Morning Lesson June 19, 2021, Transcription
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, continue the lesson advancing in overcoming. There are many ways of overcoming. The Creator arranges new conditions every time. Sometimes we distinguish, we can notice that it is so, sometimes we cannot. We think that today is the same as yesterday and yesterday is the same as the day before yesterday but the truth is that new Reshimot, new records come each and every time. Even though we do not see much new about the situation it is very different, it is actually very different from yesterday and in general every single moment. We still do not understand how spirituality is, how different and rich spirituality is. To advance in overcoming we need to nonetheless accustom ourselves to be skilled craftsman to try to find all kinds of ways, all kinds of new conditions that differ this moment from the previous moment and each time to try to adopt ourselves more and more to adhesion with the Creator on top of all the changing conditions even though perhaps we are not even detect these situations as new conditions.
Nevertheless, we should try each time to know, to discover, to approach the Creator with what we have but mainly among all those changing conditions that we try to walk on top of. It is the relationship between us because here is where the shattering happened. Here is where the new states are revealed to us. Between us and the Creator is already a more external state but let's detect the stages that happened between us a while ago, yesterday or a few minutes ago. Then we can see how we can see ourselves under new conditions and attach ourselves this way that we become one body, one thought, one desire. And not that the thought and desire as truly be in me but as in the friend. It is not possible because that would erase the differences between us, on the contrary we would not be able to progress. The progress is precisely in the fact that even though we see distances between us each time.
Along with these distances we want to see ourselves as connected above the distances and see ourselves as marching towards the one upper force which clothes between us the gaps, the distinctions and differences. That we are opposite to each other. This is how we advance. Therefore, we will see as we begin to gather before the lesson during the lesson after the lesson there are gaps between us we need to close. Not that the gaps won’t exist but above them, we are going towards connection, nevertheless. So, the connection on top of the distance by this we give to the Creator, we offer the Creator. We reveal the coarseness on one hand and the refinement on the other hand the coarseness inside the different desires and on the outside connecting despite the difference. So now we have two different discernments, coarseness and refinement. Coarseness in the vessel and the refinement opposite to that, according to the level of coarseness. The refinement is in the screen and then we will have it in reflected light and tendencies inclinations from us to the Creator.
We should try to detect the gaps but with the tendency in this position to go above them and this way we can progress. Until we build the vessel with the right power, strength for the coarseness and accordingly to the refinement, to bring it to such power in the gap between them that we can then distinguish between them the light and the darkness and in this oppositeness in this contrast between light and darkness we begin to discover not only darkness and light but also their source which is the Creator and in this way, we can begin to come into contact with him.
2. S. (07:30) How can we correctly search for these differences between the coarseness and refinement so it will not be just criticism?
R. From the very beginning I have to direct myself to want to connect and in my connection with the friends I have to get connection to the Creator so the more different we are in the connection between us the more diversity we find the more difficult it is to obtain work in intensity when we tried to direct to something it becomes equal between us. It will be present between us, if in this way, if I direct our connection, the connection between us in this way then they should give me a sufficient power of connection eventually. So that I as a result of the connection can discover the Creator because the effort to connect is the vessel and the filling the fulfillment of the vessel is the attainment of the light of the Creator. From the beginning we have to try to build it on our part as faith above reason. We want to be in bestowal even though the connections between us are the connections in the desire to receive. I want the desire to connect between us would be in such a way because it comes from different desires from different friends from different broken vessels and precisely by connecting the different desires to receive, I bring myself to bestowal, to faith above reason.
S. (09:55) How to connect these different desires?
R. We cannot connect our different desires, we can only direct them to the same goal to the Creator, and then in the Creator we connect, outside of him we don’t. This is why the breaking of the vessel is the only preparation which is enough and sufficient to reach the level of the Creator to direct ourselves to Him to check along the way how different they are and how much we can be similar to him, precisely through the connection between us. This way we start to organize ourselves more and more tightly to one another.
S. (10:59) What is the point of the Creator we connect in above the differences?
R. This is called the vessel of faith above reason because in our reason we are always different from each other, we are not able to unite ever but when we rise above the gaps between us and we want to connect nevertheless, then we do not take into account the arguments, the complaints of our selfish ego. On the top of it we want to be connected and I see how different and opposite I am from the friends and as it is written in the Zohar that the students of Rabbi Shimon what they got at the beginning of the lesson they wanted to kill each other.
