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Daily Lesson (Morning) March 2, 2025.

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Shamati, 3. The Matter of Spiritual Attainment

Reader:  Hello, we are reading in the writings of Baal HaSulam, the articles of Shamati, article number three, “The Matter of Spiritual Attainment”. The study material can be found on Sviva Tova and the Arvut system. You can send questions live through the sites. 

Baal HaSulam, Shamati 3. The Matter of Spiritual Attainment

I heard

Reading: (00:41) We discern many degrees and discernments in the worlds. We must know that everything that relates to discernments and degrees speaks of the attainment of the souls with regard to what they receive from the worlds. This follows the rule, “What we do not attain we do not know by name.” This is so because the word “name” indicates attainment, like a person who names some object after having attained something about it, and according to one’s attainment.

Hence, with respect to spiritual attainment, reality in general is divided into three discernments:

1.       Atzmuto [His Self]

2.       Ein Sof [infinity]

3.       The Souls

1) We do not speak of Atzmuto at all since the root and the place of the creatures begin in the thought of creation, where they are incorporated in the manner, “The end of an act is in the preliminary thought.”

2) Ein Sof pertains to the thought of creation, which is “His desire to do good to His creations.” This is considered Ein Sof, and it is the connection existing between Atzmuto and the souls. We perceive this connection as a “desire to delight the creatures.”

Ein Sof is the beginning. It is called “a light without a Kli [vessel],” yet there is the root of the creatures, meaning the connection between the Creator and the creatures, called “His desire to do good to His creations.” This desire begins in the world of Ein Sof and extends through the world of Assiya.

3) The souls, which are the receivers of the good that He wishes to do.

He is called Ein Sof because this is the connection between Atzmuto and the souls, which we perceive as “His desire to do good to His creations.” We have no utterance except for that connection of desire to enjoy, and this is the beginning of the engagement, and it is called “light without a Kli.”

Yet, there begins the root of the creatures, meaning the connection between the Creator and the creatures, called “His desire to do good to His creations.” This desire begins in the world of Ein Sof and extends through the world of Assiya.

In and of themselves, all the worlds are considered light without a Kli, where there is no utterance. They are discerned as Atzmuto, and there is no attainment in them.

Do not wonder that we discern many discernments there. It is because these discernments are there in potential. Afterward, when the souls come, these discernments will appear in the souls that receive the upper lights according to what they corrected and arranged. Thus, the souls will be able to receive them, each according to his ability and qualification. At that time, these discernments will appear in actual fact. However, while the souls do not attain the upper light, they, in and of themselves, are considered Atzmuto.

With respect to the souls that receive from the worlds, the worlds are considered Ein Sof. This is because this connection between the worlds and the souls, meaning what the worlds give to the souls, extends from the thought of creation, which is a correlation between the souls and Atzmuto.

This connection is called Ein Sof. When we pray to the Creator and ask Him to help us and give us what we want, we relate to the discernment of Ein Sof. There is the root of the creatures, which wants to impart upon them delight and pleasure, called “His desire to do good to His creations.”

The prayer is to the Creator who created us, and His Name is “His desire to do good to His creations.” He is called Ein Sof because this speaks of prior to the restriction. Even after the restriction, no change occurs in Him, as there is no change in the light, and He always remains with this name.

The proliferation of names is only with respect to the receivers. Hence, the first name that appeared, that is, the root for the creatures, is called Ein Sof. This name remains unchanged, and all the restrictions and the manifold changes unfold only with regard to the receivers, but He always shines in the first name called “His desire to do good to His creations,” endlessly.

This is why we pray to the Creator, called Ein Sof, who shines without restriction or end. The end, which appears later, is corrections for the receivers so they may receive His light.

The upper light consists of two discernments: attaining and attained. Everything we say regarding the upper light concerns only how the attaining is impressed by the attained. However, in themselves, meaning only the attaining, or only the attained, they are not called Ein Sof. Rather, the attained is called Atzmuto, and the attaining is called “souls,” being a new discernment, which is a part of the whole. It is new in the sense that the will to receive is imprinted in it. In that sense, creation is called “existence from absence.”

For themselves, all the worlds are regarded as simple unity, and there is no change in Godliness. This is the meaning of “I the Lord did not change.” There are no Sefirot or Behinot [discernments] in Godliness. Even the most subtle appellations do not refer to the light itself, as this is a discernment of Atzmuto where there is no attainment. Rather, all the Sefirot and the discernments speak only of what a person attains in them. This is because the Creator wanted us to attain and understand the abundance as “His desire to do good to His creations.”

In order for us to attain what He wanted us to attain and understand as “His desire to do good to His creations,” He created and imparted us with these senses, and these senses attain their impressions of the upper light.

Accordingly, we have been given many discernments since the general sense called “the will to receive” is divided into many details according to the measure that the receivers are able to receive. Thus, we find many divisions and details called ascents and descents, expansion and departure, etc.

Since the will to receive is called “creature” and a “new discernment,” the utterance begins precisely from the place where the will to receive begins to receive impressions. The speech is discernments, parts of impressions. For here there is already a correlation between the light and the will to receive.

This is called “light and Kli.” However, there is no utterance in the light without a Kli, since a light that is not attained by the receiver is considered Atzmuto, where the utterance is forbidden since it is unattainable, and how can we name what we do not attain?

