Morning Lesson December 16, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
The Lord Will Finish for Me - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uhi_yUTtpvVgsc3rRokkayxWjZjAO56pkCgfrUzQhUU/edit
1. Rav’s Introduction: (00:20) Yes, we are starting a new topic. Out of all the topics we have to go through until we finish this first round of ours. The topic is, ‘The Lord will finish for me.’ What does it mean? That even though the Creator is the first and he is the last and the person in the middle has to work, has to put all kinds of efforts in, we have to know in advance that it is the Creator that is doing the work and man has only to hope that, ‘the Lord will finish the work’ in each stage. This is why it says that, ‘the Lord will finish for me.’ Let's see what they write about it, especially Rabash.
Reading Excerpt 1. Twice. (01:25) “I am the first and I am the last..”
2. R. (02:20) Of course, the Creator starts everything and he finishes everything and he does all the work but man has to know the Creator is doing everything and man has to join this and invite this work as much as possible to be in this work. Where do we need to help, to assist, to ask that we will learn from the wisdom of Kabbalah itself. Where is our place where we must participate? I am the first I am the last, the Creator says that I began the contact with you and the person has to wake up from this, from this initiation by the Creator. This is how we wake up each time. We have a certain awakening and uplifting from our state, from the animate state to the speaking state. However the person is not completing the work even if he seemingly awakens by himself. Rather it is as it is written, ‘the Lord will finish for me.’ Meaning that the Creator begins the work and finishes the work and we are in the middle and the main thing is to hold onto the awakening we received from above and constantly hold on to the Creator.
Reading Excerpt 2. (04:10) “ Our sages said: “He would say..”
3. R. (04:33) If the person does not start it or finish it, what is the benefit of the work itself? If from all of these actions from beginning to end the Creator is doing everything he is deciding everything he is pushing the person to do it .
Reading on.
4. R. (05:02) Even though it is not on you to start it because the Creator starts the initial awakening and you're not finishing it but the Creator is finishing it for you. According to your desire, to your decision you cannot stop in the middle.
Reading on.
5. R.(06:00) Yes, so on who does it depend to begin the work, to continue the work and to finish the work?
Reading on.
Reading 2 again.
6. R. (09:18) The person needs to exert himself, to invest forces and acquire the desire to finish the work and here he discovers that he's unable to do and that and after all these efforts when he is adding his deficiency and he is adding his experience by exerting he begins to understand that this whole thing is about having a deficiency to finish the work but it is the Creator who actually finished is it.
7. S. (10:00) Is it up to me to reveal that the Creator is finishing the work or do I just need to ask him to finish it?
R. We discover that we are not able to finish the work and we need to ask the Creator to finish it for us because to finish means to correct and we are unable to make any corrections. At most, what we have to do, is to look for, to reveal the place for correction, the need for correction: to ask for it. As it is written, the Lord will finish the work for me.’ The Creator always makes corrections we only ask.
S. What does it mean to complete the work? What is this correction?
R. It means that when I ask the Creator for correction, it means that I am asking him to finish the work because it is not on me; it does not depend on me but I understand the work, I understand what has to be. Only the action itself I am unable to do. Like a little child, he is playing with something and he can see how it should be but he cannot do it, he is crying, he comes to you and then you do it for him. This is the meaning of, ‘the Lord will finish for me.’
S. That means that we are not successful to connect ourselves otherwise?
R. It is not just that matter of connection, although you are right. The main thing is connection but it is connection, it’s unification, it’s incorporation. In essence , it is correct. The connection is the correct result and outcome of our efforts in correction and we are unable to do because there we become face-to-face with the shattering itself and through the shattering we take a leap above it and it is impossible. Only the Creator can do it by shining His light on us and He does it.
8. S. (13:01) There is a condition here, ‘I am the first, I am the last’ and the person accordingly needs to do this work and he cannot deny and if I do this work I can demand of the Creator to finish the work for me? I can check Him on this?
R. We need to be in the middle to tie the beginning to the end but the Creator does the beginning of the work. He shattered the Kli and He arranges us in our current form and also, the end form; He is connecting us even though we are unable to connect. It turns out that, ‘I am the first and I am the last,’ as the Creator says.
S. And I am talking in such a manner that I'm doing the work and I'm asking Him to finish the work for me. Why do I need to search and ask Him to do this? I am doing my part so he needs to do his part?
R. The Creator is not obligated to do anything, this is the first thing. The second thing is that you feel that through your request you are becoming His partner. A partner, you connect together. Therefore, you turn to Him gladly, you ask Him and He replies to you and then you begin your partnership, you understand each other, you come closer to one another and that’s how the connection works.
S. I am not talking about an obligation in some egoistic manner but the partnership. It depends if I can do my work but the Creator will not finish my work?
R. Our work is to discover how much I am not able to do what I would like to happen. Then, according to how much I advance and understand the work then more and more I find the words and feelings and I open my heart for the Creator to do the corrections?
S. Let's say now, in the ten, we had a discussion and I want the connection. Meaning, the Creator is pushing me towards that and I agree. I do not know how to explain this but to connect to the friends but I do not see that as a result of my actions that the friends are truly connecting. Does that mean that I am doing incorrect work?
R. We do our work completely and we see that we cannot obligate Him, we cannot awaken Him to connect us the way it was before the shattering.
S. When a person takes this work upon himself and does it, is he corrected as a result that it must be a plea, a request to the Creator? That even if he is doing it, if he does not turn to the Creator to finish the work then nothing will happen?
R. I don't quite understand. What does it mean that he turns to the Creator without a question, without a request? My entire request is for the Creator to connect us and then will appear in us and will rejoice from having a place to be revealed and that we prepare that place for Him. He shattered that place, He gave us this work to do and now He sees that we truly want Him to reveal between us.
9. S. (17:50) A question about the request. It turns out that we do our work and we make a request but if we remember Tzimtzum Aleph occurred because of the shame from reception, so it turns out here, we are asking and asking.
