Morning Lesson June 12, 2021, Transcription
You Have Made Me - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
1. Rav’s Introduction: This is a very high topic for the lesson, you have made me, the created being seemingly stands above the Creator and makes the Creator. But it is true, because only to the extent we can correct ourselves to that extent the upper force is revealed in us. This is how we come to know this Force and connect with it, this is how it becomes revealed, to that extent, to the extent of equivalence of form. Therefore, you have made me, without the created being so there is no Creator, as we can say that there is no created being, without the Creator, there is no Creator without the created being. He is the hidden force that created us but there is no Creator without the created being that pertains to the work of the created being. It has to make of itself through restrictions and corrections, it has to correct and acquire such qualities, desires, intentions, operations through which it builds the image of the Creator.
So, there is the hidden work from the part of the Creator on the created being and the work of revealing the Creator that the created being does towards the Creator and the stages by which we update the image of the Creator in us are called Mitzvot, commandments of the Torah. The Torah is the general light, the Mitzvot, commandments are the operations we do within us in order to bestow, until they connect more and more and complete the image of the upper one. Just as we learn in the study of the ten Sefirot about the circles and the line that is the straightness through operations in straightness on the line we come to a stage where the circles are built, it is likewise here. So, let's go towards the scrutinies and see how interesting it is. It is very emotional, very internal. And here we discover the meeting point between us and the Creator. He makes us, we make him, where do we meet? In what way do we begin to work between us here? It is like parents who attend to the baby, the baby does not know who they are, what they are, it only feels that someone is taking care of it afterwards when it grows it begins to act towards them.
Excerpt 1 (04:00 - 05:24) Twice
2. R. By trying to perform operations in order to bestow first we learn how to do this in the ten and then from the ten towards the Creator. By this we establish between us in the ten the image of the Creator this is why the ten is called the soul where there is a vessel entirely in order to bestow and the light that fulfills it. And the quality of the light is also to bestow except the light is coming from above and the vessel is coming from below and when they connect to the extent of their connection, we can discover the image of the Creator. This is called you have made me. This is how we advance and this is our work. Basically, with these few words we have the whole Torah, we have the whole plan that the person has to go through, the whole of man’s purpose in this world. To make the Creator out of himself that he will be revealed as the one unique and unified force present in everything. In the past, present and future, in everything. This is what we need, in other words this is called needing to crown his governments over us, to discover that there is none else besides him to come to complete connection and coupling. Basically, this is the meaning of building the Creator, the image of the Creator, the form of the Creator. Piece by piece as we want to build the image of the quality of bestowal from our part this is called you have made me. We make him by putting him together from our broken pieces, our broken vessels. This is why you have made me because we truly make him, causing this making, as if we are giving birth to the Creator.
3. S. (08:14) How through an action of giving in the ten we make the Creator?
R. When we want to, nonetheless, approach, with our mutual bestowal among the friends, we gradually come to the feeling of the spiritual operations which are truly in order to bestow. By performing operations, in order to bestow among ourselves as a result of these operations we discover that the power of bestowal is among us. It is present among us and this is already a spiritual force, the Creator. This is how we advance; in other words we discover him among us to the extent of the bestowal between us. We cannot do it unless in the ten in a group and although the act in our desire to receive is rejecting the desire to receive by trying to rise above it and being in the desire to bestow and the desire to bestow is also the same will to receive which is working in the opposite manner.
But as a result, we draw the upper light which is present and helps us and fills us and in this way, it becomes revealed in us. This is to the extent we are similar to the Creator; the Creator is revealed in us. This is called the revelation of the Creator to the created beings in this world. And this is called performing the commandments. The more I take my broken desires and connect them correctly, to bestow upon the friends, accordingly the Creator enters and fills by these corrected desires with his forces, with his light with, his quality of bestowal. In this way we generate the Creator, we make him, because before that the vessel was broken and the Creator was completely invisible, we can say he did not exist before so we only do this.
4.
S.
(11:06)
It
seems
that
we
are
asking
for
correction
and
by
this
we
are
building
the
image
of
the
Creator
but
it
is
not
clear
how
one
is
connected
with
the
other.
How
through
asking
for
correction
because
we
are
broken,
can
we
actually
build
the
image
of
the
Creator?
R.
The
Creator
is
the
force
of
bestowal,
the
quality
of
bestowal
precisely
because
we
are
broken
and
want
to
get
closer
to
each
other
to
connect
in
order
to
discover
the
Creator,
in
order
to
thereby
give
him
contentment.
He
seemingly
is
concealed
he
is
seemingly
shackled,
chained
and
then
we
have
to
build
conditions
by
which
the
Creator
can
be
revealed
according
to
the
equivalence
between
the
light
and
the
vessel
between
the
connection
between
us
and
the
Creator.
