Morning Lesson June 1, 2023
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.
Part 1:
Rabash. Article No. 12, 1986. What Is the Main Deficiency for which One Should Pray?
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, it is a very special article and in general all of these articles speak about the foundation of our approach towards reality, creation, the Creator and the group. They are very general articles and include our whole, correct attitude which we should attain, and in it we will already reach the purpose of creation. So, let us read and see what we can add to it from our heart.
Rabash. What is the Main Deficiency for which One Should Pray? (01:15) “It is known that creation is called deficiency..”
2. S. (26:33) He writes here that at first he needs to pray for a true vessel and then to pray for the filling of this kli. Meaning first pray for a vessel of bestowal and what is the filling of a vessel of bestowal, is the implementation of the act of bestowal, what is it?
R. A Kli, a vessel is a lack that he discovers, the lack for the vessel of bestowal, that he wants to bestow but he cannot; he does not have from the side of creation, he doesn't have any basis for it, any foundation and he asks for it, that he will be able to bestow.
3. S. (27:43) What's the purpose of the prayer?
R. The purpose of the prayer is to correct the person, so that he will be similar to the Creator.
S. To correct…?
R. The will to receive in a person so he would be similar to the Creator; similar to the Creator’s desire to bestow.
S. the person who is asking?
R. Yes.
4. S. (28:18) I followed Rabash in what he's writing and I see that he kind of goes like cause and consequence in the request kind of thing. He says, when I'm feeling there's no point asking like in corporeality because you need to ask for the deficiency and in the deficiency you don't have because you are not suffering from that so there is no deficiency for it. And the deficiency is that the suffering you don't have because you don't see that the purpose of creation can come to its perfection and how will you see that? if you do Torah and Mitzvot but you don't want to do Torah and Mitzvot because you don't have a deficiency for it because you don't have importance for Torah and Mitzvot, you don’t have importance for Torah and Mizvot, because you don't have importance of the Commander of the commandments. So here it kind of binds all of the feelings of the vessel of bestowal to the importance of the Commander. First of all is that right, that cascade of cause and consequence, is what I am saying clear?
R. Pretty much, yes.
S. It's like he puts everything aside and simply says, just ask for the vessel but the whole article he spends telling you that you don't have a deficiency in the Kli for bestowal?
R. So, ask for it.
S. So can we skip all those stages and ask for the vessel of bestowal?
R. Why not?
S. To give me vessels of bestowal like you have?
S. Yes. the Creator can do it. Even if you don't have any deficiency and don’t have preparations, just ask. Ask.
S. So now we are focusing on asking for a vessel of bestowal, or are we asking for the importance of the commander, the Torah, and observing the Mitzvot, and the purpose of creation and this whole ladder?
R. No.
S. On the Kli?
R. Yes.
5. S. (30:20) He emphasizes throughout the article that a person can't ask for something if he has no deficiency for it, and he also says that you even have to suffer from not having it. So how can he ask for a vessel of bestowal?
R. Well, we need to think about it. One has to regret not having it and then, bit by bit, one will discover that a deficiency to bestow does reach him.
S. When do we ask for the greatness of the Creator, because he says that, he negates it, he says it is not worthwhile to ask for the greatness of the Creator, He will illuminate to him a little and then it would just go to the Klipot?
R. Yes, if the Creator right now would be great in my eyes, then I will want Him because He is great in my eyes and then it turns out that the benefit is actually reversed; that I want to get closer to the Creator because He's great.
S. Yes, It's something very delicate here, so when do we ask for the greatness of the Creator?
R. For the purpose of correction. When you see that you need to perform certain actions and these actions you cannot carry out without having the greatness of the Creator being felt in you, as something that is necessary.
6. S. (32:06) What is a true lack and how is it felt every day?
R. A true lack, I feel according to how I am being drawn to the ten and to our entire great world Kli, that I will be able to connect with them and feel that all of us in our general desire yearning for the Creator; to bestow to Him and to discover in it, that He is bestowing on us. And in this way to increase this lack, to bestow to Him in order to discover how much He is bestowing to us, and more and more and more.
7. S. (33:48) What's the difference between a vessel and a desire?
R. There is no difference, it is the same thing.
8. S. (34:06) Can we really ask for ourselves in such a way, give us a little bit of spiritual pleasure?
R. Well, what for? What does a person need it for? If you want to get closer to the purpose of creation then he needs yes to receive pleasure only because he is similar to the Creator; so we speak here about a special kind of pleasure.
