Morning Lesson October 19, 2023

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

Part 1:

Rabash. Article No. 4, 1989. What Is a Flood of Water in the Work?

1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, our work is actually divided mostly into two parts: that the first part is within reason, when we come to the wisdom of Kabbalah and we learn all kinds of elements, where we are, the world's, Sefirot, Partzufim, and we don't yet have any feeling, any idea about the upper world even though we learn the names and the definitions, and the second part, when we all ready shift to the feeling of the next world. These are the qualities of bestowal, faith above reason, this is already the entrance to the upper world. We talk about it and we begin to feel reality through the force of bestowal. Meaning gradually from a small force to a greater force and this is how we come closer from between us to the Creator and then we develop in us the force of bestowal. Let's now see, also what Rabash writes in this article. What is a flood of water in the work? Meaning that we have the malicious water, the quarreling water of quarreling and the water of peace and up to the water of the flood, and how do we go through all of these stages that apparently we have to go through, and we reach water of peace, of rest.

Reading the article (03:00) “The Zohar, Noah, interprets the verse..”

2. R. (45:10) Okay, we heard this, we heard the article, a very strong article which describes for us all the states that await us along the way towards the purpose of creation, first the middle line, and now I see there are many questions and more and more are being added.

3. S. (46:00) What does it mean the internal mind, the mind of Torah?

R. We have the will to receive, in the will to receive if we go precisely according to the desire, it is considered the desire to receive itself, if we go above the will to receive in the desire to bestow, then it is for us to go in faith above reason. We have either going in reason or in the force of faith above reason.

4. S. (47:20) Why when a person works on the study and connecting with the friends more strongly these questions of who and what become more acute, sharper?

R. Yes, to the extent in which a person advances to the force of bestowal the questions are more contradicted and therefore he has a problem in going above reason. He needs to constantly add forces in this.

5. S. (48:10) How does a person combine these two opposite forces until he persuades himself?

R. He constantly wants to go on the right line, in faith above reason and then he sees the extent to which this direction is contradicted to his nature, to his egoistic nature and advances this way.

6. S. (48:53) In the article it says that without faith nothing can be achieved. What kind of faith should this be so we can succeed in the work?

R. We need to go in faith above reason, where reason is the knowledge which is felt and understood what is revealed, and faith above reason is already the force of Bina which we try to connect to, to this force and to go this way, and rising the degrees, always higher above the reason, and this way each time. When we fall to reason then we try to rise above it. Soon we will do maybe even some exercise on this matter.

7. S. (50:20) Within the work of the ten are we building the ark? And if so what are the ‘who’ and the 'what’ within that ark?

R. We build the ark from the questions 'who’ and ‘what' and in this ark we are saved from the flood waters.

8. S. (51:17) Actually it says in the article that we have nothing to pray for besides to have the power, the power to overcome and do the work. Why are we always in some deficiency? We have all kinds of demands, requests and it confuses us. Why can't we just focus on this prayer?

R. I don't understand you, we are constantly in our will to receive and we can rise above in order to bestow only on the condition that we will arrange the forces and will go accordingly and this is the work.

S. I understand it in my head but somewhere you always fall into this, your desire and you ask things that you shouldn't even be asking for?

R. You are still not adhered to the friends and you won't be able to arrange the form of ascent or more precisely the form in which you advance toward the goal.

S. When we raise some deficiency in the ten what should we do with it?

R. This deficiency needs to belong to everyone and to the Creator and the Creator, He needs to keep this desire.

S. And what then pray for in the end?

R. We want to be in the same mutual desire between us which is this boat.

S. Where is the request for the forces?

R. Before when we ask there to be strength.

S. The prayer comes before we work with the deficiency?

9. S. (53:40) Why is it that to ask for the force of overcoming is not considered that we're setting conditions for the Creator but to ask for the greatness of the Creator is considered that we are setting conditions?

R. Because we can't rise from the upper force of separation, of shattering, that the Creator won't give us strength for connection for ascent.

S. How will we ask of Him if we don't have the greatness of the Creator, how can we work without this fuel?

R. The greatness of the Creator we do not attain in its true form but the fact that we are holding onto it, the fact that the Creator is great and that each one is adhered to the other and the Creator is great, by that we really reach the fact that the Creator is great even though we do not attain His greatness.

S. But he says that if you ask for that, it’s a condition, that it's not a clear request, a clear request is only for the power of overcoming?

R. Yes, yes, that's what I just said.

S. What is the force of overcoming in the ten?

R. That we want to be only in mutual bestowal between us and the Creator.

S. It's not considered the condition? Because we don't have that, we won't be able to work, so it seems like we are setting conditions for the Creator?