R. What are you asking? You are not asking to be given something you are asking about the correction. That what happened before you, the shattering, you are asking to correct it because you see, you discover that you are unable to correct the shattering but you can ask about it is possible and the Creator arranged everything in this way that only according to your request will the shattering be corrected.There is no place for shame here, on the contrary, it becomes a sense of honor because we are asking the Creator to correct it and by that we raise ourselves to the dirt or from the lowest degree of the will to receive, to the highest degree; to the degree of the Creator, to the degree of Adam;that person who resembles the Creator.
S. If we are requesting, isn’t it from the lowest state?
R. We awaken the upper forces, the force of the Creator to connect us and then we’ll have a system that is called Bo-Re, come and see and in this system we discover the upper force. Just think about it. It is not simple but think about it, you cannot understand it.
10. S. (20:13) It is written that the person makes a choice to work for the Creator. How do we make this choice?
R. We gradually receive from above one illumination after another, a small illumination and then it takes care of us, it changes us, it corrects us in such a way that we finally wish to be connected in mutual bestowal to one another and from within us, all of us together to the Creator. The Creator, Bo-Re, come and see, is our common feeling that appears when we connect. It is not something that is present outside of the ten. If there is a ten and it connects, then it discovers that the Creator is in it. If it does not connect, it does not discover the Creator. The Creator is not revealed to a single person but only towards a minimum of two, the smallest collective is two and then in their mutual inclination towards one another, according to how much they wish to help one another, to connect and contribute, to that extent they discover this quality called the Creator, Bo-Re, come and see and that’s how we become closer to Him.
11. S. (22:20) What effort should I do in order for the Creator to finish my work? How do I feel the awakening of the Creator in the ten?
R. Try to relate to the group as to the Creator and then you begin to discover in the group the Creator.
12. S. (23:15) It is written that, ‘I am the first and I am the last.’ Is my role here to maintain myself in the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah?
R. Yes, of course. The wisdom of Kabbalah gives you the plan for how to correct yourself all the way up to the degree of the Creator. It gives you the ability to draw forces from above that do not exist otherwise on our level and then through these forces we can connect above our will to receive and build a Kli for the revelation of the Creator. We have no other choice but to use the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to correct ourselves and to reveal the Creator in the connection between us.
13. S. (24:43) It turns out that the Creator is first. He brought me to the group and told me to love the friends. I do my work and I do not succeed and it turns out that I recognise the evil in me and only afterwards as a ten, we can raise a true prayer and only then the Lord can finish His work. Is this the chain?
R. Yes.
S. It turns out the group, the ten, is the place for the recognition of evil?
R. Yes, everything is clarified in the group.
14. S. (25:44) If a disturbance comes to you, that brings an awakening,a strong awakening to work and afterwards this disturbance, it turns out that it becomes more bothersome and I begin to ask more about the disturbance and not about the friends. How to get out of this circle?
R. It is because you are neglecting the true goal of coming closer to the friends and this is why you start to wonder. You have to yearn not to wonder but to approach the center of the group where everybody has to connect.
S. What do we do in such a state? Just ask the friends?
R. Specifically like that. Exactly like that, try to connect in the center of the group. Everyone in this way, that the center point of the group will be the point where all of you wish to be.
15. S. (28:04) I heard you say that shame turns into honor. Can you explain?
R. If we work correctly with our will to receive then we begin with the feeling of shame and we correct it and then we end the correction with the feeling of honor and here we have a question. Is shame even appearing at our expense and the honor is that at our expense or on our account, rather or we relate it to our view of the Creator?
16. S. (29:06) Many friends who are no longer with us and the question is: how can we adhere to the ten and never exit it?
R. It is a big problem and it will continue until Gmar Tikkun.The whole correction is in the ten in connection in the ten and all the work is from here until Gmar Tikkun. And leaving and not staying, there is nothing we can do about it because Baal HaSulam and the Rabash write about it: many will fall along the way and there is nothing we can do. We have to work on the importance of the goal and in this way we can hold on. We have nothing to do in this world before life, between life and death and after death except for the wisdom of Kabbalah is telling you. Of course it is good to go down to the animate degree, to be a beast and live a beastly life, when you only think about your body and its health. If you can agree with it, close your eyes and continue in this way. That’s your business; the choice is yours.
17. S. (31:04) My lack of ability to finish the work causes me to exit myself towards the ten and our lack of ability to finish the work as a ten causes us to exit towards the Creator?
R. Yes.
S. Do we have to change something because it seems to me that it is changing things inside of me and the world around me so how to explain this?
R. We need to connect all of these questions together and understand that we scrutinize everything on the way to the Creator.
S. We have been reading about it and it is not clear.
R. Yes.
18. S. (32:06) Is it a condition of the work to ask the Creator to correct us?
R. Yes. These are the conditions that we reveal that are exactly the problems we each have to correct in our souls in order to reach the degree of the Creator.
19. S. (32:50) How can we continue to want to finish the work as an individual and as a ten. How can we merge the work of the one in the ten?
R. We cannot combine or blend everything but rather everything depends on everything.
S. We continue one-by-one, individually and get closer in loving each other, this is how we become one?
R. As much as we come closer to one another, accordingly we correct our ten and to that extent each can become corrected.
S. This is how we go towards finishing the work?
R. Yes.
20. S. (34:02) The Creator is revealed between us in the ten. Do we all reveal him? How do I know if all of us can reveal Him- if the Creator is revealed between is in the ten, do we all reveal Him?
R. Each one reveals the Creator to the extent of your demand for Him.
21. S. (34:57) The Creator is the first and the Creator is the last. He is doing the work and I am in the middle. How do I know if I am hastening and not slowing down His work? It seems that I'm always mistaken.
R. Your friends are before you, so try to be connected to them more and discover that heartfelt connection between you, the center point and from there where you all connect, aim yourselves at the Creator and the effort here is on two steps. The first step is to connect in the center of the group: seemingly the center, and the second step is to take another step from the center of the group towards the Creator. That's it, there are no more than two, so try to do it.
22. S. (36:06) If the Creator is not revealed, is it because I did not connect correctly with the friends and even more so I did harm in this action?