9. S. (34:49) When we ask to feel the Creator as the Good who does Good, is that a request for a vessel of bestowal?
R. I don't know. Because you are asking for the Creator to be discovered and to feel Him as Good who does good. Well, what are you doing it for? Where does this desire come to you? What is the reason for such a desire to feel the Creator as the Good and doing good? That He is Good and doing good? That you want to thank Him and without it you can't do it? That you want to resemble Him or that you want to enjoy that feeling, that you have a great Creator and He is whole and each time He fills you up.
10. S. (35:55) What does it mean to discover that the Creator is bestowing to us?
R. This is following all of the corrections. When we are built, we recognize that all of this feeling comes from Him; that He dresses in us and we reach identification with Him, adhesion and only He exists in the whole of reality and He is feeling also.
11. S. (36:35) How should we come to the greatness of the Creator in an active deficiency in our work in the ten?
R. It's only through connection between us; that we will all get closer between us and reach a state where we are able to connect in order to bestow to Him. Which means that our will to receive that resists the connection between us will be for us as a measure, a measurement of how much we are able to go above it, in order to bestow to the Creator.
12. S. (37:44) What does it mean to fill the benefit of the Creator?
R. To fill the benefit of the Creator means to get closer to Him until we become adhered to Him.
S. It's after all not in our nature, that’s what he writes here, it’s not in our nature?
R. So what?
S. So what do I actually need to ask for?
R. Ask for Dvekut, adhesion.
S. What does it mean adhesion?
R. to be like Him in all of our actions and thoughts and desires.
S. So how do I actually discover that from the connection with the friends in the ten?
R. Yes, exactly. You can get close to that through the friends, in your connection with them; that you also need to annul yourself towards them and more and more to love them. Which means that besides annulment of your ego, you also need to develop a desire to bestow and this is how you get closer to the friends and that's it. Then you become more and more similar to Him, to the Creator.
S. Meaning I need to exactly depict how the Creator is behaving with us and that's how I have to behave with the friends?
R. Yes, yes, but just so that it won't be a mistake that it seems to you that the Creator is behaving this way and you will be behaving that way. The most important thing for us is nevertheless to be close; a heartfelt nearing in our will to receive that we do want to be connected.
S. So actually the connection is a means to resemble the Creator?
R. Yes.
13. S. (40:02) Between us during the preparation to do this for the friends it's mostly through examples in the work, as they say to us in different forms and that helps us to value the spiritual work more. But, in this general state of the world Kli, let's say that we've acquired a little bit of it, what will give us the desire to do something to crave the Creator from this?
R. Well, bit by bit, we build this intention, we correct this intention, from in order to receive to in order to bestow. To bestow to the Creator, why? and this is how we reach the tip of it, let's say to the source. Why are we doing it? It is all in order to give Him contentment.
What did you ask?
S. How do we come from let's say in our degree, from love of friends where we are evoking the importance of the Creator through examples, to agreeing somewhat to relate everything to the Creator? But on level I had the personal deficiency you've already answered.
14. S. (42:00) How do you work in practicality on this new Kli?
R. How do we practically build the new Kli? We build it inside of the society. When I come down from my request to resemble the Creator, to request for connection between the friends, truly so. It seems to me that this is less than having a grip on the Creator, but actually it is more. Because we have an inverse relation between lights and Kelim; an inverse relation between what I ask for, what I want, and what I reach. If I, well suddenly, I am at a loss of words. Again, what did you ask?
S. How do we in practicality build a new Kli?
R. A new Kli, we build it out of our feeling, how much our desire changes. And if it were directed to a connection with the friends, now it is more directed towards a connection with the Creator inside of the friends. I don't quite manage to say it in a good way.
S. How do we build this Kli?
R. By each and every day we yearn, each and every day we yearn towards connection which is higher and higher; so that the Creator will be felt in the connection in a more powerful manner. That inside of the connection we will not talk about the connection itself but about the essence of the connection or the quality of the connection. Yes the quality of the connection but rather. I don't have the words, suddenly today I am a little bit…well, let’s leave it.
15. S. (45:55) I heard before that you said that we need the greatness of the Creator. We ask for the greatness of the Creator only for correction. What is the greatness of the Creator as a correction inside of the friends, a correction of what?
R. The corrections of their desires, the fact that the Creator collects us and gives us new desires, we see through this how His Greatness is greater than our greatness.
S. What is corrupted, broken for which we need the greatness of the Creator between the friends?
R. What is corrupted as the whole connection between us the correction of Adam HaRishon, which is the field between us.
S. So where is the.. How do you make sure that the greatness of the Creator won't be a flaw that it will actually be a correction?
R. Again.
S. What guard us? How do we monitor it so that the greatness of the Creator which is revealed between the friends will be truly be a correction, a means not a goal that we want just enjoy it, that’s it?
