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Daily Morning Lesson: June 21, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded lesson - Oct 7, 2021. Baal HaSulam, Shamati #14. What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?

M. Laitman reading with commentary: What is the exaltedness of the Creator? The exaltedness of the Creator, means that one should ask of the Creator to give him the strength to go above reason. In other words, if a person turns to the Creator and asks Him, give me the possibility to above my intellect, my will to receive to the desire to bestow, to be constantly connected to You, to the friends. This is called engaging in the exaltedness of the Creator because the Creator is above the whole world, the Ten, and there is connection between of us and the Creator, and He, the Creator, pulls us up. This means that there two interpretations to the exaltedness of the Creator: one - not to be filled with knowledge, meaning I do not want to know, to receive. Why? Because if I answer within reason I am limited to what I am, to my intellect. Rather he wants the Creator to answer his questions. How? However the Creator decides. That’s it, this is called exaltedness, when a person cancels himself and wants to Creator control to his mind and heart because all the wisdom comes from above and not from man. And that is called the exaltedness, because he elevates the Creator above himself. Meaning, one can answer his own questions but he is not doing it, he wants to answer all his questions. Our questions too come from the Creator, we image that they are our own but we, ourselves turn to the Creator and say: You answer our questions. Not that I will search with my intellect. It turns out that it is called exaltedness because all the intellect comes from above and not from a person. Meaning that one can answer his own questions, anything that one can answer is regarded as answering with the external mind. This means that the will to receive understands that to observe the Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] (Torah and commandments means this whole process where we want to develop). However, if above reason compel one to work. What work? It is called against the opinion of the will to receive. In other words, I do not want to answer anything with my mind and heart, rather I am willing to follow the recommendation of Kabbalists who are telling me the thoughts and desires of the Creator and in this way, I prepare myself for the Creator Himself to satisfy all of my doubts and questions. Okay, this is the exaltedness of the Creator, when I want the Creator to answer my questions instead of me doing it with my intellect. Number two, the greatness of the Creator means that becomes needy of the Creator to grant his wishes, meaning I develop in me, a deficiency each time. It's not like I live, and whatever happens - happens, no. I constantly turn to the Creator, it's called raising MAN when I constantly turn to the Creator and ask Him to answer all the questions, all the doubts, all the problems, everything that I feel in my mind and heart that I have. Any questions, even the slightest, I want the Creator to answer it, to satisfy it. What does that mean? It means that I want the Creator to control me, to govern me, to satisfy all my deficiencies, all the problems, all the questions. All of my vessels. I have such deficiencies in me in all kinds of states and all kinds of ways, manners, meanings; and I want the Creator to fill them all up with Himself. That's it, and then I'll know exactly from where my questions come. Why? For what purpose? And as a result I will advance. How will I advance? The questions come to me from the will to receive which comes from the Creator, from the left line, and I ask the Creator to answer them, to fill them. So, He answers them from the right side, and then I have the vessel and the light, I have everything. And by this, I am established correctly in the middle line on the way. This is why it says that the exaltedness of the Creator, means that one becomes needy of the Creator to grant his wishes. Therefore, we have to be alert, aware, sensitive to what we feel. What is missing between us and towards the Creator, towards the study, towards anything in life? We want the Creator to answer these questions, whatever they are. I want to feel in them the presence of the Creator both on the one hand that it comes from Him and this, I have to connect to the upper force by myself, that “There's none else besides Him”, and on the other hand for the Creator to satisfy the deficiencies that He created, to fill them with His presence and in this way, I will gradually receive both the vessel and the light from Him. Therefore, we are continuing with the article: “Therefore: 1). One should go above reason”, in other words, not go egotistically to solve his problems in life. At least the spiritual ones, to go above reason in a matter of bestowal, “Then one sees that he is empty”. Because he doesn't have the force of bestowing and then he becomes needy of the Creator, for the Creator to answer all of his questions which he may be unable to do anything with them, because he doesn't have the powers to cope with them, to deal with them. Two: Only the Creator can give the strength the power of bestowing above reception to go above reason, above the egoistic mind and heart meaning the fact that the Creator gives this power to go above a person's ego and build a new world. As we feel this world. with our egoistic force likewise when we will want and build the spiritual world with the power we will receive from the Creator. This is why it's written meaning what the Creator gives this is called the exaltedness of the Creator because then I see and discover that the Creator is the one who arranges the image of this world and the image of the spiritual world, he controls both worlds and what should I do? I should only through my efforts choose to want, choose the Creator to be the king over all of reality. 

