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Daily Morning Lesson: August 9, 2025

Part 3: Subjugating the Heart - Selected excerpts from the sources. #4 

Reader: On the subject of subjugating the hearts, we'll read excerpts from the sources on the subject, starting with excerpt number four. Let's begin. Rabash writes, 

Reading: (00:18) 4. RABASH, Article No. 282, "Be Mindful with a Minor Commandment as with a Major One – 2

All the darkness that we feel in spirituality extends from the evil within us, which is to receive in order to receive. Our sages said about this, “I have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice” (Kidushin 30b), meaning that through the Torah we obtain the power to subdue the receiver in us so he can work in order to bestow.

In other words, all we want to receive from the Torah and Mitzvot is the power to subdue the evil. This is the only reward that we hope to receive from Torah and Mitzvot, since once we obtain the power to bestow, we will be able to obtain all the delight and pleasure that the Creator has prepared for us.

M. Laitman: So this is basically the purpose of our efforts. To receive the force of correction and change to the level that the Creator wants from us. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:47) What does it mean to submit the receiver in us, the receiving force? 

M. Laitman: To subjugate it. Meaning that it won't disrupt our relation to bestowing to the Creator. 

Student: And what is that act of subjugation exactly that we perform on the receiver in us? 

M. Laitman: That we don't want it to grow within us. That's what we don't want; that it will grow. That's it. 

Student: So, what? We need to suppress the will to receive? That's what it means to subdue it? 

M. Laitman: Yes. Well, firstly, not to use it. Not to use it for oneself. Then, also see in what way can we make actions of bestowal. If not actions of bestowal, of reception, then only actions of bestowal. How do I reach a state that my action, my making will be exactly in a desire to bestow? 

Student: So, by subduing one's heart, one is still not acting in bestowal. This submission, it has no bestowal in it.

M. Laitman: No, but you intend to get there. Just on the way there you have to subjugate your desire, maybe arrange a few other things.  

Question (Kyiv 1): (03:52) Let's say that I come to the lesson to learn Torah. I have various desires, thoughts. How will that corrective force now come to me? How can I receive the spice and correct the evil within me? How can that power act on me right now? 

M. Laitman: This force works in you only to the extent that you want it to work in you. We aren't under the Creator's rule here. He holds us in a state where we ourselves can determine who we are, in what relation to the Creator we are, in what we would like to change. All of these awakenings in us, these forces, it joins all of that, and ultimately, we feel what's happening with us.

Question (Hungarian-Polish): (05:10) Do we want to exit reception or rather obtain the power to turn it to be in order to bestow? 

M. Laitman: We have to get closer to bestowal, to the Creator. In order to do that, first we have to restrict our force of reception. And afterwards, after we completely leave the force of reception, we then move to bestowal. To bestowing in order to bestow and receiving in order to bestow. That's all.

Question (MAK 11): (06:24) It is written in the excerpt that first we attain the force pf bestowal and only later can we attain the delight and pleasure. So, what can we do to begin with? What can we bestow if we can’t receive anything?  

M. Laitman: It doesn't matter what we’re capable or incapable of. We’re talking here about the possibility here. I would like to have the force of bestowal. And then, from the forces working within me, that I attract, that I would like to join together, that exist in me, from that I get closer to the qualities of bestowal until they influence me in such a way, that will be completely compatible to them. That's all. To be compatible to them, and work this way. Meaning work with the quality of bestowal.   

Question (Turkiye 1): (08:03) How can the creator, which is the manifestation of pure love and goodness, how is it He knows the evil? How does He give the evil inclination to people?  

M. Laitman: Through our qualities we can’t identify the evil. We even see it on ourselves, in our life. What we do need however is to awaken the force of the Creator, the force of bestowal, and that it will influence us. When the force of bestowal influences us, we begin to feel where we are, on the Creator’s side or on the created being’s side. And we can work with the force of bestowal that awakens in us, which comes from the Creator, and thus we require the Creator to work with us, and this way we, as if force the Creator to work with us, to give us the force of bestowal. And thus gradually we leave the force of reception, we enter the force of bestowal and in it we already begin to learn, and feel, and observe the entire whole world this way. How the world is organized according to the force of bestowal. Now, Moscow.

Question (Moscow): (10:00) I’m a bit confused. You said that we need to describe within us all these models. Let's say I come to a workshop, and then I feel that I'm giving, I'm trying to give to the friends, I'm answering questions, but as an outcome of that, I feel joy, pleasure. And I'm working on bestowal in order to bestow, or am I receiving pleasure from it ultimately? 