R. Well, that already depends on our intention of what we need, what we need to reveal the Creator for as Great, as One who fills everything, who changes everything, prepares everything. It's also that we will calibrate ourselves correctly so the Creator Himself, through the results that we feel through Him.
S. So the preparation for you know, what you need the greatness of the Creator for, this is what will guard us?
R. Yes, we need the greatness of the Creator to adhere to Him to the extent in which we reveal Him as the One who fills everything. I will find the words for this. I can feel that I am missing something there.
16. S (48:53) I noticed I think that I came to the lesson not in order to learn something but to get incorporated and draw the upper pleasure; to charge myself. But in this manner I see that a couple of minutes I am connected then disconnected, this way and that way, this drives me crazy. I have a desire to swallow everything, I would like to be in bestowal all day but always disconnecting and falling and then connecting again. It's like a child in the womb of the mother feels satisfied, then being cut off from there, from that safe area, safe place.
R. Yes, that's correct and that's good. The work that you are in now is very good work. That work that you're feeling ascents, descents, disconnections and this compels you each time to rise again to connect, that's good, that's how it needs to be even more and more and more.
S. But Baal HaSulam says to us man shouldn't be disconnected from the Creator even for a second?
R. That's something a person needs to try but on the other hand the Creator makes these disconnections happen to him so that a person will connect more and more times because this is actually our whole profit, our reward in spiritual work in disconnections and connections each time. So what is being done in you is the right work and say thank you to the Creator.
17. S. (51:40) In the article he speaks about the corporeal deficiency and the spiritual deficiency. The question is: how do we work correctly with a corporeal deficiency that appears in order to reach a spiritual deficiency?
R. We need to try and understand what we are going through in corporeality and from that we will have the correct guidance to the spiritual steps we are going through.
S. We need to look at this deficiency from the sides seemingly?
R. Well, let's say like now you ask a question, you get an answer, you see that the steps that we are going through are the correct steps and how to respond to them better and to take out of them the best benefits you can, that is possible and not err in that, that's the work.
S. So when we have a corporeal deficiency should we tell ourselves that I don't want this feeling, what I lack is another feeling and that's a very request already does the work and it promotes me towards the right deficiency?
R. Yes.
18. S. (53:30) I feel everyday more dependent on the ten, truly, every moment but also I have a very strong feeling that I depend on the entire world Kli, so the corrected vessel that we ask for is it the vessel of the ten or of the entire Kli it should be connected?
R. Both this and that but in practice I have to first hold on to the ten.
S. And what is changed in this generation so that we depend on everyone, seemingly the ten also depends on all of the other tens?
R. It's not to that extent, that's not yet, the end of correction even though it is the final generation but we need to see what's happening with us what is it that the Creator is demanding from us what gives us the conditions within which we need to operate.
S. It says and I will remove the stony heart from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. What is a heart of flesh?
R. That's a heart that has the quality of Bina in it, where the quality of Bina awakens in place of the stone so there is flesh.
19. S. (55:16) From the corporeality of friend being my spirituality, how to correctly pray for the corporeality of the friend?
R. Try to feel in what way you can help him and pray for that.
S. But we know that each one receives his awakenings from the Creator only in order to truly build the right approach to life, the right relation to the friends. Now if we pray for a friend it won't necessarily improve his corporeal situation maybe it will be the opposite, in order even more his corporeal state will actually become worse, so is that help really?
R. That I don’t know, I need to relate to him as I would relate to myself if I was in the same situation and then the pray that needs to appear is what appear between me and the Creator there.
S. From the side of the friend?
R. From the side of the friend we are not talking, we are talking about on our behalf, on our side.
20. S. (56:48) Many times it happens that we talk about building our vessel and it is written in the article that according to our nature we don't even have a Desire for this vessel. so, I don't understand what is going on here because it is true that according to our nature we don't have a desire for it, so first I want to ask: what does it mean that we build a vessel together?
R. We need to try and incorporate in all our desires that we feel in our vessel in each and every friend and all these desires we need to try and connect and see in them the general, one root and the spiritual purpose as one and to incorporate in that.
S. But the desires of the friend, how is it possible to feel the desire of the friend?
R. Try, try to come closer. I have nothing else that I can add here.
21. S. (58:26) When I entered Bnei Baruch, I felt great joy and a great desire to know everything that the Kabbalists teach us following some time this desire diminished. I want to feel the same passion that I felt when I began the path. Is this desire a correct desire and if so what should I do?
R. Raise the importance of the path of the state that a person is in and accordingly he should have joy from it. He needs to examine himself in accordance with the joy that he has at every given moment and if he doesn't have joy then it is a sign that his path is still not built correctly.
