Morning Lesson February 23, 2024

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Part 2: Baal HaSulam. You Have Made Me in Behind and Before.

Reading Article: (00:40) “You have made me in …”

1. R. (01:59) Is that clear, any questions?

2. S. (02:11) He writes here that the horse doesn't awaken from any movement but only by the sensation of the rider’s bridle and headstall. What does it mean that the horse is not provoked to any movement, that the horse is provoked to any movement?

R. He wants to describe that there's no vacant place of the Creator and in each and every state a person is in, he's under the control of the Creator.

S. So he says that the rider is sitting on the horse and then he kicks the horse in the stomach, so what does it mean? Is that the Creator directing us that we feel these blows?

R. Of course the Creator’s guiding us all the time, these blows.

S. Everything you're hearing here, just like a rider, I pictured a rider on a horse like it's necessary for the rider to give blows to the horse so without that the horse doesn't regress it just sits there.

R. Yes.

S. So without the rider the horse can't move forward?

R. No, with all the animate degrees you have to connect with Him in the form of controlling.

S. What does it mean face-to-face if that's the situation, if I get blows I reach face-to-face?

R. No, that's relative to your understanding.

S. What does it mean understanding?

R. That according to the goodwill of the horse and the goodwill of the rider.

S. That's not called revelation? He said that that's the revelation of face-to- face. Is it not a revelation?

R. Yes, it's relatively revelation for the horse and the desire of the rider.

S. What I'm understanding here in order to reach face-to- face you need to get blows, that's what he's saying?

R. No the blows of the foot of the rider. As much as you need to change yourself in order to be in accordance with the desire of the rider, accordingly you have to try.

S. Meaning it's a state where we don't need the blows from the rider on the horse and then we can reach face-to-face or there is no such thing?

R. Let's say you know in advance.

S. What does that mean?

R. You know all of the desires of the rider and consequently you arrange yourself in this way where you can carry them out one by one.

S. Meaning there is a state that you don't need the blows in order to reach face-to-face there is such a thing?

R. I don't think so.

S. In any case we need to get the blows?

R. The question is, after you know about that do you resist it or you submit yourself and learn from it.

S. To tell you the truth I oppose it completely and I can say it from my whole life.

R. We don't need to know about your life, forgive me. What do you wish to propose to us in place of what Kabbalists write to us about our state?

S. I don't want to get blows, I want to progress without blows. Is that possible?

R. It is possible that is why they write.

S. How do you progress without blows, I don’t understand what you are telling me?

R. You try to understand what is the desire of the rider.

S. Okay we learn and we hear with Rabash and everyone. It doesn't really work out for me. I hear what it's written here and everyone is hearing it but the moment we get out of here we forget where we came from, where we’re headed, why does that happen? I've been here for three hours, I go out there and all I need is for one person to cut me off from the road and I will immediately leap like a goat and that happens every day from morning till the night. All of a sudden I'm righteous and I'm acting as I should, no I'm angry, I’m forgetting everything, I forget that I even heard the morning lesson. How can I reach a state where I leave the morning lesson and it holds on to me all day long and it is conscious in my life?

R. You open the book and you don't distance yourself from it

S. What in the middle of the road I have my book open?

R. You can listen.

S. It doesn't help, how can I reach a state where I can start listening or acting like a human being?

R. You go to the doctor.

S. The doctor won’t help, he’s dead.

R. The doctor will give you a few pills and after which you can balance yourself with the book. 

S. You have turned me into a psycho.

R. We have nothing else in our world.

S. When do I reach a state when I listen to the morning lesson and I go into the middle line?

R. According to how important it is to you and you live with it.

S. Is that called living in the middle line or is that a problem as well?

R. No, no problem.

S. In the middle line you reach a satiation where everything is okay?

R. No, you will never reach satiation where everything is fine, no. You are always between the forces that are working on you and you must get along with it.

S. Meaning in the middle line there is still infinite work, you are always working on the middle line?

R. Yes.

S. There's no peace, this completion?

R. For the time being, no but in the end we reach peace.

S. At the end of the process?

R. Yes.

S. Not before?

R. Yes.

3. S. (09:20) In the Ten we have people with all kinds of qualities. There's a question, does the person need to change his qualities, meaning a person who is controlling, a person who is afraid, all kinds of qualities and studies over all these years. Should the quality change in order to do that correction or how does this work?

R. We try to be connected so together we can carry out the demands of the Creator, the orders of the Creator. That is the purpose of our connection.

