Morning Lesson August 19, 2021, Transcription
Part 1
Annulling Before the Upper One - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #23
1.Rav’s Introduction: We are running up against the first paragraph that Rabash wrote for all of us in his first article, in his first approach to us,” we gather here to establish a society where each of us has the spirit of bestowing upon the Creator; and to bestow upon the Creator we must begin with bestowing upon man which is called ‘love of others’, and love of others can only be through revoking one's self; thus on the one hand, each person should feel lowly, and on the other hand, be proud that the Creator has given us a chance to be in a society where each of us has but a single goal for the Shechina, Divinity, to be among us.” On the one hand, these words are simple but realizing them takes a long time, a lot of energy and understanding, and canceling of the understanding, canceling of the intellect, a lot of it. There are several approaches to how to approach realizing what he writes for us here. Perhaps one of them is that we need to live as if we already received from the Creator the powers and desires and the knowledge of what to do in spirituality, meaning to bestow, and to implement, to execute these things so that as much as we can, let's bestow upon each other.
Think, monitor, and criticize our thoughts and desires. Relate to each other only in such a way so that besides the desire to bestow, the thought of bestowal, towards connection between us, love between us, and through us to the Creator as he writes, ‘from the love of people to the love of the Creator’. It will be carried out so at least let's depict to ourselves that we are already in it. Very simple, let's act it out like little kids, who, when they act something out that's how they grow. Let us also act it out that we are already in mutual love and yearning to reach the Creator through equivalence of form with Him. We will advance in this way. I think we should try more and more each time, in the connection between us, the good relationship between us, and each of us will be drawn to the Creator through it. This is our prayer. The more we elevate these desires, these tendencies, these yearnings for the Creator, we will have a place where we can receive His answer; because in that same MAN that we raised, in that deficiency we raised, we received the answer.
The more our deficiency is common, stronger, more concentrated, focused, constant and growing more and more, by this we will eventually establish a vessel that in it we will be able to feel the Creator's answer. The answer from Him already exists, we just have to develop it, like the photographs we used to develop in the past. We have to show the deficiency more and more. His good relationship is always constant and we just have to raise our MAN, our deficiency, to process it correctly. We will begin to discover that the upper light, the Creator's relation to us, fills all of reality and is constant. It is not changing, only we change. There are no changes from Him. He is in absolute love towards us. Rabash writes “we have gathered here to establish a society where each of us follows the spirit of bestowing upon the Creator”. The more we raise these deficiencies to the Creator, that we want to bring something towards Him as He is towards us, is the prayer. One receives one. We reveal His relation in our similar deficiency to bestow upon Him and that's how we will discover Him. What is important here is to see that we raise MAN.
That it is our common deficiency, not mine but ours. The main correction is in us being us. In the end, we have to ask for connection between us and to that vessel that was prior to the breaking of Adam HaRishon. This is why there is a deficiency here. Our disposition, our inclination, towards the Creator is very clear: help us connect into one deficiency to bestow upon You, this is all we want. This is called ‘make your will as His will’. We will be with Him in mutual bestowal.
2. S. (08:38) A person who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah, and doesn't feel meaning, a point in life, is that also a deficiency?
R. Yes, our deficiency changes all the time and becomes more and more concentrated and directed correctly.
3. S. (09:04) What does it mean that we hear, nevertheless, the answer of the Creator?
R. We still don't feel it but pay attention to how much you are trying to connect and to turn to the Creator, which is called MAN, not from each of you. The correction of the vessel is to the extent that you try to be together. The whole correction is in unification, of uniting, in order to reveal the Creator as one. This is really our request if we want to resemble Him and to return to the state prior to the breaking. If this is what we ask then in response to that we get help from above which is called MAD.
