Morning Lesson November 16, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #14
1. Rav’s Introduction: (00:19) Each and every day we just have to see how much we are coming closer to this topic and understand some concepts in it. That indeed this thing called 'faith above reason' becomes better understood closer to us and we want this to enter into us, that we will live in it and that we will enter in general life within this concept of 'faith above reason'. Meaning that giving to the Creator becomes for us the most important thing through the friends that we are willing to connect with them and out of that giving to the Creator. This is actually our direction to the entrance of the upper world.
Excerpt 14 (01:24) Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 42, “What Is the Acronym Elul in the Work?” Twice
2. S. (03:27) How do we need to accept this Malchut that has nothing of its own and then Keter emerges from it
R. Well it is the same thing, if towards the state of the lower one the lower one reaches a state where he has nothing for his will to receive. Then he concedes his will to receive and he wants to adhere to the Malchut of the upper one and then he sees that he is the same thing. That it is not 2 degrees, these are two states, however it depends on the person. Then he wants to reach a state where I have nothing for myself and everything that I have is done with an inclination towards the upper one. Then the Keter of the lower one becomes the Malchut of the upper one where he wants nothing for himself except to be completely annulled towards the upper one. It is all the same, it is not 2 degrees, it is two states. It is more correct to say it is two forms of communication from the lower one to the upper one. I agree with me having nothing and I just want to be nullified to be annulled to be restricted towards the upper one. That whatever the upper one wants, let him do it with me. I do not want anything but only to annul towards him.
S. It is clear that my yearning towards the upper one towards Keter or the lower one,later becomes Malchut the connection between us, if I understand correctly the connection between us and then he writes that the Malchut becomes the Keter on the next degree if I understand correctly?
R. Yes.
S. What is that?
R. So that if we connect together. I don't know what a Malchut is or Keter is I only know one thing, if we connect together so that we don't demand anything for ourselves then we become Incorporated in the upper one. Is this state clear? If we connect together so that we do not demand anything for ourselves then we adhere. We become Incorporated with the upper one. In this way the upper one starts to work on us. Then we from Keter of Malchut will become Malchut of Keter the upper one. That is it. Do not get confused with all of these names: Keter of Malchut . Malchut of Keter,. Simply I bring myself to a state where I annul and then become incorporated in the upper one. Okay?
S. What does it mean not to demand anything from the Creator?
R. Try to think what it means that you do not demand anything from the Creator except for annulment towards him, except for annulment towards him. That is it, that you reach some work some boss lets say and you don't want anything from him but only that he will give you the strength to annul towards him and do whatever He needs.
3. S. (08:05) The Malchut of the upper one is considered when we run from the state we are in?
R. Malchut of the upper one is called the upper Malchut but I am willing to take upon myself what?
4. S. (08:40) I also didn't understand this condition. What does it mean that a person takes upon himself the burden of the Kingdom of Heaven? That is not clear to me?
R. It is very simple, I'm telling you it is as if you came to work and you annul towards the work manager and no matter what he does and what he demands you are willing to do it. This is called annulment before the other one. What is not clear here? Now I annul my will to receive even without asking of me, I accepted it in advance, in priority, in advance I am willing to do it… and this is how I annul but now I want to annul towards a higher degree, which is the creator. I do not annul towards my own will to receive but towards his conditions.
5. S. (10:11) What exactly is that joy that he says that it becomes a vessel of bestowal?
R. When I annul before the other one and I carry out whatever the upper one does, if the upper one is the Creator, the great one who feels everything and determines everything then I need to be in joy. I am annulling towards the upper one and I am not annulled towards my will to receive, my ego, so that my ego will not govern me and will put me through all kinds of states where I find shame of them.
S. They say that the joy has the pressure of the Creator by me making efforts towards the friends?
R. It could be but it could also be out of the fact that I realize I am with , whom I am with, whom I am annulling towards.
6. S. (11:37) The excerpt is not clear to me either. What is the state of being black being the lowest of the world and that becomes the vessel of bestowal how does that happen?
