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Daily Lesson August 5, 2025.

Part 3: Baal HaSulam, Shamati, "Man's Connection to the Heart”

Reader: Hello, we are in the lesson of “Man’s Connection of the Heart”. We will read excerpts from the sources. Baal HaSulam write’s in excerpt 1, Shamati 8.

Reading: (00:20) 1. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, "Man's Connection to the Heart", Article 8

One cannot correct one’s thought, but should only aim the heart—make one’s heart straight to the Creator. Then all of his thoughts and actions will naturally be to bestow contentment upon his Maker. When he corrects his heart to be a heart and desire of Kedusha, the heart will then be the Kli in which to place the upper light. And when the upper light shines in the heart, the heart will grow stronger and he will add and supplement continuously.

Now we can interpret our sages’ words, “Great is the learning that yields action.” It means that through the light of the Torah he is led into action, as the light in it reforms him. This is called “an act.” This means that the light of the Torah builds a new structure in his heart.” 

M. Laitman: There's not much to add here, because everything comes from above. And that's how he continues. Great is the learning that yields action. Everything comes to us from the upper one. Thanks to the light of Torah that comes from above, we will make an action, and the light that appears always pushes us toward a better state. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (03:05) What is the act? What can we do to correct the heart? 

M. Laitman: We can do only one thing: to invite the light, to raise a deficiency to the light, and then when it appears, it awakens in us all the disturbance that belongs to a higher degree from where it came. 

Student: How do I raise my deficiency? 

M. Laitman: We awaken the heart, the heart is man's desire, and a desire that awakens more than how it was before. We seemingly awaken the source of the heart, the source of the desire, the deficiency, and then it appears. 

Student: So this is the beginning of the act, to awaken the heart?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How do I awaken the heart? 

M. Laitman: You do it through study, through intention, and through a request, a prayer.

Student: You have questions of friends.

Question (MAK 11): (04:56) When I connect with the Creator, and I fall down below, why does it happen? Why would a person fall?

M. Laitman: I don't know how you connect with the Creator and why would it provoke a descent. In general, it should bring a person to an uplifted state from the previous state to the current state. I don't know, maybe give an example, explain maybe to yourself even, then you'll be able to see your error. What does it mean to be in connection with the Creator? Greater connection compared to now, for example. How do you do it, and what do you feel when you do it? 

Question (Kyiv 1): (06:18) It says we can't correct the thought, but we can aim the heart. So, how can we aim the common heart of the Ten to the Creator so our thoughts will also change during the day and be aimed at Him correctly? 

M. Laitman: This is something that you have to do consistently as much as possible. And from these efforts, we will gradually feel how much we approach or move farther away from the Creator. Way to think about it, imagine it to ourselves, with all our actions, all our lessons, and work in this way.

Question (Turkiye 1): (07:42) It says that a person has to aim his heart directly for the sake of the Creator. The friend is asking, how can a person aim his heart directly for the sake of the Creator? And how to overcome the basic deficiency that prevents a person from aiming his heart directly for the sake of the Creator?

M. Laitman: We need to imagine that state called face-to-face, to see ourselves close to the Creator and feel that we are closing the distance to Him each time a little bit more. It all depends on the thought. The thought, the desire, the action, as much as possible.

Question (KabU 12): (09:06) How do we awaken the hearts of the Ten, and how do we help them aim their hearts to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: If we wish to be incorporated, all of us, in a single desire, and this desire is aimed at the connection with the Creator, then we need to feel from time to time, more and more, that state. Now we enter it, we incorporate in it, and this way, we'll reach a state where the Creator is close in us, and we feel Him.

Reader: We have a question from Petah Tikva. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:20) We aim our hearts at the Creator. What is the Creator's heart? 

M. Laitman: The Creator's heart is his desire that is aimed at us. This is, that's why, this is how we're talking about it; from desire to desire. 

Student: We learn that whatever exits the heart, enters the heart. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How can we feel the Creator's heart? 

M. Laitman: By trying to feel it, by making efforts to understand Him, to be not disconnected from Him but constantly aimed at Him only, directed at Him. And whatever happens, we ultimately reveal His desire, His general deficiency that belongs to us. 

Question (Women Turkiye): (12:10) The intention and the action that we do don't always work together and reconcile. How to remind ourselves and support each other in those moments?

