Morning Lesson May 4, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: What does it mean to chase Divinity? It is to chase the state we have had before the shattering of our vessel of Adam when we were all together, connected with the upper light, the presence of the Creator called the Divinity that would fill all of us, the one soul. Until we couldn't hold on to the connection between us, the will to receive, a personal will to receive appeared in each and every one and we were not able to keep it together and the connection disintegrated and the light, the presence of the Creator inside of us departed. This means that Divinity departed and we were left in a state where there is only a tiny light called the Kista de Chayuta, the minimum level of the upper light that existed so we would be able to return to the complete whole state as it was. We can do this only through our efforts, our requests in prayer, the efforts in connection as this is the main thing even physical connection which brings us closer to Inner connection between us. It turns out that we will return to the state we had before the presence of the Creator of the Divinity which would fill us in those expanses and distances in our a feeling that we are distance from one another, that all of it will be fulfilled specifically with the presence of the Creator’s so each time we feel removed from one another, distance, we can imagine that the Creator needs to fill this place.
Not that we would come closer to one another until there is no more room left, either between us the Creator should fill those places, just like water that flows between mountains. They fill those gaps between the mountains and you get the fjords and various elevations, hills with water between them. Just like us, those hills, those elevations to the extent we can relinquish our ego, our presence in the Creator, the upper light will fill the spaces between us and connect us together. Then we will be able to feel that we are truly one, but not one that is connected to one another but rather we are connected between us by the Creator between us. That is the state that we expect to reach and this is the meaning of as one man in one heart, we don't need to return to the states we were in before as a single heart. Rather the heart the Creator fills those distances that we feel, even now between us and we will feel them more and more, such differences, such distances between us that will appear more and more in various ways and we will not erase them, we will wish for the Divinity, the Creator to fill them. Our entire work is to chase divinity, chase the presence of the creator that will bind us if we think that we can be as one man in one heart completely between us but only with the Creator together. We are trying to make it happen a lot about, we feel ourselves in exile without the presence of the Creator and without the connection between us. We returned from the exile with the revelation of the Creator between us and through him, we connect to one another. You can't discover the Creator as the quality that binds us and you cannot connect between us except through the Creator who fills all of the places between us and connects us when we are so different. We connect from one another only the upper force can connect us and equalizer and bring us into contact between one another.
2. S. (07:39) What does it mean that the effort force straightens us and creates connection?
R. There are laws of connection, so called ‘mutation laws.’ For things to connect we have to be similar, resemble one another, adapt and be suitable for one another. And to return to connection between us we need some sort of a knowledge of that adapter force between us, and the Creator is willing to make Himself into this force. In order for us to reveal this force, bring this will to receive that separates us and when He comes and reconnects us, we will discover Him as the gaps between us will be in all those modes suitable for the revelation of the Creator.
S. How does the difference work with regards to the revelation of the Creator?
R. Specifically in the differences between us, we discovered the Creator. If He wasn't able to connect us, if He simply won't connect us, we will not discover Him. We discover Him and reveal Him specifically as the One who connects us and we become one. In the gap between being one and in opposition to it, distant to it, this gap we call it ‘come and see,’ the Creator. That’s how we connect, meaning the quality of the Creator is revealed specifically in the difference between separation and connection.
S. How does this commutation or synchronization manifest?
R. We wish to be connected and we are unable. Eventually, so by that, we begin to reveal what is so special about the connection between the things, that we must reveal the Creator. In the gap between the connection, in the separation, we find the Creator, that's why it's called BoReh ‘come and see.’
3. S. (11:59) What are we doing in the 10 when chasing the Shechina?
R. To chase Divinity means to chase the connection between us. It is the connection between us as a force that brings two opposites together. It is that force combines and connects two opposites, and by combining and connecting the two opposites, specifically when they are opposite, this special force can be the bestower, can be Hassidim, to not receive on to himself, but to be included of both opposites in a way that it gives each side what it needs in order to be connected with the other side. So the Creator is entirely the force of bestowal, and that is how it works, in order to bestow and to receive in order to bestow. This is how we reveal this force between us; otherwise, we would never come to connection between the broken parts.
4. S. (14:47) It was mentioned in the Saturday's gathering of women that you graciously gave a heartfelt apology, you sincerely touched all of us deeply. In Kabbalah, when are our apologies acceptable, knowing the Creator is behind all of our actions? It seems to me we don't do much apologizing and what is the role of apologizing when we feel we have wronged our brothers or sisters in connection to reach unity since there's nothing else besides the Creator?
S. The question is correct but there is no answer for it to the extent a person feels how much he is dependent on each one of us, down to the last student. That He determines the complete connection between us so it is important that we feel this way and we relate to one another where if the friends are not reaching a certain spiritual elation or upliftment, it is my fault. I am to blame for it this. So there is this feeling that it is my fault when the friends want something to happen to them and even if I understand that their desires are still egoistic, nevertheless it is my fault that they are still in that state. This way each and every one would feel it to the extent that you would come closer to in order to bestow. It can't be that we will have a certain feeling or disposition towards bestowal without discovering the other, without discovering the state, without wanting to complete and complement them.
5. S. (18:09) What is the importance that we cannot shape within us? What kind of ego do we have that we cannot create the deficiency?
