Morning Lesson May 25, Transcription
Chapter 4 Item 21 “Come and see that the shattering of the wicked ....”
45. R. (02:55) What is he trying to say? If a person does not intend to bestow as much then as much as he labors nothing remains in him, not even half of what he would like but if he comes to bestow then from this he receives two fold, it all depends only on the vessel that he establishes. A vessel of reception or the vessel of bestowal.
Reads Chapter 4 Item 21 “Come and see that the shattering of the wicked ....” (04:02)
46. R. (04:22 - 04:27) The force of reception and the force of bestowal is what they want to have.
Reader continues: “This world is created with an absence and emptiness....”
47. R. (05:36 - 05:42) Because he wanted to attain something.
Reader continues: “from the increase of the multiplicity of the movement....
48. R. (05:47- 05:50) He wanted to end up having nothing.
Reader continues: “That is once they turn their ...”
49. R. (06:16 - 06:18) Which they received from the Creator.
Reader continues: “they also acquire the equivalence of form ....”
50. R. (06:24 - 06:35) Themselves when they become similar to The Creator by this and they receive what they receive and also from making them cells similar.
Reader continues: “They come to 2 education ....”
51. R. (06:41- 06:45) From the perspective of the vessels and the perspective of the
Reader continues: “therefore at rest and the abundance ....”
52. R. (06:49 - 06:54) Because they are not working out of a deficiency for filling but out of a desire to bestow.
Reader continues: “it comes to them effortlessly ....”
53. R. (07:03 - 07:11) Because they use not their deficiencies for them but their deficiencies for bestowal.
54. S. (07:14) It says that the equivalence of form to be in true adhesion then they are at rest and the abundance pours to them effortlessly. You taught us that a person who advances has more work so I don't understand the sentence?
R. The work is a pleasure. Let's say the baby wants to eat, it opens its mouth and the mother gladly fills it with any spoon. She gets such pleasure. She is so satisfied by giving the baby another spoon. Do you understand this or not?
S. I don't understand what it means effortlessly? What does he do?
R. It is not labor if I give someone to something I love, this is not labor. If I really give, you can only give according to the measure of love that you have so for me giving is not work, it is satisfaction.
S. Kabbalists have rest in the end in some state or not?
R. I don't feel any work so for me it is rest.
S. What is the work of bestowal maybe then I'll understand?
R. This work is when we prepare our vessels for bestowal but when we have these vessels we have no more work.
S. So we don't do anything?
R. We do a lot but it is called the reception of pleasure.
S. What is receiving pleasure?
R. It is when I love my baby, I put the spoon in his mouth that he opens and I give and give, is this work or is his pleasure?
S. This is more pleasure?
R. You are still in doubt.
S. No I am not in doubt.
R. Well this is a kind of pleasure we should reach when we give to others, each one gives to others and we fill up the whole vessel of humanity. All of the generations. That everyone feels everyone this is called infinite pleasure that we dedicate to the Creator, for the sake of the Creator.
S. If we work in the 10 I have to feel pleasure or the suffering?
R. You have to feel the suffering and then maybe you will understand that you're still not corrected but you do this in order to achieve correction. On top of the suffering you turn to the Creator to help you correct you because instead of the suffering, you want to feel pleasure and the pleasure that comes through the acts of bestowal is a blessed pleasure not a forbidden one because the purpose of creation is to do good to his creations. To please them, the purpose of creation is pleasure.
S. In what state do we reach pleasure in the 10?
R. Yes I see it coming, I think that those who really do the things that we talked about are close to it. We have such an opportunity that has been opened to us from the world, from everyone. Look at the problems and blows that we are going through. It is all in order to reach and come to pleasure from bestowal.
55. S. (12:20) If I see myself as wicked so I need to reach despair?
R. I don't understand the question.
S. If I feel myself as wicked it is written here that if we are feeling suffering in a quicker way we reach this?
R. If you are suffering it's not a correction, the suffering is only to wake you up, if I have some sore on my hand, why do I need the pain? If I didn't have the pain I wouldn't treat the sore and no it forces me to treat it. The same goes for the suffering. We feel it not in order to feel the suffering just like that but in order to correct the situation instead of the suffering, we feel the pleasure.
56. S. (14:02) Those righteous that did reach the intention to bestow they don't have this at the moment but the desire to receive keeps growing and the desire that isn't corrected yet they do feel the suffering of the movement?