This is how big the gaps between them were on one hand, on the other hand during the lesson they would change they would become correcting the relationships between them, friends to serve the Creator. They come out of the lesson being attached to each other attaining the right situation and then they overcome the coarseness by connecting between them and both the gaps above the coarseness with the reflected light, with the desire to bestow through which they connect to each other and they connect to the Creator. By this they attain a new state of connection which is already a new spiritual degree. Spirituality is built above the state we received in the physical world. It is not like they are not related; it is one built on top of the other, the love will cover all the crimes and then we discovered the crimes. the hatred between us. the remoteness. This is what we have to discover because we do not have such feelings of contradictions, oppositeness, and do not really care what happens to the friends over there, this is how it is at the beginning of the work. But as we progress, we begin to see these things as more and more important, opposite, stinging. Suddenly we start to care about what's happening to the friends. I become more critical, more demanding and I begin to notice all the changes between us and you can even see this evidently what is happening in several groups. It is a sign that they are progressing but don't do this artificially.
There has to be something that is the opposite even though we do not really want to see the differences but we do not erase them. There is a situation that is revealed out of the breaking. We understand this is a process. On the other hand, we go above the differences we keep them, we don't delete them because this is the coarseness thereby according to the differences between the connection over the differences, we need those two conditions to reveal the Creator. Otherwise, we cannot see him, feel him, we are not in contact with him. We cannot bring him contentment despite the mutual rejection between us, we want to connect in order to give him a room to reveal himself and enjoy us.
S. (15:49) What can be these differences, I tried to imagine these differences?
R. It does not matter what those differences are. Simply disagreement, I do not want to see him he repels me. I can bring all kinds of examinations in justifying myself but there is no justification here other than the Creator causing it that he wakes up in us these opposite conditions. For the time being I may feel myself being in the group but I don't really care about the others. I am in a group because they say I have to be in it so I agree, what can I do, this is a condition for spiritual progress. What happens after I do not know. Maybe I am indifferent to all those changes, maybe I am not hearing what the Sages recommend me to do. I remember myself, for a long time I did not take their recommendations about connection. I did not take it seriously go and connect behave in such a way to get close to others to criticize each other only half an hour a day as Rabash writes.
We need to open our vessel more and more and that the gaps between the light and the darkness that will be revealed have to show me the vessel which always consists only upon darkness and light, distance between us and the inclination to connect between us. And they are one on top of the other, the connection on top of the revelation, of the shattering, the distance. I have to understand the distance the Creator created to begin with and gave it to me as an evil inclination and I keep these conditions because precisely with those two legs on top of them I can progress.
3. S. (18:44) In the ten all kinds of coarseness become revealed, and we pray, we connect, we reach some good feeling and then we crash again, so how can we aim all this to the Creator, because we always forget the Creator, what does it mean to direct it to the Creator?
R. We have to try to be constantly connected to the Creator as the goal, and then this goal has to be before our eyes from the beginning of the action until the end of the action and between the actions and through all the actions. The Creator is our goal, so we must not forget it. If it is deleted then it is deleted, it is a changing situation from above. But in fact, we cannot give ourselves such states by ourselves, seemingly a state that now I remember and now I forget, it is to the contrary, it is neither.
S. (20:14) We each receive such a state, this coarseness smashes the friends, truly throws them out, so how can we use this as leverage for connection instead of being smashed?
R. This smashing, this breakage is given from adobe, it is coming as an evil inclination in every moment and we have to be sensitive to it and in this sensitivity towards the changes between us, not just a simple sensitivity, but sensitivity towards the changes between us. This means that basically we constantly should try to detect how much closer or more distant we are, that we are negating each other, and then see how we can add connection with each other. This is how we advance. The fact that the Creator constantly, in every moment, is ready to spoil the situation between us is good, it means that He wants us to progress quickly, and this all depends on our preparation, how much we are in this process, how much ready we are for this to connect above the differences. This is called faith above reason, and in the reason I discover how remote I am from everybody, and in the connection between as I want to establish that it will be connection above the differences, above all the problems, all the conditions, scrutinies between us, that we seemingly have grievances against each other, that the friends are wrong in this and that, this is why I hate him, this is why I feel, how I feel against him. These are exactly the conditions that the Creator gives us all the time, we cannot control this and we do not need to control this, because it is revealing the forms that were created by the breaking of the vessel of Adam HaRishon, the breaking of our soul, and as it broke and now that it is broken, we see this and know that we have to reconnect those pieces in addition to the power of remoteness which is revealed, and it is going to be revealed all the time, so we are reconstructing the vessel that we had before the breakage and as we reconstruct the vessel it becomes 620 times more connected, more connected with all the negative scrutinies revealed as a result of the breaking, which means that the Creator is seemingly installing himself into the breaking, so what we get in return, seemingly we get our vessel back, but in that broken vessel which was reconstructed, from the tiny broken vessel which we had before and now we are discovering, once we reconnected all the broken parts, in the connection between them we get the Creator and then He is in adhesion with us.
