Part 3
Morning Lesson February 9, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #83
Item #83 (00:14) “ The exit of the righteous from the place leaves an impression.”
1. R. (01:39) Meaning what does he want to say here, that specifically by the falls we receive correct vessels in order to keep our state above reason and rise. Meaning, and thus a 1000 times a righteous will fall and get up again, so don't be afraid of falls, breakings of all sorts of things, just quickly as much as possible, to more quickly continue.
Item #83 (02:08) “ The exit of the righteous from the place leaves an impression.” again
2. R. (02:18) This impression he receives helps him to justify the state and ascend even higher and thus he’s called righteous.
Continue reading #83 (02:28)
R. (02:45) Because this thought is not a thought of a righteous, so what’s happening here?
Continue reading #83 (02:52)
3. R. (03:58) We are not responsible for ascents and descents when we see here that the ascents and descents cause him to rise even higher. Meaning what is important for us is only the pace. All the time to yearn for ascents and then we won’t take into account the descents as much as they may be, they may be. The main thing again and again is to make an ascent. To make an effort again and again to do actions on the intentions to bestow.
Reading #84 (04:38) “When the thief, meaning the will to receive, does not feel any flavor.”
4. S. (07:04) In this excerpt he writes that we need to enjoy because of the Creator and in another place, he writes that when enjoying the work that you become a wicked immediately, so I do not understand?
R. There are many verses that seem to contradict or cancel one another, as it is written, He raises his hearts in the way of the Creator. What, to be full of pride, that I'm in spiritual work but on the intention to bestow, it's not pride it's the opposite, instead a person makes himself smaller. There are many such verses and states that look to us, that don’t connect together. It’s always like this because we are putting together ten Sefirot from between us and from within each one. And the connection between the Sefirot are so multivariable that on one hand it is the will to receive on the other hand it needs to be in restriction. On the third hand it needs to be in Gadlut, in adulthood, an intention to bestow and it doesn't work out. The upper light that arranges between us the entire system, then it brings us to a state that all these edges, they connect and complete one another. We, in our mind, are not capable so much of arranging these things together, it doesn’t work out. I understand you. But wait and see and it will be thus.
S. Even now in this listening in certain moment you start to enjoy from these excerpts. You read it, you feel good. What do you do with that, maybe how to aim it correctly?
R. Well of course, first of all you need to enjoy. You enjoy from this, that you're next to the wisdom. The wisdom is very huge, enormous and very upper and explains to us the whole of reality, and the upper force that operates in reality. From this you have the sensation of pleasure and importance. Along with this you need to be in determination of the state of where you are compared to that. It works out along the way. I can’t tell you now also what is correct because also the state where you are annulling yourself and also a state where you are full of pride, you need all the states. It all works out by the light that reforms. There will be ten whole Sefirot that will be connected all together and then you will see that it works out this way. The main thing in the meantime is to make an effort in each state to accept it above reason. Then truly step by step by step it will be done correctly.
5. S. (10:38) According to the next excerpt it is written about means to delight his maker. The more we enter the work, are there more such means?
R. Both this and that. Both to completion, he must be more precise both in height and width. Meaning that there is completion here. Completion is completion, we're getting closer to Igulim, circles and circles.
Excerpt #85 (11:44) “ To overcome these questions only by the power of faith…”
6. S. (12:57) In the first part of the lesson you said that we can never scrutinize the state we are in and to decide what is correct for us in a certain state. On the other hand you said that we need to scrutinize where we are and what we need to attain. Can you explain more?
R. Yes, tell me please, give me an example even from our life that a person from this, that he is present, understands and feels correctly the state that he is in. There is no such thing. Because you always need to be at least in a higher state and a higher degree. Let's say, how a child that didn't yet reach adulthood, becoming a father. How can he know by himself where he is, what's happening with him, how he can measure his games, things he is engaged in in his life. How can he? Only on the condition that he reaches a higher degree and it's clear to us. It’s also clear to us in the structure of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Because everything that the lower degree has it receives from the upper one. Until you reach the upper degree you have no chance to understand something about yourself. Just to annul the will to receive in order to rise to the highest degree, to turn towards the intention to bestow, that’s called to kill it and revive it. Then in such a manner you can understand everything about your state and what to do. Cannot do it otherwise.
S. What is the point of scrutinizing where we are and what we want to attain?
R. To scrutinize in order to go above reason in order to rise to a higher degree. Because when you rise in the degrees, you need to step on the degree you're at, and to rise to a higher degree, and more and more, and you rise in such a manner. It’s the same thing with us. It’s not called the scrutiny I need to really know where I am. I know that I won’t know. For me to be in each and every degree is only to use it in order to rise to a degree above it.
Excerpt #86 (16:40) “GAR means mind, where it should only be in faith…” twice
7. R. (20:18) We have here a key but we still have not begun to use it to open the door. That as much as we go faith above reason, we, specifically in this, enter reason. And whoever is not going above reason, then he doesn’t enter reason. He becomes more stupid. He begins to try to dig in there between the letters and the words, find all sorts of wise things out of the words and not attainment. Rather what we do need is just to yearn for attainment in faith above reason that we will have a vessel. Then accordingly we will advance. We're talking here about a large degree, the place of attainment as Rabash calls it, the title of his article, which is something special. He also wrote this for himself.
8. S. (21:51) I didn’t understand the advice. What is a Commandment to expand his feelings and to build this contradiction between the mind and the heart?
R. All is covered by Hassadim, Mercy by force of bestowal. That we receive it in yearning to always be above reason. As much as we yearn to be in the vessels of bestowal, thus we become wiser, because all the wisdom is revealed in the light of Hassadim, Mercy.
9. S. (22:32) I'm confused, what does it mean to go in faith above reason and by so, you enter reason?
R. As much as we go above reason then a person's reason expands and he receives from this more knowledge and more sensation. But his tendency is always to be more and more above reason. We will talk more about this, it's a bit ahead of us. It is talking about how to transition from one degree to a spiritual degree.