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Daily Lesson June 22, 2025.

Part 3: Lesson on the topic of “Winning the War”

Reader: We’re in a lesson on the topic of “Winning the War,” and study sources for the strengthening of the world Kli and for the peace in the world. Now we're going to read item number 7 from Shamati article number 19 by Baal HaSulam. 

Reading: (00:26) Item 7. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 19, "What Is 'The Creator Hates the Bodies,' in the Work?" 

One should believe that the obstructions of the will to receive in the work come to him from above. One is given the force to discover the will to receive from above because there is room for work precisely when the will to receive awakens.

Then one has close contact with the Creator to help him turn the will to receive to work in order to bestow. One must believe that from this extends contentment to the Creator, from his praying to Him to draw him near in the manner of Dvekut [adhesion], called “equivalence of form,” discerned as the annulment of the will to receive, so it is in order to bestow. The Creator says about this, “My sons defeated Me.” That is, I gave you the will to receive, and you ask Me to give you a desire to bestow instead.

M. Laitman: Yes, this is the beginning of our work, that we begin to feel how much, how opposite we are from the Creator. That to him, receiving the upper light, being in contact with the emanator is the only thing that is worthwhile, that he wants. And we were born with the will to receive for ourselves, and until we begin to feel the difference between our nature, the will to receive, and the nature of the Creator, the desire to bestow, it takes us a long time and a lot of strength. It requires, it takes up a lot of energy from us. Therefore, it is worthwhile for us to be impressed by the Kabbalists, by people who have already been rewarded with feeling the operations of the Creator as they are, in bestowal, and in this way we will gradually approach a state that is opposite from our state. Meaning, which is only a desire to bestow, so much so that we will begin to feel in our will to receive, we will begin to perceive our will to receive as our enemy. All the thoughts and desires that we feel as coming against us are all from our own will to receive. And we need to feel them, distinguish them, and as much as possible, move away from them. This is our work. And in our work, we can advance to a state where the will to receive in which we were born and exist, is against us. It is against us. And gradually, through the connection between us, when we connect the vessels, when each of us wants to help the others, first to his friends who are with him in the same Ten, then each one wants to help the others, his friends, to rise more and more. Then it turns out that the work of bestowal, which we did not know how to connect in us is intended in us so that we, through helping our friends, can become similar to the Creator. In this way, a person begins the process of similarity with the Creator until he ends this process and sees in it how much the correction, his correction, which he receives from above, is opposite from the state in which he was created. It is the opposite. He was in the will to receive in order to receive. And through the influence of the light on him, he comes to receiving, to receive in order to bestow. He comes into reception in order to bestow. In other words, the intention changed here, the relation, his approach to what he does. And this is how he advances. And we need to understand that the will to receive, although it seems to be disrupting our work of bestowal, it is help made against us, where a person who begins to overcome it, approaches it, and defeats it. This is basically what we need to depict to ourselves.

Question (PT 35): (09:39) How in that the Creator helps me and lets me reveal the force of the will to receive, how does that cause me to identify with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The Creator, who gives you a little more of the will to bestow each time, gives you a possibility to feel the gap between the will to bestow and the will to receive, meaning, it already builds in you by this, two systems, the system of reception and the system of bestowal. And in the system of reception, you can feel your own nature, how opposite it is from the Creator. And in the system of bestowal, you try to become similar to Him as much as you can. 

Student: I have another question, may I? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: He writes here that I need to believe that it comes from the Creator, right? So, how does that change how I relate to the prayer? When I know that it comes from the Creator, how should I change my attitude towards the prayer, or my attitude in the prayer in terms of how I address the Creator if I believe that it all comes from Him? 

M. Laitman: If you have only the possibility to enlarge this desire, and from the side of the Creator accordingly, He gives you the power to actualize this desire, to receive in order to bestow. This is how it works for each and every one. It depends greatly on the exertion, on the exertion that we try to show.  

Question (USA Northeast): (12:04) You mentioned earlier that we have to start to see the ego as an enemy. So my question is, we know that the ego wants to exploit everything for itself. Will we ever be able to exploit the ego for the sake of Kedusha? Will we have the ability to do that? 

M. Laitman: The will to receive is unrelated to Kedusha or Klipa, the shell, but the intention how to use that same will to receive for the benefit of myself or for the benefit of the Creator and everyone, this is what can change. So, if we begin to feel how much we are the opposite of the Creator, to that same extent we will want to change ourselves and reach a state where each and everyone will try to be similar to the Creator, to perform His actions so as to be as bestowing as possible. This is how we try to do it until we complete all of the corrections. The entire will to receive will be in order to bestow. This is what the whole of humanity should reach. And this is how we will complete our labor.

