Morning Lesson January 31, 2024

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Part 1:

Rabash. Article No. 10, 1990. What Does It Mean that Our Sages Said, “King David Did Not Have a Life,” in the Work?

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1. S. (37:58) We always say that spiritual life begins from that in which the point in the heart awakens which is called here King David. On the other hand our King David it says he has no life, he’s the left line, so what should be there first in the work in the point in the heart so that there's the opportunity to work with it?

R. The general adhesion, Dvekut, as much as a person can, by that he awakens surrounding light upon himself and then he can later begin to scrutinize left right.

S. What is general Dvekut with us or the holy still with us?

R. That we, if we lose some direction, we know that there are a few things, a few foundations that guard us or that we guard them and it's important to, and it's impossible to detach from them which is that there is an upper force which is good that does good and there is None Else Besides Him, even to a smallest extent but this is what holds us. 

2. S. (39:52) In this article there's a lot about work, and he finds work as hard work where we need to be awarded with faith, that that's the whole work, to always seek. It's unclear what is work where we need to be rewarded with faith, meaning from one place he takes it from the sages but it's unclear where we get faith from and why the result of the work he always says that we need to be rewarded. Rewarded sounds like you're going to work, and you don't know if you're going to get what you want, so what is the work in faith?

R. We wish or we try to take actions that we have received from our sages who told us that if you do so and so you will be awarded with faith. Faith is the general force that comes to us from above and aids us in being in adhesion with the Creator in a general way, and then as we continue with the power of faith we can then even rise to very high degrees all the way to complete faith.

S. He wrote here somewhere, I lost it, but he writes this work in two kinds, in mind and heart, and on mind he explains about the heart. What are these two ways of acquiring faith in mind and in heart? Mind you can more or less understand that you have to study, gather knowledge, and then the mind will understand that this is how it is.

R. I'll put it differently. In order to hold on to adhesion we need two data points, mind and heart, knowing and feeling, and when these two points are in our hands that means we attain Dvekut.

S. About the last questions, I want to take this article into our lives and say how in my connection with the friends, in connection with the efforts that we try to connect and go through together, this strong connection between us, how does that help me attain faith? Because there too is also work, you're connecting with friends, you exert, you do actions, there's all this order of times that you keep to, you build this special connection in the Ten. How is the difference between this work, which is a certain kind of effort that a person does and the effort of work, of true work, which is to work in strengthening for yourself faith, how do these two things connect?

R. So far I have only heard one thing. You want to add, go ahead.

3. S. (44:06) He says here about the work of the mind, what we need to organize the importance of the Creator, whether the Creator’s important then you will be able to work in order to serve Him without wanting reward, that your reward is to serve Him.

R. Okay, that is a reward.

S. We’re speaking about the importance of the friends that they will be important in our eyes so that's a field of work. during the day when we want to come closer to the Creator we need to organize the importance of the friends so they will be important.

R. Yes

S. What is our work with the friends that helps us acquire faith to want to bestow upon the Creator, that that will be our reward? Can you touch on that a little?

R. That we increase the importance of the friends between us and to that extent that it’s important to us we can make actions through which we get closer to the friends more and more and from grasping the friends in our emotions we thus raise ourselves.

S. What's that point where he says that it's good that the importance of the friends will be within reason and the importance of the greatness of the Creator above reason?

R. You see the friends in your eyes as if you're seeing them. You wish to see them truly great as if it is through your eyes. Now, the Creator you can't see through your eyes, and you also want to discover Him not through your eyes but in a different kind of attainment, a higher one and so you relate to Him in that way.

S. Let's say during the congress, during the lessons there's a certain force where we have together that gives us the ability to exert and to this inner effort that pushes everyone forward. Let's say during the day it's a bit harder, a friend is a bit busier with something. How can we organize the work so that it won't disturb? Let's say at the congress or in the morning lesson we have these forces to make this connection between us and with the Creator, that's a feeling, and there's this sorrow that during the day there are these spaces created where you cannot hold on to it, neither to the friends, neither to the Creator, what's the field of work here? Because here too he says that you need to hold on to the field of the work, the order of the work.

R. Yes, but there's no order here because you're creating these gaps as you say. You detach from lack of grip on the Creator, you disconnect, and then you feel that you must have connection and that's how you pray.

S. He speaks here that King David is on the left side as Isaac and that he needs help from the right of Hassidim and Rachamim, mercies, how when we feel during the day, not just during the lesson but how during the day can we draw to ourselves so that we can always renew that connection at every moment because I’m always on the phone or WhatsApp?

