Morning Lesson December 22, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors
The Law of Love and The System of Adam HaRishon - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #19
54. R. The word love doesn't have a good ring to it because we typically think of love in beastly connotations suitable for this world, I love to eat, I love kids, I love women, I love everything from which I can derive pleasure for my ego. In spirituality it is different, it is how much I can fill the others desire. That I derive pleasure from filling these desires in him the direction of love, connection of the filling of love is totally opposite as compared to corporeal love. So let us get used to it a bit more, the main thing is love of friends because it speaks of the connection between the parts of Adam HaRishon, the broken parts who are all in a state of rejection from one another and to the same extent that we are in connection before now we can discover the distance the separation, rejection that we have to correct to bring ourselves to the opposite form instead of hate, to love. To the extent that there is hate repulsion and misunderstanding between these parts all the more so when we correct them we see that they fit one another precisely and they can complete this picture. So love is completion, connection between the opposite parts that from the beginning are revealed as hating one another.
Excerpt 23 Reader (02:13 - 03:08)
55. R. The most important is love of friends is to know that the connection between us, the Soul II Soul, the heart to heart, Nefesh to Nefesh Neshama to Neshama Yechida to Yechida the connection all the way up the ladder has to be the complete connection until the end of correction where the Creator is revealed in our correction as a complete NRNHY and this is what we need to come to so that all of our prayers are at the end of the day prayers for connection.
56. S. (03:49) What kind of actions accelerate love of friends?
R. That you constantly think of it that we must reach connection between us according to the system of Adam HaRishon that obligates us, what does that mean? That the entire nature is built like this, all the laws and all of the rules no matter whether we study them in general or in particular, it all stems from the system of Adam HaRishon. As much as we try to connect all of these parts together even though it doesn't seem that they can connect, as much as we try to connect them in this way to this extent we cause our correction and the correction of all of reality as though we start feeling when all of these parts come together that they start completing one another, resembling one another, fitting in together. We start seeing that we are in the perfect and complete world and what does that mean? That there is a mutual flow between those two parts, the minus to the plus and the plus to the minus and then we feel ourselves that we are in an eternal world that there is a constant flow, not that each one wants to destroy the other and cause death, but to contrary that we go through some barrier, through some border and we start seeing that the negative and the positive complete each other and we see an endless flow between them that we are part of this flow. We feel ourselves that we live eternal lives, it all depends on the extent of connection between us that we go through this barrier, where we are resisting each other to the states that we are completing each other and the feeling of completion gives us the feeling of Eternity, There is no death.
S. So what do we have to keep to attain it?
R. Connect to the friends more and more, learn how we complete each other more and more to such an extent that way don't see any flaw in the other just an invitation for correction and connection.
57. S. (06:27) What does it mean that we take upon ourselves that commandment to love your neighbor as yourself?
R. That we have to reach a connection to such an extent between us that what is in you I want to fill in all my forces. It means that I want to come to you with a connection of love, love your friend as yourself just as now in this corporeal life I want, I fill my desires personally this is the only thing I'm concerned about, now I want to fill them so now I take your desires and I want to fill them this is called love your friend is yourself. As for myself now, I'm not concerned about myself, I am concerned about you and all of my qualities and all of my desires, they are only in order to fill you.
S. It says to take upon ourselves it is a decision that a person makes from this point on this is the path that I choose to work in and this is what I don't grasp how can I take that decision upon myself?
R. By you studying and during the study that you are drawing the light that reforms, you are aiming for it to work on you and to better you because you are between the friends that are also yearning for it and even though none of them really yearns, but you act between each one that you are all yearning for it, so then by the law of man will help his friends you are warming each other up and turning each other around that each one thinks that all around they are already on exalted degrees and he is the only one who is behind and the envy between you will start raising you up.
58. S. (08:52) At the beginning of the last time you said we want everything we can have, spiritual attainment, escape corporeality, everything but love of friends how can you want that it seems like the last thing I would want in this world of all of the pleasures and sufferings, to love the friends, how do you want this, only I do or the whole ten has to want this?
R. Only you, because you were given the matter of the quality of envy that if the friends show you that they're already in love between them then you start to be jealous of them and you are willing to do everything because the envy is the highest thing or the worst thing and you are willing to give everything just not to be less than them. It all depends on the friends as much as they are acting correctly before you.
S. I can somehow ask them to act a little bit better, but they're not corrected, they come to me from the Creator and only I can see that they are....
R. You have to stabilize them before you correctly that they will bestow on you and this is your work, on you it is you can't bestow correctly on yourself on the Creator you can't bestow directly, that on the friends you can.
Excerpt 24 Reader (11:15 - 12:53) reads twice
59. R. Everybody is an egoist everybody is small but they also have a desire to overcome their ego to connect and attain the Creator so what do you do?