R. I ascribe myself to the lower degree, to myself and I exist in my ego, then I am in the state of blackness, black state. I imagine to myself that I'm annulling towards the upper one and I already become happy and then I see my state as a state of whiteness.
S. What raises a person from a black state to a white state?
R. The recognition of the greatness of the one he is annulling before the upper one.
S. What exactly is being annulled in the lower one towards the upper one?
R. My will to receive. That I now joyfully get the orders the commands of the upper one.
S. What is the Kli of Keter?
R. The vessel of Keter is the vessel of the bestowal of the upper one. Let's continue , it takes time. You don't get it according to your intellect. As much as you think about it it will nevertheless be confusing. From this we are learning what it actually means to have a spiritual discernment until it is revealed in the person he cannot understand it or hear it correctly.
S. How do you accept this?
R. You hear and heat and hear, until it gradually starts to become clear. You see how many months we have been with 'faith above reason', 3 or 4 months. When did we start that? Truly before also, for years, but occasionally here and there without putting the emphasis on it. We have to enter it patiently and maybe it will take a few more months but bit by bit we get used to the words and the concept and specifically through connection between us it passes from one to the other and this is how we will advance.
Excerpt 15 (14:26) Rabash, Article No. 12 (1991) "These Candles Are Sacred"
7. S. (17:17) Before a prayer what states do we have?
R. For whom is he working now, to whom does he associate himself, well to his will to receive. How can he work or the general will to bestow that exist in nature and this is the Creator of course he cannot so he has to at least come closer to this concept. Here he realizes that the Creator created not one person or rather he divided his concept of one man, one ADAM into many parts. Then his work is that he should connect all of these parts into a structure called Adam HaRishon. In this way he discovers himself as belonging to the general will to receive that the Creator created and opposite that he can depict to himself and later on to detect, to locate the will to bestow in the upper one. The most important for us is to try to depict to ourselves to whom do we belong,for whom are we working? For my will to receive or for the Creator? It is one or two, an old and foolish king or the king of all Kings as we call him. So it is either for this or for that.
8. S. (19:44) To pray this prayer in order to receive faith above reason isn't this somewhat in the will to receive that will later be implemented as joy?
R. Of course ,the will to receive stands behind all of our actions. For the time being we do not have the possibility to rise above it, to truly be and bestowal but nevertheless I begin to distinguish either in my will to receive I am working for the Creator, for the whole of humanity for the friends seemingly outside of myself or I am working early for my will to receive.
This is the difference for the time being and bit by bit to later on we come closer to more true discernments. The thing is that we could not now depict to ourselves spiritual discernment. We cannot but rather bit by bit, by performing such exercises we draw the reforming light and it influences us and it does give us the possibility to begin to distinguish between how we used to work for ourselves or for the public, the friends,or for the Creator. Then we link these degrees together from the egoistic state, where I'm only in with myself to the interim state where I'm with the friends and then to the state where with the friends I reach the Creator.
9. S. (22:11) I'm confused. Here we have this article and it says he wants the Creator to give him joy in the work above reason, that it will be as important to a person as if he already has reason. Then in the previous article from yesterday it talks about the day of the Lord and it says that they are waiting to be imparted faith above reason, that the faith will be so strong that they will see it with its eyes. What is the distinction here in this article from the day of the Lord?
R. I don't know what I said yesterday. I am reading what we are all reading now and this is my question here and that's it, if you want to compare it with what you learned yesterday, do it later on your own. I am not wise like you.
10. S. (23:25) If I'm not happy how can I feel like I am happy? After this state, how can I ask for help from the Creator?
R. Joy can be emotional or intellectual, if I think about who I am connected with, to which degree above all of the human ego I am now rising, truly to the heavens. I have out of that a great pleasure that I am reaching a higher degree, this should fill me.
11. S. (24:42) About the greatness that he talks about, it is similar to him writing about some completing matters. What is there here that we can do with our connection with our desire to enjoy in me asking for the Creator to be revealed?