M. Laitman: This gets corrected gradually, because through our intentions and thoughts and generally speaking, all our actions, we invite the reforming light. And in this way, our intention, our state, our attitude becomes more and more aimed at the Creator from heart to heart.

Question (Holland): (13:10) What is actually the difference in the approach of wise-hearted and wise-minded? How do we scrutinize, let's say, if we are in wise-hearted? Do we need the mind for that, the wise minds? Where do they meet each other, those two? 

M. Laitman: The sages of the heart are much higher and more internal compared to the sages of the mind. Because the mind, everywhere is external compared to the heart. So, how much effort we put in to be closer to the heart is actually more correct. 

Question (Latin 1): (14:52) It says, great is the learning that yields action. What does it mean to learn with the heart and not with the mind? 

M. Laitman: Our inner desire is called a man's heart, and we need to aim it, our inner desire, we need to aim it at the Creator. That's the purpose of the study. 

Question (Women KabU 2): (15:37) When the Creator blesses us with Kedusha, how should we respond? Is there a correct way and an incorrect way? 

M. Laitman: A more correct way is when we awaken the heart and soul of a person toward that which the Creator says to us and gives to us. We have to be aimed at that and make as many exercises in that.

Question (Latin 8): (17:02) What to do if our hearts want to reveal to the Creator, but our ego doesn't let us attain the goal? 

M. Laitman: It's only through the exercises. When we read the excerpts of the verses, and in each verse we correct our direction toward the Creator. So, it turns out that the outcome of Him turning to us and answering with prayer to Him, we, in total, we connect and we approach one another. 

Question (Women Spa): (18:09) If I understood correctly, the thought is a result of what we have in the heart. So, how can I make the environment in my heart better? 

M. Laitman: Making the environment better is, first of all, by constantly being in the right intention. By this, I influence. And as many people as possible, as many people, more people in my Ten are in this effort to connect, and the purpose of the connection as one, to that extent we direct ourselves, each one through the others, and all of us together until we are incorporated as one man with one heart. Let's do this.

Reader: Let's read number two and then go to more questions. Rabash writes. 

Reading: (19:21) 2. RABASH, Article No. 12 (1988), "What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator" 

It is our inability to do anything for the sake of the Creator. Only the light of Torah will correct the heart, for the heart is called “desire,” and by nature, it is a desire only to receive. But how can a person go against nature?

This is why the Creator said, “I have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice.” It follows that he is not learning Torah for the intellect, to understand, but he is learning in order to understand so as to achieve Dvekut with the Creator, who is clothed in the Torah, and this pertains to the heart. Through the light he will receive, it reforms him, meaning that the will to receive for his own sake can receive strength from above that enables it to work for the sake of the Creator. 

M. Laitman: In other words, the most important is to constantly see where I am drawn. This is why the excerpts are all directed toward a person's heart. How he maintains his heart and is willing to, through it, be connected to the Creator. Directed toward the Creator. Until we feel that the Creator dresses in our heart. Okay? Okay. What now? 

Reader: We have questions.

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (21:39) How can a person aim his heart towards a goal every day and make it a heart of holiness? 

M. Laitman: It's impossible right away. But when a person begins to study the wisdom of Kabbalah and is immersed as much as possible in the articles, in the things he hears from the writings of the Kabbalists, he directs his mind and heart more and more toward the Creator. Toward connection with the Creator. Toward connection with the Creator. And then it turns out that he is in this tight connection until he… until he comes to a constant and internal connection. 

Question (Women Turkiye): (23:26) How can we reach a common understanding as one man with one heart when we know that each one turns to the Creator from their own degree? 

M. Laitman: But we're all directed toward the Creator. Of course, each one from his own point, his own point of view. But when we are directed, then we already connect with this intention. And then it turns out that instead of many people, we become more and more as one person with one heart, one intention to the one Creator. And this is how we are incorporated with one another until we are incorporated with the one Creator. 

Question (Hungarian-Polish): (24:49) How can a person go against nature by seeing all works of the friend coming from the upper light? 

M. Laitman: These are exercises. Through exercises, we constantly direct the source of light to our desire. And in this way, our desire becomes gradually directed more correctly toward the Creator.