R. We cannot create that same deficiency, we cannot understand what is the deficiency that we need. We cannot understand what is the force that connects us, the two opposites, me and the friends. There needs to be a force that would fit him and a force that would fit me that would be somehow in the middle. This connector, the adapter needs to be suitable to me and to him. Consequently, we cannot reach any connection between us except through the force of prayer when we asked the Creator to connect, to explain the connection, to teach us how to sustain the connection and strengthen it. We don't understand what is the force of connection before it clothes in us, we can’t really understand and feel it. Rather when it does, we begin to feel what it is. That’s why it says, ‘taste and see that the Lord is good.’ By discovering something that you taste with your senses then you can see it, meaning seeing is the highest degree in attainment, then we can discover Him.
S. Is there a difference between chasing Divinity or the connection between us, what comes first?
R. You wish to ask if the vessel comes first or then the light, or if the light comes then the light is scrutinized. We first reveal the light, This light awakens us and scrutinizes in us, the vessels, the types of connection between us then from the light that brought the connection to us, from this form of connection we discover relative to the lights that brought it that we have the light and we have the vessel and we learned what is the state that is complete. From the Creator we have the light that awaken the vessels that we can scrutinize and connect them; accordingly we learn who is the Creator. Holy Shechina is when it is revealed between us, it includes the light and the vessels. The vessels are the intentions to bestow and the lights are what fill those intentions. There you find the coarseness between us. This coarseness is different from what we have now because it is the coarseness that appears when we wish to set it up for connection, for bestowal, for their connection of Divinity it’s different.
6. S. (22:23) I have a feeling that in the last few months we went through many states and with regard to the past years, so how to relate to the states with regards to the Divinity?
R. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have entered into this disconnect when we stopped working and connecting physically with one another, we have entered a new era in our human development as represented today. This is going to take a long time and we are not going to come out of it in a matter of a couple of months. Besides that we need to determine for ourselves, we need a study, a new approach towards this study. Not simply because we're sitting at home disconnected from one another that also determines the form of connection between us -- not only that but we have entered a new period of spiritual development for all of humanity which is why we, the ones who have been awakened to reveal the Shechina (Divinity), the Creator, to reveal the force that dwells between us that we would reveal Him and feel Him more. Since this force exists and connects us, we need to reveal Him with greater realism for it to happen. This is why we started to learn more practically. How do we come to certain states in which we need to practically reveal the Creator? I arranged all of our lessons accordingly so we would slowly, gradually come to a state where we are concentrated more. We are able to point to the thing that we are missing which is the upper force that connects us. As we don't reveal Him, or reveal it as something convoluted, that may or may not exist there but rather we discover in the connection between us the deficiency for that force to tie us together. This is the correct attitude to the revelation of the Creator from the created beings. When created beings feel that without that force they cannot be connected that they cannot reach the correction as one man and one heart. They can't reach one vessel, in all of those other words that we have been through and learned. In the past year, maybe more than that, maybe 14 months, we gradually learned about all the discernments that we must discover in between us. Now we have reached a conclusion of these discernments called “Chasing Divinity.” Meaning we understand what needs to be here. What deficiency needs to be between us, the deficiency for connection. What force needs to be in that deficiency, the force of the bestowal that needs to get opposite deficiencies to fit together. It also needs to be suitable for one vessel and also for the other is in the middle. This is why only the force of bestowal can be there to connect to these two vessels. We spoke about various manners and modes of vessels and now we talk about the type of connection, the shape and form of the Creator that appears between us as a result of our oppositeness and a result of our discovery of our need for the connection. To what extent in this need for the connection are we willing to adapt ourselves to the connection between us and the Creator? Here we need to understand that this position to the connection between us has to come from us but that it is merely an inclination that the Creator gives us various discernments. This is the main thing that we received from Him. Where on the one hand, the deficiency for the Creator -- we wish to reveal, why we live, what for, what is the secret of life -- and all of those things are revealed when we discover the connection between us. We need to understand that all of it is taking place in the inclination towards the 10 and the request to the Creator from it. There is nothing more than that.
7. S. (29:36) What does it mean that we are in connection?
R. What does it mean that we are in unity and connection? This means that we are capable of wanting by ourselves. When we come through the upper light, we’re capable of wanting to be connected, to relinquish our individual egos in order to adapt ourselves to the general force of bestowal which is the Creator so He can connect us. And aspire to it when we discover the necessity for this force, to be suitable to the connection between us and each and every one. In other words, look to the extent the upper force has to adapt to each one of us to connect to each one of us, on the one hand, and on the other hand, to the others. This way we need to understand what is the quality of bestowal. When we are not willing to relinquish our ‘I’, ourselves in order to be connected with others.
S. The distance we discover between us we don't cancel, it must remain, yet it's not clear how to connect with the Divinity if we're saying there's no connection between the friends?
