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Daily Morning Lesson: September 9, 2025
Part 3: Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1.Inner Observation. Chapter 8. #31
Reader: We're reading from the Study of the Ten Sefirot. Item 1, Histiklut Pnimit, Inner Observation, item 31, section, the four phases and the desire are the four letters HaVaYah, which are HBD TM.
Reader: Item 31,
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Reading: (00:30) Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Inner Observation. Chapter 8, #31
31) This is the meaning of the four letters in the four-letter Name: The tip of the Yod is Ein Sof, meaning the operating force included the thought of creation, which is to delight His creations, namely the vessel of Keter. Yod is Hochma, meaning phase one, which is the potential in the actual that is immediately contained in the light of the expansion of Ein Sof. The first Hey is Bina, meaning phase two, regarded as the actualization of the potential, meaning the light that has grown coarser than Hochma.
Vav is Zeir Anpin or HGT NHY, meaning the expansion of light of Hassadim that emerged through Bina. This is phase three, the potential for revealing the operation. The bottom Hey in HaVaYaH; it is Malchut, meaning phase four, the complete manifestation of the act in the vessel of reception that has intensified to draw more abundance than its measure of expansion from Bina. This completes the form of the will to receive and the light that clothes its vessel, being the will to receive that is completed only in this fourth phase and not before. Now you can easily see that there is no light in the upper and lower worlds that is not arranged under the four-letter Name, namely the four phases. Without it, the will to receive that should be in every light is incomplete, for this desire is the place and the measure of that light.
The letters Yod and Vav of HaVaYaH are thin because they are discerned as mere potential. End of source text
M. Laitman: Meaning that these four letters
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pass along to us, teach us, all the phenomena that happened to the desire to receive, which is created, in the light that operates upon it, which is in him. And from this, from the desire to receive, the four phases of the desire are made, which is the secret of the four letters HaVaYah, which are KHBTM.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:00) We read about the four phases. What is the connection between the four phases of direct light and the desires or the connections between us and the Ten?
M. Laitman: We don't have more than the desire to receive, and the light which expands to it and operates upon him, bestows to him, and by that, the desire to receive changes. And that's why he says, that's why he says it. We have four phases of the desire, which is the secret of the four letters HaVaYah, which are KHBTM.
Question (W PT 6): (04:54) It's written that the lower Hey is phase four, and in that there is the revelation of phase four, the reception, which continues the expansion from the light of Bina. What does it mean that there is this addition of abundance, that it continues the abundance?
M. Laitman: It means that the upper light, which created him, created him in such a way that he himself wants, from the connection with the upper light, to open himself even more, even more receive the upper light. And that's why we start to learn how the Kli changes by the light.
Question (Almaty): (06:10) I want to scrutinize in relation to the work of the woman in the revelation of the Creator. I would want to connect it to the Partzuf and the ten Sefirot .
M. Laitman: No, there isn't here a line of a man or a woman. For the time being, we can't yet identify anything like this. This question could be suitable in the continuation, but not in this near period of time.
Student: So would I need to scrutinize whether there is a difference between man and woman, etc.?
M. Laitman: No, that would be foolish to think about that. We don't quite know what these initial desires are yet.
Question (MAK 11): (07:29) We learn that phase four is manifestation of the Kli in the final stage of reception. What kind of action is it about?
M. Laitman: The action of light upon its initial desire, which it develops until the entire nature of the light and the nature of the Kli, of the desire, will develop to the degree in which they will be connected to one another and complete one another.
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Question (W Turkiye 7): (08:19) If the light can dress only to the extent of the size of the desire, why does the will to receive become completed only in phase four and not in the first three phases?
M. Laitman: It develops from phase root where it begins to emerge. It constantly develops. Root 1, 2, 3, 4. And his development, his gradual development, is actually what makes him desirable and worthy for his role. Where he bestows in return to the light, and the light bestows to him, and both are intertwined with one another, and cascade together from the very beginning of creation to the end.
Question (Kyiv 1): (09:38) I don't succeed to understand why in the four phases that are represented by the four Otiot [letters]. Why are they also in Bina and Malchut, if they're the same letters, even though they're so different from each other?
M. Laitman: Yes, these are different qualities. Despite the fact that the first Hey comes from the desire to bestow of the Creator, and this takes place in the desire to receive, in the created being, who feels this way, and that it works this way in him, operates in him, and the last phase, the differences, the first phase stems from the light, whereas the final phase emerges and has to do with the desire, and therefore the desire in the last aspect is the real desire, and specifically upon it, we learn it, we study it, and this is what comes out of the whole creation.
