-*Morning Lesson Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.
Morning Lesson November 03, 2020
Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”, #67
1. Rav’s Introduction:
And once again we are together in the morning lesson. A problem which stands before us is the acquisition of the degree of faith above reason. These degrees are 125 degrees, through them we come close from the degree of matter, to the degree of spirit, from the degree of animal to the degree of the Creator, the degree of Adam. How do we attain this? The Creator had a question, if you could say so. How can a person be like Him, on one hand and, on the other hand, nevertheless be a person beside the Creator? As not to be completely in the Creator like an embryo in the mother's womb. That is not considered existence even though he has some existence, but that existence is not at his own expense. Therefore, how to create a person, a thing that could be independent? I once wrote about this, a story that is called The Wizard.
The question comes, what shall the Creator do and he thought and thought, what to do I think the story is in our archives, it appears to me that it is so. Therefore it's written there that the Creator thought he was making the person from the earth, from the plants, from the animals so that there will be something living in the degree of still, vegetative and animal. He discovers that it can't be, because there is no one who is independent that stands before the Creator. Then he suddenly sees and understands that he has to create a very big will to receive in him that will be completely opposite the Creator, not agreeing with him, resisting him and even annoyed with him and hating him. In short, the whole Sitra Achra, other side needs to exist in our foundation. Such that from such a foundation we can truly come to feel, understand and identify with the Creator in the opposite way where a person must be certain that he is incorporated with a thing and its opposite, from darkness and light, from good and evil. The evil must be first and a person must examine whether he truly wants, to be ridden of the bad to rise above it even though he can't disconnect from it completely because the bad is his nature but to rise above it. How is that possible to do? What we learn is that the whole preparation for creation of man is not simple. It's a very long process in which there is the creation of a thing that is opposite the Creator, the will to receive and the will to receive has to develop gradually by the Creator himself, by the light. And to go through all kinds of stages of connection and disconnection from the light, these are two desires, the desire to receive and the desire to bestow, the intention to receive and the intention to bestow and that's the Creator prepares creation through building and breaking, building and breaking and by building and breaking. All the degrees all the worlds all of internality all of infinity, then he prepares these preparations, these states one against the other such that a person would then be able to be revealed in a reality that would be included of all of these states slowly including them and coming to a state in which he will be above them. Above these two states both from the good and the bad and above that and you shall be like God who knows good and bad. This is why we learn in the study of the ten Sephirot the cascading from us from above downwards and the preparation for our state. Then how we ourselves already can attain these degrees from below upwards as they're already just in a manner that is being revealed to us as shattered because that's us. By us, discovering the desire for the goal, to be like the Creator actually, the point in the heart that is revealed in us and that draws us to the source to be like the Creator, to be above the good and evil to truly be towards the goal towards the point from which creation begins. This is why we need to go on the path on which the force of bestowal is always preferred to the path of reception. In order to implement this, we must also do so in the connection between us. In the connection between us if we realize this, we are not concerned, any of us, for himself because we are going to reveal the force of bestowal. Rather we need to ask and be concerned only for the others and it says if I don't exist, I am seemingly the point that collects, corrects all the rest of the parts of creation, connects them, arranges them, corrects them. That's why my concern throughout the day is that my friends will not forget about the goal, but they will be drawn towards it and I don't think of myself. I seemingly don't exist. I exist only through this concern for them. If we were to think in such a way, then we would see how successful we would be in connecting to that same direction, that same goal and on the way we will discover how that's all the Creator wants of us. For us to come to that which is common to us all, the quality of unity and love. I said that there was great preparation here for the creation so that it would begin to correct itself, so that it would begin to reveal its correct state you could say that this preparation ended in our times in our lifetimes and we are the first group that is trying to adapt itself to arrange itself such that we will enter the correct path towards the goal and in this group which is in this group and in the surroundings and all of humanity where the proper preparations that are necessary are there for us to rise to the first spiritual degree. The spiritual degree is called faith above reason where we all want to rise from our reason to the reason of the Creator. As the reason of the Creator is called faith, our reason is called our reason. If I understand and feel what my nature wants because it all begins from the darkness and there