Morning Lesson February 24, 2024

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.

Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. You Have Made Me in Behind and Before

1. R. (00:27) I recommend instead of standing up and asking to write down your questions and after we’re done then we’ll hear all the questions and send them even to as usual (boardworldkli@gmail.com).

Reading (00:58) “You have made me in behind and before,” meaning the revelation and concealment of the face of the Creator. …”

2. R. (07:09) Up to here is the beginning of the article, let's keep going. 

Reading (07:23) “.World—Concealment - This is the meaning of “In wisdom, You have made them all;..”

Reading (09:09) “Surrender, Division, Sweetening - There are three discernments required of a man in the desirable path”

3. S. (13:01) It's amazing how you can’t understand Baal HaSulam without the Rabash. What is the work that Rabash did so that we can understand texts like this which are totally abstruse without him?

R. First of all there’s working in adhesion that without that there's nobody to drink from. After you reach adhesion in the Creator so it's through adhesion with his father so Rabash said you can’t imagine how difficult it is from any other case because you just have to annul your love and your attitude, your personal relation that you have to your father. It's not like we understand it, it’s a lot, lot more and only afterwards you can reach what he writes about, a subjugation, sweetening.

S. Rabash about this surrender and sweetening about what he wrote here with half a sentence about the long and far and far and long, Baal HaSulam writes about it in hints and Rabash writes about it so courageously and elaborately and openly that it’s just a wonder to read and to see that he had the courage to write this way, to go against this establishment, against anything that is. 

R. What do you mean?

S. Well, what we read about how he wrote about the long and far away or short way, how this way is not the way that leads to the truth but when you perform commandments in order to receive, such courage to write so openly about it and not just this article but all of his articles explain that basically. 

R. Let’s say.

S. What is it? Is it the time, is it the soul, what is the work and he presents it for the future what he's preparing for us here?

R. Yes, of course it's for the future. We don't need to think that the people he writes about supposedly understand and read and discuss it, no. There's some kind of negative attitude on their behalf but not too much.

S. Is it time for them to read it and suddenly they’ll understand?

R. No.

S. To whom did he write in this way?

R. I think to us.

S. It feels to me that just as we can’t understand Baal HaSulam without Rabash we can’t understand Rabash without you.

R. What did I write?

S. You didn't write but for example, this article that we read today or long articles, he talks about the Torah and commandments and bringing contentment to the Creator and to us it’s translated immediately into the work of connection between us but it’s clear to us that this is the only thing that brings containment to the Creator and that’s the only place where we should measure ourselves with respect to Him.

R. So what can you do, otherwise you’d never understand it correctly.

S. As I said it's not really a question, it's more like gratitude and an impression.

R. Thank you, that’s my duty, my role as much as I could have implemented it.

4. S. (17:58) You just said that is was difficult for Rabash to cancel his love for his father.

R. It was hard towards his father.

S. What is the right or accurate love for the teacher?

R. I don't know, ask the Creator for an explanation, explanation for each and every thing.

5. S. (18:45) Yesterday in the lesson you said that Rabash wants to take us and is taking us from our state and brings us to the state where Baal HaSulam can take care of us, can tend to us, where we understand what Baal HaSulam talks about.

R. Yes.

S. What does it mean that Baal HaSulam will tend to us, what does it mean that Rabash tends to us, what is this tending?

R. Tending, am I tending you in somewhat? Am I tending to you in somewhat?

S. Yes.

R. It’s the same thing with Rabash and Baal HaSulam. 

S. What for example is the difference between your tending and the tending of Rabash?

R. Who am I? I'm kind of like helping you read and when you study from the books and readings then you’re already advancing practically.

S. What is the difference between the tending of Rabash and the tending of Baal HaSulam?

R. I can’t express it, all I know is that the distance should still be very big, and how much?

S. Are we ascending in the tending from Rabash to Baal HaSulam, from attending by one to tending by another or is it done in parallel?

R. No, no, it’s a sense.

S. Is it a matter of a type of people that each one connects to..

R. It’s the type of a generation, it’s the type of a generation.

6. S. (20:48) It’s an insight, the more time passes the less Rav speaks and we read more, is this a correct discernment?

R. That's right.

S. Rav wants to be more immersed in the text and less conversation, heart-to-heart conversations? 

R. Yes just as you should be already.

S. Is this true, the more a person advances, the more he immersed in the writings and the less he speaks?

R. Yes.

S. The effort is to simply go deeper and deeper into the writings and through it connect to the..?

R. Yes, like this, “You Have Made Me Behind and Before”. You see as much as he goes in and then keeps going deeper, you're right.

7. S. (21:48) I want to express how it feels. It feels like you are giving birth to us, you're tending to us all the time like a parent and we are like your children and then you’re bringing us to school where we are taught and then you’re the teacher too who sees if we are learning correctly, what we’re getting from the teachers. It’s as if you are leading us along the way all the time with this faithful care and then we grow and we can receive what the Kabbalists are writing.

R. Thank you.

8. S. (23:38) First of all I feel gratitude so I want to express it, a great awakening. We from the friends, the love between us, the love towards you, the appreciation and there's a question even from the preparation. This whole lesson is like a process. I went in at a certain state and I’m coming out completely different with a lot of gratitude. In the preparation they read some dialogue between you and Rabash. At the end of the lesson Rabash looked at you kind of helpless and you told him you don’t know how to come out of the lesson, that you don't know if you should go out of the lesson with excitement or deficient and then he tells you...Can you read it friends?

S2. This is from the book "Always With Me”. One day Rabash saw me standing helpless at the end of the lesson, he saw that I was unable to answer to myself which was better, joy or depression at the end of the lesson. Rabash approached me and said if you don't feel emptier at the end of the lesson then when you came in it is not a real lesson. You have to come out of the lesson feeling that your hands are empty, you have to cry out what should I do? This is a sign that you had a good lesson.

S. In continuation to the scrutiny about the truth and coming out of the lesson like I had found a  treasure, I'm totally elated, so is it not good?

R. It’s good, it’s good.