Question (W Latin 26): (11:19) We are just the will to receive. How can we annul ourselves towards the upper one correctly, without every friend losing her individuality?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: How not to lose our individuality of each one, if we all are the will to receive and we all have to subjugate to the upper one?
M. Laitman: We're connected to the upper light, and connected between us, intertwined, and this does not cause us to lose the desire to receive, but rather, to the contrary, the fact that we are incorporated together is even more, it develops the desire to receive even more, and then we can work with it, like with the desire against the light.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:39) How on one hand to annul ourselves towards the upper one, on the other hand, to keep our individuality of each friend?
M. Laitman: Well, we're going to talk about this, it's a thing that is throughout our entire study, and it's going to be like this to the end of creation, to the end of correction.
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Question (W MAK 43): (13:24) The letter Vav in the name of HaVaYah is the force of bestowal that has no vessel, but it's what connects the upper one and the lower one. So how can it be that a form without a desire can sustain light inside of it? Could you say that the spiritual force of ZA is…
M. Laitman: No, it's not in the desire. The desire is a parameter. We cannot move aside or not use, it's all we have.
Question (Florida): (14:08) Is this the same Kli as Malchut of Ein Sof, or is this the Kli that's developed further?
M. Laitman: It's about the will to receive that emerged from concealment and is revealed more and more in the upper light that operates on it. And what develops in the light of Ein Sof is what we learn about, the four phases of the evolution of the desire.
Question (Revadim): (15:16) What I want to understand is the will to receive from its own nature is relatively biased. How can we develop an immunity to this biased part of the desire? So how in the Ten, in the group, in our spiritual work can we develop, let's say vessels of bestowal, how do we develop this immunity for not being biased? Like Rabash writes, that how can I develop an immunity to this biased part of the desire?
M. Laitman: It's impossible because the will to receive emerged, was born from the desire to bestow of the Creator. So, of course, it is entirely dependent and belongs to the operations of the upper one, of the Creator. We'll learn, the rest we will learn.
Question (Moscow): (16:39) It was written that the form of the will to receive in its final form. Is there an example to this state?
M. Laitman: No, there is still no such example. We still cannot distinguish between one desire and the other. We don't have examples. But soon we will be able to.
Student: But should we aspire to this final state, if I understand correctly?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (W MAK): (17:34) What is the expansion of the light below? Why is it called an action? What does it mean, an expansion to the length? And what does it mean in our work, from the discernments?
M. Laitman: Expansion downward is moving from a smaller desire to a greater one. It's the cascading of the desire from above downward, from the Creator to the created beings. And subsequently, within each created being, to the place where this desire is revealed until it reaches its real state
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in which it is completely filled with the light. But this we will learn. That's it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:39) What does it mean that the world to receive comes out of the light?
M. Laitman: The will to receive is born as a result of the operation of the light. The light emerged from the Emanator, from the Creator. And as it develops, the will to receive is born out of it more and more until it reaches independence, a state where it feels itself, it itself wants. And in this way, the desire for revealing Him comes out.
Student: In this state, it isn't disconnected from the light, correct? So what is its independence?
M. Laitman: It is not disconnected from the light. We're not talking about disconnection. We're talking about how much it is dependent on the upper light. Because the will to receive was born from the operation of the light and the light wants to develop it to the point that the desire is independent.
Student: So what's the point of independence of a desire?
M. Laitman: It is the innermost point in the desire which awakens in order to be disconnected in its operation from the light.
Question (Latin 1): (21:00) It was said that everything is organized under the four letter name. So what does that mean? How should we aim our life according to that?
M. Laitman: All the evolution of the will to receive is done by the light that shines on it. In this way, as it develops, it reaches phases root, one, two, three, four. And the desire that is born from the light in that development, that desire is already connected to the light and the light is connected to the desire and then they begin to evolve together, to be connected together, influencing each other mutually, reciprocally. This is how we live.The connection between them is what we learn. It's actually the subject matter of the whole of the wisdom of Kabbalah. The desire that the Creator created changes through His light, the light of the Creator.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:44) We learn that also phase two and four had an awakening to draw the light more than it expanded.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: In the second phase, we learn that it's a will to bestow and phase four, it's receiving the light of Hochma. So what happens in phase four? What happens to phase two and phase four? It's connection to become a bestowing and now it only wants to receive because it has records from the second phase too.
