Morning Lesson October 3, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we are continuing with our excerpts in order to prepare ourselves for this matter that is called Yom Kippur, it is called the atonement of the sins when we recognize more and more what we have inside of us . As a result of the revelation of the evil inclination, our egos and how we can cope with it. In order to ask of the Creator how He will replace it with a good inclination according to the we will begin to rise in equivalence of form with the Creator. Let's see what he writes about it, especially Rabash.
Excerpt #11 (01:20) “A person causing through his sin..” twice
2. S. (03:26) This sin of Malchut by what is it overcome by intention?
R. Only by prayer, when we ask that Malchut will rise to the degree of Zeir Anpin or Bina, doesn't matter how you call it. There will be a connection between, they will be in an equivalence of form. We want that Malchut will receive the same qualities even though it is a will to receive like the giver, the bestower, like the Creator like Zeir Anpin. This is actually our entire request, our whole hope.
3. S. (04:23) What is the descent of Kedusha of sanctity into the Klipa? Holiness to the shell?
R. That same light that was shining in the will to bestow enters the will to receive and makes it stronger. Then the will to receive becomes a Klipa, a shell because it enjoys this light that should have served the will to bestow and it enjoys the fact that it is now in the will to receive.
4.S. (05:02) Since it is written in all the texts shouldn't it be all the mistakes and all the failures and all the success we have to go through them because if it wasn't written, it wouldn't be written. You understand, you have to go through all of these stages to come to the right intention finally?
R. Yes, yes. We learned about it a long time ago already and that this is how it is precisely.
5. S. (06:01) Yesterday we spoke a lot about this, about all the sins. That a person doesn't ascribe all the sins to the Creator now it's written here that one wants to receive for himself ,is that the same?
R. There are a few kinds of sins. The fact that a person does ascribe everything to the Creator this is one sin. The fact that he is in general in the will to receive for himself that's another one and there are all kinds of other sins, many sins. You have 613 sins that you have to correct all together. They are all corrected through the influence of the reforming light.
S. Is there a different type of focus in the work, now that I want to ascribe all my states to the Creator compared to an effort and intention to and change the intention from thinking about myself to about the friends?
R. Yes, that is true. We need to ascribe all of the sins to men, that he has all the sins imprinted within him because the Creator imprinted them in him. The sin is that he doesn't ask? Why didn;'t ou ask? This is actually the sin, the primary sin. What we need is to connect between us and to offer a prayer in public, or our collective general prayer and then certainly by that we will emerge from the exile to redemption from in order to receive to in order to bestow. This is the primary sin that we are not asking.
Excerpt #12 (08:07 ) “Man’s sin is that he did not ask..” twice
6. S. (10:06) How can I yearn with all my heart that the Creator will help my friends more than myself?
R. This is already a higher degree than just asking of the Creator if you ask for the friends that they will be for you. That is already a very advanced prayer and certainly for such a prayer you will receive an answer. How do you do it? Think about it more, believe that this is actually what the Creator wants to hear and in that you already even during the prayer you rise above the will to receive to the will to bestow and already the Creator can give you an answer from that second degree that you want that the friends will be before you and you will be after them and that you are asking the Creator for that and not for yourself.
Then the Creator begins to value you and appreciate you like a bestower, like a giver like himself and then by that he already gives you the force of bestowal. What you are saying is truly something great, if you can even potentially not in your desire. The desire doesn't depend on us the desire depends on what we get on from above and if you can even potentially ask the Creator that He will have that this is truly something great. So keep going in for sure you will succeed.
7. S. (12:01) Is there in the lesson the need that we need to express it in our mouth?
R. A prayer is work the heart but there is a strengthening of reinforcement for the prayer and that we speak out loud also.
8. S. (12:30) Regarding the excerpt we just read is what's written here. Is it correct to understand that every expectation it's already a sin?
R. Not exactly, a person should reach a state where the fact that he is praying already fills him.So much so that he doesn't need a response. That if I have a connection with the Creator I pray to him and I elevate my heart to him and my whole soul and all of my hopes and my lacks and everything that I have I give it to Him then I don't need a response. This already fills me. But we will reach that. We will reach where we are lying to ourselves and what we should really expect a response for.
9. S. (13:59) If I understood correctly from the excerpt, what we're missing for the correct prayer is faith?
R. Again
S. Is what we're missing faith to reach the correct prayer?
R. Yes.
S. What do we need to do in order for his faith to rise?
R. In order to elevate the faith that the Creator is hearing us I need to hear that from the friends.
10. S. (14:51) The first states that I fell into that my will to receive and if I go back and check that I see that already I came from smaller concessions beforehand how do we build this correct prayer to see every see every concession even the small is big.
