Morning Lesson February 01, 2024

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

Part 1:

Rabash. Article No. 28, 1988. What Is, His Guidance Is Concealed and Revealed?

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1. S. (39:06) The article is more or less clear, it's clear that the creature is the will to receive and in nature there's no chance that he can come to the desire to bestow and only thanks to the point in the heart there is an opening, where he can adhere and bring contentment to the Creator. What’s not clear is all these examples he brings here, are these examples truly real, can they take place, like there are examples here where the vinegar will become oil, that the gushing waters in the sea won't drown him, that the medicine will save him? Meaning is these just examples to show something that cannot happen?

R. These examples show us that the Creator holds and maintains all the laws of nature and it all depends on Him; and he can change it at any minute in any direction.

S. There were probably a few people in the world who asked for vinegar to become oil, for something to become gold, why doesn't it happen?

R. Why should the Creator answer their desires?

S. It's clear that He doesn't have to fulfill any of these desires because it's in corporeality. It's clear that if there is a prayer from the point in the heart for the will to receive to change to a vessel of bestowal to adhere to Him so that correction will happen, with the right intention, prayer. Is there something from these examples that can truly happen in this world besides that desire to receive to become a vessel of bestowal?

R. I don't know, I don't know. Do you want to test the Creator? How do you want to do it?

S. Maybe from a different direction. He says that only if someone who believes that there is a landlord can change nature, therefore those righteous who for them nature is in a form of Creator they can change nature, meaning the Creator is the rules of nature, therefore through their prayer, the Lord will change their nature?

R. If they ask.

S. If they ask. If I believe that nature has a landlord and I'm truly in such faith and he is Good that does good, from which state do I even ask for any change?

R. That if you come to a point where you're certain that the Creator is Good who does good, then you have nothing to ask for . That is true. In this way, in this incident, then everything the Creator does is for the good.

2. S. (42:36) To continue, we say that a person should ask the Creator, the Owner of nature, to change him and not the nature around him. So, here are all these requests that the vinegar be lit up or, even when it comes to it, that it's the Creator, the Sovereign of nature. How come I even come to this request to change nature and not change me, that I will accept what is, is the right way? 

R. It's possible, but here they give us a different example; that even the sages, the wise ones, can ask. Your argument is correct: how can a righteous person even get up and ask for anything?

3. S. (43:50) What's the difference between accepting the order of traffic lights on the street and accepting the faith in the sages? Sounds like the same thing, there's a certain law and I act according to it?

R. From the point of view of receiving the command, it's possible that there's no difference in externality; but in Internality there's great difference.

S. What's the difference?

R. The moment you accept the behavior of the traffic light as a sign from the Creator, then all your qualities become rearranged according to this command.

S. Is there a faith of the sages towards the behavior of the traffic light, I don’t understand?

R. Also, of course; that you receive a traffic light that is behaving according to the command of the Creator, and now you want the providence to be different.

S. How can one know that he's accepting upon himself the faith of the sages? To say that I've taken upon myself the faith of the sages, according to what?

R. You can’t say that about anyone.

S. About myself?

R. About yourself, to a certain percentage.

S. This is what he's given here as a condition to come to even agree?

R. No, from here you are moving to a state where each and every action that's happening with you, you wish to reveal to the Creator. And this action begins by determining that the Creator is just and He’s the Good Who Does Good.

S. Can you be righteous without condemning first?

R. No, no. Because man's inclination is evil from his youth.

S. When we justify it means that with that I’m also condemning? Meaning on one hand I'm holding on to the condemnation of the Creator and on top of it, I'm not clear if it disappears or not?

R. You try to feel all of your forces and tie them all to the Good that Does Good and None Else Besides Him.

S. I'm trying to understand whether in a state where you justify or believe that there is a landlord, does it mean that I have left completely all that feeling of punishment, bad, and that the Creator is not Good That Does Good?

R. Yes.

S. Does it mean that I left this?

R. Of course, how can it be that you're still holding on to the fact that there is reward and punishment in the world?

S. Where does this disappear to if this whole process until the justification was a feeling?

R. It doesn't matter that it was, it was and now it's gone.

S. What, it disappeared from the vessels, the feeling that it exists, that I felt bad?

R. Yes. yes. Of course you remember it, you can talk about it but you're not in it.

S. From here, how do we advance to the next level, or does it actually come from above, the next degree where it needs to be revealed again, a new vessel, bad?

R. Yes, as usual; more exalted conditions, and once again you have to determine that it's coming from the Creator, and that it's the Good That Does Good and not the way it appears to you the first moment it was revealed.

