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Daily Morning Lesson: August 28, 2025

Part 3: Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Inner Observation. Chapter 4. #20

Reader: Shalom, we are reading in The Study of Ten Sefirot , Volume 1, Part 1. We are in Histaklut Pnimit, Inner Observation, chapter 4, Item 20.

Reading: (00:19) Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Inner Observation. Chapter 4. #20.

Because the will to receive is not in our root, we feel shame and intolerance in it. Our sages wrote that in order to correct this, He has “prepared” for us labor in Torah and Mitzvot in this world, to invert the will to receive into a desire to bestow.

20) From all the above-said, we learn that all the forms that are extended indirectly to us from Him contain impatience and are against our nature. By this you will understand that the new form that was made in the receiver, namely the desire to enjoy, is not in any way inferior or deficient compared to Him. Moreover, this is the primary axis of His creation. Were it not for this, there would be no creation here at all. However, the receiver, who is the carrier of this form, feels the intolerance due to his “self” since this form does not exist in his root.

By this we have succeeded in understanding the answer of our sages that this world was created because “One who eats that which is not one’s own is afraid to look upon one’s face.” This seems very perplexing, but now their words feel very pleasant to us, for they refer to the matter of disparity of form of the desire to enjoy, which necessarily exists in the souls, since “One who eats that which is not one’s own is afraid to look upon one’s face.” That is, any receiver of a present is ashamed when receiving it due to the disparity of form from the Root since the root does not have that form of reception. In order to correct this, He created this world where the soul comes and clothes a body. Through engagement in Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] in order to bring contentment to his Maker, the soul’s vessels of reception are inverted into vessels of bestowal.

Thus, for herself, she did not want the distinguished abundance, yet she receives the abundance in order to bring contentment to her Maker, who wishes for the souls to enjoy His abundance. Because she is cleansed from the will to receive for herself, she is no longer afraid to look upon her face, and this reveals the complete perfection of the created being. The need and necessity for the long cascading to this world will be explained below, that this great labor of turning the form of reception into the form of bestowal can only be conceived in this world as will be explained further later on.

M. Laitman: All right, that you could say is a preface to what we will be studying.

Question (Petach Tikva Center): (04:35) He writes that the Creator wants the soul to enjoy His abundance. That for herself, she did not want the abundance, yet she received the abundance in order to bring contentment to her Maker, who wishes for the souls to enjoy His abundance. The question is, why the necessity of this world to enjoy the abundance?

M. Laitman: Because all that we receive into the will to receive makes us more distant to the abundance, removes us from the abundance, from the light. And so, first we come to the recognition of this reality called this world, Olam HaZeh, and after we exert ourselves greatly to rise in that sensation of reality to bestowal, then we also, we come to receive the upper world above this world. And that's how we are rewarded with the opening of our eyes to the whole of reality.

Question (Turkiye 1): (06:43) How can the created beings turn their will to receive into a will to bestow? What kind of exercises can help a person in the Ten in order to come closer to that?

M. Laitman: That's exactly what we learn. How in every place where we are, in the will to receive, from the smallest to the greatest, the biggest, in either direction, we can protect ourselves and to turn what we feel in the will to receive into what we will come to feel in the will to bestow. Only in this world, in our current state here, can we do that, and we will learn about it.

Question (W Turkiye): (07:54) In the introduction to Item 20, it says we feel shame and impatience or intolerance. So, how do we cover this intolerance or impatience with love in the ten?

M. Laitman: This we will learn. We have a few forms that we have to try and go through. Then we will feel that we can receive, that we can relate to creation in a different way than we could when we were created by, as we were created by the Creator. And then we will feel that it is possible to receive creation in the will to bestow. We will learn.

Question (Florida): (08:59) How can it be that the desire to, oh sorry, how can it be that the desire to enjoy is not in any way inferior or deficient compared to Him as written in the first paragraph?

Reader: In the first paragraph it says that the new form in the receiver, meaning the will to enjoy, is not a deficiency in His value, in His essence. So, how can it be that the will to receive is not lower than Him? It seems that he's lower than Him.

M. Laitman: Why lower? There's no such definition. Lower, inferior, superior. There's simply a will to bestow in creation and the will to receive that's there in creation. And the created being, the created being needs to prefer the will to bestow over the will to receive. Because if he, if he receives the will to bestow, if he is close to that, then by that, he's closer to the Creator.