From this we learn that when we pray for the Creator to send us salvation, cure, and so on, there are two things we should distinguish: 1) the Creator, 2) that which extends from Him.

In the first discernment, considered Atzmuto, the utterance is forbidden, as we have said above. In the second discernment, that which extends from Him, which is considered the light that expands into our Kelim, into our will to receive, this is what we call Ein Sof. This is the connection of the Creator with the creatures, being “His desire to do good to His creations.” The will to receive is regarded as the expanding light that finally reaches the will to receive.

When the will to receive receives the expanding light, the expanding light is called Ein Sof. It comes to the receivers through many covers so that the lower one will be able to receive them.

It turns out that all the discernments and the changes take place specifically in the receiver, with relation to how the receiver is impressed by them. However, we must discern the matter we are speaking of. When we speak of discernments in the worlds, they are potential discernments. When the receiver attains these discernments, they are called “actual.”

Spiritual attainment is when the attaining and the attained come together, as without one who attains, there is no form to the attained, since there is no one to obtain the form of the attained. Hence, this discernment is considered Atzmuto, where there is no room for any utterance. Therefore, how can we say that the attained has its own form?

We can only speak from where our senses are impressed by the expanding light, which is “His desire to do good to His creations,” which comes into the hands of the receivers in actual fact.

Similarly, when we examine a table, our sense of touch feels it as something hard, and its length and width, all according to our senses. However, that does not necessitate that the table will appear so to one who has other senses. For example, in the eyes of an angel, when it examines the table, it will see it according to its senses. For this reason, we cannot determine any form with regard to an angel since we do not know its senses.

Thus, since we have no attainment in the Creator, we cannot say which form the worlds have from His perspective. We only attain the worlds according to our senses and sensations, as it was His will for us to attain Him so.

This is the meaning of “There is no change in the light.” Rather, all the changes are in the Kelim, meaning in our senses. We measure everything according to our imagination. From this it follows that if many people examine one spiritual thing, each will attain according to his imagination and senses, thereby seeing a different form.

In addition, the form itself will change in a person according to his ups and downs, as we have said above that the light is simple light and all the changes are only in the receivers.

May we merit receiving His light and following the ways of the Creator, and to serve Him not in order to receive reward but to give contentment to the Creator and raise the Shechina [Divinity] from the dust. May we be rewarded with Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator and the revelation of His Godliness to His creatures.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:23) He says that there are three things: Atzmuto [His self] and the created being - the souls. I wanted to ask, what's the difference between the souls and the created beings, if there is a difference? 

M. Laitman: The difference is that if we're talking about the created beings, we're talking about what's revealed in the created beings. And the souls will wish to reach a state where they exist relative to the Creator. 

Student: He writes that the attaining is called souls, which is a renewed discernment, which is part of the whole. What does it mean, renewed discernment, that is part of the whole? 

M. Laitman: There is the whole, the general receiver, all the souls in total, which is what the Creator created, and then they divide. And we're talking about the general soul, and the souls when they divide they become different from one another. Everything relative to receivers.

Student: And then he continues: and it is new in that the will to receive was imprinted in it. What is this innovation of the will to receive that's imprinted in it? Is this the place for correction? 

M. Laitman: Let's say that's the natural place that will be revealed as a place of correction.

Student: In potential? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:19) He writes: if many people look at one spiritual thing, each will attain according to his imagination and senses, and therefore each one sees a different form. Also in the person himself, the form changes according to his ups and downs, as it is written above that the light is a simple light, and all the changes are only in the receivers. So, after he writes this, we in the Ten scrutinize something. Each one, as he writes here, relates to the topic completely differently, sees it differently. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what does it mean to be one in perceiving in a different perception of reality that each one has? 

M. Laitman: That although there are many of us in the Ten and each one receives the revelation of the Creator differently in his vessels, according to his ten Sefirot. But, nevertheless, we're not creating any differences between us because, generally speaking, we're all attaining the form of the giver, of the Creator. And together with that we understand that if there is a certain difference between us, that is only within our vessels.

Student: So, after we scrutinize something in the Ten, each one is a completely different world of what I know. In some cases, I hear things that contradict what I heard you say, something completely different. So, after having heard completely different views, how do I turn it all into one in my perspective – first of all, first of all from my perspective? 

M. Laitman: From your perspective, you have to attain it yourself. It has nothing to do with taking the attainments from nine other friends and connecting them together. You can't connect them, and you can't also say that it's a single created being. It's many created beings and that's how they attain.

Student: So, what is my personal work when I hear completely different things from what I think? 

M. Laitman: To distinguish between this and that, first of all. 

Student: And how should the Ten work in order to come into one opinion, one view? 

M. Laitman: The Ten has to work in such a way that it comes to a single Creator, who gives everyone, I would say gives equally to everyone. But each one receives according to his measure.

Student: And what is the responsibility of each friend who comes and gives his perspective on that scrutiny?

M. Laitman: Each friend needs to discover what he is receiving from the Creator. And that's what he's showing to everyone. 

Student: Revealing what he receives from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, what does it mean for me, what I receive from the Creator? That, what I feel is what I receive from the Creator?

M. Laitman: What you received in your vessels.

Student: All my feelings in my vessels, it's my responsibility to convey these things? What else should I also know? Do I have responsibility in terms of how I say it or should I simply let what I feel out? 

M. Laitman: By attaining the Creator, we also attain that form that clothes in us from Him; and that form we can reveal relative to others.

