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Daily Morning Lesson: July 22, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded Lesson October 23, 2021. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 32. A Lot Is an Awakening from Above

Reader: Hello friends, we're starting our lesson today from “Shamati”, #32,  “A Lot Is an Awakening from Above”. It can be found in the writings of Baal HaSulam and we will have a lesson from Rav from October 23rd, 2021.

M. Laitman: I’ll read.

M. Laitman reading: (00:37) Baal HaSulam. Shamati 32. A Lot Is an Awakening from Above

Faith is the awakening from above, a person does not assist this in anything as it comes from the Creator. This is the meaning “of cast a pur”, “the lot.” That the Creator cast this lot on us. Haman was complaining and said that neither do they keep the king's laws. They don't follow the will of the Creator, so why do they deserve this? Meaning, that the Creator governs them in this direct way which means that the enslavement begins for the worker in the state of Lo Lishma, meaning the person doesn't know exactly what he's doing or what for. It is like a little child who is doing all kinds of actions but he doesn't know what they are, he's just doing them. This is how the same force governs us when we are little babies, just throw our hands and legs around, put things in our mouth, that's how it is. Afterward, they are granted Lishma, meaning from all these actions just like actions that we did as children, and we don't remember what we were doing, we call this like being dumb teenagers, we were like silly little kids.  And we understand that as parents we supervise them until they grow. This is how it happens with us. From Lo Lishma where we do such actions that make no sense, we then come to Lishma and then they are given lights and upper attainments. That is the path. Then comes the complainant and asks, “Why are they given these sublime things for which they did not work or hope, but their every thought and goal were only over matters that concern their own needs, called Lo Lishma?” So, why out of these people working and using their will to receive and all the forces of nature like this, why do they suddenly reach a state where they grow spiritually? They weren't thinking about that, they weren’t aiming for that. This is what the evil inclination is asking. This is the meaning of “The wicked will prepare and the righteous will wear.” Like we know with children, they grow. They don't grow based on what we give them. We think that by adding to kids all kinds of smart things and teaching them that this is how that they grow, no. If we go deep into this, we will see that this is not correct, that children evolve by the upper governance that directs their development. This is why we see many such examples in the world where, of course, we should invest in the development of children, but the truth is their fate does not depend on that so much. He says this, then comes the complainant and asks why are they given these sublime things, meaning Lishma, in order to bestow, spiritual qualities, for which they did not work or hope? What does it mean they did not hope for it? Because they can't imagine to themselves what spirituality is as long as they are in corporality. We only feel this world, and our qualities are only corporeal, all to receive and even if we give to each other, it is also to receive. But their every thought and goal were only over matters that concern their own needs called Lo Lishma. Why then are they given Lishma? This is the meaning of “The wicked will prepare and the righteous will wear.” This is the same person. He was just wicked at first, doing all kinds of actions, and then comes to a state where he becomes righteous and thus receives all of the fulfillment, all of the reward, as if he was a righteous, but he wasn't a righteous, he was a wicked. So, how come it happens? This means that previously he was working in a state of wicked meaning all for himself, in his mind and his heart, meaning Lo Lishma, for himself, for the receiver. Afterward, he was rewarded with Lishma, meaning that all the servitude enters the domain of Kedusha [holiness], that he wants to be connected to others and through them to the Creator and all to bestow outwardly, outside of himself. And this is what it says that the meaning of “the righteous will wear.” 

Meaning, what he wears is only the desire to bestow, the desire to give. This is what happens to us on the path. So, we have two states, the King that puts to death when we are in a state of a will to receive, and the King who brings to life, meaning corrects us and brings us to in order to bestow, and grows fourth salvation. Three states - puts to death, brings to life, brings salvation. This is what we go through.

Question (Moscow 3): (08:36) What are ‘the lights’, ‘for its sake’ and ‘for attainment’?

M. Laitman: It is the fulfillment that a person received through the intention of bestowal that he developed above his will to receive.

Student: What do the workers of the Creator need it for: why do they make these lights and attainment?

