Morning Lesson December 15, 2021, Transcription

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Baal HaSulam - Shamati 115. Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking

1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, Article 115 the matter of “Still, Vegetative, Animate and Speaking”, we know that the Creator, which is the desire to bestow, wants to create the created being and to bring the creature to a degree that is similar to the Creator. Hence, the creature will eventually be called Adam, Domeh, one who is similar to the Creator. So the Creator created him in an opposite form to the Creator, as His quality is the desire to bestow. This is what characterizes this main fundamental point in the difference between the Creator and the creature. As the Creator is the desire to bestow, that's how we learn and reveal from our search, from our study, our acquaintance and approximation to that point. The creature is opposite, he is the will to receive. In order to be the creature, he has to be the opposite, differentiated from the Creator in understanding himself and the Creator and the gap between them. By that, the creature can establish himself in reality. Otherwise he is not called the creature. The creature feels how he is opposite the Creator and the extent that he can resemble him, in a thing and its opposite.

Meaning the creature must be included of those two forces in nature. There are no others except for those two forces, the forces of bestowal and the force of reception. Hence, to the extent of intermingling, merging between these two, between the force of receiving and the force that is bestowing, we can see that the creature defines his degree, his state, his placement and his distance. That's the main thing from the Creator. Let's read what Baal HaSulam writes about this, that we have 4 degrees that differentiate us from being adapted and resembling the Creator fully and these 4 degrees stem from the light which builds the desire, the force of bestowal which builds the force of reception, needs to go through 4 degrees.

On its own, itself, the Creator is the root phase, as we learn the 4 phases that we have to go through, the first Aleph, second Bet, third Gimel, and the fourth, Dalet, the last one, is where he defines that the creature will be in the will to receive in order to receive, completely opposite from the Creator the phase the root and then he will be called the creature. A creature also needs to be on his own authority, one that can have different forms than the Creator and this is what we see that's what happens in our nature as we don't agree and don't want. We don't want to be under the control of the Creator but we want to be under the control of our own control, this inclination is called the evil inclination, our ego and this is how we advance.

This is how we develop, that's why all of our work between the Keter and the Malchut is in the matter of who will reign who will control. Who will govern as it's written, either the Creator, bestowing, or the creature, reception. This is how we can always measure and weigh where the creature is relative to the Creator. In resembling and adapting the creature to the Creator, we are talking about these 4 degrees the root, the Shoresh we don't take into account because that's the quality of the Creator, bestowal, but beyond that emerges Aleph Bet, Gimel, Dalet or 1 2 3 4 which is how the creature develops. If he wants to later reach equivalence with the Creator, he needs to perform opposite actions, opposite to his own nature. Let's read what Baal HaSulam writes for us and we will see the extent in which we can advance by this, in resembling it. Please if there are questions ask as much as you need.

Shamati 115 (06:55) Still Vegetative Animate and Speaking

2. R. (08:00) Yes that's the first degree of the development of the will to receive as it is completely, he doesn't complete do anything of himself, he's not capable of changing relative to himself, relative to the host, relative to the will to receive and relative to the desire to bestow. He is in a direct absolute way under the influence of the Creator upon him, meaning that desire to receive like the Creator says I have created evil inclination, that evil inclination controls the creature and the creature carries out its commands of his ego, of his desire or of the host, it doesn't matter which since it is the Creator that created it and the creature has no possibility to know that there is something against, there's something different. He simply does everything benefiting that will to receive that operates on him, dwells in him and under that degree he is called still. Meaning in his attitude he cannot resist, he cannot feel that he is different to the force that obligates him. That's why it's called still, he does many things he can you know flip over the whole world but if he operates only out of his nature, which was imprinted in him by the Creator and the Creator is called the nature, so we talked about him being the still because he makes no movement on his behalf against that state which nature fills him with. So still I'm reading it again, still is something that does not have any authority of its own, meaning you cannot say that he has some thought, desire, movement, action, that he himself carries out. But rather, all the actions also all the responses, everything that happens with him, he can be very active seemingly. He's operating and doing all kinds of things but he's doing it only from the desire, from the force that he receives from nature. That's why it's written that the authority of the landlord is upon him and he must satisfy every wish and desire of his landlord. Hence since the Creator created creation for his glory as it is written everyone who is called by my name, I have created him for my glory, it means that the Creator created creation for his own needs.

The nature of the landlord is imprinted in the creatures, meaning that all the creatures cannot work for the sake of others but for only for themselves. That's what the Creator created in the creature and if the Creator does this in a direct, absolute way just like all the people in the world, Each is operated by the force of the will to receive in him and that's how they operate and to the extent that they can each operate for his own benefit as the Creator founded them that way, then accordingly they observe the desire in them of the Creator the degree of still, that's the first degree of development of the creature. We will read, vegetative is already can't do anything of his own, doesn't understand also and can't make for himself any free movement and there are of course, also degrees here that to the extent in which he is in his desire and understands that's this desire that he receives from above or maybe not at all. Meaning from the degree of still there are also degrees of still, vegetative, animate and speaking of which is the development in still to the extent to which he advances to be understanding that he is under the control of the landlord. Just as we learn about the Exile of Egypt, the feeling of Exile that you can do something other than your nature, that is the attainment of the degree of still.

Reader continues: (13:22) “Vegetative is that which already has its own authority…”

2. R. (16:00) Meaning what is he saying? That after there is a desire, that desire that operates in the creature that comes from the Creator and develops in the creature, of course through all kinds of actions, which the Creator creature develops on purpose and performs efforts on his behalf. As he's developing a new desire and this desire is seemingly against the Creator in addition to the nature that the Creator imprinted in the creatures. So this is how the creature comes to the second degree of development which is called vegetative. What is vegetative what's written about it? Vegetative is where he already has his own authority to some extent just to some extent relative to what later be developed and it can already do something that is contrary to the opinion of the landlord. This is somewhat appearing in him and accordingly he is called vegetative.

This means that it can already do things that are not for one's own benefit but in order to bestow meaning if he already has the force to operate beyond his own desire in contradiction to his desire, then it's already called as vegetative. Whereas if he cannot emerge from his desire from his boundaries, from his own desire, then it's called that he is still. So if he emerges from the desire and it's already the opposite of the desire of the landlord which imprinted in the creatures only the desire to receive, so that they will operate only in the desire to receive for themselves. But with all that as we can see in physical plants even though they are mobile and explained in length and width still, all the plants have a single property. Which is a little bit of a desire to bestow by which they develop and don't remain in the same state like the Creator created them. Meaning it's not important to us to what degree the still is in, it could be very big, it could be a person that is performing many actions and stands out greatly and influences everyone, meaning does all kinds of actions. If he does not rise to the desire to bestow, above the nature that the Creator created in him he is called still and does not operate under his own forces but only in the forces that the Creator put in him to start with.