M. Laitman: That all depends on you. You have to examine yourself and work in a way that your response, your answer to what the Creator does with you will be correct. Correct means to advance you to the feeling of the true forces, their intentions, their goals, and then you will be able to influence them.

Student: I could almost understand that.

Question (Woman Spain 1): (11:30) Rav, it’s written that the Torah is a spice for the evil inclination. What does it mean in the work in the Ten to add this spice to the will without annulling it but rather such that the will to receive becomes the bestower?

M. Laitman: We want to nullify the will to receive that is imprinted in us from the origin of creation, which is what the Creator instilled in us, and we wish to become neutral. Meaning that no spiritual force, well, corporeal as well, will not influence us in a certain way to choose our direction, choose where we want to change. And then, when we give that sufficient strength, we feel the changes, and these changes, they already direct us towards bestowal.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:09) What is the difference between the power of subjugation one receives from the Torah and the force of subjugation one receives from the society? 

M. Laitman: The force of subjugation that he receives from the society, or, how to put it, I don't know. It's a force that helps him transcend the will to receive which comes from the Creator. And by subjugating it, then he begins resembling the upper force, and thus his bestowal to the whole system of the world is correct. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:19) The friend asked, what is the difference between the force of subjugation a person gets from the Torah or the force he gets from society? What's the difference between the force you get from the Torah or from the society? 

M. Laitman: When he receives from the society the force of subjugation, he works with his force on his will to receive. And when he receives the force of bestowal, of subjugation from his actions, this is already, it scrutinizes in him vessels in which he feels the godly force. 

Student: So, how to work correctly with the force he gets from society? Not to go to the will to receive, but to work with it correctly. 

M. Laitman: Well, this is what we learn. What we have to do to receive from the society the desire to bestow by ourselves from all kinds of sources to reveal the bestowing force, and in this way advance.

Student: If the main thing is the force I get from the Torah, that's what will correct me, will shine, will do everything, the force of the Torah. 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: So, why do I need society, why do I need their force? 

M. Laitman: I just don't know what you're receiving from the Torah, where does it come from? On condition that a person subjugates himself before the friends, to that extent he begins to receive other forces. 

Student: The force of the Torah comes from him subjugating before society? 

M. Laitman: What is the force of the Torah, the force of bestowal? 

Student: Yes, it comes from him subjugating towards the friends? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And what does he get from the sources that isn't in society? What does he get from the sources, the Kabbalists, the text, that isn't in his friends and the connection with the friends? 

M. Laitman: The force of bestowal. 

Student: So, what's the difference between the force in the books of the Kabbalists to the force between the friends in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: It's the difference between a force that appears only in the books compared to the force that appears in people. One is alive, the other is dead. How can you receive force from the books? What is a book? It's not a source. It's a source for a person. When a person adds to it his own forces, then these forces that he reveals, that he discovers in the environment, he can change their direction.  

Question (Turkiye 6): (18:09) The restriction or the subduing of the will to receive attained through the work from below, from man, or by a force that comes from above thanks to that person's prayer? 

M. Laitman: It doesn't matter. We don't know how it comes. Not later, but at least now. And what's important for us is only how we change. Are we changing in the direction of bestowal? This is what we need to check.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:11) What about subjugation of the evil inclination? How do you subdue it? 

M. Laitman: By not fighting against it but rather by being drawn to the good inclination. 

Student: And so you don't fight it, but in order to subdue it, you have to stay away from it. So, how do you distance yourself from the evil inclination? 

M. Laitman: So, a more complete action is when you yearn for the good inclination. Try. 

Question (Woman Spa): (20:25) I wanted to ask about the feeling about what we just read. I felt that on one hand, we are on one side and the Torah and commandments are on the other. Is this the force of bestowal, cause the separation to disappear, but for now, in my mind, I'm still building a connection between them, between the Torah and the commandments? 

M. Laitman: Again, the question. 

Student: She's saying that she feels on one hand, we are on one side and the Torah is on the other side, but there's a separation between us. So, is this some kind of connection that is built through the force of bestowal? 

M. Laitman: Yes, through the force of bestowal. The Torah and the commandments are revealed in the force of bestowal.  

Question (China): (21:25) As a person receives the force from the group, how does the group give that force? How me, personally, can give that force of overcoming to the friends? 

