Morning Lesson October 10, 2022 Transcription
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Part 2: Lesson on the topic of Abraham Ushpizin - Sefirat Hesed
1. Rav's Intro: We no need to learn what is especially Ushpizin Abraham, the first day of Sukkot.
We are learning about spirituality. There is no corporeality here, nothing to do with people or anything like that. We will only learn what these qualities we should attain that is called receiving into us the closing of Abraham of the Sefirot of Hesed.
Reading (01:18) #1 “Abraham Ushpizin - Sefirat Hesed - Selected Excerpts - Abraham is the root of Hesed in the souls of Israel,...”
2. R. (01:41) Meaning we have Keter, Hochma, Bina this is the head, the general Partzuf and all the other Sefirot are the body, the Guf of the general soul of Adam HaRishon, and gradually we build it up, so what do we do? We combine into the same Partzuf to be ready to receive the light of Hesed and reception of the Hesed to participate in it fully.
Reading (02:32) #2 “Abraham is the root of Hesed in the souls of Israel,...” continues
3. S. (03:54) What does it mean that the quality Hesed clothes in our ten? How does that happen?
R. Hesed is the first quality right? Keter, Hochma, Bina is the head it’s above us and what we receive from the head are the different qualities Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet so this is the first quality that dresses in us.
S. How does it happen? Do we feel a new state in the ten?
R. Sure sure sure you feel a new state that there's a new spirit, a new understanding.
S. And in the framework of this new spirit this new understanding we really reveal as it says here, mine is mine and yours is yours?
R. Yes but before that you make efforts to attain it, to reach it by yourself and after the efforts you receive the quality called Hesed and then you are connected together in the quality of Hochma.
S. Mine is yours and yours is yours. Is it like when a friend every friend in the ten feels that towards everyone? That I can come to the ten I come to the lesson I only perform actions for the friends and I have nothing for myself?
R. Of course, otherwise why have you come to the lesson? To advance in bestowal.
S. So it will come as a gift?
R. Yes and it will come. You just need to anticipate it to want it, to ask for it.
S. It's just written here in a very interesting way. I don't remember that we ever waited for this quality. How to create conditions that we can expect it like the guests?
R. We look at the friends and see how much they yearn for it how much they want it.
4. S. (06:46) How do we build the vessels to receive Ohr Hesed? Are there any specific actions in the group that we need to perform?
R. You wanting to bestow to the friend it makes you worthy of receiving the gift from Him.
S. Without any difference right? I just have to think, do, and give to the friends without any, just continuously right?
R. Yes.
Reading #2 (08:01) “ Abraham is called "the patriarch of faith," ( Twice)
5. R. (08:53) Yes, Hassadim, faith. First it is the quality of Abraham and he is called the first of the Patriots.
60. S. (09:05) We are speaking about the 4 types and we were speaking about that has no taste, no smell, Is that how we start?
R. Now we speak about the lights that enter the Partzuf. A Ten that is connecting it needs to reach the quality of Abraham. That's what he's talking about, I don't want the four kinds.
S. I am asking about the condition for it. What do we need to get that first quality?
R. To be in connection. This is the only necessary to be in connection. We just start with the quality that is closest to us, which is the quality of Abraham.
S. I'm asking because we are speaking in a more detailed wait, not a bad connection?
R. I don't want to confuse people. Don't you understand you yourself are a teacher, you give lectures. I don't want to ask questions that confuse people.
S. I understand but we learn about the first guest now and I am wondering about what the conditions are to get this quality?
R. To be in mercy.
S. What does it mean in the Ten ?
R. I don't know. Let's go through the document. Abraham is called the patriarch of faith, meaning Hassadim. Then anyone that wants to come near him. must first assume the meaning of faith and this is called the quality of Abraham. This is why he's called the first of the patriarchs, that a person must first reach the quality of faith.
Reading #3 (11:11) “Abraham went on the right, the correction of the quality of…”
61. S. (11:48) Why Abraham? Why not the highest discernment from the root. Why to start the correction from below upward?