Question (Moscow 7): (10:42) When a person corrects his quality of reception to some extent with the intention to bestow, then he reaches a feeling of unpleasantness, because the Creator had to create this process relative to him.

M. Laitman: No, no, there's no such thing. Don't make things up. When the will changes in a person through his new will, he sees the whole of reality, then he has no questions. He agrees with it wholeheartedly.

Question (Kyiv 1): (11:30) It says that the desire to receive doesn't exist in our root. You said that as a result of our correction, we come to opening, to open the eyes. What does it mean that we open our eyes?

M. Laitman: We receive the desire to bestow in place of the desire to receive. It develops in us, it teaches us, it trains us to see reality through the quality of bestowal. And in that way we begin to attain reality, a different reality, in a different way than the one we were born in.

Student: Well, I have a desire to receive, which is my entire nature, and when there's something that gives me study, or Torah and Mitzvot, it develops the will to bestow. What does it mean that I feel the reality in it, in this will to bestow?

M. Laitman: These are two different kinds of qualities which exist in a person, and you can switch from one to the other. Therefore, there's no need to stick to some specific definition right now. We'll learn all this, and gradually, this will change within us.

Question (Latin 8): (13:21) The text describes how the Creator wants to give us abundance. What is this abundance? How is it connected to our daily lives, the abundance the Creator wants to give?

M. Laitman: We feel what we receive from the Creator. Before, there was a desire to receive in a person, and in it, he would feel something that comes to him from the Creator. And then, that desire in a person changes. We will learn with which steps it changes. And then, in the desire to bestow, in the new desire, he begins to feel a new reality. We will study it, learn it and understand.

Question (Almaty): (14:46) There is a concept of none else besides Him, and what we learn today is the shame of the receiver. How much are these two things connected?

M. Laitman: The desire to receive and the desire to bestow are connected to one another. They are revealed in a person in our world in accordance with his choice, what he wants to receive, in what he wants to feel himself and the whole of creation. Hence, we will feel and see this in ourselves and how this changes.

Question (W ITA): (16:01) The desire to enjoy has no lessening or no flaw because it comes from our root. How can you come to a mutual pleasure that is above this world?

M. Laitman: That's what we're learning. That's the purpose of our study. We need to rise above our nature, and then to begin in the second nature of bestowal, to begin to feel reality. And it's what we're talking about. It's what we're learning.

Question (Petach Tikva Center): (17:12) What is the root of difficulty and impatience?

M. Laitman: Our ego. That wants to grab, to receive, to pull to itself, and doesn't feel that it's capable.

Question (W Heb 1): (17:42) I wanted to ask if this transition from the will to receive to the will to bestow, what happens with the shame in such a case? Is it relevant? Does it disappear? Is it being used?

M. Laitman: We use the will to receive, if we use it, then of course we have room for shame, which, that feeling, is what moves us. Whereas if we choose to be in the desire to bestow, then we move towards coming close to the Creator in His desire to bestow so that it will be in us that way as well. So we, the opposite of that, receive a great pleasure in place of the feeling of shame.

Student: And it really disappears, we no longer work with it?

M. Laitman: Yes, we'll learn that.

Question (W Heb 1): (19:04) If my will to receive has no patience and it sees the same picture, and even worse and worse pictures, it doesn't agree with what it sees, what do I do with this kind of impatience and disagreement?

M. Laitman: Learn, learn what we need, and as a result of the study, we will start to see the extent to which our attitudes towards the will to receive changes.

Question (W PT 33): (19:44) What does it mean in practice that a person chooses the will to bestow?

M. Laitman: That is the entire purpose of our study in the wisdom of Kabbalah. As we reach states in which we begin to see how much the will to receive in us changes to a desire to bestow, and this is actually the purpose of the study.

Student: So, it isn't some action that a person does in practice?

M. Laitman: A person does part of the action, as he wants to be incorporated as much as possible in the desire to bestow, and that is considered a prayer, where he raises it to the Creator and receives the other desire in place of the first desire. The desire to bestow in place of the desire to receive.

Question (CzechSlovak 4): (21:18) Is the spiritual progress built only from a clean slate?

M. Laitman: We will learn this, we haven't learned this yet.

Student: He's asking about what we learned in the previous part, before this lesson. We saw a recorded lesson on Shamati, and there you said that a person has to start the work as a clean slate, that every day is new. So, he is asking in regards to that, if this work has to start from a clean slate.