was evening and there was morning every degree, it's the same way. Then I am drawn to the reason of the Creator so I need to raise myself each time, to think this way, I am not now working doing thinking according to what I want to do and just think. Rather, I now do and think what the Creator wants and does. The Creator is the quality of bestowal the quality of love so if I do what he wants even though it's me who's doing it, what he wants, by this I build a Partzuf already a system of connection between me and him. Through the group and all of humanity as this is how I think of them, I don't think of myself. I only ask for them not to forget the goal and then each time I transfer my mind, meaning both desires and thoughts to them, to everyone, in order to serve them, deliver them to the Creator, advance them to the Creator, that's actually all my work. By that I become a partner to him, as all of reality, he is before me and I serve the Creator by being concerned and pushing all of humanity towards him. This is how we need to slowly slowly, delicately, discover this tendency as the obligation of each and every person in the world. Because to the extent in which each person will hear of this that he needs to care for others, we will move from the path of suffering to the path of Torah, to the path of light. We will rid ourselves of course from all kinds of things like the coronavirus and all sorts of other things that stand before us. We will see but in all the things that are being revealed but they all come in order to separate, in order to distance, in order to silence us, in order to disconnect us from the previous life, from our professions, from our movies, from everything that nothing will help us. If we gently begin to be concerned gently each for the others so that they will think and see about connection between everyone then all the rest of the things in this world will work out as a result of that. We need to be concerned only with our thoughts, everything will be clarified in thought. If we think during the day from lesson to lesson, from morning lesson today to the morning lesson tomorrow, if we will think about the whole world having to come closer to the knowledge that everyone needs to care for everyone, then for sure we will arrange all the forces of nature that are purposely kind of shuffling up the cards mixing them up we will arrange them in the right way. It all depends on our efforts as we are at the force of speaking, the highest degree in this world, we will begin to feel our true forces and how we operate. We will also begin to feel the states that were prior to creation, prior to creation, meaning before the matter of this world was created because we are starting to enter into spiritual degrees. Then we will begin to feel that hidden matter from us in the universe, they say that it's black matter, in a dark matter that you don't feel. We will begin to feel all those forces that are operating and that operated before the creation of the world. Until we begin to discover more and more, all of those forces that stabilized everything and establish it, reigning, we will truly enter integration and start feeling where we are in it and this is no fantasy, this is the scientific reality. The wisdom of Kabbalah but to our point now it's only to think each of us not only of himself but rather of the others where we ask from the Creator and ask the friends to think of everyone, to think of everyone. By this we will begin to feel what the degrees above us are, where we start thinking about others we truly emerge out of ourselves to others. When we exit yourself to others it seems to us like it's for others, but it's actually towards the Creator for he is outside the egoistic and ask the friends to think of everyone to think of everyone and by this we will begin to feel what the degrees above us are where we start thinking about others with truly emerge out of ourselves to others. When we exit ourselves to others, it seems to us like it's for others but it's actually towards the Creator for he is outside the egoistic and desire of man so let’s start thinking about this and advance towards our topic which is faith above reason. This is the path each time to acquire a spiritual degree more and more higher in the desire of man so that starts thinking about this and advance towards our topic which is faith above reason. This is the pass each time to acquire a spiritual degree more and more higher.
*Excerpt 67 Reader (18:53 - 21:46)*
67. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article 34, "The Advantage of a Land"
We see the difference between what the mind asserts and what only faith asserts, and what is the reason that when something is based on faith, we must constantly remember the form of the faith, otherwise he falls from his degree into a state suitable for one who is wicked. These states might happen even in a single day: One may fall from his degree many times in one day since it is impossible that faith above reason will not stop even for a moment during one day.
We must know that the reason for forgetting the faith stems from the fact that faith above the reason and the mind is against all the desires of the body. Since the desires of the body come by the nature imprinted in us, called “will to receive,” whether in the mind or in the heart, hence, the body always draws us to our nature. Only when we cling to faith does it have the power to bring us out of the bodily desires and go above reason, meaning against the body’s reason.
2. R. (21:47) Specifically by constantly stopping having sensations from faith and renewing it again and it stops again and he renews it. Again by all those renewals he actually has steps toward. The number of disconnects and the number of connections that follow define the degree of man.
