Morning Lesson Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.
Morning Lesson November 5, 2020
Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”, #73
1. Rav’s Introduction:
Let's read the excerpt itself. I just saw that the excerpt itself pretty much organizes us, arranges us for the lesson correctly.
*Excerpt #73 Reader (00:43 - 1:56)*
2. R. In other words first of all we try as we said lately as we've been saying recently that we want to be above reason meaning, I know what I want, how I see life, how I look at the Binah, the degree of faith and I try to relate to everything in this way through Bina, and when I see the gap between what I was like before I clothed and after I clothed it Binah that's the difference between me and the Creator between reason and faith above reason. As Rabash says here I have to criticize, can I have the right relation to reality only above reason, only as I imagine the Creator, or can I already have this relationship to truly be in me and determine my approach to reality constantly. Meaning what I attained above the outlook on the world, the way the Creator sees it, that this will become my view. I once again picture what above reason could be like and then again I try to make it my view in that way I rise from below reason to above reason, from my degree to the degree of the Creator and each time I try to do this along the way, of course that I see that I can't and then I ask the Creator and then my prayer should yield the reaction the answer that what I imagine, as being as looking at the world with faith above reason. Now I begin to see that after I ask and try, it truly becomes my view so that's how I rise from state to state. These states are still only in my internal perception, not in the actual reality where I replace one world with another the corporeal world with the spiritual world, but we gradually approach it and we try and after a few such exercises when we don't quit. Each moment we want to be in these jumps from within reason to above reason, when we do this we are rewarded with the Creator lets us Into the degree above reason so that it becomes my reason and my view, so each time I make an effort to raise from my reason to above reason to see the world through the eyes of the Creator the way I can imagine it from reception to bestowal. I ask the Creator to help me and define the degree above reason and that's how we rise.
Excerpt 73 Reader repeats (6:29 - 7:40)*
3. R. For the Creator to truly elevate him to the degree of above reason and from there he will determine his relation to life, approach towards life and in this way when he agrees he will think what else is there in above reason because this becomes his reason and his view so this is how he rises each time from reason to above reason and then because his reason he rises further above reason. He criticizes, he is not ashamed, he prays and this is our way. This is the work we should do everyday, every single moment. And it's okay if a person sees that all of a sudden he didn't scrutinize, he didn't criticize yesterday and he forgot about it for half a day. We can always complete it today, compliment it today and that's how he constantly advances.
4. R. (9:09) Rav’s Reads Item 73: When did he come to the importance of spirituality when he asks the Creator to see the importance in the eyes of the Creator, through the eyes of the Creator how good it is to be in connection. When I imagine when I depict to myself have a spiritual state, the spiritual world, the spiritual approach is sublime and special, this is called one should always establish the praise of the Creator meaning how the Creator’s nature, the Creator himself is great then is the time when he must shift to the left line. What is the left line? Meaning he must criticize how he truly feels the importance of the King, not how he sees everything through the eyes of the Creator, how it is in his eyes but how it is in his own eyes. If he is truly willing to work only for the sake of the Creator in bestowal. When he sees within reason. he is bare and destitute, he can't, it's not his degree he can't depict himself for some time what it means to be in bestowal, connection, love in the qualities of Bina. But it's not really his, it is only some sort of a fantasy. In that state he sees that he is bare and destitute, that it is not his, that state when he sees, the importance of spirituality but only above reason, so he can imagine it. It's like this is the degree of the Creator and I can somehow imagine it being so. That calculation creates in him deficiency and pain because it's not mine. When I picture that state of connection, love, bestowal, it's not mine, and if I picture it, I feel myself even more lacking for being in utter loneliness. So that criticism, the gap between the two degrees, mine and the Creator creates a deficiency and pain. Then he can make a heartfelt prayer precisely when he feels the gap between my state and what I should be like in above reason. From that I feel pain and that gives me the ability to pray, here we must not remain in sorrow but to turn the feeling of sorrow into a feeling of prayer, that prayer is very effective. The Creator answers quickly such a request from a person when a person wants to be in the degree of bestowal, the degree of Bina, the degree of the Creator. He asks for this if he makes efforts and calculated and came to the prayer then he gets the answer to prayer
5. S. (13:40) What state do we need to receive the greatness of the Creator within or above reason?
R. The greatness of the Creator certainly above reason, how can you feel the Creator within reason, but once you somehow picture the greatness of spirituality and you then check and see what I have compared to this, then you got the gap between the two degrees and out of that sensation you raise a prayer.