R. By delving in the thought and by you thinking about it more and more.
11. S. (15:27) He writes that if he would ask for help surely for things that would be to your detriment the Creator would help him. Can he help with any one or a specific one?
R. What he deserves to get as help of course you cannot ask for things that will be to your detriment but only such that will help you advance towards the goal. This is why we pray for many things and we ask and we would like them to happen but they do not happen because it is to our detriment. It's not towards attaining the goal.
12. S. (16:09) Can I raise a prayer for a friend in the Ten if out of shame I cannot relate to the Creator?
R. Again.
S. Can I ask the Ten to pray for my sins if I cannot turn to the Creator out of shame?
R. No, we actually pray for everyone. We in the Ten want to collect all the prayers and all the requests and all of our relations to the Creator and bring them to one connection to one bouquet and that to serve to the Creator. The Creator will already know how to connect us together and arrange each and every one so that we will complete each other and we will be a Partzuf as of 10 complete Sefirot. This is what happens to us as a result of our prayer.
13. S. (18:06) How can I understand if the Creator answers me and I feel all of my confidence is disappearing and He's only revealed to me as greater and greater darkness?
R. Repeat please?
S. How can I understand that the Creator is answering? I feel all my confidence. How can I feel he answers if I feel all my confidence has disappeared and he's revealed to me as darkness?
R. Continue, I don't know precisely the situation you're talking about. It's problematic .You need to simply continue to ask more about it and to pray more, and to enter a mutual connection with the Creator as much as possible.
14. S. (19:26) To annul before the friends is to annul before the Creator? Meaning that I have faith in the Creator?
R. Yes, that too, certainly. Out of the fact that you believe that the Creator wants you to annul before the friends then you annul before them. This already indicates that you have faith in the Creator. Therefore through annulment before the friends we reach nearing, you can say annulment before the Creator because the Creator all-in-all does not exist but by us connecting we establish this concept as it is written, you have built me you have made me.
We make this concept called Bo-Reh "come and see" if you connect then you attain the connection and it is called Creator. We make him and we work opposite him meaning the united society its becomes and its wholeness as the Creator. it is like an antenna, it receives bestowal from a higher degree that we cannot feel it but the Ten when it is connected, receives the special force that exists above us but it's unattainable and we attain it in the ten which is like a radar dish that receives this higher quality.
Higher than us, that without it without society, we will not be able to reach the revelation of the Creator. Only by connecting in a specific way between us, we then establish and we turn and we tune our common desires. We capture it in such a way that we are able to capture it within our common desires. What does this mean come and see, Bo Reh, Creator. That He HImself exists above it and we do not discover Him, we cannot discover Himt but only inside of us connecting between us and intending towards him. Just like in a radar or a satellite dish where we receive waves,we can only receive whatever enters into the dish and not whatever happens in the object that is broadcasting already. There is nothing more important than the connection between us and through the connection between us we reach a connection with the Creator.
15. S. (23:18) Lately there appears in me a certain desire to raise the friends to such an extent that through them I will be able to receive, as Rabbash writes, to make yourself a Rav. Is this a correct desire?
R. As much as you will turn around with yourself eventually you have to feel that you are not reaching a connection with the Creator and you truly lack in the end to connect with the friends and only through them you will be able to come out to a connection with Him,with the Creator and therefore it's very nice that you feel that.
S. To be more precise, to desire to raise a friend's, how can I say this, like to receive Torah through them?
R. Yes, this is what it means. That you're going to connect with the Creator that through the Ten you as the last one, as Rabash writes, need to think of yourself as the last one as Malchut so through them you will receive through the first nine, you will receive from the Creator his address to you.
16. S. (24:54) It says here, the person caused by his sin holiness that enters the shell?
R. Repeat?
S. It says here that a person causes by his prayer a descent of the holiness into the shell , is there a meaning significance to this?
R. No.
17. S. (25:31) It says here that the person said that he did not ask for help for the Creator because if he would ask help then surely he would receive it, the matter turns out that a person doesn't know that he sins so how does he ask for help? The sin was out was without his knowledge and to receive such punishment?
R. Does he feel that he's disconnected from the Creator? Does he feel it or not?
S. Not necessarily.
R. If he doesn't feel it then it's not a problem he can go on living.
S. Then why would he get such a punishment?
R. He doesn't feel that he has been punished.
S. he punishment that was just his internal sensation of the person?
R. We are talking about what a person feels, not about something that's out in the air.
18.S (26:35) Can you give us practical advice on how to nullify the Ten because it's not about knowledge?