M. Laitman: Because it is the forces of bestowal that they developed by which they fulfill the Creator, the Shechina [Divinity], with their reflected light as they have Aviut, Masach and Ohr Hozer [reflected light], and through the reflected light they fulfill the general will to receive that the Creator formed to all the created beings. So, by that they actually bring the Creator into the Shechina, into the will to receive that exist between them, so as it says ‘the Creator says you have made Me’, meaning that through our situation, through our state, we fulfill this network of connection between us, which is all in order to bestow to each other.

Question (ITA 1): (10:29) Can I get the awakening from above only if I acknowledge that I am in the state of evil? If so, does this help me go to a state of faith?

M. Laitman: You can't reach a certain state without its opposite state. That is why I'm saying that I wake up in the morning and I feel as an animal – let's say, I wake up in the morning, but it could be in the middle of the day in any states, where I just feel myself as an animal that I don't care or want anything else. That is the kind of thoughts that I have, what I want or don't want. I am just confused with that – then I begin to rearrange myself which I usually begin to do by reading the Shamati articles, this is what I got used to since the time of Rabash. That’s it. That is how we start from the degree of the beast and each time it could be more complicated to do, more difficult to wake up, and that is how we awaken. And then I begin to slowly think thoughts about myself and then I start to come from that to thoughts about the friends and about the Creator, and bit by bit, this way I awaken. I'll tell you, if I come to the lesson without such preparation, I can't be in the lesson, and I'm not here. You'll be seeing me like you're seeing me right now, but it's not me. It is just a body that does something, but you are not going to receive answers from me also. Perhaps you’ll feel that you are getting answers only as a corporeal phenomenon, the sound waves that reach you, but my goal in truth is to awaken deeper waves in you, spiritual ones. And so, I want you to awaken and that will come from having connection between you and a leap to spirituality. This is how it works.

Question (Karmiel): (13:47) What is the lot for a Ten?

M. Laitman: That is what we need to attain, we can't understand this before. It is like you are asking something about a baby before the baby is born. So first, you should connect yourselves to some sort of brave and constant connection, you need to feel that it is born. In that body that is born the Creator will give you the spirit of life, the soul. As a result, you will discover what and who you are in spirituality.

Question (PT 17): (14:46) The “Shamati” felt completely different this time around. The work that you said how Rabash used to open “Shamati" and read a few lines and work with it. How do you work in such a way?

M. Laitman: I don't know. You will discover and see.

Question (H 10): (15:25) You described how when you wake up as a beast, and you see that you are confused. Sometimes the confusion is such that you don't even understand that you are confused. Is there a way to help, some advice, how a person can see that he is confused?

M. Laitman: We only have one thing, like Rabash writes, connection between the friends. By that, we bring ourselves back to the system of the soul. That certainly means corporal actions and spiritual actions that we can somehow do, and accordingly, we will feel how much we are advancing.

Question (Kyiv 1): (16:32) About the home, the boat and there are the sharks around in the stormy sea. So according to the article, it turns out that we don't pay attention to the sharks, and we don't turn to the Creator for them to disappear. So, for what? That we can rise above them even higher to faith above reason?

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. Ultimately, this struggle over the corporeal life leads us to thoughts about eternal life. That means that we relate that to the Creator, and the connection to the Creator leads us to a state, where we no longer think about the corporeal or spiritual life, but about Lishma, how to bestow? And leave all of our efforts there.

Student: The sharks and the boat are in order to overcome?

M. Laitman: Right. Why do we need all this world, this whole life, and what we go through? It is all in order to have the right discernment to connect to the Creator.

Question (Kyiv 3): (17:59) The Creator once pushes away, once brings us closer to the Ten. When He moves me away, I start praying, I start asking, I feel bad. But when He brings me closer, it is as if I relaxed, everything is good. So, I'm searching and I don't understand where is the freedom, is there any or not?

M. Laitman: Our freedom of choice is only in the connection between us. If all of the ascents and descents, closer and further away, if you relate them all to the connection between you and the friends, you will see as much as you by this can bestow to them, and eventually also to you in a true spiritual way, not in a personal way. In a personal way, you are a beast even if you do things as good as you think you can. But as much as you are connected to the friends, then you will be called “Adam,” man. Because one who resembles the Creator through that net of connections between you and the friends, only in such a way you start becoming an Adam, a man. Then, you can realize those actions, the spiritual actions.