Excerpt Reader (22:16 - 22:42)
3. R. From the will to receive...
Excerpt Reader (22:43 - 23:17)
4. R. This is our advancement to the extent that we yearn to be more and more in bestowal and thought of others and being adhered to the Creator. What would the Creator want for me to think of for me to do? For me to feel? If I yearn to be in these things constantly then accordingly I will also feel to the extent to which a certain force will come tell me that it's the evil inclination, it's a help against him, against the Creator. It's the same force that he created that works against him and that's how they work in complement to one another and completing one another in this work. The Creator needs the evil inclination, it's an angel in its hands of the Creator and then he constantly disconnects us in order for us to one want again to connect to the Creator and again the evil inclination disconnects us and again we connect to the Creator according to our exertion. That's why we don't have any point in complaining to the evil inclination but rather to turn to the Creator to help us deal against it and then by me turning like a little child who is afraid that something will work out so we runs to his mother crying next to her and then she helps him. That's how we too need to do in every single situation, turn to the Creator and not try to do anything for oneself, we don't need to waste time on that. Anything that does not work out in our spiritual work, everything that we feel some lack of success in the connection between us in our mood, in anything we immediately need to turn to the Creator not to waste time as if we can overcome this. It's called the pride of man shall humiliate us, we will just fall from this. Rather as fast as possible as we look at our friends, we learn how to constantly be connected to the Creator and ask from him an ascent from this situation then by this we will shorten our path and succeed.
5. S. (26:06) This movement of ascending the connection and disconnection is it a steeper and steeper ascent each time? Is the ascent steeper each time?
R. Yes, we could say it that way. It depends on the degree of a person, the experience that a person receives from his work, from his life and so on. Accordingly, the difficulty level will be more. It's just like you learn at school when you write from one degree to another degree, you have harder exercises and then accordingly so that you will be able to overcome them and ascend even higher. Of course, yes.
6. S. (27:08) The corporeal problems all kinds of concerns that disconnect the person from the ten, this constant direction towards the Creator, are they called the evil inclination or something else?
R. Those are the conditions a person needs to receive and needs to try to get along with them as much as possible but to know that it all comes also from the Creator but it doesn't mean that he has to agree with it. He needs to try and improve them as well. But again these are the conditions, let's say at work, at home and everything that he has, even when he has to do with his health or other things, these are the things that are actually one mechanism, they are all as one. The conditions from which he never the less each time will renew his connect the Creator that there is none else besides Him and specifically the Creator in order to bring him closer creates these conditions for him and he needs from these conditions to get along, to come to aiming himself to the Creator and faith above reason.
S. What does it point to if there was a corporeal problem but keeps coming back to the person?
R. It's a sign that you need each time more and more to take care of all the rest but together with caring for it you need to constantly care for your attitude to the Creator as the source of the problem. Meaning you must accept it and relate to it seriously because it stands before you on the way according to those conditions in life that you received from the Creator and from those conditions you need to be in that adhesion towards him and then you will see that, slowly it will really advance you. Time after time if you relate correctly to the whole situation, you will see the extent to which this enters you into a connection with the Creator. Whoever the Creator loves he shall proof. Specifically, those people that he loves, that the Creator loves and wants to bring them closer he gives them harsh conditions, but it doesn't mean that we need to sit in those conditions. We need to advance from them. That's what we need to say, it's not them nor the reward. Meaning I need to work in such a way that they will disappear, for them to be for me different conditions to advance towards the Creator. I don't have to love those conditions specifically but to see in them a trigger, a means, an awakening means, a reason that helps me emerge from one degree to another.
7. S. (30:44) We can come to a state that all the evil inclination comes from the Creator and his purpose, why is that happening, is it because we don't recognize him?
R. Because you're not connected enough between you and the ten, otherwise you would learn from the friends that this is how it needs to be. It doesn't depend on the extent to which you're physically connected but rather, if you would want to be better connected in the ten, from them you would see even though they're not like this, it's not important, but you would learn from them that they are together and connected in such a way to the Creator and receive his care in such a way.