4. S. (48:25) To continue the scrutiny I hope I'll ask correctly. On one hand we say that only a Jew who believes in the Creator can ask for nature to be changed, and we say that if you believe in the Creator then you have nothing to ask. The question is whether to ask or not? Because also we learned yesterday let's say if there's someone sick at home, it's good to ask, so on one hand you either agree with the Creator with what he's doing or you're asking, what's correct here?

R. Why?

S. Because if he does it's probably right to ask?

R. If you have someone sick at home God forbid then you must ask for him. 

S. That means the Creator creates states so that around them we will connect and turn to Him, meaning the goal is connection and addressing Him.

R. Yes the one that heals the sick; I'm asking Him to heal my friend let's say.

S. If these are less difficult states, let's say the state that's written here where the lady wants to light her candles on Shabbat then she made a mistake, also on that you can ask?

R. Yes, why not; there's no difference.

5. S. (50:10) It's confusing because life and sometimes our path brings a person to concentrate on the eternal part that is in him, the point in the heart, and that to develop through the friends to the Creator. So, it turns out that the Creator brings you back to this body, to care for the beastly part and emphasize these things, why?

R. Only because from that you can determine spirituality. Out of the opposite qualities? That's why. 

S. Just an example: there's war right now and people are afraid about their bodies, they start asking questions and they start to awaken. It feels like it goes through the way of ‘in due time’, as he writes. Why not awaken to love, yearning, fascination, what's the point in the meaning of life?

R. The way of the Creator is to initiate these actions that are opposite to him, so from a thing in its opposite they will come to His revelation. 

6. S. (51:48) He says that there's no punishment, there’re only corrections in the article. that all the punishments are corrections that come from above. He also says that there's a state in which a person says that all his deeds are direct to the Creator, when does the person get rewarded with that state?

R. When he corrects everything.

S. What does it mean that all his actions are direct to the Creator?

R. That all his thoughts and desires will be aimed at the Creator. 

S. This is only something you received from above, such a state he can only receive from above?

R. That's true, but with prayer from him.

S. Then he has to hold on to that state on his own? Can he hold on to that state on his own?

R. Not only holds on to it; he constantly proves it.

S. He adheres to this state and tries to remain in it all the time?

R. Yes.

S. This creates a connection with the Upper for him?

R. Yes.

7. S. (53:21) I will just complete this scrutiny, I need to pray to the Creator for the adhesion to the friends, all that we learned, and then he awakens a corporeal state opposite him and it's good it's help against him it reminds me to think about the Creator. But then why do I need to start, he's like compelling me to pray for corporeality, he's compelling me to pray for the direction that's opposite Him seemingly? 

R. Give me an example.

S. I want to pray for us all to adhere to Him in love all day long. He awakens some sickness and now I have to pray for the sickness to be resolved.

R. Yes. it's possible that this is how it is, and you will have to pray for Him to heal it.

S. How do I take this prayer for healing and bring it back to the purpose of creation?

R. You finish with that and then you check again. What disturbed you? Did that disturbance remain? 

S. To simply take this like a certain technology, that a state awakens, and I need to join it to the rest of the prayers?

R. Yes, it comes from the same source.

S. It's simply confusing. It makes an impression that there is a certain path to Him and then He's giving us to engage in things that are not connected to this path?

R. He's giving you what's related to the root of your soul, that's it.

8. S. (55:16) He writes here that specifically in this way of above reason, we learn later the feeling in the organs, that the Creator governs the world in the manner of good that does good. Then, he doesn't have to believe that he's already been awarded to feel that. I simply want to understand this thing of above reason meaning, before a person performs the action of above reason he doesn't feel that the Creator is the good that does good? He looks at reality, he sees that the world is not reacting in the manner of the good that does good, he sees people suffering, everyone is suffering. Then he performs a certain action that is called above reason, that we don’t understand what it is but that’s how he calls it, and this brings to the feeling in his organs, he comes to a feeling that all of a sudden the Creator is the Good that does good.

R. It's not sudden, and it's not because a person does some action; but it's because the Creator is doing some action.

S. Okay so I'm looking at reality now and I see that reality is not behaving according to the good that does good. What now is this action that’s called faith above reason? What is this action in relation to me, what is my part, ours, the friends to do in order to come to the feeling in my organs that He is the Good That Does Good? Meaning, there’s some action here that's called faith above reason that is not clear at all, we always say these words but what's the action that we need to do there, that's not clear?

R. Give an example.

S. For example, I look at reality and I have a sick child at home.

R. God forbid.

S. God forbid. As far as I'm concerned the Creator is not the Good That Does Good, my child is sick, and I need to heal him. What do I need to do, so that the reality will be, that I see a reality of the Good That Does Good at this moment and I don't see a reality of the Good that does good?