6. S. (14:37) It looks like they say in the article that one must shift to the left line as if one must ask for the left line, we always learned that the Creator , how are we supposed to get this article?
R. Both are true. If I am already on the right, if I already imagine how I should see the world through the force of bestowal in the eyes of the Creator, in faith above reason. If I picture it this way then I criticize it, is this in me above reason, meaning am I already fantasizing this, what it means to be in bestowal, in connection and love, to see spirituality if I were in it. So I see the gap between me and spirituality and that gap is good because I out of this difference out of this gap between what I want and what I have, what I have is what I have now with in my reason and what I want is the degree of bestowal of Bina, I would like to be in. So out of those two degrees where I have the gap between them, out of that I can activate a request the Creator help me rise in my qualities to the degrees of faith above reason of bestowal above reason. do this for me and because I asked to be close to the Creator to be similar to him, to achieve some level of adhesion with him, then of course this request it comes out of me, out of pains, out of feeling the deficiency of feeling where I am and where I would like to be that deficiency works as MAN. Then I impel the upper degree, the Creator to bring down MAD to me the power of correction and then acquire that higher degree that was in me as faith above reason, now I acquire it as reason as my view and I stand on it, I understand and feel within reason. Now in reason what is spirituality? Every person that goes with faith above reason acquires a bigger and higher reason and that way ascends from above reason to within reason, from above reason to within reason, he turns what was above reason for him to within reason and then he rises to a higher degree which is above his reason and that's how we ascend how we climb. This is actually the only spiritual action we need to learn. It goes on and you climb each time to a higher level, in other words I am in my state, I see this world, I imagine what it must be like to be on the spiritual level in bestowal in connection in adhesion in all the states we can imagine in spirituality, I try as much as possible to adapt myself, to adjust myself to it, and then I ask the Creator to elevate me to that quality of bestowal, the quality of Bina, and if he grants me this and he does it with my real deficiency, then I rise to that higher degree. Then instead of imagining what it means to be in bestowal in spirituality and loving and connection, I'm already in it to some extent and then well of course I thank the Creator instead of the litany, the prayer of request, I give Him thanks the, prayer of gratitude. I thank him for doing this miracle for me, elevating me to the first spiritual degree and then again, I imagine what it must be at a higher level, to see through the eyes of the Creator's reality. Again, I see the gap between my degree and that degree between reason and above reason and again I ask the Creator to elevate me because I want to be in this and this is how we were. Try it will have more words between us and we will perform actions, this is called practical Kabbalah.
7. S. (20:58) This wonderful spiritual where it seems like an individual where can we do it inside the ten?
R. It's not individual work, it is individual, but I do it from within the ten, because I speak about connection, love, adhesion among the friends and together we are adhered and with the Creator we come to a state where we're all together and you can't really distinguish us, tell us apart. That's the state you want to come to, where we lose ourselves and feel instead of me, I feel the group. That's how we come to a state where we feel the whole Kli of Adam HaRishon as one, that's our whole correction where we come to our state, from Adam Harishon from the broken Souls we come all together this is how we should picture ourselves each time. So when I feel myself alone it's correct, but where do I aspire to be connected with the whole ten in one vessel. Spirituality is increasing connection. nothing else among us through the upper force that the Creator gives us, okay.
8. S. (23:02) This is similar to the state of the awakening of the dawn, can you explain if there is a connection between them or a contradiction between two states?