8. S. (31:54) You said that we build through such work the system of connection between us and the Creator called a Partzuf. how do we do this after all with prayer, with connection of all these pieces maybe as a gift, maybe as a work that we do each time a new?
R. We simply need each time to renew and renew the work above reason. We have selected excerpts on the work above reason, which Oren read, from there item 67 and we need to read also throughout the day from there all kinds of verses, yes that's how we have to do it.
S. So let's say during the day we gather as a ten and we read these parts, then what every friend turns to the Creator?
R. That's how he needs to be all day long, not just when you're gathering for a few minutes, I need to try and be all day long. It's not just for the time of the ten meeting, where I sit or hear and I'm then in some physical connection, so I'm also in an internal connection with them. I want to be in a constant internal connection with them all the time just like a mother who is a baby at home and then she goes to work because there's no choice but she has to work, but her heart is completely there with the baby and she's thinking and feeling all the time what's happening with him there at home. That's how we need to constantly do all kinds of works, but our heart needs to constantly be with the ten.
S. Basically all the rest of the activities with a person in life should just happen automatically and this should happen all the time?
R. It's written, make your Torah permanent and your work secondary.
9. S. (34:24) In the last paragraph of Item 67 that we just read, Baal HaSulam writes when a person clings to faith it gives him the power to bring him out of the bodily desires and go above resend what is that?
R. Our problem is that the word faith, it confuses us. We think from what we understand from religions and philosophies and from our life, faith is the force of bestowal. It's an upper force, it is the force of bestowal that we want to rule us and give us the ability to carry out acts of bestowal towards all the others and through all the others to the Creator. Because the Creator includes all of the system of humanity, he stands behind all of it. We need to understand that we have two levels of behavior, the lower-level which is reason, what I discover in my will to receive, that for the time being is what I see in my five senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. There's another level where I operate not according to what I discover in my will to receive in my five senses but rather how I want to reveal and work in Keter, Chochmah, Bina, Zeir Anpin, Malchut five spiritual senses. What's the difference between the five corporeal senses and the five spiritual senses, through the five corporeal senses I want to receive, through the five spiritual senses I want to give to bestow. Then accordingly I have a mind and a heart both for this system and for that system. I will constantly be inside the system of reason, meaning to receive and in the system of faith, in bestowal, Malchut and Bina, Malchut and Bina, each time you have to rise and raise those parts from Malchut to Bina and correct it that way.
10. S. (37:12) You say that every time we feel descend and decline in rejection we shouldn't wait and turn to the Creator, however we can ask for ourselves, so how does it work? What I feel I have to ask for the friends, that's how it works?
R. Yes, because what do I feel? I feel that I'm in my egoistic desire and then how can I, what will I ask for the Creator? I need to ask him for something that is to the point, some act, some action, some operation, of the operation I'm asking of him is for him to put me through society into all of his concepts called faith, bestowal.
S. To bring me to it or my friends, because again it appears as though I asked for myself?
R. No, if I'm asking to be in the friends, that's already the correct request. I want to advance them. I want to strengthen them, to push them forward. In the quality of faith it can't be that you're asking for yourself. No, Because the degree itself the degree of faith is disconnected from Malchut, it's just like we talked about it yesterday and the day before yesterday, I explained to you that I am in my will to receive and I want to depict to myself that instead of my will to receive, I want to be in the desire of the group. In the desire of the Creator. This is called to move from reason to faith above reason. Nevertheless, it's me who is asking, it's me who wants to be in them, it's me who wants to be in bestowal. Who am I, from the I we don't disconnect, no matter how you spin it you're building it all upon the will to receive a common outlet. The words sometimes don't give us the true feeling of it.
S. So, it's not that I dissolve in the friends and feel that the friends are the new me?
R. Yes, but it nevertheless remains you. It's not that you disappear completely, even though you say that I disappear, it's a state that you are inside the friends and don't feel your desire but rather their desire operating in you and operating you.
11. S. (40:41) To be always thinking about the ten, and to cling with all our power, does that mean to build the Partzuf between us so that we feel this reality in the right way, that we feel this world in the right way?
R. Yes.
12. S. (41:19) During the day we really feel this connection and disconnection and yet it also feels like it doesn't come from me at all so where's my work here?