Excerpt 14 (24:15 - 26:23) Twice
4. R. Here I would ask not about the blow itself but about how to accept the blows correctly, when some problem comes to me, some deflection, deviation from the way, that suddenly I see problems in the connection between the friends, that I don't justify them. Naturally I see them with a negative eye and negative vision, and it happens because the Creator is changing the records, where I previously was connected and now I don't feel myself justifying them anymore, and I can't connect to them, so I have to constantly see where the changes come to me from, the changes in my situation, in my relation to them and instead of the evil, negative inclination I connect to them and I don't distinguish where I am, but I feel only my friends, all connected into one system, so where can we discover the Creator? It seems to us as though, as if in the state where we are distant, broken we can’t discover Him, but it is not true. It’s precisely in the distance between us, this is the coarseness that the Creator established, revealed for us, and precisely by this we can see His work. His work is to reveal the gaps between us and our work is to eventually ask Him to close those gaps, to be able to connect above the gaps. We do not delete the differences between us, we only connect above them, this is called faith above reason.
So it's turns out that this is how we come to the right relation, so the Creator increases the distance between us each time through all kinds of complaints, and all kinds of events, phenomena, and then we have to try to keep all the differences between us, not deleting them, because then I would always remain in the state of a spiritual baby, instead I have to try to connect every time above the differences and with those differences, and this is called being in faith above a reason, that although I have revealed all kinds of grievances, sensations, disconnections, differences from the friends I try to be above them in order to keep the two different levels, the two forms of relations between us, and this is how we advance.
The more I advance the more the friends seem to me as opposite, as hateful and I cannot understand them, I cannot feel them, and I feel them incorrectly, not nicely and so on. And then love will cover all the crimes, so I have to try to keep the levels of coarseness that are revealed and above them to cover them with the connection between us. This work is our constant work until the end of correction. Each time it is revealed on top of different records, but the type is not the same, as we learn in the Study of the Ten Sefirot how each time it is a new coarseness 0,1,2,3,4 in every level and in every world, in every state of embryo, suckling and adult (Ibur, Yenicka, Mochin) and this gives us the changes, but at the basis of every state is the same situation, just as the basis of every matter, where we have the plus and minus, the particles that by connecting among them we have the entire wealth, depth of creation, the entire spectrum of creation.
5. S. (32:25) What does it mean without any support?
Faith is without support because this is the degree of Bina above the degree of Malchut, when I come to do what the Creator tells me, even though in me, according to my intellect and feeling and understanding, I have no support for it, I do not see in how I am built, and I am built within my reason, so I do not see that the according to my view, according to my mind and heart I can build my situation correctly in my relation to the friends, and in relation to the Creator. I have no way to build anything correctly, this is why it is so difficult for us to enter the spiritual states and especially it is so with the first state, with the entrance into spirituality. It is as it is in our world. Sometimes it is hard for us to start something, to conceive, to become pregnant. To this day there are many question marks about pregnancy, how someone can conceive, how to achieve this and we can see it in the Torah, the problems with the women becoming pregnant physically 13pregnancy how difficult it was for them to conceive. These are spiritual forces that could not impregnate them in those states, so it is difficult for Malchut to reveal the spiritual state.