M. Laitman: Yes, that's what's written. That every day as we start to study, we need to try to relate to what we study as a new thing.

Question (Petach Tikva Center): (23:32) He writes at the end of item 20, the importance of cascading all the way to this world will be explained below. This is the great labor of turning the form of reception into the form of bestowal can only be conceived in this world. I'm asking if this is the only role of this world, or is there another role to it?

M. Laitman: It could be that and more, but he's not telling us about it.

Student: So, there could be another purpose of this world besides discovering this gap?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Student: And that's our role, to discover it here in this world?

M. Laitman: We are learning about what he tells us.

Question (ITA 4): (24:35) If your student connects to the environment, the society, the writings of Rabash, and so on, is he able to do all the commandments? Or do we have to only focus on the connection between us? What if someone has a certain desire in him?

M. Laitman: We need to connect together to one desire as one man in one heart, and in such a way, learn and seek the more internal connection, more central connection. That is what every student needs to understand. We learned this from our study, that this is what's demanded of us, to connect in one heart, all of us.

Question (Turkiye): (25:58) How can a person develop a demand for a quality he never knew? The question is about the quality of the soul.

M. Laitman: Yes, clear. He feels that he is controlled by the will to receive, on one hand, and on the other hand, he feels that he has before him a process that he wants to acquire a desire to bestow in him. Hence, he seemingly wants in this and wants in that. So, he does all kinds of actions towards his friends, towards his study. Yes, they bring him to a state in which he needs to prefer to be in the desire to bestow in place of the desire to receive.

Question (W PT 23): (27:26) It is said, according to, because the will to receive is not in our root, we feel shame and impatience about it.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So the question is, how is it that it's not in our root, because we are a will to receive? I thought that we have to change our nature through the study from the will to receive to the will to bestow.

M. Laitman: Yes, you're actually correct. But to begin with, we don't feel, we don't receive from above, from nature, from the spiritual nature, where we are in the desire to receive. Rather, although it awakens in us, we don't attribute it to the nature we were created in, that we were born in.

Question (W Rehovot 1): (28:53) What's the difference between corporeal shame and spiritual shame?

M. Laitman: Both these shames are against the desire to receive that is revealed in us. So, spiritual shame is where I begin to feel opposite in my desire, an oppositeness to the spiritual desire.

Student: And how do we build it correctly, the spiritual shame in the Ten?

M. Laitman: Also, with the same tools, with the same vessels, with the desire to receive of a person, he receives as much as he is in order to bestow or in order to receive.

Question (W Unity): (30:18) In order to correct the shame, the Creator took us down to such a far world, where we don't even feel that the Creator is the source of life. How can we feel and depict what is life in the spiritual world?

M. Laitman: That's something that we will gradually feel, and now, for the time being, what we don't feel yet, there's no need, just try to think about it more, as much as possible, persistently yearn to feel.

Question (ITA 1): (31:15) The Creator created us in order to receive. Is the feeling of shame not opposite to the feeling of gratitude we need to have to the Creator?

M. Laitman: The feeling of shame comes from me using the desire to receive for myself. And certainly, that's not a good state, but it was given to us only for us to discover the forces that are contradicted to such a feeling, and then we will be able to rise from the desire to receive to the desire to bestow.

Question (Lithuania 1): (32:16) Does the will to receive always feel shame? Because sometimes people can not feel any responsibility.

M. Laitman: No, there's no such thing. There's nevertheless a limit here, a measure to what extent a person can receive without receiving shame, without caring about his desire.

Student: And also, how does the will to receive need to transform, in what way?

M. Laitman: It changes to the quality of bestowal.

Student: But how? It's like there's a sensation missing.

M. Laitman: That desire changes from reception to bestowal under the influence of the upper light.

Question (Petach Tikva Center): (33:20) He writes that on behalf of the soul, the soul itself doesn't want to receive the spiritual abundance, so...

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How does the matter of shame expressed here, because she doesn't want, the spiritual abundance is something opposite to her, so to begin with, there's no...

M. Laitman: Yes, for the time being, no, but if she uses the desire to receive, which is opposite the spiritual nature and the desire to bestow, then she feels the oppositeness and shame, and accordingly, a person distances from that state.

Student: Where is her opportunity to feel the shame? Because in this world, the Creator created her opposites. She feels the oppositeness, so she has no shame to feel, the Creator did that.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Now, when she rises to spirituality, she doesn't even want the abundance, she does that against the desire, so she also can't feel shame, and the labor cancels the shame. So, where does she feel shame?

