Morning Lesson February 14, 2024

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

Part 1:

Rabash. Article No. 12, 1988. What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator? 

Reading Article. (00:38) “Our sages said, ‘Raban Gamliel, son of Rabbi Yehuda…’”

1. S. (29:15) What is man's work before he comes to learn Torah, or the Torah itself? It's not clear.

R. Before he comes to the Torah, he needs to scrutinize how he comes closer to the Creator. It seems as if he needs to reach contact with him, some kind of contact with him, which will elevate him to another degree so that he can hear and answer and so that he can learn.

S. The prayer we pray is that our work before we come to learn the Torah, or the prayer is already at the time of study of Torah?

R. No, that depends on what you want from the prayer. It doesn't depend so much on the words that you read from the book, understand? It depends on what you want.

S. Before a person comes to study Torah, he just needs to ask these questions he brings up here? That's his preparation?

R. Yes.

S. Where does he get the answers from?

R. He gets the answers from prayer and learning. Then the answers come to him.

2. S. (31:00) The reward we are looking for is the force to keep working. On the other hand, we hear that the Torah exhausts a person. What exactly are the forces we are supposed to extract from the study and what exhausts us?

R. That one learns Torah and always seeks through what he can progress to the essence of the Torah, so then questions come to him, and he cannot get answers to these questions until he understands that his questions need to be very well organized toward the Creator otherwise he confuses himself with his questions and he progresses accordingly.

3. S. (32:30) Organized questions meaning what I lack in order to correct myself on the path?

R. Yes, certainly what do you lack on the path that you now progress?

S. It's very important to always be sensitive to the friends, and see what I have to correct in my connection between the friends and the Creator?

R. Yes.

S. We understand that this whole path, the preparation is very important, he says that I have to prepare my body for the study of the Torah. What does it mean to prepare the body?

R. Preparing the body means preparing your desire so that it will be sensitive to changes through the reforming light of the Torah, and in that, you will start feeling the changes in it so that it will navigate you on the path. 

4. S. (33:55) He writes every Torah that has no work is finally canceled and causes iniquity. What is the concept of Torah? Is it the morning lesson? Is it when I think of the Creator during the day, and I make an overcoming?

R. Torah is all the words that you hear that are all speaking about the system that connects you to the Creator.

S. When I read text during the day, and article, during the day is that called Torah?

R. I don't know, it depends on how you read and what you want from it.

S. It all depends on what I want to achieve from the action that determines if it is Torah?

R. Yes.

S.  The work is about what I wish to achieve? Is that what the work means?

R. The work means that you are making an effort to rise above your mind and your will to receive.

S. Here in the lesson is quite clear what we're doing but during the day when you go through different states and you ask why and you can't see what the Creator wants from you and you do all this in the work so this effort to link the connection, the action, with the friends and everything to the Creator is that the work, essentially?

R. That's part of the work, that belongs to the work.

S. If we sit here in the lesson and we don't do what you said we don't think every moment what do I want to attain, why are you coming to the lesson? Then he writes here that it is finally canceled because of inequity, there is like a fine that you get here?

R. A descent.

S. Why is it so?

R. In order to teach the person that he went incorrectly.

S. Can it be in such a state that a person sits and does nothing, is better?

R. No, a person needs to put in effort to realize everything as correctly as possible and greater.

5. S. (36:55) You once told us that Rabash started appreciating you when he saw that the light in your room was lit an hour or two before the lesson.

R. Yes.

S. I'm taking it as an example, so what is the right preparation for the lesson?

R. I don't know. Each one prepares themselves however they can. I think that when we get up and feel that together with me and other people, many of them, they now come each one from his place to the lesson. I have a path with them, I have a purpose, a goal with them that is called coming to study and we come, when we come, we come for a single goal to reveal the Creator.

S. That's already a good state that we come like that, and this is the goal we want?

R. That needs to be clear to each and every one that we come to the lesson in order to reveal the Creator.

S. It's like he says in the article it seems like something's missing or maybe he'll say next but the light doesn't just correct it also shows what needs correction?

R. Yes.

S. How do you make the preparations so that you come to the lessons with a fire with something clear that you need to correct?

R. We try not to forget that, also during the time of sleep before we go to sleep, we ask not to be detached from the Upper system so that there will be as much illumination as possible as small as it is and that it will not leave us. That is how we come closer a bit more and a bit more through these small drops.