S. How important is the precision and focus of this request?
R. The precision of the request is important. It's important to the extent that we want to be concentrated and centralized, concentrated on ourselves, and connected among us and connected between us to the Creator. This is really the precision and the focusing. It doesn't matter if we are small and asking for it or if great ones ask for it as long as according to our efforts this is what we want. It's like a baby. The mother knows what it wants as soon as it cries. The Creator understands us. We don't need to speak to Him with lofty words. No. We just need to speak from the heart, from our common heart. This is why the Creator's answer to beginners can be much quicker and much more powerful than His answer to veterans, and more progressed and wiser people. It all depends on the cleanness of the reason and the desire. There is no issue of being greater or smaller from the perspective of the Creator. Our importance in high degrees or low degrees doesn't impress Him. It does not impress the system. What impresses the system is actually the requests of beginners, of infants, beginning students. It's very important that we ask of Him together and that our request will be only for connection among us in order to reach a request of Him in order to by this give him a chance to bestow and by this bring Him contentment.
4. S. (13:16) We can't seem to attract all the friends. What can we do more now to attract them to the lesson, the meetings, and other activities?
R. I don't think you can do it right before the lesson. I think you need to meet each day and talk about something. Ask each one to find excerpts that really impressed him in the writings of Rabash or Baal HaSulam, those that really moved him, and for each one to read these excerpts before the group. You can awaken the friends' hearts by this. Try to do this. I'm speaking from experience. It's really impactful. Get short excerpts. They could be from Psalms, but it's better if it is from Baal HaSulam or Rabash. Something really moving, but short, two or three lines. You will be awakened better for the lesson.
5. S. (15:15) If I don't have a strong deficiency, how can I acquire one from the friends?
R. You have to envy them. They are more advanced, they are greater, they are advancing and you will soon be left behind way back and it is not good. You need to get angry at yourself. There are two things. One is you come to the lessons, you are present at every single lesson. This is number one. There is no debate on this because this is the still thing, the constant thing, that exists in our world. Everything else is spiritual. You can't measure them with your senses. You need to check to what extent you are understanding better, you are more sensitive, and to what extent you are active in connecting the society. Rabash explains what we need to do in the society but first and foremost it is mechanical: I am present in our lesson each and every day and this is what is important
6. S. (16:55) In the ten we have very good relations and feel that each one of the friends is very proud of the other and proud of this particular ten. Is this a feeling of being unified?
R. No. It could be connection but it could be a bad, egoistic connection. You need to check to what extent you are connected in order to reach the Creator through mutual bestowal.
7. S. (17:58) If I have personal work, can I ascribe the common deficiency to the Creator above reason?
R. No, we need to come to a state where all of us are connected in a common deficiency to bestow from us to the Creator. These are two degrees: connection among us is the first degree and connection between us and the Creator is the next degree. We shouldn't confuse ourselves that we are already connected in the degree of the Creator.
Excerpt 23 (18:42) Twice
8. (20:10) If we are speaking about the society then we should immediately depict to ourselves the friends who are in mutual love among them.
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9. S. (21:18) Each one is integrated in the intentions of the friend. What does it mean that we are integrated with the friends' intentions?
R. Each one wants to see how much each of the friends yearns to connect and to bestow upon the friends. In this way, he, too, will probably direct himself towards the Creator. We must truly be in envy, in good envy, towards the friends, where I see that they are more successful. This is the right and good situation. I look at others and I see that they are greater, more successful. That, too, should push me forward and not cool me down.
S. Is it enough to see it or do I also have to feel and to demand such a feeling?
R. Of course I have to both see and feel this Perhaps I don't see it. It's written about it, ‘they have eyes but do not see’. I disrespect them, I slight them, I belittle them, so I don't see them but they are relating to each other in this way, that they are drawn to bestow upon the Creator. It all depends on my vessels. 'He who faults, faults in his own fault’. I have to very quickly correct myself to connect more to them, to study and to learn from them. It is like Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma.
S. Do I expect or demand this integration of ten forces into one?
R. You don't wait or demand but rather you do it yourself. You understand? You do it yourself and moreover tell yourself that they are already corrected, connected, and directed towards the Creator and only you are not. This is why you find fault in them with your own corrupted senses. Don't think that this pertains to some great groups and we haven't reached it. It happens in every situation. Even now if you don't see them as great, connected, yearning for the Creator, and bestowing upon the Creator, if you don't see them in this way right it is because we are all small. What can you do? If that's how you justify yourself then you are wrong. You just don't see the truth. You have no respect for them, you don't appreciate them. If you were to exalt them now in your eyes you would see them as great, connected and directed towards the Creator. This is called ‘he who faults, faults in his own fault’. Don't believe your own eyes.