R. Yes of course, but they can correct it every time, a new vessel opens every time until the end of correction and in the new vessel that opens they also feel suffering but the suffering is now purposeful as because they want to attribute it all to the Creator in order to bestow and through the whole world, that is what it is about. Our whole work is to come to a state where we take into consideration the whole world of how much it suffers, how it should know and why it suffers and how it should reach the good situation and how we are preparing the infrastructure to reach this good and by this we tend to the whole world, to everyone. Enemies, friends, it doesn't matter how they treat us, we look at the whole world that sick body that we have to heal.
57. S. (15:46) Is there a difference between equivalence of form and adhesion?
R. 125 degrees of equivalence of form from Malchut to Keter and we have to go through them on these degrees we have 620 operations, actions called Mitzvot and in each and every operation we have to reveal a certain desire to receive, spoiled and corrected in order to bestow and that way we rise and rise until we finish all of the corrections, each one from his own soul through the 10 and through all of the general reality. This is not a problem, it is only about being consistent along the way.
S. What is the difference between equivalence of form and adhesion?
R. Equivalence of form is our actions in equivalence of form and adhesion is the form we achieve, so everything that emerges I crown with the intention to bestow and this is called I achieve adhesion.
58. S. (17:45) Is there any sign a discernment that a correction took place?
R. There are many such signs along the way.
S. What is a sign that is a correction and not just erasing a certain state?
R. One who knows his soul gradually begins to see how the things that he went through are corrected and how much they are not and the corrected and uncorrected states are incorporated in the future actions because he is constantly going over them, advancing through them, on top of them.
S. What about a state where hatred is revealed? It doesn't exist right now, how do we know that it was corrected or erased?
R. It has to be revealed, if we don't receive these corrected vessels it is a sign that it is still in the Kli and that it has to be revealed more intensely, more significantly so that we will correct it.
59. S. (19:12) Why when we attain something afterwards do we want twofold?
R. Because I don't have a sensation of a filled vessel or the sensation of satisfaction when the vessel is full, I basically suffer from both states that I attain and from the feeling that I attain. From the vessel and the light I have a two-fold deficiency because both the vessel and the light did not achieve completion between them. The lack of completion, the incompleteness that I feel is a deficiency that was created for me as a result of an incomplete action.
S. Let’s say I want the same thing, why twofold?
R. What do you mean the same, the same but twice as much because here the deficiency is from the vessel end from the light connecting here so I come to a new essence of a deficiency, the perspective of the vessel and from the perspective of the light that building a situation where I am deficient, deficient of what? Let's say I was filled in my vessel and in the light that fills the vessel so now I become and begin to bestow a special deficiency that states that I missed so now I can work with it. So did I win or did I lose? In the end I won a bigger vessel and I will work with it.
S. It is written, he wants 100 and 200, it turns out a person does not die and has nothing in his hand, why does he not want another hundred.
R. He does want 200.
S. Why does it multiply?
R. It's still 200, if I want 100 now after the failure, I want 200, so because that 100 is no longer enough for me, through my connection with the light, without reception of the light gives me its coarseness. It gives me his posterior so I want 200. By working and engaging in receiving the light but I don't really receive it because I'm working in order to receive so the light leaves an impression from the coarseness even though there is no coarseness in the light but in its contact with the desire to receive. It can't receive it in order to bestow the light imprints in the desire to receive the feeling that it could have given but that it couldn't give. Then the desire to receive as a result it becomes upgraded into a higher desire to receive, a more specialized and more suffering, larger will to receive. In this way, why do we say that there's a difference between a person who suffers blows and a person who does not? What does he get out of it? When he is suffering blows he acquires a connection with the pleasure that should have entered him but did not, so by this he already has a vessel that is more distant, more prepared for work. When a person dies without having half the things that he wanted, it means that now he is intended to receive the feeling, this is called receiving and being willing to put himself to death because he received a two-fold measure, power of desire. Now he has more of an understanding perhaps he was close to attaining the light but because of the incorrect intention he didn't receive it. So as a result he received a two-fold depth of deficiency from what, from the absence of the intention so now he understands he has no choice because he needs the intention.