Question (Hadera 1): (25:48) Can we say that the wisdom of the heart bursts beyond the feeling of self? 

M. Laitman: Well, we will still have to check how it works and how we can direct the direction where it comes from and where it goes to.

Student: That's called the correction of the heart? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (ITA 4): (26:39) In spiritual work, what is an action in the deed as opposed to an action with the heart? And what is more beneficial? 

M. Laitman: An operation is an act when we want to work, operate from our heart on our connection with the Creator. This is its operation. And the act is more external, where through the operation, we scrutinize the forces that position us directly toward the Creator. 

Question (Women PT 23): (27:40) How is it expressed when the Creator is clothed in our heart? 

M. Laitman: Because the heart is our desire, and if we direct it toward attainment of the Creator, we're feeling the Creator. We turn to the Creator each time, and His connection with the Creator gradually becomes stronger and more permanent. This is how we feel that we have emerged to a connection with our upper one. It is actually from heart to heart.

Question (Women Latin 24): (28:47) Is the wisdom of the heart revealed with the light of the Creator? Does that awaken the person? 

M. Laitman: Yes, exactly so. With the heart. We connect between the hearts through the light that appears between heart to heart. 

Question (Latin 4): (29:44) Is the importance to feel our heart by being able to hear and comprehend truer information than we do in the thought? 

M. Laitman: Correct. The more we want to be connected internally and truthfully, it is considered that we are rising from degree to degree, and we have a hold of a higher light, a grip on a higher light.

Reader: Let's read another excerpt, number three by Rabash, and then more questions.

Reading: (30:29) 3. RABASH, Article No. 12 (1988), "What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator" 

They are learning Torah in order to correct the heart, these are called “wise-hearted,” since everything is named after its action. For this reason, the Torah they learn with this intention is called “wise-hearted” and not “wise-minded,” since they need the Torah in order to correct the heart. 

M. Laitman: This is why those who are going to correct their hearts, their connection with the Creator, and this is why they connect with the friends, they are called wise-hearted or wise at heart. And this is our main thing. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:30) How does a person correct his heart? 

M. Laitman: When I hear questions that the friends ask, I direct myself more and more to being in this question. And then it turns out that we connect from heart to heart between us. And to the extent that we can all be directed from our connection to the Creator, we awaken Him. And the Creator is then already to some percentage in the connection between us. And in this way, we awaken the general connection. 

Student: The ability to correct the heart, it comes when a person hears other people's questions?

M. Laitman: The truth is, that's the main thing, because how we can influence each other, it comes to our heart and directs each one toward connection with the hearts of the friends. And by this, we awaken all of us. And this already talks about a connection between all of us to the Creator, to the one Creator.

Question (Women Heb 1): (34:06) We read a lot of texts lately and really get into it during the lesson. We have all kinds of study materials. I wanted to know, how can a person be sure he's using his heart and not his mind while learning the text? 

M. Laitman: When a person strives each time to feel how the Creator changes his heart, influences his heart, then we, by this, we can also change our hearts until the heart is aimed through the connection with everyone toward the Creator, and the Creator will be aiming toward us. And in this way, from the Creator's heart to our heart, and from our heart to the Creator, we awaken and hold this connection each time until our hearts are incorporated with the heart of the Creator. 

Question (Women Argentina 1): (36:13) How can we reach the incorporation in order for our potential force that is in the heart of every friend will reveal the Creator?

M. Laitman: Incorporation is revealed through efforts in connection, in direction of the connection, and the effort, the goal. And then we are incorporated and are directed toward the same goal from the bottom of our hearts. And this is how we come closer and become incorporated. And by this, we receive much greater power and ability than without the incorporation. Incorporation is the main thing. It's the most important, both in the intensity of our incorporation with each other, intensity as in power of the connection and to the extent that we can identify that we are in one heart. 

Question (Turkiye 8): (38:00) How can a person know if his actions come from the Torah or from the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: According to the results. If it reaches the Creator, it's considered that we are incorporated with the desire to bestow of the upper one. And then we feel this result as being in the state of the upper one. And if not, then it's God forbid, the opposite.

Question (Moscow): (39:00) In the article said that a person can’t do anything for the sake of the Creator. How to be in a state of faith and directing the heart that a person can do something for the Creator? 

