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Daily Morning Lesson: June 4, 2026

Part 2: Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah

Original lesson date: 03/08/2001

Student: Hello to all the friends, all the world Kli. We're coming to the next part of the lesson, the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah.” We just went through a wonderful, amazing lesson by Rav, I think we all felt it. And this lesson was actually in relation to a Rabash article about the inner work, working from below upward. But along with that, Rav's lesson included a lot of terms that are about the development of the desire, the way the light works on the desires that are coming out of the records. We see how everything is this one system, how Rav lives everything, and for him, when he teaches and explains, it's all one system. Now we are entering the Preface again, and we want to really see how everything is closed off in that one system, we're not going to somewhere else, we're continuing the same work. We're just going to concentrate on drawing the light that reforms through it.

Student: Yes, and we heard in the lesson that we are only a dot or a point, we don't work with our will to receive, we work with the will to receive that the Creator gives us, and with the corrections, the filling, everything comes from Him. So, now let's watch a clip where Rav explains about the right approach to the study, and from here we will dive into the lesson. But before that, we want to mention that today we will begin, we're talking about eight lessons, each lesson was divided into three parts, we finished three lessons, meaning we finished lesson number one. From here Rav continues into the second lesson, and notice how the four phases of direct light are important. We're talking about eight lessons of the Preface, and we're still in the four phases of direct light. Why? Rav will explain today why it's so important to engage in these four phases. Before that, let's watch clip number seven and get into the right intention for the study.

M. Laitman: (02:31) We need to think about the intentions. Why am I studying? What am I studying? What do I want to get from this study? How, by the studying, I'm coming closer to the Creator, and that has to be my main concern. And whatever he tells me about here: about all kinds of actions from the Creator, how the light of Ein Sof, the world of Ein Sof, the beam of light that appears, how it works, the will to receive that was formulated in the light of Ein Sof - these are things that I might discover later, but first, I have to have the right relation to what I'm listening to and what I'm reading, that all of this is in order to connect me to the Creator.

Student: Yes, friends, so in a minute we will get into Rav's lesson. As a friend mentioned, we will see again how Rav explains the four phases of the direct light again. And when Rav teaches the four phases, you can see it, you can feel it, he lives it every time in you. Actually, so let's join him. Let's also live these things. This is our root. It's where we come from, and what operates in us, and how the Creator develops us. It's all in there. So as we go into the lesson, each one should be ready to grasp everything he can. We want to write down insights, questions, points that come up, Rav's words. We want to be with him and write the words. At the end of watching the lesson, we will share insights and questions together in the Ten. So, let's get into the lesson and flow with Rav.

M. Laitman: (04:33) So, we're ready to begin our second lesson in the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah.” I'm going briefly over what we went through in the previous lesson in order to continue this lesson. The topic today is Masach, the screen. But before the screen, let's see what we went through. We said in the previous lesson that, all in all, in all of creation, we have two participants. This is the Creator; the Creator is actually the light that spreads. And this expansion is called Keter, or the tip of the Yud, or the root phase. From this later came out the vessel. Sorry, the vessel, Hochma, they called it. We mark it as Yud. That's already the beginning of a created being. It's phase one. That vessel is the will to receive, which the light itself created and filled it. And then we call the vessel a deficiency, and the light that fills it, we call it pleasure. Next. Because the light fills the vessel and gives it pleasure, it controls the vessel. The vessel depends on it. And then the light gives the vessel not only the pleasure but also its quality of being a giver, of bestowal. So, from a vessel which is the will to receive, the vessel suddenly begins to feel that it wants to give, to bestow. It received the nature of the light that fills it, and that vessel is called Bina, a desire to bestow. We mark it with the letter Hey. It's also a vessel, also a deficiency, but a desire to bestow. It's actually empty. Why is it empty? It's got nothing to receive. It doesn't want to receive light of Hochma. It simply wants to bestow. It's called phase two. So. we see from here that the light expanded from the Creator - once, at first, created a vessel which is a will to receive, Hochma, and then built a vessel which is a will to bestow, Bina. And these two vessels, these two kinds of vessels, are completely opposite from each other. One wants to receive. and one wants to give. What happened then? Bina understands that she's got nothing to give. Why does she have nothing to give? Because she's not the source of the origin of the light. What can she give to the Creator? Because the Creator wants to give to the created being pleasure. What pleasure can the created being give to the Creator? For the created being to enjoy Him, because that was the reason for creating the created being. So what does Bina say? I will use the desire that the Creator created in me. because I want to give to Him. In other words, she remains with her vessel of wanting to give with that light that she wants, which is called light of Hassadim, mercy. And what does she do? She says, but actually I can give Him only if I receive. So, I will receive, and then she receives.