R. You have to pray to the Creator; to help you to change your vessels to such an extent that you will see a good world, and your child is in the Good That Does Good. 

S. I need to pray so the Creator will change my perception?

R. Yes.

S. Okay, so not that my child should be healed, or should the child be healed?

R. No. The child will be healed of course, and you will also be healed too.

S. That prayer is what is called faith above reason? What is the above reason, what is that above reason, what is this action?

R. This action that you're doing right now there's nothing above reason here; you're simply doing what any religious person would do.

S. I understand that's why I'm asking, what is this above reason that he's talking about here? It’s doing a very special action, this above reason, it takes us from not feeling anything in the organs, and brings us to a feeling in the organs. Meaning, it truly is an interchange of the perception here, it's not some intellectual thing here?

R. Yes.

S. I'm trying to understand what we need to do there? What do we do, what is that?

R. He is activating inside of himself his system of connection to the Creator in a way that was different than how it was before. And, that's it.

S. What is the different form here? Before I looked at reality as something not good for me and I asked for it to be good, that's the natural way of a person; it hurts him, he wants to stop the hurting.

R. That's in a simple way. In a different way you relate not to the reality that you see, but that what you see as the reason.

S. Ok. I look at reality, I see that I'm in pain and I say it's hurting me now, I'm in pain right now because the Creator wants to bring me closer, He even wants to do good for me. What now?

R. Now you turn to the Creator because you want to feel Him as the Good Who Does Good. 

S. I don't understand that action, I'm sorry?

R. You felt bad before?

S. It started for me feeling bad, yes.

R. Now you want to feel good?

S. No, now I want to adhere to the Creator?

R. Oh, hold on, that's already a correction. From a state where you cared only about yourself now you care about how you relate to the Creator.

S. Yes, this is our entire path, this is what we're trying to do?

R. Excellent, so you relate to Him, and you pray to Him, to do what?

S. Bring me closer to Him, let me adhere to Him?

R. Yes, more.

S. I don't know. I can't grasp where you're guiding me to?

R. Meaning, In other words now you wish to ask the Creator to change your perception of reality.

S. Yes, the fact that I feel bad, there’s a process here, I understand that I need to adhere to the Creator, I know in my mind that the Creator is the Good That Does Good. I know that I feel bad now because my perception of reality is wrong. I want to adhere to Him, and then what?

R. Then you ask the Creator to change your perception of reality.

S. Will that action, that request change my perception of reality? Is that the action of the above reason?

R. Yes, because reason is what you see.

S. Yes I see I feel bad. Meaning the request to change my perception of reality is the action of above reason, as we call it?

R. You're asking for it; that's the Creator’s action, not yours.

S. I'm asking and then the Creator will perform His action, and then in my organs I will feel the Good That Does Good?

R. You will feel the change.

S. The change?

R. Yes.

9. S. (01:02:28) I would expect that the request would be just to adhere to the Creator, not for Him to change. That through the disturbance I want to adhere, meaning the disturbances that's the form in which He wants to come close to me, that I will come close to Him, and I simply want through this to be adhered to Him. 

R. Yes.

S. The request for the perception of reality to change it will probably happen, at least that's how I feel it as the correct request. That I'm not asking to change for me, that I see things differently, but as He is, I want to be adhered to?

R. Yes.

S. From that, does the perception of reality change?

R. From wanting to be adhered to the Creator and seeing His actions as a complete action; means that I adhered to Him.

S. Why do I want to see His action as complete action, why is it not complete as it is, even though I don't feel that way?

R. But who's going to decide if this is correct or incorrect? I'm deciding, so I'm asking for my vessels to change to a state that I feel the Creator as the Good Who Does Good.

S. Meaning my vessels need to change, not that the reality changes?

R. it's one in the same.

S. If I ask for reality to change it means that it's not good for me at the current state that exists right now in my vessels of reception. Let's say I'm drowning, so it's not good for me that I am drowning and that's why I'm asking for the water not to drown me. But if I want to adhere to the Creator do I need this change whatsoever? Do I really need this materialistic change or for nature to change?

R. The way the Creator influences you, this is how you need to influence Him back; according to the conditions and the reasons that you're feeling.

S. So if I feel that?

R. Just like the example he's giving with the vinegar.

10. S. (01:05:01) He writes that the Creator in our world in corporeality is concealed and reward and punishment are revealed, and He did it so that people will not corrupt nature. And he writes that in spirituality when the Creator is supposed to be felt, the reward and punishment are concealed, why? What, in spirituality, reward and punishment are concealed?

