Morning Lesson July 3, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: I tried to explain because this topic is very important and very moving because we are in constant ascents and descents and how we have to work with the ascents and descents to bring the greatest benefit out of it... It is like a wheel with one part moving forward and the other part moving backward so how can we work with those two parts which are in ascents and descents, especially the descents will promote us. What we need at the end, is a deficiency. The abundance is present all around us. His glory fills the world, the light is infinite, we just need a deficiency for it. The descents, if we use them correctly, will reveal the deficiency correctly, then the light comes and corrects the deficiency to be suitable for the revelation of the light in it, and this is how we advance each time. He needs to really appreciate the descents and understand that specifically in them, we discover the right vessel for approaching the Creator. This is why the work in ascents is also but the main work is the descents. That is called, 'in the night'. Those who prepare themselves properly for it will benefit, make time and gain in the quality of the advancement, because from the old the writings of the Kabbalists and from the King David Psalms and how much the Kabbalists always studied this and connect especially at night. In the physical night as a symbol of our work in the darkness, because when we want to raise the broken vessels of Adam HaRishon, and add them to the connection between us and prepare for them a place for the correction that is done by the light and for the filling, this is our work. Therefore, basically, contrary to the whole world, also contrary to beginners who do not like the disconnections and the descents, we who are more advanced should feel more and more how the descents have their own special flavor, just like there is no food without spices. We cannot eat without salt, pepper, and all kinds of additions. Likewise, we need to understand that it is these additions that we add from our deficiencies. They give the light the flavor and they make the light sense 620 times more than without our entry from the darkness.
We need to pay attention to how to work with descents in darkness and in states where we don't really initially feel that there are any benefits in it. That it would be better without descents, without problems, without darkness, without separation, without disappointments. But afterwards, we begin to appreciate these states because specifically through them, these states, we feel special flavors, special entries, that when we hang on to the light, maintain the light as good, more correctly, it is because these states of darkness give us a flavor in the light. Otherwise it would be just some tasteless light. Take anything that is sweet, for example a hundred percent sweet, you cannot eat it because it's impossible. But when you bake cakes for example, you add the rum to it or some kind of a Cognac, even a stronger drink or salt and pepper. Why? In order to make the sweetness more subtle because we already know that we cannot taste the light without darkness.
Because the advantage of the light is from within the darkness specifically. So the work in ascents and descents should be an ongoing thing. A subsequent, and alternating, intermittent thing when we feel the darkness feel all the disturbances which are seemingly negative and specifically through them we can discover the light as good. The good that we discover in the light comes precisely because we tasted the darkness. When we yearn for the final perfect state at the end of correction, along the way we have to discover all the darkness that there is which the Creator prepared for us. Precisely from the breaking of the vessel of Adam HaRishon. This is what he prepared for us and by revealing more and more Reshimot records from the breaking, by this we can feel more and more the flavors, these discernments in the light and the Creator's relationship to us. Let's begin these excerpts and see what is written about it by our teachers, what Rabash and Baal HaSulam write about it.
2. (07:26) Rav reading: Rabash writes that anything that the person wants to taste, any flavor whether it is wrong or whether it is something necessary, we cannot know but from one from the other like advantage of the light is coming from darkness we cannot enjoy rest unless we are tired so we have to go through a process of ascents and descents. However we do not have to be impressed from the descents, instead we have to exert not to escape the campaign. For this reason during the work we must know that there are two things at the end of the work we see that light and darkness are like two legs, like one thing that complements one another, that leads the person to the goal. Read it again
Excerpt 1 (08:29)
3. S. (09:49) How nonetheless when we are in the state of descent how can one really reach the flavor of the ascent, the revelation of the Creator and the light?
R. First of all it depends on the level of the soul whether it is a great soul or a small one whether he has a big vessel or a smaller one. We cannot measure it, each one himself much less compares our vessels, but I haven't what is in their friends and in the ten. We still cannot do this. Afterwards we can see how we can measure and compare and recognize this and work with it in mutual complementation. So we have no choice. We have to accept our state and maintain ourselves in the state where each and every state that we have between us and each has their individual state. All those states have to be revealed on the way to the end of correction. Therefore what we can do is only to accelerate our development. This depends on how much we help each other, how much we approach one another. Accordingly we can quickly know how to realize these states, the ascents and descents, and make it so that we get closer and connect through both the ascents and the descents. Just like in this world we understand one cannot be without the other. Take electricity or magnetism, any natural forms, attraction and rejection that cannot be one force if we do not have an opposite from it, the opposite force. We need to understand we are not like children in a state that can only be sweet. It is not possible, do you understand? That it has to come with its opposite, as it is written that the anything that is scrutinized it is only scrutinized against its opposite and when we have both opposites complimenting each other we can understand that we can detect both darkness and light, because otherwise we wouldn't be feeling I either of them.
S. But when the descent appears, how can one depict the best method to use this descent?
R. The best way to work during the descent is when I begin to appreciate the descent and I accept it as I accept the ascent. That the advantage of the light is from within the darkness so the darkness has its duty which is just as important as the light and I relate to both in a creative matter. I cannot have one without the other so the state I go through in the darkness should be for me like states that I understand them more, I feel in them more, I begin to see more how the Creator operates on me, why he does this to me what he is doing what he wants and I begin to enjoy these states of darkness just as the light. When we see that day and night, according to the wisdom, the day begins in the evening; and there was evening and there was morning one day. First of all every state starts from the darkness from the night when the person does not receive light why doesn't he receive light because new vessels are revealed in him, broken ones. Because everything results from the sharing of Adam.
And then these new vessels are revealed. They bring darkness and we need to organize this darkness within us and prepare in our relationship to the darkness, our right attitude to the darkness, in such a way that through the darkness we can begin to see the light. Because in truth there is no darkness. Everything is filled with light but because the earth is revolving around the sun and the earth is the desire, the planet Earth symbolizes the desire, so it hides from us the light and then it reveals it. Likewise it is in spirituality, we receive darkness because there is an addition of desire to receive revealed, one after the other one after the other. When a bigger desire to receive appears we feel darkness. If we relate to it correctly and turn it into a new day, a new light, then again we use it to the fullest, the darkness comes again but this is a new darkness, a new night, and then again we prepare ourselves for a new day. Likewise from darkness to light and from light to darkness, it is our work.
S. So as the Kabbalists or as students of Kabbalist, can we turn this earth around?
R. It depends on us, as it is written that Israel accelerates or sanctifies the times. It is written but it all depends on us. So we come to a state and there is no difference between darkness and light because it is all one day very simple.
S. What do you mean that there is no difference?
R. Just like that if I correct it there is no darkness or light, everything for me is one day, one light the light of Ein Sof, infinity.
S. And this is because we are accepting day and night in the same way?
R. You speak like an architect. It becomes revealed as only day or new light, because we rise above the desire to receive, above the planet Earth and there we have only light.
4. S. (17:25) a descent that is caused as a result of the direct fulfillment and the descent that comes as a result true or correct advancement?