R. What does that have to do with it?

S. It has to do with it because in the lesson we want to do this at other times during the day. With us in the Ten we have pairs for instance that we divide into pairs, we make all kinds of efforts to hold on to the connection. There used to be no phones, or all these things so how do you do that?

R. Alright, if you ask me personally I try to be connected to the whole group because that too has a certain form and certainly that form changes to, in accordance with each and every one, which you can later discern what makes the group go up or down. 

4. S. (49:50) Why I was in this scrutiny for a long time, and I wanted to ask, Rabash here writes about the general faith of Israel that comes from surrounding light and also individual faith that comes from the inner light. The difference between these two kinds of faith is where in the individual faith there is mind or are there other differences, additional ones?

R. Yes, there are many small personal illuminations of sorts but to start organizing them now I don't feel is what we need right now. It's better, it's very good to grasp and work with the general lights and the topic and then each one can begin to see himself and try to see what side, what direction he belongs to. 

5. S. (51:30) It says here that the work begins from the lower one starting the work with the intention in order to bestow, and then the work begins where they can receive pleasure with the intention to bestow. What is that process?

R. It's a process where a person further and further devotes his desires to making them vessels for the reception of the upper light in order to bestow.

S. Who does he give the desires to? You said that he passes on the desires that the person passes them on. Who does he give them to?

R. The Creator.

S. How can I give my desires to the Creator?

R. This is by getting in contact with the Creator and wanting to devote himself to Him.

S. We have work in the Ten, how can we through our connection in the Ten give our desires to the Creator?

R. If your intentions are in order to bestow and not otherwise for the Creator then you can raise them to Him so that they are making that kind of action.

6. S. (53:33) How can I cover the quality of faith with Hassidim in order to become more distanced from Dinim judgments?

R. Always try to be in bestowal to the friends. That's the solution.

7. S. (54:10) To keep our connection during the day like the friend asked, use telephone and all of the stuff, is our connection basically when we have a meeting and we kind of agree upon something, what we are praying for each other, that will be the connection during the day because that's what we have to work with?

R. That? That’s also a connection, yes. It's kind of a lower or small platform but it's still connection.

8. S. (55:27) Firstly there is right, this new intuition, something and then it enters an action on the left, the ability to examine and scrutinize. Why don't I have a connection to the intuition here? Is that the state?

R. I don't understand you? Say it again. Why do you use the word intuition? Where did you get it from?

S. Okay, I won't use the word intuition. You understand that there's something different, undivided on the right and then you examine it next to the left line. Why can you not really materialize that, that faith comes first and then criticism comes later?

R. Yes, but it's just thoughts, it's not working in the lines.

S. How can we take that theory and implement it? Because I've really had situations where I felt that, a field, the world of Ein Sof and all that. How afterwards can you hold on to that? Why doesn't it stay in us for a long period of time?

R. Probably you're not making an effort to be in the group, check.

9. S. (57:07) We read that since a person is not close to the Creator, he needs to act as if he does have that feeling. How can I imagine if that I'm close to the Creator if I don't know what that is?

R. Open up your senses and try to somehow get closer to the Creator according to as much as you know and then see what happens, see what's changing in you. 

10. S. (57:50) When I think or feel I came to faith above reason then you reach this misunderstanding with others who want to reach faith through knowledge, through reason. You understand them because you were in their state, but they are not in your state, so the question is how should you behave in order to benefit them and also to benefit the Creator who gave me that faith?

R. You have to be in adhesion with the friends that's first, and to make room for the ascent that you want to ascend right now and also to see how the friends ascend with you and to turn to the friends with this opportunity you have, in your degree, your mind and heart, and the possibility you have to join, well, not your heart but let's say to join the surrounding light to the inner light. We’ll try in short. Try to work in this direction and then you'll see, and you can ask further.

11. S. (01:00:08) This article is very connected to our work, and it is felt that it dresses on our state that came after the congress. The question is in individual work, do we individual, like we direct ourselves through the Ten and then we progress through the degrees of expansion of light until we reach the degree of the bestowers. Then there is a difficulty here, how in that same moment can I give that to the Ten and what forces can I get from the Ten, because holding myself in the light and feeling the attitude of the Creator toward me is very hard and I feel that there needs to be this additional support, how can I be in that state?

R. This is where the group is a necessity, that is for sure.

12. S. (01:01:15) The work in complete faith, is that a gift from the Creator or is that the attainment of the created being in its work?

R. The work in faith is the work in the heart of the created being where the Creator participates and elevates the created being to the degree of faith.

13. S. (01:02:02) Is the feeling of separation a punishment from the Creator or is it a help that pushes us to increase our faith?