Student: So, when I hear a friend speaking, if he brings what he says, I have to translate it as the clothing of the Creator? The Creator clothed in him and speaks through him? That's how I should see it?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:41) What is the impression he’s speaking about here? 

M. Laitman: The impression of the created being from the action of the Creator on him.

Student: What causes the receiver to be qualified, to be fit for reception, to be impressed? 

M. Laitman: He keeps, he aims his vessel to feel what the Creator is trying to give him. 

Student: So, then each one has his own impression, his own attainment, his own speech? 

M. Laitman: Of course. 

Student: Why is it built this way?

M. Laitman: Because each one has a different root.

Student: Why is there a need for so many people with so many perceptions of reality? 

M. Laitman: Yes, according to what the Creator created, there is no choice for each created being but to attain the root of his soul and what’s coming to him. 

Student: But why is there a need for so many? We can add a few more billions of people to add more perspectives of reality.

M. Laitman: This took place from above, by the Creator. We have no place to ask such questions. 

Student: How are personal attainments of each friend connected to the attainments of his friends? 

M. Laitman: The created beings, after feeling the Creator in all possibilities of His revelation. They wish to rise to a higher form, to the root, and then they attain the root that influences them, which is His desire to do good to His created beings. 

Student: When we read the writings of Kabbalists, each one should attain in his own personal way according to the root of his soul?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, why the Ten? What is the connection, if each one has his own attainment?

M. Laitman: Because we are connected in our root to the Creator, and from there we receive our filling. Which is revealed to us in different forms that belong to the nature of the created beings. That is why in order to attain the Creator's attitude toward us, I wish to attain His attitude toward all of my friends. And if we work together in this way, then it turns out that eventually we acquire the attitude of our root toward us.

Student: I want to attain the relation of the Creator to my friends. 

M. Laitman: To all of us.

Student: To all of us, and that will be my personal attainment, how He relates to everyone? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And when we talk about the Ten, does it have a common spiritual root?

M. Laitman: A common spiritual root.

Student: Do we also have a common attainment or a personal one?

M. Laitman: There should be one. 

Student: What is unity in the Ten? When we talk about uniting between us in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Inside the Ten you find its root which is the Creator, and there's the unification of the Ten – or equality of the Ten – where they can all connect and build their common vessel. 

Student: And in this common feeling, is it a common attainment? Or is it still each one seeing the table differently?

M. Laitman: You have both. 

Student: Why do we need the other one? I understand about the common attainment because that's the purpose. But why should each one still have his own personal perception of reality? That I perceive reality this way, the friends don't, and the rest of the created beings don't, and why? And when does it disappear and become one? 

M. Laitman: I would say that the fact that all the created beings can connect and receive the influence of the upper light as one Creator for everyone. It's different than having a private personal upper force for each one, and that all created beings can reveal Him in this way.

Student: Whom does my personal attainment serve? Why do I need to perceive something in reality that no one else does? 

M. Laitman: Because you can say this is the attitude of the Creator towards you. 

Student: This is the Creator's relation toward me, why does He need to give me a special relation, that I will perceive something in a way that no one else in reality perceives? 

M. Laitman: Because that has to do with your own personal vessel.

Student: How does it serve the whole system? 

M. Laitman: Eventually, the created beings need to combine, or connect, all their personal vessels with their personal lights and connect it all together. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:27) When you are impressed by the Ten or by the Creator, is it his own personal impression?

M. Laitman: When I'm impressed, it's my own personal impression.

Student: So, what is the common attainment? 

M. Laitman: The common attainment is each one that, when each one reaches his own attainment, they reach this common attainment between them.

Student: In which each one contributes something and that makes it common? What's common here? 

M. Laitman: What's common about it is that each one wants to – I wonder which word belongs here – not to erase but to cancel himself, annul himself relative to the common attainment of the other. 

Student: So, he annuls himself before the other; so does it not require speaking?

M. Laitman: No.

Student: So, he simply feels the friend, how the friend is impressed, and annuls his own impression with respect to the friend's impression? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And this is vis-à-vis one friend for example, not what you have Ten?

M. Laitman: Relative to the other nine.

Student: So, you simply need to feel how they relate to the Ten, try to feel what the friends feel toward the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: By that he supports them.

M. Laitman: No, each one has to do it. 

Student: Only then there's something common if they all do it. 

M. Laitman: After that, there can be something common. 

Student: Should we ask for help from above to have something common?

M. Laitman: Yes, certainly. 

Student: Because we don't have the strength for this ourselves, right?

M. Laitman: Yes, it's an action that we have to realize, individually.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:11) What is the power of prayer? 

M. Laitman: The power of the prayer? To what extent in your attitude toward the Creator you make changes in Him.

Student: There are the Torah and the commandments that qualify the vessels. But they bring a person to despair from his own strength. So, the prayer basically allows people to connect together; is that its strength, to come to a deficiency together? Each one is impressed according to his own senses and the impression is personal. But in a prayer, is this its power that we can connect, unite?

M. Laitman: We can connect with the help of the prayer, when we raise our request to the Creator, our impression to the Creator, we can connect through that. 

Student: And despair? Baal HaSulam says that despair and prayer are kind of the same… 

M. Laitman: No, not the same, the prayer is what is born out of the vessel of the created being, out of the attitude of the Creator toward him. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:02) He writes here: “from this we understand that in the prayer we pray to the Creator, He will send us salvation and cure”, etc. He says, we should discern two things, the Creator and what is extended from Him. We learn that the light is in complete rest and all the changes are only in the created beings.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, when we pray to something that is absolute, unchanging. For example, in healing, in medicine, what are we asking to happen? 