R. I do not understand all this complication of yours, this your philosophy. If you imagine to yourself that you are connected to a higher degree that instead of you being connected to yourself, through your connection with the friends you connect with the Creator, then depict to yourself what it means to be connected with the Creator more and more and more imagine this to yourself and then you will feel how much these things are special.
S. I'm sorry about the article, if you can explain also either I'm asking for the greatness of the Creator or I am asking for joy both this and that is supposed to bring me pleasure so that I will work. Either I work so because the Creator is great or I'm simply like here he says take for give me some kind of joy to go above the reason, they are both feeling.
R. It is the same thing. It is the same thing if you associate yourself with the Creator, it is considered that you are walking in faith above reason. Try to enter these concepts. I know that they will not come right now and become clear today. They will not become clear today. It will take another month or two months until it will be more clear to you in your inner emotions in your mind and in your heart.
12. S. (27:22 ) When the whole Ten takes upon himself the desire of the upper one does the whole Ten rise a degree or can it also happen personally to each one?
R. While it can happen to some part or to one of the people. it depends on whom and how does the person succeed in annulling. This is clear?
13. S. (28:06 ) Why did you say that we need to ask for joy when it is similar to reception and not annulment as he previously said in the last article?
R. I did not understand, again.
S. He says why do I need to ask for joy because it is similar to reception and not to annulment like he said?
R. Joy out of the fact that he is annuling before the upper. This is called the joy of a Mitzvah, commandment because it is a commandment from above that we should annul before the Creator. By that we become incorporated in Him and if we have joy out of that it is called the joy of a Mitzvah..
14. S. (29:15) There's a certain exercise that influences us with more light towards us?
R. Again.
S. What action or exercising the Ten influences us in bringing more reforming light?
R. Coming closer connection. Connection gives us this condition in which we can connect with the Creator. That is it.
15. S. (30:03) Asking the Creator to give us faith above reason and happiness, who should I pray for, myself or my friends?
R. Of course for the adhesion of all of us together. That the whole Ten will be as one. You are praying for connection among everyone because out of this connection you will have the preparation for the next state for the next degree but then you reach the love of the friends to the love of the Creator. Okay?
Excerpt 16: (31:02 ) Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 96, “What Is Waste of Barn and Winery, in the Work?”
16. S. (35:10 To what extent is the yearning as described in excerpt 16, important to us in our work when we start the day anew and find the joy in this yearning?
R. Again.
S. To what extent is the yearning important to us in our work when we start the day anew and find the joy in this yearning?
R. Yearning is very important. Yearning is the cream of the desire. How else can I put it ? Meaning the desire on the highest, most pure degree is called yearning.
S. To be every day seeking the lights a new?
R. Yes, yes, very nice.
S. Nothing is about yesterday, all about today and to be in joy from that?
R. Yearning and joy are not so related. Rather a person that is searching and appreciates the yearning that he obtains then he is in joy.
17. S. (36:45) In the passage it says that he will never fall. Does that mean if someone takes it upon the burden of the Kingdom of Heaven even when in a descent he does not feel it as a descent because he has taken this burden upon himself?
R. Yes, beautiful,exactly very good.
18. S. (37:17) About excerpt 15, what is not clear to me is we have to ask for the joy in the work above reason, but it seems to be the opposite. In the text it says the joy comes after the work of faith above reason and here you have to ask what the text says is that you have to ask for the joint directly and if you get pleasure than it is no longer work
R. The fact that we are working in joy is truly the best possible state.
19. S. (38:03) From the second paragraph of excerpt 16 , " to that exact measure of above reason to that.he has reason. Is he talking about the above reason and about the reason that is below?
R. Can you repeat that again?
S. In the middle of the second paragraph 'and to that exact measure of above reason to that very measure as though he has reason".