Question (Tel Aviv 4): (10:09) Often times we say that a person asks for something and we have the example of a baby. The baby points to something and then the Creator does it but here speaks of a force the Creator gives you the forces to do something what is that force?

M. Laitman: The fact that the Creator gives us the strength according to our demand, to go above Malchut in the degree of Bina so we begin to understand and feel that we have the power to decide not toward our will to receive but towards the will to bestow. Not for the sake of our ego but for the sake of our soul, and our soul is what we build in the group in the connection between us. Because only in this way can we understand, what is this spiritual concept, the opposite of what we imagine, what we depict to ourselves.

Student: What is this force?

M. Laitman: It is the force of Bina, the force of bestowal which is opposite the force of reception. You also can't really say that it's opposite, we don't understand what it means in the opposite, that it's opposite but the fact that we receive it from above through the reforming light, when will you receive it, would begin to understand what the force of Bina is, it's the force of the Creator. The power that created all of reality, the power that establishes all of reality, that power that operates us, to the extent that we sympathize with it we can discover it. Because then we understand how it operates and how it works. You can’t understand it or feel it without sympathy, without being like it. Just say, you're a little boy and you're in the family - your mother and father and you, and they demand something from you, they want something from you but you don't understand them. You don't want to agree with them, you have your own life and your own desires, how can you receive their intellect? So, the wisdom of Kabbalah explains to us how we can make such efforts where we clothe in the upper one, we surrender to the upper one, so that we begin to receive the mind and heart of the upper one and we can gradually sympathize with the upper one and rise to His level. If in our world we grow and we remain egoistic, but we grow from a small degree to a great greater degree. On the spiritual ladder we have to constantly become inverted, inverted from degree to degree. What was the Keter in the upper one becomes Malchut in the lower one and we come from Malchut on the same degree to Keter and that Keter becomes the Malchut of an even higher level. 

Student: So let's say do something in the Ten, what's the difference between doing it with my own strength, or with the strength of Bina, what changes in the action of the intention?

M. Laitman: The fact that you're working with your own strength, with your own desire and it seems good to you. By this you might be organizing the group correctly but you're not doing something spiritual. In terms of their preparation, yes, but the act itself is not really so. But if you annul yourself before the view of the group, and you feel that you are not together with them you disagree with them, yet you accept their opinion even though it seems, of course, to you that what they think and feel is totally incorrect, in your opinion, if you accept it and annul before them. Then instead of your degree which might be high, you might understand better and feel better then they, and of course you're right in the present state and not they, but if you annul before them and accept what they are saying - then you are receiving their spiritual level instead of your physical level. That's the difference.

Student: That means to acquire the upper’s mind?

M. Laitman: This is called receiving the mind of the upper one. It is called the wise learning specifically in this way. 

Question (Florida): (16:19) How exactly do we know that the Creator is answering all of our questions and desires and etcetera and it is not the ego tricking us like it normally does?

M. Laitman: The Creator answers to all the questions, everything we need and everything He sends us on condition that we position ourselves correctly in order to receive the answers from Him, we have to prepare the vessels. The vessels are the correct connections between us and if we do this, we feel in the relationships between us, in the connection between us, we feel His answer. This is called beginning to speak with the Creator. Only in this way, a person alone cannot, well he can, but very small stuff, this is before the actual attainment, spiritual attainment comes to the extent of a person's connection with the group. To the extent that he returns to the system of Adam HaRishon. 

Question (Baltia 3): (18:08) We never receive fulfillment directly for our prayers, that the Creator will fill everything, answer our questions, rather we receive an opportunity to work in a seemingly empty, vacant space, above reason. Is this the fulfillment of the prayer?