S. Can we say that the integration is when I see and feel that they are great and connected?
R. Yes, this is already the revelation of the truth, the revelation of the real truth. The revelation of the real truth is that we are all at the end of correction and nothing changes besides my own correction, my own vision, the way I see reality. I was given a small group in which to see the corrected reality according to the level of connection, the level of love, the level of help, and incorporation in them.
10. S. (26:13) How to awaken the envy in the friends and not give up?
R. First of all, there needs to be a general atmosphere in the society as we just read in excerpt 23 ‘we gathered here to establish a society on the rule of love of friends,’. We started as if the whole society was founded on this foundation. That's how we need to move forward and we need to renew this approach, this attitude daily. As it is written ‘that they should be as new in your eyes’, that a person is a new person each day.
11. S. (27:19) At the beginning of the lesson you mentioned the common deficiency. In our ten’s meetings do I need to share something I heard in the lesson that's new for me or something that's good for the ten? Maybe talk about the direction the Rav wants to take us?
R. I have nothing to add. You are receiving everything from the excerpts we are reading. I really don't know what more to add. Everything is written here. Our work is only connection between us in the direction towards the Creator. The method, the theory itself is pretty simple, not complicated, but the execution is not only complicated, it is impossible because only through MAN do you receive the power from above and begin to improve through it. I have nothing to add. Just try, through the connection between us, to ask for a change so the Creator will connect, direct and do. Rely on Him, be dependent on Him, like a baby on its mother and only in this way will we advance.
S. How to be as one from one morning lesson to the next? Do we generally go through the verses or do we purposely do something else?
R. I can't determine for you what you should do during the day but I think that the topic of the lesson must be important, the key thing that we live throughout the day. Of course, you can add all kinds of things like I said today at the beginning of the lesson that each one brings excerpts that really inspired him from Baal HaSulam or Rabash. It's good to bring some excerpts from Psalms, as it is written from the level of the end of correction, from beyond the vessel. There is really light there. So do it this way.
S. Is it more important to go along with what the ten agreed or what the Rav said?
R. You will decide this and you will advance. I'm not going to decide anything for you but gradually it will equalize.
12. S. (32:30) You said that the morning lesson is the mechanical foundation. It's also the longest time that we have together. How to awaken envy correctly in that state?
R. I don't think the lesson is the time for such states. It is time only for a state where we are connected. During the lesson we have to be in connection, in the right line, in love, not in all kinds of criticism, envy and what not. When we read that the disciples of Rabbi Shimon hated each other, that was before the lesson. They came to such states as they arrived before the lesson but gradually during the lesson, they would move from a very deep left line into the right line in connection through the reforming light. They would discover what was written in the Book of Zohar afterwards in the connection. Understand that the Book of Zohar is written in this way. They had the left line and they had such big left lines and right lines that they could discover the full depth of creation. This is what they expressed in the Book of Zohar.
S. What conduct is demanded of us in this virtual state where we see only faces and little squares?
R. I don't see faces, I see hearts. If you are still seeing faces, you're not in a good situation.
13. S. (34:55) Can you tell us a little bit more about self-hatred?
R. We are dealing with the topic of the lessons now, so restrain yourself. You are asking enough. Ask another time.
Excerpt 24 (35:31)
14. R. (37:14) This is what we need to see. I see myself daily as lower than the others and truly not equal to them, I can't even approach them in how much they have in feeling, intellect, and knowledge and in the actions that they perform, how they are connected to one another, how much they understand one another, how much they have this heartfelt inclination for one another. I see myself off to the side somewhere. I am not like them. I cannot bring myself to such a relationship with others. If I feel like that it is good. It's not good to be in that state but it is good that I discover myself in this way. I then have room for prayer because no one can help me. No one.