R. Yes, that is a state that we have to come to and in which we have no difference just like once we had a tendency to come to reason, later we came to faith above reason which covers for us the lack of reason. Then we received the reason of the upper one. I am 2 degrees, the degree of the lower one and I do not want to rely on the reason that I have, rather I want the reason of the upper one.
20. S. (40:23) Without the greatness of the Creator we cannot understand inside this Malchut \who we are bestowing to, meaning that first of all we have to receive this quality of bestowal through the greatness of the Creator?
R. I cannot add here, if a person connects to the friends then he comes to discover the Creator in the connection between us and then one begins to understand how this is built degree after degree. There is nothing to add here.
S. There are a few steps here right? First we get that greatness of the Creator and from there we enter each and every state where we understand…
R. Well, let's say for now.
21. S. (41:30) Why the more we advance we lose the importance of the Creator through their friends?
22. S. (42:43) Maybe to continue the answer you gave, what is that state of being naive gullible?
R. Naive, being in a state like that with one who does not work with his wisdom but rather he works with his faith. Spiritual work is completely such that it does not demand for one person to be wise or smart. He needs to be as devoted as possible and here it is the matter of the fool or the naive. Meaning as much as he makes himself as a simple persoR. In each and every degree we need once more to build the importance of the Creator, the importance of the upper one because that is the gap between the degrees where if I move from one degree to the next then my records, the Reshimot disappears and is exchanged with a higher record and if I want to rise with it I need to build the importance of the upper one from the zero state. Fom zero state it is actually from a negative state because we rise in such a manner where we descend and ascend, descend and ascend, just like it is written about angels that they rise and go down on a ladder of degrees.
n he is more successful.
S. How do we not fall into this state of naive or gullible so I don't really trust myself and I only trust my connection with the friends and the Creator?
R. Exactly what you said is correct. Try to connect to the friends and the Creator instead of connecting to yourself and then you will see what you are missing and you will ask for that.
Excerpt 17 ( 44:14 ) Rabash, Article No. 21, "Sanctification of the Month"
23. R. (46:15) Meaning it has no proof. He has nothing to find this on. He just wants to get to this.
What is this? The receiving of the burden of the kingdom of heaven, where the force of bestowal will be above him and he is managed by it. That is what he wants to happen, for the force of bestowal will manage a person.
Continues 17 (46:41) and to say about it…
24. S. (48:27) The state that we now read about in excerpt 17, is it a state that tears you apart from within. You said a minute ago that you should be devoted not wise but when such a state comes and you have to subjugate yourself unconditionally and on the other hand you subjugate yourself you bring everything down but here the Creator is playing with you he is pulling you in showing you come try to understand why is it that I want you how to be devoted and not wise that is really the question?
R. Had to be devoted and not smart? That will come to you. Actually, soon it will come to you. You have already have permission for that already.
25. S. (40:23) The lowliness he writes about is towards the work or the filling that is not felt?
R. Again?
S. The lowliness, the feeling of lowliness is because he doesn't feel who he is working with? Or he doesn't feel the feeling?
R. The feeling of lowliness is not for this nor for that or what he is working for and not what he has feelings for. The feeling of lowliness towards the Creator who he nullifies before and that's what fills him specifically. Meaning there where he feels the emptiness and he does not have feelings, that is felt in him as filling because he is working not to be filled but for the sake of working nor to perform service for the Creator.
S. How is it possible to know if we are working in this form? How can we know?
R. Because if you move to such states in order to be so without receiving any reward then you start to feel who you are notifying before.
S. This feeling, is the filling and this is what gives you the strength to work?
R. Yes, yes that is exactly the light of Hasidim and then later the light of Hochma comes to degrees after degrees.
S. How did the friends help in this kind of work?
R. They cannot do this work without connecting with the friends and without coming closerthem and from them to the Creator.
S. Yes, but what do they give? What do they add to it?
R. All together we are all connected in order to build a Kli vessel to reveal the Creator to give him a place to be filled, to fill.
S. If I try to go on my own or I try to go with her friends, what is the difference? What do friends give me as an addition? If I try to serve the Creator alone.