Question (Turkiye 1): (14:24) How does a person transition from a prayer for the will to receive for himself to a prayer for the will to bestow? How does a person transform his prayer?

M. Laitman: It all depends on the person. From the side of the Creator, He only has giving towards us, and that does not change. But we can change our intention over the actions of reception or the actions of bestowal. Therefore, it all depends on the person. 

Question (PT 19): (15:29) It says here, it says that a person needs to believe that the Creator gets contentment from a person praying to Him, and he needs to feel that, believe that. How do I know that the Creator receives contentment, gets contentment from me when I pray to Him? If I don't feel anything yet, how can I feel that He is being content or is content with me? 

M. Laitman: Try to perform actions where you bestow to Him, and in these actions, you will feel your relation to the Creator, and the Creator's relation to you. 

Student: So, do I need to see that things are getting better in my life, or is it completely unrelated? 

M. Laitman: You need to feel your whole life as better. 

Student: How does it manifest, that betterment? 

M. Laitman: In a feeling.

Student: Not physically in any way? 

M. Laitman: No, first of all, in the feeling. Then, physically, that's also possible. 

Student: But you feel it in your life, right? You feel better.

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, of course. Try and you'll see. 

Student: All right.

Question (ITA 3): (17:14) The will to receive always wants fulfillment. Will we ever reach, or rather, how can we reach a point where the will to receive doesn't want any compensation? 

M. Laitman: No. There are such desires to receive that we don't need to fill them. But nevertheless, the way we relate to them will be as a giver. This is how we get closer. 

Student: What answer can we give the ego when it asks for fulfillment? Is there any kind of trick? 

M. Laitman: Yes, if we want to stand against our ego, then we turn to the Creator and we ask Him for forces, for the force of bestowal. And we want to always have the force of bestowal. This is how we get closer to the truth, to the goal. When we reach more and more equivalence of form with the Creator, He bestows, and we also reach bestowal. That is all.

Question (Nizhniy Novgorod): (19:36) How to see the friend as a bestower? And when the friend becomes a bestower, is it the Creator bestowing upon us, and we become… we start bestowing upon Him? 

M. Laitman: I don't quite understand. That is, if you don't have a friend who bestows upon you, then you can not change, right? [Sorry, waiting for Hebrew translation]. But if the friend doesn't bestow, you don't have to change.

Student: But when I see the friend bestowing, it means that I am bestowing, and that the Creator receives bestowal from us. There's a certain moment of transition here, that's what I'm asking about. 

M. Laitman: You bestow in that you see what the friend needs, what he requires, and you assist him in getting that. This is how it works. 

Student: When we become bestowers, that specific moment, when Malchut becomes Keter, that transition, there's a very fine nuance to that, and that's what we want to feel? 

M. Laitman: It depends only on the intention, only on the intention. Either you want to bestow through your action, or you want to receive through your action. That's what you have in you.

Student: You want to feel it. 

M. Laitman: Yes. In principle, you don't really have the possibility to bestow. You can bestow only if you have an intention to bestow. And this intention can work both with reception and also with bestowal. That does not matter if it's one or the other. 

Question (PT 24): (22:36) In the stages of preparation, when I'm supposed to care for the friends, what should I think about? That the friend will have a lack, or that the friend will receive a feeling of fulfillment? Which one? 

M. Laitman: No, you can't be concerned about his deficiency. There will be states where it will be possible. But we're talking about the fact that the friends have deficiencies, and I want to help them fill them. And by that, to give contentment to our Creator. That is all.

Question (Latin 7): (23:31)Is it correct to say that the will to receive perceives the Creator's actions as good and bad, while the will to bestow sees them as only good? 

M. Laitman: The will to receive is a desire that enjoys reception from the Creator. The will to bestow is a desire that enjoys bestowal to the Creator. And all the rest is about receiving more or bestowing more. This is how it works for us.

Question (Latin 11): (25:50) How to improve our discernments so as to be more beneficial to the Ten? 

M. Laitman: The more you will perform these actions, actions of connection between you, in connecting the Ten, you will be able to bestow to the upper one, to the Creator in a better way, in a way that is stronger, more beneficial. So, try to think only about the connection, and that the connection between you is what elevates you upwards. 

Student: You focus us on our thoughts. Many times we have distracting thoughts, and we have a hard time focusing, and this doesn't let us find the good discernments. It prevents us from bestowing upon each other properly. We have many weaknesses in that sense. 