M. Laitman: If the heart tells him this way, then it's good for him to listen to his heart and act. Meaning, to agree with the heart, to gather all the hearts of the friends into his heart, well, at least some of them, and turn to the Creator. 

Student: In the article, he says that he can't. 

M. Laitman: Then you'll feel if you're confused or not. Actually, it would be correct to demand that such connections will begin to awaken and operate in us.

Question (Lithuania 1): (40:27) Sometimes I feel the friend's desire more than my personal desire, and it's not always pleasant. Sometimes maybe it disturbs me from connecting to the Creator's desire. So, how to connect to Him? 

M. Laitman: You need to turn your attention to the friends, to be in them, connect them together in one desire, to one desire that is directed toward the Creator, to ascending for the sake of the Creator. And in this way, you'll be able to influence them and bring them all closer to the Creator together.

Reader: Let's read another excerpt, number four by the Rabash. 

Reading: (41:34) 4. RABASH, Article No. 12 (1988), "What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator" 

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra says (in the “Introduction to the book Panim Masbirot,” Item 10), “Know that all the Mitzvot that are written in the Torah or the accepted ones, which the forefathers have established, although the majority of them are in deed or utterance, they are all in order to correct the heart. This is because the Lord wants all the hearts, and He understands the inclination of every thought. It is written, To those whose hearts are straight, and conversely, a heart filled with thoughts of transgression. Know that the Torah was given only to men of heart.

M. Laitman: Yes, it's a known excerpt. What can I say, Ibn Ezra was one of the greatest of his time, and of course, this is how he overcame everyone's opinion against him. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:22) So, and what do the deeds help to correct the heart? What do we need deeds for? Or if it's all heart, and only the minute heart, and… 

M. Laitman: But out of all the heart that you have, it is only 613 desires, so what are you going to do? Deal only with this? So, there's internality and externality here. The internality of the heart you connect to the Creator, and to the friends and the externality of the internality, and this is how he aims his heart. 

Student: The internality of the heart is clear, but the externality, what are all the deeds for? The internality, I connect to the friends, that's the main work.

M. Laitman: Because we are built in such a way that our desire is divided into internal and external. Where does it come from? From the fact that we can be connected among ourselves and with the Creator, and these are two directions, two layers of our desires, our intentions, our thoughts. It stems from having a Creator and a created being; you can't divide it otherwise.

Student: The internality is clear how it corrects the heart. How does the externality correct the heart? 

M. Laitman: Externality should also be directed toward the correction of the heart, because we are all incorporated with containing internality and externality of the desire. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:46) The time of study, and the preparation for the study, what's the emphasis during the studying, and what's the emphasis in the preparation? And how do those two actions complete one another?

M. Laitman: They complement each other within a person's heart, because his heart is aimed toward bestowal, all in all. And in order to be with his heart, with his desire, general desire, directed toward the Creator, he needs to be connected with the friends, and elevate his desires to the Creator. Therefore, if we aim this way, in the end, it works. Yes.

Student: What's the emphasis while studying compared to the preparation to study? 

M. Laitman: The time of the study is when we are already incorporated with all, with various texts of Kabbalists and the Torah, and we try to do them. But that's during the study. And in this way, we should constantly try to have the Torah directing us toward the purpose of creation.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:45) I'd like to continue the scrutiny of the time of study. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: First, we heard that we incorporate in the friends' questions, and that it'll strengthen all of our hearts, our common heart and each one's internal heart. But during the study, when we read the article, what's the inner effort in the heart that each one should do to feel that we're really drawing the light, and it enters and corrects us? What should our effort during the reading of the article be?

M. Laitman: I try with all my might to be connected to the thoughts and desires of the friends, to my friends with whom I'm reading the article, and I constantly check myself that I'm not deviating, but I'm connected in the direction, in adhesion to the intentions of the friends. And from that place of adhesion, the general place, our general place, I, and I hope the friends too, we try to connect, we try to connect more and more together, and we strive to see in the connection between us, the image of the Creator, that we are all connected to the Creator. We are in devotion to Him.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (50:06) On one hand, we read an article that Kabbalist gave us. They wrote how we need to work between us, how we implement the work. So, how in that moment, when I want to understand what he wrote, to translate it in my heart, the same moment, how do I pass it into the work between the friends? How do I format my heart towards the friends at that moment? What is the special action of drawing the light here? 