R. Your work is in asking the Creator to sustain you and the degree of giving above receiving, bestowal above reception. That's your work all the time to be in that and to try to not fall and if you fall, then you fall and that's a sign that it was arranged for you that way so that you will exert and pray, it's mostly in prayer, to be once again in the degree of faith above reason.
13. S. (42:16) Let's say that a flaw appears in the connection between the friends. With what strength, how do we overcome that brokenness if we see the shattering between us, with what power do we overcome?
R. When you talk about what Rabash writes in his articles about society and that's it, you each annuls himself towards the other.
S. So with reading together and prayer?
R. Through all the means that stand before you. You're asking such things that 10 years ago you could have asked.
S. I'm not asking for myself.
14. S. (43:12) The will to receive the will to bestow who is the eye who chooses each time, who prefers the will to bestow to the will to receive?
R. That's the point in the heart, the point that includes within it already from the shattering that was before you, that already includes the two forces Malchut and Bina, that is a point, then it acquires some coarseness, like some flesh that it connects with itself more desire than the Malchut and you through your exertion attributed to Bina, this is how you go through these two forces Malchut Binah, Malchut Binah, Malchut Binah, and that's how you grow to these two forms until you begin to build between the middle line, you start to see where you are between the two of them and this is how it arranges itself.
15. S. (44:31) Following the question about the problems that repeat themselves, what does it mean to ask the ten for help?
R. Integrating in it is enough where you connect and you read some article, it would be preferable to do so with the Rabash articles there, seemingly a little shorter, you talk about it for a few minutes. Upon that it's best not to talk about the problems themselves, but to take a certain article that someone there is responsible for in the ten that chooses it in advance and this way you talk about this article and scrutinize things and advance that way. Each time see the extent in which you can clarify your state and a very short way and rise from that degree to the degree of bestowal, to the degree of faith. Where you’re nevertheless coming to a new desire, a common desire, a common goal where you are all and the Creator is with you, well to the extent in which you can for the time being build this form. Later you'll start to feel that it truly works this way and also when you discuss the extent to which your desires are as such, you go and you receive a higher desire, more bestowal, more giving and then you adhere to it. As I say I don't want to do something, but actually according to what I understand, the Creator did want me to do it or something else do I do this place of that. That's called make his will your own and this is how I advance from one state to another. You will see that if you work systematically on this, you suddenly receive pleasure from replacing one desire with another. Where the ego will suffer, but your pleasure will be from replacing the egoistic desire, the egoistic command to the Creator’s command and there is fulfilment in this.
*Excerpt 68 Reader (47:21 - 50:27 )*
16. R. It seems like we should read it again. Again it's not enough once.
*Excerpt 68 Reader (50:28 - 51:23)*
17. R. Meaning, at every single degree, every next state, I want to - more and more - give and not receive anything.
*Reader continues (51:37 - 52:02)*
18. R. Because our will to receive is felt this way his complaints are just.
*Reader continues (52:11 - 52:37)*
19. R. Meaning through the force of bestowal we will do all kinds of acts out of bestowal which are called Torah and Mitzvah.
*Reader continues (52:47 - 53:00)*
20. R. When we resemble the Creator and accept bestowal and connection, by this we bring contentment to the Creator.
*Reader continues (53:11 - 53:20)*
21. R. Yes, we need, it's written this way, Kabbalists who attain the Creator, attain these actions, attain the Upper Force, the upper world, raise ourselves above our perceptions to bestowal meaning above our life. They tell us that the upper force that is there has the feeling of good and bad according to our states and enjoys the states of bestowal and connection that we do.
*Reader continues (53:57 - 54:10)*
22. R. Without us taking this upon ourselves and trying to implement it there is no beginning. Because the upper force the Creator operates through these people these great ones and tells us about the whole process about the whole system. We have no choice but to try that which they told us. There are people that shut their eyes and say we don't want they go back to a state like before, meaning to the degree of animal. But those two have a strong Reshimot from the shattering of the vessel of Adam HaRishon, and feel that they must implement it and move forward, they have no choice and they go. Those people eventually remain with us and we build from them a vessel more revealed to discover the upper Force, the Creator who will be revealed between us in our time here and now in our times it's truly practical. I really hope that we practically, in the near period of time will start to discover more how according to the building of our vessel the Creator is being revealed between us more in a way that we feel him, where the Shekinah, Divinity will dwell amongst us.