M. Laitman: I did not understand the question. 

Student: What to do with those distracting thoughts, those disruptions which weaken us? 

M. Laitman: Fight against them. Fight against such thoughts that distance me from the Creator, that pull me away from the path towards adhesion with Him. This is what we need to do. 

Question (PT 4): (26:50) What is considered a will to receive? One's personal yearning to adhere to the Creator, or one's yearning to help the friends adhere to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The will to receive wants to fulfill itself. As the Creator created it, so it wants to be. And all of the actions of restriction and bestowing back to the Creator, these are actions of correction. That's what we learn about. And so, what we need to do during the day is to connect between us, to discover to what extent each one can help the others in order to carry it out, and then to check ourselves to what kind of bestowal towards the Creator we have reached. According to our nature, we can receive from the friends, from the Creator. That is all. There is no more. To something or to someone. And so, it is important for us to connect together in order to connect our desires to receive, and also our desires to bestow, and to see what do we reach if we connect to a great will to receive or to a great will to bestow. 

Student: How from the connection between us, when we connect the desires to receive or even the desires to bestow, how do we truly reach the intention in order to bestow? 

M. Laitman: We can connect between us in order to bestow to the Creator. So, this is the only thing that we have standing before us, opposite us, as the correct action, because by that we identify with the Creator according to our awareness of the situation that He bestows, and we also bestow. He receives, but we do not receive. We can only give. This is our work. 

Student: But it follows that we either receive or we don't receive, and we want to bestow. There's no situation where we truly bestow. 

M. Laitman: No, but the fact that we want to bestow, let's say we connect between us in order to carry out the action of bestowal, and by that we elevate ourselves above the will to receive, and we feel accordingly. 

Question (PT 11): (31:09) I heard now that there are lacks in the friends which I need to try and satisfy and fulfill, and by that I bestow contentment upon the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: If I want to do that, where should I begin? 

M. Laitman: If you want… 

Student: If I want to fill the friends’ lacks throughout the day, where should I begin? 

M. Laitman: By getting closer to them, and from this nearing you want to open up their desire to receive. You want to embrace them, warm them up, and by you being like them in an act of bestowal one to the other and the other to the first, you’ll be able to begin to fill them. And from that you will feel a great filling, a great pleasure that by this you become similar to the Creator. 

Question (PT 31): (32:52) Human nature is to receive. That's nature. And suddenly he comes and asks for his nature to be replaced. So, I wanted to ask, a person, when he asks for something, usually he feels that he deserves it. So, the question is, what gives the person the right and the power to ask for a new desire, to ask it from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: We discover the Creator's desire to bestow to us, and we discover that only His force operates in the whole of reality. And therefore, we want to get closer to Him. This drawing closer is according to how I equalize my desire with His desire. He entirely bestows, and I entirely receive. So what I do want is, I want to be in in order to bestow. He is either to bestow in order to bestow or to receive in order to bestow. 

Student: Every person has the right to ask? 

M. Laitman: Every person. Every person should try to get closer to a place or to people that he can be impressed by towards an act of bestowal. 

Student: Is this right? Do you not purchase by some means? 

M. Laitman: No, you can't acquire it, but only through labor. If you labor in your Ten, as much as you want to be together with everyone in order to carry out this action, this action of bestowal, then you will succeed. 

Question (Lithuania 1): (35:25) How to feel and hear the friend's lacks? Well, if we don't really talk to each other? It might come from the mind or from the heart.

M. Laitman: That does not matter. The most important is what you think of, what you dream about, what you decide about, and from the decision that you took, you want to implement it in practice.

Student: So, it can be said that if I don't feel certain needs, then the friends also lack the same thing, and then I can pray to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: No, no, no. You shouldn't measure the friends according to your criteria. It's not worthwhile, no.

Question (Latin 1): (36:39) What is the intention and where is it, in mind or heart? 

M. Laitman: The intention is in the heart. All of our work is the work in the heart. The the brain only prepares actions, requests, appeals to the Creator. All of the work is in the emotion, and this is in the heart. 

Question (W Spain): (37:26) The greatest weapon in this war against our ego is prayer. So, how to raise our prayer so that the Creator says, my sons have defeated me? 

M. Laitman: Together. We can perform all of the actions only by getting closer, embracing together in the Ten, and from the Ten, we raise the deficiency. 

Question (W Moscow 6): (38:18) By what means can we perform an examination in the Ten to see what level of bestowal we've reached? 