Student: How does a person get the power of subjugation? 

M. Laitman: When he wants to adhere to them and thinks together with them in the general mutual responsibility about getting closer to each other, in nearing one another, he thinks that he can rise above his force of reception. And this is how he passes from the force of reception to the force of bestowal.

Question (Turkiye 7): (22:47) How can a person feel the pleasure given by the Creator so that they may come to a state of shame and be able to make a restriction? 

M. Laitman: It is on condition that he tries to be adhered to the friends, attached to the friends, and in feeling the society that is in bestowal, he will also feel himself as belonging to the opposite of that. And as a result, he will get the strength to go against the state of reception and continue in this way. 

Reader: Let's read number 5 by the Rabash.

Reading: (23:55) 5. RABASH, Letter No. 13

All the work we have is only to turn the reception to be in order to bestow. This is against our nature and desire. However, we were given the remedy of Torah and Mitzvot, by which we obtain the power and might to subdue our bodies, so that all of our intentions will be for the Creator. This is the meaning of engaging in Torah through the light in it, as well as to engage in good deeds, which is the meaning of loving others. By those two we can exit reception and be rewarded with bestowal.

M. Laitman: Yes, this is basically what we need to do. Shift from in order to receive to in order to bestow, which is, instead of working with forces of reception, to move to working with forces of bestowal. And by this, we already begin to feel the forces of bestowal pass through our society in such a way. And in this way we advance. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:48) We were speaking about two forces after the friend’s question. A force you get from the books and a force you get from society. But in our reality, we also have something called a recorded lesson that we listen to. 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: How can we define that force? It's felt that it's a huge force. How can you define it in relation to books or society? 

M. Laitman: This is something you have to say. To what extent you feel that it influences you. To what extent it has the power to change you. It's on you to say it. For you to say it. But nevertheless, it should be a sign that you are really being inverted from the side of reception to the side of bestowal.  

Student: Something very powerful, there's something very powerful in a lesson where you see the Rav, and read the text, and we see things when they were happening in real time, we weren't able to hear them. It's not exactly like reading a book, and it's not exactly like receiving from society. It's something else. What is this thing? 

M. Laitman: Well, the fact that we are in this wireless connection. 

Student: Recorded, virtual.

M. Laitman: Yes, virtual, recorded. It gives us more of a possibility to feel ourselves. That there is like a space between us. And this is why everyone is concerned with being more connected and awakening the upper force. Because only thanks to it, we can come closer, mutually closer to each other and advance this way. 

Student: I don't know if I can ask this, but how do you feel when you hear recordings of the Rabash? Of a lesson that Rabash gave? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What do you recognize in there when you will hear it after a certain time? 

M. Laitman: I hear Rabash who is in tight connection with the Creator. And from that point of connection, Rabash with the Creator. He, Rabash, bestows upon us, projects upon us that power he reveals while speaking. And that power comes to us. And through our inTention, it influences us and can invert us from reception to bestowal. 

Student: Do we need a certain preparation in society to receive that force?

M. Laitman: Yes, first we must be connected and be connected also in both the good force and the bad force. Bad meaning we still don't have what we need, the purpose of the study, and therefore we need to relate to Rabash this way. When he appears, we may be unable to receive, to reveal his power in his words so much, but as much as we know, his power is revealed in his words, in his voice that comes out of his throat and comes to our hearts. This is what is going to change the world. 

Question (Asia): (31:48) The excerpt he calls about giving between the friends, donations, what does that mean? 

M. Laitman: It is that we build a society, each one from his Ten, and in the Ten we want the power of bestowal to control of the Ten. And that power of bestowal we direct it toward all the friends in the world, and in that force we want to reveal the light of Hochma. To know and feel where we are, what is happening with us, how we can bestow upon Rabash, upon the Creator. This is what happens to us. 

Question (New York 2): (33:05) I know that we must really yearn for the good inclination that we focus on attaining this, but we also actively hate the evil. Is there also work required to increase our control of evil in us? Or are those two one and the same? 

M. Laitman: It’s actually the same, it’s the same action. Approaching the good, bestowal, or moving away from the bad, from reception, it’s the same action and the same purpose. 

Student: Are we ever actively working on that hatred, on the moving away side? Are there actions that are very specifically about that aspect? 

M. Laitman: No, no. We only need to speak about it among ourselves a little bit, and constantly feel, be ready to feel our state. That we are all connecting, and by this we all want to revoke the bad, the evil in our society, and approach the good. 

