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Baal HaSulam. Shamati, 77. One’s Soul Shall Teach Him

LESSON MATERIAL

77. One’s Soul Shall Teach Him

I heard on Elul 8, August 24, 1947

“One’s soul shall teach him.”

It is known that the whole Torah is learned primarily for the needs of the soul, for those who have already been rewarded with a discernment of a soul. Nevertheless, they must crave and search words of Torah of others who attained, to learn new ways from them, which the previous ones invented in their innovations in the Torah. By this it will be easy for them to advance in the high degrees, meaning that through them they will advance from degree to degree.

But there is a Torah that is forbidden to disclose, since each soul should make that scrutiny by itself, and not that someone will make that scrutiny for him. Hence, before they make the scrutiny themselves, it is forbidden to disclose to them the words of Torah.

This is why the great ones hide many things. And except for this part, there is great benefit to the souls by what they receive from innovations of the Torah of others. And “One’s soul shall teach him” how and what to receive and to be assisted by the innovations in the Torah of others, and what he himself must innovate.