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Daily Morning Lesson: August 13, 2025

Part 3: Being Sensitive to the Calling of the Creator – Selected Excerpts, #1.

Reader: Hello, we are reading excerpts on the topic of Being Sensitive to the Call of the Creator, we will read the first excerpt from Baal HaSulam:

Reading: (00:23) 1. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 241, “Call Upon Him When He Is Near” Twice

When he hears the voice calling him, he awakens to repent.

But this is the voice of the Creator, not his own voice. But if he has not completed his actions on the path of correction, he cannot feel or believe that this is the voice of the Creator, and he thinks that it is his power and the might of his hand. This is what the prophet warns about, that one should overcome one’s view and thought, and believe with complete faith that it is the voice of the Creator.

Reader: We'll read again. 

M. Laitman: Okay, it's written in such a, when we reach a state where we hear the voice of the Creator, that it's a sign that a person's already ready for higher and greater corrections. This means that he still feels that he's lacking something, on the one hand; on the other hand, he sees how much he still has opportunities to get closer to the Creator. And even though he thinks that he has some other states before the complete correction, he has to overcome that, too, and long for the final state of development, which is complete faith in the Creator.

Reader: (04:36) What is calling, to call? 

M. Laitman: The voice means the inner voice of the person. 

Reader: What's the difference between my inner voice and the voice of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: There is a difference.

Reader: Which is? 

M. Laitman: That, I can't explain, that's something you have to feel. 

Reader: What does it mean to listen to the voice of the Creator who calls him? 

M. Laitman: That too, I can't explain’ it's seemingly your inner voice, on the one hand, but on the other hand, you feel that it comes from above you. 

Reader: Whose voice is it? How do I identify and differentiate my inner voice, which is certainly to receive, and the voice of the Creator, which is entirely to bestow? 

M. Laitman: That's how it is, you feel it, you feel that it's coming from above, or that it's coming from the environment. 

Question (Turkiye 1): (06:10) How can the Ten start hearing the voice of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: A Ten that begins to hear the voice of the Creator is all aimed at him, and it is all in its inner connection, and in such a way that they're called, a Ten; they reveal the Creator's voice.

Question (Haifa 3): (07:13) How do we attain complete faith in constancy? 

M. Laitman: Oh, complete faith, permanently? That's something very great, only by the effort in all the states we go through to be aimed at adhesion with the Creator.

Student: What example can we give each other in order to progress to permanent, complete faith? 

M. Laitman: That's what we learn, various quotes and excerpts, and that connects us. Bit by bit, we get closer, we become connected and thus, it forms gradually. 

Question (Azerbaijan): (08:36) How is it possible in the Ten to hear permanently the voice of the Creator, to hear it all the time?

M. Laitman: Well, here, it's – this is about people who are internally inclined towards the Creator – they wish to feel Him, speak to Him, hear Him. And thus, the Creator is closer to them, and with the sensation of the Creator, that He's closer to them, that He turns to them. They now begin to be better and better capable of feeling the voice of the Creator. It comes bit by bit but it does.

Student: Let's say, during the day, we really wish to come to hear the voice of the Creator in the Ten. And it could be that a part of the friends will want to do that, and some won't?

M. Laitman: Each one should try to do however they can in their own way, and accordingly, to progress.

Question (Women New York 3): (11:04) Do we have to complete the path of correction before we hear His voice or can we hear it along the way?  

M. Laitman: It happens as we advance and we have to try to be as inclined towards the Creator as we can out of the connection between us. That's basically the entire circumstance. 

Question (Women Turkiye 8): (12:06) How is it possible always to be in a state of one heart – as one man with one heart – in order to be alert to hearing and being aware of hearing the voice of the Creator? How can we be aware of that? 

M. Laitman: Simply to long for that state, we wish to feel ourselves like that. That we are aimed and aiming for the Creator, and the Creator is aiming for us, and then we come to contact.

Question (Women Rehovot 1): (12:53) What in a preparation does a person need to do in order to hear the voice of the Creator? What conditions does the Creator expect from him? 