M. Laitman: No. When we really come to work in faith above reason and we want to operate and do operate in bestowing on top of the force of reception, by this we create the sandwich, this coarseness of the Malchut and we want to go above it in the force of bestowing. So, in the sandwich we already have a vessel that we built which we will later divide into Rosh, Toch, Sof and all the Sefirot. But in the meantime, now what we're building is a certain level of coarseness or thickness above which we can connect. Then if we attribute it to the Creator and want Him to answer all the questions, all the preparations, everything we have, if we want it to happen this way, we begin to feel in this connection between us that we established, the act of bestowing, the essence of the act of bestowing. And that's how we begin to advance in this way, we can already establish ourselves as an embryo, as a spiritual Partzuf. 

Student: My personal vessels remain empty, and some kind of connection with the Ten that what's getting filled, what receives an answer?

M. Laitman: Correct, my personal vessels remain without filling and gradually I just want to leave them all together, just drop them, get rid of them. I want to rise above them, they become coarse, but the coarseness that I use is to the extent that I can relate myself to others. 

Question (Latin 7): (21:09) You said at some point that we don't need to try and understand and solve our daily problems. How can we solve all these questions without ego?

M. Laitman: Without the ego it's impossible, how can you run away from nature, I don't understand you. We should work with our ego, it is help made against us. We have to remain in our will to receive except we have to position above it, place above it, the intention to bestow. But it's not like we want to get rid of the ego, no. Then what will you be left with, what will you have inside of you besides your ego? You have to organize it correctly and build above it a relation to the quality of Bina. 

Question (Moscow 7): (22:28) It's the principle of the correct reception if I annul myself before any other group, like my students or at work?

M. Laitman: No no, only within your group. Afterwards, we will understand through our relationships with our friends in the group, how we can be connected among the groups but in the meantime, it may confuse us and disperse, disintegrate the main group where I am. I must not be in a stronger connection with friends in other groups, than in my connection with the friends in my group. Perhaps there might be some work relationships, we're working towards a congress, we are preparing some study materials, we lecture, we give lessons to beginners - but I don't see them as actual parts of my soul, no. This would disperse our focus and would not let us really advance. This needs to be clear to everyone, we keep repeating the same question, we keep returning to it and if you can’t be connected to your Ten in this way, that this is the main thing for you, that it is like the womb where you grow, the uterus where you grow then you should know that you're not advancing correctly at all. 

Question (ITA 4): (24:29) Before you said that we should prefer more than to do the quality of bestowal, is there a difference?

M. Laitman: We can’t make the quality of bestowal, all we can do is all kinds of actions that increase our point in the heart that each and every one of us has, and generally all the created beings have it because it comes from the Adam HaRishon.  The question is what is its intensity? And that is why here is a problem - to what extent the point of a heart awakens inside the person? In a certain person it awakens with all of its intensity and he's willing to do anything to attain the Creator. For others it is not so strong, for some it is not at all, some are in reason, some even in reason they do not care, they only want to live their corporeal lives. It all depends on the intensity of the point in the heart inside the man.

Question (PT 5): (26:03) The ego in the person, is it a desire or an intention?

M. Laitman: The ego itself is the desire, the evil inclination that is the ego.

Question (PT 14): (26:20) Is it right in the Ten with the mind of the Ten to try to build like a set of rules, how to appreciate the quality of bestowal?

M. Laitman: You can do whatever you want, whatever you do if it is according to the way we are learning in order to understand it better, that is respectable.

Question (Zafon 2): (26:46) How can we acquire eyes that can see the present and the future?

M. Laitman: We do not want to see the present and the future, we want to see how we in the correct connection between us give contentment to the Creator, seeing the present and the future is an egoistic desire.

Question (Beer Sheva): (27:18) The Ten is like a unit for a person, that me towards the Ten, that is how we relate to each other. But what if there's an external person who does not study, in a state that I want to get to, or to be positive and cover all crimes with love, for someone who doesn't study, how should I relate to that?