R. Maybe, it is possible but we should not think about harm or damage. We should only think about how to correctly connect with one another so the Creator will be revealed in us.
23. S. (37:02) If the Creator starts and finishes the work, how does he choose who are the friends with which I work?
R. How the Creator makes his choices, I do not know. It is also not important to me. It is His question not mine. We do not ask about the Creator. We only ask about our own work.
24. S. (37:43) How can the Creator finish the work for us if the Creator is something we need to build between us?
R. When we build Him, this force that wants to be revealed, it is revealed and does the work. It turns out that we are the result of the Creator and the Creator is the result of us.
25. S. (38:18) The Creator begins the awakening: how can the person even have any free choice?
R. Our choice is not in this that we choose something other than the connection between us; other than the connection between us.
26. S. (38:46) Let's say that I am asking correctly. What is the condition for the Creator to reply to my request?
R. If you are requesting correctly then surely, surely He will give you an answer.
27. S. (39:05) If the disturbances are in order to arrange the importance for us, what are we appreciating, the disturbances or the connection?
R. Both: disturbances help us to go forward and to see where we can add more in connection and the connection itself is the same point of Dvekut with the Creator.
28. S. (39:31) We hear often about the center of the group. What is the meaning of the center of the group?
R. The center of the ten is the central point of the group where there are all of us ultimately connected ‘as one man in one heart.’
29. S. (39:54) What is the sign for the fact that the Creator finishes the work, if for me everything disappears?
R. It seems to us that it is gone, it hasn't disappeared, we just have to begin our work as if a new; as it should be ‘as new in your eyes,’ as it is written but we continue on the path, just go forward in new conditions.
30. S. (40:33) How can we feel that we are in the center point in the ten?
R. Come closer to it and then you will feel it . You need to aim yourself towards this.
31. S. (40:54) What is the correct question to turn to the Creator with?
R. That I want to be connected through the friends to Him.
32. S. (41:20) From the center to the Creator: what is this process, what do we do, what is required? What do I do from the center to the Creator?
R. What is demanded of us is to be connected between us and in the connection between us to attain some center of connection and from that to be drawn to the Creator. This is how it is.
33. S. (42:10) ‘I am the first and I am the last,’ so we know that one of the things is the revelation of the Creator to the people in this world, we can see that the end of the process, the last action is the revelation?
R. Yes.
S. In the revelation in the work it comes in pieces like Tik Tok? That we do and we receive without stopping. What is this Tik Tok ?
R. I don't know these words.
S. Not Tik Tok but there is a connection that we have to constantly be mindful of the process of what is happening there?
R. Yes?
34. S. (43:13) When we do not aim our question to the Creator but we chase the question like a dog chasing his tail? Are the ninety-nine also doing this, that they're chasing their tail?
R. Only us.
S. Is this chase around ourselves?
R. Yes.
Reading Excerpt 3 twice. (44:13) “It is not for you to finish the work..”
35. R. (47:10) Meaning it is not up to the person to ask when is this going to be over and what is with my end of correction, where am I in this. He wants in this only that he is in the process of work, in the process of correction.
Reading on
36. S. Therefore how can you know the Creator engages if He can or God forbid cannot finish His work.. This is insolence and heresy.
R. We do not ask about the end or when it is going to be over or when are we going to finally do something and get something. All this is just a sign of how much we are still in egoistic qualities.
Reading on.. What does the Lord your God ask of you..
37. S. If we as a 10 see opportunities to move forward in the work and exert in the work where we may even feel resistance to it, if we do not take those opportunities as a 10 is this the same as idling away from the work?
R. It’s not exactly this. It is not the same thing but there is still more where to improve.
38. S. It says that a person has to reach despair in order to turn to the Creator. If I do not reach this despair and my desire keeps renewing and my desire is telling me let's do this and do that.
R. Yes but you feel that you are getting closer to some goals.
S. No, I cannot reach this despair in order to approach otherwise, on the other hand, I am receiving additional impression additional forces to advance forward towards the spirituality and connection but the point of despair is not so clear.
R. I understand you. For now it is a good result.
39. S. (51:02) He writes here open for me one opening of repentance like the tip of a needle. What is the meaning of that, is that prayer MAN of the righteous what is the meaning of that?
R. It is the meaning of MAN but it is not the prayer of our own it’s advice from the Creator. That if you shall open up one connection for me than through this connection I will open truly a big wide connection with me.
S. And this happens in each and every degree?
R. Yes.
40. S. (52:03) How can the Creator help us overcome the Sitra Achra other side? What are the methods that can help us?
R. Only prayer, only prayer together when I receive strengthening from the friends, an example from the friends. If I join the prayer it is the strongest means by which to correct every state because all the forces of correction come from nature from above, The Creator and to awaken it is possible only by this we connect and ask, ok.
41. S. (53:07) Is it then our job to maintain the deficiencies of our friends as our blow the Shofar
R. Yes we need to give an example to one another, to pray for others that in this we will help ourselves more and more, we will collect our desires more and more and reach the goal. We are in the opening of the entrance to Lishma and we get a bit farther from it and a bit closer and in such a manner there is still is no truly step forward into Lishma for her sake a stride forward into it, a foothold. We do not have yet enough serious forces to get into it. We have gone through so much words and articles, excerpts and it is still not working because we are not connecting enough between us in order that we can come to some commando, not maybe a large one but sufficient to burst into Lishma.
42. S. (54:50) How is the saying, “it is not on you to finish the work” how does it help us in the spiritual work?
R. The work is not up for you to complete. Isn’t this that we understand that we don’t finish the work rather we operate only in the aid of the Creator that gives us in each step a stride of his in each step forces of his own and that is how we advance step after step.
43. S. (54:40) If the shattering appeared, was revealed between the friends would that help to correct the state if I imagine us united in the Creators field.
R. Yes but we do not need to trick ourselves that we are connected. The opposite, we are not connected, we do not need to delude ourselves right, we are not connected and maybe we are in some conflict between us, that’s fine. Now we can correct it. How do we correct it? We make a restriction on what was and we begin to build anew.