R. Yes, you're right that's the way it is, it is called awakening the dawn, correct.
9. S. (23:40) If the prayer is a request from the heart of the friends, why should I always ask for what I'm lacking, am I canceling my desire?
R. What I am lacking is to make all the friends, including me, connected to such a degree that we will create out of this the right Kli, the right vessel for the revelation of the Creator which is really his whole purpose, all he wants to be revealed in the lower ones.
10. S. (24:36) The last line is it appears that this line is revealed specifically from a friend?
R. I don't know what you're saying and I don't want to talk about it, listen to what I'm saying and do this. Simple
11. S. (25:06) Let's say that a person can rise to the connection with the friends, how to start looking for that deficiency correctly?
R. Once I come to a state where I picture spirituality compared to my state, what I should have, everyone is in bestowal, everyone is in love, everyone is in connection, everyone is in a beautiful, uniform, way. After that I see I kind of establish in front of me, in my fantasy as if it's like that, but when I picture it I feel myself as being in the quality of bestowal, as being in equality of love and then I returned to myself and I see that I am totally unrelated to this, out of this, but I already have two degrees and the gap between them. Then out of the gap between them I can raise a prayer to the Creator and ask to raise me from my degree to a degree above reason and then begin to feel that he does try and practice. Practice it and you will see that he elevates us from the degree of within reason to above reason. and then we begin to see the world in some sort of connection in bestowal, in some Hitkalelut, some mingling, we begin to see some correction in the general souls and it's not imagination, it exists as well. All those states exist, it just depends on those who see or don’t see it. It is like a baby compared to a grown-up, a grown-up sees many more things in the same reality where he is physically with a baby but the baby doesn't see it. So are we, only discovering things that already exist, nothing already changes, only from the perspective of the attaining individual.
S. I turned myself to add in bestowal, to add more to this degree above reason do I understand this correctly?
R. What you had within reason you now rise above reason and in this becomes your new reason, your new view, it's a new degree of reason. What was above reason becomes your reason and then you can imagine what is even higher than that in faith above reason, so Malchut always rises to Bina so to speak and when you're in Bina you say no that's not enough I want a higher level of Bina, greater faith above reason and that's how you constantly rise each time.
S. Maybe I'm asking for Achoraim instead of bestowal to be in?
R. No, you can't rise if you're constantly in bestowal, you have to feel that you are in bestowal and reception. With two levels you rise on the degrees with two it becomes my reason, my new degree. I ask to rise from it to a higher level above reason to faith, that is how faith becomes reason, it's Malchut that becomes higher and higher and higher to BIna. Start working and you'll see we have to start implementing it in practice, we'll see how Rabash writes it. Read this Excerpt 73 several times until you see that if you have questions, no problem.
11A. S. (30:28:) Should we see the world through the Creator's eyes, is it a result of annulling before the ten?
R. Yes, what does that mean what do Kabbalists write for us, what does Rabash writes for us Articles about Society, he only says if you're a little bit more corrected then you should be in this or that state that's it it's always we read in the wisdom of Kabbalah, they depict for us our next corrected states, following more corrected states, that's it.
12. S. (31:36) About what you were just explaining to be completely immersed in that point in that thought in that request in that prayer is that the meaning of being connected in mind and heart to the Creator?
R. I can't say that it's connected to the Creator there are additions here but to the ten certainly.
13. S. (32:12) We say that we should not ask for ourselves so what does it mean to speak a heartfelt prayer what does it mean to ask a heart-felt rare if we don't ask for ourselves?
R. I didn't understand you at all, a heartfelt prayer means to pray from the biggest most internal desire I have. Okay?
14. S. (33:19) This work is throughout all of the day, at the lesson or outside, is there a difference?
R. All the time, no differences, all the time.
S. This work I can do only if I work on the connection during the lesson and it gives you the strength....?.
R. Start working you still have no discernment, start and you'll have an accurate question.
15. S. (34:09) Within reason we understand that we are opposite from spirituality, you said that we need to with the ten and through the ten we need to attain true greatness of spirituality so what actions do we need to do?
