READING: BETWEEN AFTER MIDNINGHT AND DAWN TUESDAY

Baal HaSulam. Shamati, 27. What Is “The Lord Is High and the Low Will See”? – 1

LESSON MATERIAL

27. What Is “The Lord Is High and the Low Will See”? – 1

I heard on Shabbat Terumah, March 5, 1949, Tel-Aviv

“The Lord is high and the low will see.” How can there be equivalence with the Creator when man is the receiver and the Creator is the Giver? The verse says about this, “The Lord is high and the low…”

If one annuls oneself, then one has no authority that separates him from the Creator. In that state, one “will see,” meaning he is imparted Mochin de Hochma, “and the high will know from afar.” However, someone with pride, meaning one who has his own authority, is distanced, since he lacks the equivalence.

Lowliness is not considered one’s lowering oneself before others. This is humbleness, and one feels wholeness in this work. Rather, lowliness means that the world despises him. Precisely when people despise, it is considered lowliness, for then he does not feel any wholeness, for it is a law that what people think influences a person.

Therefore, if people respect him, he feels whole; and those whom people despise think of themselves as low.