Thus, I am continuing, there is no other plant that can operate against the method of all the other plants but rather it is obliged to keep the rules of the plants and there is no other force that can operate against his kind. Meaning you cannot emerge and exit the nature that he is created in, that he is existing in, and does not have a matter of life of his own meaning he is limited after all. Even though he does actions above in contradiction to the degree of still but those actions are only somewhat risen from the degree of still, all his forces are as not to be as still. To forcefully develop the form of vegetative but he is part of the life of all the plants, he cannot exit the law of all the plants, he's in the same biology, the same laws. Meaning that all the plants have a single form of life and that the form of life is the same for all plants and that all the plants are like a single creature like one plant and the individual plants are specific organs of that creature, that animal. Meaning all together we're even talking about the fact that all the plants in the world are sub-terrain connected to one another, they seemingly communicate with one another they have a certain language, communication between them by expressing outwards certain sense and hormones into the air and this is how they are in their own life.

Meaning that there is not one plant that can do something against the method of all the plant but is obligated to keep the law of all the plants and has no force to be able to do against its kind. Meaning it cannot breach the laws of the plants. This means that he doesn't have life of their own, no plant has that. It must keep the laws of botanic or vegetation of the vegetative life. But it is part of the life of all the plants all together, meaning that all the plants are like one form of life and that form of life is the same for all the planets and all the plants are like a single creature, single creation, and the individual plants are similar to the organs of an animal. Meaning they're all connected together and upon all of them the same force of nature operates. There is the sun or is the water or there is something there is no sun, there is no water, there is no light, there is no air, accordingly all the plants suffer and feel the influence of the force of the upper general nature upon them. This is still the degree of vegetative.

Baal HaSulam continues, it's the same in spirituality where there are people who have already acquired the strength to overcome the wheel to receive to some degree but are enslaved to their environment. Even though they can somewhat rise above their will to receive, the environment still grabs them and they feel like they can't do something against the environment. Or opposite to the environment. But to do it opposite to the environment he is in he does not yet have the strength to do that but nevertheless he does the opposite of what his will to receive once. But not opposite of the environment meaning that they are already working with the desire to bestow and by that he becomes the degree of vegetative. He doesn't truly resist the environment, he doesn't stand out from them or become emphasized from them but in such actions that are not apparent in them the effort, the work and the personal endangerment. The next degree is the animate level.

Reader continues: (25:21) “Animate: We see that each animal has its own….”

3. R. (25:35) Meaning in plants, all the plants are connected to each other and similar to each other they have the same nature and same connection between them and the environment, yes? Rain, sun, air as much as they respond so to the degree of animal, no, they are, each is not connected to everyone and they cannot influence one another. If there are, let's say, some animals in South America it has nothing to do with the same type of animals or not even the same type of animals that live in Africa or in Europe.

Reader continues: (26:30) “and each of them has its own sensation….”

4. R. (27:19) Meaning what's the difference between the degree of animate and the degree of vegetative that in their degree of animate, he requires independence from the environment, relative independence. By having the feeling of others that he is different from others and that someone else is different than him and he is different to them and they are different to him and he can attain that and also that there are four degrees themselves, still, vegetative, animate and speaking in each of them there's also 4 degrees in each of them. It's like we talked about the forms of qualities in people, the different melancholic, there's different kinds of qualities in people and there's also some kind of an integration between them, instead of 4 qualities they become 16 different characteristics. So what does the animate level say to us? I'm going to repeat it, what is the degree of animate in a person? We see that each animal has its own characteristic. Meaning not like all the plants the same and they are not enslaved to the environment but rather each of them has its own sensation and characteristics.

Certainly they can work against the will of the landlord, meaning they can operate already against the desire to receive that the Creator, the landlord created and holds and imprinted inside of the creatures. So he is already in a state in which he has a thing and its opposite, he has a desire to bestow and he has a desire to receive and he is in an effort in which he is either more in the will to receive and lessen the desire to bestow or two or the contrary or between them but then he has the feeling of what the landlord is and what I am and to the extent and which I, where I am relative to the landlord. He has a desire to bestow and he has a desire to receive and he is in an effort in which he is either more and the will to receive and lessen the desire to bestow or to the contrary or between them but then he has the feeling of what the landlord is and what I am and to the extent and which I where I am relative to the landlord and not enslaved to the environment. Meaning he can uplift from the environment in which the vegetative cannot but it has a life of its own and it's vitality does not depend on the friends lives, on the social life but it can feel even more than its own he cannot feel more than their own being. Meaning it can't emerge out of itself and to enter into the environment into the friends into someone and feel like they feel.

But nevertheless he feels and in him it takes place. Meaning that he has no feeling of the other and anyways he naturally cannot care for others. That's the degree of animate, it's nevertheless a degree as we can see here that is very important. Which can also incorporate somewhat in the others and understands what he is missing, that he cannot connect with others in a way that is above his nature. But each has a characteristic a quality of its own as they are not enslaved to the environment like still and vegetative, and they have a life of their own on their own behalf just like all the plants have their one life. Contrary to the vegetative they have all together the same seasons and everything whereas here the degree of animal we can see that each has its own life also of course according to seasons and according to all kinds of actions that nature obligates them through, but they already have a life on their own that is the degree of animate. The degree of speaking Baal HaSulam says it has virtues. One that it acts against the will of the landlord against the will to receive that the landlord and print within the creatures. So it has the force that is against the Creator.

Number two, it is not confined to its contemporaries like the vegetative, meaning it is independent whereas all the plants he doesn't have a desire to exit that environment, that framework that they are in the plants. Meaning the degree of speaking is independent of the environment and 3, it also feels others and therefore can care for them and compliment them. Meaning to feel what they are missing and what would be good if he could compliment them, meaning he truly has the possibility of exiting himself and to feel in an independent way, of himself of what he can receive outside of the ego that the Creator and printed in him. Therefore he can be above his ego to feel the others and can thus, as he says, by this he feels the sorrow of the public and can also rejoice in the comfort of the public. Also they can receive from the past and from the future while the animals only feel the present and only their own being.