Therefore we need to establish such physical relations between us in the10s, where we can accept each spiritual state above reason, so that the corporeal states will not interfere with our spiritual connection. In the corporeal states we might be hateful to each other, and that happens in strong groups that progress, if they are already progressed then the hatred is revealed between the friends, but together with this they build connection to the level of love, this is “love covers all crimes”. It is not like there was a crime before and now there is love, but both the hatred is present now and on top of it the love is also present, and we are in both states. This is a really not simple but precisely by relating in this this way, for and against in very extreme ways, by this we discover the right relations to spirituality and between the two, as the love covers all the crimes we discover the common force between them, the common reason for them, which is called The Creator who is seemingly belongs to both, and when we discover the Creator in between, this is called the love will cover all crimes, and then there is no difference between the good and evil, but the Creator the source of both, He is the root of both, and will cover the gap between them.
6. S. (37:13) The split in the group, is it between me and the friends, or between other friends?
R. It doesn't matter between how many there is a split, but it is important that if we determine that this is the group then we accept that we are in the group. Then we have to accept the situation that is revealed and this is something we received from the Creator, and whatever is between us, whatever bad state is between us, we accept it as conditions for progress and there is nothing here that can deflect us from the way. On the contrary, the situation that we received is a correction, each time it becomes revealed more and more until the friends really want to kill each other but they overcome this. They really cannot sit next to each other, they come to a state where they love each other and embrace and after that in the same lesson we come to the state where on top of their differences they start to love. In this way we understand that we received a state of separation, we revealed a record from the breakage and we corrected it, and in the gap between the broken record and the corrected state, in the differences between all those states we begin to detect the spiritual state which we have discovered, which we have built, and in this way, we discover the Creator, saying “you have made me” in the gap between hate and love. Then we discovered this form that consists of both, which is the Creator.
S. If the separation happens and the 10 takes a decision that a certain friend should find a different 10, how can we relate correctly to this if he does not want to leave? What should we do?
R. I cannot answer such questions because there are many specific details which relate directly to the 10 and to that state, so I cannot answer it, especially that you will start twisting the question and the answer according to your state which I cannot get into, and others do not understand. This is not the way to ask. In the lesson. you ask only general things and then accordingly you can examine it in the 10. I am not going to organize your 10 or any 10, instead you have to do this on your own according to the rules we learn, if you want to advance then advance, if not, then whatever happens.
7. S. (41.46) What is the difference between a corrected record and an uncorrected record?
R. That's an appropriate question. The Reshimot record is revealed in a broken state because this is the result of the breakage of the system of Adam HaRishon, and we are from that broken state that was revealed between us, and above that we want to build a corrected state. This is called love will cover all crimes, this is what it is all about. You get a broken record and the state we put on top of the broken record this is what we have to come to. The record is our entire state that is revealed, and what is revealed in it that we are far from each other. Our whole world, our whole life is revealing' that it is one of the broken records, the whole mankind is revealing it now, there is everything in the record except connection.
8. S. (42:54) Earlier we said that we do not quite yearn to implement the advice of the Kabbalists and the friends have to do what is necessary, the friends need to pray and sometimes we feel the lack of the group, sometimes you feel a split within you, so what does it depend on, this ability to realize the advice of Kabbalists?
R. It depends on the record that is revealed and we have to realize it as we learn. It is in practice as we learn that it is not really important for me the record itself that is revealed, I know what I have to get in the end when I have to get connection between us, and I do not care what happens. There needs to be a connected state in which we are as one man with one heart, and in that one heart we discover the upper force, The Creator created the shattering, He gave us the broken state, so that we out of the broken state build Him, “you have made me” as it is written, so this is the situation we have to be in.
Excerpt 15 (44:59 - 48:31) Twice
9. R. I hope that the questions are about this part which we heard twice.
10. S. (48:48) You describe our work in respect to every friend to see what's happening to them, does it mean to care about all the friends or is it relating to the whole ten?
R. Each friend and the entire 10, in respect to each friend and in respect to the entire ten, as we need to reach a state where we are all connected. We have to reach a state where we are all connected and it is not that someone is and someone is not part of it.
S. Ok it will always be related to the entire 10?
R. You have to correct yourself and connect with each other and in the connection between you discover the result of your connection, which is the result of your corrected relations and you'll discover the Creator, in that you build Him out of all the relations between you. Imagine this to yourself, I am relating to everybody like this, he relates to everybody, and he relates to everybody, and this is how all the friends, in the 10 relate, and if we relate correctly each one to everybody, by this we build the form of the Creator, the image of the Creator, you see this is how it happens. Let's say that you have children and there is somebody who is the teacher. If the children are good and the feel that they are corrected, then they get from the educator, from the teacher his form, his attitude towards them, and each and every child expresses in relation to the others some form of the educator that he perceives, that he grasps. This is how they build between them all in all in that group the form of the educator. This is called, “you have made me”, that you'll discover in the connection between you as friends, my image, and this image you discover it, and it is impossible in any other way, this is called “you have made me”.