22. S. (59:29) This whole process that Rabash describes there is no explanation or room to work with the ten. What does a person need a ten for in our spiritual work according to this article?
R. According to this article, probably not, but according to other articles they explain specifically the work towards the ten, Rabash writes a lot about it.
23. S. (01:00:00) To bestow to the Creator, does it mean to bestow from the group to the Creator?
R. Yes.
24. S. (01:00:30) Rabash says here that we should ask for the vessel, for the deficiency and not for the filling and he gives the example of asking for a purse instead of for the money but it's very weird. Why can I ask for a purse full of money? Why should I search for a cup in order to drink?
R. Because the feeling we receive from the Creator and all of our work is for the deficiency of that feeling that we are going to receive from the Creator. Therefore, our entire work, all of our prayers are just for the wallet and when you receive the wallet you will discover in that wallet, in that pocket all that you need, as much as you need.
S. At the beginning of the article, he says that a spiritual vessel is when he specifically wants to fulfill the benefits of the Creator and it's in opposition to his own benefits, seemingly something is impossible. We know that the benefit of the Creator and our benefits as created beings are actually the same. So why is the basic definition in the system that these are two opposite things?
R. In order for us to be able to rise to His desire to bestow.
25. S. (01:02:12) Here Rabash writes in the article that we shouldn't ask for fillings but only a desire for this wallet. How do we ask for this wallet correctly with words or the desire between us for bestowal, for the importance of the Creator, how to correctly ask for it?
R. We only need to ask for the desire and nothing but that, all the rest, all the filling is in the light of Ein Sof, in the abundance. If the desire will be correct, then he will be able to take out of it, to discover from the light of Ein Sof that we are in that part, that light that illumination, that will be revealed in us.
S. How to ask correctly for this desire?
R. This is what we are talking about all the time. It's according to the desire, the efforts in the connection with the friends, the deficiencies we discover. Each time we need to aim ourselves more and more and more correctly to the correct desire.
S. We put together a prayer each and every day. We asked for many things, important forces, the possibility to think about the Creator, to bestow to the friends but here Rabash writes that we should ask for a simple thing: the desire to bestow. How can we correctly phrase this prayer in order to reach the right desire, not to run around between different desires to reach the right desire?
R. You need to search together. Okay?
26. S. (01:04:24) A person feels suffering from a deficiency for bestowal. How does the Creator cause us suffering in the heart of man from a deficiency to bestow, wanting to bestow?
R. What is he asking?
S. How does the Creator bring a person to feel suffering, sorrow from not having bestowal, that he cannot reach that. Rabash speaks about two conditions: he should feel a need for something and it should also pain him, regret it, so how does the Creator make him feel suffering from not lacking bestowal which is something that he doesn't really need?
R. The Creator discloses his bestowal clothed in the Kelim, our vessels and therefore we already feel what we are really missing together with receiving it from the Creator. That's how He teaches us.
27. S. (01:06:23) How can a person who was created with only the will to receive and with his ego see his own lacks so he can come to a true prayer?
R. Gradually, slowly, slowly a person discovers his attitude towards this state that he is in, to the state that he needs to be, as he has two forms of light that are operating upon him: that which is in there now and that which he needs to attain. And then in the gap between the two, he sees the gap between the desirable and what exists and this is how he straightens himself out and continues. I don't have the words right now, today. It is something.
28. S. (01:08:13) What is the abundance that enters the vessels of bestowal?
R. The light of Hassidim or even in the illumination of a light of Hochma.
S. That's exactly what it is about, if we ask for the abundance and we don't know what it is we don't even know we are supposed to receive in the corrected Kli. Is it correct to say that a person should not ask for the abundance because he simply doesn't know what it is?
R. He will receive it according to the degrees according to which he is climbing upon.
S. Well, let's say we come to the lesson, we lack something, so it's not that we're feeling our heart that the request from the Creator should be give me the ability to love, that's not the first demand that appears in a person's heart, he doesn't pray for the Kli, so what is the right preparation so that we will always be in a request for the Kli, for the ability to resemble the Creator, to have His qualities, to ask for His qualities, not what comes inside of it?
R. What you just said right now is exactly the Kli.
S. So how should a ten build itself so that it will always have in every friend the desire for that, for the Kli?
R. Only through the connection. What are we missing in order to become connected?
S. That is the question that we should always ask ourselves, so in that we are seemingly asking for the Kli?
R. Yes.
29. S. (01:10:22) What is the importance of and how is it related to becoming incorporated in the desires of the friends or that the Creator places us in Egypt in order to be the vessel and the prayer seems like a contradiction.