Certainly are not vegetative and not animate cannot be even somewhat similar to the degree of speaking, to the degree of Adam, whereas these three components, where the landlord is talking about is not there and it can perform against the desire of the landlord meaning perform restriction on his desire and uplift in order to bestow to that it can connect to the environment and to disconnect from the environment. Not like the vegetative and also not even like the animal, the animate also has the feeling of the other if he wants to develop it, if he can develop, he can develop himself to the sensation of the others. By caring for them and feeling to the extent in which he is dependent on them on the degree of speaking and the extent where they are dependent on him and that's actually, he advances.

5. S. (35:37) How to with what practical goal action? Should we absorb this?

R. Rabash passes on to us what he heard, that's why it's called Shamati, I heard, this whole notebook he heard from Baal HaSulam, he's passing on to us the things that are actually what opens up for us the entrance into the correct connection between us, the correct connection with the Creator in the right way and entrance into the spiritual work. That's what he does. We need according to each and every article to try to understand it, to feel it and to implement it. That is what is important.

6. S. (37:45) Seems like we are always going through this process of still, vegetative, animate and speaking, how can we hasten time such that this whole process will become speaking ?

R. You see here everything is about the created being if it feels that it has a tendency, a disposition towards growing, towards correctly using his nature then the correct use of his nature when he uses, he needs to rise above his nature against the landlord as it says here. Meaning if the Creator created the will to receive what I need is to rise above the will to receive relative to why am I am doing it, the practice, towards the other, towards friends. If we connect between us, in a good way, by that we emerge from the still degree to the vegetative degree as he explained to us that all the plants share the same nature. But this gives him a certain ability to move that he's done something to grow up too absorbed forces to extract the qualities they need or don't need in order to grow up. This is the matter of the scrutiny of each will to receive on its own level, meaning we need to scrutinize in our state what is good and what is not good for us in order to grow independently. Independent of what? independent of the will to receive the Creator created in us. Meaning in this way seemingly we resist these forces of nature the Creator embedded in us and we seek other forces and these other forces we can receive to the extent we are connected to one another because that's the main thing come onto the vegetative, all the plants have the same nature of absorbing the environment and developing by using the environment.

7. S. (40:42) On one hand we see that the only choice is the environment, on the other hand one advances in the work, he is going against the environment he chose, it appears that he's advancing, how does that work out?

R. It does not look down at the environment, he uses the environment the more he advances, he uses it in a more specialized way, in a more unique way. He works in such a way that from every state of his he wishes to contribute to the final goal of our social development. That's it. If the still can do nothing, it has no way of doing anything, with itself, the vegetative already participates with the environment to some extent, absorbs from it and gives back and develops by himself also procreates and so on and so forth.

8. S. (42:02) Talking about the virtues that he talks about in the speaking and I'm quoting from it he can actually receive from the past and the future whereas the animate which does not feel, he only feels the present. My question is what does Baal HaSulam mean that the degree of speaking can receive from the past and the future, from the past I can understand but from the future?

R. Yes you feel the future and much further than the animate. Because an animal does not feel more than what is surrounding him closely. They have a feeling of the future and a certain memory of the past but it is very limited whereas a human, he lives an infinite number of years, I mean towards that quality forward, backward he can receive sensations that have nothing to do with the period where he lives. A person has the ability to construct such a picture of the world and reality through which he approaches the feeling of the Creator.

9. S. (43:33) Baal HaSulam explains that the first motion in degrees is from the still to the vegetative degree. What action can we do together in the ten to do this?

R. We advance in the ten by doing what Kabbalists tell us. Our forces accumulate when we participate in all kinds of actions and discussions between us. We discussed helping each other in the group in any way shape, or form. Later, the more we advance, although we connect even more with one another, later each one becomes a much more personal and individual force compared to the others. It doesn't bother us that above all the differences we will be connected with one another; each one becomes more individual, and at the same time, we are more connected between us. That’s how we develop.

S. What is the force that performs such a dramatic rise from the degree of still to vegetative?

R. These are the actions: a person tries to exit his egoistic nature and rises. What's the difference between all the degrees from the still to the vegetative, vegetative to the animate, animate to the speaking? It's the additional force of bestowal. Let’s say the animate creature who acquires the force of bestowal from the Creator, can exist not only in the force of reception but also, to some extent, in the force of bestowal. Meaning he has a different way to connect to the environment. He writes that, to some extent, the vegetative has his own authority. This means that he can rise above his ego to in order to bestow, and by that, he has a certain sensation of the environment and can absorb certain things from the environment. The vegetative receives and he can expel that which is not good for him. Consequently he has absorption and expulsion, and he advances through such actions. He's got life.

10. S. (47:32) Are there intermediate stages between the degrees of still, vegetative, animate, and speaking?

R. We should constantly want to be in transition in our work and not want to remain on the level we are on but rise to a greater, higher level. I want to get to the next degree from whatever level I am on; it doesn’t if it is the still, vegetative, or animate level, I want to get to the next degree. When I want the next degree, I make efforts to reach it. It's possible that I am still developing on my degree, but I am developing. That's what's happening to us. We wish to be in the speaking degree, the degree where we feel godliness, where we are with Him; we imagine and we yearn for it, and we want it in different ways. We don't understand that this yearning is correct, but it doesn't give us the ability to come out of our level, but within our level it gives us the opportunity to develop. It's like a little child who plays games because he wants to be a grown up, on a higher level, but he doesn't become a grown-up, he becomes a more developed child. Yearning for a higher degree, to come to the highest state possible, is correct but at the same time to understand that we are advancing according to the same formula that exists in nature. It won’t do us any good to see something higher, as we are still advancing on our level within the still, vegetative, animate, or even speaking.

S. Is this transition from one degree to another gradual or does it happen all at once?

R. We see the evolution from the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking in our world. We can understand how these forms have to similarly pass through us to instill these degrees of still, vegetative, animate, and speaking in us. We must grow our will to receive and correct it; we work contrary to the will to receive that the Creator created in us. Meaning there's work for us to do that is seemingly against the landlord, the Host.

11. S. (51:36) What does it mean to work against the will of the landlord? What is his will?

R. The will of the landlord is his nature, where we operate from within the will to receive. He's got additional desires, that from within the nature He created in us, we will constantly rise above the will to receive and turn the will to receive into the intention to bestow. Our will to receive grows accordingly as we advance with the intention to bestow on top of the will to receive. The landlord, or Host, gives us an opportunity to work more in order to bestow because this is how we acquire His nature and resemble Him. We develop on the still, vegetative, animate and speaking, as we resemble the landlord. We have two things here. On one hand, we keep receiving additional desires to receive, and above this revelation of the will to receive we can adapt ourselves more and more to the Creator by constructing the intention to bestow above it. We have a thing and its opposite. The will to receive constantly grows and that's why daily we see ourselves seemingly going back to our nature of the will to receive because every day feels like new. On the other hand, we acquire the intention to bestow above it. We feel the Creator to the extent of that intention to bestow, to understand Him, advance towards Him, to approach and identify with Him, until we come to adhesion with Him.