R. I don't know maybe the other discernments are in addition to the quality of Abraham and that's why they're bigger and more important than greater Aviut. Let's read and we will understand.
S. We still don't have this ability to annul to the degree of Abraham, it is the highest degree that will learn that it is closest to the root.
R. Being in the closest doesn't mean that it is the coarsest. All our all our work is to be in greatest coarseness with the greatest will to receive.
S. We don't have it this urity that we are speaking about? We are working in annulment, that's what we want. FIrst to annul this coarseness.
R. I will tell you, we don't cancel the coarseness. We cleanse it, we purify it. Even though I am existing in a group with the biggest desire to receive. I want to steal, I want to kill, I want to have the entire world, I want to rule everyone. I overcome it and I make of all these forces the opposite. I am serving the world. I am giving to everyone, I'm caring for everyone. Our work is in this.
S. This annulment let us draw ?
R. The Arvuit pulls the great light. The coarseness pulls to the great light and the desire to bestow helps fill the entire world.
S. The light of Hochma that I am clothed in the light of Hassadim. The state that we are in, if we succeed even a bit I've been told, so we will draw ?
R. Yes according to our level of annulment, slowly slowly we wait until we end this document we will understand more.
62. S. (14:42 ) I am a bit confused about light and vessels, for instance faith can it be a vessel and a light? Could there be a light for Torah and a vessel for Hassadim?
R. Everything can be. Everything depends on the state we're talking about
S. Now we're talking about what we're reading,so faith is the light of Hassidim?
R. Yes, this is correct.
Reading # 4 (15:35) “Who in the world is greater for us than Abraham, who does Hochma with all the people?...”
63. R. (14:44) Yes, meaning Abraham the quality of Hesed, mercy that dwells in all of those vessels. Who in the world is greater for us than Abraham who does mercy with all the people and the bestow that he did for us is the biggest bestowal.That's why he's called the patriarch. The first of the patriarchs, the coarsest and the purest.
64. S. (16:37) The structure of Hesed, because we know that before Hesed, there is Hochma and Bina, is it a combination of both in a way?
R. I don't know right now. Don't be wise .Ask according to what we are reading.
Reading #5 ( 17:05) "And you will love.” One who loves the King does great Hochma.….”
Reading #6 (18:05) “We need to explain what is said about BeHibaraam,...” Twice
65. R. (19:45) Meaning everything depends on the intention.
66. S. (19:54) Sukkot is very special this year e are hearing about new things, that there is a new degree
R. What do you want for us not to advance?
S. I am saying that along with that there is a heaviness felt.
R. Of course, we could talk about something light and pleasant or we will delve deeper nto the material. Are you saying that this is difficult material and people aren't happy?
S. Sukkot is a time of happiness.
R. Exactly, so what do you suggest to do?
67. R. S. (24:29) this day we just read about the quality of Hesed of Abraham. Practice. Now we are at Ten and have gathered and we want to have a meal, how do we work one towards the other in the quality of Hesed?
R. We studied the quality of Hesed of mercy many times here and there. We spoke about it and there entire articles that Rabash wrote on Hesed. Even from the word itself it is clear what Hessed is. Who is a Hassid, a righteous that is so right with creatures that he and all before him and he doesn't use his will to receive, as little as possible it is called that he has an inclination for Hesed.
S. There's a difference to annual towards one another or be in the quality of Hesed to one another. Mayne I am mistaken?
R. No, the question is why are you doing this? We let go of the will to receive and we want ,pre and more, to cling to the quality Hesed because we want all of us together to connect and to rise and ascend to resemble the Creator.
S. This is something we do only when we work towards another and we just annul ourselves. The annulment is my inner quality and Hesed is toward the friends?
R. Yes, yes we will learn this entire document which is about the quality of Hesed.
68. S. (26:40) What is the difference between Hesed and Bina?
R. Hesed is the result of Bina and Bina doesn't have work with Aviut, coarseness, an Hesed already has work with coarseness
69. S. (27:01) A person who does internal work does he get all the answers from the Creator through the Ten and the Rav?
R. I do not know. I do not know.
70. S. ( 27:27) When we bestow to the created beings it is not revealed instantly in a person but he has to do in a clear way to give contentment in a clear way.