44. S. (56:26) Can we say that the Creator loves more than anything the prayers that match his plans meaning that we grow up from little kids to be like him.
R. Yes. Of course, yes like this.
45. S. (56:52) I wanted to ask what is this seriousness that you are looking for in our work so we would be able to enter Lishma?
R. The seriousness is a necessary thing because otherwise what are we doing here. Being light-hearted, foolish is ruining everything. I do not know how to say but we need to work on the seriousness of the work of our path for how much we are in unique work. I highly advise you to think very very well how lucky you are as it is written he raises his heart in the path of the Creator. It is very important.
S. You said that we are on that threshold to Lishma and we are seemingly taking a step forward but we keep walking back that we cannot take that last step into it because we lack seriousness.
R. Correct
S. What are we lacking on our part, what are we not doing precisely?
R. First of all, to hold one another. To hold one another. Do not allow the friends to fall one day this guy falls the next day the next friend falls than this one comes back then the other one falls. It’s like this. There are all sorts of emotions and we do not need, we should not let things happen like this.
S. Ok, this work of holding each other is the kind of work we do constantly to look after one another on the path but in your words I feel like there is a deeper layer I do not know, something.
R. No no no, I am talking only about this that we need to obligate each and every friends to appear on a study basis in each and every lesson.
46. S. What you are saying now is going to maintain the ranks but how do we get that foothold on Lishma for her sake.
R. As you do it, the connection between you that you are ready to help one another on the first step of connection and you enter Lishma.
S. (59:48) First degree of connection is that everyone is coming to the lesson but when everyone is coming to the lesson then what else can we do here?
R. To reach not physically, but in this that we come to connect between us to such a connection that already The Creator can dwell between us.
S. So what are we lacking to reach such work?
R. Ask yourself, ask, ask the Creator that we want to know what are we lacking in order to be connected at least on the first degree of Lishma. That's it. Mutual giving, mutual connection where is it? Why don’t we have it? Why don’t you give us the light that reforms. Clear?
47. S. (01:01:06) Following the scrutinies about this commando, what should be a special characteristic?
R. Here you need to see and read what is written. I cannot go over all these things anew. What is connection, what is mutual guarantee and so on. All this ultimately leads to accumulate into one group to some one whole condition that you hold one another, care for one another.
48. S. (01:02:10) What should come from the connection in the center of the heart and then mainly from desperation what should come out from the center?
R. From the despair in the center and the connection in the center there needs to result a mutual desire either for connection or for separation in order to reach a mutual separation is not our work that is done through us from above and so I do not think that we shall feel it, it was only in the past in unique times in history, but in mutual connection we needs to constantly ask for this that the Creator would connect between us and bring us to the point of mutual connection. That is it. Afterwards we will learn more about that. The matter is I’ll tell you, we are going through all sorts of States. If we were in a successful state, we would need to be concerned how to continue this successful state without coming down from it, without descending and that is not what is happening to us. We rose to some degree, we need it to jump a bit more and then enter spirituality but seemingly it is enough for us we are not holding on and we descend. It’s a shame, it’s a shame.
49. S. (01:04:29) I don't have the heart to love anyone else more than myself. I'm losing my sleep because I cannot love my friends more than myself. Where am I in the study?
R. You need to reach a state that just as you love yourself you love the friend. Try it, try to see and it will give you a correct measurement, a correct measurement of how much more you have left until Lishma for her sake.
50. S. (01:05:56) What do we need to add to the action of connection between us so the incorporation will be spiritual?
R. Come closer between us, what more. To come closer as much as possible and opinions and desires and goals and everything. To be closer to one another.
51. S. (01:06:32) If we will see an antenna on a radio and in order to hear the radio well you have to be tuned to the antenna so it could broadcast to us at a good quality. How in the group and in the world kli vessel can we reach that frequency for the Creator to hear us?
R. It depends only on the sensitivity of your heart. As much as your heart wants to be connected to the heart of the friend. Alright?
52. S. (01:07:26) If my sensitivity is not high enough can I develop it?
R. Yes. Yes, please, that's precisely what we're doing.
53. S. (01:07:46) More than once you said that we are obligated to fall and we must feel the fall completely and now you said what we are lacking is to hold on to the degree.
R. There are all sorts of such events, a descent comes and not that it's a descent but rather you don't have that same light that illuminated beforehand at the time of a big assembly of great upliftment and that's how it occurs, but we need to maintain ourselves to hold ourselves to be on at least the same level as before and not let ourselves fall. Rather to connect more and learn more to read more, to awaken as much records for after the Congress, this we still don't see it how to operate. It's a shame, but we will learn for the future.
54. S. (01:08:58) If I see my friend as corrected and if I am as standing in front of the Creator all the time and the Creator takes care of everything, I only have to pray for a connection with my friends. If I believe that my friends are already corrected, what will I asked for my friends?
R. You are asking for them what they need, in any case we have the end of Correction and asking for yourself you're asked to be adhered to them.
55. S. (01:09:50) How can we reach true despair if each time we have new work?
R. Yes, with the new works to reach true despair. It doesn't bother.
S. Our true prayer for the Creator can only come from a person's descent?
R. Why both in ascent and descent, it depends on what importance a person gives to it.
56. S. (01:10:42) What is the love of the Creator?
R. Love of the Creator is this that I love the upper force which is the source of bestowal and in the source of bestowal he goes forward and connects all the created beings and brings them closer to Him.
S. Can we say that it's the force that connects us?
R. That is also the force that connects between us, of course that fills us that enlivens us but we need to make efforts in order to reach his level, his degree.
S. So how to reach love of the Creator, to love the Creator?
R. In this that you begin to love the quality of bestow out of this that you want to attain it and you want to also be incorporated of this Force.
S. You need to love a certain Force?
R. Yes, a quality.
S. How can you love a quality?
R. We always love qualities, rather what do you love?
S. I need to think about it.
R. Ok, till next time.
57. S .(01:12:22) You said that we must continue with the successful state without coming down to continue the work maybe specifically in this successful state, in a good state. So if we feel that we're successful as a 10 we have to work towards the world Kli vessel in acquiring a deficiency but how to do it, what are the actions as a 10 that we can do towards the word Kli vessel?