M. Laitman: For the Creator to take care of it.

Student: But He doesn't change? I understand a prayer that will change us?

M. Laitman: He changes according to how much we demand of Him.

Student: That’s not clear.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:22) But actually, all of reality is one kli, one vessel?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: It means that the prayer that we raise, the more it is united, the more it qualifies this one vessel to receive the light.

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: I'm not sure if this is a question, really, it's more of a calling for the heart to be incorporated with friends and feel. Especially after the Congress, people are going through many states, both medical and others, but many. For the Creator to help us and heal us and erect us into one heart.

M. Laitman: Yes. That's what He wants. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (44:29) He mentions in the article all kinds of names of the Creator: Ein Sof, His self, Good Who Does Good.

M. Laitman: It's all according to the attitude of the created being toward the Creator. 

Student: From the perspective of the created being, what is the difference between the names? Is there a difference for us? 

M. Laitman: Of course, and that's why he calls Him this way.

Student: And how do we know, from our perspective, what's the name we should be using now?

M. Laitman: According to our attainment. 

Question (PT 22): (45:23) Baal HaSulam warns several times that there is no, that it's forbidden to speak of His self. How can we be careful of that? 

M. Laitman: We do not attain our root; we attain only that which comes to us from our root, into our vessel.

Question (KabU 4): (45:50) What does it mean that the soul is divided? 

M. Laitman: The soul is divided in its connection with other souls, then it divides into all those parts. 

Question (UK 1): (46:11) How does the root of one's soul determine his personal attainment? 

M. Laitman: In what he attains, in what he can express in his prayer, that is his attitude toward the Creator, that's what he's sending toward the Creator. And that is what the Creator receives from him, from the created being and is impressed by the response. 

Student: So, what is the difference, how is the root of the soul different between people?

M. Laitman: The root of our soul is the Creator. He responds to the way we respond to Him, that's how He responds to us, and that determines the root of our soul. 

Question (Women PT 6): (47:29) What does it mean to attain the Creator's relation to all my friends?

M. Laitman: Everything is according to the degree. And according to our degree we need to reach the Creator's attitude toward us as the Good Who Does Good. 

Question (Women Australia): (48:23) How are the three discernments in the article we read, how do they help me feel the desires of the friends?

M. Laitman: Again?

Student: How do the three discernments in the article help me feel the desires of the friends? 

M. Laitman: Altogether, these three discernments, that's what I attain. 

Question (Women PT 18): (48:48) Can we evaluate the level of corrections we made in our efforts to connect and serve the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That's given to us to attain and to measure because from that we reveal the Creator; we are in contact with Him.

Student: How do I identify the level of correction? How do I know that I achieved correction? 

M. Laitman: According to what you reach in your prayers. You reach the Creator and then you are together, inside one another.

Question (Women PT 6): (49:38) What should we focus on in our Tens , in the work in our Tens now, specifically now after the Congress?

M. Laitman: We need to discover now, after the Congress, to continue that work that we've done during the Congress. And combine all of our impressions together. 

Question (Mirkaz 1) (50:25) When is a prayer accepted and how do we feel it? 

M. Laitman: All the prayers are received, the question is do we need to feel them in this way or not? 

Question (Rehovot 1): (50:54) I heard that each friend should reveal what he receives from the Creator and this is what he presents to everyone. How is this expressed in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Again?

Student: I heard that each friend should reveal what he receives from the Creator, and this is what he presents. How is this expressed in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: When the created being feels this way, his reaction for receiving the influence of the Creator on him, this is called his reaction.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (52:00) When we yearn for connection between us in the Ten and with the Creator, is this just yearning? Is this already called “a world”, meaning a reality that is separate from any other reality? 

M. Laitman: You are revealing the vessels of the world. 

Student: In other words, when we are in connection with the Creator in the Ten, when will it feel for us like a world is a world? Do we have many states that we have to go through before we get there? 

M. Laitman: Of course. 

Student: But the whole connection is in Ein Sof, between the Creator and the created beings, for us, should be revealed in the worlds. Should we present it to ourselves somehow in the Ten?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: As something that we yearn for.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center):  (53:22) It's hard for me to understand this matter of as one man with one heart. How do we do this because now, according to what we said, there is the expansion and awakening that comes to the Ten, to the group. And then in each one he understands and feels what he reveals, right? 

M. Laitman: Maybe. 

Student: We still don't have a common point, each one feels it a little different, so that's phase one. Now, we want to come to feel one root that bestows upon us, the common desire, the common point. Is this already an act of incorporation? 

M. Laitman: It's possible that you're trying to connect the vessels. 

Student: Can you explain it a little more?

M. Laitman: I can't explain it because this is your assumption.

Student: The personal Creator, the collection of correct Creators that we have in the Ten.

M. Laitman: I don't know what it is, you are giving it your definition.

Student: Each friend feels it a little differently.

M. Laitman: So, what about it?

Student: And we have to connect it and make of it something called, as one man with one heart. 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: So, the transition from this state into being as one man with one heart, how does it happen?

M. Laitman: Try to do it and ask the Creator to look at it and to explain it to you.

Student: So, besides prayer there is nothing to, there’s no act besides the prayer?

