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Daily Morning Lesson: June 20, 2025 

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

Reader: Hello, we are reading in the writings of Baal HaSulam, the articles of Shamati, Article Number 14, “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?” You can find the material on the site and in the Arvut system. You can ask questions on the site; selected questions will be asked during the lesson.

Rav’s Introduction: Ultimately what we have to do is replace the force that is working on us right now, which is the will to receive, our ego, which is operating us, with another force, the force of the Creator, the force of love and bestowal instead of the force of reception. When we do it, to the extent that we do it, we are considered corrected and spiritual. And accordingly, we begin to feel reality, the spiritual reality, new upper reality, and so on and so forth. What we have before us is to replace the control of the ego with the control of the Creator. They are both ready and are working on us, except the force of our ego is working on us from the beginning, and the Creator – only according to how much we need it, we want it to control us. We have to understand that from the very beginning one of the two is working; it's not that we are free somehow, it's either one or the other: Either evil inclination goes against the purpose of creation or the good inclination that is for the purpose of creation. But because from the very beginning the will to receive is working on us, the evil inclination, the one that is opposite to the purpose of creation, we are accustomed to it and we think that this is who we are, ourselves. To such an extent that we were born with it and we were accustomed to it and we can't imagine how you can get rid of it. Rather, when the will to bestow grows in us, gradually, the point in the heart, that is beginning to show its actions, we begin to see and feel that it's not good. That there's something else that our lives are not good, we want to reach something new, something different. The Creator arranges for us such states, from which we will truly yearn for His desire - desire to bestow, on the one hand. And on the other hand, why did he do it this way? All of our reality is made up of these two opposite qualities so we can learn one against the other. Just as we discussed yesterday nothing is attained in our perception except from its opposite – black over white, white over black that's how it is with all our feelings and thoughts and understandings. Besides, you can't do anything unless there is something that goes against it. We measure things relative to that, we feel it relative to that, and whatever we create, and grasp, and understand - it's always made of two. 

Except at the end of our development, we have to reach awareness of the exaltedness of the Creator. So, it's clear to us that in parallel to that we have to feel it's opposite qualities as well. Anyone who is greater than his friend as great as he is in recognizing the Creator, his inclination is greater, his evil inclination that is opposite the Creator is also great accordingly. And they exist in parallel to one another and they rise together, they grow together from man's first degree, the beginning of his spiritual path – all the way to the end, where all of reality is revealed as simply a thing and its opposite. And at the end of the path, when a person gets this correctly, all of his evil inclination that is opposite the Creator, then the evil inclination also becomes a helper to the good inclination and both of them come and connect together and bring to the person this mutual discernment between them. We'll talk about it one day but the main thing for us is to know that everything is founded on a thing and it's opposite, left and right - one cannot exist without the other, one it exists on top of the other. Otherwise, we would not be able to discern even one thing if there was not a thing and its opposite. There are states when we can't feel that there is something that opposes the state we are in but it exists, otherwise we would not be able to identify the current state, and it is in all degrees on all levels of our development. 

As it's written, the advantage of light out of darkness. We have another short article that Baal HaSulam spoke and Rabash wrote, from Shamati, What is the Exaltedness of the Creator? Where if we reach the recognition and the understanding of the Creator, we come to it on top of the opposite qualities. Understanding and recognition of our will to receive that we refer to as the evil inclination, because it seemingly interferes with our efforts to attain the Creator to know Him. By doing it seemingly in this opposite way that doesn't let us approach the Creator, we call it the evil inclination – the hater, the one who rejects, who confuses, who doesn't let us approach the concept of the Creator, neither in feeling nor in intellect. Later, as we go up the degrees, we understand more and more that it has this job to do, our ego, and it's not doing it but it is actually an instrument in the hands of the upper force. From where the good force comes also the evil force comes as the Creator says, I have created the evil inclination. Why? Because without it you will not be able to recognize the good inclination, you cannot recognize bestowal without reception. Let’s read the article and see what we can extract from it.

Reading: (09:51) Baal HaSulam, Shamati #14. What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator? - Twice

I heard in 1948.