R. You cannot work with the Creator alone. You have to feel that you are in a society.
S. Why, what is a gift?
R. It gives you support, it gives you the feeling of the vessel, without that you do not have the vessel. You need to resemble some part of the vessel of Adam HaRishon .
26. S. (52:11) We nevertheless in every state we run away from suffering and chase after the pleasure and it is actually the suffering that forces us to annul isn't this so?
R. It depends on what you define as pleasure and what you define as suffering, that depends on you already.
S. Around me there are many problems in the broad external environment and in the Ten and in my family circle and I suffer from it. I cannot enjoy when it is bad all around me this brings me to the actions that we are now talking about in the lesson.
R. In our world here, we have a very clear example of the state of suffering although they are with pain and is not something that you usually feel as pleasure but nevertheless, we nevertheless agree about them and that is when we give birth to children. Look at women to the extent to which they suffer from not being able to get pregnant. The joyful they are being pregnant and all the pain and discomfort and all of that does not stop them. On the contrary they all want to be in that state again if it is possible and that is an example. Where for the sake of giving birth to the next degree people are willing to suffer and have pain and all kinds of such states. Look at what is happening now.
That is what's happening now, that's what the Creator did. Therefore, if we are going to beget the next spiritual degree, we need to depict it as the superior next degree like birth. As much as it pains us that we cannot rise to it and to execute that action the command of the Creator, learn a little from women and the extent to which they yearn for this, want this, expect this. Then you will see that it was not brought to us in the human kind just like that,also in beast and animals, we have the same in spiritual degrees. Despite the fact that we are going through suffering but from that we give birth to the next spiritual degree and here we need to agree with what a woman goes through and to try to beget the next spiritual degree.
27. S. (56:17) How can we take advantage of the feeling of standing between heaven and earth?
R. Despite each time a person achieves this state or degree of being between heaven and earth but from that he wants to bind between heaven and earth and to rise in the direction of the heaven even more and even more to truly adhere the heaven to the earth.
28. S. (57:40) How does it happen that a person believes that the state he is in comes from above?
R. He needs to put forth attention on this, all our thoughts and desires and to ask the Creator to reveal this to him. Gradually slowly, slowly throughout a long period of time, he will go through all kinds of states until he will discover that this state always all together comes to him and from above. Sometimes this takes years. Not many but years.
29. S. (58:33) Why is it that to the extent that we invest in the burden of the kingdom of heaven we feel the greatness of the Creator more? Why does it happen? What kind of quality does it develop in us?
R. Sensitivity to revealing the Creator. That is what it develops in us, a sensitivity to revealing the Creator
30. S. (59 :45) Through the state of loneliness that the creator gives a friend what does the Creator want from the friends in the Ten because the Ten should respond in order to help the friends rise
R. I do not understand what he is asked.
S. He is asking when the Creator sends a state of lowliness, what message is he giving to the Ten? What does the Creator want from the Ten?
R. For them to help the friend. The main thing for us is not to think of ourselves but rather think of the others and how we can help eat everyone. How I pull this and that and that upwards and it seems like I am helping the friends and I'm actually helping my parts that are seemingly in the friends, where I look at the friend,I depict myself as this is a part of me that is outside of me and then in such a way I can locate at it more clearly in what I can help him and how I can correct him. Outside of a person there is nothing,only the upper force. Therefore when we want to connect to the Creator, so for us the more and more we collect ourselves to being as one man in one heart. Try to imagine this, to depict this. Therefore to the extent that nevertheless t in the group try to connect more with one another. The more we embrace one another and in this hug we begin to rise, this way we really raise ourselves towards the Creator. This is the work and the friends need to understand this and to also do the same on their behalf.
31. S. (01:02:34) I fear for the suffering that the Creator will give to me in the future. What should I do?
R. He will not send you, he will not send you to the extent to which you go on the path of correction. You invert the suffering into pleasure and the fear will move to confidence.