S. So according to what you say I have to set an example to be an educator to each friend?
R. Each and every one as much as he understands the connection between you, so each and every one should act the Creator to the others. Yes all in all, if this is how everyone relates to everyone = else in the group, then it is considered they discover the Creator between them and they are attached to that common image which they built, and we will never have more than that, only in such a way can we build the Creator between us, and to be attached to Him, but this gives us the feeling of the presence of the Creator between us in a complete manner.
S. So this is like a game, each one is playing the game in the 10, and those who do not play do not feel the Creator?
R. Yes, it is true.
11. S. (53:41) How can we work with joy with deficiencies and rejections?
R. All the deficiencies are not ours, this is called “go to the craftsmen who made me”, I do not ascribe those to myself but to the Creator, who wakes me up with all the problems, deficiencies, good ones and evil ones, all the deficiencies, I get everything from Him, I just have to sort these things in such a way that I establish them in such a way, that love covers all crimes, all in all the bad things are revealed, so let them be revealed all the better, one who is greater than his friend his evil inclination is also greater, so let them be revealed even more. This is a sign that I am advancing and that I have to arrange my attitude to the friends and my attitude to the group, so that in the relations between us we are building the image of the Creator. We are actualizing the image of the Creator between us, we are building the vessel so in this vessel we establish the spiritual laws of nature, of the relations of bestowal and love of friends as we call this, and this is how we advance. This is all very practical and this is all ahead of us but we rejected it.
12. S. (55:46) When we talk about suffering, is it the suffering, the pains of love when we cannot achieve the revelation of the Creator’s qualities?
R. If these are torments out of lack of connection then these are spiritual torments, if these are torments because I feel this in myself these are corporeal torments. This is how I need to distinguish between them. I get the torments from the Creator. This is the distancing of the broken place in relation between us, but if I attribute it all to myself that I feel bad because of it then it is corporeality, if I attribute the state to the broken relation between us, then this already relates to spirituality.
S. We read, learn that who the Creator loves the Creator admonishes?
R. Yes, it is true.
13. S. (57:17) Yesterday, we had friends who did not want to come to the morning lesson. We don't want it and you don't want it. Some say you have to suffer; some say you have to pray; how should we behave?
R. If there are friends who cannot in any circumstances come to the morning lesson, to our morning lesson, to the general morning lesson, then I do not know how they are friends, what are they doing how do they participate with us, perhaps they connect once a month to some conversation. These are not friends they are just there accompanying us. A friend is from the word “Chibur”, connection and out of that we need to detect them, to define them. If they are there they are there, if not they are not. But even if they feel that it is good for them to belong to the group, then let them be, but they are outside of the group. Nevertheless, don't accept them inside the group. This is how you have to relate to them. That you don’t have to consult with them regarding all kinds different states that you are going through, they don’t know anything they do not know what it is about if they are not in the lesson and in all of these scrutinies, so the Wisdom of Kabbalah is a practical work, it is really practical so if one is not in it, then one is not in it, and it is very important not to miss out on a single lesson and if there are a few who are not there, then you do not have to hold them inside. I would say even it is not worthwhile to keep them inside because they will confuse you, they will always have different or even opposite opinions, or they have no opinions and so on, we should try to give them feeling that they are there on one hand, but they are in a way that is more external to everybody else. There is nothing we can do about this, as in spirituality we have conditions that are revealed each time that we have to keep, so to progress each time, to get closer to the form of the corrected vessel. This is why each time new broken conditions are revealed and there is no choice here, every time each and every day we have to try to put together this vessel.
14. S. (01:01:02) A person comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah when he seeks abundance, harmony, satisfaction and he wants to run away from the emptiness of ordinary life. As he learns the wisdom, he only obtains deficiencies, dissatisfaction, confusion and more blows. We know that a Kabbalist never rests, the greatest Kabbalists are always working as they are always working. Is there any place where there is contentment, relaxation, and calm, any moment on the path?