M. Laitman: Is this related to your workplace or to spirituality?

Student: It is an encounter with the general Malchut.

M. Laitman: I do not understand what you are saying here about this Malchut, you don’t have to explain to me what Malchut is, I do understand what it means.

Student: I'm speaking about an external cause that through him I discovered that state that I want to get in the Ten.

M. Laitman: That is not good then you should leave your Ten and leave us if you are trying to connect us to an external factor.

Student: That wasn’t my meaning.

M. Laitman: I'm telling you what you should do, what you are saying really is not acceptable. Go over there when you find this nice external factor and start subjugating yourself to it.

Question (PT 31): (28:54) When a person wants the Creator to be in control, how does it affect his daily life, how does he respond to different states?

M. Laitman: Once he wants the force of bestowal to rule the group, and he along with the friends of the group is in a search of how to have it so the mind and plan of the Creator, this direction for the final correction will aim the group in each and every moment.

Question (PT 19): (29:46) The first part, it is not clear what you said. The person that needs to go above reason, then he sees that he is empty and becomes needy for the Creator. But what are the preconditions for this, you need conditions for this you can't just get the greatness of the Creator just like that.

M. Laitman: In this short article he doesn't give you, well he was talking about a certain state, it was during a meal or lesson. I don't know how Baal HaSulam talked this day, but this is what we have.

Student: You were speaking about the intention, what should be the right intention?

M. Laitman: That I want the Creator to clothe on me and aim me and teach me how to work, walk in spirituality. You have small children, right? You have grandkids, beautiful. I also have a small grandchild. It is as if you take him, and along with him, when you are holding him with your hands and you teach him how to walk, that is how we want the Creator to teach us to walk in life. What is the question?

Student: The Ten that is who is with me, do they have weight in the greatness of the Creator?

M. Laitman: If I want along with the Ten, we want the Creator to take us like a baby, that the Creator will take us and accompany us to walk this way, just as we teach a small child to walk, then this is what’s going to happen, we want to ask about that.

Student: But it all depends on the Ten not on me, that’s what you're saying?

M. Laitman: The Ten, of course the Ten, of course, the Creator doesn't hear the individual, he barely hears him, and only the Ten. He does hear the individuals only to correct them, so they connect to the Ten to reach Arvut.

Question (W Australia): (32:28) What develops in us first, the feeling of fear or the feeling of the greatness of the Creator and how close are they to one another?

M. Laitman: It is a very good question. Look at this question, look at what they are asking, well done. You see Australia, women from Australia, ask the question again.

Student: What develops in us first, the feeling of fear or awe, or the feeling of the greatness of the Creator, and how close they are to one another?

M. Laitman: The awe or fear. We don’t have the greatness of the Creator, that has to develop and if that develops, we do not need anything else, then we attain the greatness of the Creator and that is all. But being afraid of not having it, that’s the greatness of the Creator, that is a nice, spiritual, high fear. You can really kiss it. Well-done, women.

Question (W Internet): (34:00) Above reason that's what obligates a person to keep going into work. That’s called against the reason of the will to receive. The question is, so what does it mean that the faith above reason obligates a person to advance in the work?

M. Laitman: It is because I want to attain the Creator, this is our whole work, this is our whole life, this is our purpose. The reason why we are alive and exist in this world  - to attain the Creator, we have nothing else. How can we do that, we need to accept the mind and emotion of the Creator, bit-by-bit, gradually and in slices, in small portions, and by that is how we are advanced, come closer to Him more and more.  This is how we reach the state that even in our heart and our brains, both in the mind and emotion I will be aimed, accompanied by the Creator. Besides the mind and the heart there is nothing more for a person, we have two forces so that is what we want to happen, the fact that the Creator fills us that is considered that we are walking instead of our reason in His reason, that is called faith above reason.

Question (W Australia): (35:49) Do we need to have a feeling of the greatness of the Creator before I am able to annul before the friends?