R. How can there be a connection between the friends, based on what? If all of us are in different desires to receive and through the shattering between us, we worked after the shattering to move further apart and this separation works on us, ‘he who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater,’ and the separation between us as well. Meaning the connection between us has to be such that it is suitable. And through this connection, through the connector that ties us together we can be connected. Meaning this thread has to be absolute bestowal. That we should be capable each one, to give up his individual part. So it turns out that we make ourselves suitable to the Creator that dwells between us, and through us we are connected to one another. Only in this way can be the revelation of Divinity between us, like man and a woman and Divinity between them. A man and a woman are two opposite forms that wish to connect between them and they can connect only on the condition that Divinity, the revelation of the Creator is between them. This is what we need. This is what we are learning from this part, to chase Divinity.
8. S. (34:26) We have tools such as dissemination and prayer. If we use it enough can we prevent the evil being revealed in corporeality?
R. Yes, the revelation of evil in corporeality is something you can prevent if we are drawn to the connection between us. There is no reason for having evil in corporeality in order to obligate us to chase spirituality. If we are already drawn to spirituality meaning connection between us, that we increase the prayer to the Creator and the actions of connection between us, then there is no need to dial up the problems in corporeality. It’s written in many places and it is clear why things appear in corporeality only so that you would want to escape them, run away and rise to spirituality. And along the way we begin to see that spirituality is not about running away from corporeal troubles, or in general to run away from troubles since the purpose of all the troubles is to aim us in the right direction of what it means to connect. That we don't want to run away from the troubles but that we want to come to connection. Connection, in and of itself, begins to be felt as an attraction, to acquire the right interpretation, definition. We need this in order to run away from the troubles.
9. S. (36:39) Inviting the upper force to dwell between us is very difficult. One needs to transcend his will to receive. How does the 10 help one do that and how can you make it easier?
R. I need to send you again to read the Social Writings and the articles again if you are asking such a thing, repeat the question.
S. I am asking this call to the upper force to dwell between us, comes out of the person and asking for the force of bestowal versus the will to receive that pulls you away from it is an unbearable state, difficult. How can we make this easier?
R. How do I rise above the corporeal troubles to reach the request for connection which also appears to me like a form of trouble, since I don't want it? So here, the thing is that we are drawing the reforming light with the friends in the form that’ each shall help his friend,’ through envy, lust and honor, slowly you come to a state as it takes a long time, we come to a state where through the influence of the light from afar called ‘the surrounding light,’ I acquire from above through this special awakening from above called ‘the reforming’ the one that reforms to the good, I begin to acquire the desire to bestow. And this desire to bestow comes to us gradually. Each time on different levels, greater and greater levels, until I say I want it. That I do wish to have in me the desire to bestow and in this way I can connect to the Creator. The Creator is the one who binds us called Shechina, who connects one to another. There are so many articles on it, I don't have the strength to explain in a few words. All of this work that Divinity is doing on us.
10. S. (39:58) I heard that we don't come closer to each other but the Creator fills the voids between us?
R. No, to the extent that we want it, we make efforts to bring each other closer. By that we invite the Creator to connect us. We cannot connect to one another whether we do this through the Creator, as it is written man and a woman and Divinity between them, meaning two desires cannot be in contact between them. Rather there needs to be some form, a mediator, a connector. The force that connects the two desires is the Shechina, Divinity.
S. How does it connect?
R. Different desires. The Creator, Divinity brings together different desires. Each one wants to give to the other, to receive from the other, they discover how on the one hand that they need one another and on the other hand they can't be in contact with one another. Let's say you're in a state of connection with the friends but you can't reach greater connection, you can't come to the state as ‘one man in one heart.’ Here comes the third force that connects them, to connect you. That third force is the upper light, the light of mercy that comes and fills all of the distances and gaps between you, gradually. To the extent these great desires to receive appear in each one, accordingly you find yourself needy of the power of Divinity to come and connect you. Then you discover yourselves as being ‘in the field that the Creator has blessed,’ the field that connects all of you together. Gradually this will be clarified to all of us as the topic is extremely important. It is positioning us correctly so we can see where we are and see where the Creator is. See where is the connection between us and how we relate ourselves properly. How all of humanity connects to this picture and how we see ourselves existing in the last generation.
11. S. (43:27) The sense of connection in the 10, does this happen when all of the 10 is in a descent or ascent?
R. The gap between the ascent and the descent is what creates the vessel, what establishes it correctly. It is a feeling of distancing, coarseness -- the coarseness more correctly that doesn't let us be connected -- and also the feeling of inclination towards connection -- from between these two we establish the prayer to the Creator that He would come and connect us. Only the effort force can do this.
12. S. (44:31) We did not discuss this in a while but what is the path of Achishena (hastening) when we accelerate the path. Do I do this?
R. ‘Hastening times’ means that we ourselves speed up the connection between us. We have to understand that we need to connect, that is what we have after the shattering of Adam HaRishon and we can't run away from it. Whatever happens, we need to make the connection happen. So it turns out that all of our prayer needs to be towards connection. And connection means to discover the place where the Creator can come back to and clothed in and He will be content from fulfilling the created beings. Why did He create the created beings? To be revealed in them. By that they are fulfilled with the upper light, and that is the best possible state for them. And He enjoys as He can bestow, as He can benefit the created beings and that is His desire. It turns out that we and the Creator complement each other, His light and our vessel. And thus, we achieve correction.
13. S. (46:34) When the soul of Adam HaRishon completed its entire process, he became a soul. What is the difference in the attitude to the Creator? What is the difference between the soul and the Creator himself?
