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Daily Morning Lesson: August 6, 2025

Part 3: Correction of The Heart – Selected Excerpts from the Sources

Reader: Hello, we are reading excerpts on the topic, Correcting the Heart. We will continue from our selected excerpts. Item 5, Rabash. 

Reading: (00:23) 5. RABASH, Article No. 37 (1985), "Who Testifies to a Person"

He must perform every act of Torah and Mitzvot in order to bring himself into the aim to bestow. Afterwards, when he has a complete understanding of how much he needs to engage in order to bestow, and he feels pain and suffering at not having this force, then it is considered that he already has something for which to pray—for work in the heart—since the heart feels what it needs.

For such a prayer comes the answer to the prayer. This means that he is given this strength from above so he will be able to aim in order to bestow, for then he already has the light and Kli. However, what can one do if, after all the efforts he has made, he still does not feel the lack of not being able to bestow as pain and suffering? The solution is to ask the Creator to give him the Kli called, “A lack from not feeling,” and that he is unconscious, without any pain from being unable to bestow. 

M. Laitman: Yes, that's how Rabash writes. 

Reader: (02:15) What does the answer to the prayer come for? What prayer brings the answer to the prayer? 

M. Laitman: On the prayer of the lower one that turns to the Creator, and it is in a state of a question, the deficiency; and it does not know how it attains the fulfillment to the deficiency. Therefore, it turns to the Creator and asks, where can it attain fulfillment for its deficiency?

Student: And for that, he receives an answer?

M. Laitman: Yes, there are many questions about it but, all in all, that is our state. That we need to awaken that deficiency of the upper one so that it will know how to supply us with fulfillment to that same desire that it created in us, and that we want to fill it.

Question (Haifa 3): (04:00) Rabash says that I am unconscious, and not the reality that I feel, where I think I'm smart or great at something. How do you start entering a reality that Rabash describes where I am actually unconscious? 

M. Laitman: Seemingly, we come to that gradually through that in which we seek answers on our deficiency. And we feel gradually the extent to which our deficiency does not become filled. And then, through searching for the answer, we come to a state where we are helpless. We don't know what to do, who to turn to, what exactly we need to receive, what to yearn for? And then through that, we come to a state where we can enter into a contact with the Creator – to listen to what He wants to tell us. 

Student: To reach adhesion with Him in every state that He manages in us?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Kiev 1): (06:13) How do I build this prayer where I hear what the Creator wants to tell me? 

M. Laitman: We need to reach that from yearning toward the Creator, what reveals in us, and we need nothing more than that. We need to develop that same yearning and to come to an answer. 

Question (MAK 11): (07:08) When we ask for a deficiency from the Creator, we know for certain that He hears us. But sometimes we don't feel His answer, so, what do we do in such a state where we don't feel the answer from the Creator?

M. Laitman: It means that we still cannot raise our desires to His degree, that's all. We need to get deeper into our desires which are born in us and which develop in us. And then enter into that space where we can hear the answer of the Creator.

Question (USA Northeast): (08:18) I wanted to get some clarification: In the last part of what we read, it says, the solution is to ask the Creator to give him the Kli called, a lack of not feeling. We've been told so many times to pray for others, the clarification is, how do I raise this kind of prayer correctly? 

M. Laitman: Yes, we do have from that deficiency, from that lack – that the main thing is that we wish to be connected with the Creator, with the friends together. And not to see in that progress, in such questions, in such lacks. And then, to develop already a different prayer where we wish to be connected to the Creator from within the connection with the friends.

Student: So, who am I praying for? Am I praying because it says, the Creator to give Him, like it's personal. How does that cover me and everyone? 

M. Laitman: It's worthwhile for a person to pray, to be in connection with the friends, in such a connection, where there he can feel the answer to the prayer from the Creator.

Question (Hungarian-Polish): (10:38) To ask the level of consciousness: How to consciously ask for a lack from not feeling? How to get out of this situation of lack of recognition in order to feel?

M. Laitman: To connect more with the friends, as much as possible in a mutual connection with everyone. And to aim that connection so that it will be aimed directly at the Creator as much as possible. And then, he will be able to break through the partition that there is between him and the friends, and the Creator. 