R. This that you are connecting in the 10 and with the 10 you also want to be connected with all of BB and afterwards maybe with the entire world Kli vessel then you are Incorporated of everyone's lacks and that's how you are going forward to correct them.
58. S. (01:13:10) We had a very special period from the beginning of the holidays when we got into faith above reason, Lishma, and a series of congresses, what do we have to do now in order to not miss the opportunity that you're pointing at?
R. What do you think? What period do we need to enter?
S. I don't know.
R. Theoretically we even learned how to enter Lishma, how we need to be connected, how we need to pass on inspiration to one another from this, but we just learned it theoretically. Where in this do we have a practical result? What are we missing in order to practically enter connection of Lishma between us?
S. We're missing realization, exercises, to enter it practically and not in theory, but what are the conditions that will help us realize it, implement it?
R. We need each and every one of us to give an account to himself to what extent it's important for him and he's not philosophizing about something nice and good, some small talk in the living room, but really going into internal work for himself, with himself, to what extent he wants to acquire the quality of bestowal.
S. Friends in the whole world Kli, many friends come every morning to the lesson, to the afternoon lesson, they participate during the day, they read. What are we not doing okay? What can obligate us to make a calculation and enter into this practical realization one day to the next?
R. I don't know. I'm hearing your words as if you are accusing me or complaining to me. Maybe it's better if you complain to the Creator. What can I do? It's not in my power. This is not in my power. This is why we need to correctly organize internally and turn to the Creator from the heart and seriously from everyone.
59. S. (01:16:27) We learned that we need on one hand to be happy simply from the opportunity to work and not to seek when we will receive and be rewarded et cetera, and on the other hand now I hear you saying that we need to demand from the Creator. So what is the thing that we mean to demand from the Creator?
R. The force of bestowal.
S. That's already a reward, that’s our prize. I understood that we need to demand the strength to work.
R. But when we have the force to bestow we’ll work with it. It's not in order to receive it’s in order to bestow. What we're lacking is the force to bestow.
60. S. (01:17:31) There's a sentence that caught me. You said that you lack making this leap to enter into going to Lishma. What is this little bit more we need?
R. A little bit more of your effort in order to demand correctly and wholly from the Creator and ask for the entrance to Lishma.
S. So what do we lack more suffering?
R. I'm not talking about suffering you're the one who's talking about suffering all the time. Stop saying that word.
S. How do we reach that state where we come from an inner prayer where everything's okay and we come and study.
R. If everything's okay you don't need to come.
S. Tell me what to do. You tell the friend that you need to reach a state where we reach a complete prayer. How can we reach this state where we sit with the ten and we're thinking, what do we lack and what's this depth of what we lack?
R. What's lacking is only the prayer to the Creator. After you hear and learn and you know that everything comes from Him and everything depends on Him, what you need to do is to turn to Him.
S. I'll say why I asked such a question. Personally I go through states that I escaped from them and it's very hard for me to deal with it and I always escape from things
R. I don’t understand what are you escaping from?
S. I escape from all kinds of states, they hurt me so I close my mouth and bow my head down and I don't awaken and I don't try to deal with the states because I know if I deal with them I enter unpleasant states. The question is, what do we do with such states? I know it can progress me these states, to raise your head above but now I bow my head down and I get hurt
R. You only have one place you can turn to that's the Creator.
S. What do I request from Him?
R. Request what you think you need and what's best for you, and ask for that.
S. The force of overcoming?
R. Overcoming for instance, I don't know what you need to overcome but say that.
S. So I won't feel hurt?
R. That too.
S. That's what we lack right, the force of overcoming.
R. You should answer that. These things are your questions.
61. S. (01:20:24) We heard that we need to not descend and also we need to receive deficiencies from everyone, so maybe we lack work between the tens?
R. You can always say maybe, but I don't understand the question. What did the friend ask you when you passed this question to us?
S. He's asking maybe it's possible to work more.
R. Let him ask, let him ask. What’s the problem? Why are you being asked and you're passing your questions, why is this, it's broken communication this way.
62. S. (01:21:23) Can you explain the process of, I am the first and I am the last, as it takes place in the ten?
R. That's the Creator saying about Himself I am the first and I am the last. I am the first establishing this system and I am the last when ultimately as you are being corrected in this system by my force by turning to me you come to that by discovering Me in the system, and ultimately the system, which is broken it's the opposite of Me, and it reaches a state which is like Me when the light and the vessel are equal, then you know me from the vessel. You cannot perceive the light you cannot understand the light but rather the vessel will be connected and organized in a way that you understand from it you will understand My essence. That is I am the last. When you connect between yourselves in such a connection so you will understand out of the connection the way you’re connected who I am and that’s what the Creator says.
S. When we say that we need to awaken each other, where does that awakening come from?
from the Creator?
R. Of course everything comes from the Creator.
S. When we say we need to awaken each other, where does it come from?
R. By example you can awaken each other, by example.
S. If the first awakening comes from the Creator so does that mean I have to await to be awakened in Him?
R. That is always this way because He's always the first.
S. It's unclear, what is our work if the Creator awakens us?
R. To continue the awakening we've received.
S. And then?
R. Then you can develop it and pass it on to other friends and this is how we will always be more and more like the Creator.
S. From that we will reach a prayer?
R. Yes.
S. Then the Creator does the last action?
R. Yes.
63. S. (01:24:20) When we put on a meal and we drink and the friends speak about each other and the heart breaks a bit and we feel that we get closer to each other, we feel this prayer to the Creator that it's together and there's this breaking of the hearts and this coming closer of the hearts, but now you say each friend needs to do work with himself alone. How can I come closer to the friends by doing this work alone, is it possible?