S. What is the right preparation before sleep?

R. That during the time of sleep, I will not detach from the Creator, even though I do not control myself, but I asked him to not leave me.

S. To have such a preparation how do you prepare to get to that time before sleep?

R. Those who before going to sleep sit behind the table and read from the book. It's okay, it'll come.

6. S. (40:55) The light in it also builds in us the vessels of bestowal as well as then the contentment to the Creator will be felt in that light?

R. Yes.

S. Meaning that He will always hide himself behind the light and this is called the Torah of life?

R. Yes.

7. S. (41:22) What I don't understand is that he writes Torah in work, and he writes that the work is to invert the will to receive so that it's in order to bestow. On the other hand, we start from Lo Lishma, meaning that we work with reward, and we look for the reward and that is the fuel. It’s just the very opposite.

R. Yes, on the path we determine the goal we change the means until we reach the correct conclusion.

S. I see so we're not working according to habit of getting used to work in order to bestow but the conclusion, the summit, the result is some inversion that happens at once?

R. It doesn't happen at once, but it gradually navigates us in the correct direction.

S. Is it okay before each action to see a reward that we get from it? What kind of light and how much will it advance us?

R. Certainly, yes.

8. S. (42:41) He writes that before he starts to study that he needs to pledge to merit faith, meaning the preparation is mostly to merit faith above reason to come to the study as a place where I don't know anything, but I have faith that the light will come and give us the reward of correction, that's the preparation?

R. Yes.

9. S. (43:29) In the same direction he writes here that the reason they don’t beget the sons of wise disciples is they didn't bless prior to the Torah and when we talk about the work we talk about a single person and that he must be blessed first and his study that he will benefit a lot from the study of the Torah. What does it mean in our work to bless first?

R. That we bless the Creator who gave us the Torah as a means through which we come to give birth from ourselves, we give birth to wise students.

S. If you can ask, it's not about saying the sentence there needs to be something?

R. Try to play with it as much as you can until it enters your states and then you will start feeling life in that.

S. Before in preparation?

R. Yes.

10. S. (44:51) It sounds from the article that the Creator, it's like that the Torah is a means, a tool for the person to work with, so in the work, in the corporeal work I have goals and I try what I'm going to get to on that day. How do I determine a spiritual daily goal?

R. What do you want? What do you want to attain? What do you lack in order to attain it?

S. It's hard to differentiate, I have sentences in my mind and a general kind of feeling but not something defined.

R. Try, more and more.

S. Can you give an example of a goal?

R. What do you want?

S. I can say to be more bestowing but it's kind of undefined.

R. Right because it doesn't come from your desire.

S. Yes, it's clear everything here goes against, but he describes the Torah as a tool to work with and he says that when the Torah was at work, meaning that he doesn't aim for the Torah to do the work to transform the vessels of reception in order to bestow.

R. Yes because it's the reforming light.

S. How do I align my goal with that on the day?

R. When you want to attain something you lack the strength for it, the strength for that is in the Torah, that's the general force so you ask for the Torah to influence you.

S. Truth is that power is not missing if we go into the study through the Ten the connection, we get strength the question is what's the goal what do I want to attain today that I didn't attain yesterday, let's say there has to be something he says the correction of the evil to transform the vessel of reception to bestowal these are things that?

R. I don't understand what you lack.

S. A defined goal.

R. A defined goal is simple. To be similar to the Creator. He bestows so you bestow.

S. This means I need to be similar to The Creator more every day?

R. That's desirable.

11. S. (48:05) How do I aim the intention during the study to draw the light?

R. That you study the Torah it is written in the Torah that there is the reforming light, so you want that light to influence you.

S. In thoughts, and prayer?

R. In everything you do, it is all called a means for spirituality which is called the Torah, so you want that very means to influence you.

S. Is it also correct to ask for the friends during the lesson?

R. Yes.

12. S. (48:58) Is the request for the result to be similar to The Creator or just to be in a direction to it first in order to make efforts towards it?

R. Depends on what you see before you.

S. Can I ask to be similar to the Creator before you even have a desire for it or first you have to ask for a desire or what?

