Morning Lesson June 11, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
1. Rabash 10. He Whom the Lord Loves He Admonishes
2. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 26. One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past
1. Rav’s Introduction: Rav reading and explaining: Yes these are short articles that Rabash wrote, he wrote them for himself, ‘He Whom The Lord Loves He Admonishes.’ He proves His love to a person in a very special way. Meaning that the one that the Creator loves, He sends him suffering. How can that be? That is they will suffer that they are not walking on the path of the Creator, being far from the Creator. If we could immediately feel that everything that we feel as suffering, the reason for it is that we are far away from the Creator, that would be good. But until we reach this feeling, we try for years to understand and detect these things that the reason for all of our suffering is our distance from the Creator. It takes time but if we will talk about it between us, if we do not forget about it, if we remind each other than the way will be a lot shorter. That everything that is happening to us is some kind of trouble, it is a sign for our distance from the Creator. The distance from the Creator is also a sign that we are far away from each other, between the friends. This is why one who feels some trouble, some suffering and it does not matter for which reason, it doesn’t matter in which form, he should try to translate it immediately that he deviated from the path of the Creator. A small deviation from the path to the Creator brings suffering. If you walk straight towards Him there is no suffering. This is simple, I do not know how to say this. If we focus ourselves, our emotions, our mind, our understanding and awareness, our senses, so that we would all be connected in such a way that whatever is good it means that we are walking on the path to the Creator. Whatever is bad means that we deviated from the path. What does good mean? That I feel I’m connected with those friends, and we are going directly towards the Creator. Whatever is revealed then is good. I’m reading this sentence again. He whom the Lord loves he admonishes. That means those who the Creator loves, if the Creator loves a person He sends him suffering. Meaning that he will feel suffering in that he is not walking on the path of the Creator. There is no other reason to feel suffering but only because he is not walking on the path of the Creator. Conversely one who does not feel any suffering at not walking on the path of the Creator never received any advice on how to be saved from it. Meaning he has no possibility to correct himself and to aim himself to come closer to the Creator. This is as usual in each and everything, if I deviate from the path then I feel suffering. If I straighten myself on the way to the goal then I stop feeling suffering and I even go forward and advance with different forms of receiving pleasures, fulfillment, etc. This is how it is if we aim ourselves to be alert, sensitive to it, and our progress becomes very much to the point and short, and by that we can also help each other.
Reading Twice
2. S. (06:14) When the Creator sends suffering we understand that it is for our own benefit but how to act and feel when he sends suffering to the friends?
R. To help the friend in various forms understand that these sufferings also come to them in order to straighten them on the way to the Creator through the group. Help the friend realize that. Read certain articles and talk about it, that there is nothing more in the world than one force that is operating and bringing the whole of humanity to connection. However there are those who are far away from it and there are those who are closer to it, but actually this is the only thing that everyone is drawn to; either with understanding or still without understanding, willingly or against their will, but everyone, the whole world is only drawn to this. If you could look from above on all the billions of people you would see that everyone is in the inclination towards the future connection. That now they cannot imagine it to themselves yet, but this is how it is, this is their path, the inclination to this, everybody is in it. However what the Creator wants is that they will discover more and more the necessity for it, how good it would be if they could come closer to this, and this is why it takes a long time. Because it passes through all kinds of groups of people, different forms of connection until from repulsion, from hatred and rejection, they will reach some agreement, and this is how we get there.
3. S. (08:41) What should we ask when we feel suffering? That we will advance toward the Creator?
R. No, no, no. There is an article about this as well. When he asks how can we pray that the troubles will pass away because then how will we advance? It’s like let's say there are certain illnesses, let's say some disease comes to a person but he doesn’t feel it, and this disease develops and develops, and the person does not feel it. Then what is the benefit out of the fact that he doesn’t feel it? Actually it is a great harm. You can see people who are not suffering, and they don’t know that they’re getting deeper and deeper into the trouble, and this is a great problem. You cannot take some pill so much that a person would put his hand into the fire and his hand will burn and he will speak and behave as though nothing is happening to him. No, it’s to the contrary. We see that we are built in such a way that we cannot suffer anything that has to do with illness. There are such diseases that develop within us without notifying us about the fact that they are already inside of our body, and this is a big problem. That we reach the awareness too late and then it’s a big problem to heal them. So it is good that we get all kinds of signs that we are not on the right path in terms of health or on the way to the Creator. And the entire wisdom of Kabbalah is in order to detect, to locate the Kli, the vessel which is the ten and to aim us precisely towards the Creator. So in the ten we will discover these stages, these degrees by which we can come closer to Him, to the purpose of creation. This is all of our work, and this is why we need to detect all of the details along the way. How do we advance? By what can we advance better? How can we increase the pace of our advancement through connection between us?