R. Try and see, there's none wise as the experienced so try it then you’ll see.
64. S. (01:25:09) I heard you say that it's very strong internal work, work of the heart. I feel like when we pray together as a ten we form beautiful prayers but it's not all the time that we feel that we need the Creator like our life depends on it. So if we are lacking that strong need for the Creator could we pray for that and ask for that so that we bring Him in closer to our work and just raise our prayer from the depths of our heart that we absolutely need Him as though our life depends on it because it does depend on it?
R. I didn’t understand what's the question here?
S. She depicted a state I don't know exactly what she asked.
R. The state okay that's okay.
65. S. (01:26:29) Everyday we build a prayer in the ten. What does it mean that we expect the Creator to complete our work in that prayer? How is that possible in the ten?
R. We will feel according to the result between ourselves how the Creator answers.
S. Maybe it's worthwhile for us to build the prayer such that it will be easier for the Creator to answer it? To ask for some kind of degree of connection?
R. If the question or the request will be clear to you you'll understand what He's answering.
S. Is it possible to consider that result in the ten?
R. Of course, it's possible.
66. S. (01:28:20) If a person annuls himself completely in prayer and asks with all of us heart for the friends to be in adhesion. Is that already the work of Lishma?
R. No, it's not yet Lishma. Lishma is when I don't have anything I'm asking for myself when I'm asking for something it may not yet be Lishma.
S. If I annul myself completely in the prayer and I ask only for the friends with a complete heart, is that called Lishma?
R. Yes.
67. S. (01:29:17) How to go out from this state that I feel guilty? It's my role or it's the Creator to do it?
R. You certainly have to do that, it's you if you feel guilty.
68. S. (01:30:00) In this prayer that starts existing when scrutiny. What is it actually when you're asking to open by ourselves this repentance. What is this repenting actually in our prayer? What are we asking for actually?
R. In our prayer we are asking to come closer to the Creator that’s all to come closer to the Creator, nothing else we need.
S. What is this repenting then?
R. Repenting is when we come closer to Him.
69. S. (01:30:59) The only process is to surrender to the Creator so how can we always remember this?
R. When we remind each other then we can remember. Every time someone reminds me and I always remind someone else I'm committed to remind someone else.
70. S. (01:31:40) How can I be in despair if I am in annulment?
R. Self annulment is something that you should yield joy, joy. I am annulled, I am not being considered, I don't exist anywhere, I only exist in my upper, it's like a child and his mother, an embryo that's still in its mother not yet born, that is how I annul myself. This is why there is no calculation made with me I only care about how to be annulled. Throughout the nine months in my spiritual mother I am annulling myself more and more and more annulling myself. When these nine months end I go through the period of birth, my birth. I turn upside down with my head down and this means that everything turns upside down for me, my emotions, my understandings, et cetera and then I am born. The most important thing is to annul myself during the nine months of development in the mother. That's what we have to get accustomed to. That's what we're coming close to.
71. S. (01:34:22) Until recently we progressed from descent to, ascent descent to ascent, and now we're going in a movement from ascent to descent. Has our work changed? What is the difference between what we did previously?
R. The previous state even though it was good we still consider it as something that has passed and it's a descent and we're going forward, we’re ascending, it's all relative.
S. That work, the prayer to the Creator through the incorporation with the friends?
R. Yes.
72. S. (01:35:35) When can we be this commander that you talked about? We want to make a breakthrough.
R. Breaking through is possible if you will come closer to each other in the way that at least you'll be close enough for the first degree of the required connection, otherwise you can’t resemble the first spiritual degree. You have to approach the first spiritual degree of Lishma which is such that you annul each one annuls himself to the other. So try in your tens to do something like that. You will feel, you will feel we’re already advancing towards that such a state and then you will see how much this even attracts you, it shows you how to organize things and what you might feel in this degree you really need to try to annul yourself each one to his ten. It's not difficult. We've already been through all kinds of trainings and all kinds of exercises, this is not difficult.
73. S. (01:37:58) You're speaking about feeling what we need to do in the ten and to organize ourselves internally, more seriously. Sometimes we feel that we need to discuss about a certain friend who became distant from the ten. The women receive these ready-made workshops and we don't feel that we can really be flexible so should we become more flexible in these meetings?
R. You need to build such a connection between yourselves that no friend will be distant, there's going to be such a tight connection between everyone you’re going to hold each other in the way that you're like one body. Not so many words here but that's something you need to do both men and women. This is something which is now standing in our way.
74. S. (01:39:16) We now in the ten when we build a prayer each friend adds his own sentence after the lesson, one says give connection the next one says help us to connect and then it turns out that we had this composition of ten sentences and ten different deficiencies. How can the Creator respond to that and how can we see His answer? Maybe it's more proper to create something smaller and shorter?
R. You need to continue each other. It's not simply a collection of separate calls you have to continue each other extend each other so that you get like a smooth prayer as if it's coming out of one heart one mouth, you understand? Because this way it's cut off, everyone is saying his own prayer that's wrong. My friend says something I enter into him and from within him from what I understand he said I continue. Is this clear to everyone?
S. Do I need to continue?
R. Continue, continue, there's nothing to say out of myself I want to continue for the friends
S. The question is maybe we don't need to do say anything but maybe just to agree with the request.
R. No, that is not enough. I have to say my own sentence but it has to be a sentence that continues what he said.
S. How can we afterward wait for the Creator to finish it for us?
R. Don't worry about that. When you will be able to touch the Creator you will give Him room to be between you then you will hear His answer.
S. What does it mean that we give Him a place to be between us and that request?
R. It means that you'll want Him to answer to take part with you together in these sentences you are saying, your prayers, your request.
75. S. (01:42:14) We started discussing here in the chat and you said here that in the correct prayer we need to see the answer of the Creator, but I remember that once we learned and I once heard that we can never see or hear the Creator's answer because then we will immediately get into this wish to exploit the Creator and thus we don't see His answer.
R. We feel the Creator in us wherever we’re asking that’s where we are going to feel Him in that same place inside of us.
S. So what's the intention to receive the Creator's answer in prayer?
R. He needs to feel instead of our requests we’ll feel an answer that fills and answers the question.
S. So that means that we need to really feel and not to listen?
R. Just to feel. It's not about the nose or the ears here at all, it's only the heart.
S. Can I make it more precise? You said that we need to continue the prayer that the friend started. I continue it and in general the first one who speaks gives the tone.
