the end, we read our prayer together. The question is, what does it mean to connect in prayer? Is it a prayer that isn't private, but from the common?
M. Laitman: Well, everything will be discerned in the thoughts, so you have to think how you can connect yourselves. By the mutual bestowal between you, you connect yourself to one system, and out of this one system, you already turn to the Creator, and you want to be connected with Him mutually. And then, in such a system, you don't have anything else to do, but to turn to Him, to receive from Him, etc. Everything already falls into place between the Ten and the Creator.
Student: Can we feel that we're in a mutual prayer, or just reading it together, and asking to connect in prayer?
M. Laitman: Ask that, ask for that as well, ask for that as well.
Question (Moscow 1): (22:33) It's written about the punishments, that they're corrections, and that there's a rule that the punishment is a correction. Can you explain what punishments are we talking about?
M. Laitman: I don't understand the question again.
Student: It's written in the article that punishments are corrections, and that there's a rule that the punishment is a correction.
M. Laitman: The punishment is a correction.
Student: What punishments is he talking about?
M. Laitman: It doesn't matter. Even people outside of the wisdom of Kabbalah, and the ones who do learn Kabbalah, the punishment is correction. Depends what punishment, each one receives personal or general, but a punishment is a correction. But that's not our way, because by that we don't give contentment to the Creator. Do you understand? It's like a child, finally he learns in school, does something, but everything is under the punishment. So, the parents, they're not satisfied with him.
Student: So, where do you take that punishment? How do you take it as a correction?
M. Laitman: We bring ourselves closer to the Creator by prayers, by addresses that come before the punishment. That the prayer will precede the punishment.
Student: To bring the medicine before the disease.
M. Laitman: True.
Question (Haifa 2): (24:38) What does it mean that he was rewarded by the Torah and wasn't rewarded by suffering? Because he writes in the beginning of the article…
M. Laitman: Yes, I know.
Student: That if a person wants to come close to the Creator…
M. Laitman: So, it turns out. What do you mean he was rewarded? Was rewarded, meaning that he has this merit. He probably made efforts and then he advances towards the state, advanced state by the light that reforms. And if he was not rewarded and he is given suffering and these sufferings nonetheless heal him because he has no choice. He has to run or do something. He comes to the same result. It's only that his path is long and filled with suffering.
Reader: On the second part of the lesson, we will learn from the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah from back in 2006 from the writings of Baal HaSulam. The preface to the wisdom of Kabbalah, item 112. Please note that we went back to an item that we learned yesterday already. Because back in that year there was a cessation of the study. And then they went back to the previous item.