M. Laitman: If she wants to do some… she wants to perform some act of reception, then she feels shame, where she is precisely opposite from the Creator.

Question (ITA 3): (35:24) When I read the articles or listen to the explanations, the mind agrees with it, but the heart and the organs resist bestowing, and it seems to me like a boundary I can't push through. What can I do?

M. Laitman: Continue, continue as much as possible, and then we will see how much we are coming closer more and more to the desire to bestow, understand it more, and feel it more, until it inverts in us, until we receive it as a new desire.

Question (W PT 8): (36:24) He writes that by herself, she didn't want the abundance, only received it to bestow contentment to her Maker, who wants the created beings to receive. So, the Creator wants us to enjoy, ultimately, but on the other hand, He puts us in a world filled with pain and sorrow. How should we relate to this world in order to advance towards what the Creator wants?

M. Laitman: That's what we're learning. That is already the practical wisdom of Kabbalah, where we need to be connected in Tens or more than that, and to perform actions, special acts of bestowal and not of reception. And this is how we come close to that form of life, existence in which the Kabbalists like Baal HaSulam recommend for us to do.

Student: And what's their attitude as a connected society that wants to be in bestowal? How should we relate to the pictures the Creator paints to us in this world?

M. Laitman: We need to try to accept these pictures, these forms, and to try to observe them, to sustain them.

Student: What does it mean to carry them out?

M. Laitman: Meaning to be ready for us to be in this.

Question (H 3): (38:25) I feel shame in the will to receive only when I try to advance to bestow?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Unity 2): (38:52) The feeling of shame within reason, that's somehow helpful to advance above reason?

M. Laitman: It's possible that yes. But for the time being, it's something that doesn't belong to us. It's the next degrees, the higher degrees. We will feel, we will be ashamed in our desire, in our states.

Student: That's how we will rise to faith above reason, or we have some other…?

M. Laitman: There are many more things that we need. So, learn and be quiet, we'll be fine.

Question (Petach Tikva Center): (39:54) Can we understand the feeling of shame, that automatically as much as there is shame there's also longing for bestowal, one opposite the other?

M. Laitman: The feeling of shame comes according to the feeling of the desire to receive, that the created being uses. And if he stops using the desire to receive, then he also stops feeling shame.

Student: And the more the created being feels shame, it will necessarily awaken a longing in the direction of bestowal?

M. Laitman: Not directly, not directly. But gradually, we will feel it ourselves.

Question (Salt Lake City): (40:57) Is our “me,” our “I” made of the matter of shame? How to work with that?

M. Laitman: No, the person's “I” comes from within the desire to receive in which, if he fills it only towards himself, then he can be ashamed from doing it, as in this action he is opposite the Creator. And if he wants to identify with the Creator, then in his desire to receive, he makes a change and makes with it an intention in order to bestow. And then all the light he receives into himself, he feels that he's using it in order to bestow.

Question (W PT 6): (42:25) It says, he prepared for us in this world the labor in Torah and Mitzvot to invert the will to receive into the will to bestow. What's the right labor that the Creator prepared for us?

M. Laitman: The correct labor is to rise above the desire to receive to the desire to bestow.

Question (W Turkiye 7): (44:19) In the study, we try to reach the root of the soul. And here it says that the first state of the soul was lack of equivalence of form. My question is then, what root are we trying to reach, to discover?

M. Laitman: We're trying to reveal the desire to receive that is in acts of bestowal, and therefore feels itself not in place. And he performs all kinds of actions in order to reach the form of bestowal. And this is what he does in order to correct himself, and therefore, we need to check him and see how much he's included in acts of reception or bestowal.

Question (W Turkiye): (45:49) What can help us see the complete reality of bestowal now, also at the present state? How to see the complete reality?

M. Laitman: We can't, because our desire is a desire to receive. And we invert everything we see from everything we're in, in an opposite way, according to our desire. That's why it's impossible for us to see, to identify that. But by the study, by exercises, we come close to the desire to bestow. We begin to receive the surrounding light which circumvents us, wraps us around from all directions. And as a result, we begin to be connected to the surrounding light, and thus we gradually advance towards a Kli which is all bestowal.

Question (W Moscow 6): (47:27) What is clothed in the action above when we bring contentment to the Maker? What is the action itself, when we make an action? How do I grasp that point, that we're doing it for the Creator?