We
have
to
be
at
such
a
connection
between
us
that
the
Creator
can
reveal
himself.
We
operate
from
the
perspective
of
the
vessel
so
we
have
such
relationships
and
the
Creator
is
revealed
as
light
as
a
force
from
above,
this
is
our
work.
5.
S.
(12:57)
If
the
laws
exist
how
come
the
Creator
does
not?
R.
The
Creator
is
Boreh,
come
and
see,
this
is
an
examination
in
the
upper
force
that
can
be
revealed
through
the
created
beings.
We
build
conditions
by
which
we
can
discover
out
of
the
force
that
operates
in
all
of
nature.
That
which
we
do
not
know
what
it
is
for
something
to
be
revealed
towards
us,
the
part
that
will
be
revealed
we
call
Boreh,
come
and
see,
Creator.
Therefore,
the
Creator
seemingly
does
not
exist
before
the
created
being
builds
a
vessel
as
an
instrument
to
reveal
him.
To
the
extent
we
build
the
right
vessel,
in
order
to
bestow
then
the
Creator,
the
force
of
bestowal
can
be
revealed
in
us.
This
is
how
it
is,
there
is
no
Creator
without
the
created
being
as
there
is
no
created
being
without
the
Creator
so
that’s
why
there
is
no
Creator
without
a
created
being.
S. (14:37) The laws are the advice we get from our teachers?
R. Laws are not advice, laws are laws. The created being is the desire to receive created by the upper light and out of all of the relationships we can see them as laws of nature which we have to review through our operations. From there stems everything else. Gradually these laws that the position of the light and the vessel above as they come down, they build in all the degrees in all the worlds they build this laws in the worlds of Atzilut, Beria, Yetzirah, Assiya, they are all in the relations between the light and the vessel, between the upper light to the desire to receive.
S. (15:39) So this is what we learn in TES and then other materials?
R. Yes and it depends on how we discover it, do not think that if you know the study of the TES, the study of the ten Sefirot you will know the wisdom of Kabbalah, the main thing is your approach, your attitude to it.
6. S. (16:07) How can the ten scrutinize what state it can overcome now?
R. You have to scrutinize it, talk about it each time and participate in the lessons and it will be clear as a result how you need to work in order to discover the Creator for now. To the certain extent where they are in, but mainly they have to think about it, of the manner of connection. Out of this manner of connection between their friends, in what connection are we for the time being? What the Creator can reveal now between us as a result of the connection between us. How can it be, what are we discovering, what are we going to discover, by what internal connection of ours can we reveal the Creator. Are we connected or we are not and if we are connected, what can we add, what is still missing, if anything is still missing? All those things stem from the connection between the friends and the connection has to be an internal connection.
S. (17:51) And there is also an external connection?
R. We have external connections between groups in all parts of the world and it is all useless. The difference between external and internal connection is that in the internal connection you have to demand to reveal the Creator and let him govern and in the external connection it is to reveal our unity and that we would govern.
Excerpt 2 (18:35)
7. R. (20:13) In other words our choice is in choosing the Creator as the upper force, the decisive force in everything, one unique and unified and we choose it not with respect to others but in respect to ourselves. I have nothing that can be or come before the Creator that determines and establishes everything. I am only the result of the Creator totally, and if I position myself accordingly this is called walking in his ways.
Reading 2 again
8. S. (22:31) That feeling that the Creator is the ruler depends on the vessels on the equivalence of form with the vessels?
R. Of course, each and every feeling to some extent comes through the equivalence of the vessels with what they are connected to and this is what you are talking about if you do not have an emotional connection in your vessels with something you cannot open your mouth about it. Then it is called philosophy or just something false altogether. We are speaking on the through attainment by your actions we know you, this is what the Sages tell us and they speak only from attainment. For the time being we are not because we are going to achieve it, really learn and get to where we are waking up surrounding lights but basically the Sages when they speak only out of clear attainment out of their own vessels.
9. S. (23:55) What choice does the person have?
R. The person's choice is to choose the Creator.
S. Does it depend on the person or the group?
R. The person has to position all the means, mainly they are the choice of the environment as we learned from The Freedom article, so it can help him direct him to get closer to the Creator, to approach the Creator do not need anything else only to constantly have this drive to get closer to the Creator through the environment.