The Romemut [exaltedness/sublimity] of the Creator means that one should ask the Creator for the strength to go above reason. This means that there are two interpretations to the Romemut of the Creator:

1. To not be filled with knowledge, which is intellect with which one can answer one’s questions. Rather, he wants the Creator to answer his questions. It is called Romemut because all the wisdom comes from above and not from man, meaning that man can answer his own questions.
   Anything that one can answer is regarded as answering everything with the external mind. This means that the will to receive understands that it is worthwhile to observe Torah and Mitzvot [commandments]. However, if the above reason compels one to work, it is called “against the opinion of the will to receive.”

2. The greatness of the Creator means that one becomes needy of the Creator to grant his wishes. Therefore:

   1. One should go above reason. Then one sees that he is empty and becomes needy of the Creator.

   2. Only the Creator can give him the strength to be able to go above reason. In other words, what the Creator gives is called “The Romemut of the Creator.” 

M. Laitman: (14:10) Let's try to understand it a bit more. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:17) From where does the upper intellect come? What does it mean, the upper intellect comes from above?

M. Laitman: In truth, also the lower intellect comes from above, everything comes from above. But it is all about our appreciation, it comes from the upper one or from nature. Nature is also the Creator, it comes from above, but we just refer to it this way. We expect the upper intellect, the upper feeling to come, and we speak in these terms. But that which comes from the Creator according to our labor, our request, our preparation, we say that this comes from above. Because that's how we feel it, that's how we understand it. And that which comes without our preparation, rather by itself, we say this is from nature. It's seemingly in us, not like we have to toil in advance, and that's why we don't ascribe it to the upper force. But in truth – it all comes from Him. Except either it comes according to nature as we say, or it is preceded by our labor and our work. 

Question (Rehovot): (16:05) I'm assuming the article is only for those with points in the heart, so I don't understand what it means that you have to go above reason?

M. Laitman: What is it that you have to go above reason? We have one form of nature, we are in one form of nature, and the Creator who created us with the will to receive. How do we get to it? We learn in the wisdom of Kabbalah all the lights and the vessels cascaded from the upper world the world of Ein Sof through all the Partzufim until they came to Nekudot of SAG that we learned in the Pticha the day before yesterday. And from Nekudot of SAG, there was the place of the shattering and then the worlds of Atzilut, Beria, Yetzirah and Assiya are emanated. And in them, the soul exists, meaning a desire exists in them, and it exists there in a broken way, meaning in order to receive. And it has to be corrected to be in order to bestow, we have to participate in that correction, and as much as we correct ourselves, we raise ourselves from the degree of the worlds of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, to the world of Atzilut. And that's how we come to correction, meaning, identify with the Creator, the same degree as He is. That's our work. 

So, it turns out that we are born in the will to receive, a broken desire, meaning in order to receive. And we have to correct ourselves, so that the desire to receive in order to receive, we need to correct it in the will to receive in order to bestow. We cannot come out of this desire, we exist in it, this is our nature, unchanging. We don't need to fight directly with the will to receive, to want less, to and to have a strict spiritual diet. we don't have to worry about that, we do not have to diminish myself in any corporeal actions unless it somehow to the detriment of others. Rather than general, I need to change my calculation, the direction of my thinking. Or more correctly, in tuning my intention or the direction of my intention: Why do I do each and everything in the world, all the way to why am I even alive? That is the correction, that's what we need, so if I am activated by my nature, my first nature where I was born this way and I developed in this way, this means that I am inside the evil inclination, the egoistic desire. Which exists in me from the day I was born, and is constantly developing in me, and I know it. This nature is me, my, I, and I am not running away from it because there is nowhere for me to run away. 

The average person doesn't even understand what we are talking about. But there are such people with such a feeling in the desire, the desire is called, the heart. There are people who refer to the point in the heart, and they begin to feel that there is something additional, a different form of existence. And this different form of existence is attractive to them, then they want to attain what it means to exist in a different dimension. Of course, they don't do anything by themselves but the upper force brings them, as it's written, the Creator puts a person's hand on the good fortune and says take it, brings him to a choice and says – choose what is the good fortune in order to obtain the quality of bestowal, to attain it, and that's how we advance. So, we are all born in the will to receive for ourselves, in order to receive, and it's called, man's inclination is evil from his youth. Then we advance towards in order to bestow, the desire to receive in order to bestow. Meaning, we don't replace the desire, we replace the intention. What does it mean, the intention? Who do we honor, the will to receive or the will to bestow? Who is important in our eyes? All of our work is to extol the matter of bestowal and raise it, and that's how we advance. 

