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Daily Morning Lesson: August 7, 2025

Part 3: Subjugating the Heart - Selected excerpts from the sources

Reader: Hello, we are reading from a document “Subjugating the Heart”, selected excerpts from the sources. We'll start from excerpt number one.

Reading: (00:13) 1. RABASH, Article No. 18 (1984), "And It Shall Come to Pass When You Come to the Land that the Lord Your God Gives You"

One should fight with oneself to subdue the heart, which is where these desires clothe, expel the domination of the will to receive, and give full governance to the desire to bestow upon the Creator. When one begins to work the holy work, which is to aim all of his work for the Creator, the wars between those two desires begin. Then, through great labor, a person is rewarded with overcoming and he wins the war. At that time the ruling of the will to bestow upon the Creator enters his heart. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:07) What does it mean to subjugate the heart, this action of subjugating the heart? 

M. Laitman: The heart is the will to receive. And one can manage the heart, to subjugate it, meaning to lower the intensity of its power of reception in the heart. And so, gradually, he can come closer to, from, in order to receive to in order to bestow. 

Student: So, what is this war that begins to take place here? As he writes here, that this war between two desires begins.

M. Laitman: Yes, the will to receive, which is man's nature, and the will to bestow. He sometimes feels that governance. And his goal in the work is to come to see how the will to bestow governs him. And he wants to come out from under its rule. 

Student: It begins that one should fight with oneself to subdue the heart. What is this war that one does with oneself in order to subdue his heart?

M. Laitman: Because the heart of the person is from the will to receive, meaning that he wants to delight himself with everything he sees in his world. And so, man's work is to distance himself as much as possible from reception. And to teach himself how he can become more free. 

Student: How does he win the war?

M. Laitman: Ultimately, he comes to see that he cannot win the war even with the smallest desires. And then, he has no alternative. He must ask the Creator to perform the correction.

Student: So, who wins the war? The person wins? The Creator wins? 

M. Laitman: The person wins. 

Student: The person wins the war. What's the action of winning the war? 

M. Laitman: The act of winning is where a person sees that he doesn't have the powers by which to go to war and achieve something. Instead, he needs to ask it of the Creator. And then from the Creator he receives such forces. And with these forces, he establishes himself as the victor.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:23) Is it correct to say that the war is to turn to the Creator? Because that's the hardest thing. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Meaning, if I won the war, it means that I succeeded to turn to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Why is it hard to turn to the Creator? It should be easy. There's someone who can help, so why shouldn't I turn to Him? Why isn't there this inner mechanism that helps me, that allows that to happen?

M. Laitman: That's because of the nature of man, which is called the evil inclination. He wants to feel only himself and establish only himself. And to begin with, he's entirely oriented towards, “I shall rule.” Therefore, and therefore, that's how he acts, and the person needs to see the extent to which the will to receive controls him, and how he wants to nullify the control of the will to receive, and so to drive it out. 

Reader: Rav, we have questions from our friends in the world. 

M. Laitman: Yes, where? 

Reader: We can start from Turkey One.

Question (Turkiye 1): (07:20) Is the heart of the person in the hands of the Creator? If that's the case, how does a person get involved in this process? 

M. Laitman: The person doesn't want to be in the same system he was born in, because he feels that ultimately it makes of him a person who needs to constantly submit. And so, therefore, what a person asks for, he wants to be free, not to be under the control of any force. And when he reaches such states he sees that the most effective is to be without the force that's above him. All right? 

Question (Kyiv 1): (09:39) Dear Rav, how do I imagine to myself this success, this winning upon the evil inclination, that I subdued it? How does that come into expression, this winning? 

M. Laitman: Even when a force awakens in me which is against the Creator, against His control, I can subdue it and be above it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:44) We want to be in control of our heart. What are these qualities of a person who is in control of his heart? 

M. Laitman: We want to be masters over our hearts. And I don't actually understand. 

Student: What are the qualities of one who is a master of his heart? 

Student: We need to be masters of our heart. So, what are the qualities of someone who succeeds to be a master of their heart? What are the qualities of that person? 

M. Laitman: All of the desires that awaken in that man's heart, he knows how to subdue these desires, how to submit them and bring them to a state where he is in control of them. And that's what we need. 

