Morning Lesson December 19, 2023

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Part 1:

Rabash. Article No. 27, 1986. The Creator and Israel Went into Exile

1. R. (45:20) What is there to add? An article that is just complete. I would repeat it. Whatever you think. 

2. S. (46:17) Maybe, indeed we should repeat it if possible and you could give us a little bit of…?

R. No, I don't want to ruin it, it's inclusive of everything.

S. How to correctly absorb this article and digest it?

R. Open your mouth, your heart, your ears and let it enter.

S. The feeling that it is working on me, that the article is a…?

R. Yes, yes, that the article enters me, penetrates me, not much to add. 

So, Let's repeat again. No, I don't want to hear questions, by that you're spoiling the others. 

Reading: (47:47) Rabash. Article No. 27, 1986. The Creator and Israel Went into Exile. Again

3. R. (52:33) Until now are there any questions? about this?

4. S. (52:46) The words we should understand, we need to understand what does it mean to understand?

R. Try to understand. Try to understand the literal.

Continuing Reading: (53:10) “It is known that land is called Malchut, and…”

5. R. (01:34:00) Yes. What is your impression? What is happening, hello.

6. S. (01:34:32) What is the role of pain and suffering in the process of correction?

R. That a person will try and ask himself what is this? Why is it coming to me? Why do I need this for and towards what does it aiming me?

S. But It is opposite from the goal that the Creator created Creation.

R. Even though its opposite, even more so it awakens more.

S. How could something opposite awaken us to correction?

R. Because it is giving you the opposite direction.

S. Why couldn't the Creator draw us to Him through pleasure?

R. Because our will to receive will grow even more and more, and we will never resemble the Creator.

S. But He created the will to receive.

R. He created it on purpose in order to use it to help us rise above it.

S. He created something that to begin with He wanted something else?

R. You can say so, okay.

7. S. (01:36:00) Who is suffering here, the person or his ego ?

R. For now it is the person; when he starts working and discovers that is the ego that is holding him in that state which is opposite from the goal, from the Creator so he starts hating his ego.

S. Then his suffering is from hating his ego?

R. Then it is.

S. It seems that suffering here is good and instrumental, not to run away from it?

R. Not always.

S. Can we ask for such suffering?

R. Ask for what? Ask who?

S. Ask the Creator to give us the suffering?

R. No, you can't; He is the good that does good. How can you ask Him for suffering?

S. But you said that we can yearn for this suffering.

R. No, It is something else that you're yearning for but it's not what you're asking for. You can yearn for suffering that will direct you to the path of truth.

S. To yearn for it but not to ask the Creator for it?

R. Yes.

S. How do you receive it?

R. I don't know but it's natural in that way, you want to discover your mistakes on the path, and it comes to you in a way that you receive thorns, and in this way you run away from them and reach the right path.

8. S. (01:38:03) It is written because of it he was expelled from the land, and he fell under the control of the nations of the world, and once he is in exile he immediately suffers forgetfulness, and he does not remember that he was ever in the land. Why is there a need for him to forget everything to forget that he was in the land?

R. That he would have a foundation that he could come back to it, eventually.

S. Is there a role for this forgetfulness?

R. Of course.

9. S. (01:38:53) It seems like a person who advances on the spiritual path divides him into two; he writes the receiver cannot understand how there could be nourishment from giving, and the giver is the opposite when he engages in reception he is embarrassed of doing such a lowly thing. Does our work really divide ourselves into two, try to identify where I'm like this?

R. That's right.

S. Try to identify where I am like this and like that?

R. Yes. Try.

S. What does it mean to the Creator's named after the action? What does that mean?

R. The Creator is merciful and so on. You give Him names according to what you feel from Him.

S. Meaning if a person advances and discovers that he was in forgetfulness and suddenly he has a desire to bestow so first of all he attributes it to the Creator?

R. Yes.

S. Meaning that this is his action, meaning that right now the Creator is operating in him in a way that is revealed as exile?