R. Again.
S. What is the importance and how is it related to becoming incorporated in the desires of the friends or what we learn about the entrance to Egypt that the Creator put us there in order for us to build a vessel which does not exist anyway within a prayer it seems like a contradiction?
R. I didn’t understand the end of it.
S. I am here and all that I want is to become incorporated in the general Kli with all the friends in my heart, the general desires, what I feel, I don't yet have a vessel and I need to make sure that whatever passes in me will not go to the Klipot but it seems like a contradiction so can you straighten it, explain it?
R. What contradiction between what and what?
S. I want to become incorporated with Him inside of the incorporation I feel Him, let's say that I feel the importance of listening very well. How does this help me to pray for a vessel of bestowal, how does this incorporation help?
R. In what other way will you be able to incorporate it without having bestowal?
S. So becoming incorporated with the friends is related to bestowal? To our desire to come closer to the Creator’s way?
R. Of course, that is the action itself.
30. S. (01:12:32) I wanted to ask about the difference between resembling the Creator and connecting with the friends?
R. We can only become like the Creator to the extent and to the intensity of how we connect with the friends.
S. To resemble the Creator: is that a Kli or the filling?
R. It's a Kli.
S. It’s a Kli, so why should we ask for the connection with the friend's rather than resembling the Creator?
R. It's the same thing. When I connect more and more to the friends, through that I connect to the Creator.?
S. But your connection with the friends makes you similar to the Creator?
R. Yes, to the extent in which I pass through me the upper light to the friends I become more resembled to the Creator, I am in more resemblance to the Creator that's what my spiritual degree is defined by.
S. So what Kli should you ask for?
R. I am asking for the Kli to bestow to the friends because I won't ask to receive from the Creator because I first need to incorporate from the desires of the friends and by that I raise MAN and ask the Creator to give me the feeling so that I will be able to pass that filling to the friends.
S. So the actual creation of the Kli through the connection between the friends that already makes us similar to the Creator?
R. Yes.
S. This is something that happens immediately or is there another action that we need to do?
R. It can be one of many actions but eventually it's on the way to the building of the Kli.
31. S. (01:14:55) What is that passage through which I can conduct to the friends?
R. What is the passageway? It's the connection between us, the type of connection between us.
S. And if there's no connection?
R. If there's no connection between us there's no passageway, how will you receive and how will you give?
S. You just said that you need to ask the Creator to feel from the friends what they want and ask the Creator to pass it to them.
R. Yes.
S. But how do I pass to them?
R. Through the connection between you to the extent that you nevertheless tried to connect.
S. So first I need to acquire a connection to somehow be able to…?
R. Well that's according to the situation, yes.
32. S. (01:16:02) If the desire is corrected enough it fills the desire. The world around me is the Creator and if I feel the world around me as the Creator do I correct myself towards the reality outside?
R. Yes to an extent, yes.
33. S. (01:16:37) What actions can we do in the ten to develop the connection? Is it only through a prayer or can we do other things?
R. All kinds of activities of connection that scrutinize for them the form of the connection between them and in this way push them towards prayer. In the end everything should end with a prayer.
34. S. (01:17:27) How important is the presence in the morning lessons, in the meetings of the ten in turning to the Creator?
R. I can't say that with respect to women. We don't speak that way, a woman is exempt from Commandments that are time dependent because she is connected to the house, to the family, to all kinds of things and therefore I cannot talk about the importance of presence in the morning lesson with respect to a woman.
S. And with regards to a man?
R. A man, yes.
35. S. (01:18:20) If for a long period of time there are no disturbances for the ten is it possible to advance?
R. Disturbances are for certain in order to advance and if there are no disturbances then you are either too weak to be given disturbances because you would fall under them or we are advancing even without the disturbances in the relationships between us.
36. S. (01:19:05) Will you be able to clarify what is the purpose of creation and what does it mean to adhere to the Creator?
R. Adhering to the Creator means adhering to his qualities meaning adjusting ourselves and adapting ourselves to the Creator as much as we can, making ourselves compatible with the Creator.
37. S. (01:19:48) About the deficiency. Is the deficiency that we see in the friends our deficiency? Is the prayer for the deficiency of the friend the correct prayer and is it a spiritual one and do we need to create a prayer for the deficiency of the friends?
R. Yes of course each one who prays for his friend, it's good, he is rewarded first, we need to pray for the friends first of all.
38. S. (01:20:31) If I understood correctly he said towards the end that the light was bigger than the vessel was able to receive, the vessel broke and now he's not able to receive any light lest it goes to the shells, was it also a vessel to receive?
R. No, no, the vessel that broke it is a vessel of in order to receive and the vessel we need to establish, to build over this ruin is in order to bestow. The difference is in the intention and this intention expands the vessel into a form that can no longer break.