10. S. (25:24) Is walking on the path of the Creator always asking to be in bestowal?
R. Yes of course, as much as possible move towards bestowal.
11. S. (25:46) Turning to the Creator depends on the personal effort of everybody?
R. If it is this way it is good that we all turn to the Creator out of the 10 together but even not out of the 10, even individually if the person is in the 10 and he is with the others and he turns to the Creator to wake up and correct the 10 and the person is in it, this is also good. The important thing is not to turn directly to the Creator alone only and want to receive something personally from the Creator, here is the problem, we need to see the right spiritual picture as much as possible and spiritual is not physically it is not according to our ego. It is when we are connected together and we ask for this togetherness. Then the Creator gladly takes care of us because he is directed, he is this force he is directed towards tending to the 10 together, this he wants to tend together this.
12. S. (27:27) In the 10 you have made me is when the Creator is revealed on the power of deficiency or it is dressed into the form we build?
R. The Creator dresses in the form that is suitable for him and according to the power that is suitable for the lower once it is according to the light and the power of the light it is revealed in the vessel.
13. S. (28:04) This topic you have made me really know that the Creator makes everything and here suddenly the created being is the most important, what is the idea?
R. The idea is very simple even though there is no other force and there is none else besides him it all operates to the extent we prepare our vessels. We can say, who repairs the vessels if not that Creator since there is none else besides him, I think so we have to say here that it is not like this man is given the permission to operate otherwise there is no room for us. That's where we have no right to exist and why should we exist but the Creator made these things in such a way that we really do have a way to express our willingness to want him to draw him against our nature. This is why he does not reach this condition that there is none else besides him because in this the operator against our nature.
14. S. (29:43) Is there a big difference between you have made me or you have made me so I can rule over you, how is this?
R. It cannot be there is a difference between them you have made me so I can govern youth this is how it should be better. For the first purpose of brevity, we say you have made me but who do you make you are building the upper force which was concealed and now it is revealed so it will tend to you, arrange you, organize you, correct you.
S. Yes, it writes that how can the person think that he makes the Creator only in order to rule over him as possible but previously it is just a written you have made me this is why I asked.
R. I understand about the purpose of brevity.
15. S. (30:52) What conditions should a person have so that he can get awakened from above so he can wake up from below?
R. The willingness and the consistency which entirely depends on the environment and therefore in the article giving of the Torah and Arvut, Baal HaSulam explains to us that everything depends on building the environment I belong to the environment I depend on the environment because if I am in the right environment, it is certain that I will flow accordingly. Then it is certain that I will achieve corrections while those who do not choose the environment, he writes that by this, the person prolongs the way and who knows when he can achieve it, there will be more and more lifecycles until at the end. You still have to find out that there is none else besides him, he is good that does good over every item, iota in his desire to receive, because otherwise there is no correction, correction is this, to crown the Creator over every desire.
16. S. (32:42) Before the Creator is revealed to the person this person lives in a reality that seemingly there is no Creator only the blind nature what should he imagine?
R. He should imagine that this upper force fills the whole of reality, all the worlds and governs over them and determines everything and then that person must come to a state where we can see this with his senses. You can see it with the senses only when the person yearns to acquire the sense of bestowal because according to this equivalence with the Creator, he will discover the Creator really is in bestowal and that he is omnipresent, that he is everywhere.
17. S. (33:44) That notion of the whole earth is filled with His glory, that Kabbalists sees through his senses does it change his choice by corporeal actions?
R. What corporeal actions are you talking about?
S. Any action by opening the computer, any action, what motivates me to do this but is my motivation to do a physical action compared to a person who sees the whole earth is filled with the Creator's glory, what motivates him and me?
R. What motivates is that he wants to approach none else besides him. What motivates you is that you want to see something, nonsense or something we type on the computer.
S. So the physical action is the same physical action?
R. Switching the button? Of course, it is the same action but then what we are not talking about the action, we are talking about the intentions, the reason for the action.
S. So that is the right preparation before an action that clears room for the Creator to be revealed.
R. That I want to discover only the single force that operates in the world in the whole reality everywhere because indeed this is what operates everything and want to be his partner in this.
18. S. (36:01) To what extent the choice of the environment is every choice is this also but the Creator gives us, giving us the right desires aiming us to the goal?
R. The Creator brings the person to the good fortune and tells you, take this then after begins the free choice because the person has to constantly choose this connection with their right environment and ever tighter connection with the environment.
19. S. (36:46) What is the meaning of a Sage having to determine above all desires there is none else besides him, is it that every desire that is aimed at the Creator above that extends none else besides him?
R. Of course, this is how I have to decide and work.
S. So ultimately over every desire the person sees that he should aim everything to the Creator?
R. Of course.
20. S. (37:33) I also wanted to continue this question, how can we do this in practice, I now connect to my friends that desires are revealed, how to pay attention to the Creator?