R. It is help from the Creator pushing us to amplify faith, yes.

14. S. (01:02:40) How much does the mind help us in the construction of faith?

R. I cannot say to what extent, partially it helps. This I do not say, I do not know, can’t explain for now.

15. S. (01:03:13) How can we divide something that as much as you believe in it doesn’t divide it. You either believe in it or you don't believe in it so how is it possible to divide that?

R. We will achieve faith and then we will see how to break it down, how to slice it.

16. S. (01:03:43) Is faith built on that in which we seek the help of the Creator in the work among the friends?

R. Yes.

17. S. (01:04:00) It is written, it is a law that the creation cannot receive bad or evil from the revelation. It is clear that all of the evil is from myself in all of my areas in life, there’s no one else I can relate to, so how does that law work?

R. The Creator has many possibilities, this is the answer.

18. S. (01:04:33) It is written that in the whole of Israel there is the attribute of faith. What is this faith in the Klal Israel?

R. That is a kind of general faith, which is sort of the state that is worthy of renewal.

S. How does a person progress in faith in complete faith?

R. That already acquires greater than difficult work and long. He starts to talk about this here a little bit but not yet in practice.

19. S. (01:05:19) What does it mean that King David had no life in the work?

R. David is Malchut and Malchut does not have illumination, it has no life.

20. S. (01:05:32) Is it enough for us to always think about the friend or should we think about the benefit of the Creator, or do I have to think about the two of them in parallel, what is the order of the work?

R. The order of the work is first the intention is to bestow to the Creator and vessels need to be prepared to bestow to the friends and through them to the Creator.

21. S. (01:06:14) I wanted to scrutinize something. It says that Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph give life to David and Isaac does not. So it's clear that Isaac does not because he is left. It’s also clear that Abraham does because he's a right, he’s in wholeness in the right. What does it mean that Jacob and Joseph also give life because they are also incorporated in the left?

R. We will learn that, we have yet to learn that. The question is on point, but we will get to it.

22. S. (01:06:52) It is written that a person needs to consider the Creator as a great King and to be small towards Him in order to receive forces from Him. That is the will to receive, meaning to make the will to receive willingly serve the great one, right?

R. Well, correct, yes, let's say.

S. Does that change in some stages? Can I work toward the Creator not from the vessels of the reception? 

R. How will you work for Him? In vessels of bestowal you cannot work. What will you do with vessels of bestowal?

S. Throughout the whole path we do not work in the vessels of bestowal.

R. We are working with vessels of reception by which we awaken vessels of bestowal in order to correct them, the vessels of reception, and to the extent that we have the right combination between vessels of reception and vessels of bestowal we attribute it to the Creator.

S. I did not understand, I will think.

R. Okay.

23. S. (01:08:18) What does it mean to organize the day in relation to mind and heart, how do I work with that?

R. Each one according to what he understands.

S. You said earlier that each one has little illuminations that I need to grab onto it and see what direction I am going, is that connected to that?

R. No.

S. What does it mean to organize my direction?

R. That depends on each one. If you're talking about the ordinary mechanical clock or electronic clock it doesn't matter, that is one thing. If you are talking about your inner clock, this is a matter of feeling with what do you choose to be in contact, and also it depends on the person perhaps in order for a person to be awake, to be alert, he has to always flip his state, to change his state upside down.

S. Is the correct work as you said earlier to be constantly in bestowal upon the friends? Is that what balances us?

R. This has to be the main direction, the general direction that does not change. From the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator.

24. S. (01:10:16) Continuing the scrutiny during the day, we in the morning lesson, two and a half to three hours in a kind of a, we do not have any external disturbances and we can work among each other and then there are all the rest of the days where we are in different states, also with families who aren’t on the path could be, and at work There's this feeling of much greater feeling of inner effort than here in the lesson; here I feel warmth and a certain inner connection. The question is how can we, what is the additional value of the effort that we are in during the day that we can hold on to the intention? I'll give an example, let's say here for example I'm reading the text here with a yearning. During the day if I try to read I can read, technically, let's say for three minutes I will read and I feel great resistance because you are in different environments. What is that additional value of work here compared to the additional value that we do in these efforts during the day?

R. Well, if you are reading in a hostile atmosphere to your spirit then certainly as much as you nevertheless strengthen and go forward, you get more, meaning the result is more and stronger.

S. They said that we are in this enemy-like atmosphere, that is how I feel, I feel that enemy atmosphere to the Rav. 

R. So, so what?

S. The question I want to ask is, there are states where you are as if wanting to escape to the morning lesson, to the connection with the friends and all these things and in that escape, you don't really live that moment. I'm thinking maybe I'm not living this moment, probably. That I'm missing out on something if I'm thinking of going to that next moment with the friends, next meeting with the friends. How can I not lose that moment? How can I really realize that work in a correct way?