M. Laitman: First of all you have to do and then from within your vessel that you determine what needs to be there. You are impressed, you're impressed and you compare what you've attained with what you wanted. 

Student: Where do we it connect all, I can't understand it? I'm still speaking from within myself, what I felt, what I collected, feeling that point where all of us? Can I give an example? On Shabbat, Saturday, after the Congress, there was a friend from Moscow  who spoke beautiful things towards you, well, toward the whole group, and everyone applauded you. At that moment, what I felt was that there is one desire without names or faces or anything. It's the only time I really felt a desire like this. How do we attain this kind of point, of a point where there is nothing but the Creator?

M. Laitman: This is an individual feeling.

Student: How do we bring it into the Ten, into the collective? A person, when something good happens to him, he wants to share it with his friends.

M. Laitman: So, pray that what you feel will be felt in the entire Ten. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:11) You were asked what’s our work in the Congress, and you said to share our impressions. What does that mean?

M. Laitman: In the Congress, we have to be impressed with how much each one tries to bring into this assembly and connect them all together. And come to a state where our common vessel becomes connected in such a power.

Student: But there’s a feeling that happens by itself, like a field – a common field – and without any effort you feel the common field. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And then, after the Congress, the field kind of dissolves. So, what should we do now? 

M. Laitman: You shouldn't let it happen. We need to continue with what we attained. 

Student: But the field dissolves, it happens on purpose this way from above.

M. Laitman: I don't know about what's from above; I know that if there’s a certain connection between us, we have to connect it.

Student: Can you explain this a little more? Because we often hear that keeping something, staying with something, is like a Lot's wife, and that's the wrong approach.

M. Laitman: I don't get you, I know that connection is a good thing. Bless it, I have to protect it! 

Student: So, the effort to say like, I remember I felt a certain level of connection and I want to return to that level?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: I'm asking, is this the right approach? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, what does it mean to share impressions? 

M. Laitman: To speak of the impressions that you have from being connected. 

Student: when we talk about sharing impressions, we hear we shouldn't open our hearts, the secrets of our hearts. So to what level can we share? 

M. Laitman: Until the personal, individual, point of each one.

Student: What's not individual, what's not personal? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, think about it. You want me to answer every question; I'm not made for that.

Student: On a practical level, when we have a Yeshivat Haverim, we try to talk about things. Some friends say it's forbidden to talk about this, so maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong, and I'm trying to understand. 

M. Laitman: Not everything can be understood.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:00:49) You said, we have to keep the power we received in the Congress. He's talking about a common relation between us and His Self. How do we keep that common relation all the time? And what is the common relation between us and His Self? 

M. Laitman: Our common relationship to His essence, Atzmuto, is when we connect in a single desire. And through this desire, we raise our expectations, our yearnings, our desires, our individual desires, into one general or collective desire. 

Student: In the beginning of the lesson, I heard you say that every created being, every soul wants to discover where it is with respect to the Creator.

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: How do we take each soul that wants to discover where it is into this common relation? 

M. Laitman: That each and every one wants to be that point of connection that exists between the general soul and the Creator. 

Student: This common relation is to Do Good To His creations. Each of us has to build himself, how the Creator relates to us, to each of us, and in this way have it between us in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: How do we increase this force constantly? We receive some power, some force in the Congress, like the friend described, he felt this one point, a powerful point. How do we not lose this point and constantly continue this point? Not only from that point, but continue and increase that point in our relation, a common relation, between our common relation and the Creator? 

M. Laitman: We need to think; think about it everyone, then we'll get an answer. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:03:37) He writes that “the one who attains is called souls, which is a renewed discernment, which is part of the whole, and it's renewed in that the will to receive is imprinted in it. In that sense, creation is called existence from absence”.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What's the difference between the will to receive in Ein Sof and the will to receive that's imprinted in the souls? 

M. Laitman: The Creator created the will to receive. Each will to receive feels a certain attitude toward the Creator. Toward those who don't have such a feeling, we don't speak of them. So, when such an attitude toward the Creator, a common attitude – not common, a special attitude was revealed in a created being. The Creator answers that, that feeling, and He gives him an opportunity to come closer, and in this way we feel that we do what was written about in the article. 

Student: What was created in Ein Sof, all the possible feelings of the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: In Ein Sof, everything was created in Ein Sof, everything. Then relative to the created beings it's revealed, gradually. 

Student: The process that the souls go through in the worlds? 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: Is this where the will to receive is imprinted in the souls? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And how does the breaking of the soul contribute to this? 

M. Laitman: The breaking, the shattering of the soul is the revelation of its true desire, desire to receive. Where from this moment on, it can, according to its will to recieve, determine its place. 

Student: Lastly, I feel that the will to receive what the Creator created, we can attain it only when we unite this kind of desire. When we're not connected, there's a very small desire, you can't receive all. So, the breaking of the souls is to give us the ability to acquire a new desire, a big desire? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:06:52) The fact that the created being attains Ein Sof, that phase in attainment. He writes that it enables Atzmuto, His Self, to bestow upon the souls, so it's like a transition. In attaining Ein Sof, we create a transition from the Creator to the souls. Is it correct to think of it this way?