M. Laitman: It's not simple. It is not done, it is not something you can do with one operation. But afterwards, when you do such exercises several times, when you connect yourself with the Creator, and you direct your connection with the friends to the Creator, it will work out for you.

You'll succeed that you can be directed toward Him, and connected to Him, and correcting your connection with the Creator in a way that, how should I put it, that this connection in itself, when it appears, it operates on all of us, on you with the Creator, on your Ten, the group, and in general, on all those who study Kabbalah, and all of us are included in, as one man with one heart, as we say, and that all this comes in the end to one point, one center. The Creator deliberately turns us more and more, because all of our incorporation is built in such a way that, specifically through them we receive the corrections. We need to be in efforts as much as possible, and to expect a result of our efforts, and not the efforts themselves, or the results in and of themselves. 

Question (Women Rehovot 1): (53:39) What is the role of every friend, or the role of a Ten, in order to create an atmosphere of confidence that every friend will be able to open the heart? 

M. Laitman: We must carry out what Kabbalists tell us. This is in this part of the excerpts that they place before us, and to try to be in this each time. In other words, each time I return to the connection, I first of all strengthen my connection with the whole of the group of Bnei Baruch as a Ten, and after that, my connection with the group I belong to, for example, Petah Tikva, and then with the external group, which is, let's say, like now, Turkey 7, that's it.

Student: We constantly hear closeness in the Ten, closeness. What does that mean to come closer in the Ten? How is that expressed in the Ten, this closeness? 

M. Laitman: Moving closer means we are incorporated with our desires and the desires of the rest of the Tens, and that desire of ours, our common desire, becomes like the will of the Creator in one connection.  

Yes, Dudi. 

Reader: Let's read number 5 by the Rabash. 

Reading: (56:09) 5. RABASH, Article No. 37 (1985), "Who Testifies to a Person" 

He must perform every act of Torah and Mitzvot in order to bring himself into the aim to bestow. Afterwards, when he has a complete understanding of how much he needs to engage in order to bestow, and he feels pain and suffering at not having this force, then it is considered that he already has something for which to pray—for work in the heart—since the heart feels what it needs.

For such a prayer comes the answer to the prayer. This means that he is given this strength from above so he will be able to aim in order to bestow, for then he already has the light and Kli. However, what can one do if, after all the efforts he has made, he still does not feel the lack of not being able to bestow as pain and suffering? The solution is to ask the Creator to give him the Kli called, “A lack from not feeling,” and that he is unconscious, without any pain from being unable to bestow. 

M. Laitman: Yes, to be more and more concerned about what we feel in the heart. Does this feeling stem from me being closer to the Creator, moving away from Him, am I connected only to Him, with all the friends? And this is what concerns me, what worries me.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:18) So I'm paying attention to my heart, I'm looking at my heart. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So what do I see? 

M. Laitman: Through it, you see your group, the whole of the world Bnei Baruch.

Reader: Through my heart. And I see either I'm going closer towards the group or moving away from it?

M. Laitman: Also. 

Student: What do I do when I see my relation to the group? 

M. Laitman: You need to make it like zero, that you and them are the same, that you don't exit the connection between you. 

Student: What in practice do I need to do? 

M. Laitman: What in practice do you need to do? Make efforts that you want to be together with them as one man with one heart. That's it. For the light to come and connect you and them together. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (59:43) How to watch over the friend's heart? 

M. Laitman: To be connected to him in general to your group. Be connected permanently, and also feel that the friend is doing so, and all of us.

Student: The connection between our hearts to one common heart. How can we depict this heart for Arvut between us?

M. Laitman: First of all, pray. I can't tell you anything new. You will hear the same words, and as a result, it will cool you, cool you down. It's best if you are directed toward your heart, and with it together, you are drawn toward the Creator, and you depict all of us together, being incorporated as one man with one heart.  

Reader: That's it. We have to end.

M. Laitman: Yes, we finished the lesson. 

Reader: How do you summarize this lesson? 

M. Laitman: Well, we talked about our situation. We scrutinized it. So that, I think, it is more or less clear to everyone. It would be desirable to read a few more excerpts from the Kambalists, and depict them as existing between us, that the upper light comes to us and connects us together with it. Good luck to everyone.