R. Yes.

10. S. (01:40:28) It is written here many times that the Creator is in Zeir Anpin the world of Atzilut?

R. Are you waiting for an answer from me?

S. Of course.

R. I can't say, we didn't learn that from the article.

S. I have it in my Reshimot.

R. In your Reshimot? I don't know. It's not in the article.

S. We have a common screen you have to know.

R. I don't know, I’m telling you seriously.

S. Are you really serious?

R. I'm really serious. I’m now explaining this article and from within the article I did not understand that the Creator is Zeir Anpin

S. I too am serious and everything that happens to me happens because of the awakening of Reshimot.

11. S. (01:41:41) why not learn for pleasure to bring contentment to the Creator, because the purpose of Creation is to delight its creatures?

R. But the purpose of creation is not according to our existing egoistic desire. It is a lot higher, exalted, broad, unique, endless. and to that purpose is where the Creator wants to bring us to. Meaning that we will want that specifically, that we will develop a deficiency, a vessel and we will advance to that on our own; that we will even ask him for that.

12. S. (01:32:35) What does it mean that the Creator reveals to them in the form of Exile?

R. Exile means all kinds of forms that are cut off from the Creator, meaning opposite of the Creator. That is how they feel their state.

S. Precisely in that state of exile , when he yearns for the Creator he is actually moving away from the will to receive?

R. Yes. Yes, in the exile he feels what desires he is in, and from within him he starts yearning for the Creator.

13. S. (01:43:38) After every morning lesson we are meeting with friends and there is a feeling that the Creator throws us into exile. We are leaving here, and every lesson is really feeling like we were thrown into an exile.

R. just like that? every lesson?

S. Yes. I have to think, why we're not continue lesson for a week? 

R. I can't continue the lesson for a week, we have a plan, we have to study a lot more articles and whole books?

S. Yes, I understand. I'm simply asking about the process that the Creator is taking us through. For us, what should we do, are we doing corrections for the whole world? Does it have to be that he would throw us?

R. We are performing corrections on ourselves; and along with us the world is being corrected.

S. I'm asking about this rejection, why does He throw us so deeply into the will to receive, at the same day we can feel shame, and a moment later it is as if we are immersed up till the neck. Then again through the group…?

R. That is His calculation, but that just shows His work on us.

S. So we need to be happy and be thankful that it's the process?

R. Yes, of course; the Creator is working on us endlessly.

14. S. (01:45:21) How to identify that I'm in exile, I'm not just suffering because I'm not receiving?

R. Again?

S. How to feel that you're really in exile, and not simply suffering because you're not receiving something?

R. That depends on what you're lacking, exile is a state, and what vessels do you feel that state?

S. In the article it says, that in the end, you will receive from the Creator both the deficiency and the feeling. So how can I identify the vessels, how can I identify the vessels, how do I know where I'm working?

R. From coming closer to the friends and wanting to be together with them as much as you can, close, so more and more you discover that commonplace, and you can already locate in what state you're in.

S. When I'm with the friends in meetings and lessons, this situation is clear as you explain, but when I'm not with them, there is a relation to the work that is forgotten, disappears. How do I maintain the correct relation, how do I keep working when I'm not with the friends because they keep me in the work, basically?

R. We need to keep the connection, to watch over it in every state, connection, and connection.

S. What can I add to the connection when I'm not physically or virtually with the friends?

R. Even more, from the times when you're with them.

S. What, is it in thought, in what?

R. In a feeling that you're with them in heart and soul, together with them.

S. Sorry for pushing this, but can you give me an exercise, now that I'm, let’s say in the office and I have a good feeling, bad feeling, never mind what I feel. How do we attribute it to connection with the friends?

R. Don't, you have to depict your connection with the friends as a hug, strong, good, warm. That from if you feel many forces, confidence. That you're not lacking anything except for more and more and more to really be with them together. Together meaning that there is one body for all, and we are included in that.