S. Does the Creator really want us to defeat Him, as in ‘My sons defeated Me’?

R. Yes. This is truly the will of the Creator. The Creator wants us to triumph over Him and defeat Him.

12. S. (55:18) Who chooses our corporeal and spiritual environment for us and how is this done?

R. This is according to the root of each and every person’s soul, from the place in Adam HaRishon you emerged to the place where you belong. On the other hand, you advance according to your labor and decide your fate.

S. Is there a way to know the fate of our future?

R. It's not our business. We need to do what is required of us to do. It's none of our business. What would I get out of knowing my destiny? I cannot know what will be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow if I'm not in it. Spirituality is not like corporeal reality. The world around you doesn’t change. You can say this will be like this, and that will remain like that. We can imagine those things but it's not the case in spirituality. You cannot know something before you come to that place because when you enter a new place it means that you acquired new qualities and a new mind. Can you explain something about the world of the adult to a child? He wouldn't be able to understand. It is the same here. We do not jump to a higher degree, but we work on the current degree so it will become a higher degree.

13. S. (57:29) Is the process written about in this article something we will learn in the ten?

R. Yes, a good and practical question. We need to connect between us as Rabash writes. We need to try and identify how and to what extent we are going through the degrees of the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. Each degree contains all those degrees and are divided into 5 + 5 + 5,125 degrees in total where each degree is also included in the still, vegetative, animate, speaking, and its root. We need to constantly overcome resistance towards connection to transition from one degree to another.

14. S. (59:02) What does it mean to agree with the process of the development of the will to receive?

R. The will to receive that is growing in me is growing according to certain software from above. This software is working according to the general vessel of the entire Adam HaRishon, with all the desires of this entire, huge creature. I don't know why I think one way in one moment, or why something happens to me later because this is a big system and is interconnected from beginning to end. I have no way of seeing it, understanding it, or managing it. I will understand what is happening in the system only at the end of correction when we all will be incorporated and included in everyone and I will attain the Creator in full. For the time being, I need only to work with the conditions and the advice that Kabbalists give me, as much as possible, in the environment that they instruct me to create.

S. When do I need to agree with the development of the will to receive and when should I resist it?

R. We need to correct our will to receive, which is our general disposition, our general path of correction from the vessel of Adam HaRishon. We need to correct that will to receive and unify it. Anything else we do is only inasmuch as it is related to connection. We have nothing else to do in our lifetime. Anything else that we do outside the connection between us, means that we are working egotistically and opposite to the purpose of creation.

S. Where does the force of resistance to the will to receive come from?

R. The force of resistance of the will to receive comes from the fact that the will to receive is like gravity. Everything on earth resists all kinds of change, wanting to remain on the animate degree. It is it’s nature to keep everything on the animate, the still degree, and not let anything leave the still degree to the vegetative, the animate, and more than anything, the speaking degree. All these degrees develop from the general will to receive over many, many years, through many difficult situations and a lot of trouble. All the development depends on troubles and problems. Look at the birth of one animal to another. Look at how many dangerous things there are, the powers that are involved in it and difficulties

15. S. (01:03:24) Why is it written that the speaking degree is not dependent on the environment after all we always save the opposite that he is dependent on the environment?

R. No, he can rise above the vegetative or the animate cannot rise above their environment and seemingly be in a special environment but nevertheless an animal works according to the strengths of the environment he is in. whereas the speaking degree is a guest, the landlord, the host, the Creator and he does not depend on the environment for these two things. Maybe it is against the will to receive but relative to the environment he is not against it but rather he does not depend on it he's got his own development. Look how you came out of your general environment where there are billions of people around you and they don't think like you. You took a certain method, a certain philosophy you can say with a certain outlook on life, a very special one. You go and you develop yourselves and even yourselves, you wish to adapt to that method you chose. How did you choose it? According to the will to receive that develops in you and demands further development. Certain development because the future state exists in your desire. The Reshimot (the records) does not exist in other degrees only on the speaking.

16. S. (01:05:28) I want to ask about the degree of the animal. He writes in the gray of animate that he can operate against the desire of the landlord, meaning work in the form of bestowal and in the end of the degree of animate he writes 'but he cannot feel more than his own being' in other words whoever has the sensation of the others cannot care for others. It sounds like a clash that he can work in the form of bestowal but cannot care for others. How does that work out? How is there concern for others there?

R. It can work seemingly for the other but it does not have the feeling of the other. It cannot leave his will to receive and work with the will to receive of the other. It cannot do it yet that's why he is to the animate degree.

S. The feeling is close to the other?

R. Yes, the feeling needs to clothe in the desire of the other.

S. To care for the other is actually to be in the feeling of the other? Is this what he writes there in the end?

R. How else will you care about it? if you care about the other but not feeling the other but feel yourself then you are coercing them

S. What does it mean that you can work in the form of bestowal?

R. He advances in different forms towards bestowal. The still does not come to the state where he can clothe in the other and bestow to them according to his desire. There's a difference. We might not feel it in our own lives just how much we are working according to our own desires and we are coercing the other. How much we are able to work according to the desire of the other. We don't have that sensation so we have to come out of ourselves. This means to perform a restriction, a screen and reflected light and bestowed to the other. From using our own intensity our level of desire but according to his desire. His desire and my power. Just as you do for a little child, he wants to do something and you use your power to work according to his desire.

17. (01:08:40) We always say our development is more of a feeling of others and here he, according to what is understood here that the vegetative has a feeling of the other the animate already has?

R. There's a connection. You are right about that. All the degrees other than the still have some connection to the feeling of the other but that connection to the feeling of the other is such that they use it for themselves. What does the vegetative do? It receives everything from the environment, everything it has. What does the animal do? It also has this relationship with the environment, a bit more mutual but nevertheless for itself. What is the difference between the vegetative and the animate is that the animate degree has more of an individualistic feeling. Relative to the feeling of the environment but nevertheless it uses the environment for its own good. The speaking degree is not confined to his contemporaries like the vegetative, and it also feels the others this is the main thing about the speaking degree it feels the other. Imagine that you feel the friends. You have such developed vessels that you are able to feel them, and to clothe in them. To feel yourself in their place truly. What kind of connection has to be there? Even schematically on the level of this world we don't see such things. We connect to one another but by that we help one another not more than that. To truly enter the other until I will live the life of the friend, I cannot do it. Also, to let him enter into me and live my life, such forms of connection are foreign to us

S. The question is that in the degree of vegetative, he says there’s something common with everyone, it is like it has already acquired something of bestowal but it's together with everyone?