Chapter 5 Item 22 “Now we understand the power of His uniqueness....” (24:40)
60. R. (30:21) That means that everything that happens inside of us, around us, between us, it is all in order to scrutinize the thought of creation, to do good to his creations until we really start asking where does it come from, from the Creator, from one source, for who? For the created beings the main part is man and for what? They can understand and feel that they are only receiving good from the Creator and really when they receive that good that comes out from them, not on the degree that we receive like some cats, or tree or some other force. But that we would reach the degree as the Creator and then to that level and in that level we see and feel what comes out from him to us and we can be witnesses to give gratitude for what we received from him. That really what he created to begin with was with the intention only to give us good and bestowal with no limitations.
61. S. (31:46) In the text it says "His thoughts are not our thoughts" if the whole of creation is included in the single thought. Is there a difference between the Creator's thoughts and our thoughts? How does it work with everything being included in one thought?
R. We from our actions reach a state that everything that he did in us we go up on all of these actions in order to connect ourselves together into one body, into one desire and in order to ascribe ourselves only to him, into one desire and one intention so from the action we attain wicked gratitude to that that we did attain that protection of the actions of the Creator towards his created beings.
S. Why does he say that "our thoughts are not his thoughts"?
R. Because his thoughts begin only in order to bestow to us only all of the abundance with no limitations and our thoughts are completely not like that. They are only to bestow to ourselves. What we feel is all the best and that's it and this is why our thoughts are opposite of the Creator.
62. S. (33:45) What does he mean by the illumination of light?
R. The Mitzvot are actions in order to bestow and Torah is the upper light that brings us the force to perform an action in order to bestow that's why what we need to do is we need to perform Mitzvot with Torah meaning the light appears called Torah and helps us perform actions in order to bestow which are called Mitzvot..
S. Reads excerpt section.
R. By the illumination of the light, the special specific light that appears in a limited way to the place of restriction where the desire to receive in order to receive is, then by this light, this desire to receive becomes in order to bestow. Then we correct more and more desires in our mutual general soul which is called Adam.
63. S. (36:26) Can you explain the life of lives?
R. It is not our life in our body that we feel ourselves, in this protein form that exists, it is in a form of a vessel where our desire becomes part of a spiritual body and its filling is the upper light that is called a spiritual life that we have a new body and a new life. The body is the intention to bestow and life is a light that fills these desires.
64. S. (37:32) When we're talking about Malchut of Ein Sof, what is this field of Malchut of Ein Sof, a part of creation?
R. Malchut of Ein Sof is the entire desire the Creator created. It is an endless desire meaning with no limitations and they're all of those desires to begin with, are in order to receive that we gradually discovered them. These desires go through shattering, some corruptions, some mix-ups between them and they begin to be ready for correction by the whole process that we go through. Now we have reached a state that is called before the end of correction, the last generation. That all of the desires that until now have been in reality, they all have gone through corrections, corruption, the mixing between them and now we are ready to perform the last correction and they're already. This correction is that we show to all the people on the earth that everybody must connect. It can't be that a certain part remains on the outside, but that the correction has to be complete the whole vessel of Adam. Meaning the wisdom of Kabbalah has to spread over all of the world, humanity cares about it as much as they can, to receive it and in what they can't they will go into all kinds of problems and troubles. We will need to try so that it will happen but actually the matter is that the whole world will all know me from small to big, my house will be a house of prayer for all of the nation. This sentence must happen in all of its completeness.
65. S. (40:20) The Excerpts we read are very clear to me, we have this deep need to thank you. It is such a privilege to have you teaching us. We thank the Creator for giving us you, until today it was like a given but it is not taken for granted.
R. Thank you I also thank the Creator for having the privilege to teach you.
66. S. (41:03) We learn that our goal is to come to feel the revelation that everything comes from one source, but until we come to this we learn about it on the level of knowledge we understand how everything is built, how does knowing it help us and when does it interfere, when does it push us away and blur things??
R. It all goes into the correction, doesn't matter as much as we understand or we feel, how much we are aware or not we just have to keep going as much as we can and you'll see that every little sum accumulates to a big sum, every penny accumulates into a big sum. This is how we reach the corrections but the corrections we are reaching now are the corrections of the whole vessel that the whole world is now going through changes and they don't understand it, because each and every part, country, Nation, continents, they all want to be in some kind of changes all on their own. They don't care about others and specifically the more egoist I can be. I will use it and as much as I can separate myself from everybody I do. As much as I can harm everybody I will. This is all the big ego on one hand demanding it from us, and on the other hand we see that if the correction is general, so as much as we, each one, ascribes himself to this general correction. He will succeed and we will see changes in all of reality. That the egoistic desire and every nation and the processes of correction that will go up on everybody is all going to take place right now. Until today it wasn't really outstanding and clear, but now it is starting to be revealed that we are, more and more, connected to one another and the more that we try to slice off these connections and move away it will only cause great damage.