R. No, I have nothing to say, search for it and ask the friends. That is always lacking and missing. I also lack that to annul more and more towards the Ten.
19. S. (27:18) What does a person do if he does not want to ask if he doesn't feel comfortable?
R. Then he shouldn't ask what you can do. How will he turn without the request? The doesn't have any question or any deficiency then he will not turn to the Creator. He will live just like everyone.
20. S. (27:49) What's the difference between praying for a friend in an ordinary state and in a state in which the friend is in trouble?
R. You don't understand what the difference is if you feel the friend and you feel his troubles or you don't feel it? There's no difference.
21. S. (28:12 ) When one asks for help and does not receive it the lack of reception of the help is the response of the Creator or is it the result because one has no faith?
R. He has no faith in the Creator. He doesn't feel that he is connected with Him. He has to ask.
22. S. ( 28:48) What does a person need to do if he already sees his sin, he wants to enter the Creator and he's not capable. What do you do when you're not capable?
R. You can't, then you don't do it that is clear but rather you have to become incorporated with the friend in order to raise your sensitivity.
23. (29:13) In order to pray we need to first connect in the heart of the ten as one man. How do we do this? How do we feel this?
R. They try to feel themselves as close to each other, that they are in one state directed towards a single goal and that they have to go through a single process and in this way out of this point to ask.
24. S. (29:45) We understood that faith is a condition to reach prayer. What's the significance of such a sensation?
R. I become so involved with friends so much that I feel that inside our connection we can receive a message from the Creator and when I feel this message then I will want together with the friends to answer it and out of that we can rise truly to .contact with the Creator.
25. S. (30:47 ) How to be fully pacified in front of friends? Should I ask the Creator and every time I do this I see it collapse which wears me out and reduces my strength, will always be like this?
R. You need to turn to the Creator with the friends together and then it will not weaken you but it will actually amplify your request. That you turn as a representative of the entire Ten and you even demand from the Creator that you will help the friends that you're praying for the friends and not for yourself.
Then it turns out that you have power because it's for yourself you don't have so much strength because it could be an egoistic desire but here you're asking for friends. I seek my brothers and so you are truly demanding from the Creator and He enjoys it, He immediately answers that. Whatever you are asking for so there is no problem here if you raise to the Creator the yearnings of the friends and you ask that He will answer them and you are as a representative to the group that you were seemingly standing on the side and ask him to the Creator that you should he should answer them then this is the most correct prayer. You're not asking for yourself.
26. S. (32:55) You said that we can get together to capture between us the upper force like on a plate, how do we improve our reception to be the correct one that we're really requesting from the Creator what we need to advance forward?
R. When you and your connection you're asking you are expecting to find the Creator like a radar that is turning and searching for what it will be able to capture this wavelength, this way that it wants. Likewise in the connection between us we need to detect this connection between us how much this connection will be with the qualities of the Creator and mutual bestowal between us and then when we are all in mutual bestowal then for sure we are all directed towards the Creator. Like a radar dish right the way that it turns and searches for the source of that the ray that it wants to capture, so it's the same with us.
S. By scrutiny between us all the time, what are we missing to reach greater and greater connection between us and mutual intention and requesting this from the upper force?
R. Yes we are asking for this reception from the upper force certainly. We ourselves don't know how to arrange it but rather we want to change so that the Creator, He will change as such that we all in all we will be together like this dish where we are all aimed towards the Creator in our qualities.
Then each one changes according to that, how to be suitable for the friend so that all together we are suitable for the Creator. With such work we reach a single soul and we start to receive from him into our dish into our Ten, we begin to receive from Him whatever he's sending and then accordingly we start to change ourselves in order to better more correctly capture this ray of light this beam, this of beam light that He's sending and that beam of light starts to change us and turn us and correct us. This is how we reach a state where we begin to be connected with the Creator and all of the degrees that we establish ourselves more and more and our connection with the Creator we more and more aim towards him with higher frequency with stronger connection.
27. S. (36:15) How do we make a whole prayer in the Ten? How do we complete this prayer in the Ten?
R. A complete prayer in the Ten we can do it after we understand what all of us all in all want. Rabash writes about it in his articles and therefore in reading these articles or even these excerpts that we are now reading, we need to be connected between us such that every excerpt will connect us to the Creator. Through that we connect more and more and all kinds of different forms and manners and this is how it happens until we begin to feel the source that is influencing us and we also begin to feel it accordingly how we turn to that source.