M. Laitman: That's your intention, meaning what you're thinking about. What evokes this action in you?

Question (W Heb 1): (48:06) And how do I not lose these moments of bestowal, where I always feel like I'm in goodness and bestowal? How do I grasp this every time, to be in that place of bestowal and not reception?

M. Laitman: Try to constantly, especially before the lesson, to read, to think about acts of bestowal, and then you’ll start to feel how much we learn in a close way to them, to those qualities, or in a far away from them.

Question (W Heb 1): (48:59) The feeling of shame is that the thing that guards us from wanting to receive some higher fulfillment and settle for the correction taking place?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Beer Sheva): (49:33) In the beginning of item 20, it says because the will to receive is not in our root, we feel shame in it and impatience. And in order to correct it, we were given the labor in Torah and Mitzvot to invert the will to receive to the will to bestow. My question is, this remedy that is recommended here, the Torah and Mitzvot, is that in order to change habits, or there is remedy in that. What is it in the Torah?

M. Laitman: The Torah has light that is in the vessels, and as we want to come close to that inner force that is in the vessels called light, we invite upon ourselves this bestowal. And it is called that we are trying to reach our root.

Student: So, can we see it as reward and punishment in our work in Torah and Mitzvot?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, if you want, you start to relate to it as a reward and punishment.

M. Laitman: Where are we now?

Reader: We are in item 21.

Reading: (51:13) Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Inner Observation. Chapter 4. #21.

The wicked lose twofold, and the righteous will inherit twofold.

21) Come and see that the wicked lose twofold for they hold both ends of the rope. This world is created with absence and emptiness of all the good abundance, and in order to acquire possessions we need movement. It is known that profusion of movement pains man, for it is an indirect extension from His essence. However, it is also impossible to remain devoid of possessions and good, for this, too, is in contrast with the root, since the root is filled abundantly. Hence, we choose the torment of movement in order to acquire filling with possessions.

However, because all their possessions and property are for themselves alone, and “he who has a hundred wants two hundred,” it follows that “One does not die with half one’s wishes in one’s hand.” Thus, they suffer from both sides: from the pain of increased motion, and from the pain of deficiency of possessions, half of which they lack.

But “The righteous in their land will inherit twofold.” In other words, once they turn their will to receive into a desire to bestow, and what they receive is in order to bestow, they inherit twofold. Not only do they attain the perfection of the pleasures and a variety of possessions, they also acquire the equivalence of form with their Maker. Thus, they come to true adhesion and are also at rest since the abundance comes to them by itself, without any movement or effort.

Question (New York 1): (54:03) If we in the Ten determined that we don't feel the Creator, what can we do?

M. Laitman: Everything that's written for us in the study of this book, we need to receive and to practically try and implement it.

Question (Lithuania 1): (54:34) The shame, do we need to long for the shame to appear, or is it a gift from the Creator?

M. Laitman: Shame is the feeling that a person is out of being in sync with the plan of the Creator.

Question (Almaty): (55:11) I would like to scrutinize the matter of intentions and desires. When we reveal the will to receive, there's a problem that we also reveal the intention for self. So, we need to clean the desire and form the intention to bestow. So, the will to receive never disappears. Where does the will to bestow come from? When we feel the will to bestow, which is already the revelation of the Creator, because it's His desire, but the will to receive still remains. Is that correct?

M. Laitman: Well, that's already a completely different desire with another intention. So, in essence, yes, you're correct.

Question (W Kabu 2): (56:03) In my Ten, we talk about the desire to bestow all the time. And how else we can influence the Creator to reward us with the desire to bestow now?

M. Laitman: The main thing we talk about is our attitude towards friends where, in accordance to that which I relate to the friends, through them, I relate to the Creator. And that's the main thing we need to do exercises daily.

Question (W NY 3): (57:00) We just read that that we would receive twofold if we were to work for the Creator. Why doesn't the ego work hard if you're going to get off this? Why don't we have the effort to get twofold?

M. Laitman: No, it all depends on how we look at creation. That's it. We will learn more.

Question (W Spa): (58:14) How the fact that we are justifying the Creator and accept all the states which He sends us reduces the feeling of separation between the will to receive and the will to bestow. You said that they are joining.

M. Laitman: We can bring them closer to one another according to our intention. To the extent in which we intend to connect and bring them closer. That's it.

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