R. We do not know why the descents come or why. We can however accelerate time meaning bring the new descents closer out of which we will have new ascents. This is how it will happen but how exactly we can cause an ascent or descent precisely we do not know because it depends on the Reshimot, on the records that must still be revealed and surface in us. It also depends on the general times in the group, in other adjacent friends etc.
5. S. (18:30) What is the meaning of making the darkness prominent and how do we work with the darkness correctly in the 10?
R. We have enough articles from Rabash how he writes about that. We have to relate to the darkness as to the light and we have to accept these states coming from the Creator so if I relate directly to the source, to the Creator then it should not be important for me what I received from Him darkness or light, as long as I use that I received from Him as long as I advance towards Him.
S. What is the meaning of increasing it or enlarging the darkness to make it more prominent?
R. I just attribute to the darkness as much importance as I attribute to the light.
6. S. (19:37) Rabash writes that the ascent and descent are two legs that lead us to the goal, what is the goal that one should place before him in whatever state he discovers?
R. That he rises above darkness or light in such a way that for him what is important is the connection to the Creator, to the source. The Creator is the source of the darkness and the light and through the feeling of darkness and light I want to connect to Him. Then to me it doesn't matter if there is darkness or light as long as I am constantly directed toward the source, to the Creator.
7. S. (20:20) What is the feeling of the flavor and what determines the flavor? So what is judging the flavor actually and to know what to ask for? How do I know what flavor we need to add? What is this flavor?
R. I don’t know what flavor and I don’t really understand your question.
S. He is probably talking about the first sentence here, that in anything a person wants to taste a flavor, he is asking what flavor?
R. In anything that the person wants to taste any flavor, whether it is worth using we have to learn one from the other. It is always like that it's the advantage of the light from the darkness. This is the main thing we need. Just like a person cannot enjoy rest unless he knows what is fatigue. We are in alternating states of remoteness and closeness, this is how the Creator constantly works with us. Just like you teach a child to walk. You put the child in front of you, holding him by the hands, he can barely stand. But we want him to start working so we'll leave him there and he cries but he has no choice so he has to take a step forward and he grabs our hands. Then we leave him again, and move back even more so the child has no choice so he takes another step forward. This is how we teach children and just like that the Creator is teaching us.
8. S. (22:34) Why does darkness become more important for a Kabbalist than ascent?
R. Because in the darkness all kinds of correct deficiencies are revealed that separate us from the Creator and then we can correct them and come closer. We cannot do it without the darkness. I do not know where to come close to, what I need to correct. What movements I need to make within me in order to be more connected to the friends and to the Creator. So the feeling of darkness is necessary. The Kabbalists are known to do their work at night. In the night you have watches and then in the night we build our vessels for the light, and when our vessels are built and are ready, the light is revealed in them. This is called ' a day". There is no day or night. We are in a world that is all day. The Creator is present feeling all of reality, it's not like the sunlight that we see the sun or we don't. We are in a state that is all light and then comes the darkness. We can't reveal the light for lack of vessels, but if we prepare our vessels, then we gradually begin to see the light as existing and that we exist in it. This is the beginning of the day. In this way, we go through the feeling of the light as day and then new records are revealed once more. The broken ones, the spoiled ones,
and this is like the setting sun. Then we go into the evening and into the night and we once again correct our vessels that have revealed now at the end of the day that are broken and we prepare ourselves for the next day. When we prepare them, we reveal the light again the next day. This is who we advance. In other words, each of us, in each of our 10's, determines for itself when it is day and when there is darkness, when it is night and when it is day. This is how it works.
9. S. (25:37) Can the feeling of ascent bring us harm with our advancement and if so what's to do?
R. Only one thing can harm our advancement, it is when we do not manage to connect among ourselves. When some remoteness is revealed between us in all kinds of ways and manners, we have to immediately work on it in order to remove it. Removing it means to go above it. To bring this remoteness actually into our work so we cover it with connection. In this way all the distances are revealed and we can cover them with the connection between us.
10. S. (27:10) I want to ask about the feeling of darkness which is a good state for us. Is this also a discernment that comes through the light? The feeling that you are in the darkness is a good feeling but I have a fear of these feelings. I never want to go into them. Is this also a discernment that comes through the light?
R. Yes of course, it is coming through the light. Actually there is no darkness, the Achoraim, the posterior side of the light is called darkness. There are two languages in the wisdom of Kabbalah, Hebrew and Aramaic. In Hebrew, Ohr, light, is the day, the light but in Aramaic the word for light is similar but because Aramaic is an opposite language the word for light means night. So there is no difference between them. It is only through the perspective of the person how he accepts it. Aramaic speaks from the perspective of the vessels and Hebrew comes from the perspective of the light and the both work on us
11. S. (28:55) What are the implications of a friend who runs away from the campaign?
R. So he is neither in our ascents or descents. It is as if he dropped off from this progress. We have to somehow help him not to drop out completely to see him as someone that is a sick, someone that they cannot do anything for the time being, but leave a place for him for the time being as much as possible we keep his place for him so if he wants to come he wants to come back but that's it. Under the condition that he is not disturbing, he’s not interfering, that he does not want to harm us. If he wants to harm the 10 then we already have to stop communicating with him in any way.
12. S. (30:13) If he asks for a new degree and we get it but we use a mechanical prayer and we do not even feel like a beast what can we do?
Please repeat the question as Rav did not understand:
S. If I ask for a new degree and I only have the strength to ask mechanically is this feeling felt?
R. This is not what you should pray for, you should only pray for the connection with the friends and not for anything else because it is in the vessel where you can discover your next degree. Do not forget about the vessel.
13. S. (31:11) It is a felt that only when there is very strong pressure and a fear in the vessel of this world only then can we find a need to fully connected to the 10 and to the Creator as our teacher describes and when there is no more pressure the right need is lost so it really makes me fearful. It is as if I am inviting pressures in this world because only then do I have the opportunity to connect with friends and with the Creator?
R. This is still lack of connection lack of faith but keep going because go on as high frequency as possible
14. S. (32:07) In our work I have noticed that it seems that 90% of the time I am in an intermediate state, neither ascent nor descent. How can we consciously advance from such a state?
R. I understand you, there are such states and more will come. I recommend doing it through the connection with the friends, even if it's through a mechanical connection, and through dissemination. By having a group where you have a place to explain what is the wisdom of Kabbalah and you draw new people to come closer to it. In this way, you will be able to accelerate such times and change them in such a way that every state will stand out. But if you are alone and the connection between you is weak, or frail. It is as if you're hanging in the air.
Excerpt 2 (34:17) Twice
15. R. (36:09) I see that this is clear but it means a lot, meaning it says a lot. It means that I attribute to the Creator both the ascents and the descents and if I feel one more them more than the other it is a sign that my will to receive is still directing me to a state where I will feel more comfortable. There will be more pleasure there but if I correct the will to receive that are no ascents or descents everything is a state of connection with the Creator.
16. S. (36:46) Previously we heard that each and every 10 has to examine if it is in an ascent or descent. How can the 10 make this scrutiny? How can it decide?