R. We accept all the changes in spirituality upon ourselves, as actions above reason.

S. Meaning in the will to receive it is concealed the reward and punishment in spirituality?

R. What does it mean it's concealed in the will to receive?

S. I don't know, he writes that the reward and punishment is concealed, why?

R. Why, so that I would ask; I will ask that the Creator will be revealed as the Good Who Does Good.

S. If I understand correctly when I interpret in spirituality, the person already understands that the Creator is the quality of bestowal, so if I come closer to Him I don't feel it as a reward and if I get distanced it is a punishment, so why is it concealed?

R. The Creator is concealed.

S. On the contrary, he says that the Creator is revealed in spirituality, and the reward and punishment are concealed?

R. And?

S. That's why I'm asking why is it concealed? it's supposed to be revealed if the Creator is revealed and I'm coming closer to Him, to His quality then I feel the reward, why is it concealed?

R. What kind of reward?

S. The reward, that I'm closer to His quality of bestowal?

R. It never happens to you that the reward and punishment are concealed, but you accept them as something that exists in faith? Soon, soon, slowly, slowly.

11. S. (01:08:13) Earlier I heard: a prayer to the child to get healed and for you to be healed. Meaning that there are two requests here, the child is sick and we're asking for him to be healthy. This is a request that all people ask if they have a sick child they ask for him to be healthy. But we're adding another thing to it which is that you too will heal, and I will also change in my internality, change from being a receiver to a bestower, like the upper Light. This combination of these two prayers, is this the precise thing, that's the formula of our precise response to bad things in reality so both bad will change to good and I will change too, from bad to good?

R. Yes.

S. So, this is what differentiates?

R. Yes.

12. S. (01:09:23) I wanted to ask, he writes here that If the Creator were revealed we wouldn't have to believe in Him, that's why there's concealment. It turns out there’ll always be concealment? Will He always remain concealed?

R. Well why not? Why do I need to change the upper system to a different, opposite form?

S. Where is His revelation if he's always concealed?

R. The revelation of the Creator to the created beings is through the actions that he's correcting according to their request.

S. Moreover, he writes that if He were revealed, we wouldn't believe in Him.

R. Yes, if from the beginning everything is revealed, you will not need to believe. 

S. What does it mean that the righteous believes that the Creator is nature, like he writes, and then with his prayers he can change nature? What do you believe in if He's always concealed?

R. You don't want to take Him out of concealment. No. You only wish to be certain that you exist before Him.

S. What does it mean that the righteous believe that the Creator is nature, like he writes here in the article?

R. Nature is something he can visualize and feel.

S. But when he feels that He is the landlord of nature, if he believes that He is the landlord for nature how can it be that he's concealed?

R. The Creator is the landlord?

S. Yes. If the righteous believes that the Creator is the landlord over nature, why is it not called revelation yet, why is it called that He is concealed?

R. Because the way the Creator manages nature is concealed.

S. The concealment is in relation to the management of nature?

R. Concealment is relative to how nature is governed.

S. When righteous prays to the Creator to change nature what does he ask to change in nature?

R. He's asking to be able to crown the Creator above all the instances of nature.

S. To crown the Creator upon all the cases of nature, does it change the situation?

R. Eventually yes, relative to the person. By that, a person brings nature from its maximum height that it exists, and he relates to it like a result, just like the active operational mind.

S. What do you want in the end? Meaning that the prayers do you want the results to change? What in the end does the righteous want one to do in his prayers, does he want to change the results of the conclusions or what does he want?

R. A person prays to the Creator, and he wants the Creator to change his nature, man's nature, so he would adhere to nature.

S. The result of the prayer is adhesion in the Creator.

R. Yes.

S. and what are the results? I also want to change the consequences in nature, I don't just want adhesion?

R. What else?

S. Just like he wrote here that the lady wants the vinegar to become oil or that vinegar ignite the candle?

R. If you are connected to the Creator in all his actions; you have nothing more to ask for.

S. So, in the end if you're adhered you stop the prayer there, or you continue more to change the results that are clothing in nature?

R. If I'm adhered to the Creator then I see that through Him I adhere to all of nature.

S. If you're adhered to all of nature you won't ask for the vinegar to ignite the candle?

R. I have nothing more to ask for.

S. For the Creator to heal the sick if the doctors can't heal them, you wouldn’t ask that?

R. No. Because I am in that place from which the Creator is governing nature.

S. So, what is the role of the results? If eventually it's all to keep you in adhesion, what's the whole result here?

R. It's to be adhered to the Creator, because from this point I justify all of his actions and nature continues to behave as needed; and what has changed? my perception has changed.