Question (Turkiye 1): (12:08) How does the person come to a state of awareness or recognition of the Ten so that he can come to a true prayer from pain and deficiency? How do you get to such a conscious prayer to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Only via efforts. We do not have many means for that, but as much as possible to sharpen one's deficiency toward the Creator. And to try and feel, to try and feel that one's contact with the Creator will constantly become more and more revealed. Will constantly be more directed at mutual connection until he reaches the correction of the heart.

Question (W KabU 2): (13:31) When we go from unconscious to conscious, are we opening up spiritual senses?

M. Laitman: Let's say yes, yes.

Student: Okay, is it beyond our five senses? 

M. Laitman: It's above our five senses because it's directed at the Creator, and we seek true connection with the Creator, that it will be above our senses.

Question (Florida): (14:44) What are acts of Torah and Mitzvot, and what are the actions, what are these actions in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Torah and Mitzvot is the cleaning of our connection with the Creator. That we will feel ourselves as being closer and more directed at Him, and to work in that; that is the main thing, to work in that. 

Question (Women Heb 1): (15:50) It seems like there's an empty prayer of self-request. Where are the ordinary prayers as opposed to this prayer? All of the prayers of gratitude, and bring our judges back, and all the prayers we know, where is it in relation to this one?

Reader: All of the prayers that are in the prayer book, for instance, where are those in relation to the “give me a desire to bestow” kind of prayer? 

M. Laitman: All the prayers that, let's say, in the prayer book, they direct us towards that prayer, that contact, the direction toward the Creator. And that's why we need to try and use them. We don't really have to expect a connection with the Creator in other forms. He, Himself, is inviting us to connect to Him by giving us a feeling of a deficiency. That we're yearning to reach the goal, coming closer, and that's what we get from Him, He is the source of our deficiency. 

Reader: Well, perhaps we should read an excerpt and then take a few more questions. Excerpt Number Six.

Reading: (18:01) 6. RABASH, Article No. 794, "The Place of Attainment"

We should interpret that GAR means mind, where it should be only by faith. We must believe that this was His will. VAK means “heart,” meaning an impression in the heart, and here, it is apparent in one’s quality of love and fear. This should be with clear attainment, meaning that the impression should be revealed in him, and not by faith.

However, to the extent that the impression is felt in the heart, so is the measure of one’s attainment. Here it is a commandment to expand his feelings. Conversely, in the mind, his greatness depends on the extent to which he can work in the manner of above reason.

It follows that they are two opposite things. If his mind is above reason, and the impression he feels in the heart is in the mind, this is called Gadlut [greatness/adulthood]. That is, on one hand, it is above attainment, yet it is felt in the heart. The measure of Gadlut depends on this, on the measure of oppositeness between mind and heart, for then one must overcome above reason, and the heart is precisely within reason, meaning in the feeling. 

M. Laitman: Okay, that is really, it's not simple, these are things that we yearn for them. But in a way that we don't really feel a deficiency in them. 

Reader: (20:28) What is the right balance between mind and heart? 

M. Laitman: What's the difference?

Student: The balance. The balance between them.

M. Laitman: I'd say that in mind, we yearn to know and understand the upper force. And in the heart, it belongs more to the feeling of adhesion with Him. We need to try and be connected as close as we can between us in order for the connection between us to be a place for attracting the Creator towards us.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:13) He says here that, he says, what can a person do if after all his exertion he still hasn't felt a lack from not being able to bestow, that he felt this pain and suffering? And then he asks the Creator to give him the vessel called a lack. So, he describes the lack where he cannot bestow as suffering and pain, what can cause a person to ask for such a lack? 

M. Laitman: The fact that such a feeling comes from the Creator, obviously the Creator is the source of everything that is felt in us. And we need to try and work with our feeling to get the contact with the Creator also in such an intensity and a direction towards the Creator.

Student: If the lack comes, then everything is clear, but here he says that a person exerts in the work with the friends, studying. But he still doesn't have a lack to bestow which is felt as suffering. And then the advice is to ask for that lack.

M. Laitman: That lack, yes. 

Student: How can you ask for something which you don't know that you want? 

M. Laitman: That, well, it's not really correct – if we, if we yearn towards the upper one, so we need to pick into those feelings that come from the Creator. And then, from within them, we will see what we're really lacking.