Question (ITA 3): (23:24) The fear that the will to receive might control me, might defeat me and I will lose my way on the path, can this be called fear of the Creator?

M. Laitman: We will learn about fear of the Creator, trepidation, it's not so clear, there are many deferments there. The fear of the Creator can range from the corporeal level, where you can't even see that you're working under the fear of the Creator. But rather you simply carry out nature’s command out of fear for your existence, your survival until you rise higher when you want to be under fear of the Creator and not inside your egoistic fear. And there is a fear of the Creator you also have degrees – why, what for, how much - and all of it is measured according to the will to receive that works through you. And then you can say on what level of fear of the Creator you are in. So, will learn about it, this topic we will need to unpack.

Question (New York 3): (25:03) We make many efforts that are against the desire. How do I know that now I'm actually going above reason?

M. Laitman: A person who acquires a feeling of above reason, he feels accordingly that he is under the dominion of the upper force. And the degree of the control of the upper force in him depends on how devoted a person is to this upper force. He has a feeling of adhesion to the upper force. And the upper force wishes to be in him, wishes to enter him and be in him like an embryo inside its mother. These are the first degrees of annulment of a person toward the Creator. Accordingly, we measure the degree of faith he has above reason because he himself exists in his will to receive and the will to receive is not yet refined. Only its control begins to be covered with the control of the will to bestow, where Bina begins to dominate the Malchut, and that's it. That's how a person grows. As much as Bina, the quality of bestowal grows in us on top of the quality of reception, we can say that the Creator in us is greater than our beast. On the degree of Adam, of man, is greater than and on top of the animate degree, and that's how we advance, that's how we grow. 

Question (Asia): (27:36) What is the difference between the force of Bina and the Romemut?

M. Laitman: According to the force of Bina, we attain and practice the exaltedness of the Creator because the force of the Bina is the force of the Creator.

Question (Africa 1): (28:28) Can it be said that the exaltedness of the Creator is a person discovering that the upper force is opposite from the will to receive and his efforts to rise in this?

M. Laitman: That, too, both opposite and higher, more preferred, more whole. Spirituality is something that we build by ourselves, as the Creator says, you have made me. Now, what does that mean? That above all the corporeal states, corporeal discernments, we build the Creator, specifically, by raising the force of bestowal above the force of reception. There are many discernments in the force of reception, many forms. And in the form of bestowing, we only use it to cover the force of reception and then from that we learn the Creator. Therefore, the Creator is called, BoReh, come and see. Why, how do you attain Him? By covering everything, crimes will be covered by love. So, this form of connection and love that you learned that it covers according to how capable you are of doing it, covers all those forms of reception in you. From that you attain the Creator. It will be clear to us that from here there's no Creator without a created being, that the Creator is only what exists relative to us. We build what we attain, it is what exists and not above it. And what we build through our 6000 years of corrections, as we call it, the path of corrections, we are ultimately building the Creator who covers our ego, our will to receive. Later, there are additional degrees, we are not talking about them right now, we cannot understand them at all. It will come – we are not parting ways; our path together is longer than you think. Not only in this life. 

Question (MAK 6): (31:16) What does it mean that he wants the Creator to answer his questions?

M. Laitman: I want the Creator to answer my questions: Who am I, what am I, why do I exist, what is the benefit of all of this. What is this life all about, what is my origin, what is my destination? All those things, I need them. The main thing is, I want to recognize the upper force, to get to know Him in order to use Him to bring the corrections from Him. To clothe within those corrections my ego so it will appear like a wolf and a sheep’s skin. And that's the main thing, here, for the evil inclination to turn itself into the good inclination. That's how we need to see our corrections. 

Question (Kiev 1): (32:34) We gathered in the Ten and we're trying to connect, what does it mean in this connection the Creator answers our questions?

M. Laitman: We have to first of all believe that the Kabbalists who wrote this way, that the Creator is connected to the connection between us and that He exists in the center of the group, that’s on one hand. On the other hand, we have to believe that what is happening to us, between us in the center of the group, that is what is accepted on a higher level called, the Creator. It's a matter of degrees, the ladder of degrees, so above us, there is a higher degree that we have to climb to, then another one, and another one. And we will always be faced with commands, lights, various signs, awakenings from a higher degree. So, we need to try and establish a connection with the higher degree and be incorporated in it. 