R. No, it's because it's according to the conditions that He placed for us.

S. From our side it just needs to be in that state where we want to bestow and we ask for forces?

R. Yes, yes, we’re carrying the state that He arranged for us and from that state we can ask.

10. S. (55:55) How do we develop the force of bestowal in the ten so that the saboteur won't defeat us one by one?

R. We all connect together and we don't want anything other than coming closer together to the Creator. That we will have the possibility to be together.

S. When you say together, what does it mean? What is that first point where we can actually recognize that There’s None Else Besides Him, The Good Who Does Good, even though we don't feel it?  Second point, it's my task to raise the friend to this state of There’s None Else Besides Him, The Good Who Does Good, and this I can do it only by showing the example drawing greatness of the Creator in our work. The third point is the prayer, when we scrutinize what we are lacking on the path, we raise from within our heart, prayer but even if it is incorrect the Creator will correct it, is this correct? Another point, that it seems to be important is, a friend in the ten doesn't succeed in justifying the Creator and if he accepts it as punishment, seemingly, not because he did something incorrect but it is in order to correct his soul, advance him, maybe he has a very strong prayer, so we as friends raise his deficiency to the Creator and than He continues this work, and then the prayer from the heart is very close to the Creator, to the state that you're already in annulment?

R. Okay, we will think about all of this.

11. S. (58:13) Is this Ark based on the Arvut that we make between us?

R. Yes, of course, yes.

12. S. (58:43) What is the recommendation, how does the ten build the ark each day so that the friend can come into it every moment? Because outside we have a challenge, today, with very strong forces they can engulf and take every friend that the ten should be such an ark that each one can enter it every moment, so what is your advice for the ten?

R. We learned this, we learned that we need to always think about the friends and to try and connect them in the heart of each and everyone so they will be together and for this to be the Kli for the attainment of the Creator?

13. S. (59:41) What is this thing that detains the person most from entering the ark?

R. Where the ark is not ready yet, the ark is nevertheless people who are connected to one another and are in Arvut with one another, such that the general Arvut is the ark.

S. What hinders us from achieving Arvut?

R. What bothers us to be in Arvut? That we are not in Arvut yet.

S. Why is it difficult for us to achieve it? Why can't we reach Arvut?

R. Take ‘The Arvut’ article and see what is missing.

14. S. (01:01:40) There is a great confusion here that I have. There is a line and there is a Klipa, a shell over it, over every line there is a shell, so we begin with the correction of the shell of the right line if I understand correctly? When we succeed in getting such a correction and we're capable of doing something above reason, that without to kill the will to receive, then some  awakening of the will to receive comes and the person is no longer able to work, so he's asking to receive importance and then he can start to work with the will to receive? That is what I understood. Then we reach the left line, when the will to receive awakens and there is a shell so that the person always remains within reason and he's asking for correction and this is the shell of the left line and because of that there is the flood, etc., and then there's the shell of the middle line, when he's not capable of raising the right line over the left line and reach the Kedusha, the inner mind?

R. Wait, that is still ahead of us, that is still ahead.

15. S. (01:03:18) Here it says that the person should hide so that the saboteur will not detect him and not find him. How is the saboteur manifested and how should we, all the friends, hide?

R. Don't use the force of reception or the force of bestowal because it was lost but only enter a restriction.

S. What does it mean not to use the force of reception?

R. Meaning I don't decide about anything. I don't do anything, I just restrict my desire to receive.

16. S. (01:04:17) We engage, yes, we usually engage with the reason so as to have room to go above reason, so what is this room, is to have this room to go above reason?

R. Above reason we are in the middle line, where we're based on reason and we rise above it and then we are in the above reason.

S. There is this sort of room it says against this sort of tipping point, faith above reason or reason above faith and that you can tip it more to the right or before it tips to the left. How do we control this, that the left does not control the right, so what is this room there that we can work with?

R. Again.

S. How do we use reason so that we can rise above reason?

R. We have reason and we pray to have the forces to rise above reason.

S. How do you avoid that it tips to the left side?

R. That is only through the efforts we make between us, only the efforts between us.

S. Let's say in this ark, the ark protects us from the flood waters, so how can we work in faith above reason if we are protected by all left forces? That the left forces will not touch us, so how can we work in faith above reason if the reason is not there anymore? If we are protected by the ark, so we cannot work in faith above reason anymore, how does that work?

R. You feel the forces of the left standing on the outside that want to breach inwards towards you and you need to constantly sustain yourself in the connection with the Creator so that there will be no breach.

17. S. (01:07:25) There’s the feeling that after all of the incarnations and the efforts, my screen is still very weak. This causes despair, great despair, so what should I do?

R. We need to continue and the main thing is together. We don't yet have together yet, that common force and therefore, we are already starting to cry before we make one correct effort. We need to unite and to turn to the Creator and to demand from Him to help us and give us guidance correctly in carrying out a unified action towards connection. That's it.