*Reader continues (55:59 - 56:11)*
23. R. That only if we raise ourselves from the degree of reception to the degree of bestowal from the degree of rejection and hatred to the degree of connection and love, then in such a way we start to feel an upper reality. Is it all felt inside of a person and it all depends on the quality of the desire that is in a person, rules a person. If my desire just in order to receive each time and each time more than this world I won't feel more than it and I will die just like I was a beast and that's it and nothing more. Where there would be no difference between a man and a beast in this world but rather man is a little bit smarter, but also all those smarts are just to his detriment. You add more knowledge, you add more pain and the higher degree is where we already rise above our will to receive and are in the quality of bestowal. It's just expressed in the connection between us. The Creator on purpose did a vessel of one desire, shattered it into many pieces. We feel this mutual rejection. Then we have exactly the place where we can work, connect between us, do connect, don't connect. We feel more spiritual states, less spiritual until we connect ourselves in such a way until the Creator's revealed between us in order to implement this nevertheless in a practical way then it's enough for us to do this and a small part of the shattered desire which is called the ten. Where the Creator arranges us in such a way and brings us to the good fate and says take it meaning start connecting at least the way you are now in the ten and if we've arranged the relations and the ten according to the first spiritual condition then we will feel the first spiritual degree on the Creator inside of us and second and third and in that way a hundred and twenty-five degrees meaning five worlds, five Partzufim five Sephirot in every state and it advances, that way it's all will be.
*Reader continues (58:47 - 58:56)*
24. R. It's impossible to carry a Torah and Mitzvot if not on the basis of faith. You can't do it on the basis of the will to receive that means that you will have what we see in this world, all kinds of actions that have no spiritual outcome. To do it on the foundation of faith means that we raised Malchut to Binah, we connect the will to receive with the will to bestow and then by the special mixture between them, integration between them, we make actions that are receiving in order to bestow.
*Reader continues (59:44 - 1:00:11)*
25. R. Yes, we need to pay attention to that. All the actions that I do, am I happy that I'm bringing joy to the Creator? The more I imagine the Creator as the general force that connects us, then I need to work to make the friends happy, make the ten happy, connect them as much as possible so that it will be felt between us and so that we will feel great joy in that and we will begin to feel that he is with us and he is content. This is the general force that we will then feel is between us and dwells there.
26. S. (1:01:19) Where or from which point does the “I” come in each of us? In the ten that we need to hold on to in order to receive from Malchut to Binah, what is that point in the eye of the friends of the ten and every member of the ten that he needs to hold on to in order to rise from Malchut to Binah?
R. He needs to include himself in the ten and try to bring the ten a thought of connection and joy. The goal is that they are going to connect until the Creator appears between them.
27. S. (1:02:18) Faith above reason is an action that is done before understanding and the Creator is in this quality?
R. No, it's not that faith above reason is that I do an action before I understand it. No, that's just an action of someone dumb, someone not sane. I feel everything, I understand everything, everything's in its place but I want to raise myself to a degree where I work as though I have the force of bestowal as though I'm going to fulfill the Creator’s will. Bina which is the degree of faith it's above the Malchut therefore the Creator is called Bina towards us activates and performs the actions of the Creator. We have to try to reach it. We have to connect Malchut to Bina and do our actions this way. We can't disconnect from the Malchut. We have to connect to the Bina and then in the right merging between Malchut and Bina, we build our vessel each time in a way that is more and more complex each time between Bina and Malchut.
28. S. (1:04:15) How can a person believe that he's bringing contentment to the Creator? Is it something that he has to accept as a fact?
R. A person cannot know if he is giving pleasure, joy to the Creator or not. He has to realize it in the group in the ten. I don't even understand how you asked me about the Creator in detachment from the group, from the environment from the Kli where he's supposed to be revealed. I can't talk about the Creator without the Kli. That's why it's called the Creator, come and see, Boreh. Meaning only in the suitable Kli we can find a phenomenon called the Creator and we find it according to the qualities of the Kli meaning if I take the ten and I connect it in a certain way in a correct way in mutual bestowal, then the mutual form of bestowal of my friends reveals what is that sum total between which is called Creator. Outside the ten there's no such thing. What you're asking is unrealistic. It's a fantasy.