S. So, all the change in perception of reality is as much as a person is able to adhere to the Creator?

R. Yes. Exactly.

S. He never actually changes reality?

R. There's nothing to change, everything is whole, and perfect.

S. Isn't a kabbalist if he's sick doesn't he want to be healthy?

R. I guess he wants to be healthy, and?

S. But if he's adhered, will he ask for a change?

R. Even when he's sick, the Creator creates a screen, or cover, concealment of sorts. We will learn about it.

13. S. (01:16:32) I guess I'm confused, and I have to scrutinize it once and for all the whole matter of perception of reality. What will change and what will not change, what do you pray for and what do you not pray for practically? God forbid there's a sick child, should I pray every moment that he will be healthy?

R. You should pray that he will be healthy to the Creator.

S. In the second example he gives that the daughter got confused and Shabbat came and the darkness in the house. He says “what are you worrying about? The one who told the oil to burn tell him that the vinegar will burn too, so ask from Him.” Why does the Creator give us all kinds of instances where a Kabbalist has to turn to him for help? What does he want to teach Man by that?

R. The Creator wants a person to be similar to him in everything, this is why there are corruptions in the system of man and the soul which the Creator deliberately spoiled, he corrupted that soul. He takes a person through such points where a person has to during his life in this world ask for corrections. 

14. S. (01:18:26) In order to love the others you have to depict the Creator that he is standing behind the others, I want to give a relation of love to someone so I have to imagine the Creator behind them?

R. Yes.

S. Otherwise I cannot attain that sensation?

R. Otherwise you cannot.

S. Why should the concealment remain and when does he take it away?

R. This is already a different correction.

S. There's another thing he emphasizes in the article he writes twice about, it once the obligation to perform Torah and Mitzvot and the other reason is that he's controlling all he also said the purpose of creation is to do good to his creative beings and that can be attained when someone annoys his own authority meaning we can attain everything by annulling our own authority?

R. Yes if you can reduce yourself to literally zero in your coarseness then you will feel in what remains you feel I don't know how much because you will belong to the human level already in the still vegetative and animate and then you will feel that you are under the Providence of guidance of the Creator.

S. What does it mean to annul the authority because he wants to be a man Adam?

R. It is that you want to annul, to cancel your own authority so that it is entirely adhered to the authority of the Creator.

S. Then you can resemble that actually?

R. Yes.

15. S. (01:20:43) Is there a way to obligate the Creator to heal my child, is there such a plea that can force Him?

R. Compel the Creator or the child?

S. The Creator, what compels Him, what actually will determine if the Creator heals or will not heal in my request?

R. To the extent that you correct your way.

S. If the plea will be aimed precisely so the child will heal for sure He will do what I ask for if my intention is really right?

R. Perhaps, I will tell you why, because it might be that the results of the child's condition God forbid does not depend on you. It depends on several other things that may pertain to a previous incarnation or to some action of relatives or people who are close, so it doesn't work only according to you. You can't do it only according to your decisions and desires.

16. S. (01:22:10) When a person changes his perception of reality, does reality change as it is with the corporeal problem, and he just accepts it or does the Creator influence change on reality and the corporeal problem changes to?

R. It could be I cannot say precisely about that because these things are Incorporated in one another.

17. S. (01:22:37) It seems that when a person sees that there's a lot of judgment in the world, so this is what he sees, so it's as if he's allowed to ask for more mercy and is expected of us that we're asking the Creator to bring the quality of Mercy like it depends on us to bring it. Is that in general that plea, is it correct from our personal feeling to ask that there will be more mercy in the world?

R. I didn't understand.

S. We have a personal feeling that an individual feels trouble, certain trouble. It seems that in this case the right plea would be that there will be more Mercy in the world in general. As simple as it seems, is that the right way to ask, is the plea for the collective solution for the narrowness that a person sees all the judgment is the difference, the plea for the collective?

R. It could be it could be, we still haven't talked about it, about the difference between the troubles of the collective and the troubles of the individual.

18. S. (0:24:29) When a child heals or when a person is saved from drowning, so that's one of the possibilities, he enters the water either he drowns or he either comes out. When vinegar starts lighting that's not an option in nature, how do we have that ability to ask for such a thing?

R. From the perspective of the Creator it is an option.

S. Why didn't the rabbi tell his daughter you are confused, you didn't work according to the laws of nature, now go sit in the darkness on Shabbat and correct yourself for the next time, remember to put oil and not vinegar. Sorry for saying this but where does he have the nerve to ask the Creator to change nature in order for the vinegar to light?

R. I guess we don't know the relations between them.

S. That has to be a very high degree that isn't clear for me?

R. Yes.

S. To ask nature to change?

R. Yes.

S. That's one thing, the other is the whole matter of corporality and spirituality. Our purpose here is to reach adhesion with the Creator but corporality is a means. There's sickness, health, happiness, sadness it's all means to reach it. Why should we ask for the means to change?