Student: Who is a master of their heart? Is he...

M. Laitman: A master of the heart, that's the person himself who can... who is capable of generating such a state where he can be above his desire, where he is Ein Sof, in love, but he can be above that desire in love of others.

Question (Azerbaijan): (13:29) Me, opposite the Creator, I'm in a very lowly state. Sometimes it feels like my friend is also in a lowly state like I am. So, who do I pray for first in that state? 

M. Laitman: It's not a simple question. To make a simple question of this, then that person who is under the control of his ego, is the one who decides what he should start battling against, and what he has to subdue. Hence, the question is, who do I listen to in such a state? 

Student: Can Psalms help? 

M. Laitman: Yes.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:02) When the recognition of evil becomes fully revealed, of course there is a plea to the Creator and the desire that the point in the heart will rule. And then there is a need for balance, like you said before, that I want to be somewhat free, not just attached to the mother. How do we find this balance? 

M. Laitman: If we were to feel that balance, then we would see where it is. 

Student: How to feel it? 

M. Laitman: How do you feel it? Observe that which is written in the wisdom of Kabbalah, what we are being advised to do. And then I can rise above my desire and be free of it.

Question (Florida): (16:13) How to locate the Creator in order to turn to Him?  

M. Laitman: All together, a person should depict to himself his will to receive. That it is what is in his heart and manages him, arranges things for him. And then, efforts need to be made in order to leave this will to receive himself for a desire to bestow for the benefit of others. And as long as he sees that he is succeeding or not succeeding in this war, as long as he feels that he is not with a desire to bestow above the desire to receive, and controlling the desire to receive, it is not considered that he has left this war. 

Reader: Rav, we will read excerpt number two, where he expands on how we can defeat our evil. So, Rabash writes, 

Reading: (18:09) 2. RABASH, Article No. 926, "Come unto Pharaoh"

One will not think that he can submit his evil inclination by himself. Rather, as it is written, “Man’s inclination overcomes him every day. Were it not for the help of the Creator, he would not overcome it.” Hence, one should not say that he cannot defeat his evil, for he must believe that the Creator will help him. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:42) The Friend sent us a question. He is asking, if on the one hand, man can subjugate his heart, but on the other hand, man cannot do anything without the Creator, so how does it coincide that on the one hand the person needs to subjugate his heart, but he cannot do anything if the Creator doesn’t do it? A person can't do a thing with his own forces, but rather in the appeal to the Creator, in a request to the Creator, he asks, scrutinizes with all his forces, he can only subjugate himself. Whereas all his forces that rise against the control of the Creator, he can subjugate them gradually, and eventually, he comes to a state in which he sees that the Creator exists, remains, and grows above all the other forces. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:13) So, how can he subjugate his heart without the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Alone? Of course he can't. 

Student: So, what does he do? It sounds like the Creator, the man, cannot do anything. So, what's his role?

M. Laitman: A person reveals himself to begin with. That he exists from forces of reception and forces of bestowal, and then it depends on his scrutiny with who he wants to exist. 

Reader: We will continue. We have questions from around the world.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Hungarian-Polish): (21:03) The Creator calls us. How to ask him for help to win the war? 

M. Laitman: Yes, we need to turn to the Creator and ask him for the forces to triumph. This state, the forces of bestowal and forces of reception against one another as they awaken in us such that eventually, certainly, the success will be in us with a desire to bestow can subjugate the desire to receive. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:02) He says here that a person needs to make a lot of effort, and then he merits overcoming. The question is, what's the effort, the labor really about? It explains in the end, the person is a field of war, a battlefield, either the will to receive controls or the will to bestow controls. And there's a mechanism here of labor. What's labor really about? 

M. Laitman: The desires in a person. In these desires he prefers to receive the desires to bestow over to receive.

Student: Who is that one that prefers this mechanism of reception and bestowal? Who's the chooser, the one who prefers?

Student: The one who prefers is the person.

Student: Is there a mechanism there that learns, that becomes experienced? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, we read more, we learn more, and this is how we scrutinize things more. 

Student: But then in the next battle, there's still greater inclination and higher will to bestow, and he's again in this spot. So, where does the experience come into play? 

M. Laitman: It all gets depicted within a person, accumulates within him, and eventually, a person determines who will win.