R. You need to approach initially, the connection with the friends or any activity, asking why you are doing it, you do this in order to get close to the Creator so accordingly you have to approach everything. In other words, the Creator comes first and in order to discover him, to approach and feel him, I do these things and I don't do anything in any desire, thought or action unless in order to approach this concept of the Creator. I want to flow with him, this is it. Not afterwards, after I do this then I asked where the Creator is here, no, to begin with it is called I am the first.
S. What does it mean to be in one flow with him?
R. You're going to constantly discover him since he is all operations in your thoughts, desires, action in everything you have, he is in there. Then you begin to discover how he operates in you, how behind the scenes, behind the thoughts, behind your drive, the Creator is there, everywhere. Actually, this is where he directs you from this is where we find him. If you want to find the Creator you have to look for him even before you look and how he begins to build you with all your questions and drives, desires and then you'll discover him. You will discover him in how the Creator builds you, establishes you, this is by your actions we know you.
20A. S. (40:03) What is this internal layer of the Creator standing behind everything, how does this work this internal layer of the Creator behind everything for example when we are together?
R. You need to try to discover this is called the guide who hides, so you need to pay attention to this and make efforts.
21. S. (40:54) It says that there is a moment when he sees the Creator rules over the whole world but how does this happen? How does this moment happen when the person sees this as the truth appearing that the person recognizes? Is this when the prayer is answered or it happens from the answer to the prayer, how does this happen, this attainment?
R. This is also done from above. We mainly have to do what we can do; it is the connection between us with the intention to the Creator but on our part by us together and then we do these things we establish him and discover him quickly.
22. S. (42:03) To complete the questions of the friends is the Creator of a gift that is a servant to the 10 at the end of the degree or you have made me in all the effort?
R. In every smallest effort to connect we have to try to bring out the Creator in every situation that he is the first and the last.
S. What is the difference between the revelation of the Creator in the degree or after the degree?
R. This you need to discover.
23. S. (42:46) So in that moment of revelation where is the free choice how can we still make a free choice where is the place for faith when a sage feels the revelation of the Creator, when Kabbalists feel that the whole world is full of His Glory?
R. The choice is in constantly exerting to discover him and we do not forget despite the concealment that the Creator is the one standing behind the wall.
S. And then he is revealed, where is the choice?
R. It is revealed one opposite to the other the more the Creator is revealed accordingly the evil inclination is revealed more all kinds of horse’s thoughts that dismiss is the presence of the Creator this for this ability this one unique and unified source that Creator keeps this so the person would have free choice.
S. So there is no revelation that is constant, permanent he shows himself for a moment and increases the desire to receive?
R. Of course everyone who is greater than his friends, his evil information is also greater each time a bigger selfish desire appears, you are not happy with it, what can I do.
S. It is not that I am not happy, it is just I don't understand, it is difficult to understand how it is possible that after the person has this impression of revealing the Creator even that the desire to receive grows the person already had this impression.
R. It doesn't matter, every impression you have is just a certain weight and measure so the person can forget about it, it is raised from the person as if it were not there even after the Creator reveals him after everything but about this it is written, don't believe in yourself until you die.
S. Even for a sage?
R. It does not matter what happened to you, you must not be certain that you are already guaranteed not you have a fall, you may have such a fall that you are in the worst possible situation, you are non-believer.
S. Ok but the place of choices on in the place of concealment nothing revelation.
R. Yes that we through these things to the state of revelation because even the revelation he wants to happen will be a revelation that won't break the place for work for us.
S. How does that happen?
R. By restriction screen reflected light when I shut my eyes I do not want to see as a fact that the Creator rules everything because I do not have work at all instead I to the extent I may be above my ego only to the extent I enable seemingly to the Creator to be revealed this is called one receives one.
S. So is he revealed or not?
R. Only to the extent you can control that he's a revelation that went through you from the degree of free choice.
S. How is this possible to control this?
R. Through restriction and the screen wait but we are coming closer to this all our work is nonetheless, more and more in the 10, in our connection then the qualities in us will be revealed inside us. We then will see how to do this now we do not yet understand how it is possible to compose these things.
24. S. (47:27) You just said that basically what I heard you say is that I have to constantly want to come to the state of complete confusion where I do not know where the Creator is and then start over each time. Is this true?
R. Let's say.
25. S. (47:55) I have two feelings: one is that I walk on a beautiful way. The other one is that I am in complete darkness. Just like today, I don't know. I don’t know if the 10 is working, I don't know the Creator, I don't know if He operates or not. I am in limbo. I do not know what will lead me, guide me, I do not know what to do.