R. First of all the person should know what state he is in and if there is a connection between them and they can already talk about a common state between them but if there is no connection between them then it will not help, you cannot get closer by simply talking. We are not in a connection of the kind you have in the government or in some place where people assemble and they talk. We need to feel that we are together and then for us these states come through our efforts in ascents and descents. So words, speaking does not help, it has to be clear to our common feeling. Your question is unrealistic in spirituality. It is realistic when you sit with your wife or with your relatives or with other people maybe at your workplace and you talk about your relationships. In spirituality, it is not like that because the crave for a single goal all of us in that this is where we are, a common feeling becomes very clear between us otherwise, it will remain just words.
17. S. (39:29) I wanted to ask about the exercise you gave us that we need to examine this state in the 10 we have seen that it is either that we are all in ascent or we are all in a descent, so how can we understand this result, when in principle some should be up and some should be down?
R. Later when we work among us and crave to be constantly in an ascent and we begin to progress together our descents as ascents. Then it turns out that we complement each other and then we roll like a wheel, this is like rolling already between us together and if we connect to these state then some are up some are down and we are all rolling together forward, we are moving towards the goal complimenting each other in feelings and understanding and in a common goal.
19. S. (41:00) There are people in the 10 whose internal character is more suitable for descents and the others are more suitable for ascents?
R. This is always like that even in complete tens but it is still too soon to examine it, when it becomes revealed we will talk about it.
20. S. (41:33) Regarding the descent it is only a matter of feeling or a matter of understanding because I may feel bad but Rabash says that it is good because it might be the sign of progress. How can I determine if I am in an ascent or in a descent?
R. What Rabash writes here with how you determine whether it is an ascent for you.
S. This was the question.
R. But it is not a question, our work is to turn darkness into light and to work specifically in the night to prepare the vessel. To the extent we prepare the vessel for the light we start to feel in them light. There is no day or night like in our physical world in the physical earth when the earth revolves around its axis, so we have day and night depending on which side we are in respect to the sun. Instead here we have to do all kinds of common work. If we determine that our state in adhesion and how much is there, darkness, we turn it into the vessel of adhesion, then we go into that day, into the light, and darkness will shine as light. It is written that this is how it should be that said there is no darkness and there is no night, everything is day, one day for the Lord.
S. I may feel good but I do not think about the friends so much so I am disconnected and the other thing is some other things to fulfill me so I may feel bad but this might also not relate to the 10 so how can I determine it? Maybe I am in an ascent or not?
R. You need to decide where you are in your beast that wants to be comfortable in a dark house and it only wants to feel good or you do want to be in your soul and you feel good because you do not feel the darkness, only the light because you received it from the Creator. It is not because it is a darkness or light but because it is something you received from The Creator so for you it is all light.
S. So it is a decision in the mind disconnected from the feelings?
R. I think it is only in the feelings if you think it isn't the mind and you can leave it in the intellect but I do not understand how you can even talk about intellect in the wisdom of Kabbalah if our vessel is a desire.
21. S. (44:46) It seems like I may have misunderstood or I am not accepting ascents and the descents because when I feel my connection to the 10 and I discover the time totally immersed in the desire to receive so what is the right direction here?
R. The connection in the 10 and the guidance of the 10 to the Creator, this is the right and good direction. I try to be in this state in this direction, all the time despite all the different records, all the different recollections and the states I go through.
22. S. (45:40) Should we feel that descent is felt outside of us like a scientist studying something else or should we dive inside and be included in the state?
R. Only inside, as the wisdom of Kabbalah is studying our feelings, the feelings of man's desire to receive goes through. There is nothing more in reality besides the desire and what we learn about is the changes in the desire, what we feel, how we feel these changes.
23. S. (46:27) In the beginning he says that a person has to believe that the Creator is leading him on the path to the King's Palace. Is there advice on how to pay more attention to this?
R. Only through the environment.
S. Yes, in general I understand but how to do this?
R. Everything is scrutinized in the thought, if in the 10 we are all thinking about it as much as we can in all of our free time, focusing ourselves to the goal in the 10, then the Creator will organize different states for us which will always be in the right time we can say in the right time we will always be focused on it and we will progress this is the only way.
24. S. (47:22) What was the right path leading to the king's Palace? Does it mean that we get it from the Creator, the descents, and we can progress through them?
R. Yes.
Excerpt 3 (47:43) Twice
25. S. (50:37) What does it mean, the upper Malchut, how to raise the empty place there?
R. That is Malchut of Bina and the Malchut of Malchut and we have to raise from Malchut of Malchut to the Malchut of Bina. Malchut means control of the desire to receive and control of the desire to bestow is Bina and this is how we have to raise all the desires that appear in us to bestowal.
S. And how to do this?
R. By connecting between us and praying asking the Creator to give light upon the connection between us and if there is no connection, there is nothing to ask for but to the extent we connect, we are asking that this connection between us would bestow light or that the Creator would give light to the connection between us. This is raising a prayer and then when we feel this connection that he performs in this connection we start discovering the forms of bestowal which is the Creator.
26. S. (52:19) How, in relation to this writing, how to understand the Creator, the prayer, after every lesson we write a prayer is this correct that those who are in ascent write and the others are following them? Is this right?
R. It is possible to do that, anything is good if you do that, when every group, every 10 raises something together, don't worry, the Creator does not differentiate, He can work with the infinite entries there are no lines, if you raise a prayer you immediately have a contact with the Creator. The Creator is basically feeling two addresses, one is an address which is a request, prayer and the other one is the gratitude, this is the two things the Creator can feel from us, so we have to be in one of the two, maybe both together but the address to The Creator is the only thing we can act in, and by that we can change our states to progress towards connection and correction.
27. S. (54:03) The ascent and descent in spirituality, is it something we only experience in spirit and we don't experience in the physical world?
R. This is something we will learn but not now, of course there is a connection. However learning this connection is only possible when we control the ascents and descents, all our different situations in the connection between us, and through the connection between us and the Creator. Then we will start to learn this mechanism practically. It will come, this is a very special study, very beautiful study. I myself yearn to start this because I was not in a group that can practically learn this and change practically the act of creation, the act of Genesis, this is the meaning of verse that the righteous prays and the Creator makes it happen. Let's hope that we will come to this, it all depends on you, this is not something fantastical, it is not unrealistic. It is something we can actually reach.
28. S. (55:50) I wanted to ask about the sparks in the excerpt and how to correct them?
R. Sparks, parts of the desires, we have to examine and connect them to the light and then each becomes a vessel and then the connection of these sparks builds the correct vessel.
29. S. (56:31) Going back to the previous question about a feeling, light and darkness it is clear that we feel darkness and light in our vessels of reception so the minute we have a descent and we already have vessels of bestowal can we feel the light there?
R. The light that is felt in the vessels of giving is a spiritual light and the light is felt in the vessel of reception is spiritual darkness.