S. It turns out, he writes that those who do not feel suffering accordingly do not get answer how to rise. So it turns out that we should simply…
R. No, first of all in the connection between us to detect more and more how much we are not sufficiently connected. And what we should do in order to connect more and more. That the connection between us, those are actually the stages of advancement towards the Creator, and if we don’t connect between us, meaning if we don’t get closer to the Creator then we should feel suffering out of it. If we will be in this disposition, then we will feel how much the Creator is revealing to us more and more additional signs of nearing or signs of distancing, and this is how it is day and night. Each and every day we will feel changes as much as we come closer between us, and the Creator becomes revealed between us.
4. S. (13:20) There are different ways of suffering physical or mental or emotional so does it depend on the form; does it depend on any kind of suffering, or should we relate only to the suffering in remoteness from the Creator?
R. They are not capable of relating all the suffering that we feel, the mental, physical, or social or group or family suffering, all kinds of suffering, we cannot yet relate all of them to a single source which is lack of progress towards the Creator. This is the only truthful reason and it is revealed on different levels. We feel this in all kinds of manners in this world, in our life but in truth it is worthwhile for us not to forget and to try more and more to tie all of the things about both the good ones and the bad ones that they all stem from our nearing or distancing to the Creator. Through the connection between us, through the connection meaning we actually have, how should I put it, a very clear discernment of what is happening to us. If something is wrong then if I could see this correctly and efficiently I would immediately detect what exactly I am not yet coming closer to the Creator, for now but even if I don’t know and I cannot yet do this, and like a baby it does not understand what is happening to him, I have to accept it as true as it is, that in our coming closer to each other, in our coming closer to the Creator, when we activate the prayer that we wants to come closer from between us to him then we get the universal remedy for all of our states. That this always helps. There are more special remedies just like we produce medication over the years that we are living in this world that are more and more beneficial but actually the generic medicine is always coming closer between us in the group and coming closer from the group to the Creator.
S. Can we be happy with suffering in some kind of preparation for the Creator?
R. One has to bless over the good as over the bad, on the other hand if it is already revealed it is a sign that, well there are two things here, that I was not working on the right path and this is why I received a suffering and now I have the opportunity to heal them in the right way and to advance in the right way, that it could be that it is the opposite, that the Creator wants to promote me to a new pass, to a new degree and this is why he placed before me these obstacles and I have to turn to him and ask how can I pass over them. This all comes out of experience as much as each and everybody will advance all in all he will accumulate in himself all kinds of such states and he will have experiences. There are many things here and we simply have to work with them all the time.
S. Does that suffering repeat itself?
R. No, no, no, that suffering does not repeat. It seems that it is the same suffering, but it is never the same. They always come out of discernment, out of your desires and… but we are not yet able to distinguish between them. We do not have enough such differential for it so that we could detect that this comes specifically but each and everything has its own coarseness, its own Sefira and the Reshimo, records. Nothing repeats. Nothing repeats the way it was before.
5. S. (18:57) The integral place that we build; every time we run away from this mentally so to speak like we leave where we are at birth and this new place there is a constant movement where I put myself back there?
R. It is your selfish ego that wants to return to its bad state.
6. S. (19:36) What and how can we pray correctly if there is suffering? What is the correct prayer when there is suffering in the family or sickness in the family? We talked about it yesterday and you said that you should not pull the friends into this.
R. You can turn to the Creator with any problem. Eventually everything that you feel as a problem or pain is a wound, a physical or emotional wound, you have to turn to the Creator because he is the source of all of your feelings and the Creator invites us deliberately in each and everybody because this is his work in the correction of the whole creation and our work in the correction of the whole creation is to attribute all of the actions to the Creator and to ask of him that we want above the problems to come closer to him. That we do not even turn to him to remove the problem but on top of the problem he will come closer to him. This is why it says that one has to be grateful for the bad as for the good because this is a reason to come closer to the Creator.