Student: It is the first thing we were taught, that the only free choice we had is exactly that, to relate to the Creator or the Ten. Still, I don't understand. It depends on whether I am receiving more desire, or I am taking. Where do I choose in this whole process?

M. Laitman: You don't have to choose anything except for your connection with the Ten. That is, you have nothing else because you can't hold on to the Creator. You have nothing to grasp on, you don't have a vessel. Through the Ten, when you grasp on the Creator, then you have all the information. As much as you are connected to them, and as much as together you are connected to the Creator. Just grab on to it with your teeth, like a child adhered to the mother. You saw a child’s hands, legs, everything, he wants to stick to her. That is how we need to grab between us and the Creator, that’s it. In this, to be all the time, as much as we can. Depict the state to yourself and don't let go of it for a while, let's say for a day or two, as much as you can, above all the disturbances each one gets. That’s it. Let's meet today in a few hours, we'll have another lesson, and there we can talk about how we tried to keep that connection between us, that we are all in connection between us and adhered to the Creator that is between us. That we are all adhered to our mother as babies. Let us try. Like speaking about honey, flies on honey – I'm not certain what picture to give you, but let's try to be in it and for the second half of the day where we have another lesson, we will ask ourselves: did we try to hold on to this and as much as we did? We will speak about the disturbances and as much as we can be adhered to it. Because it's not about the quantity of the material that we are going through, it is how we are implementing these actions of connection between us and the Creator.

Question (Belarus): (23:07) If you can explain what you said that “the King puts to death, gives life and brings salvation”?

M. Laitman: Yes, what are you asking about?

Student: The King puts to death meaning that He adds more will to receive and then revives and puts forth salvation – what does this mean?

M. Laitman: That means the Creator is working on us and He is doing all the actions on us. He determines from above that He will bring us to death, meaning we had some spirit of bestowal, love, connection, spirituality – somewhat, we feel something – and it disappeared. Then after a while, that we feel like animals - nothing, we don't want it, we are not doing it - He starts bringing us back to life. He gives opportunities here and there, all kinds of thoughts and actions to start doing it and this is called that “after He brings us to death, now He brings us to life.” He resurrects us as an action of awakening. And from all of these states that He brings to death and then brings to life, “death” means that the evening comes, “life” means that the morning comes in our work; and from that we start feeling that He brings salvation. That there is already a direction where to develop to and to reach it, to reach salvation, that eventually after such actions more and more, we will come out of our will to receive and we will, through the connection, we will reach “in order to bestow.”

Question (Zafon 2): (25:45) Why does the Creator play with us like a chess game?

M. Laitman: In order for us to learn all of the actions for or against, and from that, we can attain Him.

Question (PT 32): (26:07) Yesterday we had an exercise in the Ten of opening up the disputes and gently covering it with love. How should we feel after such an exercise? What is the desired result, so that we can say we were successful?

M. Laitman: It depends as much on as you overcome that exercise and want to see yourself, that He brought you closer to the goal in something in some way. And you don't remain in the exercise, but from what you get from it – is the main thing. What is the summary?

Student: How to clarify this, that each one checks what he feels? How do you come to the result?

M. Laitman: How did you understand more what you needed to reveal in your work through the connection? The advancement – as much as you understood – that in the connection you have salvation. Because you can't jump to the revelation of the Creator, to the connection in the Creator. On the way you have to fix the vessel that He broke, the vessel of Adam HaRishon, the shattered one. You need to do that. That is why there is no choice here, but to understand that all of the connections between us are destined for correction, and we have to learn how to correct them. That from their correction, we gather the pieces and from connecting those shattered pieces in that system, we start to understand the system, feeling the system, we learn the Creator from connecting all of the parts that He created. From connecting all of those parts we can start understanding how this mechanism works called “a soul,” and what is in that soul as much as it is complex and has mutual discernments between everybody and everybody. What is the mutual bestow on each other? And from us starting to learn these things, how they are connected together, the parts of the soul, we from this, begin to understand the thought of creation. Why the Creator did this in such a way? Why did He break it? Why do we from the shattering have to know this machine? That from it we know the thought of creation; that is there in the beginning and in the end, the end of the action begins with a thought, this is what He thought in advance that we would reach the shattered state then from it we will start attaining Him gradually. By starting building blocks and then more complex things and then we will understand why they are connected in such a way. That as much as we have problems, meaning questions, we will want to solve them, and then we will see what this part is connected to that part and why, and which come first and which come later, and so on. In such a way, we will start understanding the Creator – why He did this to us and what did He want by this? Then we will start feeling in these connections, in this creation, the mind that is working – the mind that is working, that it is Him. And then, more and more, we’ll come closer to Him and be in His feelings, in His mind, His process, in His purpose of creation. This is what brings the work. This is why don't disregard the connection. In the connection from within, we start knowing Him, we can’t otherwise. Only from the work that He did, that He broke it on purpose for us, that we start acting like a child with blocks start playing. Then we start understanding the mind that is working inside. Also Baal HaSulam has the article Sehel HaPoel [Mind that works].