R. Connection, connection what's with you? This whole work within reason, above reason is mainly in the ten, also with respect to the world because we're working with the general correction, all of reality but it's mainly, within the ten. If I want to imagine the next degree it is that we are connected into one body although we have different desires, different points in the heart, that we want to connect them all into one point and we ask the Creator to connect them. To the degree that these points are connected together he can be revealed this is the revelation of the Creator to the created being, he cannot be revealed to one person's there's no place in the person. He can show himself there has to be at least two people and then there's a gap between them and as much as they try to connect between them there is a plus or minus and the difference between them and the difference between them is where the Creator is revealed.
16. S. (36:07) Explain that along the way you reach the point that you become incapable then you pray, what does it mean that you can become incapable?
R. If there is a different level compared to how I imagine the degree Binah, there is me and there is how I picture spirituality and there is a difference between them, a gap and then I pray because I want to be on the level that I picture spirituality.
S. There is value to a person where he's unable to pray and trying nevertheless he tries to pray?
R. There's no there's no such thing as being able, to pray, to being able to rise above reason?
S. The feeling that he now sees that there is above reason and that he's not there, how to make it real, how not to do it within reason, how do we know it's not reason who's telling him?
R. Read this article 10 times, split it into pieces, study it, examine it and then we'll talk. You haven't grasped what he's writing here not only but this is what I recommend.
17. S. (38:00) Each time we acquire the next degree it's within reason does that make it easier for the rest of the path?
R. It doesn’t make our way easier this is the way itself, when I constantly elevate myself from within reason to above reason and above reason becomes my new reason and then I perform the same action of raising myself to a higher level of faith above reason, this is called a spiritual ascent from within reason to above reason and then I elevate myself even more to above reason and that's how the degrees work, that's the ladder.
S. And then it becomes harder each time?
R. Why are you thinking about difficult, I don't understand these questions, you're not asking about what to do, rather you philosophize, it's difficult, does it help us, it doesn't help us, you're not asking about the work itself but about everything else, which are completely unimportant.
18. S. (39:25) Many times when we do the same action when we describe the correct attitude that we want to have between us like we have to be above reason there's pain from the gap and actually a request goes up but many times when the gap appears it's felt that we don't really want to bestow we don't reveal a prayer there's a gap but there's no pain in that state?
R. There need be pain, why should there be pain, I need to be delighted that I can even imagine that there's a state above my reason, that spirituality is connection, love, consideration, adhesion with one another and with the Creator that is between us and I can imagine a more corrected state and as a result of this. I begin to see how from seeing the situation as Rabash said the person goes back to his let's read it again.
Rav Reads....Once a person begins to feel the importance of spirituality, bestowal above reason which is called one should establish the praise of the Creator, meaning how great spirituality is, how great in terms of its value, then is the time, when a person should shift to the left line what is the left line? Meaning he must criticize how he truly feels in reason the importance of the King. Meaning, he must now to feel it from his current state within reason, the importance of the Creator that you measure compared to that, if he's truly willing to work for the sake of the Creator in his current state, in spirituality, He mentions it this way that you can work for the sake of others for everyone. When he sees within reason that he is bare and destitute that he doesn't want any of it, he doesn't care, he doesn't yearn for it. That's state when he sees the importance of spirituality, that spirituality is not important to him in his reason. It is only above reason in him, that calculations the gap in degrees in his feelings in his mind and heart, when he feels the gap between the degrees that calculation can create in him deficiency and pain why am I not in it, and for being an utter loneliness when he sees the gap between spirituality and corporeality then that gives him the ability to give a heartfelt prayer for what he lacks, because he really lacks the rise to the spiritual level.
S. In the state where he sees that he's deficient where the gap is revealed then by the Opposite State when he doesn't laugh and he doesn't want to bestow, but it doesn't want to be there what is that state?