Student: What is left of this, all of this in the end? 

M. Laitman: From all of this, what remains to a person is the feeling that he subjugates, through different forces that are in him, the force that advances the Creator.

Reader: But next time, when another challenge comes, he'll have to choose again. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And he might not succeed next time.

M. Laitman: Right, right. That's why it's called the daily battle, the daily war. That we, nevertheless, we nevertheless hold ourselves where we are with the force of bestowal to battle against the forces of reception.

Student: And there's peace at the end of this war? 

M. Laitman: There isn't peace. Peace is kind of an agreement between the two of them, and it cannot be, because there are no forces in which each holds on to his nature, and there's no one who can win in the end. The triumphant, in the end, is the Creator, as He can subjugate these forces, and by that, the war ends.

Question (Lithuania 1): (25:55) We learned before about faith in the Rav. How does it help us Kline ourselves from intentions to receive? 

M. Laitman: The faith in his Rav helps a person rise above all kinds of forces that are revealed in him, and eventually help a person rise above all the operating forces in him, and manage them from above. 

Question (Bulgaria 1): (26:50) When we're learning about war, we're also learning about restriction, screen, reflected light. That's what it's about? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Latin 2): (27:17) To be most of the days in the lesson is most of our war. So, how can we extract the force to overcome the heart and always be in the lesson? 

M. Laitman: Every day we wake up with new forces, and that's how we need to advance from day to day. And all together what remains for us after a work day? As we were in a search for the force of bestowal, where the force of bestowal was revealed within us, it showed itself, and eventually we can point at it and say, that is the force I want to triumph with. And like that, every day the force of reception becomes or subjugates before the force of bestowal, until we truly receive the force of bestowal that is great, and defeat the force of reception this way. I really don't know there are so many questions. 

Question (Women Latin 24): (29:32) How to know, to differentiate between the wisdom of the heart and the desire to receive what's in the heart. 

M. Laitman: The desire to receive in the heart is a desire to fill itself. And the wisdom of the heart is where the heart is filled with the light of Hochma. And accordingly, we measure, and we see with which force we rise, we ascend with all the forces that are in nature. The force of bestowal being greater than the force of reception. The force of giving, greater than forces of receiving. Connection between us is more meaningful in comparison to disconnection, and so on. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:11) Is it correct to say that during the battle the person is on the left line, and only when he wins the battle he's on the right line? 

M. Laitman: No, you can't say that the war is altogether left line. Left line and right line we determine through the forces that awaken in us. And to win the war is under the condition that we want to be with one of the forces for it to win, for it to triumph. 

Student: Meaning, during the war we can decide that we're on the right? 

M. Laitman: Yes, okay.

Reader: Rav, we can read another excerpt. This is item three. 

Reading: (32:20) 3. RABASH, Article No. 696, "Your Strength to the Torah"

If a person wants to succeed in the Torah, he must see that the desire to engage in Torah is stronger than the rest of the desires in him, and then they will surrender to it because the strong has the power to subdue the weak. Hence, the strong desire subdues the desire for idleness, for honor, and the rest of the lusts. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:55) How do we generate such a desire that subdues the evil inclination? 

M. Laitman: To subdue the evil inclination we can only under the condition that we appeal to the Creator. Where we see that the forces of reception in us are really big and it's not with our forces to be able to catch them or defeat them. So, we have no choice, we turn to the Creator, and we ask him. For him to correct this imbalance. And we want to be as close as possible to him, to the Creator, to the desire to bestow. That's it.

Question (CzechSlovak 4): (34:13) I have a question from my friend. How does a person know what is from the Creator and what is from the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: What comes from the Creator comes in a clear way. It comes from above, which didn't appear before and now appears. That's the difference. A person can raise himself and ask the Creator for forces to battle against this new desire or for it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (35:14) The feeling and impression from all the scrutinies in the excerpts is that a person copes with these two forces in himself. Where does the Ten help him in this battle, in this coping? What's the role of the Ten here? 

M. Laitman: The Ten helps a person by supporting him in acts of bestowal. 

Student: I heard you say that we have to become free. How does the Ten make each of the friends become free from his will to receive? How does this support happen? 

M. Laitman: When I'm in an environment that is all drawn to the force of bestowal, then certainly if I want to incorporate with them, then I'm integrated in this circle of the common force of bestowal, the Ten. That helps me rise to the level of bestowal. 