29. S. (1:06:01) I have noticed that if there's a gap between hatred, envy, honor, lust I'm able to do these movements from the will to receive to bestow and in the force of bestowal I can't be in the group without force, what do I do when I am with myself, we don't have a clear reward.
R. You don't cling to the group and therefore you are with yourself and there's nothing to talk about. You're not in the spiritual reality if you're not connected with the ten.
S. I'm saying that when I'm in the ten I can't do that because there's envy, honor, lust so I can be in that work, what can I do when I'm not in some activities with the ten?
R. So you're not there I told you. You want me to say it again, you're not in the right state you're disconnected from the ten, what are you asking about. Reintegrate in the ten and then you'll have work to do.
30. S. (1:07:05) How can I ask the Creator to give me the force to remain in the degree of faith above reason if I feel that I'm losing the force? On the other hand, I'm not supposed to ask for myself.
R. You are not getting a constant example from the environment. Only by connection between us that we awaken each other, you can then be always be in concern and make actions of connection and thereby feel that Creator in it more and more. It has to be a common work of the group.
31. S. (1:08:23) The question is, how to correctly go through states of joy and use them for the sake of ascending even higher because practically it seems like that state is a state that you can fall from easiest in your state?
R. I don't know what to tell you, even look at what's happening in the world. Look at how the Creator is putting everyone into some states of people that are smart, wise, egoistic doers, look what's happening they can't do anything with what the Creator is landing on them each and every day. Just look at how everything is moving towards recognition of evil, recognition of our desperate state, it's not going to end. We're going to see this more and more, we're seeing from day-to-day how these states are like waves, one by one until they exhaust us, where we can't do anything about it and humanity no longer knows what to do and where to go but gradually it's getting rid of all kinds of stereotypes and previous habits and of course there are still people who think everything's going to go back to normal and how and when. But it's not and from day-to-day it's becoming clear that something new is shaping up and this is how we gradually get used to letting go of what we had. It just went away. It's done. What can you do? As a result we are coming into a new world and you're going to see that for lack of other choice, humanity will begin to absorb it and will begin to perceive what we're talking about and to the extent that they will advance more we will also advance. It is as if we are pushing humanity from behind and if they can advance according to the general providence that the Creator sets up for all of humanity then we can advance also. Pushing them forward and advancing along with them it's a single system. You'll see how this happens. Look at the changes that happened from day-to-day, kind of globally, collectively in human society. How people are talking about it, how people begin to somewhat digest the situation more and more, losing patience on the one hand, but afterwards seeing there's no choice and bowing their heads and beginning to accept what's happening and asking what to do about it and why. This is how bit by bit this is the work over the egoistic desire that's very difficult but you'll see. The Creator will set everyone straight and you will see according to what we're going through, it's going very fast, it's happening across the globe and all the sudden everyone starts speaking the same language, the same concepts, then starting to understand each other. We thought, all people, all nations, how can they start coming together? Look at this virus. Look at what starts unifying all of us and this is how we will advance.
32. S. (1:13:06) Text says the person needs to be happy from receiving pleasure in the work. What kind of pleasure in the work is the right pleasure and how can you make sure that's connected to the ten?
R. Only pleasure from being able to be above your corporeal desires and in your group desire hoping that in the group desire you are fulfilling the will of the Creator to the point that you discover that he is in you. Because the Creator is there, he needs to appear this way, if our group desire comes closer to his desire it is like the ten Sephirot that are connecting into a single Partzuf and this single Partzuf reveals the inner light which is the Creator. We have to come to that, we will start feeling him first as surrounding lights and how we are supposed to be in equivalence of form, make a restriction and only work for his benefit and then we start discovering that he is only for our benefit and then from this beating, meaning that we don't want to be for ourselves and he doesn't want anything for himself then there is a coupling of beating and we decide, like the host and the guest there is a compromise in the middle. Take something, maybe take this or maybe take that until they come to some common ground where the host receives something but it is for the benefit of the host and the host is happy that the guest is not just receiving something but that it is in order to bestow that he feels and identifies with the host because the host basically gave him the gift of being like him through another portion and another portion. That's how it is.