M. Laitman: I don’t know what you are talking about?

Student: I'm relating to how he writes here, about the three phases of spiritual attainment, spiritual discernments, three discernments. Because it seems like the work is to attain Ein Sof because we can't attain Atzmuto, His Self. In the souls is where we are or where we’re not but attaining Ein Sof, he writes that by the created being attaining Ein Sof, he causes Atzmuto, His Self – what we don't attain – to be able to bestow upon the souls. How, through the connection between us, do we attain Ein Sof, or identify or work with it? 

M. Laitman: The light expands between the vessels that are connected in a single state. Therefore, if the vessels wish to attain anything, they have to be incorporated in the same form.

Student: It sounds like being incorporated in one desire. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And that desire should be directed at? 

M. Laitman: The Creator, in order to bestow. In order to bestow to Him, yes.

Student: Do we need to have connection with something below us so it can bestow upon them, not upon us? 

M. Laitman: Also to bestow to them, that's correct, yes. Because when we pray to Ein Sof, to Malchut of Ein Sof, we activate her to connect, relative to all the individual parts of the Malchut. 

Student: And if we look at it that all the personal parts of Malchut are also in a person? 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: How does a person approach such a prayer when he knows that everything is in him, Malchut, the souls? To whom does he relate it? How do we even work in the Ten with this kind of understanding? 

M. Laitman: He relates it to himself because the scrutiny has to be in him – the scrutiny of all of Malchut and all the parts and pieces of the Malchut – and he wants to arrange the relationship between them, as it’s written. And from that relationship, from the way they relate to one another, he will rise to the concept of the Creator. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:10:46) When I read the words Baal HaSulam writes, I'm impressed by what he writes but I have no attainment of it. So, what is the connection between what the Kabbalist writes and what?

M. Laitman: The difference is that you don't have any attainment, yet, but you have to pray to ask to have attainment. In order to ask, what's written is enough for you. Read it several times and you should want to imagine that you're attaining it.

Student: And how is this connected to the connection between us, in incorporation and everything we always talk about? 

M. Laitman: If it needs to be, then it will be revealed. 

Student: I'm not sure it's the right question, but can it be that someone will come after Baal HaSulam and reveal something else and will call it by a different name? 

M. Laitman: Both before and after Baal HaSulam, there are other Kabbalists who have their own individual attainments. 

Student: But when they write about the worlds for example, is this a Kabbalist's personal attainment or general attainment? 

M. Laitman: No, a Kabbalist like Baal HaSulam, that's a general attainment; meaning it fits, it suits all the souls who attain the Creator.

Student: So, in the worlds, there are no changes. He can't give new names there? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: It's only with respect to the receiver, to the one who attains?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:12:57) He writes: ”the upper light consists of two phases, attaining and attained”. {Skipping a little}. “But the attained is called Atzmuto, His Self, and the attaining is called the souls”, which is a new discernment. If everything is the upper light, both the light and the souls, where is the created being here? I was expecting three parts, and he's talking about two parts, and that's it. He says but the souls, the souls, too, are light, he calls it upper light. What does it mean that the soul is upper light? 

M. Laitman: There's nothing else to describe it with, there's the upper light in the highest degree, which is in contact with the Creator. There's the upper light, which is in a lower degree, that’s already divided through 613 actions. This is how the upper light is, seemingly, separated from the Creator, and it belongs more to the created being, and that's it. 

Student: So, when we say that we begin with having no soul, we have to attain it, to build it – the screen, the restriction, the upper light, the reflected light, everything we learn. What does it mean that the soul is upper light? What in the created being there is in this soul, or maybe there isn't? 

M. Laitman: You have the upper light that is inside the soul, and there is the upper light that is general, light of Ein Sof. And additional individual lights.

Student: It's just that my confusion is that I always learn that there is light and there is a vessel. And here it says everything is the upper light and he calls the souls, which I thought were a vessel, also by names. This is what I can't quite reconcile, there is light and vessel or something else? 

M. Laitman: There are lights and vessels.

Student: So, the souls are a vessel or light? 

M. Laitman: Souls, by definition, their foundation is the vessel. 

Student: Even though, here, he calls them light? 

M. Laitman: No, here he relates to that part of the upper light that clothes inside the vessel of the soul. And it's called the inner light of the soul, or light.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:16:18) I lost some basic connection, here: I'm the created being, my purpose is to reach the feeling of the Good Who Does Good. Is that correct? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What forces me on the way to attaining the Good Who Does Good, that I have to connect with another Ten? 

M. Laitman: That you're receiving the light that appears in Good That Does Good  through the Ten. 

Student: Why is that necessary? 

M. Laitman: It necessitates you to get to the state of Ten.

Student: Why is it necessary to reach the state of the Ten in order to feel this quality of the Good Who Does Good? 

M. Laitman: Because the light does not appear in any other extent, any other quality. Only when the vessels are interconnected in such a way that their connection is called, ten Sefirot. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:17:36) A soul, it can be individual attainment. Can an individual person attain a soul? 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: And inside of it also the worlds? 

M. Laitman: Also. 

Student: So, even the Creator can be attained, individually? Each and every being can be attained by an individual person? He can attain light and all of the spiritual things? Or is there something which is beyond the individual person which he only attains through connection with others? 

M. Laitman: Now you're asking about something else, you're saying this: Me, as an individual, flesh and blood, what can I do? So, I'll tell you that there's already a means, here, by which you can connect with the others. And along with the others you attain the upper one, the source of light. And that's what the wisdom of Kabbalah enables you to do. 

Student: This means, that you now talked about, this is what is called the soul? What does this mean? 