R. I don't understand your question. Repeat, please, in a clearer manner.
S. There is a feeling that I am in a maze, in a labyrinth. I’m totally disoriented. I do not understand what I am doing.
R. So you are asking what to do in such a case, losing direction not knowing what to do? serve your group with all your strength and thought you have. Serve them. This is the only thing you hand yourself to. Believe me, you will see that the Creator is giving you an opportunity and from that you have a very big and important advancement. Annulling before the 10 and advancing this way, more and more to annul, and to serve them.
26. S. (49:58) In the scrutiny about the revelation of the Creator, I got the feeling it should be the opposite. That He’s the one that wants to reveal and I am the one who constantly place is the screen on Him and this is why I flirt with Him. Is this true?
R. Be it so, for the time being.
Excerpt 3 (50:29 - 53:58) twice
27. (54:02) What example, close to us in this world, can be given so as to demonstrate the rule, ‘you have made Me’?
R. In the human society, having no shape, from the relationship between us, we build the shape. The ‘goal’ according to this shape, we call it ‘servitude’ or ‘slavery’, ‘socialism’, democracy and so on. This is what we do in human society. And we build similarly as shape between us.
28. (54:48) Through the efforts we make to connect, in those efforts, how do we know that the qualities revealed are the qualities of the Creator?
R. Because these are qualities of bestowal. I feel that they are above my natural feelings of reception and that’s why this is what I think. So, this is what I feel, this is what I get. Besides that, I get an illumination from above in these qualities through which I can feel the presence of and proximity to the Creator.
29. (55:50) Why am I not being convinced that man has forechoice even though I submit myself that it is so?
R. Because it is comfortable. Why should I say there is free choice when there is no free choice? We do it every time and it’s the way you are comfortable and that how you think this is right. It is not you who thinks it is true but it is you, it’s your ego thinking. Because if you were to see or act according to the real intellect, the real mind, you would not do it.
30. (not a new stud. question -- also not translated)
R. Yes there is such a thing. We have talked about it a bit.
31. S. (57:03) He talks about the Shechina. What is the Shechina?
R. Shechina is general. The Creator is the light clothed in the Kli called Shechina, Ten Sefirot, and that we need to make such a connection between us to such an extent that there is no difference between the Creator which is the upper light and the vessels which is Divinity.
32. S. (57:44) What is the connection between me making the Creator and Him removing the concealment? Is there a connection?
R. Yes, one is called ‘an awakening from above’ and the other is called an ‘awakening from below’. This comes as either the result of the Creator's work or as the result of your work. There is a difference. We want all actions to ultimately be according to our work.
33. S. (58:38) Why do we say that the Creator does not exist and at the same time we are talking about His revelation which means that He exists. There is a difference between the concealment and ‘does not exist’. So, we are still a little bit confused?
R. The Creator exists or doesn't exist, this is something only the created being can talk about, if He is revealed to him or not. We only talk with respect to a person who attains. That is, it. That’s why you can say there is no Creator. Wouldn't you be right? You would be because there is no Creator, where is He? Where? He's not there, not anywhere. So, there is no Creator. Another person can say ‘what are you talking about? I feel He feels He’s filling the whole world, the whole universe. He even moved my hands and my feet. For him, it is this way. So, for some people it is this way, some don’t act at all. Who is correct? Anyone, everyone is correct according to his personal decree, his state.
34. S. (01:00:16) How in our practical work between our connections, how does what the Creator is given to us actually contribute to the building of Him in our connections?
R. Your practical work is to build the vessel to reveal the Creator. Our work is when we build our desires in such a form in which the Creator, the upper force, is revealed according to equivalence of form. This is why I suppose I have built a vessel, and this vessel, the upper force if it is suitable to this vessel, fills it. This is just like Rabash says, “that we keep the water or the one in the jugs and flour in bags”. It is not the other way around. This is what we need. To adapt ourselves to the Creator. The Creator is the force of bestowal. “The Force,” there is no such thing, but we can establish our actions, our desires, one to the other, one with respect to the other, each one to the friends, each one to his 10, that he is in bestowal. That he is coming closer to them, connecting to them. To that extent he comes close to that force that acts in the 10. He is coming close to the Creator until the Creator is revealed.
S. What is it that helps me not ‘to chew on my own flesh’ but actually the specific flavor that the Creator is giving me -- to turn that over to Him practically -- and I'm not localize it to myself, personally?
R. It helps you to advance faster. and not personally, if it can revolve around and manipulate you. In a general way you draw everyone to connection.
35. S. (01:03:23) A master chess player burns thousands of calories just from concentrating. I remember you once also told a story of how Rabash would burn thousands of calories from focusing. When I reflect on my own life, I don't think I’m burning thousands of calories. I’m wondering where is this effort that we can make -- is it in the mind? How does it happen that we can be so active?