R. Ask it doesn't matter, the main thing is that you will always be adhered to that.

13. S. (49:36) This direction that you are clear on what reward you are getting and you're always expecting that reward, how does it sit with this place where we have to be in faith above reason and not look at what we have in our pockets. Here he describes the state where a person actually the more he studies the Torah the more he can complain to the Creator. I've learned, I've studied, I've labored, what do I deserve? Meaning it causes iniquity, these complaints to the Creator. So, I'm asking how does it follow that on the one hand, I have to demand the reward and on the other hand, we say that work itself is the reward and not to expect something in our existing vessels of reception. We also don't know if we advance or don't advance, we have no clue, even having no flavor in the work is more appreciated. So, what is the reward that we're talking about here?

R. We measure the reward according to the results.

S. Can you say that a person should make a calculation I came into the lesson and one state and then I came out of the lesson and more similar to The Creator. Can you make that calculation?

R. Yes. 

14. S. (51:15) The conclusion of the result, this reward that I want to get, it needs to be at the end of the lesson? Or it's actually laid out during the day?

R. Yes and yes, yes it can be at the end of the lesson. And yes, it can be during the day.

S. We're supposed to come to the lesson and demand the reward. It's like I come to a gas station and get fuel for three hours so that I can drive during the day and work during the day. So, I need to see how during the day the lesson has influenced me? Because here, too, there's no exact measurement. Sometimes my whole day is messy and full of different states. Sometimes it's a day that is calm, and it's not connected to how I was in the lesson. Maybe I make a lot of effort in the lesson and because of that, my day is more disorganized and full of disturbances. So, a person can't really know how the Creator sets up the process for him. How do you really measure that you've been correctly in the lesson and labored correctly, and brought out a good result?

R. That is why we study the articles. What does he write in the article that you need to demand?

S. Light.

R. What do you need to feel as a result of that?

S. Importance.

R. Importance of what?

S. Importance of equivalence of form, the group, the Creator, bestowal.

R. Well?

S. So, if I have an importance during the day, it seems like I worked well in the lesson. If I am always in thoughts during the day. On the other hand, I might have many distractions and disturbances during the day. That, too, means that I studied well because of my desire, then, was increased and I was sent more disturbances. So, a person can't know according to how his day goes, whether he studied well or not, and brought reward from it or not?

R. His reward in what?

S. In fuel for work.

R. So he has more fuel. Maybe that, yes, and accordingly there are disturbances, but he does have fuel.

S. Okay, I will think about how exactly to measure the fuel. But I still don't understand in terms of blessing prior to the Torah. What does it mean to bless oneself? What does it mean, it says here that he needs to bless himself to succeed in his study?

R. Yes, that he is certain that he received an awakening from above. And through that awakening that he now gets, he goes to reveal the Creator and adhesion with Him.

15. S. (54:37) A person needs to aim for receiving the light from his study. And receiving the light is like a remedy. A person needs to present his illness to understand what he needs to correct. Now clearly, we need to correct the evil inclination but what exactly is the remedy for?

R. It is the remedy for his body. So that it will help him to constantly rise in the ladder of intentions.

S. Meaning that a person has to feel that he's not being in the right intentions. He is in a fog and the light will bring him some feeling of bestowal and getting closer to the Creator?

R. Yes.

S. Okay, it turns out that as he's trying to attain this, he is also in prayer?

R. Yes.

S. So he even just opened a book, didn't even read it, and he's already in prayer. Maybe the action ended before he even started reading before he even started engaging?

R. I do not know, maybe.

S. Let's say we came prepared for the lesson. We did a good preparation and we're ready. What does it mean that we are ready, and we still need to do certain actions, now?

R. I do not know what you are asking.

S. It seems that the action itself, of attaining this intention, it's like you got all that you wanted. If you managed to get to this intention, that this is what you want to get out of the Torah, now it's unclear, what is the added value from the lesson?

R. The lesson progresses you, and you understand that the Creator is higher and greater and that your intentions can be more accurately directed. If that is the case, the connection with the Creator is sharper.

S. How many times in the day, or say in a lesson, do our vessels change and it's like we start from zero without noticing? Can it happen several times a day?

R. Certainly.

S. If we made a good effort, we felt like we did a good effort during the lesson and the vessels already changed when I went out to the world. Suddenly life is not what it was during the lesson because my vessels have changed. I'm working with new vessels now, so I'm asking now whether we have any reason to expect something from the action of the lesson to the rest of the day?