R. Clearly this can not be in a clear way because a person will be able to receive in order to receive and not enough to bestow and then his entire work is fpr nothing. That's why we don't talk about that, everything has to be in order to bestow.
71. S. (28:17) In theTen do we receive the desires of the friends, can we raise a prayer to the Creator to fulfill their desires and to receive from the Creator and pass it on to the friends?
R. Yes, you can say it like this. It is not accurate but the direction is right, it is correct.
Reading #7 (29:00:)“ it is impossible to be awarded complete faith before one is rewarded with equivalence of form...” Twice
72. S. (31:09 I want to scrutinize the matter of the reward. Can I say that I don't want to receive a reward for the action of bestowal? Is that part of not receiving a reward from the friend but to receive a reward from the Creator?
R. No, all of this is incorrect. To work without reward is to work in the vessel of reception, for the vessels of reception to receive no reward
S. In the sentence that the landlord will pay is to be more in the….?
R. This is to raise you to be more in the quality of bestwal. To be more in the quality of bestowal this is my reward.
S. But it's a reward that is expressed in a good feeling.
R. No, no jn good feeling it is already a reward.
S. Compensation, sending a degree is not a good feeling?
R. In bestowal and in that there has to be a correction of the screen, that you don't do that in order to feel good.
Reading #8 ((32:40) “Abraham excelled primarily in hospitality and Hochma…”
73. R. ( 32:54) He talks about spirituality not like a policeman standing in the road
Reading # 9 (33:08 ) “The Creator showed Abraham the love by coming to him by making the covenant between them, as it is written..”
74. R. (33:45) Meaning that he has a connection with the Creator everything in order to bestow.
Reading #10 (33:55) “Abraham was called “a man of Hesed,” dedicating his strength to do Hesed [Hochma/grace] to people..”
75. S. (35:16) So it will come, after we go through all these degrees we will be able to fulfill them together.
Reading #11 (35:29 )“ Abraham loved Isaac; Isaac loved Abraham; and they were embraced…”
Reading #12 (36:19)“Love your neighbor as yourself.” All the things you want others to do for you, do them to your brothers …”
76. S. (36:55) Me doing an action in the Ten seems like Hesed. it's not enough, right? An intention required ?
R. The main thing is intention. An action with your hands and mouth means nothing but the main thing is the intention in spirituality. That is why it is called the "Wisdom of the Concealed”.
S. What is the intention that I want to bestow to the friend? What does it mean?
R. The intention is your intention from inside to what you mean as a result of your actions. Your actions aren't that important but the intention is important.
S. Is this called Hesed?
R. I don't know if it is Hesed, mercy, it depends on your intention. If I have an intention to bestw to the friend, it is Hesed.
S. How do I receive Hesed of mercy? I can't just receive it and say that I want to bestow it to the friend. Right?
R. You need to feel in your heart that you want to bestow to your friend and then what you will do will be through the quality of Hesed.
S. How do I reach this feeling in the heart that I want to?
R. Try, Try and press on your heart towards the friend that you want to cause him good things. Then you will gradually start feeling how Hesed fills your heart
S. Is this like a prayer ?
R. You can say it is like a prayer.
S. What are the good things that I want to give to the friends?
R. Anything that would make them happy.
Reading #13 ( 39:22) “Nowhere was there almsgiving and making peace between people as it was in Abraham..”
77. R. ( 39:45 ) He was called the father of the nations, Abraham the father of the nations.
78. S. (39:52) Is it correct to say that I am when I'm in concern to the friends, that I serve the friends, when I treat them like the guest then the Creator also comes to us like that long awaited guest that we have been waiting for?
R. Yes, you can say so.
Reading #14 ( 40:32 ) “ Abraham’s main work was to extend Hassadim [mercies] .."