R. If I am connected to my friends in the 10 and I try to turn to them more, what turns out is, by this, I burn many calories. I give a lot of strength to that because it goes against my desire, my habits, against everything. Then it turns out that I come to even the smallest tendency towards connection is a result of a great exertion of thousands of kilos of strength. Yes, this is the way it is. So don't despair. We don't know how active we are. The smallest word you say as if it is in order to bestow and not an action, even one word is worth a lot.
36. S. (01:05:00) He writes that “if a person performs corrections in the root of his soul, he feels His greatness”. The question is: it is very difficult for me. I pray for the friends each day. That is the connection that I have for now. So, the question is saying that the Creator is revealed in the 10?
R. So what’s the question, how to reveal the Creator between us in the 10?
S. Yes, what does it mean?
R. To build such a relationship as if you are building the Creator. You are like children sitting in the sandbox, playing, building some castle or something, that is how you are. Participating together, wanting to build something common between us. That is a common force which engages in everyone. You build such an image that will help all of us, it will connect us all. It is between us in our center. We are sitting in the sandbox and that’s how we build Him to such an extent that He starts acting and activating us. This is how we reach the revelation in the created beings. I don’t know what other examples to give you.
S. Concerning our efforts, my whole effort, where is it better? Is it better that my friends approach the Creator or that I approach the Creator, where should my effort focus?
R. By having your friends come closer to the Creator. You are in charge of your 10 and you have a good time. So, you are in charge over your 10 to come to all of them, that all of them will come closer to the Creator. This is how each one should feel. But each one, doesn't matter, the main thing is that you feel and realize it and everyone, all the time, that your concerns will only be about that. Don't think about anything else because you have no other way to affect spirituality except to push the 10 to connection to such an extent it will become clear to them that between them lies the Creator.
37. S. (01:08:07) According to the excerpt, what is the unification of Zeir Anpin and Malchut?
R. Basically, you can say it is a connection between the Creator and the created being. When Zeir Anpin is like the Creator and Malchut is like the created being -- the unity of the Creator and Divinity, Kudsha Brichu and Shachinti. The unity, unification of the Creator which is the first 9 Sefirot in the Partzuf with Shechina, which is Malchut. We are yet to see this. We also have to scrutinize. Yesterday we learned a little bit that we have 7 Sefirot in ZAT of the Partzuf, in the Guf of the Partzuf, and 3 in the Rosh of the Partzuf, right? So, we need to scrutinize these things.
S. But Malchut, in that state, is it the common desire of the 10 or my personal Malchut above which I have to rise and restrict?
R. Malchut is your relation, your attitude to the environment. So, with 3 Sephirot we spoke about belonging to the circles -- Keter, Hochma and Bina -- and the 7 Sefirot belong to the created being. [Rav references drawing] Here is the Creator and here is the created being. From the qualities of the Creator, we have Keter, Hochma and Bina. Later we have 7 Sephirot from which 6 are Zeir Anpin, and one Sefirot, being Malchut. All of our work is in the way we adapt these 7 Sephirot to the Creator. Well, we’ll learn this. For me, it makes no difference if we learn TES or how we’re learning now. We're talking about one created being. It is only a different language.
38. S. (01:11:56) Concerning today's topic, it was difficult for me because half the lesson went by
and I didn't understand why the created being should reveal the Creator when we say most of the time we are advancing with the intention or yearning to reveal Him?
R. It’s the same thing -- either I want to reveal Him or I want to build Him because I built Him for myself. What does it mean ‘you have made Me?’ We are taking our parts, our desires, thoughts, all of the forces, and we organize them in such a way in order to build the Creator from them. ‘Come and See’ how we can depict the Creator. Like a child who is sitting in a sandbox and he builds, he makes the sand into a car or a house. The material is his, everything is his, and what he built out of sand or bricks, that’s his. This is how we do. We see that there is only one force that awakens us, to begin with. This is called the ‘general Providence’ that comes through the circles, through the circles it comes to us. We have the personal Providence that comes through the line [referencing drawing] and this is how we build our world. The general Providence, I don't really control, it’s the Creator controls that. As opposed to some Russian or American, or, I don’t know, some Iranian won’t blow up some A-bomb. So, the Creator guards that through the general Providence but through the personal Providence I build the world in a corrected way. The Creator corrupted the world and I correct until I reach a state that the world is corrected. And it all depends upon me.
S. Can it be said that if we, with our yearning, want to discover the quality of the Creator. Can I say that I am yearning to discover in the 10, that it is a presentation of the quality of the Creator? How is the 10 influencing me?