This is called to be connected with the Creator through direct light and reflected light, and this is how we build ourselves as a vessel. Afterwards we discover in us, in the connection between us the Reshimot, the records, operations, the entrance of the light, the departure of the lights, the screen rising from degree to degree, everything that we study that's happening in a Partzuf, we will learn it by ourselves. Just like Baal HaSulam learned it and all the other Kabbalists that later wrote about it.
S. It says that a person who turned to the Creator from the bottom of the heart then his prayer is complete. How do we become worthy that our prayer will truly be worthy and suitable?
R. That we each annul before the friends, then we connect between us to the extent that we annul that we determine our degree of connection. The turnout of this mutual degree if ours we turn to the Creator. Accordingly the Creator can open himself up to us and to us and in such that we're in such a mutual connection with him.
S. This is how we attain the state called yearning?
R. Also we open up our yearning, correct. Our lack, yearning, prayer, and in this extent we are capable of receiving the response.
28. S. (40:32) Time to time when I feel that I am in front of the Creator in the Ten, I suddenly want to be canceled. I suddenly want to melt and disappear. I cannot stand to have all existence in front of the Creator. I don't know if it is from shame or what and I just have a desire to be one with him. Because I cannot stand to exist is it totally possible for a man to be a complete Giver complete bestower. Is it possible to be one with him?
R. Yes that is possible, although it is a lengthy path but this state that we are talking about by the way is the end of correction that I connect with a Creator to such an extent that there is no difference between us and we are in the complete coupling. We give and receive one from the other So it only indicates that you have the desire and ability for this. Let's go. Make an effort. It's all before you.
29. S. (42:26) There are three states in our work when internally we're disconnected and there is a prayer that I will be worthy of the group and there is the prayer for the friends which is the highest and we are all in different states and as much as I understood it when we are all in the same state when we can all pray for all of us that is the true prayer even if it it's only for a moment ,how to continue it To the extend it ?
R. In the beginning maybe it's worthwhile to set times, let's say every hour or two or three, however much time you have whenever you have time. You come to pray at least three times a day and you need to gather for 5 minutes let's say each time and to make an effort to come together to one request towards the Creator in the morning and the afternoon and the evening. That's it. Try it's very important. I don't just say it to you, I'm saying it to the whole world. Try to do this. Morning afternoon evening. You come together and one mutual request to the Creator if you want you can afterwards after you determine this in your Tens to connect all of us in general in the whole world Kli and to make such a prayer, but that's later on first let's organize in our Tens.
30. S. (44:50) You said before that the most correct prayer is when you raise the yearnings of the friends to the Creator standing on the side as a representative on the side and asking for them and only them.
R. Yes.
S. What kind of response do you expect in such a prayer?
R. That the Creator will answer with the friends they are asking for.
S. I don't know if He will answer or not.To expect it?
R. Expect it or not that He will fill them up, fulfill them. I am the representative, the delegate of all their lacks and I pass it to Him and I connect it to Him and I want to serve it to Him and present it to Him. I want the Creator to answer upon them then that's all my desire.
S. That's my desire so this is my satisfaction that I'm asking for them and I'm also asking and waiting for a response?
R. Also for the response, yes, that the Creator will answer them and they will feel it and advance to one degree forward. That's me and each friend in the ten that are in this work. Then we receive a response from the Creator for everyone. I raised the first 9 Sefirot, the first 9 Sefirot, to the Creator and then I received an answer. That's what actually fills my soul. Because what is my soul? The desires of the friends that rise and are received in the Creator. Is that clear?
Excerpt #13 (47:10) “Had Israel not sinned..” twice
31. R. (49:12) This is something very intense meaning as much as a person feels that he is far from the Creator to the extent that he feels that he is entirely in sins then it's a sign that ultimately a greater upper light has been revealed to him and will correct him and raise him to a higher degree.
32. S. (49:53) I don't feel that I'm a sinner, I live peacefully with myself.
R. You’re righteous.
S. So what can I do? I feel very good with myself. I don’t feel that I am a sinner.
R. Don't worry, as much as necessary sins will be revealed to you and you will request correction atonement on them and the Creator will give you correction, it will come, it’s all in due time don’t worry. Still nobody has escaped from this.
33. S. (50:38) If we repeat the same sin does it mean that the help that we asked for, it wasn't the right request?
R. No, this is called that you received assistance but you can’t realize it all at once. Rather you will need to go over it a few times both to recognize, become familiar with the sin more, and also to correct it. A correct question.