Student: There is a feeling that we… I do not know if everybody feels it, but that maybe we have a bitter taste from this exercise, not necessarily a sense of elation and connection. What is this indication?

M. Laitman: I don't know. I guess you didn't understand the essence of the article. What did he tell us? That there are two forms that manage us, that conduct us, and we reach the goal when these two forms, the evil and the good inclination, come to peace, the angels of the peace. There are two angels that bring man to his goal: the good angel and the evil angel. And there really isn't good and evil, they are both revealing themselves to us in such a way, and if I come out of some article or some lesson in a bad mood, it means that I am not connected to everybody – not connected to the teacher and not to the article and not to the writer of the article. Because from there the light comes out. And I am inside me in darkness and that is too bad. I think it is because you can't get rid of your criticism towards everything.

Student: How to help each other in that state?

M. Laitman: Think how to uplift above the criticism of everything and everybody.

Question (Latin 7): (33:51) What part of the created being does Haman represent?

M. Laitman: Haman represents the will to receive in order to receive in the worst possible way, the final complete way. Or it is better to say, the intention in order to receive, not the desire, because the desire isn't good or bad, it depends what intention rides upon it. So, Haman is entirely in order to receive. That’s it.

Question (W MAK 21): (35:02) Does the wicked remain in us after we correct to the righteous? What happens after the correction?

M. Laitman: Nice question, look how the women ask. What happens to the wicked after we correct them? That wicked becomes righteous, and even more righteous then all the other righteous ones we had before. Every time we correct some kind of wicked in us, between us, then first of all, it is a deeper will to receive, bigger, more corrupted that wasn't revealed in us. But when we correct it, it becomes a greater righteous one that we never had. That's why he who is greater than his friend has acquired a greater degree, it is because his inclination is greater. That before he was in a lower evil inclination.

Question (W Moscow 18): (36:04) Are the others lots in my hand and my lot is in theirs?

M. Laitman: Correct, wow, women, way to go, good for you, I’m proud of you. Yes, that has one word - Arvut, mutual guarantee. It’s a term, it’s a concept, it’s the inner content of Arvut. That me alone, I don't do anything. I depend on the environment and the environment determines my destiny, my future.

Student: That is why prayer for the others is the prayer of many?

M. Laitman: That is why the prayer for the others is the prayer of the many? Praying for the others is the only correct prayer that I can activate, and it is the only prayer that truly helps me, that gets to the Creator and He answers it. Nobody who prays for himself is rewarded with an answer from the Creator, only if he prays for others. That is why he who prays for the friends is rewarded first. Why? Because in such a way he starts uplifting to a spiritual degree.

Question (W Internet): (37:54) If I'm full of gratitude for the past and I bless my lot, does that mean that I use the lot I was given from above according to the Creator's will?

M. Laitman: Yes, it is also written in the prayers in such a way that first we give gratitude for everything that we have, everything that You created, everything that You did. Why? Because by that we are thanking Him for it, we are showing that we understand that the purpose of creation is right and good, and for the benefit of the created beings, and He is doing it for that. Because for Himself, He is an absolute bestower, the complete bestower, and for us receiving Him in such a way that for sure He has no will to receive. So, we turn to Him in such a way. And then I turn to Him - He has no calculations for himself like people, but only to bestow, and only for the benefit of every person and everybody together. That for Him in His complete system, everything equalizes just as one, and to everybody.

Reader: Our next part of the lesson will be from the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. We are in item #60.

We're going to be watching a lesson from Rav from 2006. The Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, item 60. We're going to move to that lesson now.