R. I don't think it's from bestowal. I think it's on such a level where without it they would not be able to exist. Just as we say that below the ground there is a connection between the roots of all the plants in the world all over. You don't even know how many hundreds of meters they spread out from their own roots and how they communicate with the other plants

S. The work in the 10 is that okay?

R. Let's try it.

S. If there is a degree called vegetative and we feel as one, that we are influenced by the same environment and we are bestowing somehow all of a sudden there's this new degree which is animate where there is an actual disconnection where each one feels his uniqueness and his differentiation from the others. How is this a higher degree than the vegetative?

R. You disconnect from what you had, from the connection you had. We see this in our lives as well. If you wish to be a grown up, an adult meaning to disconnect from the time of your youth, then you become a grown-up otherwise you remain a big child and not a grown-up not an adult. Therefore, each degree, each common degree the transition to it includes in it several phases of transition. You can't actually disconnect from what there was before unless you acquire something from a new degree. It turns out that there are such instances where you acquire the new state. By that you disconnect from the previous states and so on and so forth. This is the connection between GE and the AHP and we will learn how they work, and how they have such Reshimot (records) and coarseness. The Reshimot of our clothing comes from the previous state and the coarseness is from the new state. We want to adapt the previous records to the new records. Just like when you go to a restaurant and you say I don't have $100 I have $50. Give me something from before but for $50. Meaning there are these types of transitions and impressions and records of clothing from the previous state and records of coarseness from the current state and this way we go from the still to the vegetative, from vegetative to animate and from animate to speaking. There are those states that we are learning in part 3 of the study of the 10 Sefirot where Baal HaSulam explains to us the words of ARI, that the still vegetative, animate, and speaking how they change from the animate to the vegetative through this animal that lives in the ground and then from vegetative to the animate.

S. The monkey, right?

R. No animal from animate to speaking is the monkey and from still to vegetative. Coral is from still to vegetative and from vegetative to animate is called a creature. We will learn about it. So Ari and Baal HaSulam, when they talk about it, they tend to awaken is us such discernment that will begin to interchange ourselves

S. Only one more point here. The animate is more than vegetative but on the other hand, it's more separate from the vegetative, differentiated. We always say that to develop is to be more dependent on the society, to feel the society?

R. On the one hand you need to be more independent otherwise you won't be able to develop. On the other hand, you have to be more interconnected otherwise it's not considered developed.

S. On what is the animal more connected than the vegetative?

R. The vegetative is connected to everyone. But the still is even connected more because everything comes from the animate. We don't see all the roots but all vegetative animate and speaking, they come from the animate that's why our roots come from that from the simple will to receive and all the rest, all the other forms they come they grow out of the simple will to receive as much as we can rise above it and use it correctly. The will to receive does not disappear, it does not get refined rather through all its variants, all its forms, all the connections between them they come to such combinations that have no limit no ending. Ultimately what comes out is that in the connection between the parts of the still, they are building the vegetative the animate and the speaking. We are building the Creator. Meaning that will to receive from that will to receive that is created but the connection between these parts of the still this is what we wish to assemble. Then we asked the Creator to be our partner and to help us put together the parts of the still level in such a way that the vegetative will then come out of it and also the animate monkey and the man. Everything comes from the still, also in our world. Look, you have a simple example of silicone. What is silicon? It's form is still so animate it doesn't change and you put plants into silicone. I don't think they will even grow. It doesn't absorb anything but looks at what we can construct from it. All of our new technology is in silicone. Who would have thought about it 50 to 100 hundred years ago. Everything is in through the use of the still. Therefore, when we look at the forms that come out of it, we need to understand that it's all that same still degree. Meaning it is the Creator who exists in all the other forms in nature and that all the other forms of nature should not conceal from us the source of everything which is the Creator everything comes from the still.

18. S. (01:19:55) How to help the attributes of the animate to rise?

R. According to the extent that we as much as we advance, we try to rise above our ego. When we rise above our ego, we start feeling what receiving means, what bestowal means. What disconnection and what connection is. Because anything is only attained from its opposite, as ‘’the advantage of light from the darkness.’’ This is why, as we advance, we have to see how our attainment for it to always include two opposite parts, both connection and disconnection. Then, we will better understand our inner nature. It is impossible to attain the Creator if it is not from the darkness from its opposite forms, that is how we do it. This is why we have to walk on two lines, always darkness, light, darkness, light, and darkness precedes light. That is how we advance, that is how we go over all the different forms of the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. The still may stay the same for billions of years. The vegetative changes already and highly depends on his environment. The animate has its personal life, and the speaking has already a connection to the source. This is out of our advancement, we will understand it better.

19. S. (01:22:26) Baal HaSulam, when he spoke to Rabash, from what degree did he speak to him and write?

R. I do not know. From his degree to me it is not important what degree that is if I'm not in it. It is a degree, what can I tell you. The degree of the world Atzilut or the world of Adam Kadmon, or the world of Ein Sof [Infinity]. What do we understand about that? In my opinion, Baal HaSulam attained all the different degrees, and reached complete adhesion with the Creator but on his own, not like everyone attaining that together in the final correction.

S. He spoke about younger people. Younger people make a lot of mistakes, we are wrong a lot. How can we make the connection in order to exit this degree of being young and become mature?

R. You have to try. When you look at a child, you see how much he wants to grow up, he always has this urge to do something like the grown-ups. He looks at you and does the same, he comes to you to demand for you to do this and that, he is restless, he doesn’t have any ease. So learn from him as much as you can.

20. S. (01:24:58) In our work in the ten, after we spoke about the sensations of the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, from what degree does begin the attainment and the sensation of the correction of the breaking?

R. It is a very good question. It is complicated. The main thing is that we have to rise upwards in each and every degree as we learn the wisdom of the Kabbalah, even when we are not yet out of the still level, out of the vegetative, we still learn something. Now you are talking about attainment, so we have to understand what attainment means, from what degree. But learning, that we start learning even when we are on the still level. We already get some awakening, some internal restlessness, we start thinking about our life, our spiritual and corporeal life, even from the animate speaking, the still level. But in truth, attainment begins, if we can say, just as we talked about the four different shapes of human nature. So we say that in every degree have four degrees, and the person has to rise from the still in the still. When he has the Reshimo [record] of Hitlabshut [clothing] from the vegetative degree of the still, even if he is in the vegetative degree of the still, then out of that he has some incorporation with the others. Out of that he starts to develop by envy, lust, and honor, and then he may grow.