R. The soul is the will to receive created by the Creator. This will to receive is intended to be in states of connection called NRNHY. These are states of connection in the world to receive that is divided into many, many pieces. Altogether, well we can say 600,000 souls, but these parts, these pieces of the will to receive that have been dispersed and detached and scattered, now they need to become connected. The upper light that appears to connect them, the upper light itself needs to be included with that, incorporated with the coarseness that exists in the broken parts. Therefore the upper light shines at a greater intensity then how the light itself exists in a state where it is not there, so to speak. It turns out that by these actions, the upper light grows. It unfolds and is revealed. Without their created beings this upper force appears at a minimum, in a minimal way, it’s called the light of Nefesh deNefesh only. Meaning only to sustain the vessels at a level of preparation for the correction. And later, it begins to awaken them by the surrounding light from the outside that has to enter the vessels to fulfill them. So the upper light begins to appear more than the desire of the vessels to connect. So the vessels feel this pressure from the outside. This means that they descend, that they fall, or even that they are in exile. This is how the vessels begin to feel themselves, being pushed to scrutinize their states of connection. Until they begin to ask from the upper force, from the upper light to organize them, to group them, to connect them. This all appears in the vessels, these deficiencies appear in the vessels because the upper light works on them. This is why it says ‘I am first and I am last’, in every state and in every action. I am first meaning the Creator awakens the states and there is none else besides Him, and unless it means ultimately the created being who discovers how much he yearns for something, doesn't need anything more than the upper light. That will influence the created being, connected with the other pieces to fulfill it.
14. S. (51:35) This picture comes up and please correct me if I'm wrong: the Creator is only the good force. What was thrown out is the will to receive that He doesn't have it. Did He create us so we could to help Him in the correction of creation by creating between us these two forces to help Him correct what is happening in creation?
R. We don't need to help the Creator, He doesn't need that. We want to take upon ourselves the qualities of the Creator. We want to perceive Him between us in such a way that as He appears, we can glorify His name, and this is what we can do on our own without Him doing that. In principle, the Creator doesn't need us but because His desire is to benefit the created beings as He has a desire to bestow to begin with, so He needs, if we can say that, He needs someone to show His love. This is why He created us, to show His love, this is His quality with regards to the created beings. Without the created beings, we can't even talk about the Creator, BoReh, ‘come and see’ because the word means, come and see. Meaning we see it in the created beings. Without them we can't discuss the Creator at all, we don't know what it is. I can't say at what conditions and when we can discover that. This is something for which our language has no definition. But this is the attitude of the Creator to the created beings. He created them in order to appear in them and reveal His completeness through the created beings. And as the created beings reveal the Creator, they have pleasure specifically from being opposite from the Creator to begin with, they then become like the Creator. This is why it is called Adam from the word, ‘similar to the Creator.’ Then they discover their incorporation with the two opposite states of creation, disconnection and connection. They discover the upper force within themselves in full.
15. S. (54:49) Whenever we get close to each other we separate again. When will the resistance to the connection end?
R. The resistance to connection will not stop until the final correction, it will be greater and greater each time to the extent that we can overcome the separation. Accordingly the resistance to connection will grow increasingly more so that we will be able to always grow. How can you grow if not on top of the force of separation? Is that okay or not, maybe I don't understand the question but the force of connection can only appear on top of separation and according to the aspect of separation that appears we can correspondingly discover the force of unity. The Creator appears when there is come and see, when there are conditions opposite to Him. The light appears from within the darkness.
The darkness appears when I feel that I want connection but I can't, I really long for it but that I am incapable and this is considered darkness. So what happened in the beginning of the people of Israel in Egypt they didn't even feel that they were in exile, everything was great, seven years of satiation and only then did they discover that there is some vital component called the force of connection between them that they cannot achieve it. Therefore they discover the hatred, the resistance, the rejection from each other and they discover the force of Pharaoh that dwells between them, same with us. The more that we advance, the more we need to discover the separation, resistance between us all kinds of feuds in the tens increasingly more and the more each one feels it within towards the friends through various ways of demands, criticism towards each and every friend. Accordingly I understand this is the growth of my evil inclination until I come to a state where I have no choice, that I will have to run away from it, too cut it out of me literally and that is the only way that we can come out of Egypt. Outside of our will to receive, of this ego that rules us in this world, this is the only way that we can win against it. This is a big problem that we need to put our eyes on. What exactly prevents me, disturbs me with regards to the friends? Maybe it is this separation that I suffer from, how can I then rise above it and connect with everyone, or even be the connector between everyone specifically. It is just for this moment, in the next moment I will hate and reject them again, feel resistance to them or at least some indifference and so on, each time you are being moved in one way or the other.
16. S. (01:00:10) Is the Creator in the ten’s mean, different qualities is the greatest in the ten...
R. No, we discover not in each and every friend, that happens also along the way but we basically want to discover that force of connection that dwells between everyone, connecting everyone, the concept of the group, the spiritual vessel is what we want to discover between us. That there is a force that connects us and begins to appear increasingly more, that in addition to each and every one of us there is also some concept of love amongst us that we call a group and when we begin to discover it we need to pay attention to this force. How unique it is, how completely out of this world it is. It is connected to the coarseness, the desire that we rise above, the desire in each and every one that we rise above and from the purity which is our inclination to be somewhat connected between us. This connection stems from, it is already the force of faith that we can be connected above ourselves without any connection to each and every one's egoistic desire.