The Creator is showing me where I am, who I am, what I am. I can then turn to Him and ask, ‘please give me the strength to annul to the friends, to be incorporated in them just as much as I see how they are Incorporated in one another’. This has to be a prayer, a surrender, a tearful request because if I am not Incorporated in them the way that I see them, I am lacking, then I am lost. I am not advancing to the purpose of creation, towards adhesion or towards anything. Daily I need to discover and to feel just how connected the friends are and how they share this mutual understanding and that I am somehow isolated from them. This pains me and it stings my heart. I don't know what to do about it and I am ashamed about it. Reluctantly I have to turn to the Creator and ask Him to give me the ability to subjugate and to incorporate in them and to be together with them.
15. S. (40:10) What if I don't feel it every day?
R. Then it is wrong. Pay attention to it
S. What's wrong?
R. Your pride is blinding you from seeing the truth.
16. S. (40:47) Sometimes in our meetings it may feel like I am correcting the friends when talking about what you said in the lesson. Is there a point where we cannot suggest anything to each other but only appreciate the friends?
R. I propose that you see everything we are discussing in the center of subjugation, where each one subjugates himself towards the society and he wants to connect there and embrace everyone. We come to subjugation when we reach zero together. We begin to feel the Creator this way, since this is where we are becoming an embryo. We forgot about this state of Ibur, of conception, that we wish to attain when each one subjugates himself until each one of us envies the others, how much each one is subjugating himself and is connected with others and in this way we come to the state of our center, in the center where we are all willing to be embraced and to incorporate and become one drop from many drops. That's how we begin our conception in the Creator.
17. S. (44:01) How do we know if our requests and demands have reached the Creator?
R. We will know only if you will receive an answer. There's no doubt that every one of our states reach the Creator because we are in it, we are in Him but whether or not He is answering is a different question. Connection with Him is something we can receive on the condition that we now prepare ourselves for the correct attitude for the correct connection to get a response from Him, so here we need to scrutinize this point and it is clarified in everyone.
18. S. (45:34) We need to achieve the level of integration that includes losing our ‘I’ that we, apparently, are clinging to. What can we do to expeditiously get this removed or restricted?
R. Only subjugation before the friends. Envy them since they are more advanced than me and I wish to be like them, among them, to truly dissolve myself in them. That's what can help.
19. S. (46:35) The majority of the ten are not in the lesson. Do I annul before the Rav or before the friends? Which is more important?
R. To hear what the Rav says and to do it among the friends with the friends. The implementation is among the friends and that is what is important. You will hear which software, which Torah, which idea to connect with the friends from the Rav.
20. S. (47:43) Why is it that the more we work the more we become incorporated the more we feel pain in our hearts?
(S). Why is it the more we beg the more we feel pain in our hearts?
R. Because it becomes more important for us the spiritual matter connection attaining the spiritual goal the more, we invest, just like in our corporeal lives the more I invest in something the more important it becomes to me.
21. S. (48:57) How when this process happens, is it even possible to see the group in the 10 constantly in this state of inspiration because it feels like when you're not succeeding when something's not working out that the Creator is placing obstacles and you can see the friends is great but otherwise when it doesn't happen and you're connected to the 10 you see like you're a part of them, so you're not inspired until the next flaw comes and then the Creator shows you your deficiencies and then you feel only feel the group only during the descent how can you feel their greatness during the ascent as well?
R. It's a question but the solution, the answer is only in continuing and continuing to work on it and then you will reach an answer. Meaning once it settles down you will see the correct state of the group and the view of the Creator’s and how with these three components you can work it is only a result of experience there is none wiser than the experience.
22. S. (50:44) How does the greatness of all the friends influence the level of our spiritual degree?
R. One determines the other to the extent I feel the greatness of the friends. Accordingly, I can determine my place. I can see from my height the height of the friends. How great they are, how small they are, I'm small, how great they are in my eyes, I'm great and that's all.