S. If I have a controlling friend in the Ten, what do we do, what does he need to do, what do I need to do?

R. Try to balance all the friends in the Ten and to advance together toward the purpose of creation as much as you can.

4. S. (10:29) The horse feels that the rider is on him, it is his physical sensation. I don't feel that the Creator is embracing me. I always need to remind myself that the Creator is surrounding me everywhere. How do we reach a state where I'm really wrapped in the Creator?

R. That’s your work.

S. It exists in the mind but not in the heart.

R. We can also be there.

S. How?

R. Where everything that surrounds you on all sides it's all the Creator, common nature.

S. I constantly remind myself of that in the mind but there's no sensation. I got this inspiration before that the friend came here but I don't get this feeling that it's all the Creator, there's no sensation?

R. We are at a time when the souls that come are heavy souls, it is hard to commit them to submit them, to convince them that we are indeed under the domination of the Creator.

S. We understand that we want that but it doesn't enter the heart?

R. There's a difference between what we hear and maybe for some of us what we understand a little and all the way up to feeling it and agreeing with it. That's the path, but we need to do it, we need to make efforts to work together, there's no choice.

5. S. (12:50) Is it correct to say that even though a person sees with his own eyes that there is this reality in order to receive but it's all in order to bestow?

R. Aside from the person.

S. Why am I asking? Because if a person sees that he is in practice, in an action, let’s say an action of in order to receive but the Creator acts everywhere, everything, so how is it correct to relate to that? There an action of in order to receive or is it on the person's behalf?

R. It's on the side of the person from his point of view.

S. The action can be correct but the person sees that it is corrupted?

R. It's not only that the person sees the action in order to receive from the side of the will to receive this action comes from man, from the person.

S. Is the Creator here?

R. The Creator allows it to happen because he wants to teach a person.

S. It can’t be that the act is an act of bestowal in any case?

R. How could there be an act of bestowal if it's totally an act of reception, an egoistic action to the detriment of the environment of the people?

S. The Creator allows this kind of reality.

R. The Creator is allowing such a reality for the time being in order to bring a person to recognize the evil so he can correct it.

6. S. (15:00) It is written that one who can connect the two worlds present and future then they discover his clothing in the person. What does it mean to connect the present and the future?

R. It is two times present and the future.

S. Is that measured by the desire that if we yearn for a certain state and we receive it in the present and we reveal it in the present?

R. Yes.

7. S. (15:40) Many times we have things in the mind that don’t enter the heart but we know from the Shamati article that if everything comes out of the heart enters the heart. The person leaves the lesson, he's wrapped in the flows of life. I can say that about myself that I leave the building and immediately that process begins and you said that there is this one advice to connect to the books and authors, but what is this action adhering to books and authors when a person is outside of this building?

R. Whatever you heard in the lesson, from the society, from the books from me, from the books that he studied, that's it. I should remain in Him.

S. How does it remain because I always feel the distance when I am outside of here?

R. Repeat it several times a day.

S. Beyond the physical action of opening a book and putting headphones to listen is there something else we can do in preparation? You can’t always do something physical so then what?

R. There's nothing else, you are not working 20 hours a day.

S. But we learn 9 hours a day but there are other times where you are at the supermarket?

R. So keep an earbud in your ear.

S. If it's possible to be in an earpiece it is clear but if we cannot be with that is there something we can do?

R. Accustom yourself to speak to the Creator. Talk to Him.

8. S. (17:54) Why did the Creator create such a reality where we are separated, detached from spiritual work because spiritual work is everything there is, there is prayer and the next state. What is this world where we are demanded to live in this way in this beastly way?

R. That through it with its’ help we will come to the spiritual work in the easiest and shortest way possible.

S. How can we use what you said in order to use this life, this external life in order to join it?

R. You have friends, you have a teacher, you have books, you have all the tools by which you can be connected to that state that you yearn to reach day and night.

S. What is this opposite picture of our daily lives, how does this contribute to this process?

R. I guess it contributes, now we can’t see it but I guess it contributes. Here we are in a state where the evil inclination is controlling us as we say and we have to reach a state where the good inclination will control us.

S. Is it possible to relate to this reality as the evil inclination controls us?

R. Yes.

9. S. (19:54) I want to ask what about a mutual action of dissemination when you don’t feel like doing it. Everyone is nevertheless doing this act of dissemination and it doesn't matter how it clothes in you. What is it about that that raises a person uplifts him, keeps him not only in the morning lesson but more in the morning lesson when he is doing it with the friends. What is it about, we don't speak about it much but what's in this mutual action with the friends when we are disseminating?