S. So the minute there is a descent in what vessel do we feel the darkness?
R. In the vessels of reception when they are only in order to receive.
S. So in the vessel of bestowal it would always be the feeling of light?
R. There are no other vessels, there are no vessels that are not for reception, the vessel is the desire to receive, and the intention to receive brings darkness and the intention to bestow brings us light, but the desire is always the desire to receive, it is the desire to enjoy that does not change.
S. What is spiritual darkness?
R. It is when in my vessels I feel that I am in order to receive, and that's why I feel darkness in my vessels.
30. S. (58:17) I have too few ascents and descents and I want to accelerate the pace. Can I use the pace of all of humanity to advance quicker?
R. Of course, you can, if you're connected to the group you can advance quicker.
S. Those connected to humanity can we use to advance quicker?
R. You can't, it is only in your fantasy it seems that you are connected with them, through what, are you with them in a mutual vessel? Do you feel their pain, are you happy with their happiness, do you want to raise them, to save them?
S. Maybe through dissemination this would help?
R. Dissemination helps but it is still far, you are still thinking how you can make a profit through your connection to unity not how you can induce humanity’s advancement to bring them closer to the Creator. What you are thinking is how you will come closer and there is a difference there.
31. S. (59:49) What does it mean that every descent is a new beginning?
R. Just like we start learning from let there be night and let there be day as one day, a descent is not a descent it is a beginning of the relation of the broken records from the next degrees. These records appear from the next state increasingly more and this is how we go into the night, darkness even more until we start working with this darkness, even though it is darkness we want to be connected to its source which is the Creator. As it is written you have the day and you also have the night, this is how we process darkness correctly until we reach the light. That in these same vessels that were corrupted where we felt the darkness, the night there, we began to relate differently, praying and asking for corrections and then came the corrections to those vessels, and in those vessels, we feel the light. This is how it happens. Meaning the same vessels that used to be darkness become day, then instead new vessels, broken records appear again and we feel darkness again, we correct them to reach a state where we discover the light in these vessels, we discovered the day. This is how it is, flip flop, how we go through night day, night day. We always start from night, let there be night, evening and let there be the day. Because as a result of the shattering every degree starts from the shattering.
S. What happens to the vessel in the descent?
R. We feel how far we are from the Creator.
S. Why do you need a descent in order to have a vessel?
R. I don't understand your question please repeat?
S. He writes that every descent is a new beginning so the question is why in order to have a new beginning do we have to start from a descent?
R. New records appear from the shattering. This is where we have a lot of records. It is like a sack, a bag with many records, see, there are many records here and they appear, the light bestows upon them and they start to rise gradually. This is considered the change of times that we are living in. There is nothing more, this is what we are living in until we empty the bag and all the records rise to our awareness, to our feeling of the mind and the hearts and then we realize all of these records. This is the final correction.
S. According to the diagram what is a descent?
R. A descent is when new records appear, a record comes raising itself, it raises itself to my awareness, to my feeling and then I live this record. In the beginning I live it as a descent and then I start relating to it as an ascent.
S. What is the difference between relating to it in a descent or relating to it as an ascent?
R. The state where we sense this coarseness, it is how far I am in the dark. In many aspects I feel bad is also darkness and being far from my friends is a different kind of darkness, being far from the Creator is a different darkness. There are many different kinds of darkness in spirituality. If I begin to diagnose or examine my vessel, what is my sickness, my illness of the desire to receive I discover many sources of illness. Then all of these things I raised to the Creator to correct and by them I reach connection between me and the friends, between me and all of the vessel of Bnei Baruch, between me and all of the world Kli when I take everyone into account and ultimately all of these things I focus them and turn to the Creator in order to give Him contentment.
S. So what exactly is an ascent?
R. And ascent is when I can use these broken records that appeared in me, that I can perform the maximum connection as much as I can with all the broken vessels beginning with the closest circle to the farthest, beginning with the 10 to Bnei Baruch, the general Kli, and to all of humanity, and to raise it to the Creator to correct. To this, it is written’ the Lord will do the work and He will be king over the whole land’. That's how it is.
32. S. (01:07:18) It is not very clear how to determine the general state of the 10 if we are working through our feelings and don't speak about it openly?
R. What do you mean, we do understand each other while talking, it is not forbidden, it is when we want to show each other how much we desire love, while it's written what we must not do is weaken each other, to bring words of disrespect as if we don't care. But awakening friends is something that we must do. If anyone identifies how much he is in a high state, specifically through the group he should say this. That he should rattle and shake the group. Look how I am doing this every day to you. How do you know what state I am in now? Do you think everything is day, everything is lights that everything is always good and nice? I must appear before you this way and this is how each and every one of you, the meaning of each and every one of you, how they help their friend and by this they advance.
33. S. (01:09:19) How should the effect of a friend on a friend who is falling help the longing of that friend to grow and to have more desire to come into efforts?
R. I am not really understanding the question because you confused a few situations here. We have to see each and every friend how much I can add awakening, upliftment, good mood, happiness, the greatness of the goal. Out of that the greatness of the society and the connection between us as much as possible. Some people speak about it more, some speak less; this also depends upon who the person is and what states he is going through. We must not speak about things that are not raising the friends, uplifting them in the ten and in general the whole group in our work. Rather only for that sake, that is why we must not speak about things that may cause descent, even if it is the truth as I'm not searching for the truth of what state I am in, I am searching for the ascent.
34. S. (01:11:26) How can I direct myself to the ten through the ascents and descents of the friends who can benefit from my states and not me?
R. Why not you? And you are with them as the general vessel, I cannot think of myself. It is as if I bring myself out of this vessel and I must be with them in this vessel. Of course we act each one to the other, each one to everyone else but don't bring oneself out as it is not a genuine state where I am not thinking about myself you have to think about yourself as well. It is also in our prayer when we pray, for these and these and these in for us and in the end, however it is for us as this is how it is written in the prayer book.
35. S. (01:13:42) Is there an order in the revelation of the records, is there a connection between the ascent in the descents?
R. The records appear according to the order of the shattering from the light to the heavy, according to the rule in sanctity they only raise, they only advance you, they never go back. I can't go on to the next record if I haven't corrected the previous one. Do not think you have to hurry up and correct it otherwise it will run away, the records don't advance to any place. You will have to go through them and correct them one by one. So don't be lazy, correct what you have in every moment.
36. S. (01:15:01) A state of confusion and loss of control. Is this an accent or descent and what should I do in order to move to the next state?
R. We don't take into account the incidental feeling I have been confused or understanding more or less sad or happy, not so much. We only take into account how much I can connect all of these states to a ten and to the Creator because that is the correct realization. All of the rest of the dresses and the circles I make, I only confuse myself and not correct anything. That is why my whole work is the moment I feel a new state I want to bind this state to the ten, to connect with this state to the ten and along with the ten to the Creator, not alone. Along with the ten together with the Creator and then I feel myself being in the right state, in the correct state realizing my state correctly. First of all, simply run away with the ten to the Creator just as a baby runs to his mother, when he is by her side he is certainly good, and no other realization do I want.