Student: I'll try one more time: If it's clear to a person what he lacks, then there's no question about it, he'll ask for it naturally. But here he describes a state where a person works, exerts himself, and he sees that he doesn't have this lack to bestow which is felt as suffering. And then he says, so ask for it, it's a kind of artificial request, because he doesn't have that lack. It's clear to him that he doesn't have it. So, from where will he get the strength to ask truly – not just with words, just saying it? 

M. Laitman: As much as he can, as much as possible. This period where he asks for the deficiency without having it, it's a very clear period and good, and we can't let go of it. Even though there is no deficiency in a true way, but it's artificial.

Question (Moscow 7): (26:25) Regarding the prayer: Can we take the Kabbalist's prayers as an example and work on it, process it together with you so as to see how it's formed, how it grows?

M. Laitman: You need on your own to write such a prayer and try it, each one in his turn, and so on. And then start connecting it between you in order to eventually get the Prayer of the Many. Then it will be more clear how you're connecting between you to turn to the Creator. For the Creator, you don't need a lot, it just has to be, as much as you can in quality, and you have it already.

Question (Moscow 7): (27:41) When we write a prayer in the Ten, let's say three friends, the same friends every time. You say that everyone should be included in that collective prayer. So, how important is it that everyone takes part? Or is it fine if three friends represent everyone? 

M. Laitman: What can you do with the others if they're not present? 

Student: They're present, they just don't participate in the writing of the prayer.

M. Laitman: That's not important, still, the plea comes out of everybody. 

Question (Almaty 1): (28:40) For example, now, in one's inner work, how can he distinguish between mind and heart? And where should he work above reason, and where within reason? How to make that distinction? 

M. Laitman: It depends on how the Creator moves his feelings, his sensors inside. Which of them determines more, what's important more for a person at a certain given moment. And according to that, a person can answer the Creator at the same frequency.

Student: And so, that is his heart? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (W Latin 26): (29:50) How can one feel true pain and suffering, when we don't feel pained as we cannot bestow? But still, we want to be close to the Creator, like good little children.

M. Laitman: If you, upon what you feel, come closer to one another, want to connect as one man with one heart. You will get a feeling that is more clear, more stronger, more united in somewhat than what you had before. The difference between the degrees will already be felt. That's why you shouldn't let go but more and more to incorporate in one another.

Question (Tel Aviv 3): (30:55) From the very complicated excerpt we just read, if I understood it correctly, is it correct to say that all the impressions in the heart are meant to bring one to Gadlut of Mocha, where he can then work above reason? Can we see it that way?

M. Laitman: For now, that's good, that's enough. 

Student: He speaks of the prayers, and we know that as a person develops, he has different levels of prayer. Is it correct to say that the correct, the most accurate prayer is to ask for a lack for bestowal, can we define it that way? It's a kind of a foundation for all prayers?

M. Laitman: That's the foundation of all prayers, right, the deficiency to bestow. But it might not be enough. It's a desire that a person will be more connected, directed, with his deficiency that is working in him right now.

Question (W Turkiye 7): (32:51) Towards the end of Excerpt 5, it is said that a person is as though unconscious when he feels no pain from not bestowing. So, what should a person do in the study, during the study, if a person reaches that state of being unconscious? 

M. Laitman: Unconscious is also a state we go through in the ascent of the soul in our perception that there's nothing we can do, we have to go through those states. The fact that we try to come out of such a state to a state of awareness, of recognition, that helps us grow – that helps us grow.

Question (W PT 23): (34:04) I heard you say that if we yearn for the upper one, that we need to pick more at those feelings and emotions that come to us from the Creator and there we will see what we truly lack. So, how to identify the feelings that come to us from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That’s through exercises, attempts, that we want to be as one man with one heart, in one deficiency, but along with that, we see that it's not working for us. That after a few moments of connection, supposedly, we reach a lack of connection. And again, we move away from one another, that's the problem. 

Student: Regarding mind and heart, what would be the true prayer? 

M. Laitman: Good, it would be good if a person could be entirely with his whole heart and work from within his own heart, and to be directed towards the hearts of the friends, that would be the best.