R. Yes, certainly we have what to expect. We need to aim ourselves at the morning lesson in the first contact with the Torah of the day. That we want to go toward the reforming light and want that light to influence us, all of us, as such everyone will do it like me, and according to that, we will be rewarded with change every day.

S. This change happens the moment I ask.

R. It could be, yes.

S. Why will I expect that during the day or the rest of my time during the day won't require more effort? I always have to be making, and renewing efforts, every moment I'm supposed to do it. Because the moment that you receive light, it finishes its job. How to expect that the light will continue to work on me and do what during the day? What can I ask it to do for me during the day?

R. You elevate me in adhesion, in the ladder of adhesion.

S. That will happen gradually during the day?

R. Yes, with all kinds of exercises that the Creator sends me. With all kinds of preventions, I will feel that I am always joining Him. 

16. S. (01:00:26) I heard you say many times that a person, it's better for a person not to know if he bestows. Meaning that he can merit bestowing without even knowing about it?

R. Yes.

S. Here in the article, it seems that we're always expecting a reward which is not even clear, we're trying to clarify it here. So, how do you attain this state that you bestow without even knowing about it? Is it correct to ask for it? It's not even clear what bestowing is, actually, because we're not there, I'm not there, at least.

R. Yes.

S. How do you work with that state that is seemingly a contradiction? Not certainly, but that's how it appears. You don't even want to know that you're there?

R. I am not getting your question.

S. I heard more than once that to reach for the sake of heaven, you have to reach bestowing without even knowing that you’re bestowing.

R. Yes.

S. Meaning you don't even want to know your reward. On the other hand, he talks about expecting some reward of light that will reform me in the sense that I will be able to feel it. The application of the heart or something, so it sounds like a contradiction. How do you settle it?

R. The thing and its opposite, that's how you settle it. We will get to it as much as it dresses in matter.

17. S. (01:02:43) He writes that a wise disciple is one that learns from the wise. Also, you can study the Torah with many kinds of intentions to know the rules and how to do them more to know how to draw the light. My question is Torah, not referring to the book with pages, but a certain idea, yes?

R. The Torah depends on the person who opens the book and who incorporates with what is written and that influences him, and it awakens him to perform acts in order to bestow.

S. What's the difference between a person who sits somewhere in his house with a book and someone who comes and receives an example from friends and the Rav?

R. He has more chances to succeed, he gets examples, and he gets support.

S. From every one of the factors during the study, I mean, you see that kids learn from examples. It doesn't matter what you explain, he sees an example and it becomes a part of him?

R. Yes.

S. What kind of example do I need to take from the friends during the study? From the Rav from Rabash?

R. That everyone acts in order to bestow contentment to the Creator.

S. These examples are supposed to awaken, affect change within me, and change in my nature. Meaning that I have to want to become something else? You yearn to be like them, like Rabash, like Rav, the friends. These are the examples that I absorb?

R. Yes.

18. S. (01:05:02) He writes, however, when he is distracted from the purpose of studying the Torah, the Torah is not good for completing the work of making the vessel of bestowal. We've read and heard that we need a lot of attention before the action, such as coming to the lesson. A lot of thoughts before scrutiny and so on. When I heard that again, not the first time, I tried to imagine a person who comes to work like a surgeon, or a warrior, that has to always remember that he fights for his people. Or a surgeon that has a lot of responsibility in his hands. We come to the lesson sitting with the same friends. The action is as if it is always the same action and you have to each time find something new, some new excitement, remembering the goal again. How do you do this? What is the meaning of the lesson every day?

R. Connection to the group and to the Creator.

S. How do you find every day, this excitement?

R. Effort, effort that during the day you also need to be in this, you need to be awaiting this action.

S. How do I help a friend reach this effort?

R. Example.

S. Example. It says a lot here about the light that reforms. If a student would ask me now what is the light that reforms? What is this, how do you explain that?

R. You cannot explain that to him. When you get this awakening and that awakening helps you rise to attainment, to a sensation, to a greater connection with the Creator.

S. So it's a feeling that comes from outside, basically, that suddenly awakens me? That's the light?

R. Yes, yes. 

19. S. (01:07:53) It was touched upon, and I want to clarify it, further. The light in the Torah, on the one hand, it corrects, right?