17. S. (01:02:59) What is the common effort that is required of us, is this the common prayer, to ask constantly for the friends?
R. The common state is that we want to be connected above each and every one's will to receive, there is a will to receive and we, other than that, want to determine between us a force of bestowal, a desire to bestow, and area where we are connected so that we have coarseness and purity. This is the thickness of the spiritual vessel, this is what we want.
S. You described earlier how we need to explore this force between us that creates this common thing between us, it seems as if we are having a hard time to pay attention to it, however when you look at another 10 it seems like it is felt even more. What kind of special force they have by looking at them from the side is there a better way to investigate this?
R. We talk about it. Try to incorporate with what we are now learning and everyone understands in their own way but ultimately reality needs to be simple, we each try to connect above our views and habits and desires to a shared desire. Now we can't do that but we are trying and by that we make the place for the revelation of the creator, that he will come and connect us, but the need that will appear is what we need to acquire, what we need to discover.
18. S. (01:05:27) About the special state in the 10, how to rise from our current state of feuds and conflict, troubles and weakness and how to come out of this towards connection in the whole 10?
R. The whole ten needs to read material about what is the state that we need to achieve, this state we need to reach and how much that state we want to reach is detached from the present state. It's just from a different world and then when we come to that state, it’s clear to us that there is no point to engage in childish, nonsensical things as opposed to what we are going to rise to. Everyone must reveal to his friends two things, his desire that is opposite to the group and his desire to overcome the other desire and rise above it. And so one shall help his friend through these examples. If I see a friend who is telling me that he is inspired by the group, I'm not so impressed by that, so he feels good, he was recharged, so he has something, fine he has something. But if I see how much he works, how much he overcomes, how much he transcends his difficulties, his problems, his hatred, then accordingly I would take a very serious example from that for how I should behave as well. This can be a little friend, a veteran friend, a beginner it doesn't matter, everyone in that can show the others a unique example but we have to show both. It is not that I am just in some euphoria and then I am willing to give to everyone to bestow to everyone, but I also have to show them my level of overcoming, how much I feel bad and above that, I force myself to accept the situation and treat everyone in a good way and the difference between the desired state and the existing state is what I need to show. That will be a correct and beautiful example for the friends.
19. S. (01:09:11) About this gap that we have to discover in the 10, I feel that we are very different from one another in the 10 and at the same time we are doing actions together, those who participate, I feel close to them and those who do not participate I feel far away from them. How can I come to this distance that they would feel the need for the Creator?
R. The need for the Creator I can only receive as an example from the friends, there is no other way. I need to reach a state where I see that they are longing, even though they themselves perhaps don't have a longing but they work that way in my eyes, and I want to be like them in the revelation of the Creator which is the revelation of the force of bestowal. This is how we need to see the situation, how we need to show each other how much we are trying to achieve the force of bestowal, envy is what we need to discover, if I don't see envy in the others, I won't be treating them as friends, I won’t think about their benefit.
20. S. (01:10:56) How do we grow the point of patience more all the time?
R. This is called, not the quality of patience that we need, but the quality of submission that I feel myself in the hands of the upper one. I look at my life and basically I didn't determine anything, not the bad things I did also, it is not me, it is a Creator who orchestrated both the good things and negative things and this is how I go through life and the quality of patience we have to try to see in each and every moment changes, changes. Such changes that in every moment I receive a certain discernment from the will to bestow from the Creator and then one penny joins another one into a great sum total. Meaning that the quantity becomes quality, but I have to appreciate these changes and see what did I attained yesterday, what did I attain today from what I understand that I attained. In truth these are things that are much greater and much more important, basically this is what I understand for now so this is what I count, then I see that my state is not that bad. Day in and day out I advance and we don't understand that this is our problem, we don't understand how I detect just very little changes in me, I am actually doing great big changes in the general vessel. I can't even explain this so easily right now, but one millimeter that I move in my vessel today in the whole system, you need to multiply it 620 times and according to all the different souls in the upper light of NRNHY to see how a little shake in me, shapes the whole Kli and that is what I am doing in each and every one of us every day. If we make a certain step towards bestowal, towards connection.
S. Then this ego comes and tells you look, is this the almighty Creator? What kind of Creator is this if he does everything correct what do you answer?
R. Why not correct? He is actually performing the correction that He in each and every moment gives you a new state, you have a good big deep soul now that it is not yet corrected it seems cruel and you have to take care of it, what can you do? In the meantime, you advance.
S. Why doesn't He take care of it?
R. Why are you not being taken care of? You don't understand the treatment of course you're being taken care of.
S. It wasn't there before, but I should correct it. He could kill, put to death, why not just correct?
R. Yes, demand it from Him patiently and notice what you are asking for, are you asking in the direction of bestowal or reception and then you should see how much from your request, the Creator, what He fulfills and what He does not. Just ask correctly and the better that you ask the more you see that your desire becomes His desire.