Reader: Let's continue and read another excerpt. Number Seven, Rabash writes:

Reading: (36:17) 7. RABASH, Article No. 2 (1991), What Is, “Return, O Israel, Unto the Lord Your God,” in the Work

What does it mean that the Creator heals the brokenhearted? The thing is that it is known that the essence of man is the heart, as our sages said, “The Merciful one wants the heart.” The heart is the Kli [vessel] that receives the Kedusha from above. It is as we learn about the breaking of the vessels, that if the Kli is broken, everything you put in it will spill out.

Likewise, if the heart is broken, meaning the will to receive controls the heart, abundance cannot enter there because everything that the will to receive receives will go to the Klipot [shells/peels]. This is called “the breaking of the heart.” Hence, a person prays to the Creator and says, “You must help me because I am worse than everyone, since I feel that the will to receive controls my heart, and this is why nothing of Kedusha can enter my heart. I want no luxuries, only to be able to do something for the sake of the Creator, and I am utterly incapable of this, so only You can save me.”

By this we should interpret what is written (Psalms 34), “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted.” That is, those who ask the Creator to help them so their heart will not be broken and will be whole. 

M. Laitman: Yes. That means to open the heart as much as you can towards the friends, and to constantly aim it towards contact with the Creator. 

Reader: When the heart is broken, then a person cries out to the Creator, like Rabash says, you must help me, right? Where are the friends in this? He doesn't jump straight towards the friends; he's not with them? He doesn't turn to the friends; he turns straight to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: He feels he has no connection with the Creator but, also with the friends, it's not a whole deficiency, the lack isn't complete. That's why you just need to keep going; what he tells us here in all these excerpts, it's just like half a thing – you start the work, but you feel that it's not advancing. That's the state of all these excerpts.

Student: And when a person is stuck? 

M. Laitman: So, he's stuck. Stuck means that he wants to advance, he has deficiencies, and he is raising them towards the Creator. And he feels that he's really bringing them up to the upper one, but except for that, he doesn't feel a response. 

Student: And how does he advance from here, because up to here he had some motivation, but now he's stuck.

M. Laitman: Only exercises with the friends and the connection with them to depict how they reach a deficiency to the Creator. Nothing else to say, we have the means and that's where they all end.

Question (W PT 33): (41:16) Usually, we learn that above reason means to go above reason, above the mind, and also above the emotion. But here, in Excerpt 6, it gives another angle. It says that you need to rise above the reason, but to develop the emotion. So, the question is, what kind of emotion do you need to develop? When is it real, and when do you need to go above the emotion?

M. Laitman: These are things, very delicate. A person has to reach a state that he feels 100% correctly what's happening in his heart and in his mind. And from the relation between them, he can choose what he wants to reach.

Question (ITA 4): (42:29) How can I check if I'm doing something for the sake of the Creator? And how do I correct my heart through that? 

M. Laitman: The fact that you want to reach, doing for the sake of heavens, that's already the right direction. The fact that you don't feel these things yet, so you're still not in the upper vessel. So, you have to keep doing it, there's nothing else to do, just keep going.

Question (Philippines): (43:47) How do we know or determine the answer of the Creator to our prayers through our friends?

M. Laitman: If you are adhered to the friends, you can feel what the Creator is answering you. What is the extent of the connection, the form of the connection, the intensity of the connection between you, and the Creator, and the whole world also, maybe? It depends what you're asking Him. But that's how it works.

Student: Do we also know or determine the answer of the Creator to our prayers, individually, and how does it feel? 

M. Laitman: On your personal prayers, we can feel the answering of the prayer from the Creator to us under the condition, again, that we are connected between us. Otherwise, where will we receive it, where will we feel it, where will we locate the Creator's answer?

Question (Almaty): (46:05) In the first part, we learned that one must walk the right line 23 and a half hours a day, and the rest – criticism. Is there such a division in mind and heart, too? 

M. Laitman: You need to aspire in every heart, meaning desire, to be connected to the Creator and discover Him in your desires. And here, you'll find the answer. 

Question (Krasnoyarsk): (47:10) When you ask for the sake of the friends, for the Ten's sake, let's say there's a friend who doesn't feel the importance as much as before, he's not in the lessons as much. To what extent should you ask specifically for the sake of that friend?