M. Laitman: Yes, it's really so.
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So how can she just relinquish her connection and being a bestower and only wanting to implement the will to receive?
M. Laitman: She wants to bestow in phase two and wants to receive in phase four. These are all stages of development of the desire.
Student: What is a complete desire?
M. Laitman: A complete desire to receive. In phase four, it is born after it develops after it develops in the presence of the created being and the upper light builds in it four phases.
Student: So in phase four, the desire to implement what the Creator wants to give is more important than being the bestower?
M. Laitman: Yes. We will learn this.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:37) What are phases one, two, three, four - phase four?
M. Laitman: These phases build phase four. They transfer light to it, which is already clothed in the vessels of root one, two, and three. And by this, they cause phase four to emerge out of this development.
Student: So phase four is that black point except the Creator. So what can she imprint inside her, the qualities of the Creator, or is she only one that incorporates and get impressions?
M. Laitman: Phase four is incorporated with all the preceding phases between her and the Creator. And as a result, out of that, she develops.
Student: So what's the difference between phase four, incorporating in the qualities of the Creator, or that it really enters her and becomes part of her? Is there such a thing?
M. Laitman: No, no. We will learn, have some patience, very soon.
Question (Hungarian-Polish): (26:17) How in phase four to operate or act so that the light will be actual, operates as an actually, not just in potential?
M. Laitman: This is what we're learning now, that phase four is the will to receive that was revealed as after the expansion of root, one, two, three, and four. And phase four is the real desire from the light that appears at the root phase.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:27) What is a complete action in the vessel reception?
M. Laitman: It depends what vessel we're talking about. Usually, it's about from Keter to Malchut. That evolution comes into the phase of Malchut in the vessel, where the will to receive feels that it wants to receive and this is what it expects from the root phase.
Student: So, how in this action does the vessel become worthy to do its action? What does that mean?
M. Laitman: Yes, a vessel that does not agree to be
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under the development of the four phases and wants to rise above them to their root. So it turns out that it forms a restriction and a screen, reflected light, which we will learn. And this is what separates it into being a real vessel of reception for the upper light.
Student: So the Creator lets the vessel be independent here.
M. Laitman: Yes, that's all it wants, all of its thought, that He wants to see the created being independent from Him, and to receive all the manner of development that is in the light, in the vessel on itself.
Question (MAK 3): (29:32) Can we somehow speed up the influence of the light from above downward?
M. Laitman: No, the light comes to us from above downward, there are no limitations on it, and we don't limit it, no. Rather, only the vessel that decides to receive or not to, and how much and in what way she can, let's call it, interfere with the light's expansion in us.
Question (W Turkiye 8): (30:26) In what states does the light bestow on the desire?
M. Laitman: All the time, all the time, the light bestows upon the desire. And in the relation between the light and the desire, we talk about the bestowal of the light toward the desire, or the influence of the light toward the desire, you will see it, a few more pages down, you'll see it.
Question (W Unity): (31:11) Phase two and four are when a person already received the force and doesn't use it for self-reception, meaning he uses evil inclination. And that still cannot fill the others, but is being filled by being closer to the Creator, right?
M. Laitman: You can put it this way, sort of.
Student: Let's say phase four, that I can already use a good inclination towards the others, but phase four is phase three, is when a person gets an example from the Creator.
So what's getting an example from bestowal?
M. Laitman: It means learning phase one, how she becomes phase two, or phase three, or phase four, and in what way we from phase four can connect with phases one, two, and three, and four, with all these phases and be in them.
Question (Moldova): (32:48) The desire to receive is a feeling of a lack in us, but the Creator does not have a lack. The will to receive is a feeling of a lack in us, but the Creator doesn't have a lack, he just has a will to bestow. Is that also a feeling of a deficiency in us?
M. Laitman: Our desire to receive the light of the Creator, being connected to it is
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for now, our deficiency, feeling it, leads us to a state where we search how we should operate in order to begin to receive the light of the Creator.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:45) He tells us that the light, the will to receive, is the measure of the light. And if we want to increase the desire that the light will bestow on us in the best quality, so is the yearning to open that connection between us, between the friends, to be as one man with one heart for the Creator to be with us together. That's the right way to go?
M. Laitman: It's the right way, but again, we mustn't expect it to happen from one moment to the next. Now I ask, and then it'll happen, the next act comes from the Creator, and I get what I want.