21. S. (01:16:30) Just as you said I can come to need the help of their Creator only through the example, the desire to reach Him. How can I see the example of the desire to reach the Creator not the example of the egoistic desire?
R. I see that the friends are chasing in order to receive more and more and in fact one judges through his own flaws, so here I have to correct myself, I have to understand until at least the somehow believe that I am inside Divinity, that around me all of the world is directed, that I truly am in my soul. That all of the friends and all of the people, all of humanity the still vegetative and animal and human of the whole world is a vessel of my soul. The fact that I see it now the way I see it, that everyone is broken, that everyone is a criminal, it’s me judging through my own flaws, this is my observation. But if I correct myself now, I will see that everyone is corrected and that the Divinity is revealed in all of the vessels, this is how it is. So we need to understand that it all depends upon our perspective.
22. S. (01:18:28) How to come to the need for connection to reveal this, is this through prayer, faith?
R. Only from the friends. It can be from reading or hearing the articles, the teacher but in fact the main thing is through the friends, the main thing is through the friends.
23. S. (01:19:21) You said that I need to believe that I am in the Schechina, Holy Divinity, can you elaborate what one needs to believe?
R. There is the upper light, whose goal is to bring all of the vessels back to identification with it so that each one of these vessels will receive the coarseness meaning the level of separation and distance, oppositeness to the upper light and then to the extent adaptation and similarity resembles the upper lights. The maximum distance in terms of the qualities of the upper light and to the complete accordance between the vessel and the light, the gap between this and that provides the depth of attainment, of the general vessel called Adam. The attainment of the Creator. So that will be felt in both feeling and understanding, what we call both mind and heart this is what we need.
24. S. (01:20:56) How can the coarseness and purity be connected in order to attain the Divinity, by restriction?
R. The coarseness becomes the purity if you use it correctly, the purity, Zakut, there is no such thing in nature, the coarseness that you go with thick desire exists. I want to receive if I restrict the will to receive and then I even use the will to receive to bestow to others, meaning through my will to receive I begin to see what exists in them what can I give to them and by that I come to purity. Without the coarseness I wouldn't be able to achieve the purity. So I achieved purity and then from that level I can already belong to the Creator to the extent I begin to feel him, and we have an equivalence of form between us, that I have a great coarseness and then I achieved the purity and now I understand him and to this extent.
S. (01:22:51) After the restriction there is nothing I can do so it is the Divinity who will complete my action, so I have coarseness, I do a restriction and then he is the one who is going to complete me?
R. The Creator does everything you just need to want him to do it, meaning make your desire as his this is how the Creator works. He awakens the desire in you and if you are ready to continue what you got from him then he continues to work with you. This is how it works, I am first, meaning that the Creator awakens each and every desire in the created being and if the created being can somewhat add to that desire that he got from the Creator then from that, the means are at his disposal, the friends the group the Creator starts working with him.
25. S. (01:24:44) From our connection in the 10 you feel a certain connection between us, Divinity is it the connection itself or the light of the Creator in between?
R. I can't answer this so simply as the Divinity includes within it everything, it just depends on the level of the revelation of the Creator to the created being called Divinity. This concept of Divinity includes first, the will to receive that the Creator created and developed over many degrees until the human emerged and then Adam broke the vessel, the Shechina and accordingly the Shechina departed from man's vessel. Then how that vessel regroups, all of those things so that the Shechina is everything, it is a revelation of the Creator to the created being in the most conclusive way and also in a specific way. All of this is called the Shechina meaning that the upper light the dweller is in the created beings awakening these vessels of the created beings that, bit by bit, generation by generation until they come to the final correction.
S. There is a great desire to somehow do something between our friends in the 10, he who truly rules, that the light will dwell, how do I reach that synchronicity between us?
R. The accordance with each other that this match, doesn't mean that you're equal, not equal but similar. Each one from his perspective when each one connects and longs for the general connection from his view is how it happens. You are a good group and you need to move forward a bit more.
S. What should we focus on when we come to this synchronization, is this in our desires or in general, how to do this?
R. You need to achieve and to reach only one decision that only the Creator can help you and not that you are going to achieve some special state or some special decisions, feelings, it is all good that you look into all of those things but that the truth is, the truth is that the change will happen from all of you demanding from the Creator.
S. Demand what?
R. Connection, Nothing else is needed and in practice it is a connection between you and then Divinity can appear between you.
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26. R. This is what we have to come to so that the intention of each one is to extend such power from above, to receive such power from above that will help me to see the revelation of the Creator, the clothing of the Creator in all of the created beings.
27. S. (01:31:30) It is written that even if one is not worthy, who feels he is still far from the work of the creator, is the fact that he is not worthy, mean that he feels himself far from the Creator?
R. This is how he feels that he is far from the Creator and this is why he feels unworthy. Even a person who is not worthy, meaning that he feels about himself that he is still far from the work of the creator it is how a person feels, so this is great, it is a good thing because now he can turn to the Creator, so he is called unworthy if he feels far from the Creator and turns to the Creator. If he wasn't, if he was worthy he wouldn't feel unworthy. The fact that he feels unworthy is because the Creator is giving him a chance to get closer.