39. S. (01:21:37) Earlier you said that when we speak it's not about connection but about the quality of connection, what allows us to enter this quality and what is there in this quality?
R. the more we connect our desires and thoughts and actions with each other and feel them as one, this is called advancing in connection
40. S. (01:22:23) It says in the article turn my stony heart into a heart of flesh, is my demand to connect with my friends with mercy or is it the demand of the vessels of bestowal?
R. Only work together in the ten, you don't have another place where you can correct your vessel.
41. S. (01:23:16) What is a vessel and filling in corporality and what is it in spirituality? What is a ready filling?
R. I don't know what to tell her, we talked about it a thousand times, I don't understand why we need to repeat it, the vessel is called a place for reception of the abundance, there is the deficiency for the reception of the abundance for the appearance of the abundance within it, when it's not filled it feels in a state that is not correct and when it's filled according to the power or manner of the filling it feels itself more and more corrected and full. This is called light and vessel, desire and filling.
S. This is clear but what is a vessel and filling in spirituality and in corporality?
R. A desire, a deficiency that a person has, is his vessel, and the filling for that deficiency is its filling.
42. S. (01:25:26) It seems that we are embedded in a development where everything comes from the Creator. Can we ask for the right connections there or do we need just to take whatever the Creator gives us and accept it?
R. No, the Creator gives everything. We need to choose and ask exactly what we think that we need, that we are lacking because by this we are advancing and are moving toward the Creator and without choosing and sorting and asking and approaching, without this work of ours we will never be able to be similar to the Creator and this is actually the purpose of creation.
43. S. (01:26:39) What does it mean to ask for a vessel of bestowal in the lesson while we are together?
R. If you are together then it's probably okay already so now you only have to worry about the filling
S. And if we are not together?
R. First we need to be together so you have a vessel.
S. So this is what we need to speak about? This is what it means to ask for a vessel of bestowal?
R. Yes, first of all a vessel of bestowal. A vessel for us can’t be not in bestowal, otherwise what are you asking for to receive? To receive doesn't exist. If you want to realize yourself you have to be incorporated with other desires those of the friends and ask for a vessel of bestowal and bestowal upon each other, where you compliment each other in the group and out of this to the extent that you can come out of yourselves and compliment the friend you could come out of yourselves and turn to the Creator, this is your vessel. Your Vessel of bestowal.
S. I hear friends asking and your answer, part I understand part I don't understand. What does it mean that I connect to the friends?
R. That you want to understand them you want to live with them in connection in heart and soul as much as possible and this is enough to advance with them and bit by bit you will see in this more work, more manners and in this way you will advance
S. So this is the point where I ask the Creator for vessels of bestowal and this is where I ask please give me the vessel of bestowal so I can include myself, incorporate with the friends?
R. Yes
44. S. (01:29:10) In the article yesterday and today there is a point that he's repeating and I wanted to clarify, yesterday he mentioned his mouth and his heart being aligned being one, being equal and here in the article he says that it's up to a person to think of the purpose of creation to do good to his creatures and when a person begins to criticize the good that is in the creatures he begins to find that. So I wanted to ask about the desire and the given: do we always need to return to that clarification?
R. If we want to see the Creator’s actions as good then we have to scrutinize in what way we have to connect it in order to discover his connection to us correctly.
S. And then the concern begins to be over the connection between us?
R. Yes.
S. And it can be tied to the fear of the Creator that said before there is love there is fear?
R. Other than the right connection between us we don't need anything.
45. S. (01:30:37) Rabash is inviting us to ask for a vessel of bestowal to enjoy pleasure, to feel pleasure and just like we receive pleasure from the vessel of reception do we not need beforehand to receive senses of bestowal of spiritual senses?
R. Then pray for this. What does it matter? It's the same prayer, it is the same prayer.
46. S. (01:31:30) In life there are all sorts of deficiencies, they are all about reception. For example, yesterday I didn't receive important documents and I'm angry. So can I receive this material and be angered by not having enough love for the friend? Will it work the same, will it work correctly?
R. No, no.
S. Then do I need new material for bestowal?
R. You first have to direct yourself to bringing contentment through the friends and then to the Creator and when it's clear to you that you're doing this that you're capable of doing this then you begin to do it.
47. S. (01:32:47) With what deficiency do we enter the preparation for the Congress and with what deficiency, with the Creator's help, will we exit?