R. Okay so today he's going to decide the direction, it doesn't matter, you should see how you can walk with Him and compliment Him you have to be together.
76. S. (01:44:33) We have a prayer that we have created a few months ago and it seems to me that this prayer includes everything that the friends need in the ten, but we don't renew it, we keep repeating the same prayer at every one of our meetings. Is that prayer valid or do we need to renew the prayer all the time? Because what you now responded to Kiev is that we just need to continue the friends, so if someone starts a prayer then I need to continue.
R. We should feel how much when you are turning to the Creator it’s coming out of your hearts. If you are together in the lessons you cannot be far from each other, you’re always more or less, talking the same words and with respect to the same subject because this is your spiritual life, so there's nothing to ask here, come closer in the hearts as much as you can and bring this common deficiency to the Creator and the Creator will correct that for you, you don't even know how He’s doing it. Upper light bestows upon everyone, it organizes more and more bringing you closer and closer until you really start being as one man in one heart. Don’t worry about it start doing.
S. A friend from the ten is very sick, he's in a very difficult and economic situation as well. How should we act, what should we do, so that we don't harm the friend, on the contrary, we help him?
R. Try to help him in a material way so that he’ll have something to eat in his house, medicine if he requires, until he's healthy and pray for his health to the Creator, everyone together, not only you. You may also publish these to all the groups that are close to you, suppose if we are talking about Latin America go ahead do it. I don't know what to do we are already far from all the land.
77. S. (01:49:04) This concept of self which you discussed earlier does that mean attaining perception of reality in complete annulment and that we see that there is none else besides Him and that we detach. Can you explain that??
R. No, I can't explain. We read so many articles about that I can’t explain. One should annul himself, every man every woman should annul themselves to the friends in their ten then this way when you truly annul yourself to the ten then you start being close to the Creator to feel the Creator, period. There is nothing else, there is nothing else to do. Annul yourselves to the ten and in response as a result you will start feeling the Creator.
78. S. (01:50:39) You recommended that each friend continue the previous friend in the prayer. With us after the morning less everyone says his sentence and we make this prayer, this composition in the ten, gathering all the prayers in the ten, we edit it and then we put that up, this mutual prayer, if you could say that. Is that correct or is it better to do what you now recommended doing where one friend begins and all the rest of the friends continue him?
R. I think each one should continue the friend that was before him and every time we take a different turn of people, who’s first who’s second who’s third, and this is how every day we compose our prayer but each one should see his place. We need to be a bit more creative in this.
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Freedom (The Will to Receive—Existence from Absence)
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Reading (00:19) “The Will to Receive—Existence from Absence..”
1. S. (03:08) It says that they will to receive is existence from absence, all the rest in reality cannot be considered an innovation. What is he talking about the rest here?
R. Everything is you have one cause which is the Creator from which everything extends and everything that takes place other than that, everything else, is an outcome of that cause, it’s not the first cause, that's what he wants to say,
S. We, in our reality, a person is in the will to receive.
R. Yes.
S. We only feel this existence from absence, this will to receive.
R. Yes.
S. Existence from existence we don’t feel which is not in the will to receive,
R. No, we don't feel it. We don’t feel the will to bestow, we don’t know what that is, there is no such thing and there would never be such a thing. What we do we come to a resemblance from the will to receive to the will to bestow like that guest to the host, where the guest uses that which the hose wants to give to him and as such he performs actions where he as if bestows.
S. The existence is already something we need to build and the absence is where we are?
R. Let's say yes.
2. S. (04:54) The absence is also matter, made matter. What forces is it made of? How to work with it?
R. We didn’t speak about essence we spoke only about existence from absence and existence from existence.
S. Sorry he was asking about the absence which is about matter.
R. There’s only one matter, the will to receive that's all.
3. S. (05:49) It is written in the end of this paragraph that all matter both corporal and spiritual is spiritual matter, so is there no physical world?
R. I don't understand you. Where is it written that you’re talking about this?
S. Towards the end it says, ”all the bodies from spiritual worlds and from physical worlds are deemed spiritual or corporeal substance whose nature is the will to receive.”
R. Either spiritual or physical where its nature if the will to receive. Well?
S. What is corporeality if everything is spiritual?
R. Where is it written that it’s all spiritual? It says spiritual matter or physical matter where its nature if the will to receive.
S. They’re deemed a spiritual matter or being spiritual.
R. Or corporeal, we continue reading.
S. Okay, or corporeal substance whose nature is to want to receive.
R. Meaning all the matter is the will to receive. There is the spiritual form in order to bestow and there’s the corporeal substance in order to receive.
3. S. (07:35) It says that there's something new here because prior to creation there was nothing here and the will to receive as it is prior to everything, so the whole story he’s talking about the sun and everything, everything that was before creation that suddenly the will to receive was made. Why was that invented this will to receive, what for?
R. Before the creation we usually don't talk about that because creation is called Bar outside the degree, outside of the Creator, therefore there was created the will to receive, in this will to receive afterward everything that was created was created, and what are you asking?
S. Why was the will to receive invented, for whom for man? For whom?
R. For the creation the creation is called outside the Creator.
S. Was it specially for man this will to receive invented?
R. At the end of it all is for a person.
S. Meaning that’s a decision of creation?
R. It’s the decision of the Creator. Why are you getting confused on such simple foundations?
Reading (09:17) “Two Forces in the Will to Receive: An Attracting Force and a Rejecting Force” Twice
4. S. (12:04) In corporeality can we be in corporeality and also a spirituality to the extent that we can draw in order to bestow to the Creator?
R. I didn't get the question repeat it again
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S. If we receive but we reject it in order to bestow is this where we can be in both worlds, this world and the spiritual world?
R. Usually no. Sometimes it turns out that yes either in this world or in the spiritual world it depends what intention we are in. We always speak from our desire, our desire is either from the will to receive or the intention to bestow, accordingly we are either in this world in order to receive or in the spiritual world in order to bestow.