23. S. (51:30) Picturing the friends as great or as connected in bestowal is already a type of?
R. See it is something that is lifting me to a higher degree the fact that I see myself smaller and I see them as greater. I have a chance and opportunity to climb to them because I want to be in greater bestowal. By adding myself to them I want to be with them. I want to be annulled towards them. I see it as a kind of upliftment advancement. I become greater precisely according to how I annul myself. It's a continuous process not that much until the end of correction only?
S. But when you make the effort to describe them as great then it says if you are already included in it so there's nothing to be jealous of?
R. No philosophies, without philosophies, just do it and that is it. Not thinking, just do it and then you won't be confused otherwise you begin to get confused here.
24. S. (53:15) I see the friends as great but I don't feel that it bothers me, something is not working, what is missing?
R. You don't envy them.
S. Right, but I see them as great advances more than I
R. So what, you don't care about it, right?
S. So how do you work it out?
R. You don't even want to advance toward spirituality.
S. Exactly, so how do I work this out?
R. You need to come closer to them and mingle with them to hear what they have to say and then you will begin to feel that nevertheless you have what to envy here. They understand more, they feel more. You will see it. You position yourself so high above them but based on what? Doesn't matter how much you understand and how much they don't understand. It is like with Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma, where relative to his students, he was great and they were small but he felt himself towards them as a little one because they are together and together is a spiritual force, it is a higher degree and if he is by himself, he is not in a spiritual level, you understand? That's why he is going to lower his head towards him because specifically in the connection between them he will feel his advancement.
Excerpt 25 (55:44) Twice
Excerpt 26 (57:05)
25. S. (59:07) In the preparation for the lesson we read this excerpt in the 10, and it's amazing there's something so precise there. It is written there in the second paragraph that a person must annul before each and every part. What does it mean?
R. The main thing for us is to annul towards the entire vessel since by that we are incorporated into this vessel and to that extent we are Incorporated in the Creator from love of the created beings to love of people to the Creator. Love means the greatest form of connection, mutual. That is what we need to say. see. a person needs to annul his own needs before the needs of the collective and since a person needs to annul himself before the Creator, he needs to accustom himself in externality in the group before the friends. This is called doing. This is called will do. All those annulments will influence him so he can annul his mind and thoughts before the Creator. That's what we need to do. We need to do as much as possible practically, in practice, in the field we need to annul before one another and this will also influence us spiritually. Since we received here in this corporeal world a true gift, preparation for spirituality. Where even when we do something with our desires with our vessels our corporeal vessels from that we awaken spiritual lights and they work on us it is a result of the shattering. Where in the shattering we have a mixing between corporeality and spirituality so it turns out that even when we perform corporeal actions, by that we also awaken spiritual lights to some extent and they influence us. Therefore, there are many people who are doing all these actions. They are called Mitzvot, commandments, precepts, and by that they also influence spirituality but on the first level. Without intentions only the actions but nevertheless there is in that certain influence bestowal towards the Creator.
S. Can we see each friend or at least the 10 as a part of the uniform system?
R. Of course, we will see it, except we need to advance, we need to be more connected, more incorporated with one another and together we are incorporated in one force towards the Creator called MAN. Everything depends on our ability to raise MAN. It says Torah was only given to those who eat MAN meaning those who raised a deficiency and that is group work. Group action they received light from above called Torah.
S. So if it comes it is my MAD already?
R. Yes.
26. S. (01:03:36) He writes here that there are parts and whole in our inner work. Are these different stages of before 10 before the Creator?
R. Yes.
S. How do we connect correctly?
R. I work to be connected in the society so through it I will be connected with the Creator we learned about from the lesson. Yashar El, Israel, the light, and the creator are one or from love of people to love of the creator. These are two degrees.
S. I mean when he writes that there is a part of the 10, part of the group, the whole the complete. So, there are individuals and the general atmosphere of the 10. How do we work with them?