S. To explain; there was this opinion that if he asked through the ten he is spreading this problem to everybody, is this correct?
R. Yes it is but it is not that you are seemingly pouring this illness to everybody but instead you are giving everybody the opportunity to become incorporated into your problem so they would be incorporated into your problem and then they also have an opportunity to turn to the Creator to become incorporated together in the group and in this way to take another step forward towards adhesion between you upon this trouble and also towards the Creator. Try to interpret it correctly.
7. S. (22:10) In the spiritual work there is right and left and in the left there is suffering all the time?
R. Yes, certainly everybody who is advancing to the correction, he advances on both legs, left right, left right and you cannot have the right without the left without the deficiency being revealed as the Creator is saying: I created the evil inclination and I created the spice of Torah which means the upper light that heals the deficiency, it corrects it, it brings over this deficiency the intentions to bestow and this is how it works.
8. S. (23:05) Is advancement in connection, we awaken the suffering, so the suffering comes when we advance, only when we are moving away from connection?
R. No, when we advance to connection then we transform the suffering to good actually because we invert them from distancing between us to nearing, to connection. This is how it happens.
9. S. (24:06) At the beginning of the text we read: who he loves he admonishes. I would like to stay away from the physical image of some kind of a deity. Is there a different picture because we know that the Creator has no business with individuals and the light is in complete rest so how does he show us this love by admonishing? Can you explain the interaction between the light and the vessel or is it too early in the lesson?
R. I cannot get into your philosophy but think more about it and then we will reach it. I feel that you have the elements in a way that you will be able to resolve this problem.
10. S. (25:14) I would like to clarify this point of suffering from lack of connection in the ten. About missing connection in the ten there is a certain complaint among some of the friends that some of the friends are not sufficiently connected to the group, to the ten. The question is, is there any situation where we complain at all against some part of the ten or should each one check himself where he is not connected?
R. You can also talk about it together and scrutinize this and the scrutinies certainly reach through the prayer to the Creator and back from the Creator to you but all of these things you have to scrutinize together as much as possible.
S. But is there a situation when somebody can complain about somebody else?
R. You have to talk about this also together. If you hold inside a certain complaint, a certain demand then talk about it with the friends because you want to get rid of it, all in all you want to correct all the things that are inside each and everybody and of course each has complaint against the others up to killing as they say about the students of Rabbi Simon who wanted to kill each other.
S. But can I come even with any demand why aren’t you connected?
R. I'm not saying that you have to come with any demands but I am saying you have to feel that this demand is already existing inside of you but you're not expressing it so come to the group and talk about it, everybody together and scrutinized this and even if you are not going to reach some general inclusive solution everybody agrees to but in the fact that you are in it already gives you some progress and you will feel on the next day, meaning in the coming days, out of this you will also feel advancement and understanding because the Creator out of your efforts will arrange for you more and more advancement in that and you will understand it.
11. S. (28:07) There is suffering from not walking on the path of the Creator and suffering from actually walking on the path of the Creator so when do we come out of this suffering because as he reads in this article suffering is for those who the Creator loves?
R. Because I start to see in all of these sufferings very clear and sharp discernments that the Creator is revealing to me in order to bring me on my way to the correction in the most clear and controlled manner. That you are in motion to a certain goal so the more you advance to the goal as much as you deviate from the goal even a few degrees or a few meters or kilometers, a few discernments, immediately you feel that you are deviating and this is a very negative feeling that brings you back, deliberately brings you back on course. Just like in navigation and all of these systems that it brings you back into the right direction. Once again you go forward and again you deviate. If you do not feel that then you can’t go back and then you will go into a totally different direction, so you have to constantly be alert to the fact that the negative force is working on you in order to bring you back to the same line and then you are advancing like this. You can’t go constantly on a straight line to the goal because then you would not feel it, you wouldn’t even know if you are going towards the goal or not. You're constantly deviating and coming back, deviating, and coming back to the direction of the goal and around that you're constantly going. Only in such a way is it possible to work. This is how we also work, what does he say? He whom the Creator loves he admonishes… the Creator gives you discernments each and every moment of how much you are not on the path so you will correct yourself in your connection with the group and in playing to the Creator and once again you come back to the same direction and in the next moment once again you can detect, if you are sensitive enough you can find that you are not in the right direction and you have to search again for the environment and the Creator inside of the environment and then you take precisely this line to the end of correction.