37. S. (01:17:19) How do we pray for our souls so that it incorporates within it?
R. King David is the general Malchut, that is why Psalms that he wrote are accepted by the entire humanity, everyone reads it not only Jews, it is because by this he has established man's attitude towards the Creator and from the lowest state, from Malchut to Keter. This is why there is no expression of Malchut more complete towards the Creator than Psalms. Baal HaSulam said about the Psalms that it is light with no Kli. Truly so. This is why it is good that you read. I used to be in such a state where I had the time and I went through Psalms to make it simpler, forgive me for saying such a thing, that it is even possible or if you can relate to Psalms this way, but I did it because I had no choice but to bring it closer to the beginners who did not know Hebrew and only spoke Russian, so that they could understand what it is about, I allowed myself to corrupt these holy words of King David. This is something that we should do, to read and understand that there is a bit of a taste of what is there. They are very profound and it is truly the wisdom of Kabbalah in the complete manner, when Malchut connects to Keter.
38. S. (01:20:15) When darkness comes we go to sleep. We go into a state of unconsciousness kind of on hold until only the daylight awakens us. Does something similar happen in spirituality and if it does how do you work with it?
R. When a new corrupt Reshimot appears we are in a state called darkness and sleep, because we don't have light we can't really scrutinize these things moreover correct them. This is why this state is called night as we are in a state where we don't really see our situation. This is why it is called dormancy, sleep. This is the state in spirituality, there is no night as we're disconnecting from our life, we are disconnecting from spirituality, from the active spiritual life in order to bestow and this is what we call night and darkness and sleep.
39. S. (01:21:54) What does it mean the vacant place is filled with the kingdom of heaven?
R. Reshimot is a deficiency that we need to process and discover that we want to work with this deficiency not for ourselves but for the Creator. Then we connect between ourselves, we are asking the Creator to help us correct the record so that from this Reshimot there will be a vessel, a deficiency for the Creator, meaning to bestow to the Creator which is only possible in one thing, if I receive in order to bestow. We are asking the Creator to have the force of connection over the force of correct connection where the force of the screen to receive the light in such a way that it will be in order to bestow. That we will have the correct calculation. All of the things that we do in the connection between us in the address to the Creator is the preparation for the correct spiritual action. When we turn this state by the connection between us and with the Creator to the correction of the vessel then we discover the upper light, this is considered that we reach morning. From night we reach the morning, we start receiving more and more of the upper light between us, filling us until it goes through the whole vessel correcting and filling it. This is considered that we are going through the day until we finish this work and what appears is a record of the shattering, a new record which is considered that we are entering the new day, the new night.
40. S. (01:24:22) We heard Reshimot is a deficiency, an uncorrected desire. Is there a connection between the personal record and the record of the ten?
R. Yes, this is correct that there is a connection here and we will discover the connection later. That between us we will have a true connection to the correct ten and each and every one of us will discover why he belongs to these people that we call people, these Reshimot and this process that the ten is going through will know everything, there is no chance here.
S. As you drew before this whole sack of Reshimot is it common to the ten does it come to the world ten?
R. It is common to the whole Kli of Adam HaRishon.
S. Do we have our own common sack as well?
R. Of course as these things will be revealed, we are preparing a general personal way.
41. S. (01:25:52) In the ten do we all need to come to a state and feel that we are sick and without the doctor, without the light, that we won't be able to emerge from this state? And that feeling of sickness, should it be present?
R. Yes, this should be the feeling, that we are sick and that there is a physician that is the upper light, the Creator and that He will bring us the remedy and in the connection between the vessels, none of our vessels are flawed. The only flaw is in the connection between us and this is why we sometimes wish to correct himself, this is incorrect because the Creator broke the connection between us, the crack between us is done, between everyone and everyone else. This is the problem and this is what we have to correct, only the connection between us as no one should correct himself personally, individually, no. The problem is the connections between us and let's hope that we correct it as there are no other corrections.
42. S. (01:27:32) When you feel, you feel not good, right?
R. It depends on what you're feeling.
S. Let's say you have a whole host of negative feelings towards the friends, the Creator, the path, feeling darkness, he feels lowly, he feels rejection, anger?
R. This may happen, I just don't understand these negative states that you're talking about where he says that from then he's feels bad and he should turn to the Creator with them, ultimately there's only one source.
S. (01:28:16) That is the question as another friend spoke about it so he attributes it to the Creator that he is so good that does good and it is as if he performed an act of attributing?
R. What act?
S. That he attributed to the Creator.
R. Yes.
S. But the feeling has not changed.
R. The feeling has already changed because it's connected to the Creator, there is none else besides Him as the good that does good, as it is written and He bestows upon me, bringing the situation down on me even though I feel the situation is not good, it is good, as it is a discovery of the illness.
S. So he understands it intellectually and sometimes only it is coming from the Creator, but often the feeling stays lousy.
R. This also comes from the Creator because if the person says, ok it comes from the Creator and stops paying attention to it, what is the correction here?
S. If he is still feeling bad it’s as if he is condemning the Creator and he's still in a descent?
R. No, he is condemning himself not the Creator, for not responding correctly, the revelation of the shattering as the Creator shows.
S. It's not like the Creator because what I feel is my state toward the Creator so if I feel bad I am in a descent and I'm not justifying the Creator?
R. So what?
S. Should we be in constant gladness and elation?
R. You should try but along with that if the bad doesn't pass on from you and that you feel bad well, that is where you are in the meantime and this is a legitimate state. When you are in the beginning of the path it is clear that a person is feeling bad, that he can't rise above it. He can't say about the Creator that he is the good that does good. He is complaining, or that he is telling the Creator that it is true. I discover that it is bad, meaning that he is ascribing all of these things nonetheless to the upper force that the Creator chose this, until bit by bit we come to such a state where there is no bad. There is no evil in the person, it is only the Creator showing more opportunity to come closer and advance gradually. I am willing to explain this again in different ways, ask differently.
43. S. (01:31:34) You said a right ten, what is a right, a correct ten?
R. The correct ten is what Rabash writes, how we have to be connected. If we long to be connected the way it is written to us in the social articles this means that we are the correct ten and of course each time we have to improve ourselves.
S. Except for the connection, do we always have to be concerned about being connected to the Creator, turning to Him and requesting and thanking Him?
R. Yes, that too, He is included in the connection, to be connected between us and between us and the Creator.
44. S. (01:32:41) According to the excerpt, what does it mean to rise? What is a person that raises something and can I be negligent in such work?
R. To raise meaning that he turns to the Creator through the10.
45. S. (01:33:21) How can a ten work correctly with a deficiency of a friend, a descent of a friend?
R. When it helps a friend like it is written, That One shall help his Friend that means the 10 is working correctly.
46. S. (01:33:40) Why should a person aspire to turn the darkness into light, what is the deficiency in the darkness?
R. He is missing light in the darkness which means the light of bestowing to the Creator.
Excerpt 4 (01:34:09) Twice
Excerpt 5 (01:35:34) Twice
47. R. (01:38:44) This is a very powerful excerpt and I recommend reading it several times every day.
48. S. (01:39:02) What does it mean that the letters are filled with light?
R. I don't want to talk about that as we haven't reached that yet, so that will only confuse us. Try to feel what each and every excerpt is telling you and ask about the contents of that and not the letters that are filled with the light as this is unimportant for us now. It is not what we are clarifying.