M. Laitman: If you connect to other souls, so in connection with the other souls, you get to a state called, a vessel where the light is revealed, which belongs to the degree of the upper light. And then, that light that appears in you gives you a higher sense of existence than where you are. 

Student: Which is called Olam, world?

M. Laitman: This is called – this is not what we call a world. 

Student: What is it called? 

M. Laitman: It's called, the light dressed in the vessel. 

Student: So what is a world because he talked about the worlds, we speak a lot about the worlds. What are the worlds? 

M. Laitman: Worlds are vessels that have a certain relationship with the upper light. And which receive from the upper light some portion. 

Student: And those souls attain, and a soul can be individual, also? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:20:58) He finishes the article with a plea. He says, “may we merit receiving His light and following the ways of the Creator, to serve Him not in order to receive reward, but to give contentment to the Creator, and raise the Shechina from the dust”, etc. I'm trying to learn from a Kabbalist a correct relation to reality. How a person who sees one problem, two problems, three problems, four, five, and it seems to him that all kinds of things bother him in life. How can he place everything on the side and ask specifically for such a request? May we merit His light and follow the ways of the Creator, not to serve Him, not in order to receive reward. How do you erase what your eyes and your body feels, that this friend has that problem, that friend has that problem, I have these problems. And you see this reality which is concerning and bothering in your own vessels. But you put everything on the side and bring a request out of himself, may we merit giving contentment, not to work in order to receive reward. How do you make such a cutoff and switch to feeling and seeing things like a Kabbalist? How does it happen? 

M. Laitman: Because he decides that he is connecting all of his inner state to the cause. To a special individual, reason, purpose, and he has to be connected to that, and that's what he has to scrutinize. 

Student: This picture that my eyes see in which there are many unpleasant images, should I connect it all to one cause? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course.

Student: We say that the Creator wants to help the created being – bring him to be like Him, to be in adhesion, to receive from the Good Who Does Good. Is this how He helps   the created being, by giving him all these bad images? 

M. Laitman: Probably so. 

Student: And how from those bad images, we come out to the point where He is Good, and Does Good? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, but you should try and see.

Student: How is it possible to be assisted by the Ten, when each one is watching his own movie and connected all to one thing, that will enable us to ascend? 

M. Laitman: If everyone connects to a single goal, to discover the sole Creator in the common vessels, then that's what happens to them. 

Student: We, in Bnei Baruch, wish to continue your path and the path of Rabash, and Baal HaSulam, etc.. How do we adopt this as an ideology, a foundation of our society, and this is what we pass on? That here, we are going above, with something higher, above these depictions that we see? Yesterday, a friend from Moscow reminded us that there are many questions, many problems, but we have to go above the crimes and cover them with love, and attach the Creator to each and everything. How do we as a society make this a foundation in the spirit of our society? How do we make this be felt in the friends? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. I don't think that I should wait until I awaken the friends. I have to wait to a state where I can awaken myself to such a desire that I'll feel the Creator opposite myself.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:25:34) We speak about the connection between us, about building a Kli between the souls, between the friends. But we feel that we depend very much on the Kabbalists, in particular on you. And some days, after a few days when you don't come to the morning lesson, some of the friends feel lost, in descents. So there are two factors, here, there is the connection between us but what do we actually receive from the Kabbalist? How does he change us? 

M. Laitman: That's something you need to scrutinize on your own.

Student: How do we become incorporated in a perception of reality? Baal HaSulam writes to us, I mean, how do we become incorporated in a perception of reality like he perceives it? Not in my corrupted perception of reality, I want to become incorporated in something higher? How do we connect what we read, what the Kabbalist wants to pass on to us? 

M. Laitman: You should connect with all your friends and make sure that the source of your connection is higher and higher.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:27:04) Anyone who until today was connected with the Creator and received light. Well, Kabbalists have a single language, they all use the same language, the same words, and they cannot change a single word. And they all spoke throughout all of history in the same words, the same language, and they were able to understand each other. And it is all because of that language called, the language of the branches. When in the Ten, or how in the Ten, the friends acquire this language so that they understand each other? 

M. Laitman: According to what Baal HaSulam writes. 

Student: What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: That's the way it is, yes, connecting in the Tens, and in a greater single group. And become incorporated with each other; and longing for a connection with the Creator. 

Student: Where do I find the first stage in acquiring this language? The language that unites all of those who are connected to the light?

M. Laitman: In Genesis.

Student: Where? 

M. Laitman: Bereshit, in Genesis. 

Student: I want to have a language exchange with my friend, so that when I speak with him, when I pass on to him my desire to be his friend. And to come together to the goal, and who's my Rav, who's my book, that he will receive it the way that I want to give it to him and he wants the same thing. Why is that not enough for us, in order for me to understand him and for him to understand me, and that it won't change? 

M. Laitman: Then you probably need some new Torah, some other Torah. 

Student: What does that mean, I don't understand?

M. Laitman: I don't know what you want. 

Student: I want, I mean, this whole lesson we're speaking about the fact that nobody can understand. He can pass on to the other what he understands, each one speaks from his own vessel, from the root of his soul. And actually, we don't have any vessel in which we can receive or can understand in a common way what the Creator does to us in the same form to every Ten. So, I'm saying, in reality there is such a language, there is such a vessel in which the whole Ten speaks in the same language, with the same words,  expressing the same things that the Creator wants to bring them. I'm asking, when for the first time, does the Ten enter this place in which we acquire a single language?