28. S. (01:33:07) How can I every day, take the examples from the friends and use it to yearn for one force?
R. This is your work and how can I help you, this is a work till the end of correction, that each time over new discernments that awaken in you each and every single moment which come from the broken vessel, when more corrupted discernments are revealed because the correction is from easier to harder and you feel, I already thought I did something, but no, now you discovered that you haven't done anything you still have work. It seems to you like you're repeating over and over again but you're not repeating, it's new each time you are never in the same discernment, the same action or operation as before, that you have to keep in mind to remember it very well and convince yourself that each state is new. It is impossible that you will have discernment that are not new so if you feel that you are in the same thing all over again, convince yourself that it is not so.
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R. That's okay you have a group in front of you. If you try to relate to all of the friends as to yourself in the same measure of connection and love then you have a place to work. It will be clear to you what you need, what you have left to do in order to achieve corrections. We have to see these things as clothing in the 10, don't disconnect our progress and spirituality from the 10 as there is no such thing, look at all the writings of the Kabbalists. This whole world seems to us this way as a result of the breaking in each of us.
29. S. (01:36:05) Can it be that the Creator will give me blows through my children, and if so how is this aiming me towards my 10?
R. The Creator has many opportunities to awaken a person toward correction and normally it is done through all kinds of operations like in one's job or in the world in general, or in the family. We should nonetheless continue as we don't have a Kabbalist, even the greatest who did not suffer physically from illnesses. You don't have any Kabbalist as an example of going through life smoothly. We don't understand this but the disclosure of the Creator requires all the powers, all the forces and the strength in the created being so it is not enough that the Creator awakens people only spiritually, we awaken to it in spirituality only in this way. We have to reveal and show the need for spirituality from within corporeality and this pertains to all of the Kabbalists, so accept this and soon we will discover how necessary and essential these things are required and mandatory. There is not a bad feeling in a person that is not healing, that is not for the purpose of correction.
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30. S. Actually Baal HaSulam writes here what prayer will always be accepted?
R. Yes.
S. If I asked for this to be strengthened in faith what I always get it?
R. Yes, if you ask we have to understand that the Creator is the uppermost law of nature, this is called the Creator. Let's say you have the universe with many galaxies, stars, planets and other things you don't even know it is all inside one law that encloses all of them, grabs and grips all of them into one system. When that system exists according to this higher formula in which everyone exists this is called the Creator who created it, sustains it and leads the form it failed into a new form which is called corrected form. The Creator is a law and when we turn to this law we can influence this law, not change it but to be changed by turning to it, become changed. By turning to it we change and when we turn and it changes us this is called a prayer and by this, turning to him we change and then we feel that this love begins to operate us in a new way. So it seems to us that that law has changed, that it is incorrect it is we who have changed as the Creator does not change. It is about him that it is written, that he is giving a law that will not be breached.
S. It feels like the first time that I am reading such a text where he says very clearly that there is a certain prayer that will always be accepted. So the whole path is to reach the right prayer, we are constantly learning how to ask correctly. Are there more texts by Baal HaSulam, Rabash that they asked to pray for this and they will get it, because if so maybe you can teach every person to ask for this and it will be accepted?
R. This is all of our work is our work is to come to the right request, please correct and change us, adopt us to this common law called the Creator and then we are truly in the state of come and see, that we see him more and more.
31. S. (01:45:12) What does it mean to see the light of faith?
R. The light of faith is a force, the force of bestowal, the light of bestowal which shines upon us and gives us, lets us feel the power of the bestowal. Meaning let's say there is a baby, that it doesn't understand what it means that the mother gives it, serves it, it doesn't understand it only understands through the will to receive that it wants this or that it wants that and it cries. That yells and demands so that it has the power of reception, right? As it grows more and more it becomes smarter, how do something from the mother, how to trick Mommy into getting more from her. So it doesn't leave the power of the force of reception but it actually expands it and this is how he grows, that ego grows. If he wants or understands that he should change already then he begins to understand what the mother wants from him and in what way she wants him to be and then he begins to relate to the mother differently. He doesn't approach her by only demanding from her but rather he acts toward the mother in a good and right way and accordingly she relates to him differently, that she constantly wants to give. But now it is according to how much he has grown and this is why we say that he has become a grown up as he is preparing himself to become a mother or a father, for his or her children. This is how we discover ourselves that we want to receive from the creators such an influence, such an education that will make us similar to him. Just like a baby wants to grow and to become a child then a youngster, a youth or a man, from the word Gever, overcoming his ego. Then he becomes a grown-up. When do we see him as a grown up? When he overcomes his will to receive and begins to work in order to bestow and accordingly a child becomes a grown up, Adam, man. One who is similar to the Creator because he has the power of overcoming this is how we grow.
S. What does it mean that the Creator blesses man, he raises him to the next degree from ego to bestowal?
R. Yes certainly, a person who wants to be similar to the Creator activates the power of overcoming over the will to receive and begins to overcome himself like the Creator and to that extent he is called a man. Otherwise it is written about all of those who are on Earth, that they are all as beasts because they live only by receiving, a man is there is one of those who has acquired the power of bestowal. This is why it says I found one man out of 1000 and they are very rare. There aren't many people like that who come to a state where they want to be similar to the Creator, to the power of the bestowal.