49. S. (01:40:00) What is the difference between a short and a long prayer as it is spoken in Excerpt 4?
R. From the depth of the request, a long prayer is that you explain how and why and what you want from the state, how you feel it. If it really influences the person then he develops a plea to the group and the Creator in the way that a long prayer is formed.
50. S. (01:41:07) It says in the passage that the Creator only can help, how does the Creator help?
R. How the Creator helps, it doesn't matter to me that much because He has many ways to do this, but it is certain that He helps and for each and every plea and prayer He responds, even when you address Him and tell him your nonsense, He still doesn't close Himself by your response to each and everything. We are in a system here and if you activate a real desire towards the system you activate the system. It is not like writing to a person who has to get a certain impression about what you write or not, if you put your deficiency in the system it will respond and you have to feel this response. If you do not build yourself to influence the system, then it does not respond and then you basically don't feel anything, but it is incorrect because it responds in a way that you do not feel it responds and that awakens you to further add to your plea.
51. S. (01:42:54) In the text should I feel bad when I am in a descent?
R. No, to feel joy from the descent as you feel in the ascent because you understand that now you are discovering new desires from the shattering, that the Creator created in the beginning of creation when He broke the vessel of Adam HaRishon and these vessels appear as shattered. And that we feel as they appear, that this is broken, that is broken, this is bad and that is bad and of course this is how it needs to happen and we understand and therefore we relate to it in a serious and mature way. We don't get angry or become overwhelmed by it. We are actually happy that new broken states appear and we can organize them between us in the ten, to raise them to the correction by the Creator and He will correct them. All of these states show separation between us, ego in each and every one, lack of understanding, lack of a common feeling as we are asking the Creator to fix this.
52. S. (01:44:54) How do I know that I finished my time of prayer and didn't stop in the middle?
R. Basically we complete the prayer when we receive what we ask for, otherwise how do I let go of the prayer, how do I let go of addressing the Creator? I am always in prayer as it is said one should wish to pray all day as there is nothing else for us to do in life, only to discover the shattered vessels and to raise them to the correction of the Creator. The Creator corrects and fulfills them until the final correction. This is the whole wisdom of Kabbalah of how to receive the correction from the Creator and then the fulfillment.
53. S. (01:46:03) A descent is the disconnection from the Creator so what is a descent for the sake of an ascent?
R. You don't invite disconnection from the Creator, only connection and if you see that you are detached you have to examine yourself and if you don't see it maybe you have to ask the Creator to show you where you are not connected to others. Because in his life you also find how much you lack the connection with the friends and then you will see what to ask for. This is called the light up AB SAG as we learned in the wisdom of Kabbalah which comes and shines upon us and gives us a sense of deficiency.
S. Can we say disconnection is from the ten, from the society?
R. Disconnect from the ten and accordingly disconnection from the Creator.
S. I don't really understand what a descent is?
R. A descent is in your appreciation towards the upper force, meaning it used to be important and close to you, that you were impressed and inspired by and now you don't have this sense of the Creator as it disappeared and you don't appreciate the Creator, you don't desire the Creator, this is a descent. New Reshimot arise from the shattering and you still don't feel that you need to process them, that you are in like some kind of a coma and willing to go to sleep.
S. This is not a concealment?
R. A concealment has many aspects that also is a concealment, yes. There is a concealment that advances the person and there is a concealment that is as if pushing him away to invite an awakening like we have learned about how my beloved is like a dear, as it is says.
54. S. (01:49:04) If we are just lying down and we don't have forces to understand everything, thank or ask for the friends but you don’t have the force to do anything. Is this an ascent or a descent?
R. It depends on how you measure it. If you measure it according to the greatness of the Creator, the Creator is great in your eyes or small and this is a personal matter.
55. S. (01:49:39) What does it mean to be happy from a descent but not get an impression from them?
R. Not certain how to say it but we need both as I am happy about the descents because by that new vessel is becoming revealed and I am happy that I now have an opportunity to rise from this state to a state of connection and correction. In between I might be in a state of perplexion, not being able to do anything about myself, to not ask, to not see my state as bad, just like someone who was knocked out, who is unconscious, so these states can happen here in between also.
56. S. (01:51:01) To ask about the short prayer that you mentioned. Many times in the end of the lesson we put together a prayer so there are states that each one in the ten will add something and that we will write a prayer as a collection of everything that the friend said or we take everything the friend said and we try to make one focused sentence out of it. It comes out shorter but very focused for the day to work with the demand. What is better for the work?
R. Try both this and that and make a decision. There are many aspects to this and for each ten in each person it could be different as there is none as wise as the experienced and everyone has its own experience. There is no coercion and spirituality and everyone has to try to see what is in his best interest, then you will see if he is changing, and also the approaching decision will change.
S. What does a short prayer mean?
R. Short prayer means that he is asking not about many details, but only about 1 principle, meaning that he still doesn't have a sufficient, scrutinized vessel and therefore the light that will correct and fulfill the vessel will be weak in connection to that.
S. In the morning lesson we sometimes focus on one topic and then in the prayer at the end of the lesson we try to keep it connected to the topic of the lesson and not scatter to other topics. Is this the correct way to work?
R. I also don't want to talk about that because you hear the lesson from me daily, two and a half hours every day, so make up your own mind based upon what you think, read what you hear. If you put all these things together in the group and discuss them I will agree in advance with what I do.
S. We feel in the lesson that you want to give us a special topic that is correct for our level of development so on that same day should we focus on that topic?
R. Yes that I have already discussed many times that we will need to review, go back to the lesson during the day.
57. S. (01:54:20) When I see that my friend is in a fall is it due to my lack of bestowal?
R. No, each and every one has both a personal and a general calculation and we can't make these calculations, we also don't need to pick into these things too much. When we were shattered and scattered by the shattering of the vessel of Adam HaRishon this was all a deliberate action of the Creator in advance. Therefore I cannot punish or say that anyone is to blame in my state. The Creator deliberately orchestrated it in order to help us correct this and rise to a state of Ein Sof, filled with good. So we don't relate to anyone or any friend, as anything evil as it all comes from one force who made the shattering happen and in the shattering all the flaws become revealed.
58. S. (01:56:04) I understand the descents are beneficial for the path, is it possible with extra connection in the group and the ten to prevent the sharp descent or is this not worth doing?
R. We don't determine the amount and quality of descents as we don't determine the amount and quality of the ascents because it all depends on how much we are ready and willing for connection.
S. The descents are already set in the record that they come together or can we change them through the connection?
R. If the record appears then in it the whole matter of correction is included, we just have to invite through our prayer a request, our effort, the light that reforms but it is not that we correct ourselves, we invite the light and it corrects.
S. Through the connection can we prevent the blows that come to us?
R. By connection we can prevent blows because we can prepare ourselves in such a way that whatever appears will not appear as a blow, but as healing.