R. I think you already heard about it from the organizers of the Congress. We are coming to the congress with a desire for connection and within the desire for connection I have to discover new vessels. So each time if people, let's say if my students hear me, then I can hear there are some who say, he didn't say anything he also said it yesterday and the day before yesterday a month ago and a year ago he's saying the same thing and some people are impressed by every single lesson because they feel in it something new, so it all depends on the person and on how much he feels that what happened yesterday and the day before yesterday and what there is today each day brings us a new state, a new desire and a new feeling.
48. S. (01:35:38) We often study that we need to ask for the vessel of bestowal the vessel of faith so what is it like there is a vessel within a vessel or just an expression?
R. Basically they are different vessels but for us for the time being they are felt as one vessel, you are right.
49. S. (01:36:05) Beyond deficiency there is a certain technique in a prayer that needs to be studied?
R. Beyond the deficiency? no. Only to know that this deficiency you can realize only in connection with the friends but how to connect with the friends, this you already learn from life, you learn from life.
50. S. (01:36:55) Through the clarification of the prayer we feel what we want to present before the Creator. I hear anyway that what's missing is connection, the deficiency for connection.
R. It will be like that until the end of correction, so let's try to overcome it and move ahead nevertheless so it does not weaken us.
S. I have the feeling that we're in quite the same deficiency that we feel in the same deficiency.
R. How to feel that we have the same deficiency, I think that we need to try to feel it during the morning lesson each time and you're in congress's and all kinds of connections, yes, we place a lot of importance on the ten and on connection between the tens not so much because for the time being it can disrupt us but soon we will try to talk about this too. We will talk about this too, it's not simple, it is not simple to connect together between tens, it acts with resistance to the extent that I connect between tens I have to be afraid of doing it at the expense of the connection within the tens right? So how do I maintain it. Let's say I have a ten and within the ten I'm connected with all the friends and I'm concerned about staying connected to them as one force in one level in one way with everyone and I check myself: am I relating to all of the friends in my ten equally? Let's say I somehow managed to connect in this way and now I'm talking about the connection between the tens, what about there it's as if I need to begin the work in the ten all over again.
How do I need to work with each and every friend? Previously it was clear to me that we are connected in the ten as one man with one heart as much as we can and to every external ten we relate as to a foreign body but now what do I need to do, how should I connect to them? That's strange and it's not that foreignness that I felt in the connection between us, that alienation, that distance, I have to, what do I need to do with it? That's the question and if I perceived some distance there between the tens one at the expense of the other so now I need to work against this distance that I perceived. When I began to come closer to my ten and enter it to that extent I felt all the other tens as contradictory, moving further away from me right? And now? We need to connect on the next level, on the third level, what do I do with all that distance that became one, that was formed one at the expense of the other? You need to suggest solutions to me.
51. S. (01:42:27) Why do we need to connect with another ten, why is my ten not enough?
R. We need to come to an equal connection among everyone throughout the vessel of Adam HaRishon. We don't choose to do this or do that, this is the problem before us, we have to do it, I cannot leave my work midway and say only thus far because if the work is in order to bestow then there is no boundary to it, no end.
S. Within the ten, even a small one, can’t you discover everything? The relationships renew, the desire always grows and then the work is always in the same ten.
R. This is on condition that you connect to the rest of the other tens and then within your ten you feel the results.
S. Can a person grasp more than ten friends and work with a larger vessel than ten?
R. No but he doesn't need to because if he connects correctly he will always feel the ten.
S. So in the end it's in the boundary of his ten?
R. No not his ten, the boundaries of the ten but the ten seems different this is called in one man and one heart.
S. I don't understand what is the difference between my personal ten and the general world ten, let's say of Bnei Baruch, where is this boundary?
R. The boundary is in that you shift from one ten to another, the boundary is that what was foreign to you before has now become close and connected to the state that you attained.
S. When do I work in my individual ten and when do I work in the collective, in the general ten?
R. It depends on the degree just like we say that we have Partzuf Galgalta, AB, SAG, what's the difference? It's the difference in the incorporation.
S. Now in the lesson I work with my individual ten with the friends around my table or the virtual room or with the entire world vessel?
R. Both because if you don't work then the Creator arranges it.
S. What does it mean both what is the work here and what is the work there and how do you even combine between the two?
R. This is our work to be all connected with each other.
S. Where is my focus?
R. Your focus is on your ten, that's your original point.
S. And where is the work with the general ten?
R. What is the general ten?
S. All of Bnei Baruch.
R. All of Bnei Baruch? That's to your extent that you can be connected with let's say soon there will be a Congress and at the Congress we have to be ready for the general connection. Certainly within our boundaries.
S. And the general connection where is my individual ten?
R. It is there within the general connection.
S. And I work in it in relation to the general ten or is there no private ten or personal ten that you already work with the collective.