M. Laitman: Connection with the friends, and by that we also collect all our personal tendencies towards the Creator, and then we reveal Him. 

Student: I heard that you said that we come to a state where we hear the voice of the Creator, that that is a state that a person – what does it mean that a person is ready for higher corrections? 

M. Laitman: It means that he already made some effort in his inner work in order to connect with the friends and in order to rise with them to the Creator. That is what we should try and do, to come to contact with the Creator. 

Question (Hungarian and Polish): (14:52) Are we repentant because we failed to recognize the Creator's call sooner? Why do we actually come to repentance? It is about repentance. A person awakens in repentance. 

M. Laitman: That is the inclination we feel in our hearts, where a person feels that he is living in kind of an empty world, and he wants to start searching for the reason for his existence, the purpose of his development. And that is what draws him outside his framework. He wants to be connected to the upper force, to the Creator. Now, after he is already in some habits to yearn for the Creator, and then he sees around him with which means he can bestow and add to this advancement. And then he needs the friends, he needs to study, and so on, this is how it goes.

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (17:12) How can a person implement this connection to the Creator in his life if he's not corrected, yet? 

M. Laitman: That's where we talk about how he needs to check in what he's not corrected, and hurry up and correct himself. 

Question (Kiev 1): (17:57) It's written that a person has to overcome his own mind and thought, and believe that it's the voice of the Creator. You said we have to connect the friends and raise them to the Creator. So, what am I overcoming, myself, what thoughts? Or what are we overcoming together in the Ten to be able to hear the Creator's voice? 

M. Laitman: We need to try and go out in the Ten from the state that limits us when we are connected between us through small egoistic desires. And we try to replace them with mutual bestowal in the center of the group as much as I'm capable. Not to appeal personally with someone from the Ten, but to maximally dissolve between them and tie everyone, that's what we need.

Question (Latin 11): (19:58) If we believe above reason that the Creator is behind the friends, can we say that the friends' discernments are the voice of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: No. Through us searching between us what way we need to be connected in order to hear the voice of the Creator, then this leads us to that, to actually that. Meaning, we start to hear, to reveal the appeal of the Creator towards us more and more. 

Reading: (20:56) 2. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 241, “Call Upon Him When He Is Near”

One should know that his speaking words of Torah and prayer is only from the Creator. He should never think of saying that it is “My power and the might of my hand,” since it is the complete opposite of his might. This is similar to one who is lost in a dense forest and sees no way out of it to an inhabited place, so he remains despaired and thinks that he will never return to his home. But when he sees a person from afar or hears a human voice, the desire, and the craving to return to his origin will immediately awaken in him, and he will begin to shout and ask of someone to come and save him.

Likewise, one who has lost the good way and entered a bad place, and has already accustomed himself to live among beasts, for the part of the will to receive, it will never occur to him that he should return to a place of reason of Kedusha [holiness]. Yet, when he hears the voice calling him, he awakens to repent.

But this is the voice of the Creator, not his own voice.

M. Laitman: Yes. Meaning, the difference between us speaking with ourselves or being aimed to the Creator and reaching Him by talking to Him. The difference is very big, and here He is giving us actually the difference between two states. Where a person speaks to a friend, to himself, to what we call in his world and a person who speaks to the Creator – what a huge difference there is between them! And, of course, we need to yearn for that.

Reader: (23:41) Why do we need connection in order to hear the voice of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: In order to hear the Creator? 

Reader: Why do I need connection? If He turns to a person, He turns to a person's heart. Why do I need to connect to the others in order to hear Him? 

M. Laitman: That's, it stems from our system, from the Ten, which is the minimal form of the correct group which can be connected to the Creator. That's why a person needs to be aimed to a connection in the group. And if he pays attention to this and gives it forces, then, for sure quickly – as quick as possible – he will find himself connected with the Creator.

Reader: The voice of the Creator is heard through the friends, or directly?

M. Laitman: Well, yes and no, there is this and that. There were Kabbalists who were connected with the Creator and were in more connection through the group – through the Ten as we say. That's the difference, it's a great difference, but you can't say how it comes. Each person, it comes individually. 