49. S. (01:57:46) When I come out of a descent I reach a state of stability, what is this state and how to connect this to the Creator at this moment?
R. A stable state means that I go through ups and downs in different ways and yet I always try to the maximum to be connected to the group and the Creator so that all of the changes that I go through are almost instantly becoming and corrected through my almost constant connection to the group and the Creator.
Excerpt 6 (01:59:04) Twice
50. R. (01:59:57) Meaning there will be falls, there will be problems, it is always corrections. Look what he writes, one should believe that the fact that he received the descent is because he was thrown from above. Look at the words that he uses and he is very accurate about the words used. This is why he fell into such lowliness, being thrown from above, and that he can work on himself, correct corrections so that he does not fall again. The fall is, that he just fell, or that he felt that he has been thrown and made to fall, since he must believe that the descent is a correction for him and if he treats this descent correctly he will see it is not a descent, as the descent itself is an ascent. We only rise in sanctity and never decrease it all depends upon man's attitude. To be happy about the descents as no less than the ascents.
S. (02:01:27) What does it mean to work on himself and make corrections, you said yesterday that no one corrects himself
R. Right.
S. What does it mean that a person is working on himself?
R. That he connects two others and in this connection he invites the light that reforms and this is how the light comes and connects them fills the space between them.
S. In that state of descent there is no connection except to run to the friends.
R. All corrections are all about the connection between us. It's not about each and every one. I want to correct myself, how do I correct myself? There is nothing or no way to correct anyone. You are an egoist, you hate everyone, you push everyone away from yourself there is nothing to correct about yourself. Start connecting to others and then you will see how this is where you have so much to correct.
S. Also here when he connects to the others if they don't ask for him he won't be corrected as they caused his correction?
R. One shall help his friend.
51. S. (02:02:58) If a friend goes through a state he tells us in the 10: I am going through something, please think of me. What should I do that it is painful for me that he is feeling pain, what should I tell him that we are happy that the Creator is taking care of us, how can I really help and participate in the thought of the 10?
R. If it is a friend who is in connection with you and he participates in the lesson and meetings, then you need to determine between yourself that you remind and mention in all of your actions that you are thinking about him. That is a scenario where if he is sick God forbid or if he is healthy, having other problems or troubles or that we just want to ask that way about each and every friend it is possible.
S. Each friend is meant to react in a personal manner or maybe a connection officer or...
R. I would say that you just need to remind each other before you begin to study that you want to study also for that sake of the friend, that he will receive the direction of the Creator in a softer and specific way depending on what the problem is. These are things that if we want to connect we are drawn towards connection and we pray that the connection will succeed then there is essentially no more to add because we want to include in it the whole world, all of the people, all of the souls.
52. S. (02:05:35) Does the ascent come instead of the descent or is it added?
R. The ascent comes instead of the descent, the change that the Creator took care of you as a descent, now you feel that change as ascent because you changed your attitude and your relation.
53. S. (02:06:06) Many times there is a feeling that we fall into the same place you always said that there is no such thing, that it is always a new state so how do you know if you correct a certain state or not?
R. The main thing for me isn't where I advanced and to what extent, but that I feel that I am advancing because I can't check it. I just want to see how my states constantly change and I am constantly in connection, in a direction with the group in a more precise direction towards the purpose of creation towards the general connection. This is what we are doing, where from my ten we want to reach connection in our ten plus connection in all tens in all the world Kli and all of the souls. This is what we need to speak about and according to the intensity of the connection between us, the tendency of the connection for this we are preparing a place for the revelation of the Creator. This is why the system is very simple, there are many things inside but leave that for the lights, leave that for the Creator. As He says the Torah is easy.
S. How do you test at the end if the feeling is the same, does it mean I haven't advanced?
R. I don't want to check. I just want to be in the right direction and in the right attraction and except for that I don't care about anything.
54. S. (02:08:27) You said it's clear that a person is an egoist, so what's the difference between correcting myself and correcting my connection to others?
R. That is called correcting yourself. I am connecting all of my connections to all humanity, to all the souls, to all the vessels this is called but I am correcting myself as in me there is nothing I can do. All of my vessels where I see them are corrupted, egoistic, shattered, it’s all in my suburbs supposedly, outside my body as we learn in the gates of intention, where are the shells as they are outside of the body.
S. What is an example of what we don't need?
R. I don't need to correct any qualities in me, I need to correct only all of my qualities in the connection with the others.
S. Let's say I am repelled by the friends. What does it mean that I don't need to correct, I need to correct my rejection towards the friends?
R. You need to connect or develop all kinds of senses, all kinds of tendencies, actions where you can connect to them otherwise it won't work. It takes a long time as I know on myself and still then you reach a state where those are their corrections, except that nothing. The Creator broke, he tore the vessel of Adam into pieces and we have to ask Him to connect us back together.
S. The qualities that I don't need to correct this is my character?
R. You can't correct them and the Creator won't correct them, they are not made for fixing. What you have inside is also a result of the connections being torn between you and the others. This is why you might be feeling that you are corrupted but not that you really have anything to correct upon yourself. Only the connections between us. Each one has a detail, an element of the vessel of Adam HaRishon. He himself is okay, but towards the others, what happens there. This is why all the corrections are in the connection between us. If a person is concerned of himself he is just a greater egoist, increasing his ego more.
S. To care about the good attitude towards others is the correction of how I am connected and relating to them?
R. Yes.
S. If a person has a quality that he is lazy naturally, this can hurt along the path because he is being lazy.
R. To sit and don't do is better.
S. It is as if there is wasted potential he could be more diligent but he's not because of his nature.
R. Before he scrutinizes where he can realize himself, let him not do anything. As we learned from Baal HaSulam that he writes, that all of the trouble in the world is from people who just do it like that. All of the systems of nature do not demand anything from us except for the connection between us.
S. Let's say a person already knows what to do to connect to the friends in this free time. For example, there is a conclusion meeting of the ten at the end of the day and he's lazy and he prefers not to connect.
R. There are some people that run to those events and there are some that don't.
S. Is there a correction on this quality or not?
R. He can't correct the quality or not he can only add the importance but this also comes from the light, meaning it is the same correction, by prayer.
55. S. (02:14:08) To clarify whether it is possible if the ten can avoid descents?
R. No, God forbid as it is a lack of advancement. Ascents and descents have to be one after the other, one after the other as quick as possible and as great as possible, don't be afraid of descents. I understand that it is very unpleasant in the beginning until a person determines that all of the descents are like ascents as they come from above and there is nothing in them but to determine the extent of the corruption in the vessel that was already there and now it is being revealed. Then we just need to ask, that instead of that there will be a correction and we need to be happy in the revelation, as Baal HaSulam writes, he is happy about the evil that is being revealed because those that are not revealed, have no hope and if they are revealed it brings the sanctity of the day. That is why, this is how we need to relate to it.
56. S. (02:15:47) I heard earlier that a fall is how you appreciate the Creator, what in that appreciation indicates a descent?
R. My descent, if I feel that I am in a descent it is because I don't appreciate the Creator enough, I don't value him because if I would value him I would feel instead of a descent an ascent.