R. No you can't have one without the other.
52. S. (01:47:05) In response to your question with the connection with the tens I imagine that we clothe a different ten within an existing ten and so we try to adapt one ten with the other. One inside the other and then one next to the other if we have a structure of a ten that we feel then we can begin to dress and clothes additional tens and what additional things we need to do within the ten so that we can contain more tens.
R. Yes.
53. S. (01:47:50) Im repeating something I heard you say, we connect through mutual feeling in the ten and come closer to another ten and feel some resistance that there's not the same connection that we felt in the ten as if something's missing there, so out of doing connections with the ten I noticed that for example there could be a friend in the ten who speaks a little too much, but the connection is important because we rise above the qualities and when two tens meet you start noticing that there is one ten like this and another ten a little different and is that how it works that you build the connection above everything else?
R. Yes, you need to relate to all of this like a mother to her children, she doesn't calculate, she doesn't take into consideration the character of a certain child. Why are you laughing?
S. I don't know what to say. I am just happy that we arrived at such a state that we can even think about connection between tens.
54. S. (01:49:22) We have connection we have meetings between tens and it's very beneficial you get envy and many benefits but there is times that we're obligated to meetings regular meetings with the ten is it something that the ten needs to commit to as a regular ten with another ten like once a week for example? Is it beneficial to add to the schedule, to the routine?
R. Perhaps after the Congress we will come to it, the question is how much time do we have, time, energy, desire.
55. S. (01:50:18) What should we be wary about in this general connection in the tens or through the world vessel that it doesn't hurt?
R. Don't let go of the reins, let's say you have horses that are pulling the cart and we have to hold them and direct them and not let go of the reins because there is certainly someone who will take care of it in such a big society.
S. Out of the personal ten the reins or the general ten?
R. In the general.
S. But you said to be careful in the connection in the general ten lest it hurt or harm the connection of the private ten?
R. A person is built in such a way that he cannot see more than ten details or individuals and therefore we need to understand that we have to build the system that is concerned with every person having before him the sensation only of the ten. Not his, or not something beyond the stars, but to have something that is accessible.
S. Because we're learning that the king is multiplied by the multitude of the people and there's more people there's more revelation of the Schechina, divinity, so I think that that is the uniqueness of our organization is that we're not studying in a small group but we're spreading all over the world with all the qualities of all the people so because of it it's not clear where is the concern that we have to have, what should we be careful about if I have my personal ten just like every friend here, it's on the path, it's strong, it's consistent, why not begin to bring into our work this entire spiritual movement that we are in all of the friends the whole world Kli?
R. You are getting closer to it. You see that whether we want to or not we need to talk about it more. We are coming close to the Congress, all sorts of questions awaken in this regard, it's happening, life is leading us, this is how it is.
56. S. (01:53:44) Can there be a situation where we don't see faces anymore, and feel how the whole world vessel has the same spiritual structure, and if so how does this process happen?
R. It's still early, it's still early, for now even about our friends we cannot stick such a sign as to how much and what spiritual degree is he on and in general you're demanding things are above our forces above our strength as of now.
57. S. (01:54:55) First of all I want to share that in Israel the women's organization sends once every two weeks to meetings of two tens, I want to ask if we should take these meetings with another ten as opportunities for learning from each other and sharing what each ten does or the mechanisms that it created, I want to ask if you think that maybe the first stage of connecting the tens is more on the practical level and less on the spiritual and emotional level?
R. We will clarify this, we will talk about it, I cannot answer right now, I'm unfamiliar that much with the tens and especially the women's tens.
58. S. (01:56:00) My ten has experimented and when we've been a strong ten, we've felt that we've been able to have some growth but when we've joined with another ten my personal experience is that I'm not trying to make a connection with each one of those individuals, I'm trying to make a connection with their ten just like my ten and when I do that there's a level of enthusiasm that gets so great that those things that mutually end up being work against, like being tired in the lesson, just absolutely disappear. There's the friends who are exhausted and wake up and they hold on so where do we go from here?
R. Great, so we hope this is what it's going to be for everyone, everyone is ready to receive a good addition.
59. S. (01:57:30) About a connection within the ten, within the ten there's a situation where the more we advance in the work between us I feel like the friends, at least I feel it, there's the ten and there's me. I'm not working vis-a-vis each friend individually but the ten became some sort of a body, something I wanted to adhere to, to be with them. Every now and again a friend has a specific problem so it comes out but is this because previously you talked about working with each friend individually and here I feel that the more time passes I feel like there is the ten, which is all the friends here, and I just want to cling to them. Is this the right direction or should I work toward every friend individually?
R. You continue, the main thing is not to stop and you'll see how life changes you.