In the connection with the higher degree, we attain that through the exaltedness of the higher degree. The higher degree relative to the lower degree is always called, the Creator, relative to the created beings. Because we came down from infinity in degrees Galgalta AB SAG down to this world 5 worlds, five Partzufim in each world and five Sefirot inside of each Partzuf - 5 * 5 * 5 = 125 degrees in total. That's how we also climb back on these degrees, so, a higher degree relative to a lower degree is called, the Creator. First of all, because it begat the lower degree and cascaded from above down; also, because we can climb back up to it, and each time, BoReh, Come and See. We climb to a higher degree we attain it, we see it, we become like it, and then you can climb to an even higher degree, that's how we advance.

Student: There is our Ten during the lesson, what's different in each degree of the 125 degrees compared to how I feel now?

M. Laitman: For each Ten there is a thread that comes down from Ein Sof to it. And in this thread, we need to climb all the way to Ein Sof, to the end of correction. So, if we keep what Kabbalists are telling us, we will rise each time from degree to degree. And this ascent is from Malchut to Bina, Malchut to Bina. Every lower degree is called, Malchut, relative to the upper degree called, Bina. And that's how we rise, therefore, the force of ascent is called faith, the force of bestowal, Bina, above reason, above the force of Malchut, above the force of the will to receive. Meaning, practically speaking, as much as we prefer the will to bestow, connection among the friends, so we can climb from Malchut to Bina – from a lower degree to a higher degree, and that’s the connection between the degrees.

Question (Latin 1): (37:56) It's mentioned here that the will to receive understands that it's worthwhile to keep Torah and Mitzvot. What is the difference between seeing the exaltedness of the Creator within the will to receive and seeing it above reason?

M. Laitman: To feel. Well, you could say, to see, but it's not material vision. To feel the greatness of the Creator within the will to receive, directly, is psychology. And if we discover it in this way, it is regarded as revealing Him, within reason. And this is called, being religious. People who believe, you have billions of such people in the world, there is no attainment, here. There is some inner conviction that we are in this type of connection with the Creator with the upper force. If we are talking about the attainment of Kabbalists, then we are already saying that we change, people change. That they achieve the power of Bina within them, then they feel within them how the force, this power of Bina is revealed, this new nature, the power of bestowal, love, connection, which becomes higher, greater, more preferable, more value than the force of reception. This is called, being the faith above reason. In our articles, especially, we learn how we can prefer the power of bestowal above reception. Faith above reason. So, look at what he writes. 

Question (Moscow 7): (40:48) In this article Baal HaSulam speaks of the need a person has for the Creator when he feels empty. With the help of what can we empty ourselves to such an extent that we truly need the Creator?

M. Laitman: If I am operated through my yearning for the Creator or the foundation, the basis of our yearning for the Creator is called, the point in the heart. When I feel that it attracts me, it is pulling me – where to, I don't know, and who does it, I don't know. But I want to know the essence of life, the purpose of life, where I am from and where I am going? What happens with a person in general in this life? Questions that awaken in many people, except afterwards they disappear. Actually, in childhood and adolescence, they concern people a lot, children. Then hormones come and all kinds of things, all the nonsense of the world distracts people's attention from the right questions. What am I for, why am I here? This is how it works, but those people who, nevertheless, cannot drop their points in the hearts which pull them to contact with the Creator, they don't know that this is the way it is, that it is towards contact with the Creator, and they come to the wisdom of Kabbalah, nevertheless. Then they come to a state where either they work according to their own intellect, according to what they see in this world, what is called the rational approach. It is a joke that it is called this way as if we are rational beings. We see how we operate all over the world, where is there any rationality, here? Ratio is the intellect, it is thinking, but we can't decide anything rationally if we don't know the future and connect ourselves to the future. And then by seeing the present and the future, we can take some steps forward towards the future, when we see it and understand it and have some kind of a grip on it, then it's regarded as working rationally. But if we don't have any grip on this future, then what rational rationality can there be in what we do and how we live in and how we work? But that's how we call it, if we rely only on our egos which don't see what will happen a moment later. Sometimes we see we're going into bad things but still can't stop ourselves. 