R. I don't quite understand what you mean. What does it mean to have contentment or peace and quiet on the path? When I feel contentment or peace and quiet, I start being very concerned about what is happening to me, what am I doing as it is actually the opposite. When I am under pressures, I got used to it already to be under the pressure and I see in that the Creator is attitude to me, my attitude to the Creator and how can we do this through correction in the group so that my disposition will be through the group to the Creator and from the Creator back to me. That I feel this and all of my moments and then in such a way we connect, we mature, and we reach new states so this is our life. Our life should constantly be I to my beloved and my beloved to me. Each and every time I am in an inclination towards the Creator, in my inner dialogue with him and it doesn't matter where I am or who I am with an externality, inside I have to constantly be with the Creator and with the group. We're inside of the group, I locate him and this is how we advance any other state besides this is a state of death. Disconnection of my connection with the Creator is called death.
S. We know that the root and all of the insecurity nature directs us to come to a state of rest. Does a Kabbalist come to a state of calm and acceptance, does this come to him?
R. Calm, when a person reaches it is that he is already accustomed to being in all kinds of different states and that all of these states he is locating himself how he is searching for greater contact through the friends with the creators so that each time it will be and intensifying contact upon greater and greater problems and failures, and oppositions. In this he feels himself that he is certainly performing the correction and this for him is the ordinary state which is called life and if he doesn't feel such a state where through the friends he is connecting with the Creator and each time he wants to intensify this connection with the friends and with the Creator then he feels that he is falling from the level of the spiritual life and this is called death. This custom should become second nature. This is how we should see our state. I think that here it is a matter of habit, if I suddenly don't feel resistance, concern from the friends and from me to be connected together to the Creator if this pressure disappears then where am I? Why did I stop feeling it and then I search for how to come back very quickly to that state I want to keep
15. S. (1:07:11) I feel the friends to the same extent that I am equal to the Creator?
R. Yes, to the extent of your equivalence to form with the Creator you discover the right, true form of the friends of the group. Inside the correct connection in this group also includes the broken states and the corrected state and the gap in between these two levels, you feel the connected force. in between these two states is where you detect the upper force that both this and that he built in such a way that we can discover him when we agree with the broken state and with our own forces, as much as possible, we want to reach the complete state and in the gap between the broken state and the complete state we discover the Creator. This is called love that covers all crimes.
16. S. (01:09:18) Who am I, in the work?
R. Who are you, you in the work is a desire that wants to connect all the other desires that are broken and falling apart and to serve them as a collection of broken desires to the Creator so the Creator will correct the connection between them and will clothe in them. This is your role.
17. S. (01:10:06) You said if each person in the 10 imagines being in the corrected state we can build the Creator?
R. If you build the right connection between you then what you are doing upon the distancing, upon the shattering, you are building the correct form of the connection between the broken parts. This is how you build the Creator you have made me, specifically because the broken desires, the broken relations are revealed and you are trying above them not to break them again but rather above them you want to discover the corrected state and the gap between the corrupted broken state and the corrected state will give you the feeling of the spiritual degree.
S. This is called through the 10?
R. Of course there is no way that is not through the 10, where would you discover spirituality if it's not in the 10?
S. Through the corrected 10?
R. Yes.
18. S. (01:11:43) You said each one has to act the Creator towards the friend but the Creator is hidden so what image of the Creator do I act towards the friends?
R. As much as you understand what love and bestowal are, as much as this is clear as it is not required if you do more.
S. You said that before the Creator loves and admonishes you so I have to do this to the friends?
R. You don't take the example from the Creator that is revealing the broken vessel we against that need to ask for the correction of the vessel. All of our work is to connect with the Creator so the Creator reveals each and every time a worse shattering in order for us to each time ask of him more and more connection. This is all of our work and by this we find our connection with him, the mutual form of work between us, this is called the work of the Lord. This is how we connect more and discover how much he is doing everything only to our benefit.
19. S. (01:13:17) How can we work and process and build the intention from the load and Can you elaborate more on him taking from us the flavor in the work?
R. Yes, the Creator takes from us the flavor in the work in order for us to demand it in return, it all depends on how much we try to compose the connection between us in the right way, each one for the others as there is nothing else to do here, only out of experience.
21. S. (01:15:54) Can we say that the new data we get from the Reshimot each day are to push us towards correction?
R. I didn't quite understand the question. Of course, upon these broken records we need to establish the corrected state, as if we build houses out of pieces of Lego, this is how we need to do it but I'm still not certain about the question.