32. S. (01:03:25) Many things pass through pain or is this related only to this connection from the Creator?.
R. Repeat please.
S. Is it always that the next degree passes all related to h pain or is it happen only when I'm disconnected from the Creator?
R. It is always through the suffering but we can neutralize the suffering through the attitude of importance to that state which we do. This is similar to giving birth to children. Is it suffering? Is it pleasant or is it unpleasant? Look at what the Creator did. Why did he make it in such a way? Where it specifically describes to us all the spiritual states that we need to go through and birthing the spiritual Partzuf but we do it, we go for it, yes? Men do the work in corporeality more and the women are in the topic of giving birth and to the extent to which did we connect to one another and what forces we have here and Klipiot .There are many things that belong to all of our efforts and the topic of birth and this is how we will events and correct everything.
33. S. (01:05:45) Using the analogy of giving birth and also what the friends said about pain and suffering. In the birthing process there is a point where women completely surrenders to that process and through the pain and suffering in these dark low states where you feel that your efforts do not make any difference, is there a point of complete surrender to the upper force through the ten and that’s the process of coming to complete devotion?
R. Yes, I agree with everything just as long as I'm giving birth to the next degree, yes.
34. S. (01:06:46) Continue with the previous question and the analogy of giving birth. Does the woman to extend certain extent know that the embryo is the result of birth and of death, however on the spiritual path we know that each time a new state comes and so we have the pain and the suffering but you never seemingly attain the goal so the pain remains permanently and inside of you.
R. I don’t understand what you’re saying. Usually from those Latin vessels such long questions from the Latin Kli and really these bombastic questions. Nature was made such that the woman in our world goes through these states and rejoices from them though she suffers, that for us is an example that the Creator gives us the force of suffering to women, importance, psychology, and all that is needed, and that’s how we go through these states and we need to respect it, respect her, and to help her in all of these states that she goes through, that’s it, in spirituality it’s something different. In spirituality a man, a woman, a person, goes through impregnation gestation in the upper one, birth suckling in spirituality, then he goes through it as far as adhesion in the upper one which pushes him toward adhesion Dvekut, and more and more this way he is integrated incorporated in the upper one. We’lll go through it and it will be clear for us right now it's just confusing us.
35. S. (01:09:14) Usually when a person is in a state of darkness he feels disconnected, he has no basis, no grip, but he can turn to the Creator and cry out and search for Him. Here in the excerpt it actually says that we have to surrender and be happy with that. Where is the place of the outcry?
R. Because he’s being put into the higher degree and therefore he needs to subjugate himself and let the upper force the upper light to operate upon him and to format him exactly to be adapted to the higher up degree.
S. So a person should not be in the state of demand and cry and a prayer?
R. No, he needs to agree with all that the upper one does upon him performs upon him.
36. S. (01:10:11) From this state of descent is it essential in order for us to reach and accept the burden of the kingdom of heaven? And without this state the vessel cannot rise to redemption?
R. Correct, because descending means that I received a greater desire to receive, additional desire to receive, and I bring up this desire to receive to correction and then it’s considered that he goes and corrects. So descents and ascents,descents and ascents in such a way we raise ourselves, uplift ourselves, correct ourselves.
37. S. (01:11:39) A person even if he asks for faith above reason he can only ask egotistically before he is in spirituality, this is what he does. So when does this switch happen? And the Creator, even though he is asking egotistically, the Creator is willing to give him bestowal.
R. It doesn’t happen this way where there’s some switch and the Creator gives in the force of bestowal rather, only when a person comes to that when he gets there. We have to start demanding the force of bestowal we must try to behave as if we have the force of bestowal, from that as if just like children play and mimic being adults, that is how it is for us, and when we get to it we will be greater ones, meaning we will be in bestowal.
S. This “as if” accumulates into a greater ”as if”?
R. Yes.
37. S. (01:12:59) You answered the friend that in the state of darkness we have nothing to pray for, we cannot pray. It is not clear because we say we should pray all day long. Now you also told a friend that we need to demand. So what do you do in the state where you try to rise above reason and you discover that you cannot do it, what do you do?