R. Yes.

 

S. On the other hand, if it is corrected, then a new degree that needs correction opens up?

R. Yes.

S. Let's say that if we take a corporeal example, someone needs to go through surgery, he suffers and he really wants to undergo surgery. The surgery succeeds and he breathes, he feels well as if he has the ability to bestow now. But on the other hand, it's not over. Immediately, he gets new coarseness, and again he needs to feel like he needs surgery again. That the Torah will again let him breathe? How does, is it like a person has to feel that way?

R. That is not a question. You will start working on that first situation and you will see how it turns into the second situation.

20. S. (01:09:02) I feel that the daily lesson is like a factory of the Creator. Whether we like it or not, or have intention or don't, we're like parts of a machine that is very easy to feel how we come to the lesson. Even now, an hour into the lesson, I feel completely different. My intentions, thoughts, feelings, something's happening and every time it's renewed again and again. I feel it very clearly because it's in contrast to all the rest of the day. There's the morning lesson, which is indescribably powerful, and there's the rest of the day. I have two questions about it. The first, when we're in the lesson he writes that one must not be distracted from the purpose of the goal of the Torah. Are we really able, capable of not letting go of the goal of studying the Torah?

R. Yes, you constantly think about the purpose of the lesson and how you can find yourself there.

S. In contrast, the Creator might suddenly throw me away and let me feel that I was in other thoughts. Meaning, I have to be distracted to feel that I'm holding on?

R. Yes, I understand.

S. That's just one thing I wanted to confirm. There are friends in the group that have a role during the lessons. They're committed that they have to do that, so they have to be distracted. Is it correct for a person to do that every day?

R. We need to change so that each one will have an opportunity.

S. As a society, we can't let a person always engage in the lesson in something that distracts him, right?

R. Right.

S. During the day, how am I not distracted from the Torah? What do you do?

R. Those are efforts, there is nothing you can do about it.

21. S. (01:11:22) Why can the Torah become the potion of death?

R. One against the other. You always have these two forces in creation.

S. A person can work incorrectly and turn it into a potion of death?

R. Yes.

S. How do you learn the Torah correctly so that it advances you to spirituality?

R. Only with the right vessel. The Torah is the light that reforms and we need to draw that light in the correct manner into the right vessel.

22. S. (01:12:06) What is the difference between Torah and the Creator?

R. The Creator is the upper force, the one, unique and only and There is None Else Besides Him. And the Torah is the force that extends from Him towards us, towards the created beings, and we need to learn how to use that force correctly.

S. That's why it's called light because it's His inspiration?

R. Yes, yes.

23. S. (01:12:47) Is drawing the light depending on the person or connection between all the students? Is it a mutual action?

R. It is a mutual action, but we might not feel it, yet.

S. We always say the main thing is anything but leave. And we should come to the society without the intention, as long as we put ourselves under the influence of the environment. Can coming without the right intention be harmful?

R. Yes and no. It could be that it harms, it could be that it doesn't. But all these things we still need to accept them in order to get wiser.

24. S. (01:13:30) What's the difference between the labor and going above reason?

R. You could say that it is the same thing. Meaning, the labor, that I take my vessels and want to raise them to a higher degree. And it is only possible with the light in the Torah. It is the only way I can rise. 

25. S. (01:14:35) It says in the article, Torah with which there is no labor induces iniquity. Don't we need the iniquity for our correction? What is labor in the Torah then that we don't induce iniquity?

R. When I want to awaken the upper force by coming closer to Him. And He comes closer to me then we will be able to bestow upon one another as good as possible.

S. If we do not do the work correctly, we induce iniquity. But also, we need iniquity for our correction. It's the deficiency, so that means we don't need the work?

R. We need both.

S. We need to balance between working in Torah and not working in Torah? How do I feel this?

R. To come closer to the Creator as much as possible.

26. S. (01:16:35) I came to the lesson, and I read the text together with everyone, or I come to the lesson, and I ask for the friends, or I come to the lesson and they see that I have no forces, and I ask for forces to be able to ask for the friends and be in the right intention. All these variations are drawing light in different ways?

R. Of course.

S. What is the preferable variation?

R. Whatever you can awaken the most of all of it.

S. How can I awaken, what do you mean to awaken?

R. To plead to the Creator. What do you want from that light?

S. What do I need to want, to awaken all the friends, the group?

R. Of course, along with them rise to the Creator. Along with them, give the Creator a whole vessel that He will be able to fill until Gmar Tikkun.