Reader continues (13:06 - 13:40)
60. R. That is the matter, that is the key to any success to integrate between us in such a way that each one will have a force let's say ten times more or as much as he has and that will be sufficient to connect between us to the Creator. Then we will already be in spirituality.
61. S. (14:11) What is the difference of coming out of self-love and bestowal?
R. Coming out of self-love means that you restrict yourself and bestowing to the others is that you have the screen and the reflected light and you are working with the force of bestowal towards the others and through them to the Creator.
S. They seemingly make the annulment and the intermingling without the prayer to the Creator according to this excerpt?
R. They cannot integrate or do any action of bestowal if they don't connect to the Creator, if not where will they get the force, alone they can't do it. Meaning I can succeed in any spiritual action only to the extent that I am connected to the Creator, I cannot connect to a friend, it is a spiritual action it is an accident of bestowal, if I don't connect to the Creator, I get the forces from him I MAN and I get MAD, the force of bestowal and with that force of bestowal I can connect to the friend. Everything has to be me the friend and the Creator, Israel the Light and the Creator are one.
62. S. (15:54) It's not clear how an action of mutual annulment can increase, how the quality of action
R. Try it and see it's not a problem, Mutual annulment to the extent that you annul, you connect to the extent that you connect you get forces and here it is in quality and quantity, that is how you work.
63. S. (16:28) What is harmonious love?
R. When I feel my connection with the friends and the Creator clothed inside of us as one, me connected to the friends is the vessel and the Creator filling us is the light and the light fills the Kli, that is harmony. We are constantly advancing in the connection between us and in the connection between us towards the Creator and that is the melody.
64. S. (17:24) How can you explain the concept, the matter of love of the Creator but in practice they can't keep it, only by each annulling himself but who are you annulling towards it's not clear, you can't even do anything about it, what is the intention?
R. If you don't get forces from the Creator you cannot be connected to the friends, if you don't need the connection with the friends you have nothing to turn to the Creator with that is the vessel and this is light. Without the light there's no vessel and there's no vessel without light.
S. What is the intention?
R. The intent to connect between us to the Creator that the essence of the connection between the friends will be like the essence of our connection with the Creator.
S. What is the intention?
R. You have to think of connection.
S. You complicated me.
R. I'm not taking you into consideration, I'm speaking to you because maybe through you others will hear this.
S. I'm sitting here in the ten what should I think about to reach the Creator?
R. That you have to think about how to sit in the ten.
S. I annul?
R. You are not sitting in the ten at all.
S. You don't see me sitting in the ten?
R. That is called sitting with that missing you like that?
S. I can barely sit and you also said we might go back to the physical center so let's go back.
R. I don't want to see you here in a live manner.
S. You said after the vaccine maybe there's a chance we come back to Petach Tikvah, now you say you shouldn't come you don't want to see us.
R. We will see, for now if by chance you want to sit in front of me, I want to keep the virus to keep going.
S. It will be fine.
65. S. (19:39) You explained about love of friends but it's still not clear what does it mean that I love? I have a value, an appreciation of the friends and it is expressed by appreciating them because all of the correction of reality depends upon them and the connection with Creator, is love?
R. Love means I am concerned of another more than I am concerned of myself that everything in me, desires, intentions, thoughts and possibilities, no matter what that I am entirely wanting to put it for his benefit. That is called to love. Let us say that you have a little child, how much do you love him, that you want to do everything that he will feel good, there are no big wisdoms here.
66. S. (21:04) We discover that we discover that we need great deficiency to obtain the request for connection.
R. If not, the virus will help us.
S. We don't want to wait for the virus in the ten to come to us and work on us, how do we attain that deficiency, what ignites the process where 10 egoists gather and we need a deficiency for connection where we don't have it in our nature.
R. We learned a few days ago that envy is the strongest means. Envy, lust and honor take a person out of this world, Envy is the strongest go over it again and you'll see this is how it works.
67. S. (22:11) How can one friend who is included in the ten in society acquire the force of the ten what is the subtle connection that he is searching for?
R. As much as he causes his connection in the ten, he can annul before them and to that extent he gets the forces of connection from the ten that they have inside of them and this is how it depends as much as he can to be connected to them. Then he can receive forces from them, NRNHY or root 1234 it all depends on how much you want to be connected and annulled in them to cause them connection maybe even a passive or active participation all according to him including himself in there, to that extent he gets the forces from the environment. Along with that there are very heavy souls, big souls that it is very difficult for them to connect to society, it is very hard for them to get forces from society for their advancement and that specifically can show that it is a big soul. That also exists, we are only moving ahead towards connection.