M. Laitman: To what kind of bestowal we reach? We have to achieve such bestowal that it will resemble the Creator. And this, of course, is a very high degree, but until we reach it in the Ten, we will be, we will reach something that is tens times or hundreds of times less than that degree. 

Question (W Rehovot 1): (39:23) Thank you, Rav. When or how does it happen that a person's disruptions become an aid against himself? 

M. Laitman: This is already a very high degree. Meaning that even our own nature, which is only the will to receive, we can invert it to be in order to bestow. And in this way to work against the will to receive. 

Student: What can be regarded a victory by the Creator? The feeling, the outcome? 

M. Laitman: You should go for the small victories. What does that mean? That this time, I actually succeeded in doing something in the morning, and then I succeeded in doing something at noon. Like that, one after the other. And accordingly, you will see, you will have a feeling that you are drawing near or drawing afar. You’re doing something together with the friends, and with the Creator, or not. 

Question (MAK 11): (41:25) How can we fulfill the friend's lacks? 

M. Laitman: By helping them in your actions. That is all. Scrutinize what it is that they want, and try to be with them in that. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (42:04) You said that we need to replace the nature of the receiver with the nature of the bestower. Does it mean that in any desire that is revealed, any desire to receive, we should set the connection with the friends and bestowal towards them? 

M. Laitman: I think so. 

Student: And in that action, where I connect the friend's desire to myself through bestowal upon the friend, how can I make the Creator act? 

M. Laitman: When you are with your friend, when you connect together into one whole, and then when you turn to the Creator, you turn to Him as one person turning to the Creator. And then the Creator can no longer refuse you.

Question (Azerbaijan): (43:26) All the interruptions, all the problems in the group, in the Ten, are overcome when we have the greatness of the Creator, exalting the Creator. By that, we overcome the disruptions. So, how can we magnify the importance of the Creator more? In the whole group, in the whole world Kli, covering everything with love? 

M. Laitman: This is possible only if you are among such people that this is important for them. And then together, you elevate His greatness, you raise His greatness in the conversations between you, in the meals that you prepare, in the discussions between you, and so forth. This is how His greatness is raised. The more you elevate between you the greatness of the Creator, so you will also elevate yourselves. 

Student: By elevating the greatness of the Creator, we also delight Him?

M. Laitman: Of course. 

Question (W Heb 1): (44:59) I wanted to ask about coming closer to the friends. What does it mean? What is that action of coming closer? 

M. Laitman: Nearing to the friends, it's an act where they feel within their heart that they are together with the other friends in the Ten, and that they are thinking about the same action together.

Student: So, to bestow to the friends, you have to first come closer to them? What does it mean? 

M. Laitman: Yes, to get close means to equalize the form. 

Student: In our intentions? 

M. Laitman: In the intention, yes. 

Student: () What does it mean to open the friend's will to receive? Do I need to listen to their corporeal and spiritual desires and from that to understand what to ask for? What does it mean to open? 

M. Laitman: To open, that I show them how much I'm willing to be together with them. 

Question (W Turkiye): (46:37) How to ensure that when I bestow upon the friends, the pleasure I receive from that doesn't enter my ego, my pride? 

M. Laitman: I'm not sure how to answer that, but if you start performing actions in order to bestow to the Creator, then you will also begin to feel what you are doing in the direction of bestowing to the Creator or in the direction of receiving to the Creator, and then you will not have a question.

Question (Haifa 1): (47:37) Is there a way to connect without loving? 

M. Laitman: Our love is a different kind of love. Love that comes from the giver to the receiver. Meaning, if each one in the Ten wants to bestow to the others, then it is considered that he loves them.

Student: And this is called spiritual Arvut? 

M. Laitman: That too. 

Question (PT 29): (48:31) It says here that a person should believe that if the will to receive obstructs him from working, that comes from above, obstructs him in the work. Why should he believe that it comes from above?

M. Laitman: Because he can't feel that. He only has the possibility to believe. To believe means to accept what his teacher, let's say, says about it, the friends in the group. And he accepts it even though he can't measure it or check it. 

Student: If a person just thinks that it's the will to receive growing, just because it's the nature of the will to receive, what should he do then? 

M. Laitman: You can give such questions as much as you want. I'm telling you how it is. Okay, by that we finish our lesson for today. And I hope that you will check our materials, and tomorrow, you'll be ready for a more significant ascent, okay? 

Reader: So, thank you, Rav, and we'll continue to the summary of the lesson in the Tens.