M. Laitman: It's hard to say, it all depends on the group. As much as they're connected, united, then the ascents are felt in them – ascents, descents, the advancement. They feel each other, and in that case, also their prayer is common. Otherwise, such a prayer won't awaken.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:24) Regarding the excerpt we've read, Rabash  describes two states in a person: One, where a person doesn't have the power to bestow, and then he feels pain, and he asks for it, and he receives the power. The other state is where a person doesn't feel any need for it, to aim in order to bestow. And then he says that one can ask for the lack for it. Now, why would one ask for a lack that he doesn't have? How can he come to ask for something that he doesn't lack? This is impossible in this world, as far as we know, for a person to look for something that he doesn't lack?

M. Laitman: Correct?

Student: So, what should he do? Is one supposed to work here on incorporating with lack of the friends. Or what is the next stage? 

M. Laitman: What belongs to the work is that a person will feel, as much as there is a deficiency in the upper one, by a person performing, doing. And if he'll feel it and get a yearning for it, everything will work out.

Student: Where can he receive a yearning for it from?

M. Laitman:  From his vessel, from within his vessel. He is the one scrutinizing between an ascent and his doing.

Student: We learn that there are heart and mind – mind is working above reason, and heart is what he feels, it's what he writes. So, where does the lack before the lack come? Is it in the heart or mind? 

M. Laitman: The heart. 

Student: So, he feels lacking and then a lack develops in him, is that it? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (W PT 38): (51:16) How to turn this lack that Rabash writes about, which is worse than everything. How to make it a true lack, that is true and complete and so that he doesn't run away from it after a second, and that it's not a lie?

M. Laitman: Only by what Rabash  gives us, his advice: To be connected together, to try and depict to ourselves a higher degree, and to yearn for it. And in that way, in that way to be in it 

Question (W Europe): (52:27) A lack for correction, is that not a complete lack? 

M. Laitman: I didn't understand, the deficiency.

Reader: Is the lack for correction not a whole, complete lack?

M. Laitman: It has to be a complete lack, but it depends where we are.

Question (Latin 11): (54:02) How can we bring our hearts closer together so as to feel the Creator together?  

M. Laitman: That truly is a very important action. How can we see the upper force that glues us together? And only that He wants to attain? And we need to reach a state that we too need it.

Student: So, the Creator is the one who brings hearts close? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And what should the created beings do? 

M. Laitman: Ask, ask for closeness. 

Question (W Spa): (55:39) How can we measure the strength of our connection?  

M. Laitman: The intensity of our connection, that's the screen. As much as we want to be connected against all the forces of separation that want to disconnect between us, that want to separate us. According to that, we can know as much as we're in a direction towards the connection. 

Student: And the pain comes then, when we find that we can't connect, and can we measure our advancement according to that pain? 

M. Laitman: No, you can't determine advancement according to a deficiency that is isn’t directed towards a goal, towards a goal of creation. That's why, according to that, you can't advance. We are in, more than once, in states that we feel distance from one another – resistance to connection, to closeness. But it still not, it still not, it still doesn't measure as much as we are drawn towards the connection, the correction. 

Reader: I recommend we read the next Excerpt, 8, Rambam writes:

Reading: (58:05) 8. Maimonides, Mishneh Torah

How is there intention? One should clear his heart from all the thoughts and see himself as though he is standing before the Shechina [Divinity]. Therefore, one should settle oneself a little prior to the prayer, to aim his heart, and then pray. The first Hassidim [adherents of the Hassidut movement] would spend one hour prior to the prayer, one hour after the prayer, and extend the prayer by one hour. 

M. Laitman: So, what's the question? Just an effort that we need to reach those three states: Before the prayer, during the prayer, and after the prayer. Yes. 

Question (W Turkiye): (59:36) If I see that the desire to bestow doesn't awaken within me, how to turn that into a true prayer? 

M. Laitman: To come close to those friends who are more or less in those desires to bestow, and to try and adhere to them. That is the first action that, for sure, will help us come closer to the general answer. 

Reader: Let's read an excerpt with which to conclude the lesson. Excerpt Number 9, Rabash writes:

Reading: (01:00:25) 9. RABASH, Article No. 24, "Three Times in the Work"

A prayer is work in the heart. That is, since the root of man’s heart is the will to receive, and he needs the opposite, meaning that it will work only to bestow and not receive, it follows that he has a lot of work in inverting it.

And since this is against nature, he must pray to the Creator to help him come out of his nature. 

Reader: We have concluded the lesson. Thank you very much.