Question (W Turkiye 7): (35:12) Does a person reach bestowal only after he corrected all his qualities, or on every choice on the path he can bestow already? 

M. Laitman: In every state, a person can reveal both forces of reception and forces of bestowal. And therefore, he has to aim himself truly to exit the force of reception and approach the force of bestowal. 

Question (Georgia): (36:11) You said that our sources, our books are only if we use them with the intention to draw the light. Can we imagine how our connection lives when we're engaging in the sources? 

M. Laitman: Can we advance without books? Of course we can. There were times when humanity had no books at all. When they appeared, they appeared at a time when people still did not know how to read and write correctly. So, it doesn't matter. The most important is to want. We attain what we attain always within our desires. So, the most important thing for us is to want. 

Reader: Let's read number six by the Rabash.  

Reading: (37:40) 6. RABASH, Article No. 128, "Exalt the Lord Our God"

“Bow before His holy mountain.” Bowing means surrendering. It is when one lowers his reason and says that what the reason understands or does not understand, I annul and subjugate it. Before which quality do I subjugate it? Before “His holy mountain.”

Har [mountain] means Hirhurim [reflections], meaning thoughts. “His holy,” for “holy” means separated from the matter. This means that he removes himself from the desire of reception. “Bow” means submitting the body, even though it disagrees, and taking upon oneself only thoughts of Kedusha [holiness]. This is the meaning of “Bow before His holy mountain.”

Why must we submit ourselves to thoughts of Kedusha, meaning retire from receiving in order to receive? It is because “The Lord our God is holy,” for the Creator only bestows. For this reason, one must be in equivalence of form with the Creator.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:36) Every day, a person's inclination overcomes. On the other hand, there are states like now that we have new opportunities. And there’s a break in between. So, how do we accept ourselves? 

M. Laitman: We relate to breaks as something that is correct, so that we can shift from reception to bestowal, from bestowal to reception, and to choose correctly toward our development of advancement. 

Student: And the correction of the heart? There's a feeling it's possible, but we don't know how.

M. Laitman: What is it that you don't have? 

Student: To correct the heart. 

M. Laitman: The correction of the heart depends on your mind. How you want to direct the heart, and in which way you need to advance with it. This is completely unrelated to something that you're lacking. 

Question (W KabU 2): (41:07) My Ten is very well aimed towards bestowal. And because of them, I see many different ways to bestow. But I find at certain times, my bestowal has a coarseness to it. How do I, well, how does that work? Is that something the Creator is doing, or is it something that I can get control of, this coarseness that seems to just just have a light layer, enough for me to recognize it? 

M. Laitman: That's something you have to learn from what's being revealed in you. From what is being revealed towards you, you have to learn in which direction you have a tendency. 

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (42:48) I enter the desires of people that I want to connect with, and I feel that I envy their vessels. I want to know how to work in that state. Is the correction to connect it with the Creator, or is there another work with it? 

M. Laitman: The work is only towards your circle of friends. When you go through the path together with them, if you annul yourself more and more towards your friends, then you advance and get more from the Creator.

Question (German 3): (43:54) We talk a lot about bestowal and checking myself, examining myself, how much I work in that direction. But recently, there's a feeling that we should already achieve that quality. We already have that desire to be in bestowal. On the other hand, in the Ten, most of the friends don't show any fire toward it. We are relaxed. We engage in physical actions like calling the friends, awakening them superficially. But how do we, internally, practically realizing this bestowal? We don't see how to do it. So, after some time, you ask, how much should I really aspire for the internal realization of this work? 

M. Laitman: You need to incorporate in your Ten in such a way that there won't be any distance between you. That what will be in one person will go to the second, and to the third, and so on. Then your Ten will be as one, and you'll be able to feel that spiritual structure. That is what you have to attain.

Student: And if I suffer from still not being able to attain it among the friends, because on the one hand there’s a possibility, but then there are no vessels to pass it on. 

M. Laitman: I told you what you need to do. You have a Ten, you have to melt in them, dissolve in them. And together with them, go forward in order to always feel yourself that you're as one. Then you'll succeed in everything.

Question (Florida): (46:19) How do we evoke thoughts of holiness? 

Student: Repeat again.

Student: How do we evoke thoughts of holiness? 

M. Laitman: Sparks of holiness. We awaken them by prayer, by a request to have more desires to bestow. And in those desires, we'll be able to turn towards our friends and the whole world Kli. Only by prayer. 