S. I understand that but I keep making mistakes.

R. That will come, a little bit more experience, wait, soon.

S. I want to be incorporated with my deficiency. I apologize.

18. S. (01:09:09) It seems that here there is an invitation to enter Bina, meaning to achieve freedom because I don't find it because I don't want anything because if I don't want anything anymore how can I attain and realize the desire to reach adhesion with the Creator?

R. That the Creator will do. You just need to reveal your deficiency and show the Creator that deficiency, the right one, then He can correct it. The work is His work. That is why it's called the work of the Creator, that we just have to scrutinize and show Him that that is what we want to correct.

S. But Bina is still interested in my deficiency? I'm not free of everything? I just want to give. I don't care about myself at all?

R. I didn't understand your question.

S. Bina is total bestowal. I'm no longer concerned about my own lacks in that state of Bina?

R. Yes, but that is what you still have to reach.

M. He's actually asking if I enter the quality of Bina then I don't want anything, seemingly I have no desire for anything?

R. No, you don't cancel your will to receive.

S. What happens with my desire?

R. When you are in Bina you balance your will to receive with the will to bestow. 

19. S. (01:11:43) How does it happen exactly? Where does the person have the forces to go with his eyes shut if he doesn't see the greatness of the Creator because it says here, had he delighted in mercy and there should be a prayer and only the Creator can give these forces?

R. He gets that from the group, through the friends.

S. Where does this prayer take place if a person can't see the greatness of the Creator, how is it possible?

R. He supposedly receives it from the friends even if on his own he doesn't reveal it and can't see it but somehow he comes closer to the friends and then he feels that it is in them.

S. It happens in a way that in the beginning such a desire to annul before the friends awakens and that it shifts to the Creator?

R. Yes, that's why it’s said, “that from the love of friends to the love of the Creator.”

S. Nevertheless, how does it happen the first initial point where you, where a person diagnoses himself. How can he even diagnose himself in the state of lowliness? We see some greatness of the Creator, so towards what should I annul?

R. He has the greatness of the group and he needs to increase the friends.

S. For what purpose should I raise the greatness of the Creator for?

R. In order to come closer to the Creator because the Creator is in them.

S. If I don't see the greatness of the Creator, why should I come closer to Him?

R. It's a condition.

20. S. (01:13:56) It’s written, Since he doesn't have the force to overcome, he asks the Creator to give him the force to overcome and not mind, knowledge and emotion. The question is: When the person clarifies, scrutinizes why he needs the forces to overcome, so theoretically it's to resemble the Creator or bestow contentment to Him, that's in the mind so to speak. In the heart it’s something else, that is also maybe why the prayer is not accepted, it's not a complete prayer. The question is how, what can we pay in order to achieve the complete prayer and for the force to overcome like Rabash means?

R. Through the friends. You have nothing else. You keep forgetting it, you want to jump straight to the Creator but it won't work. It only works on the condition that you organize the right relation toward the society.

21. S. (01:15:10) In the previous article of Rabash that we learned about the flood and the saboteur, so he explains that in the beginning, the person needs to long for Gadlut so he has a Kli and only then rejects the Gadlut and then the honor chases him. How do you combine correctly, these two opposite aspirations? On the one hand to long for greatness, adulthood and then on the other hand to agree to be in the smallest infancy, how to do it well?

R. We are going to talk about it later. It's not that it's not that clear yet. I understand you but we need to connect a few points together for that, let's go to the women I feel that they have pressure from them.

22. S. (01:16:12) If I always feel myself between the friends as a mediator is it like a middle line or it's a different role in connection between us?

R. It is a role, all in all, it's not the middle line yet, the middle line we’d already be in attainment of the Creator, the middle line is the Creator Himself.

23. S. (01:17:03) How to be awarded with the inner mind, the inner reason called Torah?

R. If we reach faith above reason, then when we work with it we receive the inner force of the Torah called the 'knowledge' or 'the reason' of the Torah.

24. S. (01:17:45) It says that the person has to hide himself and not so that the saboteur will not see him, also the saboteur was given the right to destroy. We have learned that seeing is the quality of Hochma, how can the structure have the quality of sight, vision?

R. That's called that we don't need to express our egoistic feelings of in order to receive and also to understand but just the quality of bestowal, the quality of Bina, then at that stage we can be saved from that saboteur that wants to sink us, to drown us.

S. Well, the Sitra Achra has the quality of vision?

R. Yes.

S. What is that state where the destructor sees us? How is that felt in the work? What does it mean that he sees us and what does it mean to hide himself?

R. Yes, he sees us, of course.

S. How do we feel it, what is that state?

R. That we can't hide from him, we cannot hide from him.

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