21. S. (01:27:59) Humankind, is it connected like the vegetative?

R. Humankind, we do not know how it is connected because in its current state it is not connected, it is broken after so many shattering’s and fallings. That is why we are not talking about the system as it came out of the Creator, but that it came out and it broke. Out of this shattering we need to bring it to the right shape, meaning to sort out, to start correcting from the light to the heavy.

S. First, we begin connection on the level of the animate and then onto the vegetative

R. First, we need to understand what that is. Before that we have to include these degrees on their own to a certain extent, but we can sort them out in us and then seemingly outside. Meaning, it is work with the internal and external vessels. I don’t really want to go into it because it adds and it confuses.

22. S. (01:29:13) If the vegetative does not have a life of its own, and all the vegetative are like one being, one complete being, to understand that one vegetative is in the sensation of all the plants, of all the vegetative?

R. I don't really want to go into all these things, the free choice, and the purpose of life. If we are in such a low degree that we don't even have the ability to overcome the desire of the host, the desire that the Creator created, in practice we do not have in any way. Whatever you do, you will always do what the host wants of you, and we have to resist that. Otherwise, we will not rise.

23. S. (01:30:3) What depends on the success of each friend that is with us to succeed in doing the opposite from the corporeal environment which wraps it during the course of the day? You also once told us how you succeeded to leave the environment you were in before, the business, and to change to a completely different environment. How do we make such a decision?

R. I don't think this is a problem. It's a matter of importance, very simple, importance. Many times in our lives we let go the previous environment, we go to a new one, because we see that by that we can earn something, succeed, develop. I have nothing to explain here, it is clear to everyone. However, what I do want to explain is that ascents in spiritual degrees are such that if we - I will even draw this. Rav is drawing If we make our group into one, so ten as one, if we do that, then we raise it to the next degree. Then, in the next degree we have to make ten as one again - connection. That is how every time we rise. When we make ourselves into a concept of one, then that is the Creator, that is the Creator, and these are the friends. So, it turns out that our whole work is to turn ten to one, ten to one, ten to one, and this does not of the degrees. From above downwards, we also see this is how the degrees come down. That is why our whole work is only in connection.

S. In what are the friends equal to the Creator?

R. From me coming outside of myself, there is only the Creator. That is why the more I want to go into a friend to unite with him, for me this is an exercise. Not only an exercise, but this is also a practical action by which I come closer and unite with the Creator. This is the meaning of the Creator being behind every friend.

24. S. (01:33:45) At the beginning of the lesson there you would want to be in a free motion. What does that mean?

R. I do not know, what did I say?

S. You spoke above the level of the animate that they have no desire, independent motion of their own. What does it mean?

R. Having free motion means that the more we advance, the more we see that we are limited. On the other hand, we can rise above this limit, and we can perform more actions of bestowal. So, it turns out that from the perspective of the will to receive, we are canceling it, we are annulling it, we do not want to use it. From the perspective of the will to bestow, we can bestow, so we do. This is what we have, meaning this is how we come out of our prison cell.

25. S. (01:35:09) It turns out that nature is leading gradually to separation from the still, vegetative, animate, to the speaking which is the most separate. So, it is like a mistake in the system that we break the existing order, that instead we need to connect on the degree of the speaking? In what is it different from the degree of the point the heart which is also composed of elements like everything in the world? In what is it different, such they can break the ordinary order?

R. He has an additional record from the shattering of the vessels that used to be connected once. Out of these broken pieces he feels the existence of the Creator, that's what draws him. That is why he is willing to do anything in order to attain the Creator within the broken vessels.

S. If we have the Reshimo - the record - more than other people?

R. No. Everyone has Reshimot, everyone has records. Is it revealed or not that everyone has it.

S. Meaning, people who have a point in the heart it is more revealed in them, the record? This, that we are already there, we don’t break anything, there is no secret here?

R. That is correct. We are in and we never came out of the only corrected state. However, this is concealed from us so we can develop, attain and feel where we really are.

S. Meaning, of the vegetative and animate I am composed of the same elements?

R. It is only with respect to our attainment. We are seemingly in different states, but actually the upper light fills the entire reality.

S. If we are composed of small particles that even scientists can’t identify, all sorts of molecules, and I am composed of them, only the Creator determines their form if it is an animate, vegetative, speaking, and He gave me my form?

R. Your personal form and the form of the ten, and in general, everything is determined by the first point of development, and the final point of development, and where you are in the complete vessel and in the broken vessel. This data establishes our destiny and fate in every moment.

S. I see you myself as animate, like a stone. Every lesson you are trying to push us to the next degree, which ultimately gives me this form that I feel all the friends as myself.

R. That is when we work together. Out of our will to receive trying to, each one tries to rise above and to do something. By that, we awaken everyone. Then, it turns out that we are changing each and every one, but we do it all of us being under the upper light. It bestows and we all start like particles in some suspension in some fluid, to run around, to fly around. That is how we do it.

26. S. (01:39:55) For a long time we worked in states of ‘’There is none else beside Him.’’ Today, we are all the time talking about working against the Creator. How to somehow determine a certain point?

R. With these two points of ‘’There is none else besides Him,’’ and ‘’If I am not for me, who is for me?’’ You have to connect these two together with your adhesion to the Creator. Then, there will be no contradiction. ‘’If I am not for me, who is for me?’’ and ‘’There is none else besides Him,’’ it is either the Creator who exists or I exist. We can’t coexist. Only in the case that we are in adhesion, that is what we have to come to. Think about it, it is not a problem. This question is nice, and it leads us to the purpose, the goal of correction.

27. S. (01:41:26) Is it correct to understand, according to the article, that the speaking is the highest degree of both the sensation of others and the sensation of self?

R. He has the opportunity to develop in degrees of the vegetative, animate, and speaking. In the basis, which is the still degree, he can receive all the desire of the Creator. In the other degrees he will get the intention in order to bestow. There is no difference between the speaking level. That the still level and the other degrees, the only difference is the way they communicate with each other and with the Creator. So, it turns out that our whole work is only to raise the still level, Behina Dalet - the 4th degree - to the degree of Keter [crown].

S. What does it mean against the host?

R. It is against the will to receive that the Creator created. We work against it, we want to perform our restriction on it, we want to use it in the opposite way than we got to begin with. This means that we go against.