R. Because each one influences the others that's clear. That's the influence on the environment on the person.

S. Each one influences the others in the Ten and in the study and everybody has earbuds when they're on the road, I think it's an action that everybody is doing. There are times when you get to disseminate together it's like a plus one there and something is happening there that sends people into a higher degree of connection?

R. That's the influence of the environment on a person, that's how it influences the person meaning, through desires and thoughts that are egoistic we in any case come closer to bestowal to spirituality.

S. Could it be a life preserver, a life line?

R. Yes, yes what else do we have other than that, other than that we have nothing.

10. S. (22:05) When the Creator sends blows to a person what does he want from him, what is He doing to him by sending those blows to him?

R. He wants that a person will respond correctly.

S. What does it mean to respond correctly to a blow?

R. That the person will ask questions in a way where the Creator as if attracts him, it doesn't repel him but attracts.

S. So the blow is that how the Creator awakens the person, He beats him to awaken him?

R. Yes.

S. What is the process? What does it mean you realize the blow correctly there is this dialogue here?

R. If the person pays attention to what the Creator attracts him, he sees in these rejections the attractions of the Creator then he progresses very quickly.

S. What does it mean that correct questions awaken from the blows?

R. Because the blows come from the will to receive from within oneself and the person asks, he wants to see and hear these acts of these blows as acts that come from the Creator's love toward him.

S. How is it expressed that you are cleaved to the Creator during the blows, how do you adhere to Him?

R. You try. That is called that I truly justify the Creator through all the states.

S. If I want to summarize for myself when the blow comes, what does it mean that it fulfilled it?

R. Bless, bless, raise the Psalms.

S. And by that you cleave to Him?

R. Yes, that needs to be a special atmosphere in the Ten where everyone supports that and are drawn to take hold of that.

11. S. (25:41) How can a person sing when the Creator beats him up?

R. On the contrary to the Creator he wants to awaken himself, he wants to hold himself in a way where he doesn't let himself cry.

S. It is not clear then?

R. If he cries so what comes out of that? He shows the Creator that he's like a baby or if he rejects it in a more spicier way he's like a criminal, that doesn't help. Years go by until a person starts feeling that his entire response in relation to the Creator needs to be out of love, like the Creator seemingly relates to him.

S. When a person sings to the Creator praises Him blesses Him instead of crying from a blow he received, what does it do to the state?

R. That state changes the feeling of the Creator in the person.

S. Into what, what does he see the Creator now?

R. He sees that He is Good That Does Good.

S. How does that attitude influence the Ten when a person corrects his attitude to work in this way?

R. I didn't understand.

S. When a person blesses the Creator when he receives the blow, how does that raise the Ten, how does it work on the Ten in its entirety?

R. A personal state is easier. A collective state also influences the generality of the Ten because he's one of the Ten.

S. When a person receives a blow he is glued to the rider but how is he going to take it without a blow?

R. So they have any connection.

S. The connection through the Creator to the created being is through blows?

R. Blows hugs, it can be anything but it has to be emotional.

S. Lack of adhesion in the Creator if a person is conscious of his lack of adhesion can he define it as a blow?

R. No, he defines that as a state where he wants from that state, in any case he needs to come closer to the Creator.

S. A blow will be felt consciously in a person or it has to be in practice in his body in his like in his material world?

R. It doesn't matter if he's feeling blows he's already feeling something. If he is thinking of the blow then he is already feeling something.

12. S. (29:21) What does it mean to speak to the Creator?

R. Turn to Him and tell Him something that you have on your heart.

S. I turn to Him, I say to Him what is in my heart but how could this dialogue help the friends and not me?

R. In that you ask for yourself and for the friends it acts on all of you.

S. But you cannot see that it is helping the friend. For example the friend is ill, how can my plea to the Creator help him get better?

R. If you pray to the Creator and the Creator hears and acts according to your words, you will influence the friend to get healthy.

S. I don’t want the prayer to help me. I don’t want to feel good for praying, I want to help the friend's body.?

R. Ask, I have nothing to say. I bring the laws of nature, what you do with that you decide.

13. S. (30:56) To continue asking about the blows, there's all kinds of blows the Creator is sending, sent by nature. One of them is a state of uncertainty, at times friends receive such states it could be a child whose' future is uncertain health wise, someone in the family you don’t know what is happening. This state of uncertainty, what is its purpose? It conquers a person, it occupies his mind, his heart, it places him in this fear. What do you do with this?