5. S. (13:49) This limitation is a result of the shattering?
R. I do not understand you.
S. This rejecting aspect, the rejecting force, is that when compared to the Creator there's another factor of shattering that is hard to collect?
R. No, it’s not that way at all. It is always this desire to differentiate it if that’s a continuation of the breaking but together with that if we request we will certainly get this strength to connect. The main problem is that we do not request, that is the most important and central thing that we need, we don't need anything else no other commitments other than ask for connection and the Creator just waits for us to give us that force.
6. S. (15:16) It is not clear to me all this discernment about the attracting force and the rejecting force. If you can please expand.
R. Why? Explain what’s unclear.
S. Attracting if I understand correctly it attracts the light but rejecting, what does it mean? What does it reject?
R. These two forces are the attracting force and a rejecting force. Where do they exist these two forces? Between the broken vessels; before that there was no such thing. After the vessel shattered then between its parts there is either forces that attract each other or forces that reject each other because the entire shattering was via the egoistic force so they have the rejecting force. If we want to connect all of these parts to one as it was before the shattering then we need, if that's the case, to ask for connection. We have no force of connection, we have only the force of egotistically using each other, that’s all we have. It turns out that everyone is in the will to receive, his own will to receive, and he wants by that to fulfill it by swallowing and bringing the others closer to himself to acquire the others, that is all that we have. What are you asking about that?
S. I think you answered thank you.
7. S. (17:26) Also about the rejecting force, it is written that the will to receive cannot receive all the quantity and quality which is outside its boundary that's why it rejects them. This is probably about pleasures, why does he reject them?
R. The desire wants to swallow what it lacks. In other words it wants to receive within itself or to reject what it sees that is unnecessary for it, harmful, foreign, that’s how the desire is built. What are you asking about that?
S. Imagining a lot of pleasure it can’t receive.
R. No, it's not a matter of big or small, deficiency and pleasure are completely equal they're completely equal. Desire can insert into it all the pleasures that surround it.
S. But he said it rejects what harms it, that’s clear, but here we are not talking about something that harms, why does it reject it?
R. Because the desire perceives it as something that is harmful for it so what it perceives is harmful for it it rejects and whatever it perceives as being sweet and pleasant for it it attracts.
8. S. (19:15) How can we balance these two forces to adhere to the Creator?
R. Repeat please.
S. How can we balance these two forces to adhere to the Creator?
R. We can use the two of them in order to bestow to the Creator. Meaning that I reject my will to receive and I attract to myself only that part which I can receive in order to bestow therefore, as a result of that I have the force of the restriction and the screen which is as the rejecting force and then I have the reflected light and a Zivug de Hakaa, coupling when striking, and a reception of the light in order to bestow which is Ohr Yashar, the direct light which becomes as Ohr Pinimi the inner light. As such inside the vessel these forces enter into balance among themselves where the vessel measures exactly how much it has of the attracting and the rejecting force where out of those two forces all in all it brings pleasure to the Creator.
9. S. (21:26) How to think every moment only thoughts of bestowal? How not to fall asleep?
R. I cannot hold one thought all the time but we lose it, we process it, we lose it, it takes it from us. We can do so only through connection between us where if it is in the connection between a few people that thought and it enters into this circulation and that it passes from one to the other and from the other back to the first et cetera, and we we don’t forget and we don't lose the intention and thoughts of ours.
10. S. (22:35) I have some small scrutinies about the potential of the vessel of the will to receive. To begin with it’s constant, it’s determined by the root of the soul?
R. Yes.
S. And our work, we develop this potential to its full measure to expand this will to receive to turn it to bestowal?
R. That’s possible.
S. About the root of the soul, someone is there as a foot or a shoulder and we are learning, we’re all in the head. How to look at this correctly? We are always in different parts of the head?
R. We are in the entire body of Adam HaRashon in Him completely, all of us together at each and every point, but I cannot explain that, you will understand that gradually by yourselves.
11. S. (24:11) It is written that even the spiritual matter is a will to receive but we wish to access the will to bestow, so how do we obtain a force to bestow? If not through contact with the spiritual?
R. We have no force of bestowal and we cannot have. The force of bestowal itself is the Creator, it's the nature of the Creator, we only have the will to receive. If we can use the will to receive in order to bestow then it’s considered that we are in the force of bestowal, however the force of bestowal in and of itself we never have that. The desire of bestowal is the matter of the Creator the desire of the Creator.
12. S. (25:28) In front of the rejecting force you come to a state of helplessness, you don’t know if you should turn left or right in the next step. How can we reach a decision under these conditions?
R. That we will be in a place then you will understand how you need to decide when we'll be in that place, it’s impossible to explain that now.
13. S. (26:30) What is a substance? Are we talking about atoms?
R. Corporeal substances are things like atoms, molecules, et cetera.
S. What is spiritual substance?
R. Spiritual substance is the will to receive.
S. But here he’s talking about both the will to receive corporeal and spiritual that the both of their nature is the will to receive.
R. That's right as such he shows himself, it shows himself the corporeal substance in corporeality and spiritual substance in spirituality.
S. Can we understand what spiritual matter or substance is?
R. Spiritual substance or spiritual matter is the will to receive that acts from the beginning in the will to receive in order to receive.
S. How was the corporeal matter created? Why is there a difference between the two?
R. The will to receive emerged from the thought of creation to bring contentment to his creations and it developed until it became a will to receive in order to receive when it became worthy of its task, worthy of its role, and from it there was created the still, vegetative, and animate of this world. The spiritual will to receive is that intention created in order to bestow and from it emerged all the spiritual entities.
14. S. (28:47) What is a force, please. Because everything that the force is is the general system that the Creator activates out of what was said here?
R. Force is what exists in nature in the influence of one and another. You are also asking the previous question– the previous question I also didn’t answer–you’re asking questions which demand this expansion, a wide explanation. A force is what we reveal as the influence of one on another. Is that there being a cause in it or influence of the other then we can’t talk about a force. Okay friends I see that we have seemingly finished for today.