27. S. (01:18:01) How to understand correctly the expression that one cannot find sages in the sons of the sages?

R. Let go of it, that doesn't matter. It will be clarified later. We have not bumped into such terms, yet.

S. Can we refine such a matter because he says, they have not blessed in the Torah first and if they were to bless, we would be able to find?

R. Yes, of course.

28. S. (01:18:45) About the prayer during the lesson. At some point in 2005, you made an expression like this: I once asked the Rebbe, what to do if I can only think about one thing? He answered to think about the goal. Maybe we are not hearing the words in the lesson but if you have an opportunity to request, to do this appeal, then you can give five percent to the lesson, and ninety-five percent to the prayer, that's what we're missing. Today, is this attitude relevant towards prayer?

R. It is always relevant and actual, yes.

29. S. (01:19:35) How do we aim ourselves to a more precise connection with the Creator?

R. Through a closer connection to the friends.

30. S. (01:19:57) We want to emerge from our nature but first, we need to recognize that this nature is evil, then when we connect with the friends, with one common desire to rise above this nature from this common desire, even if we depict it, we still aim this prayer to the Creator. Is this called that we're using the Torah correctly and are drawing the light?

R. Yes.

31. S. (01:20:40) As people who study Torah in order to cause harm, or that might cause harm. How to study so as not to cause harm to ourselves or our friends? How to study Torah correctly?

R. We constantly need to be thinking about the connection. To raise that connection to the Creator. To expect him to participate in this connection. To connect between us and give us all the forces to be constantly connected for always, forever.

32. S. (01:21:42) I understand that when we ask for a blessing for the Rav, for whoever is greater than us. But in what way can we bless the Creator?

R. Bless the Creator by giving him our intentions and our desires. That he will use them and connect between us. Through that, pass his light over to the whole world.

33. S. (01:22:28) In the first paragraph, it is written, “Raban Gamliel, son of Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi said, ‘It is better the way of Torah than the way of the land since it makes the Torah, and it leads to no transgression’”. My question is, is the Torah actually meant to confuse us and cause us transgression so that we will understand the depth of our dependency on the Creator?

R. No if we engage in the Torah correctly that will never happen. But when we start turning things around, it is not the Torah anymore, and that brings the iniquity.

S. What is the necessary labor that is demanded of us in the study of Torah?

R. Connection between us, the connection between us, it cleanses all of our intentions that are wrong, all of our wrong actions, and brings us towards a pure goal.

34. S. (01:24:03) If during the day I come to the conclusion that the friends have disconnected, forgot about the goal. How do I work with this conclusion and the lack of importance? How do I draw more light?

R. There are no criterions for that. Well, there are but we can't define them precisely, yet. We have to constantly think about how to come closer to the friends and through them come closer to the Creator, that is it.

35. S. (01:24:55) Why the moment we feel the light it disappears, and darkness comes? How can we always be under the light of the Torah?

R. If you received the light in order to bestow, it doesn't disappear, it won't disappear. Your feeling, for now, is incorrect.

36. S. (01:25:38) There are many questions about the purpose of the study and how to find a goal. I wanted to ask; my son told me yesterday that he was in a certain state. He saw that he could behave in a way that's beneficial to the society, but he didn't manage to overcome his ego. He behaved that way for his own benefit. I was very happy for him because I understood he had a true request for something true, like a short, precise request: That was my ego and I needed to correct that.

R. Yes?

S. I needed to ask if I too, as a student, need to have such a request of this type, short, clear, I discovered something egoistic?

R. Yes, learn from your son.

S. I’m asking because I’m sitting in the lesson, and I know what the correct goal is. Not exactly, but exactly to ask the Creator to be revealed in the connection between us. To bring him contentment, but many of these things, I'm not always in a state that I can understand. I don't exactly understand what it means for the Creator to be revealed, what exactly to bring contentment. So, my goal is not understood, so my question is could it be a goal that I don't understand and it's real?

R. It is still beneficial.

37. S. (01:27:02) What is the preparation before, towards the Creator?

R. The preparation before the Creator is that we are connected in a net of connections between us in such a way that He can reveal Himself.

S. Is the preparation worthwhile without a fear, whatever kind of fear?

R. With no fear, no, cannot be. Fear should come before every spiritual action. Because the fear directs the person that all his actions, all his thoughts, and all his efforts that he now wants to activate, will be only towards the Creator, for the glory of the Creator.