Student: Last question, Rav. How do we feel in the Ten? How do we feel this war every day? We say this war is every day. So, how do we as a Ten feel that the Creator is with us and helping us every day? Because we understand we can't do it without the Creator's help. How can we all feel at the center of the Ten that the Creator is there with us? 

M. Laitman: We simply feel it. 

Student: I'll tell you why I'm asking, Rav. Because every day in the Ten, and I think there are many Tens who do this, maybe everyone, we raise a common prayer in our last meeting of the day. How in that common prayer, how can it have that sense, that sensation of the heart, the common desire between us that the Creator is with us in the prayer? Because the prayer connects us every day more and more. How do we really understand and feel that we're getting closer and that the Creator is with us? 

M. Laitman: That depends on us. That depends on us. If I aim myself to be aimed to the Creator, if I want to see myself coming closer to Him, it's all my choice. It is all my choice. 

Question (Latin 4): (38:55) How should we interpret Our efforts and the Creator's help. 

M. Laitman: That's simple. It's just like in this world. A person is with his forces and asks, let's say, for help from the outside for someone to support him. That's our work. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (40:14) How can we connect all our hearts to one heart that's attached to the Creator?  

M. Laitman: The truth is, you could say that without the Creator, we can't be adhered to one another at all, at all. Only the force of the Creator that enters between us adheres us to one another. And that's how we can exist and advance. That's all. 

Question (Women Spain 1): (41:33) Quickly, the question is, how to strengthen the desire for Torah, when the other desires for pleasure or for knowledge, they seem more attractive and natural? Yes. So, how to strengthen the desire for Torah? Because the rest of the desires for corporeal pleasures, they feel much more natural. 

M. Laitman: Yes, but if I'm with the friends and we all want to reach the desire to bestow, then the force to reach bestowal becomes in me more important, more big, more great, and felt greater than other forces. That's why we advance.  

Question (Women PT 33): (42:42) What's the central condition for the Creator to help us subdue the evil inclination? 

M. Laitman: The main condition would be that we reveal the deficiency in us, which is to be together and to incorporate in the Creator. If we want to be in those two conditions together, then for sure we succeed. Then we compel the Creator to help our connection.

Student: Can I add?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: It says in the excerpt that in order to succeed in the Torah, the desire to engage in Torah has to be stronger than the rest of the desires. So, how to increase the desire to engage in Torah? 

M. Laitman: Only to read the articles that we learn each week. And that's how it will happen. 

Question (USA SF): (44:18) We have a daily problem of building a prayer in the Ten. Well, after a good lesson, we want to build the right prayer. How do we build it well? That's one issue. The other issue is, how do we connect that prayer with the prayers of the other Tens? Because every Ten is praying for different individual things and problems that they have. So, how do we connect our prayers across the Tens? 

M. Laitman: That's really a problem, but the thing is... that we need to try and to encourage each other and see how much we can connect between us. And that through the connection, we would be able to feel the Creator. The force that could connect between us will be called the Creator. 

Student: And how to strengthen it every day? How to renew it each time? 

M. Laitman: Let's assume that in a quarter of an hour we will finish this lesson. We need to take out of it some form of summary. The main thing, what was the main mission? What task? 

Reader: We'll read another excerpt. The topic is to subjugate the heart. 

M. Laitman: To subjugate the heart, yes. So, that's what we need to see as the... as the main goal we have. To subjugate our hearts. And certainly, subjugating our hearts is much more difficult than to subdue one person's heart. That's why we need to try to connect as much as possible between us. Through the connection of our hearts, we will begin to feel each other more. We'll feel one another more. And then we will ask the Creator, all of us together, that's called as one man in one heart, that we want to come out of this self-feeling, the feeling of self of each and every one, and to discover the common desire. Meaning, each and everyone tries to be joined into the desire of the group, and to raise the desire of the group to a higher, a greatest, as great as possible degree as possible. Those actions are not special actions. Rather, we simply need to do them, and we will see the extent in which we are in them. We are trying in them, we're working on them. 

Question (Women Spa): (49:06) Thank you, Rav. You just answered my question, so thank you. 