S. So what is the feeling of correction if you always have to be in this suffering, in this sensitivity of the sensation of the deviation?
R. If you're constantly checking yourself how much your connection with the ten and your connection with the Creator are in one place.
S. Is there an end to this?
R. Gmar Tikkun, the end of correction, that’s the end of it as he writes that all the people of the world will reach this as one man with one heart when the quality of love is inside everybody, and this is when the Creator is becoming revealed to everybody.
12. S. (31:51) During the suffering when the person remembers that it is all because he was not walking on the path of the Creator, what happens now after he remembers? He no longer feels that it is really so, when does knowing defeat the feeling?
R. This is something that the person has to detect by himself. The person needs to relate to everything he is going through objectively as if he is looking at himself from the outside and then he should go inside with his emotions, most importantly he needs to cross three points; his heart, the ten and the Creator so that if these three parameters, if these three points are as one, this is a sign that he right now is aimed correctly to the purpose of creation and a moment later of course he will come out of this through all kinds of disturbances that the Creator sends to him, meaning he wants to advance him even further, that he is not yet in the purpose of creation itself at the end of correction. This is how he advances each time.
S. If as a result of every such disturbance he knows that he needs to run to the ten and to wake them up to connect and every time there is suffering this is what the person does, is this an act of reception or it is an act of bestowal?
R. I cannot tell you. I see in all of these things an act of bestowal, even reception becomes bestowal.
13. S. (34:01) If in our world I want to get some pleasure, I want to buy a phone, but the I swap reception of this pleasure, I don’t receive pleasure from the phone but I received pressure from The Giver, meaning I turned my attention to the Creator and I getting it from Him and this is what gives me pleasure. Am I performing restriction by this? The screen and the reflected light?
R. Keep doing it and think more about it and you will reach the right decisions.
14. S. (34:57) Someone who does not feel suffering, does it mean that the Creator does not love him?
R. I haven't yet seen a person who is in the wisdom of Kabbalah, studying it, and he is in a ten, and he wants to advance, and he doesn’t feel suffering. It cannot be, because he has to work, he has to work against his ego, and this is why it is called suffering. Besides that, if the person is aimed precisely to the purpose of creation then each and every thing, in every moment of his existence he feels it as suffering because this aims him with greater precision towards the purpose of creation. It is written that even if you want to bring out of your pocket one dollar, you put your hand into your pocket and you bring out two dollars, that too is suffering because it is not precisely according to your desire, therefore we cannot advance, we cannot correct our will to receive, we cannot aim it to adhesion to the Creator if we will not feel how much we are not in adhesion yet.
15. S. (36:44) There are sometimes during the suffering, those who are not on the right, to some who sense suffering that they are on the path. What is His purpose in this?
R. There is no such thing, you simply do not understand it. If a person is in our framework and more or less he’s connected to us with the study, with the group, it is impossible that he feels comfortable. He will always feel himself, that he’s lacking something, he's not receiving something that he needs, he doesn’t know what to do, all kinds of such things, he’s constantly being shaken.
16. S. (37:30) Do great Kabbalists like Rabbi Akiva, Baal HaSulam or Rabash, did they also get great suffering in order to direct them towards the goal, and if so, were they not directed enough before that?
R. Of course they weren't directed enough toward the goal and that’s why they felt a deviation, a deflection from the goal, it’s called suffering, but we have to understand that to we are deviating from the goal by maybe 180 degrees, that goal is there and I am going that way and they are almost on the same line as the goal, and just a tiny bit different, that tiny deflection they feel it as a great suffering, because with my suffering I don’t relate, I hardly feel it, I hardly detect the difference between where I am and where the goal is, and for them it’s the opposite, even the tiniest thing that is not directed toward the goal, a Kabbalist, a great Kabbalist that feels it as great deflection and the great suffering. He writes about it.
17. S. (38:58) The suffering that we experience don’t allow us to devote ourselves to the Creator with full faith because of fear. How do we resolve this?