34. S. (51:24) It’s written that to the extent that we feel the sin we get the Torah.
R. Right, the light that reforms.
S. Yes and that it's impossible to feel sins if we don't have this illumination that will shine on us, just like in a dark room that you cannot see the dirt.
R. Well that the Creator is doing, what are you asking me? If He illuminates on a person in and person feels a gap between the good and the bad in him then he becomes familiar that he's in a sin, but if the Creator doesn’t illuminate upon him then he doesn't feel that he is in sin, it all depends only to what extent we do all sorts of actions so that our sins can be revealed, we get closer to the friends, we do all sorts of things together what's necessary.
S. How to reach the urgency to receive the light of Torah?
R. Only by the society, there is no other chance, what for? Is that clear?
35. S. (52:50) In relation to what you told him that if I pray for the friends I expect that He will also answer it so I pray for the friends and I expect that they will truly have the greatness and importance that there will be more friends in the lesson but doesn't happen, so I should I keep expecting it to happen?
R. Is the Creator obligated towards you, you ask and He does?
S. But it's for the friends, not for myself.
R. Doesn’t matter, you need to ask.
S. But I do expect it will happen.
R. Alright keep expecting.
S. So keep expecting the rest of my life?
R. Yes, what's wrong? The Creator’s obligated toward you?
S. But in practice I want to have a nice result. I want there to be contentment, I want there to be something?
R. So put that in your prayer that's it.
S. And the result, should I expect a result?
R. The result, that there will be or there won’t be, the Creator expects a lot of things from you, do you do them?
S. Let us say and do and finish with all these.
R. Don't be a wise guy, you know yourself you'll get to know yourself even more and you'll see what you're doing.
36. S. (54:10) I didn't quite understand it properly, should I ask for the correction of my sins or the entire ten?
R. You need to request also for the ten and also for yourself. Within the ten. What does it mean within the ten? Because you have no more sins rather than those that don't let you connect with the ten. All the rest is not considered a sin.
S. This means that in principle I should be concerned about the ten being connected right that's in the whole request?
R. (no response)
37. S. (55:12) Not to feel the sin, is that a lack of light? Another friend is also asking the same question?
R. Not to feel the sin is the lack of light. It's the lack of person, the sensitivity in a person, yes. Meaning if a person isn't sufficiently sensitive to the friends then he will not be able to feel the lacks.
S. To continue what you said, about the connection with the friends, is that the way to discover if this is the way to discover the sins then in the ten do we need to share the disputes that we have and the barriers towards connection, should we speak about it openly with the friends, and in this way to raise a prayer?
R. We want not to scrutinize in what we are in right now what state we’re in right now, how much we have complains towards one another in the ten, because in this we will not complete anything, we are requesting only on connection that the Creator illuminates in His light and then love covers all transgressions, connection, and we connect and all the conflicts and problems that we had with one another it all disappears, because it all comes from the will to receive that it came, put it down and don't feel it.
38. S. (57:53) How do I pray for the sins that I see in the friends without disqualifying the friends?
R. You're not thinking about to cancel them or not, you're thinking about how to rise above them, that you're in gladness to reveal the sins because then you can rise above them and love the friends.
S. Why does the Creator constantly show me the sins of the friends? What does he want from me?
R. The Creator wants that despite the sins you'll want to connect with the friends to be above all the sins.
S. But why is this my correction? What's in this that it’s always the same work I see the sins again and again?
R. But each time the sins are different and each time your ascent above them is also different each time.
S. What is the correction, my correction in that?
R. That you will rise to a higher degree above the coarseness that is revealed.
S. Is this considered bestowal? Am I rising to bestowal in this way?
R. Yes you want that everyone will be connected. Think about it and you will see that it's correct.
39. S. (59:40) Actually the Creator's letting me feel my sin in that He’s letting me feel my attitude to the friends each time and through the friends to Him?
R. Of course these are the sins. Where else are the sins if not in the relations between you and the friends and between everyone and the Creator?
S. So I should say thank you very much for letting me feel these things?
R. Correct of course, but you see that there are those that don't understand why it's revealed to us, everything that’s revealed between the friends is precisely those same things that we need to correct on the path to the end of correction. That’is called the correction of the Shechina.
40. S. (01:00:33) What are the signs that show a person that he’s in a sin?
R. That he still has complaints about the Creator and the friends.
41. S. (01:00:53) When a person is full of different sins and he doesn't know where to begin, what to ask for, for which sins should I start asking for correction?
R. Only on connection between Him and the friends, nothing on all the rest. All the rest will be solved by this that he is requesting peace and connection in the ten.