15. S. (01:48:42) He writes in the article that there's food for men and food for beasts.

R. Yes?

S. That a person can enjoy spirituality and afterward can enjoy a new apartment, good furniture, food for beasts. Now we say that a Kabbalist is not someone who closes himself and disconnects from life, he enjoys everything.

R. Yes.

S. Furniture, life, good food, anything in life we should enjoy it and at the same time, you are in for spirituality. How can we both have animal food and human food and not fall into corporeal pleasures and sank in them?

R. We need to use this world to the extent that we must sustain ourselves in the normal way, in our body, and with all the rest, we need to develop connections, spiritual connections between us, that is what I would say.

S. You once said Rabash chose the best mattress, the best cheese.

R. Yes.

S. He liked to feel tastes in regular things, flavors?

R. Right, I asked him what cheese should I buy for you, yellow cheese, you know, he said if you don't know, buy the most expensive!

S. I wanted to ask how not to fall every time you discover you enjoy the trash, beastly things?

R. That, he gave me like examples, specific examples, but really a person has to enjoy the fact that he exists, and by this can think of the existence of the world.

16. S. (01:51:19) He describes many states here, but he also describes a state where he is happy when he discovers the truth, but also he suffers because he sees he is far from adhesion with the Creator, and he says, so then he yearns to return to the second state when he had a reward. So for a moment the truth is revealed and the two feelings together, that he's happy is the truth, but he is far from attention with the Creator. Then he returns to looking at how to receive the reward again and again until the real prayer is revealed when he wants to come out of that state. So it sounds like the states operate on a person, the Creator awakens him, reveals to him, hides from him but where is man's work here in accelerating the process of reaching the prayer?

R. In every place, a person wants to discover the true action that the Creator is doing on him and demanding of him, and all this advances toward that only through connection and the society with the group.

S. But connection with the society, even a purposeful society, can be in order for it to be convenient, pleasant, to be happy in the society? 

R. Yes, so?

S. So it is a reward, the society provides a reward, just like the previous friend said, it's fun to sit with the friends, I'm happy to be with them, it’s good to eat with them, drink with them, speak to them?

R. No, the work with society isn't to sit and drink, we're talking about connection, the work in society is connection.

S. So how do we make the precision, how do we accelerate the real prayer, after the real prayer self but until that place?

R. That everybody wants to hug and only wants one goal and to cry to the Creator to give it to us, very simple.

S. The desire which, as you describe it now, when it exists, it exists in a certain state. When it operates in us, that too comes from the Creator, so where is man's choice here?

R. If you're going to check it that way, so you never have a person, it's only the Creator, no person.

17. S. (01:54:34) When a person feels exile, how should he relate to it correctly, when he feels this exile?

R. That he's in the work, the feeling of the exile is the feeling of a deficiency, that he's still lacking contact with the Creator, and he has to organize himself and yearn for that contact, not only him alone but the whole environment.

S. Is the exile a feeling of the exile, is it something that during the day, we need to feel every so often, or is it something that supposedly isn't good that is happening?

R. We have to feel it all the time.

S. When we feel it, should we really see it as a means that helps us strengthen ourselves?

R. Yes, a means to strengthen ourselves and yearn for contact with the Creator through contact with the friends.

S. How do we help in the Ten, if there is a feeling of a friend that is in exile and is not aware of this exile, doesn't want to come out, how can we help him as a Ten.

R. Hug him, not physically because it's almost impossible during the day, but kind of direct it toward him.

18. S. (01:56:34) Can a person feel the Creator also in the state of an exile?

R. The exile itself, is a sensation of the Creator.

S. What does that mean?

R. Well, because besides the Creator we feel nothing?

S. What does it mean the Creator is revealed to them in a form of exile?

R. When they feel that He is far from them.

S. What can a person do in that state?

R. Come closer to the friends, pray together with them, that's it.

S. Because what does he actually want, if he feels the Creator in such a way, what does he want now?

R. What does he want, he wants to bond with the friends so much that through them there will be connection with the Creator.

