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Morning Lesson November 1, 2020
Parashat Noah (Torah)
Parashat Noah - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
Excerpt 1 and 2 Reader (00:01 - 3:20)
Rabash. Article 4 (1990) What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work
“Noah was a righteous man,” which is called “These are the generations of Noah,” meaning the good deeds, which are the generations of the righteous. The verse “Noah was a righteous man” means that he was rewarded with good deeds. That is, during the act, he felt that his actions were truly good, and felt contentment while performing his actions and felt the good that is in them. Because the acts are good, he was rewarded with the delight and pleasure clothed in the performance of Mitzvot.
2. Rabash. Assorted Notes. Article 342. “Noah Was a Righteous Man”
“Noah was a righteous man.” Even Ezra interprets “righteous” in good deeds, “whole” in his heart, “in his generations,” some condemn and some praise. In generations of wicked ones, when the thoughts of the generation are that it is not worthwhile to work in order to bestow, the body sometimes praises, meaning that his view is with his contemporaries. And sometimes, it condemns what his contemporaries say.
At that time, he has the choice to do good deeds, meaning that he can overcome through actions. However, man has no control over his heart, to be able to change the feeling in the heart, if the heart feels what his contemporaries tell it, and the heart takes after the majority.
For this reason, there is no other choice but to overcome through actions, perform acts of bestowal, and ask the Creator to give him another heart, as it is written, “Purify our hearts.” However, in the argument, he cannot succeed. When he becomes righteous in terms of the practice, he is rewarded and becomes whole in his heart, as Even Ezra said.
71. S. It says the heart follows the light and there is no other way to do acts of bestowal that is what's happening now, we do it because the heart follows the majority..
R. Who are you drawn after?
S. After everything that is happening with all of the lies, now you have to bow and accept what you are being fed from the government
R. I'm not even paying any attention to all of this, why do I have to run after everybody all the time, why do I have to even pay attention to how they're living, obviously I'm living between them and what they decide in the government there and especially you there with the unions, I'm part of it I'm depending on it, but I am depending on them not in my own forces except for that I don't want to be mixed with them. I live my life like the quiet citizen let's say and except for this I have my internal spiritual life and nobody can take this from me. What are you making all of this noise on? Also why do I live such a life?
S. Can you behave in this country opposite from what you're being told?
R. I am not criticizing them because it is all done by the Creator and if I want to change something so I have to change and through that I will change reality. Not in any other way, we already went through all of these things and where did you see an example? When did you see that reality is changing for the good?
S. That is exactly it, nothing's changing in it, I'm asking the Creator to give him another heart, what does it mean by that?
R. That's what I have to be concerned about that, I will have a different heart, not that I will go over and bend everything and everybody like your socialist friends want to change the whole world.
S. So how should a person behave?
R. I'm behaving in a way that I don't touch anybody but through myself, I change the world.
S. How do you do it
R. By me studying the wisdom of Kabbalah I am correcting myself and if I can I bestow to the others end awaken them to also do that and in this way each and every person the way that he is corrects himself and the world because all in all we all include the entire general vessel.
S. Even though we are a minority?
R. Don't worry our minority is not a spiritual minority it is a corporeal minority and it is exactly opposite always.
72. S. (6:50) What is this quality of Noach?
R. Noach is a result of the correction we will speak about it soon and there will be a lot of excerpts about it, it says Noach was a righteous man and what is a righteous it says in his generation he was a righteous one and not in all generations, we will learn it all. There are also big articles about it from Baal HaSulam and Rabash, you can take these excerpts and go to. excerpts from the Articles and especially if Rabash, and you can read them we just don't have time to go through all of them.
Excerpt 2 Reader repeats (7:46 - 9:03)
73. R. Himself to do something, he can't.
Reader “ if the heart feels what the contemporaries tell it....”(9:06 - 9:15)
74. R. Only if he performs the corrections through above from the Creator he gets such connections that he can overcome and not be under the influence of society.
Reader “For this reason there is no other choice but to overcome...”(9:30 - 10:05)
75. S. Rabash writes that the heart constantly yearns for the majority view so if I don't turn my ten into the majority in my eyes, but the majority is an environment that's not related to the wisdom of Kabbalah then my heart follows the majority?
R. Of course second question.
S. He also writes that to change the feeling in the heart you have to perform acts of bestowal ask the Creator to give me another heart.
R. Towards with friends, towards the friends only I have to perform actions of bestowal and ask the Creator to really give me the ability to do this correctly and to connect us together in such a way that we can reveal him. Then in the revelation of the Creator to us, through the ten we will know how to keep the correction going.
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