R. You have to learn that through yourself. You have to learn this on your own.

S. By dealing with it, making the effort?

R. Yes, once in a while approach the friends, tell them, ask for responses, it depends maybe, it depends on who are the friends and what is the topic but if the topic is the general adhesion then see the differences.

S. There is the term that we say, ‘like the donkey to the load and an ox to the burden’. When you do an action, even though you feel that now I'm doing this for the friends, I read something, I do something and many times you told us that the deed leaves an impression. What does that mean that the deed leaves an impression?

R. You bestow upon others through your actions.

S. That even inside if I don't have any feeling for it? 

R. Even if you have no feeling for it whatsoever but by this you nevertheless you're influenced. I saw on the screen [……], well leave it, leave it, where he is lecturing there or making a speech or arguing with someone there in the parliament. I listened to it for a few minutes, and I was impressed, and it had an impact.

S. You're saying actually that whichever action I do, if I can't do it with my intention, so to do it forcefully so it affects, even though I don't feel, not to disregard even the small action?

R. Yes, the small actions are actually the most impactful. The big actions, it's like you want to now earn to make a million, it is pretty high. You can say no, I now will engage in this for a year until I….We need to go according to time, space, and motion as much as you can.

S. Why don't we value those little actions? A lot of times I say I can't do a big action, so I don't do anything. Why don't we value the small ones?

R. Because it is undesirable. We want to swallow the big things and we don't understand that our entire life is built where we stumble upon the small things.

S. Can you give an example for a small action?

R. Small one? I woke up, I washed myself, I drank a cup of coffee, had a sandwich, I'll show you about myself. I went to study and after this study, again I do some work, small actions. See your day in as much as you arrange it so that in every stage along the way you are in some connection to the intention in order to bestow, to the friends, to the whole of the world, to all of Israel, to everything.

25. S. (01:17:01) It is written that Adam HaRishon gave King David seventy years of his life. Here in our world that is an average time of seventy years,, let’s say, that we are alive so each one of us is closer to King David, that general Malchut wrapping in all of us right now or is only the point of the heart that awakens, and the rest is seventy nations?

R. Well, well?

S. It seems that only those who have a point in the heart so it’s as if King David contacts him and then we go to the Ten and get all of the other qualities and pull the world to Gmar Tikkun.

R. Yes this needs to be scrutinized.

26. S. (01:18:00) I heard you answer a friend that during the day you try to be connected to the group as a whole, all day. What does that mean?

R. No, not the complete group. I connect to the PT 36, yes.

S. I heard you say you answered about the times we don’t connect actively in some talk but the action in the thought.

R. Yes.

S. How should an action take place in a thought? Whether it’s connecting to PT 36 or 27 or something broader?

R. I cannot say. That is already a result of many states of many thoughts. You are here. You participate in everything so why should I have to explain this to you? If you activate your sense of hearing and you do not need anything more than that.

27. S. (01:19:36) There's a question up in the air from the beginning of the lesson, what a friend started. I just hear this throughout the lesson.

R. […] Well let’s hear.

S. There is personal work of a person between him and the Creator.

R. Yes.

S. There’s also work, it’s also private but between the person to the Ten a person to the group.

R. Yes.

S. I hear from the beginning of the lesson, the question is how to make order between those things.

R. Well?

S. The answer I hear is to make an intention to bestow to the Creator, first of all.

R. Yes.

S. Then to prepare vessels to bestow to the friends and through them to the Creator. 

R. Yes.

S. So according to what I understand there is a formula. Now I wake up, then I think of the Creator, then only the Ten, then it's like we're always in a dialogue with the Creator and with the Ten. Isn’t not like a formula that that’s the only way that it can be?

R. No, but it is written. Also Baal HaSulam sometimes writes about half a sentence and also Rabash wrote about the order of the agenda, the agenda according to Baal HaSulam, yes.

S. Yes, it's written but I think the question is that we’re asking you how to do it, how to implement it, and the answer at least that I'm hearing, maybe I'm mistaken, is with both of them together and the order will happen.

R. I did not understand.

S. How to put order in these things, in working between man and the Creator and between man and the Ten?

R. A person to the Ten it is clear that now he needs to read, and think, and connect to the Ten and to try and do this work in action, mind and heart, and with the Creator it is also the same thing.

S. There's no specific order?

R. I do not know what you are asking. What? To prepare the vessels that I can go to the kitchen and see how my wife does the dishes. What? What to do? I do not understand. When we connect, we do the dishes, when we connect we are doing the dishes, we are always in a preparation.