M. Laitman: We need both, we can come close to the Creator but only to the extent we come close to the friends, we can’t do that because that is the vessel and if you do not come closer to your friends it has to be clear to us, that we do not come close to the Creator as well. It is coming closer to spirituality but it is only in the meantime but it's not whole and it is false. Coming close to the friends is the foundation, that is the vessel with which we serve the Creator where we want to accept him, where we can feel Him, this connection, his connection, his adhesion only in the Ten, in the spiritual Partzuf.

Question (PT 23): (37:21) Can you say according to the article in order to search for the answers you have to go in reason but not to clog yourself and remain with a question and go above reason with it?

M. Laitman: Look, we need the reason in order to go above it, just as we need our ego, that will to receive, in order to build something above it. If we did not have the will to receive, how can you build spirituality? You have no connection with spirituality, but if it is the upside-down way, you turn your will to receive upside down and you build above it. Above it you build the form of bestowal so accordingly you build spirituality, if you do not build spirituality, it does not exist. Spirituality doesn't exist, the Creator doesn't exist unless you build it above your corporeality, that is it. That is why it is written - you have made me.

Student: Is building the left line just to agree to remain with the question as a means to advance to the right and the Creator then can feel it, that agreement is that the first step?

M. Laitman: The agreement is the beginning, yes. Just as we see in the building of the Partzuf - you have restriction, screen and the reflected light, a calculation in the reflected light and then a connection with reception in order to bestow.

Question (Hadera 1): (39:24) We are saying that we are heart and mind, what is the spiritual root of that heart and mind?

M. Laitman: That is how we are built, from heart and mind, both this emotion and the mind they can format, they can give us shape to the will to receive so that it will accept upon itself different shapes of reception and bestowal. The Creator has created us this way, and it is a totally different subject why He had to build us this way. We will soon come to that, we do not yet have a foundation to research these things. So yes, we are incorporated with emotion and mind, this is how the will to receive accepts upon itself the form.

Student: If in our reality the mind serves the feeling in the ego and in spirituality is also that the spiritual mind serves the spiritual feeling?

M. Laitman: There both of them have to work together, this is more correct. All I want is to, want to reach equivalence with the Creator through both. So, I need to have coarseness, restriction, a screen, a certain form of the reflected light when I build myself like the Creator and then I take upon myself the shape and practice, that is how it works.

Question (Holland 1): (41:30) I'm in the lesson, I'm with you, I'm with the friends, I feel the effort, I feel your effort conveying it to us, the effort of their friends asking questions, the friends who are translating - everything, it is a huge deficiency and I feel the need of the Creator to help us with all these efforts, we need Him. What is the difference between this need I feel now and the need that I would feel if I were empty? What is the difference in the answer of the Creator?

M. Laitman: The difference is in your vessels in your deficiency, to what extent you feel empty and what is the form of the emptiness, what is the manner of this emptiness, what exactly do you feel, what you want, what are you lacking? Some people are lacking and do not they do not know how to express it, some understand more what they are missing, and some people know besides that how to relate to the source from which they can receive the fulfillment. For this force to reformat them, to change them and you do not want the fulfillment alone, they want to change, they want their fulfilment to be their own change, they do not need to feel themselves. Their satisfaction is from their change from the form of reception to the form of bestowal and that is their fulfillment. They are not asking you for fulfillment, for pure fulfilment in their desire to be filled. Rather they want to change, that their essence will change. That is basically what we are talking about being in faith above reason.

Student: So if I feel this need that we need the Creator to help us, should I use this then to go above reason and use it like, okay, I am flawed, I don’t see that everything is corrected and now I should go above reason?

M. Laitman: The truth is that to rise above reason, the best thing would be for that to incorporate yourself in the Ten and bow down to your Ten and accept their reason above yours. That is a real exercise, a rational one, a correct one, if you are going in faith above reason, if you accept the reason of the Ten instead of your own. I'm talking about your Ten, that is advancing and it is clear that you have a goal and everyone agrees to that. So, if you, every time you want to bow down before them and to be below them and you have some resistance against that some resistance, accordingly, that is a sign that you are advancing correctly.