R. If you are in a ten then you can get rid of this fear. Everyone is in it, everyone is scrutinizing, each one is working in himself, and he is getting from the society, from the ten, he is getting support, and therefore he is not so afraid, he doesn’t feel so restrained, but he feels that his friends are also in the same situation, like a swat team, an elite unit going for battle. So this is how we move forward and there is actually joy in this, in the sensation of the friend’s shoulder, and this is what we need to do. There is no choice.
18. S. (40:15) I did not understand this example that the person puts his hand into his pocket and brings out $2 instead of $1; I am happy with this, I am not feeling suffering, it doesn’t pain me?
R. No, you have suffering because you wanted $1, you do not need $2 and therefore your desire is not exactly matching what you got.
19. S. (40:45) You said that in order to check that you are directed correctly you have to cross one’s heart, the group, and the Creator. The heart versus the group, it is clear, how to check if you are also aimed correctly towards the Creator?
R. If you connect your heart with the ten then you need to try to combine them and merge them to such an extent that you feel the Creator in them. He is in the ten to begin with, eventually what we attain is the center of the group and what we detect there as the sum of all the forces, this is what we call the Creator, ‘Come and See’, Bo Reh.
20. S. (41:52) What should be a response to all of these deviations and deflections from the Creator sends us on the path because that direction for the prayer is the same direction and intensity is never enough so how do we advance?
R. The advancement is that I am constantly trying to incorporate myself in the group and the Creator so all of these forces will be as one.
S. But I am used to these actions already so what is the sensitivity that has to be elevated here it’s the same state, I respond the same, I have this apathy.
R. No, no, no, it is a sign that you are not paying attention to what discernments you are working with.
S. What does it mean to pay attention to the discernments, what’s required, what kind of sensitivity do I have to elevate here?
R. Sensitivity to what you are connecting, what discernments of yours and of the society are connecting in order to establish the image of the Creator, try.
21. S. (43:02) Can we reach the correction without suffering?
R. No, but we need to switch the corporeal sufferings into suffering of love: why I have no love of friends, why within the love of the friends I have no love for the Creator.
S. When will the person become free from suffering completely?
R. When he achieves the end of Correction and all these sufferings become a vessel in which he feels adhesion with the Creator as a great deficiency, a great coarseness, and then there the level of connection where each one is truly in adhesion, complete absorption of man and the Creator.
22. S. (44:10) If it is possible to love the friend?
R. No, no, no, you do what you need to do and then you will be smart, you will get smarter. You are asking about what might happen, it is not good, you need to ask from experience.
23. S. (44:39) The more we advance our relation to the suffering changes also?
R. Of course it does, we detect these sufferings more and more as beautiful, precise, necessary discernments on the way to adhesion with the Creator.
R. I just wanted to tell you something for the end, in conclusion. You see that we read two lines and we have been talking about it for 45 minutes. I am not against this because we scrutinized something very important: that all the suffering we get it from the Creator, and of course it is not suffering but to begin with, it is forces that direct us toward the purpose of creation, to adhesion with Him and among all of us together, and into an infinite, best state. This is how we need to advance so we need to understand that these lines we read. Now we will try to read every time before every lesson, they are very important. During the day we have to implement them, truly implement them.
24. S. (46:14) If I feel that I am coming closer to the friends on the way to the Creator and I think that the work is pleasure then where is the suffering?
R. There needn’t to be suffering every time and every time I depict suffering because I am not adhered to the friends, I'm not attached to the Creator, just discovering in this way my situation which is called suffering, I do not feel this as suffering because they advance me toward adhesion, toward connection with the friends and with the Creator. Therefore I am happy, the feeling of suffering itself which directs me to the goal. I am happy about it, as opposed to when there is a sick person and we do not know what is happening to him. And now we checked and discovered that he has some sickness, so we are happy that at least we know what the illness is. Now we can already look for a cure, the worst is when we cannot detect the illness, diagnose the illness so the suffering directs us toward healing.
25. S. (48:14) It could be that the work in the ten is revealed as a blow?
R. Anything can be, it all depends on how much we process, correctly, the articles, what the Baal HaSulam and Rabash tell us, I have nothing else to advise you, But what we learn, just absorb it completely during the day.