We see this today in everything we do, that we are working incorrectly, we are destroying planet Earth. Destroying our lives, we're moving towards wars, problems, and whatnot. Are we stopping ourselves? No, we are worse than animals because animals are not working this way, they stop immediately according to what they see as dangerous and don't move forward. But we do because our evil inclination is higher than ourselves, it comes from above and it dictates to us what we should do. And we follow its orders instead of the orders of the animal within us, this is why we are destroying the planet, destroying the world, even though it jeopardizes our future. This is called, working out of this false rationality, from within reason, as if there is any reason within it. Above reason means that we accept the will of the Creator, the approach of the Creator and begin to act accordingly. Acting according to the will of the Creator means that we appreciate acts of bestowal more than acts of reception. That Bina governs Malchut and not that we, with the Malchut, with the will to receive, suppress the qualities of Bina, the inclination to bestow. If we learn in our society, which we built especially to raise the quality of bestowal, to value the quality of bestowal more than reception. This is regarded as one thing to exist in faith, in the power of Bina, the power of bestowal, which is above reason, above the egoistic will to receive, that's it. This is called, faith above reason, and to the extent that we elevate the level of Bina above the level of the Malchut, the will to bestow being above, more respected in our eyes, in our will to receive. This is regarded as building the exaltedness of the Creator. As much as the Creator, the degree of Bina, is higher and greater than our eyes than the degree of Malchut.

Student: In the beginning when you started to explain it, you told us how Kabbalist makes decisions and he sees the present state, the future state and he connects the two together and ties it with the Creator with what's happening in the world. Kabbalist, each and every given moment, he ties every step.

M. Laitman: This is today, we always have to add today, in our time. We are in the last generation and therefore, we have to direct our actions towards the end of correction. When we connect among ourselves in order to set an example to the rest of humanity, it will join us and advance along with us in the direction that we determine. Because they have no direction, they don't know they don't have the same inner vessels, the inner tools. But the power, the thrust that we will receive from them because they are suffering, so those who are suffering will pressure us. They won't pressure us in a sense that they come to us, but we through our will to bestow that we are developing will want to help to save them, so as to give contentment to the Creator in order to save the created beings, and we are in between them. They will pressure us and we will want to deliver them, and by this also bring contentment to the Creator. This whole chain will work properly, and by this the world will advance towards correction.

Question (Unity 2): (50:03) What does it mean that we suppress Malchut with the force of Bina?

M. Laitman: We prefer the quality of the will to bestow to the quality of the will to receive, we have two options within us and we always wanted to use the will to bestow. The desire to connect on top of the desire to receive, the desire to move apart. 

M. Laitman Reading: (50:38) Rav reads: What is the exaltedness of the Creator? The exaltedness of the Creator means that one should ask 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 go above my intellect, my will to receive, to the desire to bestow, to be constantly connected to you through 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 a connection between all of us and the Creator and He, the Creator, pulls us up. 

This means that there are two interpretations to the exaltedness of the Creator. One – not to be filled with knowledge. 

Meaning I don't want to know, to receive. Why? Which is intellect with which one can answer one’s questions. Why? Because if I answer within reason, I limit it through what I am, through my intellect. Rather, he wants the Creator to answer his questions. 

Rather this person wants the Creator to answer his questions. How? However, the Creator decides, that's it. You find that this is called exaltedness.

When a person cancels himself and wants the Creator to control his mind and heart. 

Because all the wisdom comes from above and not from a man. This is why it's called exaltedness. 

Because by this he elevates the Creator above himself. 

Meaning, that one can answer one’s own questions, but he isn't doing it, he wants the Creator to answer all his questions. 

So that our questions, too, our questions too come from the Creator, we think we imagine that they are our own but we ourselves turn to the Creator and say you will answer our questions. Not that I will search according to my intellect. 

It turns out that this is called exaltedness because all the intellect comes from above and not from the person, meaning that one can answer one’s own questions. Anything that one could answer is regarded as answering everything from the external mind. This means that the will to receive understands that it is worthwhile to observe Torah and Mitzvot, commandments. 

Commandments, means this whole process where we want to develop. 

However, if the above reason compels one to work, what work? It is called against the opinion of the will to receive.

In other words, I don't want to answer anything with my mind and heart.