R. The meaning is, what is it when a person is healthy or sick?

S. I'm hurt and I feel pain, so naturally I'm going to ask. If I have no Creator in the world all I want is to be healthy, but now there's stages of development, there's the Creator in the world so thank you, I have an opportunity to turn to you and also to be healthy. Maybe there's a degree that a person says in a different stage, the connection of the Creator is stronger than being healthy or not, to such an extent not to determine conditions that only I’ll be healthy I will be ok with you, or only if my child would be healthy I will be okay with you?

R. It's not, you can say he doesn't want or can't remain with a bad Creator.

S. Change my attitude towards you, not change reality, that if reality changes that I will see it different okay?

R. Do you want to change the laws of creation?

S. No, I want to ask about a person's level of development, in different levels of development do the pleas also change? 

R. Perhaps yes. 

19. S. (01:2738) We're in a society and we're here together, when difficult things happen that trouble us, that threaten us, so a person is in the society is part of society. I can see that the Creator is working on us as a society in those stages, what does he want to teach us? If a friend suddenly has a trouble that is very essential it just conquers his heart and mind and there's nothing else in reality. Now he’s in a society and he’s not alone, it’s all happening to all of us as a net. What do we need to do and where is our common role, is it not the friend alone before the Creator?

R. There is certainly a problem.

S. How do we practice as a society, what should we learn?

R. We can't crack it, how each one is connected to the others, in what with, what formula, we cannot say.

S. How to pray correctly as a society, how to relate to such a case?

R. As we are relating.

S. The friends can help the friend to help him?

R. In every situation in every case, they can help in any possible way.

S. They need towards the friend with the problem of how they need to aim themselves correctly. What should they ask for him?

R. For the benefit of the friends so he will feel good, by this the friends are seemingly putting a correction on the behavior of the Creator, and they are permitted to do that.

S. Exactly so in our eyes we see that the Creator is giving the friend a bad state, we want to take it upon ourselves in something?

R. Because perhaps we will suddenly discover or decide that only we can ask the Creator to change his relation to the friend.

S. Specifically us?

R. Yes.

S. And not him?

R. He is under the influence of the Creator.

S. The force is in the friends?

R. Yes, he who prays for his friends this is what we need.

S. That also makes the friends responsible?

R. Yes, we are already arguing for this plea that the Creator will turn to us instead of to the friend, and this is already the next phase.

20. S. (01:31:09) He talks about, at its own pace and hastening its time, that above at its own rate and hastening the time is on the name of the created beings. He says that the whole correction is to have vessels of bestowal to annul to your own authority and go to the authority of the Creator. After many years you feel that it is the vinegar, you cannot make your nature change, it doesn't want to ignite. You want to bestow, you want to come out of yourself, but you can't, it's like a law it's like a law of nature?

R. Because you want to activate the forces according to your own judgment.

S. He said in the end that there's an order that through the reward and punishment and not the regular nature but in the work of reward and punishment, that he will believe that even though he doesn't see that the Creator caused this descent in the work. The whole last part he says that it's also corrections that later on he can rise to the desired degree. I want to understand what is that point that a person holds on to when he has descents in the work that it's the Creator who does it for him and it's correction. Not because he wanted to be the Creator's worker, but the Creator did it, the Creator doesn't want to know, the Creator rejects him now and not that he himself doesn't want to be the Creator's Worker. Is it as an order of corrections if he holds on to this?

R. To justify the Creator at every stage.

S. What is that, what is the correction that's happening now in this justification?

R. That he has to justify the Creator and what he sees in the negative things he sees in his life because of course there's None Else Besides Him.

S. Let's say I want to annul my authority and think of the friends more, I see that I can’t, and the Creator does not let me?

R. I guess you don't deserve it.

S. Okay but I have to hold on to the fact that it's the Creator who doesn't let me?

R. Yes.

S. What will speed up this time that will be hastening the times?

R. Not according to what you determine very simply, today you want to annul yourself before the Creator, you want it.

S. Just accept that he is determining it?

R. Yes.

S. But not to stop wanting, otherwise I'm just going to agree with everything he does that will be the correction?

R. Basically yes. Who's the righteous one who justifies the Creator in his every action?

S. Even when I see that I'm working not the Creator, I see that I'm in order to receive so I'll say that the Creator did this to me?

R. No, to that extent you go into stupidity, some foolishness.

21. S. (01:5:15) Why does the Creator give us a state that the girl will be confused between oil and vinegar?

R. How do I know?

S. There is a goal to reach a prayer, that's what we know, we also know the teacher's role is to bring us to pray to change nature. What is the vinegar, the oil, the sick child, what is the connection?