26. S. (48:54) We had that nice preparation today. My question is this sentence, I am very curious about it: you said that throughout the day you should read the excerpts and implement them. Do you think we are not trying to implement them, to realize it, how can we realize, how can we implement like something of what we study?
R. I am just reminding you, I am sure you are doing it and I am hearing it here and there that you are reading those lines that you have read in the morning, guys are fine, but still as a teacher, as a guide I have to tell you what to do more and more.
S. When you were studying with Rabash, give us a little bit of an example, how did you realize it?
R. I repeated it many times during the day.
S. What does it mean, just to read it many times?
R. To read. To read.
S. Only to read?
R. Not just read it but I when I read I hope that it would influence me and I aim myself toward the higher force which is what gave me this state and setup these Kabbalists so they would write and then I would come to what they wrote and in the end, through that I am connected to the Creator, in the meantime that kind of connection I have and so on.
S. Did you also do work with your group because there were not many people there?
R. You could say that I did not have a group.
S. So how did you implement it?
R. Well, officially there was one, but Rabash closed all of my horizon, my entire field of vision. I was connected to him, I was with him all the time, most of the hours of the day I was with him and therefore I cannot say that I was connected to the friends. I received from him discernments to connect to him and I did not have friends.
S. So theoretically if I connect to you I can also do this without the friends, seemingly?
R. No, I deliberately do not take from myself anybody and begin to connect that person to me as Rabash did to me. Also, it is a different time, mainly the time is different, now you need to be connected in the group and realize in the group the connection and only then you can discover the Creator in a way that is suitable for the last Generation.
S. If there are two friends in the group I can connect more with and I do work with them, really I’m speak earnestly, and there are six or seven other friends who are not doing this work, doing ot by themselves maybe, does it work if not the entire ten is doing the work but only me and one or two others inside this whole ten, do we advance?
R. No, try to awaken them as well, try. I don’t know if you will succeed or not, but you have to try to connect to them as well and awaken them. And then you will see what happens, you will feel in this many more discernments in your will to receive and in the lack of connection and what you are lacking to receive from the Creator, the strength to connect to them. You will pray for them that they will want to be your friends, those people to whom you are not connected. Yes, it will bring you closer to corrections.
27. S. (53:27) The Creator uses suffering for a good purpose but how can we understand the suffering that seems to us as useless? For example, the suffering that comes before the death of the physical body, the suffering we feel then, what is the benefit in that?
R. I cannot tell you this because a person is forbidden to know this because this suffering actually corrects the soul a great deal. We will talk about it but for now I cannot say more, I am sorry, but I cannot say more, just know that for everything we feel and suffer too, and suffering too, all of it is being monitored by the upper one and the Creator arranges everything.
28. S. (54:47) It happens that you are miss out on the lesson and you feel better about it, it’s the end of the world; sometimes it is not so bad because tomorrow there is another lesson. How can we reach such sensitivity and relate to suffering in the right way?
R. You have to think about it more.
29. S. (55:18) Each time that we feel suffering you need to tune more towards the Creator, and this is what we talked about, is it only in the ten or can this also be that we have to scrutinize the direction also relating to dissemination or other combinations?
R. That also but mainly it is from every single state to be directed to the Creator.
30. S. (55:55) Besides the suffering there is also a state where the person suddenly has forces and feels himself in a good state so it is not so clear to me what is the reason for these states so we can awaken such states?
R. No, no, it will not help us to do this kind or that kind of provocation or summon this or that state, you need only to respond to what we’re feeling, react to what we’re feelings, because everything is coming from the Creator for sure and with our reaction, our response we have to relate to Him as well through all the means that we feel. We feel close relative to human society, our bodies, we still need to through it relates to Him because He is the source of all our feelings, and He has to be the address to which we send our response.
31. S. (57:15) How in practice do we take egoistic pain and turn it into purposeful pain?
R. When we begin to think that everything has a reason, that it came from the Creator and along the way from the Creator to me it is clothed in all kinds of discernments, sufferings, physical problems, diseases, people's reaction, etc. Therefore I have to relate to the Creator back in this way. So if I set myself up in this way in this way through everybody to the Creator and despite all of those discernments I have in everything I feel and understand as disturbances that hides the Creator from me, and I won’t want to relate to Him through what passes through these discernments directly to Him, I want to be in adhesion with Him so in this way I position myself correctly and I move closer to Him I approached Him. We need to see every moment as an opportunity for adhesion.