R. You don't want to be in spirituality?
S. Yes, that is what appears.
R. You came to the doctor and I'm telling you it's very good that you feel that you don't want spirituality, you're not lacking it, but you know a little bit about what is spirituality compared to corporeality and you know that you don't want it. I remember such things, I remember I would constantly smoke and then the doctor told me, you have to quit you have to quit for many years. I wouldn't quit, so there are times when a person are in the bad but doesn't recognize in the bad and there's a difference between in the bad and recognized in the bad so you don’t recognize it yet. So what are you to do, you've got the group, you've got the lessons and you continue, more and more and then the reforming light influences you and you'll come to what you want as you'll see that your friends are already asking the questions that you don't even imagine these questions and they already understand my answers. You have no understanding about these answers and you don't have the questions and you don't have the answers as well. So out of envy you will start wanting because you don't have it. It will awaken at some point in some way for sure. For sure you say I don't care I can remain the way I am, I'm happy this way, that too is a spiritual state, it is a spiritual state. Even the state of I prefer to die than live, is also a spiritual state, so keep going and that's what's important just keep going and what the mind doesn't does not do, time does and the lights constantly work and the more you're in the ten and the ten draws the light and they influence you, so don't worry and you'll advance together with them.
19. S. (46:08) The quality of the will to receive does it change when we acquire the intention and how do we not fall into the will to receive and use it for our own benefit?
R. You'll fall so what, why don't worry about it you don't need to worry about the state you're going to go through. You're not in charge of all those things, your mind, your understanding, the entire system, where you're falling to, where you're not, you need to worry about one thing only. How do I raise myself to a higher degree, simple. That's what's ahead of me, there's this path and I'm crossing it through a narrow trail that's it. What's happening on the sides everything, demons, ghosts, world's, Partzufim, influencing me this way. Also in this world, look at the disturbances we have, I don't care about it, I completely don't care about it. I look at all through these narrow tiny holes and I'm looking through it, that's the only thing I'm looking at. It's like when you wish to aim a rifle at a target, you look at nothing else, there's only you, the target and the connection between them. Everything will fall into place, there's going to be problems and big mess around you, but you need to know this is my reason, this is above reason and what's above reason I need to make into my new view, into my reason, my new reason and that's the new degree. You will see what Rabash is writing in his articles about the society, he's writing about that precisely, how do we raise from reason to above reason. This is the entire reason for writing the short articles, how to be integrated in the ten.
S. How do you know if you're working correctly or not, is this what you're talking about?
R. If I know that I'm doing good or not, I open Rabash’s articles about society and I check myself, am I doing what's written there or not? That's it if I do what is written there it's good if I don't it's possible that I am making a mistake and it's bad. Only in this way.
19A. S. (50:57) When the ten praises the Creator and I feel that I'm not on their level and that envy from not being with them, can elevate me to their level, that prayer, what is it about not having connection with the friends to rise to their level? Or because I'm in these lowly states?
R. We constantly check ourselves relative to the ten we need to understand that the Creator he's arranging all of it for us there's none else besides Him who determines our state both the individual and collective. If I feel that I'm not in connection with the ten then it's arranged from above. But the fact that it's arranged from above, doesn’t mean I need to calm down, the Creator's doing it for me, he arranged it for me so that I would advance and each state that we feel the worst possible state is felt on us only as a means for advancement. In each and every degree, whatever it may be, it's a means for advancement and I need to rise higher from it, from and the worst state, the higher the leap I can make from them. So, I recommend to you not to enter into your feelings. Rather stay on track, be more heroic that each time whatever I do I need to act, it's coming from the Creator, He's arranging my inner world and I need to locate, scrutinize what I should do? Whether or not I know it also in the connection with the Creator I need to scrutinize and that's what I do I need to make the Creator a constant partner in all these states never let go of him in the higher state in between the two you're always with the Creator then you will see how successful our problem is that.
20. S. (53:09) What is more powerful an awakening from above or from below?
R. It's hard to say the Creator works through all those states from above from below, through the friends. Kind of in this indirect way through others it's hard to say. We have to acquire the general form of the situation and how I by using that state I can achieve bestowal I can come to the group, to the humanity and to the Creator, specifically in this way from the love of the people to the love of the Creator so how I can operate myself.