R. We don't need to work like that. We need to truly yearn to connect to the whole group and aim towards the Creator.
27. S. (01:04:59) How do we subjugate the corporeal thoughts and things, spiritual thoughts?
R. The more we think about spirituality and we understand that we depend on it, the more we advance towards the goal and besides that I think that the Creator is making our work, our lives easier because look what is happening around the world. He is starting, we are starting to suffer, the world is starting to suffer from all directions, from heat and cold, fire and water, and you name it. From world wars pandemics and terrorism, and world wars soon might, anything, everything. I think in these cases we don't have much to think about in our corporeal success. We need to, of course, worry about our necessary existence but other than that, it's not worth wild you will see how everything a person has above and beyond necessity, he will simply lose them. They will simply disappear each and every one.
28. S. (01:06:43) If I understand correctly a person before the friends as in one of two states either he is in constant envy which he should constantly increase or he is proud, he is above them is that correct?
R. Yes let's say that. Yes, there are many modes and many feelings involved but let's say yes
S. Naturally some friends you envy more and some and less and it also changes. Is the work to constantly intensify the envy with those that are easier for you or look for how to be envious of friends that it's more difficult for you. How do you work with it?
R. No, ultimately, I feel how the whole group is connected and unified between them and I am outside of it and I cannot be connected with them and support them and that pains me that's what should be.
S. So the envy is not specifically toward the connection in the 10?
R. Yes but it is a very deep feeling. One that has to accompany them forward. because to what extent we advance towards the Creator and the purpose of creation to the extent that we are concentrated together in the center of the group, all of the friends.
Excerpt 27 (01:08:53)
29. R. (01:11:19) This is the miracle about connection, where from all of the parts and fragments of the parts because a person is also divided internally and is shattered and spread all over the place. But by yearning somehow to connect between us and with the Creator, we collect ourselves as well into one vessel and all of us together in the 10 in one vessel and then it turns out that we are starting to feel the meaning of each and every spiritual discernment. Before that we have no hearing, no seeing, no sense of touch, we have nothing in spirituality because we assemble those because we want to connect between us. Then each one internally begins to feel his own spiritual qualities, then the spiritual eyes open up, the spiritual ears open up and that's how we connect and we discover around us a new world. Spirituality is revealed as that is what is in control and we feel corporeality simply within us, inside of us, and what appeared to us and seemed to us like seeing the whole world around us it says Baal HaSulam writes in the Introduction of the Book of Zohar and 'In the perception of reality' that the whole world appears to be outside of us is truthfully inside of us and we are simply feel all that is going on inside of us. That's why it's very important to us the to be incorporated with one another and through that integration we balance and we arrange our vessels of reception our personal vessels, the collective vessels, and we begin to see the true reality that exists, since only it exists and in it the general force that sustains it which is the Creator.
30. S. (01:13:50) If I see that I can't be a zero before the friends, will I reach repentance, remorse or does this mean I don't have enough force in my prayer?
R. It is both, the force of the prayer, the power of the prayer is a result that you acquire from your own request when you turn to the friends, when you turn to the Creator and you don't get an answer from that you get an eruption of the prayer.
31. S. (01:14:56) When you bring examples of Rabbi Yosef Ben Kisma or a mother and her children is it only for situations where I see myself as higher than the friends and I don't know how to be incorporated with them?
R. I don't know which states you are in. I am bringing such examples of a person to clothes in the story and this example and in this way, little by little he adjusts himself or adapts himself to the spiritual state to become more flexible.
S. If I see myself as lower than the friends do these examples still work?
R. It will all pass, especially when you see yourself as less than the friends.
32. S. (01:16:03) What are the personal needs and what are the needs of the collective?
R. We need to make sure that we will have what we call, nothing that is too much or praised or despised, not too much so that it doesn't confuse us in our corporeal life. A lot of things we have to put to our concerns, we have to make sure we have what we need in our life for our family and that is enough. Day to day this is how I progress in life that I will have what I need for that day but the main thing is that I am advancing toward the final goal.
33. S. (01:17:17) What in this force of the collective gives a person the feeling that he can bring the love of others into practice?
R. This force comes from above like all the forces like the good forces and the bad forces they all come from the Creator we just need to define the relations between all of these forces. How we will relate to all of these forces. What we will ask for there to be. But all of the forces themselves come from the Creator.