32. S. (58:51) This week we were on duty with the other group towards the preparation of the lesson and it was a very special week. We tried to connect, we cried, we fought, we laughed, we ate together, it was a very special week. I wanted to ask, maybe at some point, yesterday I was thinking that we went through this week, and I was asking myself can we make this connection without the “Duty”? Maybe the time has come for the tens, I don’t know, every week there will be two tens that will try to talk to each other. I think we worked as two tens, not that we tried to become one ten or something like this, however I think that in the end our ten received a stronger connection because of our work with the other ten, this is how I feel. Maybe we should go in this direction?
R. So you went through some experience in connection and disconnection, do it again in a few months and we'll see what happens. It doesn't repeat in the same way for sure but it's good that you have these impressions. You need to try every time but it's not like every week you need to connect with other things, you also need to be among yourselves within yourselves because what you get from connecting to another ten within your ten, to what extent did it influence the connection between you? Or maybe you escaped from working on connection between you and your ten so now that you have two tens and there's some kind of an ability to run away, to escape from the work on connection, try it again and then we'll talk.
S. I am asking because there was this feeling, and this is why we have this question. We've been doing this for years, it’s not new, there was a feeling that the connection in the ten intensified because of this duty, that's why I’m asking.
R. Great, great, so day try it again and again, but it is not like you want to connect this way forever.
33. S. (01:01:18) You talked about the fact that we read two lines and we talked for 45 minutes. What does it mean about our advancement?
R. It means we are advancing, if out of these two lines we can get many discernments, it is a sign that we are advancing.
S. What should be our ambition in terms of how the lessons are conducted?
R. I asked to bring these first lines we just read now, “He Whom the Lord Loves He Admonishes”, and I was expecting it to take half an hour but not an hour or more than an hour. It is good they brought this short excerpt, these two lines, and I am happy it awakened in us such interest and that we are responding to it so much, we will do this before every lesson. I hope that you will begin to ask short and to the point and then it may take less than an hour. But you see that sometimes one line can fill up one hour.
34. S. (01:03:07) I want to ask about this because we talk a lot today about how any kind of suffering a person feels he should actually attribute it as a sign that he is moving away from the goal, from the Creator.
R. Yes?
S. Actually in “The Peace” article that we’re studying also, Baal HaSulam explains that when the commandant to bestow is not kept correctly, the punishment does not come immediately, and also it doesn’t come as if by direct relation, it might come in an indirect relation so we can’t really learn from the suffering what exactly is the correction we need to do, so how can we settle these two things? What am I trying to ask: this whole engagement in the individual suffering in the person sounds a bit egoistic, instead of looking how to become incorporated in the suffering of the friends of the world?
R. But you can’t run away from it, you have to incorporate your personal suffering with the group suffering and then the general suffering and in that way advance.
35. S. (01:08:19) When a friend who was very devoted in a way, gets sick with cancer, how can we justify the Creator?
R. We do not understand how we can justify it but all the cases of sickness, death, and any hurting of the will to receive, we will have to justify them in our corrections until the end of Correction, that's it. We have to see the truth rise above the suffering, personal, general, that we need to understand that all the sufferings are revealed because we are still not in the intention to bestow. If we could rise from in order to receive to in order to bestow, we would not feel any suffering.
36. S. (01:09:19) If the Creator sends a friend illnesses all the time, it makes her miss out on the activities of the ten. What does it mean about her or about our ten, what should we do as a ten?
R. We need to deal with it, cope with it, we need to deal with it to help the friend and help the ten continue on the path.
37. S. (01:09:49) Is there redundant suffering?
R. Redundant suffering? This is if we don't know how to deal with the suffering according to our degree, that it only needs to awaken us to continue the correction. If we prolong it and do not react this way, to continue the correction, then the suffering is redundant.
38. S. (01:10:19) This first sentence is unclear when it says, “He whom the Lord loves, He admonishes”, because it implies a direct connection between the person who is suffering and the Creator, but I had that there is no direct connection to the Creator?