42. S. (01:01:20) That state where in the morning lesson we’re together with everyone and we’re the closest to the state of connection and unity, is this the reason why in the morning lesson it’s the closest of the complete prayer?
R. Yes, the morning lesson is the most suitable for the whole prayer, succeed, Africa succeed.
43. S. (01:01:52) There are many desires that come throughout the day. How can I use them in the direction for the connection?
R. You aim all these desires to connection but it doesn't matter so much what these desires may be as long as they are connected and aimed towards connection.
Reading Excerpt #14 (01:2:34) “It is written ‘who heals the brokenhearted’..” twice
44. S. (01:05:04) The heart, it means our common heart in this excerpt, not my individual heart but the common heart that can receive Kedusha?
R.Yes.
S. What does it mean that it falls to the shells, the light, it cannot enter because it falls it goes to the shells and what can we do so it doesn’t fall to the shells?
R. That you should not identify with the shells, with the will to receive, on the intention to receive and then the light won’t fall into there. Intentions to receive for oneself, what there is in the person, if he thinks about them it’s called the light goes from above and enters into the Klipot, the shells.
45. S. (01:06:08) A broken heart, it’s in order for there to be a broken heart first we have to build a heart so if I don’t feel that the ten has a heart how will I feel a broken heart?
R. You’ll make an effort to be with your friends in one heart, one desire, one goal, make an effort. You need to have one goal rather everyone wants to reach, of course we need to reach there by this only that we connect and then you have sufficient forces and connection of desires that you can then see to reach the goal. By this that you connect between you and see that you’re not capable then you have prayer, by this that you turn to the Creator with prayer to help you be connected then you connect to the Creator you feel how much without Him you cannot be in one heart and all that operates such to bring you to one connection, one connection, that all of you together and the Creator with you together in the final goal.
46. S. (01:08:07) You said that in order for the Kedusha holiness not to fall into the shells we must not identify with the will to receive in order to receive, what does it mean exactly that I don’t identify with it?
R. You don't want to have such desires for yourself, rather all the desires should be like the Creator only to bestow outside of you, yourself, for all the world, all of reality, all the friends, the whole world, and through them to the Creator.
Reading Excerpt #15 (01:08:58) “ If his prayer is not constantly on his lips...”
47. S. (01:10:20) Who breaks my heart? Is it the light that shows me that I'm a sinner or does it actually come from my knowledge, my prayers?
R. The Creator breaks your heart the Creator is breaking your heart.
Reading Excerpt #15 (01:11:04) again
48. R. (01:11:19) That a person is all the time in the prayer in the plea to the Creator and in speech with Him, in speaking with Him.
Continue reading Excerpt #15 (01:11:26)
49. S. (01:12:33) What happens to desire that receives correction, the will receive the receives correction?
R. The intention on the will to receive changes and accordingly we feel the desire itself the type of desire a different essence of desire because everything depends on the intention.
S. You mean a different essence of desire?
R. What do I want to attain by the desire, you understand? I see let's say one person and he takes a knife and he’s sticking it into the belly of the another person and then I see another event where a person takes a knife and splits that person's belly open and by this he’s actually saving his life, he’s performing surgery so there is a difference. The action may appear to be the same action by the intention one is doing for his own benefit and one is for the benefit of the other person.
S. So what comes first the intention or the desire?
R. The intention, it wraps the desire and gives the desire its degree, its direction, the essence of the desire depends on the intention.
S. Right now I discovered that a person discovers that he’s in a sin, does it mean that he’s in a desire in order to receive, right? So what does it mean that he corrected this desire with intention to bestow? His desire was revealed already, right? He discovered it already.
R. Revealed now on the intention to receive and there was correction on this by this that will come the light that reforms and illuminate on this desire and on the intention of the desire and the intention to desire will change from the intention to receive to the intention to bestow. That’s called that he’s praying and inviting correction.
S. So can I say that this desire brings him back to more connection to the correction actually?
R. Of course, the desire that just got the intention of in order to bestow by the attention in order to bestow he becomes like the Creator that the Creator is the desire to bestow and man is the desire to receive but he changed his intention from in order to receive to in order to bestow.
S. I can’t understand the change that the intention on the desire, what happens with the desire itself?
R. I don’t understand. There is the intention and there is the desire. I can smack my little kid a few times but I do it because I want for him to change, I want for him to start listening to me so that he won’t harm himself, that he won’t put himself in a state of danger, that he wants to do something, so I give him a few smacks in order to, you know, shake him up a bit, or someone else beats him but not with the intention of teaching him something but just because of his aggravation because he feels nothing towards that child, it all depends on the intention. The desire is something animate and the intention, this is already a spiritual path.