S. So, it is to the extent of the opposite use of the original desire?

R. Yes. This is the meaning of ‘’My sons have defeated me.’’

S. So, this is also what grows between vegetative, animate, and speaking?

R. Every time. Every time we are the opposite of the Creator. That is why it is difficult for us. Because to begin with He created the will to receive. What we need to do is to really go against it, and that is how it is written also, ‘’I have created the evil inclination,’’ and they don’t agree to that and they’ll go against me. By that He has joy, He has pleasure, specifically by us overcoming his nature, the nature He created.

S. It is also what you told the friends before, to connect ‘’There is none else besides Him,’’ and there is none else besides me?

R. Yes. Yes, that is what we do.

S. This we can make the ten into one, is the same thing?

R. Yes. Everywhere what we need to do is only to rise above the will to receive, and then our actions are correct.

28. S. (01:44:24) We learn every day that a person is a hundred percent dependent on his society, that is his free choice to choose the society. Here, he writes that the animate is not enslaved to his society, not the speaking either. I don't understand this.

R. Animate, it is not that it is not enslaved, it has the strength. We have to understand, the vegetative lives out of the still. It is completely connected to the still and depends on it. The still doesn't depend on the vegetative, but the opposite is true. Then, everyone, as it develops, is connected to the previous degree more than before. Suppose the animate level depends on the vegetative, for sure, depends on the still level, for sure, of course, but it is not so much felt. What you do feel is the connection between the degrees. The speaking level even though it is, as it is written, it is involved in everything ‘’ve al kol‘’ meaning, His hand is in all. That is how it comes from the still.

S. It is not clear because he writes clearly the animate is not enslaved to its environment. Then, we learn that we are every day, right, a hundred percent on the society?

R. No. You are building a new environment, but it is not humanity. It is not humanity here.

S. The society I chose I am dependent. So, here he is talking only about the general society?

R. Yes.

29. S. (01:49:54) It is written, regarding the quality of the speaking of which he's not like the rest of the environment in the vegetative, he doesn't depend on the society. In what is it not dependent on the society? What society?

R. He is Incorporated in all the desires and all the created beings, and along with that he may be above them. Meaning, he is incorporated, he includes them all together, on the one hand. On the other hand, he rises above them. Meaning, he also uses them in order to rise. He also uses them in order to draw them before for him. That is the degree of the speaking level.

30. S. (01:50:55) It is written about the animate that the nature of the host is imprinted in the created beings. Where can we identify this, recognize this?

R. It is in the created beings in the form of the will to receive.

31. S. (01:51:15) Is it correct that all of humanity has to now reach the degree of the vegetative because we don't feel the connection between us?

R. Of course, we don’t yet feel. Man is not in this vegetative degree. Also the still level, he does feel humanity. Meaning, he does not recognize it, doesn't attain where it is. He doesn't attain that it is in the will to receive. This will to receive works on it in a decisive way, that there is nothing in each and every one besides the ego. Only in the ego do we, all in all, between us are in some collisions, and no more. We are like a big vessel that has balls made of plastic or glass, it does not matter, like marbles, and in this vessel, no one is incorporated in the other. That is how we all live, that is the meaning of the form of life. The Creator is holding us till we grow wiser, until we stop thinking only about our body, we can start thinking about the soul, as well.

32. S. (01:52:58) Regarding the speaking, what is needed in order to feel the others? Do I need to feel their joy and sorrow?

R. This means to feel the others, that both the pleasures and the torments that they have I feel, and I want to incorporate in them, and I want to bring them not to feeling the good things but to bring them to the purpose. That is the difference. If we would be thinking only about our good feeling, then I have to leave them without development because if you add, there is a verse, ‘’adding knowledge, adds pain,’’ I would not develop any addition in them from the will to receive or anything. What we need to think about is the opposite, the purpose, and to bring everyone to the purpose. Even though on the way out of the lack of choice, we will feel all kinds of levels, stages of problems, but we have to explain how to go through them together with a minimal term. That is what we have to do. Our advancement is specifically when we understand that because we have no choice, we have to let go of our ego, and this is how we advance. Otherwise, without letting go of the ego, I can’t rise to the next degree. That pain that we will feel rising above our ego, the same pain will not give me the opportunity to advance. That is why the whole thing is about the importance of the goal by which we can bring ourselves to a state that we are ready for the pain. But if we don't, we go through a worse way, the path of suffering without any justification why we suffer.

33. S. (01:55:42) Can we reach the purpose of creation without any torments?

R. The purpose of creation we can reach without suffering by connection between us. As each one helps his friend, that we light up, that we will warm up each and every one, that salvation is in the connection between us. Then, in principle, we don’t have to feel any problems, any suffering.

34. S. (01:56:14) How do I examine by whose desires do I work, the friends or mine?

R. We are always operated according to the desires of others. There's nothing in me that is mine because that is the foundation like we learned now, still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. I come from the animate, just the raw will to receive, that I have nothing in it from myself, just my desire to enjoy with no form. All the forms I receive from my environment, so we need as much as we can to advance to a better environment that we form within the tens as much and as we can connect between us more according to the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Each time we form ourselves in states that are closer and closer to the Creator and that is how we progress

S. I always work according to the desire of others?

R. Yes, of the others. Baal HaSulam and Rabash write that one who chooses the better environment he advances as such, and he has no opportunity to influence himself rather through the environment that is more advanced.

S. How do I examine if I'm really successful and not falling back to myself every time?

R. By this you connect through the environment. There is no other choice, only through this way. Either connection or death.

S. What determines the speed of the transition from one degree to the next?

R. Through the environment. As much as I connect to the friends, as much as I awake the friends more to the appeal to the plea to the Creator.