S. What he had before isn't the connection with the Creator?

R. Before, I guess, it wasn't it was the sensation of thee.

S. That is also the feeling of the Creator?

R. Well, it’s not a face-to-face contact.

S. So what is he actually asking for, that the Creator will be revealed, that he will feel good, what does he want at this point?

R. He wants to have a connection with the Creator through the connection with the friends in a way that, in a way that, I don't know how to say it. That it will fill up, satisfy all of his desires and thoughts, and will direct him toward the end of Correction.

S. How does the person survive the time of exile and not dry out?

R. Through the friends who constantly work, go through all kinds of states, and are constantly like a part in a gear, in a gear shift, in constant motion.

S. When a person yearns for corporeal pleasures, as here writes, how suddenly from that state does he start yearning to the Creator to bring him closer?

R. He has to determine, to establish for himself a society, and the society obligates him to tend to it, to take care of it of the society. This would grab him and obligate him, tie him, and advance him toward connection with everyone.

S. What takes him out of the state that he's immersed in beastly pleasures to the state that he yearns for the Creator? Why does it, suddenly, happen, he writes here, suddenly he started yearning for the Creator, why is it suddenly?

R. There may be many reasons for it, I understand only one thing: he's connected to the environment and, say like a mother is connected to the family, to the children, so it doesn't matter what she feels inside. She has an obligation to take care of the whole family.

S. He writes that in heaven, when a person is judged, each one has a special calculation, how long he is left in Exile and when he gets awakenings from above?

R. Yes, in the end, all of us will come out of the Exile.

S. According to what is a person judged and calculated with?

R. According to his efforts in the society, to that extent he accelerates time.

S. So does a person have an ability to come out of an exile, or is it in the calculation that was already made?

R. No, no, no everyone has an open account, there are no closed accounts, no one closed the account until the end of Correction.

19. S. (02:01:18) It says here, we have to run away from the place that he is in. So how to run away from that state?

R. How to run away from what?

S. From a state

R. That you're in?

S. Yes, the person now recognized that it came from above, that he is in a state that he doesn't want to be in. But how can he run away from that state?

R. Close his eyes and with his eyes shut, run away, wherever his feet take him without seeing the way.

S. I heard the answer you gave that in what vessels do you feel that state, can a person choose or change?

R. Check.

S. Check, he can check but then he sees that he's in?

R. Afterward, pray.

S. So to pray for a change in which vessels he feels to change?

R. Yes.

20. S. ( 2:02:37) About the reward, he says that before the revelation of the truth comes, he saw how every day he added these and their reward was sure.

R. Yes?

S. That one way in Lo Lishma, on the other hand, we say we have to reach a state that when we disconnect from the reward, from the result, so the reward is the process. It's the work itself, that exertion itself, and then every step, a person gets a reward?

R. Yes?

S. So what is the right way to characterize the state, that is not enjoying the state of Lo Lishma or now he's disconnected from the state, and he can enjoy his exertion for the Creator and for the friends?

R. There are many degrees in this, as we see in us; a person, if he is an expert, he enjoys the work itself, he has an interest in being in the work. He enjoys beginning the day and being in this, in this work during the day, and to finish and see what he did. This is really his pleasure, if he is an expert, if he's just an employee who has no relation, no feeling for the work and how he does it, then that is a big problem. It has got no, nothing that will catch him, what did you ask?

S. I asked about the discernment between the state of Lo Lishma before the truth was revealed, that he saw how every day he's adding, and the reward will be sure. He comes, he studies, he connects, he does duties, there's a reward?

R. This is what we do, and we gradually lose the taste, and then he has to choose for himself a more, real flavor.

S. Do you need to reach a state, again that we enter, a person from the state has to reach a state that in each and every moment, he does feel the taste. That his work is the reward, the exertion is the reward?

R. If he knows the work and the purpose and what he can do at any moment through his labor, then he really does get complete satisfaction from it.