S. Let’s say I entered a desire that distanced me from the friends. So the correction on that desire, what is it? What would it be?
R. You got into a desire that pushes you away from the friends, you want to change this desire so that it won’t push you away from the friends so you need to take different actions that will affect the desire.
S. Actions in the ten to come closer to the friends?
R. Yes, usually that’s how it is, of course. What actions can you do outside of the ten to change in relation to the friends, in relation to the ten?
S. So the correction on that desire will only be by me coming close to the friends?
R. Of course, that’s all there is. From all these questions what I feel is that you’re not working with each other you're not working amongst yourselves that you’re not concerned with how to change the relations between you, to change, to come closer, to connect, that it’s all like there is some kind of a connection but it's technical, technological, it's a verbal connection but the connection is not between the desires and therefore you don’t have any plea to the Creator yet, you do not accuse the Creator of anything yet, this is called the prayer of many that you all pray as one, write it down because this is the prayer that’s accepted by the Creator.
S. So how do we start from a technical connection to desires?
R. Only by delving deeper into thought and working on your connection that each needs to give the other an example, act out towards the other that you have love of friends so that the other friend will become envious and will also want it and then it will affect the friend that started it.
S. And that’s what will awaken us to prayer?
R. It will awaken us towards prayer and correction, without that we will never come closer to spirituality we’ll never enter spirituality.
50. S. (01:20:59) Can I hear an answer from the Creator and by hear in the friends deficiencies?
R. Yes.
51. S. (01:21:24) My question is about Excerpt 15 where it says but if it's prayer is not constantly on his lips it means that he does not have the real faith in the Creator can help him, Etc. My question is. is it not dependent on the person's deficiency on whether they are constantly embarked?
R. Yes, but in order for a person to have a constant deficiency he needs to be connected to the group otherwise where will he get that deficiency from.
52. S. (01:22:22) A knife from a stomach from a murder or a surgeon, how do we turn the killer Inside of us to a surgeon?
R. With the help of the intention, does a person want for the benefit of the other or for his own benefit?. Does he want to calm down his desire, or does he want to do for the benefit of others?
S. Here we are talking about a 180° change from a killer to the doctor. It's the complete opposite. How do we do it?
R. I just told you how.
53. S. (01:23:20) There are a lot of questions about the Baal HaSulam and Rabash articles., should we read them15 minutes a day to get answers?
R. Prepare what you want, bring it to the heads of the departments or whoever is responsible and we will see, maybe so. Bring excerpts and articles whatever you want to scrutinize and maybe it will be good for everyone and then we will do it.
54. S. (01:24:04) How to understand our feeling that the connection is correct?
R. Only by only working on our connection each time to determine that our connection is growing stronger and then to see if this is what we are following and understand if that is correct.
55. S. (01:24:37) The constant prayer doesn't mean that they the thoughts and prayers are with the Creator?
R. Yes,aim towards him.
56. S. (01:25:20) We are asking to connect the many into one, should there be a prayer about changing the intention separately or is that already included in the prayer?
R. Just one prayer.
57. S. (01:25:58) A few years ago you told me that the soul of man will teach him. Is receiving with the intention to bestow contentment for the maker and not for myself. Is that what our souls will teach us?
R. Yes.
58. S. (01:30:18) Is the pleasure of a sint come from the intention to sint or from the action itself?
R. Especially from the thought. All sins are in thought and what happens later in practice is not that important it is already the result.
59. S (01:30:43) If I'm asking the Creator to save me from the evil inclination so that I'm asking for myself and not for the ten, is that the prayer of the individual to the Creator? Can I pray that way?
R. It's possible to play the way and it's also possible to pray for the entire group. You ask the Creator to save us to elevate us from the evil to the good inclination.
60. S. (01:31:16) About asking the Creator for help, where is that point of the Creator is is that point to the Creator or should go through the friends?
R. Yes. It should go through friends, if I ask I need to ask in a way that my prayer will pass through all the friends to the Creator. The Creator hears it's all in all from the entire group, the Ten. That is what he hears. I cannot reach Keter if I do not go through all the rest of Sefirot on the way from Malchut to Keter.
61. S. (01:32:03) I heard that we cannot reach pray because we do not have faith but does faith mean the bestow that is accepted from above by the prayer of MAN? What does faith mean?
R. Faith is the force of the bestowal that we want for it to dwell in us.
62. S. (01:32:33) When friendly love is found between friends so the body builds a wall between the friends so what should be the real prayer because they ego conceals the true reason and how to cheat your ego that it will let you hear the answer from the Creator?