R. I don’t know what you heard, I know only one thing: everything we receive we receive from the Creator and if we receive it through all kinds of systems it doesn’t matter, it’s still from the Creator.
39. S. (01:10:54) “He Who the Lord loves, He Admonishes”, does the Creator love some part more and some part less?
R. No His love is absolute for everyone.
40. S. (01:1:07) Should we try to understand concretely according to the manner of the suffering, the kind of deviation and correct the deviation according to the blow or should I simply regain my connection with the ten and with the Creator?
R. Return as quickly as possible to connection with the ten above the blow, despite the blow.
41. S. (01:11:33) How to replace corporeal suffering with torments of love, I cannot disconnect myself from this world?
R. Yes, I understand her as well, the one who writes, but we have no choice if we truly want to correct the situation and correct ourselves. We have to even for things that we now see and discover in our world, we have to justify the Creator for giving us these things so that we will justify Him and connect to Him on top and above all the suffering.
42. S. (01:12:22) We see that we suffer whether we make efforts in connection or whether we don’t. Will we only stop suffering when the whole world reach connection?
R. No, we stop suffering to the extent that we justify the Creator and then our pain becomes pleasure.
43. S. (01:13:01) Why is it that the more we try to unite, the Creator sends us more illnesses and suffering? Is our way to come closer, is this what is causing it, what should we do?
R. We approach connection with the Creator and on top of the suffering, on top of the suffering. Therefore, of course bad revelations will come more and more in order for us to rise above them and feel instead of them by justifying the Creator, instead of the sorrow and suffering, we will feel in them, joy, and pleasure. It all depends on our attitudes, on our approach to what is happening, nothing else.
44. S. (01:14:08) Are the suffering the indication for lack of connection in the ten? How come these sufferings don't pass even when we do the best I can for the benefit of connection?
R. It is not enough, normally it passes and if it doesn't pass, it doesn't go away, then you didn't connect enough with the environment.
45. S. (01:14:37) Why do Kabbalists suffer from terminal illnesses and physical pain? They are in bestowal already.
R. They are not completely in bestowal, and they are not at the complete end of Correction, and they also suffer because of the lack of connection with others, because others are still not corrected too. Therefore the more we advance on the ladder of degrees the suffering still appears and they are what bring a Kabbalist to the Creator through humanity.
46. S. (01:15:24) Can you annul suffering through prayer?
R. Yes, but it's more correct if we cancel the suffering through connection in the society.
47. S. (01:15:41) What is the difference in the sensation if a person feels suffering in awareness or not in awareness, that it came from the Creator?
R. There's a big difference, it is all towards the person. If he knows why and what for, where it came from and why it appeared, it is easier for him. Then he can direct himself towards the friends, toward the Creator and this way he even justifies the suffering that he feels?
48. S. (01:16:20) Is the distance from the Creator what changes our attitude towards states and that's why it’s the source of suffering and not the suffering itself?
R. There is no suffering, there is no suffering, there is only remoteness from the Creator. Remoteness from the quality of bestowal or accordingly nearing, approaching the quality of reception. Revealing these phenomena bring us pleasure or pain.
49. S. (01:16:56) The states of emptiness and suffering without a reason seen, they go and become harder to come back to the Creator and the ten. What’s the advice to come back quickly and happily to close next to the Creator and the friends?
R. The reason is that you don't have in your ten the essence of connection, the goal, the process. It indicates that you are not having any correct relationship and attitude with what you are going through and that's the reason. If it continues in this way then of course you will leave.
S. How to return back quickly to the happiness from the closeness to the friends and the Creator?
R. If getting closer to the friends and the Creator doesn’t bring joy it’s a sign that it’s not getting closer.
50. S. (01:18:03) What does it mean to annul suffering through unity?
R. Because unity is the quality of the Creator and if we achieve unity then the Creator is closer to us and therefore, all the suffering passes away.
51. R. (01:18:33) Also they can send questions in writing, and we will try to answer, and answer you in some way, there is such an opportunity, right? Okay, we will turn to our organizers who manage the lesson, that they will do it, because also I see that what one friend asks, the others don't really care and so just reading and answering one and holding thousands of thousands of people waiting is not practical, it is not qualitative. So now we will move to “The Peace” article.