S. () Yesterday you said we have to work on the sources, we did this and we tried and we got two directions so to speak, one was that we had concrete questions that the friends even wrote down, what do you do if there's no reaction in the mind of the heart?
R. Prayer, that is what can help, try together with the study, with the work in the 10, to constantly ask for the Creator to open my heart. The heart understands, this is what I want and to expect it to wait for it.
67. S. (45:01) We say about the Creator that the thought of creation is to do good to his creations but toward us when we speak of the thought we say that the thought clarifies the desire intensifies, why are both called thoughts?
R. What do you mean both?
S. The thought of creation which does good to his creations, creating all reality in us it doesn't create reality it scrutinizes and clarifies, intensifies the vessels.
R. The thought of creation is the thought of the Creator, what state does he wants to bring creation to and when we speak about ourselves we are speaking about our actions from below upward. That is why this is how we determine it. It’s not the same thing, the fact that we use the word thought.
68. S. (46:13) You explain the love of the mother for the baby gives her pleasure from the work, she doesn't need reward from her work as this is her reward. How come the law that one has 100 wants 200 doesn't work on her? She also works with her will to receive.
R. She doesn't want to receive anything from the baby, only that he gets filled, that he will be full, healthy and happy. That feels her, meaning his (the baby’s) fulfillment fills her, the mother and doesn't demand anything from her. She doesn't demand anything from him as we have to reach the same state with all of creation, all of humanity and everyone that if I am giving to them and they are receiving from me I don't demand anything else from them but until they receive from me I am really concerned and I do all kinds of actions just to give and give to them.
S. It is as if the mother and the baby are not in this world, as if the will to receive does not operate on her.
R. Correct that is what the Creator created a connection between the mother and the baby and that is how it works with animals and everywhere. The more the calf wants to feed the cow wants to give.
S. It is if the function of love disconnects you from the will to receive.
R. Yes, of course.
69. S. (48:30) All the texts of TES say the reward comes to the vessel of bestowal so when we work should we think about this or no?
R. We should always think about the reward it just depends what reward you want, secondly, read this at home during the day or before you go to sleep, then you will see what else you can ask or add even if you get confused, even if you don't understand it exactly, it doesn't matter as the main thing is to be in connection with the text. Because by this you are bringing yourself closer to the writer, to Baal HaSulam that he will format your brain from his words.
70. S. (49:43) You spoke about the need for all of humanity to come to know the system. Now you said that you used to be in Disney at the Epcot Center when they gave people all kinds of experiences about the future. Let's say Disney wants to give that experience to a person. Can you describe how such a thing might look?
R. You can't as a person doesn't have the vessels, they're they build simple corporeal vessels that each one can see and understand what we are talking about. How can you bring them spiritual forms if you don't have spiritual vessels?
S. Not spiritual forms but to talk about the history of humanity and show them where the ego is leading us.
R. Yes that is something that we need to do and that we can do on the internet, on the computers for certain.
S. We can show that human development left to the bad, what is beyond that?
R. Beyond that is a good we're reaching a state that can feel that they have nowhere to develop too, that there is nothing good before them, no good future, nothing. That this whole life is going to be more suffering, the pandemics won't stop, the pleasure from the work, from some kind of advancements that won't be there either and we won't even be able to enjoy me being greater than my neighbor in any saying, in any egoistic form will let us enjoy this life. We will reach a state where I wake up, I have something to eat, something regular, something to wear which is regular and something to do which is regular. That is it and life will become grey.
S. You can demonstrate the suffering that we have nowhere to advance but can we also demonstrate a good?
R. No you can't, as much as you tell them about it they won't understand but we just need to say that coming out of the bad can be under the condition that we all connect and then in that connection that we attain that connection then we can see the good. If we don't reach a connection we don't see the good.
S. What is the good, what is that hope and how does a person feel this if he doesn't make it felt question
R. In unlimited reality, unlimited, whatever anyone wants is what they will have under the condition that you reach the good.