Reader: What's right for us, for our generation? 

M. Laitman: Both this and that. The Creator really wants to bring us closer to Him as much as possible, as fast as possible, and we need to answer this. 

Student: We were speaking about the big difference between a person speaking to himself or speaking to the Creator. How to talk to the Creator?

M. Laitman: How to talk with the Creator? It starts from a person when he's studying, during the time that he's studying, he depicts to himself that what he learns, what he reads is actually his yearning to connect to the Creator; and then his study becomes a purposeful one. And in this way, he gets closer to the Creator. 

Reader: Yearning for the Creator, or purposeful studies, that's called to speak to the Creator?

M. Laitman: That needs to be in the direction of the Creator.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:50) In the first and second excerpts, Baal HaSulam says that when he hears the voice calling him, he awakens to repent.

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: So, the feeling of the voice of the Creator in a person, it comes through suffering or through pleasure?

M. Laitman: We don't need to greatly respect suffering. The fact that they come, it's in order to guide us more correctly to the goal. And that's a state that is opposite suffering; however, it's not that a person yearns for something against these sufferings. He won't appear like he's trying to escape the sufferings, and that's actually his goal. But the suffering, we need to see them as a force that revolves us and spins us, more and more to connection between us. With each Ten, with all the friends, as these sufferings are things we need in order to correct and more precisely be aimed to the purpose of creation.

Student: How can a person understand and connect that all the suffering leads him to repent to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: He should try to advance, try to progress more and more until he comes to a state in which really – to progress to see the Creator in the center of creation. And himself, to be in that through his group, through his Ten. Whereas he longs to be aimed to each of the friends, just like we learned many times already, for it to be in equality. And it brings him to the center of the Ten where in advancing to this direction, he will find the Creator, he will reveal Him. 

Question (Florida): (31:18) What does the voice of the Creator say to a person, and how should a person respond?  

M. Laitman: A person needs to identify the voice of the Creator that awakens in him, in the person. And to try and be tight with what he hears, and to observe it – what this voice announces to him – because in such a way, a person goes in the closest possible way to the Creator.

Question (Women Latin 24): (32:42) What is the meaning of settling the reason of holiness, to return to the place of reason of holiness?

M. Laitman: The place is on the path from a person to the Creator. That's where a person discovers the qualities and forces that belong to his mind, to his vessels. Every state can be weighed and measured and give a person an ability, to give him an ability – a right ability to advance. 

Question (Italy 4): (34:04) In the first sentence, it says that one should know that he is speaking words of Torah and prayer. What's the connection between Torah and prayer? 

M. Laitman: That everything that we do or speak, and even if it seems to us that we are praying and turning to the Creator. It's not really like that but it actually comes from the Creator. We just see it as if it belongs to our vessels, and we say it back to the Creator.

Question (Beer Sheva): (35:13) Can a person hear the voice of the Creator before he passes the barrier. Or is that an indication that a person already has the vessels of bestowal?

M. Laitman: That, it testifies that a person is in a connection with the Creator, yes. 

Question (Czechoslovakia): (35:42) What's the meaning of hearing the voice of the Creator between us and the world?

M. Laitman: The fact that you're connected between you and you are under the conditions that you have studied in how to connect to the Creator. And this is how you want to be connected as one man with one heart; and in that heart, you want to reveal the Creator as one for all.

Reading: (36:36) 3. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 241, “Call Upon Him When He Is Near”

When the Creator wishes to bring him out of the dense forest, He shows him a light from afar, and the person gathers and musters the remains of his strength to walk on the path that the light shows him in order to obtain it.

But if he does not attribute the light to the Creator and does not say that the Creator is calling him, the light disappears from him and he remains standing in the forest. Thus, he could have now shown his whole heart to the Creator, to come and save him from the bad place, from the will to receive, and bring him to a place of reason, called a place of the sons of Adam (people), as in Adameh la Elyon [I will be like the Most High], meaning the desire to bestow, in Dvekut. Instead, he does not use this opportunity and remains once more as before. 