R. There are many moments where a person needs to position himself towards the Creator. He needs to establish himself correctly in relation to he's the Good That Does Good in relation to There is None Else Besides Him, he needs to connect with his friends with everything that he is capable of and progress accordingly.

S. The feeling of uncertainty places a person in need of security, confidence he needs a promise that things will be alright. In such a state, the friend who is in that state and if we wish to help him can be friends cover this feeling of insecurity that he feels in corporeality with the help of the security and confidence we give him in spirituality?

R. Yes.

S. How do we need to aim it correctly to help the friend?

R. Pray, there is nothing here to add, pray to the Creator.

S. Our prayer is to give to the friend, to cover?

R. Whatever you want, yes.

14. S. (33:57) Maybe behind the force of King David from Psalms songs and you said that during the blow you will sing the songs the Psalms is like a long song?

R. Yes certainly.

S. What is it about the song that I see when a friend speaks and writes a song and he sings it, it enters my heart differently compared with just speaking and describing it. What is the difference in a song?

R. A song they say is a more direct way to reach the heart. It comes from the heart and it enters the heart.

S. The ability to reach that point like the Yemenites their prayer is very singsong and they pray it.

R. Yes that's how a prayer needs to be.

15. S. (35:07) I've heard that the correct response to the blows needs to be blessed by the Creator, crying doesn't help. We see that there is the matter of the gate of tears that we have to reach. Rabbi Shimon cried and Rabbi Chia cried. What is the correct cry?

R. I cannot say but look, crying can come from a person crying from joy, from sorrow, from despair, from some tragedy that he has, from trauma. It could be something in relation to him, his family relatives, God forbid. Crying can, as we learn in the Wisdom of Kabbalah, that crying can be from a state where one cannot hold onto oneself and he bursts out in tears either from joy or from sadness. That's what we learn and as such we need to learn about it.

S. A person has to hold himself back or let go?

R. There's a whole spectrum here, there's one time for one there is one time for another, there is a whole spectrum from one extreme to the other.

16. S. (37:21) Tell me, what does He want from us? What does He want from us?

R. We heard that question from you a thousand times.

S. What is this such a death help us?

R. He doesn't make any death upon us or you.

S. What about the rider, is there any chance we need to be like the rider and not like the horse? Is there such a state?

R. You can be both the rider and the horse. Yes, think about it.

17. S. (38:16) It's an interesting lesson, I want to ask you a specific question and then continue. How can you receive a blow and justify the Creator? Is this work about reason where even though it hurts it goes against my logic, at that moment I can hold on to the Creator is this the process of this state?

R. Look at how we are similar to kids. In that, you give a kid a blow and you want the kid to learn something from that. He learns from that that he has a bad aggressive father. So, here there's already a problem.

S. About the laws themselves, there are states. It happened to me a few weeks where you pray for several weeks and the prayer is not answered. When we pray for a specific person and we pray for his spouse, I pray with the benefit of the sick person. On the other hand I think of the sorrow and the pain of the spouse and I justify the Creator and he might be redeeming the person from the suffering. I wish to justify him because even though He causes a lot of grief and if you receive it personally it is hard and I am saying it out of experience but to take it to work. Also throughout the day, according to how I try to do it's always to think, how can I be in bestowal even though I say go to the supermarket and that what gives you the power to be with the Creator. And about the horse there are wild horses and that's how we are born with the evil inclination and we have to tame them. We know that one of the methods of taming a wild steed, we have to go with the likeness of the Creator and makes the work easier. We are very logical people and I'm amazed that people are coming to the study. In my time things were very calm so I appreciate it and I have no words to express my bewilderment for seeing new people in today’s situation, so many difficulties in my eyes. It seems maybe because I've grown weaker over time. In today's situation it is not simple and the challenge is huge because we see it is growing exponentially this pain. It's harder to tolerate that pain and once we didn't even notice it we would skip over it. What am I trying to say? I'm looking at the friends here and on the screens and I’m saying we have hope, the friends. The Creator doesn't make mistakes, I have remained a wild steed and I've been behaving widely and I ask Him to strengthen me and to reinforce me so we can go through this process together and give Him contentment and we can do it together. Thank You for your patience.

R. Thank you.