Question (Turkiye 1): (47:20) Does a person correct his intention in order to come to direct clear faith in the work? How to do this? How to build the intention correctly? 

M. Laitman: Don't let go of it. Constantly check: am I not deviating from the direction that my intention is aiming me towards?  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:14) On our path, we go through many states. In our Ten, a certain state awakened that is really difficult. And it's really difficult to be instead of gladness in that state, to rise. We feel that we are in a very low place. In order to be glad in it, happy in it, and to rise. What do we do in that state? 

M. Laitman: You do what's written.

Student: Which is what? 

M. Laitman: And if you don't feel forces from that, forces to advance, forces of bestowal, so you turn to the Creator. 

Student: Yes, we turn to the Creator. We do turn to the Creator a lot. We pray together, we read Psalms twice a day. And the only thing that we see that the Creator did is that He joined many friends into a great connection, and there's great power in this. But how do we direct that power to a place that will bring us out from a place of condemning the Creator? 

M. Laitman: All in all, each one has to subdue himself in order to connect together, all of us, into a small, nice, strong circle. And with it, or upon it, advance. 

Student: Tomorrow, we have a unity day. How do we use that evening so it doesn't become another unity day out of dozens or hundreds that we did? How do we make it more special? 

M. Laitman: I don't know what is happening exactly. I just think that you're losing forces that you had. And from those forces, from the lack of forces, you don't have a warm and correct awakening. That's why, think, think how you advance. 

Student: What does it mean that we're losing our forces? 

M. Laitman: Losing.

Student: I understand the action, but what causes us to lose strength, to lose forces? What are we doing wrong? 

M. Laitman: There's no connections between us, meaning we're not creating one force that needs to take us to the top of all degrees. And by that, we can end here.

Student: So, what's the reverse operation? What's the anti…antidote action? 

M. Laitman: The anti-action is connection between us to hold ourselves in the Ten as one structure, and that we, all of us together, are looking upward and wanting to ascend. Then we'll see how much it works.

Student: Tomorrow, we have a unity day for the 15th of Av, the day of love. All over the world Kli we're getting together, each in his own place. How do we use such an event in order to refuel, re-energize ourselves? 

M. Laitman: First of all, we have to read from the sources what Tu B'Av, the day of love, is. Then it could be that it will bestow upon you, it will influence you. Tu B'Av is a great day.  

Question (Moscow ): (53:28) I heard that your work is only in the circle of friends with whom you are on the path. So, the path is when we support the friends who go through states, right? How can we understand that a friend who for a long time is in a certain state, we don't even know if she's listening to lessons, how can we support her? How do we understand that this is the circle with which we build a path? 

M. Laitman: There's not once a week or something like that. I don't understand that. If I am able, so obviously I'm in the lesson. Before I used to travel throughout the world from one lesson to the next. I think, first of all, you have to think that that group you're in permanently, it should be a permanent Ten.

Student: What does it mean permanent Ten? 

M. Laitman: It means that you are holding each other and trying to constantly be in an ascent with all your participants, and follow what we are going through in a very precise way. 

Student: So, a question. What if one of the friends has not come in several months? How do we support her? 

M. Laitman: So, let's go of her.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (56:12) When a Ten gets together in order to decide on something, we can see how difficult it is to get the strength to subjugate the heart. You can really feel it. At the same time, we learn that the decision has to be unanimous. Everyone must subjugate themselves. So, it feels like it doesn't always happen. If one friend cannot subjugate himself, then the whole Ten decides not to do this activity. So, it feels like we are missing out. 

M. Laitman: Of course you’re missing out, because what is happening to one should happen to everyone. 

Student: Good. So, it feels like it comes from some will to receive, because we heard that we have to decide unanimously. So, we say, okay, if the friend doesn't want it, we won't do it. What's the right way then to decide? 

M. Laitman: You are shown the shattering that is in society, a place that needs to be corrected. And you, even though you see it, you're just passing by as if it didn't happen. How can that be? But that's how we advance. We need to connect and correct that shattering.

Student: How do we correct? 

M. Laitman: Correct by connecting between you and turning to the Creator for the correction. 

Student: This act, is it important to do it in that state, at the moment we discover it? 

M. Laitman: No, no. That is something that you have to take the sources, and read, and discuss them.  

Reader: With this, we conclude our lesson. We finished an hour, and now we’ll move to summarizing the lesson in the Tens.