M. Laitman: This is what happens in each and every one in this part of the path, in his advancement. That shows and teaches – these excerpts teach us – how to be directed towards the Creator, what we need to demand from this connection, and what the advancement on the path should bring us.

Question (Hadera 1): (38:54) Is the voice of the Creator heard beyond the clothing or is it entirely internal?  

Reader: He was asking if the voice of the Creator is heard through the clothings, is His voice heard through the clothes?

M. Laitman: What do you mean beyond? 

Student: Through the clothing, or is it completely internal? Is it internal or is it heard through clothing on the outside? 

M. Laitman: It can be this way or that way, whichever way a person perceives it.

Question (Women MAK): (40:03) In the most exalted point of ascent, how to remember that everything was done and will be done by the Creator, not to take it on my own calculation?  

M. Laitman: Gradually, in a person this feeling is created and you just have to keep going, and keep going.

Question (Women Turkiye 8): (41:02) How to hear between the voice of the Creator and my own thoughts. 

M. Laitman: If a person is in this and constantly scrutinizing, so there's no question about it. Eventually, he knows that this is how he turns to the Creator and this is how he feels the Creator, and it all depends on a person.

Question (MAK 25): (41:49) My inner work with the Creator, the inner work is entirely to reach the intention to bestow or for the work?

M. Laitman: No, no, no, it comes gradually and the intention to bestow is created, gradually. 

Student: So, the inner work brings me to the intention to bestow? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women PT 23): (42:27) What does it mean to walk the path that the light is shining on him in order to attain?

M. Laitman: That he feels that the more he advances, he feels himself in the light that comes from the Creator. And that's how he keeps going; and that's something you have to feel. Then all his thoughts and actions are in order to increase this light, that it will bestow upon him even more.

Student: How does he increase it?

M. Laitman: By a plea, by thought, by weighing the light as a source of life, spiritual life.

Question (New York 2): (43:46) What do we mean when we speak of the voice of the Creator? What is this quality of His voice that impacts us? And is there such a thing as also seeing the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The voice of the Creator is because, from hearing and below, we develop; because hearing is through the ears, the vessel of Bina. And this way, we develop, that's the law to all of creation and all of the created beings. 

Question (Women PT 6): (44:58) Does the Creator constantly give opportunities to a person?  

M. Laitman: Well, we need to be in – we need to be existing in, in waiting, in waiting for – we're expecting for the Creator to address us and for us to feel it. And from the Creator's address, we will be able to sustain ourselves more precisely towards the goal, each time more and more and more. 

Student: How to recognize the Creator's plea to us? 

M. Laitman: That is through reading the texts, which are arranged this way, so that by each part, each paragraph in the text, I feel how much the Creator is aimed more and more to us. And wants to turn us in his direction – either for or against – but He always impacts and influences our desire, and we advance this way. 

Student: The person's response should always be towards the Ten?

M. Laitman: I can't say always, but usually it's through the Ten.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:21) When the Creator calls a person, is it for a certain time or is it for eternality? 

M. Laitman: It's not for eternality but certainly there's a beginning and an end to it, and then there could be a certain break, a stop. That depends on us, we need to be aimed directly towards the voice of the Creator. The rest is on us.

Student: Can a person really answer the Creator always while he's still clothed in a body in this world? 

M. Laitman: Usually, yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:17) Why does the Creator to begin with, organize reality that a person will think that he's doing something on his own? What's the correction? How to overcome that? 

M. Laitman: That is in order to bring a person to the feeling of independence, and certainly, a person is not yet in feeling himself in the correct spiritual independent vessels. But nevertheless, from time to time, when he makes efforts and falls again and rises again, and this way observes these exercises. Then by this he works on his will to receive, and it turns out that by this, he's corrected.

Reader: Rav, I suggest that we read another passage. Maybe we should read another excerpt and then go to more questions.