Excerpt 16 (01:17:07 - 01:18:00)
22. R. The most important thing for us is to depict to ourselves the correct form of the work and it needs to be entirely in faith above reason. We are not searching for a flavor versus we are searching for the truth, the true state starts to feel me because it is the truth it will start to shine for me because it is the truth and it doesn't matter to me whether it feels pleasant or not pleasant. Rather the pleasantness will come out of the fact that it is the truth and not because it feels pleasant. So, this is what he says there are two options, one that the Creator will take away from you these disturbances or that he will give you a greater taste in Torah and the prayer, so in order to have a greater taste in Torah in the prayer the discernment will be as great as possible and upon this discernment we will be able to connect even more. We are the created things and we can reach connection only according to the extent of the revelation of the forces of distancing and separation. Therefore, if I discover that such forces of distance against separation, hatred and rejection become revealed, then I specifically by these forces can measure the height of where I am capable of rising to and this is how we advance. For me that same broken state, that is revealed for me. It is a kind of measure, yardstick of where I am and if that state that I detect is bad, showing me great distancing between everyone, that I feel confusion, for me that is good. I saw Rabash sometimes in such states where it didn't seem that he could get out of it. How could there be a person who is on such heights with such spiritual attainment that he falls to such a corporeal crash, how can this be? I saw that yes this is actually the true reality we're one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater, he falls deeper and then he rises even higher and this is why we cannot recognize a person from just one extreme state but rather only from these two states and the gap between them can we understand what the height of the degree is. It is measured from between the low and the high state.
23. S. (01:22:00) You always tell us that we need not ask the Creator to remove the disturbance so the other part written is this the right work?
R. Yes of course, we asked the Creator for the forces to overcome the disturbances so that these will be forces of connection between us so that he will teach us how to make this connection and how will we learn from the broken states how to reach the corrected state. We cannot build it by ourselves, but rather that we reach a state where we are asking of the Creator to build it. As it says if the Lord will not build the house the builders build in vain. Our efforts will not succeed if the Creator will not build it, that is upon us is only to pray, to ask and this is what we have to extract out of each and every state, what can we ask for of the Creator in each and every state that we are in.
24. S. (01:23:45) When we take the lessons and the work that we need to do and the relations between us, everything that was written about the 10, is that accepted as very well, as great. Can we go broader than the 10 to grasp the work around us or are we not ready to do this yet?
R. I will tell you this, first of all build the 10, I don't see that you have I, you determined that this is already a 10. Then when you start to feel that you have a common desire upon all of the individual desires that you have some common force that is connecting between you, try to detect, to orient yourselves in such a way and then you will start to think after this and not that you immediately need to connect with others. We will have such connections but it should be clear to us that these are external connections only in order to get from them forces for the inside connection within the 10. Therefore, don't you jump and start performing such actions hastily as this actually causes you to get stuck on the path.
25. S. (01:25:31) I have a disturbance in my corporeal life, I have had it for a long time and it will probably continue for a long time. How do I relate to this? How do I use this?
R. All of the disturbances that are revealed on the path we need to relate to them in the following way, with patience to try with all of these disturbances to reach connection.
26. S. (01:26:07) Everything we get from the state of the shattering the revealing of the evil inclination, what is this situation that we cannot conceive that you talked about in the first section?
R. Is that you cannot connect between you and the ten like the drop of semen that cannot connect to the discernments and this do forces between you and the forces of connection and separation you need to find a way to connect them and the more you connect them you'll discover more forces of separation and as you work you start to overcome all these forces of separation and that point of connection is the drop of semen in the spiritual embryo that from then on I'll be only need to do annulment towards the ten. Then if everyone knows themself then the Creator would start to operate on all of us, it's not such a big problem, just simply have to agree that this is the inclination that we need to have.
27. S. (01:28:16) How do we not waste energy and we're working on the disturbances outside the connection between us?
R. It's simple we always need to be directed in the connection between us and not to pay attention to the disturbance outside of that I need to work I need to do also two things in this world, family, relatives etc., however, it is parallel and I'll see that it's not redundant.
S. Sometimes we hear that we need to work on the disturbances between us and sometimes we need to only work on the connections, how do we discern between the two?