R. We continue, we continue. We need to depict to ourselves that the upper force is upper and we need to annul before it and we need to ask for that state for us to have the ability to nullify, that we understand that we have to nullify before the upper one and that is how we will rise up.
S. Yesterday we tried to implement the exercise you gave us in the tens to put an intention in every action we do to connect the friends to the Creator. Some of us said that it worked for them and they started to feel all kinds of things, all kinds of feelings, others said it didn’t work for them, they tried it didn’t work. First of all, how do we do it together because seemingly it’s individual work by the person if he tries to perform such an action.
R. ……. It’s like with little children until about age two maybe even a little more, they cannot play together, they do not yet have that feeling of togetherness but after about two years old they start to play with one another where they have interest in the society, that’s how we are also in the spiritual work. The first period in the spiritual world we cannot connect between us and afterwards yes, we already have such feelings in which we can pass them to others and depict the feelings of others in us and this is how we are capable of connecting.
S. Is it correct to share with friends the results?
R. No, first we have to learn how to do this to not harm the friends.
38. S. (01:15:17) Rabash writes here, in the excerpt that it is that the Creator wants him to see the lowest state possible in the world. Why is seeing the lowest possible state in the world, what good does that do for the person?
R. It is good for a person so you’ll have what to annul to, his ego. On the one hand you need to be a zero, of what he himself is, and on the other hand he needs to be great like the Creator that he wants to connect and annul toward it. That’s why a person includes in him the two ends of Creation the lowest and the highest.
39. S. (01:16:19) If I from the lowest place need to know my will to receive for the sake of bestowal then I will experience simultaneously the highest state and the lowest state possible?
R. If you are capable then yes.
S. Is this between heaven and earth?
R. Yes, between heaven and earth. These states are close because one speaks of your ego and the other speaks of attainment of your attitude toward the Creator. To the extent that you are in a great ego, lowly crude ego, and then alongside with that you can feel the other side.
S. Is this what we call two opposites in one subject?
R. Yes, yes, yes, that’s right.
S. What did you mean a few days ago when you defined it as a state between heaven and earth as indifference?
R. I don’t know what there was a few days ago and such questions you should not ask, by that you’re not taking anyone into consideration and I don't agree to such questions. Learn from this.
40. S. (01:40:36) Rabash describes here the lowly state where he has no support to rely on but I feel like my intellect finds some foundation according to Rabash’s principle, recommendation. Rabash describes the lowliest state and you ascribe it to the Creator.
R. Right.
S. So the question is, is this the right direction because I find it within reason.
R. If you can annul yourself then you already have someone to count on, that annulment that is.
S. So I annul myself toward whatever Rabash defines here?
R. Right.
41. S. (01:18:22) Every morning you give us greatness and importance in spite of states that you go through a thousand times more than us. How to manage to convey such greatness to the friends regardless of the unpleasant states we go through?
R. There aren’t unpleasant states, there are no unpleasant states. Whatever comes, comes from the Creator, it’s calculated within Him, none else besides Him, and I need to receive and accept all of the evil as I do for the goodness, that is our work.
S. How to bring joy and what to bring joy to the friends?
R. By being able to annul yourself with respect to anything that you experience because it definitely comes only from the Creator.
S. What do they see in me? What do I show them?
R. Who, who are they?
S. Those friends, they look at me, I need to be an example to them.
R. You make sure that you respond correctly to what you are going through and try to show them the correct example even though it might be hard for you but you try and overcome. By what, by being included in them.
42. S. (01:20:02) It is not clear to me the connection between agreeing with what the Creator did for me and my effort to think of the other.
R. Try to connect these two together.
43. S. (01:20:43) He writes that the more he advances on the path he will never fall he will always be in joy because he believes that he is serving a great king. What is the state that he's describing here?