35. S. (01:58:56) The strength to be vegetative and act beyond the nature that was given to us, depends upon whom?

R. All the forces come from the Creator but nonetheless they pass through people, through human beings.

36. S. (01:59:20) Can you please give a concrete example of each of the different states?

R. An example of the states, still, vegetative, animate, and speaking?

S. Yes.

R. A person that operates only according to his will to receive in a form that he has no matter here. We are talking about a person here, not animals or vegetative, so a person who lives according to everyone and goes according to the desires that awaken in him from the upper force, he is the degree of animate. There is nothing in him that is contradictory to what the Creator created in him and from the environment and so he is operated both by himself and by the environment. He is entirely in the control of the Creator, the upper force, he just flow through it without opposition. Whether or not he is satisfied or not, is not important, we are talking only about how the forces operate on him. The degree of the vegetative that already in a bit he wants to understand, to see, to obtain, to perform actions that are above his will to receive, meaning that he understands that he must ascend, he must rise. The difference between animate and vegetative is a huge gap, a huge distance, and that is what we want to do, to rise to the degree of the vegetative. This means that we of our own forces will obligate ourselves to grow from the ground upwards, and this is actually all that is given to us. That is the vegetative, to rise above the Tzimtzum, the restriction, and begin to perform actions in which I rise above my will to receive , that is the degree of the vegetative. The degree of the animate is that I already begin to act on the environment in a form that I am digesting the environment such that I am in it, developing in it, similarly already to the Creator in some way, and thus I am at the degree of the animate. In the degree of the speaking, I am truly beginning to work with the vessels I have acquired in the degrees of the still, vegetative, and animate, that I am working against the Creator, I want to build of myself the same of bestowal like the Creator in every possible way. This is how I advance, I feel the others, I use the others, for my goal to bring all of them, meaning all the others, all the people of the world to that same degree of speaking, that is my work and that is what I want that will happen as much as I understand. These are the actions we need to do.

37. S. (02:03:35) If I don't need to agree with the Creator, as in ‘my sons have defeated me’, then how can we combine this with being good children by agreeing with the Creator?

R. I don't agree with the Creator in the egoistic nature He created in me but I do agree with the nature of the Creator, that I want to acquire His nature.

38. S. (02:04:07) It is written that the Creator created for Him. What does that mean if He is the one that bestows?

R. Yes, but if the created being respects the nature of the bestower, in this he is showing that he appreciates the Creator and raising him to the degree above all.

39. S. (02:04:40) For the spiritual advancement of the ten, is it important to scrutinize what stage of development of the desire I am in or is the general direction of it enough?

R. We cannot know what stage we're in, not precisely what stage. At no point can a person know in their life where he is because for that we would have to know what is before, and what is after, and to be connected with the environment. There are a lot of elements that compose his state in the general vessel, so that is the actual question here, where am I. In what relation towards my corrected state, that I need to be at the end of correction, am I now in Let’s say I am at degree 20 out of 125 degrees, so a person cannot know this, but he can always measure himself as to where he is toward the environment. How much he and all of his forces are incorporated in the environment, in the society, and how much is annulled before it, except that society as the vessel that he has to aid, to fill it, and towards this he can always measure himself.

40. S. (02: 06:08) Should we come out of our feeling and if we do how can we feel that we are outside of where is the examination point

R. That I rise in restriction, screen and reflected light above my will to receive restriction and then I'm still making actions of bestowal then I am above my desire.

S. Where is my examination point?

R. From my actions that I do. Just that we need to reach such actions, restriction, screen, reflected light?

41. S (02:06:07 ) It is written about the animate level that he has no feeling or care for others. Why do we say that animate doesn't feel the others? We see in nature examples of self-sacrifice?

R. In animate and in still are not in the cessation of others. He cannot feel the others because he still hasn't reached the degree of speaking. In the degree of the speaking with see, what does Baal HaSulam say the speaking a has virtues 1) He acts against the will of the landlord. That if we don't do actions against our desire to receive with the intention to receive then we are still not is in the degree of the speaking. This is one of the conditions. 2) Second condition, to be in mutual connection with all of the environment and the 3) the third, one has to feel one and two, to feel the others, to such an extent it's as if he feels himself and he can't feel the difference. All that we attain is in sensation. We feel no difference between me and all of humanity. All of humanity is one person and that is me. That is how each person needs to attain.

43. S (02:09:54 ) Can you explain what the lust is that we talk about?

R. The entire will to receive that we feel that controls us in a certain time we can say that it is lost. It can be food ,sex, family, money, knowledge, doesn't matter what, if this desire controls a person, you can call it lust.

44. S. (02:10 :40) All these qualities, how does that relate to us?

R. Yes. These 4 personality types, belong to the 4 developments of the will to receive. We won't get into this now because it's a psychological matter. But everything in nature is separated into these of the will to receive.

45. S. (02:1:27) Once we develop and reach the speaking level can we fall back to the still level? If we can, what is the benefit in that?

R. In each and every degree we develop in the still, vegetable, animate and speaking in that same degree. We will rise to the next degree and we will develop in the still, vegetable, animate and speaking again, and onward and onward. Now, according to the program of creation, we are raising only ourselves, it could be there along the way there could be all sorts of unpleasant events as Baal HaSulam writes. The World War and all sorts of problems and it is written much about it in the prophets but before us only it is an ascent to the end of correction.

46. S. (02:12:34) if the speaking level doesn't depend on others than what is the free choice there?

R. The degree of the environment is that I'm not directly activated. I don't take into account what is before me, rather my consideration with the group, which could be a few million or billions of people. My consideration is of the group that is advancing to recognize the Creator, equalize the form with him, from this I am impressed and they're all the rest of humanity. I do not take this into account. Only what I need to advance them to corrections.

47. S. (02:13:27) Are the good relations in the ten, are they not the goal of creation or rather the purpose inside them is?

R. The actions themselves are not as important as the intention. Everything is clarified according to the intention. It could be that we get opportunities for simple actions or very specific ones but we need to direct ourselves mainly for intention with the intention to bestow some connection between us and then in connection with the Creator. That's the intention and that the intensity we will be able to perform it, that the Creator will determine that already.

48. S. (02:14:40) Agreements and disagreements with the Creator are they expressions of freedom of choice?

R. We can be confused but let's say, yes. It is just the beginning let's say it is later it will change

49. S. (02:15:14) how to relate directly to the torments of others if I feel them as myself, it is a very difficult and hard process?

R. Yes, but there is no choice. We are the ones who cause it. It is like with kids you tell him don't do it and he still does it anyway. It's a problem. All right, I do not know what to tell you. It's a problem we need to in any case to understand that everything is solved in the tendency to connection. It is the process and the action that is surely the correct one.

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Part 2

Morning Lesson December 15, 2021, Transcription

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

Reading excerpt #15 from Love of the Creator (04:00 - 01:56)

1. S (02:26) He says that even if he engages in Torah and Mitzvot, he does not work for the Creator? What does it mean?

R. Do you want me to scrutinize now?

S. No, not to scrutinize, but he continues that what he is lacking is love of others. What is love of others?

R. I can't explain to you what love is. It's impossible to explain what love is or isn't. If it exists or not. you can come to court and say I love him or I don't love him. What is the judge going to say? The judge is going to say I do not know what you mean by I love. How can I measure these things? Maybe you should give some monetary amount, some measure of suffering but just like that no one can understand, why? What you're talking about is no measure in this world no wait in this world

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