M. Laitman: (10:20) So now, the vessel contains, consists of two parts. One part in it is similar to Hochma, and another part is similar to Bina. Let's draw it on the other side. Similar to Bina. Actually, here the created being does exactly what the Creator wants. The Creator gave it the will to receive - it receives. And here it receives too. He gave it the will bestow - and it bestows too. So, it is completely similar to the Creator in this whole action. So what's missing? It could stay like that. This is called phase three. It's the third vessel. A deficiency to receive, deficiency to bestow. A vessel in this way is called Zeir Anpin, which contains both. Vav is its mark, symbol, and only one thing is missing: the desires in it, both a desire that is similar to Bina and a desire that is similar to Hochma - these two desires that this vessel contains come from above, from the Creator. The created being actually uses all the qualities that the Creator created in it, and there's nothing new in it. In other words, so far it carried out all the qualities that the Creator imprinted in it. So here we have an example of what the Creator wants to get out of the created being. Therefore, afterwards, in Kabbalah books, Zeir Anpin, Zeir Anpin in the world of Atzilut is called the Creator. The Holy One, Blessed Be He, the Creator, because it's an example that the Creator places before the created being of how the created being should be. What happens then? Afterwards, the created being understands that what happens here is that actually, it's still not in these vessels, in itself. Did it receive? No. Did it give? No. Now, it has a dilemma. What is it really, the created being? So, now the created being decides what it is. By what does it decide what it really wants to be like? After it has all the forces of the Creator that He gave to the created being from above downward, now, it's the first time that the created being, in all these forces and in all these qualities, is in a situation where something that is completely new might emerge here. What's new? A new desire. What desire? A desire to receive, a will to receive what it wants to receive by itself, and enjoy. Similar to this desire. From what, what does this desire that's called Malchut come out from? It's marked by the letter Hey. Phase four, a deficiency to receive. Why does a will to receive come out here, or to bestow, or maybe half and half? Because this vessel of Zeir Anpin is very similar to Keter. It's got everything. So now the created being must choose what it wants. So it chooses, just like from the Creator, when the will to receive emerges, so here, too, in the created being, the will to receive emerges. And this Malchut alone is called created being. Before it, it's only degrees or development.

M. Laitman: (15:37) And it turns out that now the will to receive that is felt here is a desire that purportedly didn't come from the Creator directly, but rather here, at the end of Zeir Anpin, the new desire was created - Malchut that was filled with the light that she receives from the Creator. Here, its state of being completely full is called Malchut of Ein Sof. And when she is filled with the light of Ein Sof, she is similar to phase one, which was also filled with the light that came from the Creator. Ask about these things, and then we'll move to a new topic. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:43) This last stage, you're saying that there's an innovation that it chose. So I don't understand.

M. Laitman: What's new about phase four compared to the other phases is that phase four has in it a desire that didn't come from the Creator. It's a desire that came from an awakening from below, from the created being, the will to receive that is more than the created being, than the Creator created in the vessel of phase one, because there is expansion of several processes here. Look, I want only to receive. How? Like the Creator wants. I receive from the Creator a desire to bestow. I understand that the desire to bestow and the pleasure from bestowal can be better than receiving. But how do I do it? I have no light, no pleasure that I can give to the Creator unless on condition I receive from Him. We need to understand that each time we move from phase to phase, let's say, phase one - it's the will to receive that the Creator created. Then when the light is in it, and the light begins to give to the desire to receive its quality of bestowal, so instead of the will to receive, there begins to evolve the desire to bestow. So the will to receive begins to understand that it's better for it to be a giver, and by this, it can enjoy more. We need to understand what is phase two - Bina. It's the same Hochma, except it changed and took on itself another addition. So, in phase two, there's more will to receive than in phase one. Phase one understood that if it gave, it would receive more pleasure. Phase three already has two kinds of vessels: to give and to receive. It understands that if it gives to the Creator, by receiving from Him, it will enjoy much more than in phase two and phase one. We are in phases of development of the desire, but it's still development of the desire that's not independent. It comes entirely from the qualities of the Creator. There's a light that creates the vessel, gives its vessel its quality of bestowal, and the vessel decides it wants to mean two parts. One part similar to the Creator in giving, and another part that's similar to the vessel the Creator created - to receive. So thus far, we have all the things that were done by the light that came from the Creator thus far, until the end of phase three. But at the end of phase three, it decides, so what do I really want out of all these phases? What can give me pleasure? What is closer to my nature? When I am filled with the light, and then it chooses to receive the light like phase one. So here, at the end of phase three, it says, I want to receive without any will to bestow. In this part, it's called will to receive, the little bit that I received, now I'm going to receive all of it, with all my might. And then from that comes phase four. So phase four is that part of phase three that's receiving, and another part of phase three that had the will to bestow, she said, she gives it up, and she says, I don't want to bestow. We can talk about it for years. We will get back to it every time. Because besides these four phases, where the light plays with the vessel, how it creates the created being and gives it its qualities, there's nothing else. The rest is only the developments of the created being, and every time we talk about some world or Partzufim, or all kinds of things, created beings, emanated beings, never mind. We'll always be able to get back to here and see where it's the root for them.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:28) But there's a contradiction here, because everything's from the Creator.

M. Laitman: Guys, I don't want to get into philosophies. That's it. You have many books. This is a crash course. Only if something is not clear here right now. You can ask, and I'll send you to 20 books, okay?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:51) A deficiency to bestow.

M. Laitman: The deficiency to bestow? It's a deficiency, a desire to give. Like a mother toward a child. She wants to give to it. It gives her pleasure.

Student: And what is this deficiency? 

M. Laitman: No, a deficiency and a desire is the same thing, for now. I'm not getting into the subtleties of the vessel itself, how it's made of all kinds of parts and the layers it has. We'll leave it until later. What should be clear to us is that when we learn in the Kabbalah, there are two things. Before we're studying material we don't feel and we cannot touch it or do anything with it. There are two approaches to the study. One approach to the study is that that's the way it is, as it is written, and you simply have to remember. The other approach is, which should be next to it, why it's like that? So, that's the way it is, that should be clear. We should remember it. Why it's like that? We need to think about it every time and scrutinize it. And this is an understanding that is infinite in depth. God willing, you'll ascend in degrees, and you'll come to feel the upper worlds, and everyone can do it. And you will see how much each time you will become more, you will improve, and you will ascend in understanding and revelations. And each time you'll have the question, why? Until the end of correction, until you really reach the place where you and the Creator are on the same level, from where the light itself emanates. 

Student: And the end of your correction is when? 

M. Laitman: Later. Until then, there are no questions. And until then, and then there are no questions. And until then, there are questions all the time. Clear?