21. S. (54:33) Sometimes you have this lack of spirit, sometimes you feel like you have to give, that you don't want to give and that really gives you a bad mood because of clash of values because you know you have to give, how do I rise to Binah what is the technique?
R. I can't tell you more than I'm telling you, all the rest you have to find in your work truly. In those efforts there you will find the correct behavior, the correct actions you should do and then you read again the verses that we are preparing for the lesson and then you will see the trail, that straight trail to implementing them realizing that but I have no more. I'm explaining to you things that are truly realistic, everything that's ahead of us on the path. Try each time to realize them. Let's say 20 times a day imagine that you're in the state of reason, what does it mean above reason, how do I ask the Creator to be in faith above reason, how do I check myself where am I and where should I be in faith above reason. How do I activate my prayer, what is it for exactly, what are the elements of the prayer, what are the details I'm asking for to change? Try to chew it and then you'll begin to feel what is in all those states. Don't ask me about each and every tiny detail. try to understand by yourself to feel. A child does not wait for the grown-ups to help him rather he is constantly trying to do things by himself.
22. S. (57:04) When the Creator awakens in a person the state of above reason this is a loan actually completes the degree and the reward is when it changes within reason?
R. I didn't speak about this at all where the Creator described to us the next degree in above reason. We're talking about depicting to ourselves what the degree above reason is.
22A. S. (57:50) Yesterday after the morning lesson throughout the day I felt that I'm with the friends effortlessly thinking about them praying to the Creator, what is that states that my reason and only as a state?
R. Clarify it onwards, check beyond that and look at what we talked about today.
S. Why is this scrutiny that a person brings into a prayer, within reason and then strengthens even more the faith above reason?
R. The scrutiny is probably not correct, what does he want to have within reason? We are in that prayer within reason every time, every person in the world, everyone in the world is in the next prayer all the time want to clarify within reason and our work is just to depict the states above reason and try to rise to them and ask for them.
S. It seems like if a person goes within reason breaks left and seize the gap between the existing and the desirable, this is to show that the within reason is not enough, he has to aspire for within reason to be better?
R. No, if he goes back to scrutinize himself within reason then it has to be to bring forth a prayer that he has to rise above reason. That's exactly what he writes here. He writes here then the time is where he has to shift to the left line and see how he really feels within reason the importance of the King if he's truly to only work for the sake of the Creator and if not when he sees within reason when he's bare and destitute that state when he sees that state of spirituality it's only for the sake of the king where he sees the importance of spirituality in him. All of this is only above reason so that calculation creates within him paying for being in utter loneliness where he can only fantasize these things above reason and he has the heartfelt prayer from his heart for what he's missing for that degree of faith that he wants to be in the degree of bestowal, but he can't. He wants to do it but he can't, he wants this fantasy to become reality.
S. Is this reality, should be make believe that he has a feeling in the organ and we look within reason, he sees that he should ask that it's imaginary, I'm a little confused here?
R. I don't understand what you're saying, there are two degrees the way I look at the world and how I depict to the world how I would look if I were to be in the degree of bestowal the degree of Binah, of the Creator. How would I see the world and the gap between those two degrees is called reason and faith above reason and then I asked to rise to the degree of faith which is above my reason to additional bestowal and if I ask the Creator does it. But I need to depict to myself exactly where I am and it where I want to be and how much it hurts me, whether I am or am not there. If I look at the group I see if they're trying and if it doesn't help, if one negates, he does it from his own flaws. If I see that they are in mutual bestowal in the right direction, this I will see, then I will ask and if it's prayer then I will attain for sure a degree of faith above reason at least the 1st 2nd 3rd, later it's more it's more important work, more complex. Let's take this verse 73 and we will work on it throughout the day so let's read excerpt number 73 and try to execute it and we're moving to the next stage through a song.
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