33. S. (1:15:43) As not concentrating on the lesson, after what happened in Vienna, help me being in the lesson I'm concerned about my friends and I can't justify the Creator or the situation, nothing is helping my heart is being torn.
R. Then you need to talk to the friends so they will help you overcome your personal overwhelming, I understand that you can't justify the Creator through this whole reality and this whole reality keeps coming back at you but for one moment can you justify Him and stand at His side and then go back. But these ins and outs are already changes and corrections this is called the Torah comes from Zion which means from the exits, from exiting and entering the adhesion with the Creator these actions begin to feel the Torah begin to feel the relationship of the Creator to you, His program, how He builds a human that is similar to Him out of you. This is called the Torah.
34. S. (1:17:20) The work in faith above reason in the ten can help friends who are distanced?
R. Of course you can do actions in the ten and think of how you are doing these actions not just for the ten but to influence the whole world, the rest of the tens or some specific people that you want to include with you. You can also pray to the Creator that we will relate to them specifically, yes of course you can, the ten is capable of transforming the world.
35. S. (1:18:24) We had an interesting discussion in the ten of the examples of the host and the guest, it is a diamond of an example can we write the .....
R. I offer you to learn the way we learn, it is all like the text of the host and the guest but to not get confused go along with us. In the end it is the connection between us and the Creator there is nothing else in reality but besides the connection between the created being and the Creator which appears through the wisdom of Kabbalah. What is the wisdom of Kabbalah? To receive all of the revelation of the Creator between us in the connection of the general vessel where the Creator appears there in full, this is called the wisdom of Kabbalah the wisdom of how to receive.
36. S. (1:19:42) What feeling exists inside of us when we enter the work into spirituality?
R. A feeling of connection that in connection between us in different manners of connection we want to discover the upper force and we need to connect ourselves in such a way that even though we are all different, each one rises above his reason to faith and in faith we can be one. When we are one in faith this is where the Creator appears when Malchut raises to Binah and is included in her with her will to receive then she give Binah the opportunity to be included with different forms of bestowal and these forms of bestowal that the Binah can show us we feel them as the appearance of the Creator. If it were one we wouldn't feel it, we feel it by the inclusion of many different aspects of bestowal towards us, the inner light as the inner light inside Partzuf. Then we say this is our God, meaning specifically by the entrance of Malchut to Binah, we can come to feel the Creator that is between us.
37. S. (1:21:40) What gifts can the ten give to another during the pandemic so the connection will strengthen even more?
R. We need to pray meaning to ask that all of our friends who are around the world will be healthy and that nothing will prevent them, disturb them, from doing the spiritual action of connection. That is one, too even if some actions happen that are disturbing and prevent us from accepting them as necessary things that the Creator is giving to us so that we will advance along with them.
38. S. (1:22:44) We collected the list of friends that need healing yesterday like you asked so we have Eve in France, Heirut in Israel, Rueben in the United States, Gideon from Israel, Antonio in Mexico, Honduras Ramos and in Russia Andre and Vitaly.
R. We asking everyone, let us all think about wanting to see them as healthy and in all of our actions and all of our lessons that we may be ready together in our common action.
39. S. (1:23:44) In this work when we are in Malchut to Binah we feel this force between us, do we eventually discover that the Creator enjoys our work?
R. It will happen but not right away this is already called the revelation of the Creator why am I talking about the level of Malchut and the level of Binah, so that you will imagine it to yourself in the meantime like this, there is the desire of the created being and the desire of the Creator and we always want to raise ourselves to the desire of the Creator. Make your will as his will as it says.
40. S. (1:24:40) Our prayer to go above reason needs to be able to bestow to friends physical things that we can do for them even though we don't want to do it?
R. Yes it influences, don't worry, don’t go into all kinds of philosophies, there is an influence to do it and you will see how it works. It's not for no reason us to stop with all of these problems time and again, they already begin to happen to us.