R. I can't give you an all-inclusive answer about this we must remember that you need to strive for connection but at the same time have both feet on the ground, you have to take care of your family have to work have to be in all these things and be connected to all these things and take care of them.
S. Is there a connection between the disturbances we get and the work between us?
R. Yes, there is a connection but now we can't locate it, we still cannot discern the difference, the healthy connection between corporeality and spirituality we need to be connected both to corporeality and spirituality, so we can take care of our sustenance.
28. S. (01:30:45) There is importance for the disturbances, what is the work in the ten of Torah and Mitzvot?
R. Torah and commitment please that's the correction of the broken states between us this is called performing and keeping the commandments at this correction is done by the reforming light which is called Torah this is why it says I created the evil inclination that is corrupted broken states, I created them and against them, opposite them I created the spice of Torah which is the upper Force highlight and it reforms them.
S. How can you reach such great importance to work on these in the ten?
R. This is why the example of the friends, envy, lust and honor and if you look at the friends and see how great they are when that they are in a very advanced state, more than you and this will accelerate you as well.
S. Is there a chance to study a bit of a TES even though there is not a lot of time.
R. Maybe I'm in a bit of a different state here, let's see, we will conclude the lessons for now and will continue into the TES.
29. S. (01:33:04) I heard that there is a moment where we can awaken certain degrees of coarseness so how do we get that?
R. We each time awaken a certain degree of coarseness of the shattering, each time we discover more Reshimot, we need to realize of this is by the light shining more and by that we realize the depth of us of coarseness and it's all depends on how much we invest and the more we invest, we will discover more and more of that shattering. Who is greater than his friend has richer, greater connection are you all discovered that the states that appeared to him or even worse?
Excerpt 17 (01:35:15)
30. R. (01:35:59) Yes, we can suffer when we receive records from the shattering that are a greater and greater and this is happening on based on the engine of that broken vessel and that vessel is broken and the upper light that departed it pressure it and it works in his design to enter the Kli the vessel and that's why we fill it as suffer and then bit by bit this suffering also corrects us and necessitates us to change from reception to bestowal. It takes a long time, that takes a long time and ultimately at least the person to the goal where the blows help but over time they accumulate and they lead the person to the correction but that is a very slow path called the path of suffering. Yet there is the path of Torah when a person listens to what is written and is capable of understanding what is written and he asks for correction, help from the upper light that will influence him and arrange his mind and emotions, connections with the others to feel the system, to see the system, to participate with the system. So, there is the path of the land and the path of Torah and that's how we differentiate between them so if a person feels that he experiences suffering and disturbances. It's an opportunity and awakening from above so that a person will ask for corrections as soon as possible and then when the corrections come from above, he immediately everything changes for him this is why if we see that we're in not so good condition, states, this is how the Creator wants us to ask for better states and this is how we will advance there's many aspects to this.
31. S. (01:39:28) How can I test that obstacle do advance us?
R. By responding correctly to the disturbances evoking some influence from the Creator towards the group and feeling yourself connected to the group more than before. We, all on top of all the disturbances that have appeared to rise above these disturbances and that's how you overcome and connect, these are very practical actions.
32. S. (01:40:37) We are working a lot with these excerpts and things are written very clearly and also the explanations in the lessons are very clear and we have workshops then we talked about it during the day and every friend really understands all these things but there is still that great desire in somewhat it's emotionally connected in the 10, to that work. It is as if we feel the same things yet it's still not felt as a deficiency of the 10 of all of us together, how can we reach that state?
R. You are not passing these states from shifting these states from the mind to the emotions, you are not trying to truly be connected as one man with one heart and therefore you still don't feel results from the lack of connection. That's a problem, it doesn't depend on each and every one sensitivity from or to the connection. yet depends on how much you want to be together with each other so that from that lack of connection you will discover how much the assistance from each friend to his friend is necessary. Then it turns out that we are committed to feel together and in this mutual support each one supports the other in a way that it stops feeling himself and we only feel the others and that's how it is.
S. What is that key point that will help us jump to that situation or states that you just described now?
R. I myself discovered spirituality only in the point of connection between us, in that point of connection between us is where there is an entrance to the spiritual world.
S. Do we need to search for it to exercise it towards that may be in an artificial way to try and awaken that and then it will happen as a resort as a result of our mutual work?
R. If you wait till it happens then it's already the path of suffering until these various states will push you forcefully. we need to try to ask to pray to detect these states.