32. S. (01:50:02) What does it mean to stand between heaven and earth?
R. It is neither here nor there, in the meantime when a person is in the states where he can't feel himself into spirituality completely, but no longer into corporeality so much. Heaven means in order to bestow and earth means in order to receive according to these qualities he sees himself sometimes in this or sometimes that, ascents or descents.
33. S. (01:50:50) If we are drawn to connection so we don't need to receive the blows, on the other hand all of the Kabbalists suffer, so why is that?
R. First of all we have to understand that's when they had all of those burdening along the way, is this considered a blow? Perhaps not. Maybe the fact that they suffered all kinds of blows, they accepted those things as good things, things that advance them and then actually out of the suffering that they felt it was pains of love. When they discovered how much the Creator wanted to promote them more and more above the usual ladder of degrees, but to bring them to this leap with our eyes. We don't understand how it is possible for a person who is so holy, so special, who emerges himself completely in bestowal, and learning, and teaching and he suddenly suffers such blows how can this be? It is because we don't understand with our eyes and we also don't understand with our eyes what blows are, I can't clothe in another person. There are many such examples among the Kabbalist that a child sees what the grown-ups are doing. It seems to him like the grown-ups are tormenting themselves but the grown-ups don't feel it this way it actually brings them pleasure. Take a child to a classical music concert, the poor child won't be able to sit there for five minutes but the grown-ups get pleasure out of it. So it is each one according to his degree, his level of development.
34. S. (01:54:04) The state of ascent and connection are very short and usually we are in the work, dissecting and scrutinizing the states, what change will be more of a time that we are up for longer?
R. We need to see ourselves either in a sentence or in a descent and in the state that is sort of in between we should be in that states for as little of time as possible it all depends on my efforts, the more that I immersed myself in praying, getting closer in the work, by this I advance more. Those states between the ascents and the descent are states where I am inactive, I always have to see myself as in this or in that as opposed to the intermediary state in between, I prefer to be even in a descent because you are at least changing the situation.
35. S. (01:55:44) How to overcome the pride to discover what we are all lacking, how can a 10 increase the longing to discover the Shechina If the friends aren't speaking about rejection from connection?
R. You can talk about it, try what influences you the most in order to restrain the pride in each and every one and you will see what we should show their friends. What we should show each and every friend, I am in favor of showing one another how negative the pride is as there is nothing more negative. Man's pride will bring him down, will lower him as it says and if we get rid of pride it is a big step forward for us, we don't need anything more as the ego is based entirely on pride.
36. S. (01:57:18) If the problems are opportunities to advance, so what is the difference between correcting them internally or going through them externally?
R. Ideally you should go through them internally. I work to correct all of our problems, our ego in a spiritual way meaning in the connection between us. To correct everything through the connection between us and we will not want to see these problems externally which actually requires a lot more time and all kinds of problems. We want to do such operations that will begin and end in a spiritual way, to elevate our lives to the spiritual level as much as possible. This is really our work, this is the acceleration that we can do for our development and not to drag on all kinds of states that come upon us endlessly.
37. S. (01:59:01) Sometimes it happens that we are connected with one another in corporeal desires and we have to get out of that somehow, is that something that is revealed or is it incorrect?
R. You must not be connected among us in corporeal ties especially not when it comes to money, it is forbidden for people to be dependent upon each other in the group. In the group we are dependent on each other only in the power of bestowal, unrelated to this world, unrelated. We should be connected only through the spiritual connection so please check and correct these situations.
38. S. (02:00:25) The picture that the Creator covers the differences between us like water in the ocean. What should I pay more attention to about connecting the friends or the Creator connection between us?
R. No, the Creator will come and fill up all of the gaps between us like the water that fills between mountains and turns them into fjords but we need to pay attention to how opposite we are, to give us connection to the prayer.
39. S. (02:01:16) How practically to strengthen the desire to bestow in yourself?
R. The most important is to envy the friends, if you are proud and you don't see the friends as successful and then you have a problem that you won't have the drive, the thrust to advance to word connection, bestowal. The main way for us to advance in spirituality is through envy, good envy, when I look at the friends and I see how the friends connect among themselves. I am jealous as to, why am I not like that? That doesn't give me peace of mind and that is the main thing that corrects a person, this is why it is written either society or death.
40. S. (02:02:33) You said I want to see the changes, the effect of the environment and our desire to receive after we meet the person. How can I test the effect of the morning lesson on these changes on us?
R. Do you speak amongst yourselves after the lesson? Soon we are ending the lesson, after the lesson do you sit and talk about what you achieved during the day at the end of the day? Do you talk about the topic of the lesson and how it should influence all of us, the main thing is to hear from the friends as you cannot receive from the teacher what you can receive from the friends. This influences a person the most if he sees others are more successful, that they understand better and feel more than he who doesn't feel and doesn't understand, then he envies them, is jealous of it as it awakens the good and the right vessels to make him want it himself. So it is very important that you speak amongst yourselves and each one should see to what extent he feels that his ego is hurt and that his envy increases and pushes him to also want to understand and discover new things in the lesson.
R. We will say goodbye and see you tomorrow in the same hours and in a couple of days I will be back to my permanent place, all the best to you all, succeed with love.
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