68. S. (23:55) What does it mean the forces to love the friends in the connection?
R. I can't explain, can you explain anything about love? It comes from the force of envy that I will look how between the friends that they have a connection, each one there as much as he is close to the other and I am standing on the side looking at them. So I don't know what to do anymore, I don't have it, so I start being envious what is the force in me that the Creator created in such a way, the force of envy, but it doesn't let me relax and from that start advancing towards the connection. It can't be love without envy or without hatred, meaning there can't be anything positive if there is nothing negative, we need to work on both. If you're asking, envy is something negative, how do I develop and increase that and through that to reach love. It is worth it. We also see it in our world, you see as much as you have all kinds of stories that people specifically want to cause envy in somewhat or in someone in order to increase his love this is called a flirt, this is called a game. Acting like this is how it is.
69. S. (26:15) He writes here how the friends become one body and there is a power of the body, what is this power?
R. These are the 10 Sefirot with all of the Reshimot and the forces and currents between them, it is a few tons more than is what is in each one in their individual way. This is why if the group is connected and they want to show each and everyone how great and important it is, then nobody has the force to resist that group you just integrate and surrender and that helps him to advance. We don't work physically on anyone, only by showing each other, bestowing to one another, the group is bestowing to each and everyone the greatness of the Creator and the importance of the goal. This is all of our work, no more. Imagine you have no hands, no legs, no nothing, only to show every friend in the group as much as the group is diverse, how special it is. This is enough for us to advance, we will let go of this life and this world and immediately start connected to spiritual discernments.
S. What does it mean to leave this world and this life?
R. You leave the discernments that we have in corporeal values.
70. S. (28:07) Why in love, is this personal point where I love and should we try to lose it in the connection or maintain it?
R. In love you have the force of connection from Adam HaRishon that the Creator created us with the force of love and the force of love is the Creator himself and in that force he himself created the will to receive existence from absence but in that force of existence from absence love is still zero. In order to show that love he has to break them into pieces to reveal mutual hatred between them and then upon this mutual hatred he can reveal his love, that is the whole process of creation on behalf of the Creator.
Excerpt 25 Reader (29:19 - 30:38)
71. R. In each and every state that I see somebody related in a bad way to me, I'm not speaking about the outside I'm speaking about the ten, I need to see that it is me who needs to correct myself and then I will see him as good as loving.
72. S. (31:10) Envy, lust and honor take a person out of this world, is there some connection between the lust and the love of friends?
R. I don't know if I can say it now, we need to check what love is, love of friends is simply the connection between us where we reveal the Creator that is called connection between the friends until love of friends. In love we have root 1234, our desires that we connect by them and we reveal all of the degrees of love. In them we reveal the intensity of the Creator that is revealed between us.
73. S. (32:25) Rabash writes that we have to change the way we see, this seems impossible. How do I see the friends with true vision is this possible?
R. Everything is possible if you connect to the Creator and demand Him to complete your love he will give you the forces for connection, he will give a fulfillment in the connection, he will give everything the question is do you have a deficiency? Do you want an increase in connection and that connection will be filled by the Creator?
74. S. (33:18) What does it mean when he sees any flaw in his friend, what are we talking about?
R. It doesn't matter, the friend that I'm on the path with if I see a deficiency in him, the Creator through the friend is showing me what I am lacking, so I have to thank the Creator that this is what he did for me and to thank the friend that is a messenger here. According to this I have to try and ask for more connection with a friend where is through that I discover more connection with the Creator everything starts from him.
S. What does that mean that I see the friend as flawed in love of friends?
R. That you see this is how he is related to others and to the group, but he's relating to himself more.
S. Thank you.
R. It can be in forms that are very confusing, let's say he wants all of us together to perform some group action and he is pushing us until it is good and his eyes but it seems that he is concerned about society in the group.
75. S. (34:56) If I see the friends' faults as my own, does this mean I have achieved love for your friend as yourself?
R. No, to reach love your friend as yourself you can only under the condition that between you and the friend the Creator is revealed, that love is the revelation of the Creator between you only in such a way.
76. S. (35:50) What is a friend on the path on which I have to ask?
R. That like you he is going towards the same goal and if you ask for yourself it will be a corporeal plea, egoistic, if you are asking for the friend then by this you are advancing but in an altruistic way but for this you need to connect to the friend’s deficiency and with the Creator in order to connect and to fill this deficiency. You are the cause of bringing the friend closer to the Creator only in such a way do we advance. Nobody advances himself only through being concerned of friends do you advance.
77. S. (36:56) When I come to a certain state of connection with the friends, immediately I receive a burdening of the heart, the coarseness and the ego grows and from past experience I understand that the ego cannot advance without it, so how do I combine the ego properly with love our friends?
R. You need to be happy that you have a larger ego today than yesterday that you can come closer, to ask from the Creator more, to come closer to the friends more.
S. How does this combination work correctly, I understand it's in the prayer, am I asking the wrong thing?
R. I can't say, try, but actually the advancement is correct, I constantly see your group and I see that you are advancing, but I don't see, I don't see the group of UK, I don't see a few groups from America.
78. S. (38:24) We simply wanted to say that we are here together with you.
R. Okay good, I see all the rest.
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