R. Yes.
39. S. (01:16:05) What does it mean to live with Him being the ruler?
R. I don't know what to tell you how it is to live. You will live this way and you will see what it is. It is like you asking me what it means to be a king, try to live like a king and then you can say what it is. How can we talk about it if you don't attain it?
40. S. (01:16:50) You said that Malchut is my relationship to the 10. Can we say the Malchut is the relation of the environment to the Creator?
R. Yes of course, if I connect to the 10 it is already our collective, our general Malchut to the Creator.
S. If the 10 connects to the Creator and a person discovers for example that the whole earth is full of his glory,
R. Don't ask such things that are completely not yet according to what we have to talk about, they are already to reach a state that you are talking about they have to be connected to Bina already. It comes first.
41. S. (01:18:15) There are two excerpts that are difficult to connect, one is everything is in the hands of the Creator except fear of the Creator and the other one is before they call, I will answer, how do I combine the two verses together?
R. So if they contradict, they contradict, get used to living in contradiction as you don't yet understand it doesn't yet connect together, it will connect later. When? So, I will tell you, we learn TES and we want to learn it in a way that relates to us not theoretically so whenever the circles have reached the state that it may be like Yosher and that this straightness maybe like the circles then all the questions will be solved and it will be like the day we say that He and His name will be One. The final correction.
42. S. (01:19:40) It feels like the right individual reaction to the Creator's gift is to pray for the 10 as Malchut for the upper nine Sephirot when we experience happiness in the 10, shouldn't the first action to be pray for the world Kli the same way?
R. Yes, you should specifically feel that there is heaviness in the 10 that you can embrace together and cancel this heaviness, not that it will disappear altogether but to rise above it, to devour it and to rise through it. This is how you should do it as it is an opportunity and if you don't get some burdening of the heart, a heaviness of the heart it is a sign you're not worthy of the ascent.
43. S. (01:21:00) You said for you, the excerpts we read and the study of TES are the same, why are we exerting to study TES if it is all the same?
R. It is a different language upon which you can explain in a more concrete, inclusive and general way for everyone, you can also explain in this language, the spiritual actions, at least to talk about them in a way of a spoken language, you cannot. But specifically TES, it is not only TES, there are many books like this, written before ARI or Baal HaSulam, that you don't have a choice you need a language to explain something to people that are not yet in spirituality so that they will get interested in come closer to spirituality and this is what you need to explain to people like you, that are already in a spiritual content so one can help his friend, in what language can you help. So, this is why they composed and found the language of branches by which they can pass on from one generation to another, a thousand years ago has one lift today and another how did they understand each other, there are many things to this and we need to learn the study of 10 Sephirot and the main thing is that we will learn the study of TES just like we learn the articles.
Excerpt 4 (01:23:26)
44. S. (01:24:57) It says here according to the rule that it must be equivalence of form between the giver and the receiver as it is known that the receiver also must have the aim to bestow like the giver so does that mean that we have to first receive the intention to bestow or can we build intention by ourselves?
R. Our whole work is how to build the intention to bestow in this is what all the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about, only that.
45. S. (01:25:51) In the past few days we have exerted to get to the lesson with joy and now we are concerned of how to do the work correctly in order to lift the vessel to the world Kli to keep the lesson strong and alert and correct. Is our concern behind the scenes correct or do we need to do something else?
R. That is not enough, you have to awaken us every half hour every 45 minutes put a song on, and I forgot about it. When I learn these things, it's for me, like poetry, it is like a song but we really do need a song.
Excerpt 5 (01:32:08) Twice
46. R. (01:33:15) That's how it is, only our heart is what the Creator wants to fill it with his own presence.
47. S. (01:33:26) I wanted to ask we see that lately this whole covid-19 time changed our form of connection of our meetings, of our attitude to the lesson if we in the past look for a place to meet now it's all virtual and the whole attitude to building the spiritual connection between us now it's something that has to go through some sort of an upgrade.
R. Lately many of us, many new friends are with us, that are outside of Israel, a very big group, a few times more than what we have in Israel. I don't know the numbers exactly but we need to find out how many 3 times more than what we have in Israel. It's a very large amount of people, a precious amount of people very close to us and important to us and if we begin to do all kinds of activities in Israel because it's a small country then for instance when I was in New York, to move from Manhattan to somewhere else like Brooklyn, these distances take a long time. In Israel you can go from one end to the other very easily so for us it's not a problem to organize a physical activity. For a friend in various places in the world it's extremely difficult and it's unsustainable and that's going to create separation between us. That's why we have to think how to do it so that those who can make a connection they can do it and those who can't they there has to be some sort of a completion for that we have to think about it I don't know and I think that this is a problem that you all need to solve I don't have any means for that.