57. S. (02:16:55) One has to trust the descent as a correction and we should even be joyful about it and on the other hand it says one should work on himself so that he doesn't come to a descent again.
R. The descent will come each time but he will accept them in a more mature way but without the descent he can't see, each and every descent can be either long and take all of the forces of a person, tire him for a month or it can go by like a little sting. Then right away he'll use that sting and correct it. Everything depends upon man's attitude towards the way that he feels the descent, how he justifies the descents.
S. This is after the descent came but before that we don't have an effort to do?
R. Before that he has to prepare himself as before the descent comes as we learn, now we will know how to relate to it as by the connection with the friends, by the lessons, buy the material he learns, he prepares how to get to ascend correctly and then he can expect an ascent like the ascent. What is the problem in the descent? That I lose flavors because a new vessel is revealed, and it is corrupted, that I can be happy only in an opposite way because I can be happy and not that the upper light will come and tickle me and then I'm happy. I am happy that I attain the action of the light, what is it doing upon me.
58. S. (02:19:14) I can't grasp how the correction to each and every one, personal problems that appear through darkness. Is it through the connection in the ten, is the connection a means to relate to the Creator and justify the Creator or this is a goal in itself?
R. We can’t correct any state but only by the connection between us. Because all our states that are revealed ego, private or more general, it's the shattering of the shattering that was in Adam HaRishon between all of the parts of his soul, all the parts of his vessel. This is why if we don't reach the connection between us upon all states that are revealed then we don't correct, every correction is in connection.
59. S. (02:20:24) In states of ascents and descents we don't always appreciate things correctly and in retrospect we understand that we thought we were in a descent but we were actually in an ascent or vice versa, so what is the zero point towards which I can assess the state correctly?
R. The difference between an ascent and a descent is the change from plus to minus, how you appreciate or value the Creator’s attitude towards you. If you value Him as bad it is a descent, if you value Him as good it is an ascent and so on. It all depends upon man as much as he prepares himself in as much as he corrects himself by the others as there are many things here that you can prepare yourself and then you will advance together. When you have corrected yourself and then in all of the states that your private states that are revealed, you can somehow quickly come out to correction, justify the Creator for revealing this evil that it was already there. So He is doing you a favor that He is revealing the shattering as if the disease then you can ask for healing upon it. It could be otherwise that you invest more in the group and in the group takes care of all of the states that you discover also. There are many things here either you or the group or your connection with the Creator, try and be strong and all of them.
60. S. (02:23:17) He writes that he felt lost and only the Creator can help him and that he was thrown from above?
R. So that is great.
S. In that state I don't have logic or words, I have an inner cry and tears?
R. This is not the same state, what is he saying here and what it is, what did you just read? He knows he is before the Creator and that the Creator is inviting this state inside of him.
R. Read it. ‘You have to believe that by getting a descent he suffered a descent because he was thrown from above. This is why he went to a state of lowliness so that he can make such corrections on himself, that he won't fall again since he must believe that the descent is a correction for him’. If he is in such a state what is bad about it?
S. I don’t have the logic and words how to express how to come out of this state, I just have an inner cry and I don't know how to come out of it?
R. Where do you have pain from?
S. Pain from separation from being thrown.
R. From in the group?
S. Yes.
R. The group doesn't want you?
S. Yes, I was thrown from above.
R. What do you mean from above, that the Creator is giving you a feeling that the friends don't want you?
S. Yes, that there is a danger that I won't be on the path.
R. I don't understand, that is a very private state that you have to scrutinize it.
S. I am asking how a person who feels great pain can ask?
R. I don't either because I don't understand your state, I can't say anything. You have to scrutinize it and speak to those people in a serious way between you and your ten and close that state up. Maybe you did something so horrible and now they don't want to be in connection with you. Check.
S. The point I'm asking about is that I feel small. I don't know how to pray or to ask?
R. If you don't know anything then go out of the ten because you don't belong in spiritual work. Either you take responsibility for yourself, you can't be inside and outside.
S. I'm not asking about the work in the ten in taking responsibility for me, I'm asking about the request of the prayer. How do I ask correctly that the miracle will happen and change will happen?
R. I don't know miracles don't happen, that I promise you. There are no miracles. What do we need a miracle for, we need corrections, according to the records that are revealed. Scrutinize all these things in your group. I am willing to hear it but really, there is a problem here. Maybe you need help from one of the friends that will escort you a bit, more and more because I see that these problems are continuing.
61. S. (02:27:57) It turns out that almost in every article of Rabash and Baal HaSulam, it is written that the Creator will complete the job and it is only thanks to the Creator and the mercy of the Creator. This confuses the person causing him to fall. What do I need to know about this? Maybe it is better that I don't know that the Creator will finish the job and I can't understand this.
R. Of course the Creator is doing everything as it is the only force, there's None Else Besides Him which is working and everything possible and the Kabbalists are not concealing it, they are revealing it to everybody. Except for that, they are explaining to us how we can turn to that one force that is working in all of reality, of None Else Besides Him and that force will correct us, that our corrections and cries to Him and that’s what we need to do. How will we work correctly if they won't explain to us that the Creator is doing everything? If we don't know that the Creator is doing everything then we are like idiots, like all of humanity, just doing actions in this world thinking that something good can come out of it and nothing good can come out of it because all of these actions we are doing below, like little bugs, in the end we reach despair that there is nothing that we can do but only to ask of the Creator to do everything. The Creator will finish it for me. Contrary to what you are saying I have to know that the Creator is doing everything and only our cry together that we connect and demand from Him that is the way we activate Him. That is how we can activate Him and He can correct us. How, we don't know exactly because we don't understand His thoughts. Only after the corrections, so now we are asking for the shattered state, this is why we can't understand, only ask.
S. So can we use for instance, the excerpts where he talks about our work, where we want to plan this descent? And then he talks about the excerpt that the Creator will finish the job. To understand the order of the gathering of friends?
R. I actually don’t understand what you are asking. We are constantly learning that our work is requesting the Creator to perform the actions and our work starts from us feeling the corruptions and all the corruptions are the lack of connection between us and all our work is by turning to the Creator and asking, convincing Him to correct the connection between us, there is nothing else that we can do. The fact that you want according to your brain to reach a system and connect the souls like this and that, this is your matter, just know that it is all a lie.
S. Please say that the falls as we understand them, as something good because the Creator works on us in the opposite direction. So if we understand correctly the descent should come from our movement towards connection, not from artificially creating a descent but from advancing towards love and mutual connection, it appears on its own correct?
R. Yes, correct. By us advancing towards some kind of goal we are walking on two legs, right left, right left, left means I'm scrutinizing what I am lacking in order to advance correctly and the right. By this way I add each time what I feel as a deficiency, a shattering on the left and correct it in the connection on the right. Again discover the shattering on the left and carry it on the right and this is how we advance. Think about it and we will keep going, even today, throughout the day we can do this, think and write our system boardworldkli@gmail.com and maybe we will continue in the afternoon to talk about it.