M. Laitman: Wonderful.

Question (Women Turkiye 8): (49:22) The evil inclination defeats the person each and every day. Do these failures build deficiency in the person, and in what way? 

M. Laitman: Each day a person feels he enters the war, and each day, eventually, he discovers that the evil inclination in him wins. How can we continue from today to tomorrow? So, we need to say that each day should be a new day for a person. And that is how we advance.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (50:32) Rav, we spoke a lot about the good and the evil today. What is the role of the evil in this whole process? 

M. Laitman: To show us that there is no better state than the good. 

Student: And then if we discover it, then what do we do? 

M. Laitman: Then, to try to be together in that direction, towards that goal.

Student: But then we will probably discover that we're incapable and that the evil inclination defeats us. 

M. Laitman: It defeats us. We need to understand that the one who defeats us is only under the condition that we let it win. If to begin with, we want to discover the evil inclination, our ego, in order to defeat it, to subdue it, then we are capable.

Student: I wanted to ask, what does it mean to subjugate or subdue? How does it happen? 

M. Laitman: To subjugate is that the control that is in the desire to receive, it falls away. 

Student: And instead, what rules? 

M. Laitman: The desire to bestow.

Student: So, success in this war is the address to the Creator, is the revelation of our lowliness? 

M. Laitman: The success is in our turning to the desire to bestow. 

Student: Turning to the will to bestow is turning to the Creator?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And what's afterwards? Or there's nothing afterwards? 

M. Laitman: There is of course. What do you mean there isn't? It's just the beginning of the path. Then we connect to the desire to bestow and we start going with it from a small desire to bestow to a greater and greater desire to bestow until we reach the complete correction.

Question (Women Moscow 8): (53:21) Please say, in a transition period where we know about our will to receive and that only the Creator can help, but we still don't have the strength to ask from the whole heart, what do we do? 

M. Laitman: Talk about it with your friends. And from this dialogue, this discussion, you'll see what you need to ask.

Question (Unity 1): (54:05) Does the person ultimately come to a state where he sees that he has the good inclination? 

M. Laitman: Good inclination? There's no good inclination in a person. 

Question (Latin 11): (54:46) How will it help us to exercise this exercise that we imagine that we nullify our hearts? We always talk about that. So, how does this exercise of envisioning our self-annulment help us? 

M. Laitman: We simply need to enter it and see that we leave the connection in our vessels to receive and move to the vessels to bestow. And how in this common desire to bestow, we begin to feel the Creator and the New World. That's it.  

Question (Almaty ): (55:57) In a state of war with the ego, there are these difficult states where the ego injects to you that there's no connection, and it shows you that all the friends are egoists, but the faith in the Rob and in the friends help you come out of that state. Where else can you take strength to receive the desire to bestow? 

M. Laitman: That is faith in the Creator, not the faith in me or in the friends. We ourselves are still a very weak force, but the faith in the Creator, the desire to feel Him, to be with Him, is what will help you to rise above your current desire. 

Question (Women Rehovot 1): (57:07) When a person subjugates himself, how does it change him? What does it do to the Ten? How does it contribute or bestow? How does it influence the Ten? 

Student: When a person subjugates himself, how does it influence the Ten? 

M. Laitman: He belongs to the Ten, and then his desire joins the Ten, and together, the summation of these forces is what operates. 

Student: What to do if a person feels that the will to receive shackles him? Can he ask on his own from the Creator without the Ten? 

M. Laitman: He needs to ask for connection with the Creator, to truly depict to himself that the Creator is connecting to his Ten and performing that action. And a person agrees with all his heart for the Creator to do it.

Student: How does the Creator relate to a person who subjugates himself? How does He relate to him? 

M. Laitman: According to however a person asks. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:51) Rav, we are getting closer to concluding the lesson, and I wanted to ask, how do you conclude the lesson today, focusing on subjugating the heart?

M. Laitman: We still don't manage to scrutinize specifically the subject itself. We have before us another lesson, maybe even two. And then we will be able to say with full certainty where we are.

Student: So, what do you recommend us to focus on so that we can advance in the action of subjugating the heart? 

M. Laitman: I think we can expand this lesson even more. 

Reader: So, thank you, Rav. We will now move to a summary in the Ten , and we'll discuss all the central points we picked up from the lesson.