S. So what is the point that a person feels that they can suddenly bring it out into practice?
R. That I, with the group, together, turned to the Creator and only in the manner in which I raise MAN and this is how I carry out my actions. Besides raising the prayer, we have nothing to do. All of our work is how to connect between us to a collective lack and raise that collective lack to the Creator our common deficiency. Don't think that MAN is only the deficiency, the request. Ma is also the vessel within which I receive the response, the MAD. Because MAD arrives exactly according to my request. To the extent of which I ask, let's say this is a cup (holds up cup), if I ask correctly, I will receive accordingly, either more or less and what exactly that's what there is. Otherwise, it cannot be. Otherwise, it will just be confusion from above whether we will be given more or less from above. We receive exactly what we need from above and order to make one step forward and that is how it is all the time. We raise MAN and we receive MAD. This is why it was written that Torah was given only to those who eat MAN, when we enjoy the delight of the lack for the Creator because this is how we want to feel Him because He lives from our appeal to Him. Then we also feel that we enjoy our MAN, our connection to the Creator and in it as we relate to Him in such a way that we discover the MAD, the answer from the Creator. This is why we need to try as much as possible together to connect with our request and in a collective manner together we raise our request to the Creator. From that we have the public prayer and all of those other things which stem from this. This is how the Kabbalists defined for the general folk to pray
S. So the feeling of the ability to carry out the answer of the prayer, is this the MAD?
R. No, it depends on what if we are to execute the request it depends whether we are talking or even without the speech as it emerges from our heart, because what is the prayer but the work of the heart. So, if we come to a connection of our hearts and a tendency from our hearts directly to be inclined towards the Creator then this is how we connect between us and we connect with Him.
34. S. (01:22:15) The 10 is always above us in spirituality but in corporeality when we have many problems in our work and in our corporeal life. Should we annul there too?
R. No, there we need to work as it is customary to work in our world. There we need to relate to the things like it is customary to relate to things in our world. In spirituality, it is only through the group to the Creator.
Excerpt 28 (01:23:36)
35. S. 01:25:46) You mentioned that the Creator lives as a result of our addresses to Him. What does it mean?
R. To the extent we addressed the Creator we bring Him contentment and this is all together what it is that we need to know.
36. S. (01:26:14) no translation
R. Not every address to the Creator is called MAN as MAN it's called the address to the Creator which equates with the desire of the Creator to give to us, meaning that I cannot ask the Creator to give me something that is truly not on the way of my development of my spiritual development but rather MAN is called that I scrutinize what needs to be the advancement, my request, the next step and to the extent that I am capable to locate this, this is something that I raise upwards and ask. There are many other things that I need to learn and how to ask, how to establish and stabilize the MAN because there is no other work for us in spirituality other than stabilizing our request to the Creator. This shows the extent and which I understand Him, the extent to which we arrange ourselves to Him and bring ourselves closer to Him all of it is expressed in MAN, everything. Other than our MAN towards the Creator there is nothing else and all of the rest is His response and how He corrects us and how He fills us, how He does with us all of the different actions. How He opens Himself towards us and so on, but from our side as much as possible to organize our MAN. This action we need to learn from the Creator because He gives us in order to organize this MAN all kinds of conditions and details.
37. S. (01:28:57) Should the general deficiency be the sum total of the personal deficiencies or should we all reach one desire that has to be our prayer to the Creator?
R. We don't know how to express these things yet as we cannot even though we talk between us through His desire and my desire of another one but if we try to come close to one deficiency in the 10, we begin to feel that certainly it is not possible that there is going to be the same deficiency and each and every one because we're different. How can there be the same deficiency? Even when I think of 1 it's not the same, each one has something a little bit different and as much as we study together from one source it also changes as each depicts to himself that there's just no choice this is how things are happening. Let us understand that we need to do what we need to do and the upper light will constantly correct us and bring us closer to perform a close equivalents and connection and then eventually we will connect that way.
S. It is not so clear how I awaken the friends if I already see them as connected? How can we connect our desires if we already see everyone connected?
R. We will see this, that I can't answer now.