S. So it seems like the external chance circumstances changed everything and we have to deal with it or I'm asking is it a state that we need to think of how to upgrade the connection between us, how to upgrade our attitude to spirituality. Do we have to build in some other way because we got used to certain forms?
R. Let's put it like this you start discussing this in your 10 that in your relevant country talk about it and then I will open it up for a bit of discussion and I'll participate. Let us see what is clear for us that we know I don't need this or that because I see in your 10 and you got your friend sitting next to you and surely, he has different thoughts than you so even inside your 10 you will see that there are many different views. Some will tell you that this is convenient than the other would say that that's convenient and I'm not saying that it is not worthwhile but I'm looking at an action that will not push away the tens that are with us from overseas. That they will all be more or less in the same state as hours so when we do one thing they will do the same and the distance and separation would not become between us we need to feel that we are all under the same conditions, that we're in a circle, that is my problem, that's my concern. If you have a solution for getting closer, whatever kind of closeness wherever it is in the world, if it brings everyone together then I'm willing, understood.
48. S. (0139:05) I heard you say that the temple we're building would be a place for where the Creator will receive what we want him to give him.
R He wants to be inside and he wants to be revealed in us, this should be like the corrected vessel of Adam HaRishon and then it will help us.
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ach actions in order to bestow so that we can understand what is going on. It's called that from your deeds we will know you only from doing the deeds we will understand what the Creator is what his nature is, what our is relations and the way this takes place in us. We will be able to know and understand that that's the way it is about that it says that there is no wise than the experienced until this happens to you even in this world will see that it's like that so we will try to perform these actions in the 10 and then we will understand what the essence of it is and we understand what the Creator does.
21. S (39:34) Is it possible to identify when we make an action of bestowal, if we do it we feel that the light passes through us but it leaves a sense of fulfillment, is that correct?
R. Yes, of course.
22. S. (40:15) How can there be a state that the reflected light and direct light are unequal?
R. They're not equal, only equal there in the middle when they are 5 and 5.
S. But reflected light is according to the influence upon the created beings.
R. So created being bestowing to the Creator.
S. So it's the created being’s attitude towards the light now.
R. This is the created being attitude towards the Creator. The Creator wants to give him everything, he wants to fill all these vessels with the light but the created beings, no, he says I will receive from you only to the extent that I can pay. So according to the payment he can receive, his payment is the screen as much as you can thank the Creator and received from him only in order to give him contentment. He doesn't want to receive in order to enjoy, he wants to receive in order to give joy that's why here is where they meet in the middle.
S. The direct light is what the created beings can't receive?
R. It's what the created being is about to receive when he dresses it in the reflected light.
S. So that's why I don't understand, so it takes the direct light, takes the reflected light and gives them back to the Creator, so how can it be more reflected light than the direct light?
R. As much as the created being received from the Creator, he dresses it in the reflected light and brings the back of the Creator that's why it's only to the amount of the created being can receive.
23. S. (42:46) What can we say about our work in the 10 that relates to the ….
R. I have to relate to the Creator through the friends so only by the love of the created beings I reach the love of the Creator.
24. S. (43:23) You said that the reflected light in the direct light brings inner light but I thought that reflected light is external to ask can you explain that?
R.
The
clothing
of
direct
light
in
the
reflected
light,
this
is
called
these
two
lights
are
called
inner
light,
that's
when
the
guests
tells
the
host
that
I
can
receive
from
you
only
what
I
can
return
to
you
and
then
the
host
agrees
to
that
and
then
the
guest
checks
according
to
his
will
to
bestow
how
much
you
can
receive.
Then
the
host
clothes
in
the
light
of
the
guest
and
then
they
both
receive
and
he
enjoys
from
the
light
himself
and
gets
joy
from
returning
the
light
because
he's
causing
pleasure
to
the
host.
S.
The
inner
light
that
I
receive,
is
it
because
I
can
give
him
in
a
vessel
that
is
external
to
me.
R. More or less but you are thinking correctly.
25. S. (46:08) It’s not clear when he said that it feel like you're so that it says that in Malchut that there has to be the Sephira of Yesod?
R. We will speak about it later.
26. S. (46:37) The appearance fear Is that the result of the relationship between all the Sephirot?
R. Correct all the individual Sephirot come from the inner calculations, we will learn it friends. Everything you're asking about there's so much material about it let's advance in TES and you will see as much as everybody will receive all the answers no problem. It's not such a problem of the wisdom, the problem is in us to understand it because for this we need to change ourselves to correct ourselves but the wisdom itself is very simple just like the host and the guest. The problem is that the guests that wants to give joy to the host, we need to learn how to do it and then we can actually practice it.