M. Laitman: I think that's Gmar Tikkun, the end of Correction.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:30:20) At the end it says, “may we merit receiving His light and following the ways of the Creator”. What does it mean to follow the ways of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That we will receive the upper light and the upper light will bestow to our vessels. And we’ll rise from one degree to another by the levels of that upper light, the NRNHY of the upper light, more and more. 

Student: Where do we go? 

M. Laitman: Towards unity. 

Student: Why is this path, this way, called “the way of the Creator”? 

M. Laitman: Because that is the way of the Creator as all Kabbalists assert. Ramchal writes about it in his book “The Path of the Creator, The Way of the Creator”. 

Student: So, what should I depict to myself? Where do I want to go? 

M. Laitman: I can't hear you. 

Student: What should I depict to myself? Where do I want to go if I want to? 

M. Laitman: You want to go all the way until you are in adhesion with the Creator.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:31:52) I heard a lot after the Congress about the common heart that we achieved. I wanted to know, actually, after the Congress, how do I connect my friends to the common heart? 

M. Laitman: You have to offer each and every friend the ability to connect to the Creator through you. 

Student: What kind of responsibility do I have in that? 

M. Laitman: That you are in a group of Kabbalists, who determine according to their source, that they are now rising to being connected under the upper force.

Question (Kyiv 1): (01:33:20) What we read today in the article about the worlds being vessels. And you said that the souls are also vessels that receive the Kedusha, the holy sanctity from the worlds. How in the Ten do we reach such a state because we are also vessels, the Ten, it's also a vessel. So, what does it mean that we become worlds and souls? And if not that, how do we attain the lights and the worlds? 

M. Laitman: We attain them through the connection between us.

Student: The connection between us in the Ten becomes a world? Or does it become a soul? 

M. Laitman: A soul.

Student: So what is a world? 

M. Laitman: A world is the sensation of the souls in that state they feel between them.  

Student: How do we attain the soul in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: To the extent that our soul is connected to a higher degree, we attain the relationship between them as the relation of the soul to a higher degree, to the Creator.

Question (ITA 4): (01:35:25) What is the connection between love of others and keeping all the Mitzvot, the commandments that were written in the Torah? Why do you need to love others in order to keep all the Mitzvot and give contentment to the Creator, why is that? 

M. Laitman: Because that's how you make a connection between all the vessels, and the upper light opens up, and becomes revealed in them. 

Question (PT 17): (01:36:10) He writes that, “in the worlds, there are many discernments but they are in potential, and when the receiver attains them, those same discernments are considered actual fact”. So, what does it mean to attain something in potential? 

M. Laitman: In potential, meaning to achieve the same vessel through which we want to connect. 

Student: So, any such attainment that later becomes actual fact, it starts with potential? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And the process of turning – the moment we attain something in potential, it becomes actual fact? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: There's no process that happens in the middle between these stages? 

M. Laitman: No, everything that happens, happens there between them in the middle.

Question (Turkiye 8): (01:37:41) It says in the article that the spiritual work is against our nature. Does that mean that we will never be able to receive anything? And should we sacrifice ourselves for our Ten, for our group? 

M. Laitman: Yes. Say the question, again?

Student: It says in the article that spiritual work is against our nature. Does it mean we can't receive anything at all? Do we have to sacrifice ourselves for our Ten and our group? 

M. Laitman: You need both.  

Question (Hadera 1): (01:39:02) I, also, wanted to ask about potential versus actual fact. Can we say that when a person attains, it's already in his feeling? But when it's in potential it's in his thought?

M. Laitman: You could say that, you could say that. 

Student: And when we connect in the Ten, we connect in our feelings, in actual fact?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (01:39:54) When we walk in the way of the Creator, how can we recognize our inner saboteur, our inner enemy, without depressing it, suppressing it? 

M. Laitman: Try and see, and if it happens, then tell me. 

Question (Haifa 1): (01:40:25) Today in the preparation, we talked about faith in the Rav, that it’s very important on the path.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: To adhere to the Rav, and by adhering to the Rav, we're rewarded with becoming incorporated with the Creator. I have a question in the end: What I wanted to say first is, I suppose you didn't tell me personally three things when questions, and you told me the Creator manages me whether I feel that He's managing me, or even if I don't feel He's managing me.

M. Laitman: Correct. 

Student: The second thing you told me is correct yourself and you will see that the whole world is corrected. And then we also learned about the 70 nations within a person. And the third thing is that in every opportunity that you can, if you can speak about love, speak about love. Even though it's sometimes annoying, I try. My question, I really have a question: Yesterday, you told a dear friend, not from my Ten, and that I very much appreciate all his work. Can I pray for him? You told him that in his way it might take a thousand years. It was very difficult for me to hear that. So, the question is can I pray for him? 

M. Laitman: Yes.  

Question (Turkiye 3): (01:42:11) How does a person draw the upper lights into his vessel so that he can build his soul correctly? 

M. Laitman: A person needs to become incorporated with the vessels that are connected to the light. And then in connection with that light, he should do the actions of awakening those vessels to work in relation to the soul.

Reader: Maybe we should move on to the next part of the lesson?

M. Laitman: Okay, go ahead, you decide. 

Reader: Okay, so the next part will be studying between the friends. Now we’ll have a song. 

Song: (01:43:18)