S. Now, I have a free minute, I'm not at work, I'm not anywhere. I have a minute. I think of the friends, I think of the Creator, or whatever I feel the right thing to do is?

R. You need to constantly feel whether you are in the direction through the group to the Creator and constantly ask yourself whether this direction is precise, and whether you are aimed exactly to the Creator or something that’s kind of like next to Him somewhat. How do you depict the group and the Creator so that they will be kind of like one upon the other and that is it. Actually, that’s the work.

28. S. (01:24:02) Why shouldn't a person check which thoughts bring him more light and forces or less?

R. How will he check the light and the forces?

S. Most of the day we don’t have any forces, we can’t enter the work so I have to check which thought can I invest in now that it will shine on me, that it will help me rise? Let's say thinking of the friends is a difficult thought, it does not shine. I can't start by thinking of friends and bestowal in the group. He also says that a person needs to start in the mind and to think how the Creator bestows. He starts from a distance, he can't, what is the connection?

R. There is this and there’s that. There are times for this and times for that.

S. If we want more time in the work throughout the day how do we organize ourselves to have more time in the work? Something has to give us forces.

R. You won’t get the forces, you need to aim your heart to the Creator.

S. To the Creator, so in what stage does a person bring the Ten or the group in there? It's not from the beginning?

R. There within you are already with the Ten.

S. If I want to actually bestow in practice to the Creator so I then start like a jump. You gave an example once like a cat that waits for the moment he can make that jump to bestow. So first of all I need, well, maybe you say it, what do I need to do first?

R. You need to check, like I said, like a cat, you need to check your forces, your intentions, whether you're capable of such a leap. Just like a cat who is constantly before his leaps he checks himself.

S. Thoughts of the Creator? You give an example that you have to think how the Creator constantly bestows.

R. Yes.

S. When he says thought it's not that I thought about it once and let go. It's something that…

R. You catch it and live with it.

S. How do you develop a thought that you are constantly living with it?

R. You don't let it run away; you constantly engage in it until it becomes permanent in your mind. Where in your head you have like a channel between you and the Creator and in the heart and in the head, and you are constantly protecting it, watching over it.

S. Then when I start getting forces I start understanding what it means to bestow to the Creator for myself?

R. Let's say yes..

29. S. (01:27:33) What is right to ask during the concealment in order to advance to bestowal and faith?

R. The concealment in general that I want from the concealment to move to revelation.

30. S. (01:28:04) Why is it so important for us to ask for the correction of our common screen. because that is the only thing that shattered, why is this so important?

R. Because the screen defines the degree of the reflected light of a person that wants to bestow in return to the Creator.

S. Is the frequency of love the only frequency that will determine the faith of humanity?

R. Yes. 

31. S. (01:28:50) I understood that the practical from this article is the greatness of the Creator, also from faith above reason and also from equivalence of form. That’s what we can give one another in the Ten and a lot of time I'm trying to understand how to do it. How to give greatness to the Creator.

R. By you doing something in the “I” between the friends they feel they are bestowed upon. They feel how impressed you are by the greatest of the Creator.

S. When we translate greatness of the Creator into the Ten, so it's importance of our connection.

R. Yes.

S. When you do something, so what do we do, we adhere to our framework, we show how the morning lesson is important, right, these things?

R. Well, well?

S. So if I look in open eyes it's something that is constant. I do not see that this is something that gets more intense. Before a congress we make more effort but even when I want to give it to the friend, and also what I see in the Ten, there’s like a certain routine it reaches and that’s how it stays. How do you break, how do you add to that?

R. We add through the shattering. In everything that was yesterday and as much as I had in my eyes the greatness of the group ,the greatness of the Creator, today I do not receive. I want something new, whole, high, eternal and then I try to work on that from that intention.

S. Is there something that we have to learn how to do? I see the friends, they go out of their way, we do exercises all day, one friend sings a song then someone reads something, makes a clip.

R. Those are external actions, well?.

S. What are non-external actions?

R. To the extent in which within they are making an effort in order to connect. In order to not let the distance in their eyes for thoughts, desires.

S. When people were asking, throughout the day when we are not in the lesson you said like a channel has to remain open, that I'm always in contact there in the back of the head, I constantly need to. 

R. Yes.

S. Sometimes it feels like we are on autopilot, and from the lesson until the zoom or the noon lesson and in between, we are like on autopilot in the back of our head. 

R. Yes.

S. How do I need or where do we learn to give greatness of the Creator to one another? 

R. As one man in one heart, that is what we need to be, through this connection you just described.