Student: There were many talks lately that when you talk to your Ten, that are talking about the importance of the Ten, and on the general desire, and when we are still not ready to engage in the general desire. So I want to ask, because we're coming up to the Congress, there's a great force in the general desire. So I'm asking on behalf of the prayer, maybe we can still use this, use this force in a preparation to the convention to use it in a better way. Is there such a way?
M. Laitman: No. I think you still don't know how to format your inner desire in a way that it relates to the Creator, the bestowal of the Creator, as the apple light. We're still not ready for it.
Question (W SPA): (36:12) How can we understand the work with the light before the first restriction and after the first restriction, and the state that's before the second restriction?
M. Laitman: The expansion of the light, when the light expands from its origin, from the Creator, to the created being through all the phases, and reaches phase four for the first time.
Question (Moscow 6): (37:10) The prayer is an action to bestow from the created being. How does it ascend to the Creator? Through which phases? From below upward or above downward?
M. Laitman: From above downward phases, four, three, two, one.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:40) I wrote that a vessel that doesn't agree to be developed into four phases and rise above makes a restriction. What is a vessel that doesn't agree to be under the development of four phases?
M. Laitman: There is a matter of restriction on the path between the Creator and the created being. The created being that wants to be in contact with the Creator needs to rise above the first restriction.
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To that extent, it can bestow back to the Creator. And the Creator will change its bestow in according to that and bestow back to the created being.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:41) I feel that in the desire it's not always clear where we are. Should we feel that this thing, this reality is already ready? And the desire in phase four is already ready? And we should yearn for restriction? Or should we look for development in these phases?
M. Laitman: The development is the restriction. Developing the restriction, that is the development.
Question (W Europe): (39:14) You mentioned that the four phases of the direct light is the evolution of the desires. What makes phase four different from the three phases, one, two, three? Is it because it can only receive and it cannot bestow? Is that the main difference?
M. Laitman: Phase four can receive and not bestow. But its reception has to be in order to bestow to the source of light by that.
Student: In our walk together, Rav, are we supposed to be sensing what phase we are in our own consciousness when we're working?
M. Laitman: It'll come, of course, that we'll understand where we are, in which qualities we're using. It will all come to us.
Question (W ITA): (41:13) The four phases are very powerful on our desire. They nurture it. What should we do or hear?
M. Laitman: We need to try and incorporate with those letters, meaning with those actions, that these letters are symbolizing to us. And as a result, we will change and start feeling inside us the action of the light. What it does in the desire.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:23) It is written, the desire is the place and the measure of the light. What in our desire testifies to the light or to the connection with the Creator?
M. Laitman: What on our desire will testify to the light? The desire is the extent of the influence of the light awakens the desire.
Question (Beer Sheva): (43:13) For several items already
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there have been curious questions here. I will quote now from item 31, and I will want to ask a question. It is written, the light addresses in its vessel, which is the will to receive, depends only in this fourth phase and not before it. I guess you understand that there is no light in the upper worlds and lower worlds that is not arranged under the order of the four-letter name, which is the four above phases, because without it, the will to receive is not established, which should be in each light, because that desire is the place and the measure of that light. My question is, here it describes the emergence of ZA, and what happens is that we are connected according to this description, or am I mistaken? Are we connected to Bina that gives birth to us, and accordingly we have all the discernments and the lights?
M. Laitman: We can say so. What next?
Student: Afterwards, it is written that there is no light in the upper worlds, meaning Bina works toward us in ZAT and in GAR, in Yeshsut and ZAT of Bina, and kind of designs us, but we kind of design the light. We create the Creator with the relations of the four phases. The question is, are we adhered to Bina without feeling it? Is this our concealment from understanding this world to the actual reality?
M. Laitman: Yes. We are adhered to Bina, yes.
Student: And we in fact cause the light to have the qualities that are not in it?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Rehovot 1): (45:41) What's the difference between phase two and phase three?
M. Laitman: Phase two and three, phase two is the desire that awakens in the created being in according to the light bestowing upon it, and phase three, by connecting to the upper light, the created being has an awakening of the will to receive.
Student: Is phase three Zeir Anpin?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What characterizes it? Why does it consist of seven Sefirot?
M. Laitman: Every Sefira is included of a number of Sefirot, otherwise it can't express its desire, its actions.
Student: How can a person develop sensitivity to the work of the upper light?