R. I don't know, we need to read all of these excerpts and bring everyone into it otherwise it’s not going to work. You do not ask that way. It’s possible that you asked that before and it kind of kept hanging in the air but nothing you could do.
S. Okay let me ask you differently. What kind of a state is it when the Creator places hate in the person toward everyone around him, you hate the whole entire world.
R. Yes yes, good good, very good, meaning you have something to do you now know what to do, you need to pray for the Creator to replace your hatred with love so that this will happen and that this prayer will be constant; don't pay any attention to friends if they’re changing or not, you are the one that needs to change.
44. S. (01:22:39) The beginning of the lesson I got a revelation but now I’m completely annulled for the will to receive that causes me great pain and torment, I diagnose it in myself as torments, suffering, but together with that I feel great joy since it was finally revealed to me, I have graduated for the Rav, the Creator for this gift.
R. You need to thank the Creator that he revealed these states to you.
S. Yes, I'm grateful to the Creator and you – his representative. My question is how from this entire mix can I get to the new degree?
R. Be wanting all of this egoism of yours to rise and adhere to the quality of love and bestowal, to adhere to the Creator to adhere to the friends. …[No translation]
45. S. (01:24:55) Do we attain spiritual states only when we have faith above reason?
R. Of course, all of spirituality is faith above reason, there is no other state. Faith above reason is a condition a feeling of spirituality meaning that the quality of bestowal is above the quality reception it rides on the quality of reception, it covers it.
46. S. (01:25:38) If we try to annul more toward one another will the transition to the next degree be easier?
R. Of course, that’s how we’ll go through it that’s called that love covers all crimes that we need to rise to the next degree and we will go through it that way.
47. S. (01:25:58) What keeps a person in darkness? Does he get darkness from his inability to bestowal and if so will annulling the state bring him to bestowal?
R. Darkness can come from the will to receive or from the will to bestow, it depends on what state a person is. Sometimes I feel darkness from being in the will to receive and I can’t realize it, that darkness of this world, and sometimes I’m in a darkness of the upper one that I imagine or it is depicted to me some form of bestowal and I can’t see it because it is darkness, as it is written those who the day of the Creator darkness and not light in the matter of the rooster and the bat, that’s where he explains it.
48. S. (01:27:40) How to give to the friends the feeling that the darkness is the diamond that the Creator is handing out to us, opportunities, because the world is internal and there's no way to give an example to the friend. How to give it to the friend, pass it to them?
R. Pass it to the friend just like Rabash speaks of it just like I talk to you, that people, everyone, meaning all the friends, will get examples and an impression from what you are experiencing only not from within your heart because we are prohibited to reveal the innermost sensations of our hear, we shouldn’t share that with one another, but still to somewhat show with some hints showing to the others that we are in searching in entrance to spirituality and that is called those who are seeking repentance.
S. Can we pray a common prayer so the friends will not miss out on those opportunities because it seems like the Creator is spoiling us, pampering us.
R. Listen, we've been in lesson for an hour and a half and you were prepping even 20 minutes before that and we've been speaking only of this, so please tell me I really respect you and I want to hear what do you want to give me as advice, what else am I lacking in order to lift you to elevate you. Every morning I feel myself compelled as to lift this large Kli that’s in front of me to lift it just like a parent lifts their child, lifts them up in their arms, that’s how I try to lift you. So recommend to me what else should I do? I’ll be happy to hear I will do anything this is my work, this is really the purpose of my life to bring you to a state that you will enter Lishma.
S. The friends say a workshop, a few minutes during the lesson.
R. Okay go ahead workshop. What are we lacking in order to reach Lishma?
Workshop (01:30:50) “What do we lack in order to reach Lishma?”
49. R. (01:37:54) Let's ask in the workshop, what is that same question that we would all raise, ask, the Creator? What is that same question that we raise to the Creator? Actually the raising of MAN but how do we define it? I’m asking you and you should ask yourselves and give an answer, every ten.
Workshop (01:38:46) “What question would we all raise to the Creator? It's basically the raising of MAN, but how do we define it?”