S. It is hard to discern these states?

R. Ask, I don't know?

S. Because, again, it can be like a turnaround of the ego, he tells him afterwards?

R. Of course, there will be twists, but the twist will bring you to more accurate and higher questions.

S. He says, when the body doesn't aid, so he tells the body, a person tells his body, just so you know, that from now on, I'm not going to get you every pleasure in the work because now I'm working. Every time there is this inner dialogue, I feel that the ego is just laughing at me, it’s just rolling on the floor, what do you think you're not going to get me in your reward? A person can't even say that, really, there is no real words behind this, the ego is laughing in my face?

R. I do not understand him.

21. S. (02:06:52) So to continue the question is, from a different angle, should I want to feel good taste in the work of the Creator?

R. Yes.

S. Or just overcome in the work?

R. No you cannot overcome the work without wanting to feel the higher flavor in it.

S. Okay, so now you come to a place where you ask yourself, am I, is my ego working because it's enjoying, to get some flavor, or am I really doing something in the work of the Creator?

R. The question is this: Am I working because of the flavors, because it is pleasant, because it feels good, it satisfies me, it fills me, fulfills me, or because I work, why?

S. Because I work because this is what the Creator wants, because this is the correct work, because this is on the right track?

R. You think you can work like that already?

S. Well, that's always the question, in the inner dialogue it is very difficult to tell if you are with the Ten if you are in the right vessel. Or, you are in your will to receive, and you are just feeding it more, and it pulls you even more toward, it it's hard especially when you're alone.

R. What do you think?

22. S. (02:08:51) I think that eventually, a person can't even reach that scrutiny, it's only the Creator from above letting him know. According to the article, he can be eating with the donkey, the same, and he doesn't know, and the Creator tells him?

R. There was another one over there.

23. S. (02:09:09) Maybe everything happens when working with the society, so when you make extra efforts, even little things, to bestow to the friends, to society. So a state comes that you feel that when you're doing something good, suddenly you're doing it for yourself, and it causes you shame here, you can push yourself even more against your ego, against yourself.

R. Okay.

24. S. (02:09:53) It sounds the opposite but according to the article, the Creator is doing everything, He is putting us in exile, He is showing us we are in exile. He makes us suffer from being in exile, He makes us want to come out of the exile and He also takes us out. We just have to see it's Him doing all these actions on us.

R. Yes?

S. I hear the same question from everybody that where is man here? I think that once a person forgets that it's the Creator activating him, he thinks he’s doing it. But even that is done by the Creator, he discovers that even what he just?

R. Well, this is obvious, this is obvious, that's the way it is, that the Creator does everything. But we are still talking about our own participation.

S. So the feeling that you're participating is only when you forget it's the Creators doing it?

R. Yes and no.

25. S. (02:11:00) What the previous friend described was that when you're working in Lo Lishma, the will to receive feels the reward and supports you. He lets you to actions, he lets you, but then you depicted a state that you're working for Lishma, and I wanted to say that there's in the middle of the whole exile, the suffering, that you can't. That you want, you want that the Creator will awaken you to bestow, and you discover that you can't. Here it's already like a big field that opens up in this exile, and I wanted to ask about that. That there are two paths here, either you want to run from this feeling of bitterness, of the lack of the ability to bestow, to the lack of awareness that you're in exile. Or that the Creator will really take you out but to a new state that you will be able to bestow. So how does the society help here? There’s a point, either a person runs from exile, or he comes out of the exile. Because running from exile, you can also fall asleep in the Ten, and come back to that state that you don't feel the exile but you're in exile on behalf of the truth, but you don't feel it. I want to scrutinize how we, the world Kli, the Ten, how we don't run away from this scrutiny, that I want to bestow and can't, because I think that that is the state in the exile is the best, in order to really come out?