M. Laitman: Exactly as we're doing, as we're speaking. On every phase, how it raises its deficiency to the Creator, what it receives from the Creator, and connects back to its friends. That's how it develops, until it feels what the Creator is really demanding of her.
Question (Haifa 3): (47:47) When we achieve adhesion with Bina, light of Hassadim, that's a state, is that a state where we will become an embryo, Ubar?
M. Laitman: Also.
Student: Is this called revealing that I saw an opposite world?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (W PT 23): (48:28) Does the reforming light operates on us in the same way of the four phases of direct light?
M. Laitman: Yes. We learn how it goes from one phase to the next.
Student: You said we still do not know how to format the inner desire to bestow to the Creator, to the upper light. What does it mean to format the inner desire and how to achieve it?
M. Laitman: To achieve it we have to be closer to the source of the light and the source of the vessel and between them we will have to determine ourselves. That’s soon, we will learn it in practice.
Question (PT 19): (49:46) It is written that the light dresses. What does it mean the light dresses? What light can dress on me? What should I do?
M. Laitman: The light clothes in the desire, the desire becomes the place for the revelation of the light.
Student: It is said that the Torah is the potion of life or a potion of death. What light am I drawing on myself? Am I harming myself if I do not know how to draw light properly?
M. Laitman: Could be.
Student: So, what should I do in order to draw the light sp it becomes the potion of life?
M. Laitman: Think how to be together with the light, connected. That the light is the will to bestow to the Creator.
Student: What does it mean “connected?”
M. Laitman: That you all want to think and speak and do actions that are all like the light.
Student: Meaning what?
M. Laitman: That you want to bestow.
Student: I do not know what it means to bestow.
M. Laitman: Ask.
Student: Ask for what?
M. Laitman: Ask a friend what it means to be a bestower?
Student: How should I relate to my friends if I want to bestow to them?
M. Laitman: I give you the beginning and you start from there.
Student: What should I do in a meantime? How I draw a good light and not shells in my life?
M. Laitman: You need to speak with your friends how you should be together, tied together in a way that you want to be connected and draw the light together.
Student: Reforming light?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Czech Slovak 2): (52:09) Studying authentic texts help us increase the passion or desire for the upper lights in phase four?
M. Laitman: Yes, of course. That’s the whole remedy from the study. The virtue of the study that when we learn these sources, the known sources, so we by this draw the light through these sources upon us. And that what bestows on us and our desire, that is how we advance.
Question (SaltLake City): (53:00) Will we ever be able develop the quality of Keter? Will we be able to feel what the Creator feels?
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M. Laitman: That's what we constantly need to do, to constantly want to be in the quality of Keter, and that the Creator will organize it for us.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:47) Why does he write about the first three phases in terms of potential and actual? And in phase four, he doesn't write about it. In phase four, he talks about the complete action. What does that teach us?
M. Laitman: The three phases that come before phase four, they have to organize the will to receive in phase four, that it will want to perform the purpose of life, the purpose of creation, in the complete way, in its fullest, just like that. And that is only from phase four of the vessel. We can demand that.
Student: That's clear, but what does he write about actual and potential in every phase? Potential in the good phase, phase one, but what does it mean, this operating force in each phase? What does it tell us?
M. Laitman: That there's a phase in the desire and practical, sorry, in potential and in practice, there's already something that bestows on the phase that comes after it.
Student: So it's bestowal of the previous phase on the next phase?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Once in potential, once in practice? Can we talk about, what does it mean, the bestowal of, the potential bestowal and actual bestowal? What is it?
M. Laitman: Bestowing in potential is what the created being, the will to receive, receives. And bestowing in practice is how it already changes from within its will to receive, and its connection with creation, and changes itself from one phase to the next.
Student: Can we relate to it as an intention to bestow and the ability to bestow?
M. Laitman: Could be.
M. Laitman: Okay, so for now we need to end.
Reader: Yes, we need to finish. Before we finish, how do you summarize the lesson today?
M. Laitman: Well, this is a lesson that we went directly into being in phase four. That's why I'm happy that sometimes I'd come back from a place and I didn't understand or feel or participate so much with my students. Today I see that we're a lot closer also to one another and also to the topic of TES. That's why simply keep going.
Reader: How should we continue during the day? How should we continue this line?
M. Laitman: During the day, I think that we can still maybe have a noon lesson if you're able to. And that's it. Think, gather questions, and I'll be happy to answer them. But questions to the point. Okay, so thank you everybody from the bottom of the heart. Be healthy in your spirit and soul. Good luck.