R. We have to cancel the partitions between our hearts and ask for that.
63. S. (01:33:04) Can we say the love between us is like an antenna that can perceive the Creator?
R. Yes, you can say that,
64. S. (01:33:19) Does excerpt 15 mean to get our prayer more focussed towards HIm in a way that he can help us?
R. Yes, we can ask the Creator to correct our prayer so that he will accept it and change and correct us.
65. S. (01:33:48) What information can we receive from the Creator like that radar that we can pass on to our surroundings?
R. That we all want to be connected in one plate all directed toward the Creator.
66. S. (01:34:11) can we say that when a person discovers the connection with the Creator that the material world gradually loses its value?
R. The material world corporeal world does not lose its value in their eyes. It is just that we precisely understand what is its design and what is the degree of the upper world and we understand the essence of this world in a greater way than now. Because we understand the measure in which we can use in order to rise to a higher spiritual degree in the upper world. This world is significant. It's not that it's worthless, It is precisely that if we use it correctly that we can use it in the upper world.
67. S. (01:35:15) Aiming the desire for connection does it mean to constantly be in a thought for the goal or the intention for the friends or otherwise do we need to work with our desires?
R. As Rabash explains in all these excerpts that is all we need we do not need, we do not need more.
68. S. (01:35:44) When I see sins in my friends, what does the Creator want to show me by that? Does he want to show me my sins, my disconnection or is He inviting me to correct the sins that I see?
R. He wants to show you that you are not okay and for you to ask for corrections for everything that he shows you.
68. S. (01:36:16) There is a feeling that the more we advance the demand of us not to sin gets greater, how can a person save himself from sin?
R. Only through the connection with the friends and prayer to the Creator and both and it's preferable to have both present at all times.
69. S. (01:36:49) I heard that if man is not sensitive enough to the friends so he cannot hear their deficiencies and without sensitivity for the friends,how can we develop it?
R. These are exercises.Try to connect with one another as much as you can, as much as possible. I have nothing to add to that. It really is exercises.
70. S. (01:37:32) How can we save ourselves from the Klipa from the shell?
R. The shell is the intention in order to receive.You can't be saved from it only by trying to invert it in to inorder to bestow. That is the intention to be saved from the Klipa.
71. S. (01:38:01) Is prayer for the friend a kind of annulment or bestowal?
R. Prayer for the friend is bestowal. Bestowing to the friend bestowing to the Creator and bestowing to myself to myself, I am correcting my vessel too.
72. S. (01:38:30) Can we say that the more we have a broken heart then we have a less of a desire to connect?
R. Why? The more the heart is broken the greater is the desire for its correction.
73. S. (01:38:54) What does it mean to reach contact with the Creator?
R. It means to start receiving the attributes of bestowal.
74. S. (01:39:16) What exactly is the prayer that the Ten have to prepare? Is the Creator giving us a request for the vessel of bestowal?
R. Yes. Our request needs to be to receive the vessels of bestowal.
75. S. (01:39:36) In what is a broken heart different from the will to receive for myself?
R. The desire to receive for oneself can be in one person and he doesn't even discover that he had such a desire. That's wrong, but being being broken means that one already feels the shattering and he wants to correct it and that is the difference between the broken desire and the desire that is merely corrupted,
76. S. (01:40:16) When I ask for friends sometimes it comes from the incorporation of a workshop and a warm feeling and sometimes the ego swallows the request because then only my environment will be in bestowal, what should I do with that feeling?
R. To go over all of these feelings to try and build and inner response to them . It helps us to me more flexible internally.
77. S. (01:41.01) I heard that the connection between this is technical not in the desires and that acting is an example for is to awaken us to prayer , how will acting such antifical thing will take us of a technical connection to a true prayer
R. To act, to act it out more and more and to try for the acting to be as real as possible. To go into it with your desires aggravates and hopes to see that the acting is something that is serious and shapes us into a state where the acting will come true.
78. S. 01:42:00) How do we turn the prayer from the mouth to the heart
R. You need to try. The prayer that we simply utter from our mouth that will be more and more t felt as coming from the heart. Try. How? Put a mirror in front of you and start talking and you see how much it changes you. What have you done? Nothing. Try it.
79. S. (01:42:55) What does it mean to ask through the Ten?
R. What does it mean to ask through the Ten? It means to turn to the Creator To build a chain that connects me to the Creator and that is possible only through the Ten. I am on the one end of the end of the chain and the Creator ison the other end of the chain and the connection between us is the ten.