Rabash writes in Number Four:

Reading: (49:55) 4. RABASH, Article No. 18 (1986), “Who Causes the Prayer”

One must believe in Private Providence—that it was not the person who called upon the Creator, but the Creator who called upon the person and told him, “I want you to speak to Me.” It follows that the reason for the nearing did not come from the individual but from the Creator. For this reason, one mustn’t think that the Creator did not hear the prayer. Rather, He brought him near even before he turned to the Creator to bring him near Him.

This is called, “Before they call, I will answer.”

M. Laitman: Yes. It's a great rule, before they call me and I answer. This is, we need to constantly be in prayer and appeal to the Creator, and to call upon Him, draw Him. Try to be closer and closer to Him and give Him the opportunity in our attitude towards Him, such that we are ready for the appeal from Him to us.

Question (Kyiv 3): (51:51) From these excerpts, it seems that as a result of the calling of the Creator, we see that a person wants to repent. The Creator awakens them, and he wants to repent because the person feels his lowliness. And then there's a feeling of despair that you want to scrutinize. So, whose voice do I hear, my own or the Creator? 

M. Laitman: I don't think that was said so precisely; the thing is that certainly we need to always be aimed to the Creator and all the time be in search for contact with Him. We don't determine that, oh it depends only on us, and doesn't depend on the Creator. All that we feel, it all depends on the Creator, even though there are states that are not changing. Nevertheless, these states stem from the Creator, and we feel those states, in accordance with these states we change. And from all the changes in us, the constant changes, we are finding ourselves aimed towards Him more and more. 

Student: Inside me, I hear everything, thoughts that come from within me. Is it right to divide the thoughts that are for the friends or from the Creator. And on my own, like going to sleep, or desires of my ego?

M. Laitman: Both these and those are from the Creator but we need to distinguish between them

Question (Women Spa): (54:31) How can we convince ourselves that together we enter a different reality. Where we have to see the friends as messengers of the Creator, and in this place we'll start the connection with the Creator in order to reveal Him?

M. Laitman: Yes, that's how we have to advance, you said it correctly. How to do it? We simply have to do it. Now, as we're reading it, when we're feeling that we belong to the group, or a group that's connected to the Creator. This is how we have to make ourselves this way, according to our desire, according to our effort. And by this, we want to draw the Creator to us. 

Question (Women Latin 15): (56:07) How to believe that it’s the Creator speaking and to distinguish that it’s not the ego speaking to me and deceiving me? 

M. Laitman: That's why a person was given to turn to the Creator and to make a constant string of contact as much as possible with the Creator. This is given to each and every one and it depends on a person the extent in which he places and strengthens this bond, this connection.

Question (MAK 3): (57:08) Should I see everything my friends are saying as if it's the voice of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Not all the words that they're saying but mostly, yes. 

Student: What should be a person's response for the calling of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: A person needs to try to come closer to the Creator and understand what the Creator wants from the person.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:49) We constantly try to pray, mostly, we don't feel his answer, we don't feel a change. So, how can we recognize his answer? 

M. Laitman: Become more sensitive – try to be more sensitive to the friends, and from that, you will be able to raise also your sensitivity and the connection with the Creator.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:35) You said that suffering helps to direct our path toward the Creator; and also that we constantly have to be ready to hear his voice. How to work with suffering will always help us to hear his voice? 

M. Laitman: The suffering drives us forward to a certain extent, but what's important to us is how much those sufferings don't stem from our ego but rather from us feeling that we're not in our place in creation. That, in all of Malchut, if we're not in our place then we feel it as an imbalance of forces. And that's why we need to try to collect ourselves – to gather our thoughts, our sources, and to guide ourselves, aim ourselves in a more direct way to the Creator, 

Student: And this readiness to hear His voice, we can't do that every day? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, ask yourself, it depends on how connected you are between you. And how you present for yourselves a vessel, a Ten, a vessel that's connected within it, aimed to the Creator, and desires to be close to Him. 

Student: So, the readiness to hear his voice isn't just a private thing, it's a group matter.

M. Laitman: It's both yours personally and also from the group – but it's mostly for the group. 

Reader: Rav, we're done with the lesson for today, thank you very much! And now let's summarize what we got together in the lesson, and then we'll continue reading this. Please.

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