R. I don’t know what they say I accept it as a given.

S. But why does he give these examples? Is it clear to ask for nature to change?

R. In any teaching you learn you get examples that may not be related to your natural life.

22. S. (01:36:17) If the purpose is to bring us to justify the Creator and all his deeds, so there's also things we have to do in this world, he who comes to kill you, but you kill him first. Since the Creator does everything so I can supposedly sit down and just focus on justifying what he's doing. Why is this element that we also have to do actions, you told the friend you just have to annul yourself, the more you annul yourself there is more authority of the Creator. Where does my authority start and where does it end?

R. I cannot explain it right now, we need to get into all of creation for this and see what is happening in it.

S. There's the blessing of bringing us peace, bring peace means that we will see wholeness?

R. We ask for it.

S. We're asking to see the wholeness, that He will give us his observation of peace that will justify Him on everything?

R. Yes. 

23. S. (01:37:34) What's the purpose of suffering?

R. The purpose of all the pain and suffering is to establish a deficiency for the help of the Creator.

S. A person who's on a path you can also reach a state, like the Rabash said, let him suffer on himself, but when it's for someone who is precious for himself like a child, his son that is out in the battlefield, that's very difficult to justify this matter. He says not them, not the reward. If my need to the Creator would develop in a different way, why do I need this, how to overcome this and what do I do with this?

R. I don't know how to cut these calculations, I don't know. 

S. You once said that you had that skin disease, and you were suffering, and you went with Rabash, and you could hardly move and Rabash grabbed you and said you don't know how much you're gaining. Can you know how much that suffering gave you a reward?

R. No.

S. When do we reach a state that we understand and feel or see or if there's even such a state that the suffering causes a reward, that it's all corrections that eventually bring a reward?

R. Here in life we understand more and more that the suffering comes to correct us, but I cannot say more than that, it's all according to a person's personal experience.

S. We said that there's a concrete prayer, let's say I want the soldiers and the kidnapped to come back home, I want the child to heal and so on. In the Zohar he writes that a person cannot save the Creator will save us or he will do this or that, but he should put his faith in the Creator that he will help him exactly the right way, should that be the prayer?

R. Yes, and on what exactly the healing will come and the improvement in the benefit, it's not for a person to decide.

S. But I have to ask for Him to heal?

R. Yes, ask.

S. So what does it mean to help me just in the right way?

R. The way He decides so it will be according to his decision His will.

S. So that is the matter of prayer and intention, that I want the child to heal but with my intention to be sure that it will be the right way?

R. Well initially I pray for him among the rest of the sick people in Israel and in general all over the world, as we say at the end of prayer and on us.

24. S. (01:4:36) It's written that even if a sharp sword is on a person's throat he shouldn't relieve himself from Mercy?

R. What is this instruction? It means that even though he has all kinds of thoughts and says okay whatever happens happens and other such things, he doesn't stop asking and begging the Creator every single moment.

S. What does it develop in a person?

R. A relation to the Creator, that in all of his desires, all of his intentions, all of his calculations he still comes to a state where he has to pray to the Creator. 

25. S. (01:42:41) In order for a person's attitude to the Creator to be the most important thing in his reality, what is that one thing that you can say that he will not get too confused?

R. I don't understand the question.

S. The relation towards the upper one that He will be the source of a person's reality. That is what fills it only, only his attitude towards the upper one. What is the one main thing, the main condition for a person to reach that, what's the most important to reach it?

R. There's None Else Besides Him.

S. None else besides him sounds like?

R. No it doesn't sound like that it sounds like something very very sharp in a person's life and awakens him in a very sharp way. 

26. S. (01:44:17) What is the difference if a person sees the lack of visibility to do spiritual work as a punishment or to see things that are happening in corporeality as a punishment? Can you explain the difference between the two states?

R. No I can't explain, it is a good question but still not for us we are still not speaking between two worlds, what is the connection between them like and how to judge one over the other, no.

27. S. (01:45:21) Sometimes we pray and do not get elation from the Creator, sometimes we get an answer in an unexpected way, in those conditions why should we pray at all?

R. The prayer is in order to organize your complaint or your request or your gratitude to the Creator and not for the Creator himself. He already knows, understands and feels your relation to Him in advance because what is in you He created it and what influences you or who influences you also happens through Him and therefore there isn't anything hidden here. That is why all those things are for the person, if it comes to a person's feeling it is for the person.

28. S. (01:47:03) Why is there the guidance of the Creator so man will not destroy nature?

R. I don't know where he took this from but I guess he does have some justification to the question. I don't know, I do not know.