79. R. (41:24) Meaning that they used to correct people.
Reading #14 (41:37) “ Abraham’s main work was to extend Hassadim [mercies] from above downward…”
80. R. (42:27) Abraham used to reveal the Creator for the people and Sarah used to rebuild a deficiency for the Creator in the people. That was their work one against the other, one towards the other and in such a way that is why they were rewarded with the cave of Machpelah.
81. S. (43:00) There is a feeling that many friends are thirsty of workshops to realize what is written. Is there a possibility for this?
R. Soon.
Reading # 15 ( 42:21 ) “Abraham was a man of Hochma and imparted Hochma upon all the people of the world.”
Reading #16 (43:34 ) “Anyone who is merciful toward people, it is known that he is from the descendants of Abraham
Reading #17 (43:53)“ All his days, he sought to do true mercies, to be merciful with all the people in the world,
Reading #18 ( 44:18 ) “The great love is to connect in the unique name and unite with it in true faith…”
82. S. ( 46: 27) How is it combined in a person the things that are supposed to receive from the Creator together with wanting to bestow?
R. If you do everything with the intention that you don't do for yourself but for the Creator and the creator beings, so you do it from you outward and then there's no problem with what you are doing. There's no difference in what you're doing. Either for the created beings or for the Creator. What can you do all for the Creator? What can you give Him?
S. The relationship between the Creator is it to be in all the world.
R. Yes
83. S. (47:31) If I am doing an action for the friend, trying to fulfill everything that we spoke about there's a certain moment that you forget about yourself and you can really work and suddenly the desire to receive steals everything from you and you feel the pleasures that you have done the work? What do you do here?
R. From here and onward if you see that the Creator won't help you, you won't be able to do any action of bestowal.
S. What does it mean that the Creator will help? You also remember.
R. This and this and this. As much as you say it, if the Creator won't do it, won't give you the quality of bestowal and He will, it just depends on your exertion. You don't have to succeed. You have to exert that you want to reach it and then you will get it.
S. The exertion, the labor, it's like we read that it is the work of Sarah that we raise the desire?
R. Yes, very nice.
84. S. (49:17) What is the action of Sarah that would reveal the deficiency of the woman?
R. She reveals the deficiency very simply. She reveals a deficiency from below upward.
85. S. (49:38) Where did Abraham have such love from the Creator?
R. It was a quality of Abraham and that is how he was created.
86. S. (49:50) Can we request from the Creator to receive the light of Hassadim?
R. Of course you can, No problem.
87. S. (50:11) Does a person feel or recognize when the person has received a light Hassadim or can he receive the light of Hassadim and not know it?
R. The light of Hassadim, of mercy, is a pleasure from bestowing that I am giving someone and I'm enjoying that without any results.
88. S. (50:48) What is the difference between the measure of Hesed and the measure Rachamin?
R. There is no difference.
89. S. (51:07) What is the main work to acquire the quality of Rachamin? What is the work that I need to do?
R. I need to work in bestowal with everything I know and only want to give to them and not receive until I reach a state that the bestowal that I do is felt in me as reception.
90. S. (51:54) It is written in excerpt 7 that we can not merit full faith until we are in equivalence of form? What does this mean?
R. We first need to correct the vessels and then the light will close in them.
S. Will I ever come to the whole faith?
R. Yes is it connected to one another to the extent that I acquire complete faith I reach the correction of the vessels equivalents and adhesion.
91. S. ( 53:55 ) Is the quality of Abraham in the Ten realized from the friends above all of the difference ?
R. Specifically that way.
92. S. (53:11) Is the force of Abraham the force that is revealed in the Ten and each feels it differently?
R. Of course the force of Abraham is felt in the Ten, the complete Ten and we cannot compare between one feeling to another feeling but the qualities we can not talk about them.
93. S. (53:37) Is Sarah also the quality of mercy?
R. Yes.
R. Question for that Workshop. What are the Ushpizin (guests)? What is the first quality of the Ushpizin which is the quality of Hesed?