R. Who should I ask, who should I ask.

26. S. (02:13:09) When working an awareness in the exile, is that building a vessel?

R. Yes, that too is the building of the vessel.

S. So we will start receiving from the biggest-ness of the world, we have to make as many feelings of the exile for the vessels to connect?

R. No, it doesn't have to be like that, we don't necessarily have to collect all the people in the world, all their representatives. There's no point building something intellectual, like the United Nations here.

S. I meant a vessel in the degree of receiving in order to bestow when there's a maximum number of exiles in our work?

R. As much as you can collect, this is what you need.

27. S. (02:14:27) To continue the discussion from, let's say that a previous student started, the Creator puts us, let’s say, in a state of exile, the Creator goes out in exile with us in order not to get lost in exile. So then you said the exile itself, is the sensation of the Creator, what does that mean, what is the work from here on if we're already in the sensation of the Creator?

R. He still wants to disconnect from such work because it ties Him to the ego.

S. What does that mean?

R. It ties into the ego that he still operates because of his ego, on behalf of his ego.

S. So what is the work from there, I have the sensation of the Creator because he went with me, so what do I need to do? He connects me to my ego but I'm in the sensation of the Creator already in exile because He is the sensation of exile. So it’s good to be in exile because then I have the sensation of the Creator?

R. No, to feel the Creator in exile is not good, you need to run away from it, and this is work according to your desire.

S. How do we get out of the situation, if we have the sensation of the Creator?

R. Rise along with the Creator from the sensation of exile; first of all, understand and think, how can it be that in exile I feel the Creator, and from here start the scrutinies.

28. S. (02:17:09) Maybe to be precise about that the friend is asking, a person goes through suffering until he sees that the Creator gives the exile. So it's like an exalted, big state that there's mitigation in it how to make sure it doesn't block us and help us advance to the next deficiency?

R. This is the connection.

29. S. (02:17:41) It is written in the article that the correction in coming out of the exile is included in first of all, in order to not ruin what they have attained; two, that the Creator won't let go of them. So in what is the process of coming out of exile needed?

R. The exodus of exile is when you don't leave the Creator, you don't let go of Him, but you want to rise above the state of exile.

S. What does it mean not to ruin the abundance?

R. Anything that's good take with you, just like Israel when they came out of Egypt, clear?

30. S. (02:18:50) The Tree of Knowledge, was that a collective ego that separated everybody?

R. Yes, yes.

S. Those people that were in the egoistic desire, that is us? Can we come back to our Father?

R. No, we don't understand it that way, the way he thinks, he is thinking everything, historically.

31. S. (02:20:26) In what state that we're in of exile, how can I help the friends that are going through difficult states that I'm not there, but I feel the deficiency?

R. You have to get into their feelings and help them come out of it, this is actually the role of Moses.

32. S. (02:21:03) A person needs to enjoy existing and from that think of the existence of the world. For instance, sleep is something that I heard a Kabbalist enjoys, but it's an example for something that I don't see how you can balance a person's needs in sleep with the full framework and demands we have to be in, in order to be on the path and keep them necessity. Why does it seem that way, why does the Creator give me such a picture?

R. We will learn why, there are many reasons, you should ask completely.

33. S. (02:21:55) The Creator does everything, and He is everything, is the only thing that a person can do is to reach that understanding and pray? The Creator does everything, and He is everything, can a person reach such an understanding and pray?

R. That the Creator will do everything?

S. Yes is this the only discernment a person can reach?

R. Yes because it's the only true discernment.

S. Then he can only pray?

R. Yes.

34. S. (02:23:00) I want to share an impression that this article adds emotions to TES, to what we were studying in TES, and from that I want to ask a question that disturbs me a bit, about that forgetfulness, because we start we have two states, ascents, and descents that we work with, and we want to understand from that. give us the forces to reach the quality of bestowal. There's no forgetfulness here, and we understand that we have to prepare our vessels, our deficiency, so what forgetfulness is he speaking about here?

R. We will learn it, we don't have it, we haven't gone through this phase yet.