S. There are two forces, Elohim and HaVaYaH. It Was Written in the article a few times that it is necessary to have the measure of judgment, so a person does not destroy nature.

R. Well it depends on what you understand as nature.

29. S. (01:48:18) If a person on a certain degree does reach a change in perception of reality after suffering or enduring suffering and he feels that it all came from the Creator to correct him, does he stop feeling the pain and suffering?

R. I suppose he does. 

30. S. (01:48:55) We are in a dualistic world. Also our states include two states, so a person wants the bad to come into his life and wants to run from the bad, so there is a logical conclusion that we have to correct our bad. There are certain states where we can do it only if we give gratitude so there is a clear logic. Let’s say what to do justifying a child's disease, so I'm thanking the Creator that the child is sick, and the second state happens that the child heals. Is that not rational?

R. No, there is no logic that stems from the Good Who Does Good.

S. Why if I cover this duality in me that I'm concerned about the child's state and faith above reason, and I thank?

R. By this you are not covering everything, think about it and ask again.

S. It is clear that we have to cover all states without scrutinizing them, but I wanted to ask you?

R. You cannot hear anything from me in this question.

31. S. (01:49:48) It is written that during a dissent the Creator does not let go of him so what is the reason for the descent if the Creator does not let go of him?

R. I guess he wants on top of that state that is called a descent to bestow upon him an even greater oppositeness.

32. S. (01:5129) You always say to turn to the Creator and demand. My question is how to prepare my heart for the true demand without waiting for a critical state in order to turn to Him?

R. To be connected to the friends in the Ten and with the Creator at the center of the Ten. If everyone in the Ten is ready for this form then you should begin to discover the Creator who is between you or among you. Besides this you do not need to wait for anything.

33. S. (01:52:40) Let us say that a Kabbalist reveals all the depths of the judgment and the guidance of the Creator. He doesn't feel him as the good or does good then makes a correction and comes closer to the Creator, reaches adhesion and then he does feel the providence as the Good Who Does Good. He feels fulfillment good, so why does he feel it only in order to feel good or by that he can bestow back to the Creator?

R. It depends on the case but obviously the purpose is to bestow to the Creator.

S. What is the range of correction that a person can do? For example, can he bring the whole world to the side of merit and to see the correction of the whole world or only in his own personal feeling and desire?

R. It depends on the Creator that gives him those cases.

S. What we learn in the study in TES is the world system of HaVaYaH, are we learning about His providence as the Good Who Does Good or about absolute laws called Elohim?

R. It is a system, and it depends on how people control it and conduct it. The Creator is good completely, only sends us good and we in our attitude towards His providence as much as we aren't in equivalence of form towards it, if we are in synchronized to it, to that extent, how should I say it, we are opposite of the correction. That is how we corrupt His corrections, that is why it comes out like that.

S. What we learned today, and the friends were asking about the vinegar. The kabbalist made a little plea and a miracle happened in his life. Can he ask for a miracle to happen in the world for example, and some greater situation that the war will stop?

R. It depends on the instances, usually not.

S. On what does it depend?

R. It depends if the Creator makes calculations towards states of people in the world who will bring us to the revelation of such states.

S. Why in the case of the vinegar he can ask and in different states he can't?

R. It touches him specifically personally and the state of the world is connected to millions.

34. S. (01:56:20) We know that the Creator will not desert us, how can we be worthy of Him so we will always see Him as the Good Who Does Good?

R. We need to be part of all those actions to organize them what the Creator created to do, meaning the Creator’s actions. We need to add intentions to them in the way that these actions will seem as good as the Creator created for us to do and then we will see, we will see the world as good.

35. S. (01:57:32) It says that a person should not think that he does not want to serve the Creator, but the Creator does not want him. The question is in what state does the Creator not want us and where do we find the strength to continue in advance when the Creator does not want us?

R. There is no such thing that the Creator does not want us. He doesn't want us in the form that we are in now in the egoistic form but obviously he wants to accept us in a corrected way.

36. S. (01:58:31) With your permission I'd like to read a short paragraph and ask a question.

Reading: “Therefore in a corporal world because of the correction called equivalence of form it is forbidden to receive for his own sake but as it is written all your actions will be for the sake of the Creator.”

My question is that I have several prayers. One of them is for someone who is connected to me biologically and the other one is for a dear friend, and a son of a friend who is a very dear friend and I'm asking for them right now. What does it mean to bring contentment to the Creator and on which of those prayers should I focus?

R. Whichever seems more important to you. Start from the most important, it could change from day to day.

37. S. (01:59:50) We always say that in the prayer there should be a demand because for example, how can we constantly be in the same demand?

R. It constantly changes just like every person changes.