Morning Lesson April 19, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: The war against Amalek. We exist in a reality that is constantly developing from the will to receive which is existence from absence, truly from zero, from absence and this will receive is constantly being revealed towards itself more and more throughout history in the forms of still, from the big bang, and even before that. Whatever else we will discover that there were other periods, meaning stages of development. Until the will to receive becomes more and more revealed on the levels of the vegetative and the animate and speaking, it is revealed on the level of speaking human in such a way that if the will to receive would not reveal itself as the opposite of something, then we would not be able to distinguish where we are. Therefore, something and its opposite is actually everything that we can attain and feel for the created being where he is and how he exists, with respect to what does he exist. This is why after a person discovers for himself that he exists in this egoistic form, in a certain reality that is called this world, then after that begins a stage that is called the recognition of evil. And then one begins to attain how much his desire is to his detriment. it lets him and it does not allow him to see the true reality because he sees everything only through his egoistic desire. Here a person who begins to develop, who does not agree with this limited life and usually he wants to know what the essence of life is the purpose of life, the source of life. That is, to get to know the upper source so he comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah and here he is taught who he is, what is his nature. That his nature is, in particular, against the nature of the Creator, and it is all in order for him to be able to discover who he is, that he is opposite the Creator, and from that later on reach the Creator who is opposite him.
This force that is called man's ego, man's will to receive is also called Amalek from the acronym Al Menat L’Kabel (in order to receive) and it is revealed in a person in states where the person is already capable of recognizing, understanding who he is and what he is, what is this desire that is inside of him. Because these desires work only for its own benefit and this desire first and foremost exists within a person and the person identifies with it, he thinks that the desire and him are the same thing. To the extent that one develops more and more out of the study, and the preparation in the group, then one begins to distinguish between his will to receive and himself. That it's not the same thing, that upon the “I”, the self, which is already the point in the heart within the person, over that the will to receive in order to receive clothes and then the person identifies with his egoistic will to receive. Until he begins to see that it's not the same thing but rather that the will to receive is a separate thing and man's self, the point in the heart, is a separate thing.
Then the person begins more and more to distinguish between these two discernments, so much so that he begins to have a struggle. From the point in the heart to this clothing over the heart clothing, the egoistic clothes and this collision we call it the war against Amalek. This is a war that the consequences of it we see all over the world. Everyone is in all kinds of degrees of the will to receive, and we are all in collision with each other. What the Creator did deliberately between us in the shattering of the Kli of Adam HaRishon. All these vessels that started colliding with each other, they will start to understand that certainly the most important thing is to take advantage of the situation and to defeat others. I will be king, I will rule, this is what the personal Amalek tells each person.
We have to study it and to understand how we can rise above it. This is why all of our work after we learn a little bit of the wisdom of Kabbalah and we start to discover within us the struggle between the two forces and the inclination towards the Creator and the inclination towards our ego and we can see how opposite they are. We read about it really in all the text of Kabbalah talk about it. Then we realized that our whole work is called the war against Amalek and in that war of course we cannot win but rather it is the Creator. That is why it is called the war of the Creator with Amalek from one generation to the next and the person just has to be in the middle and try to make it so that these two forces will collide so that he will a scrutiny as the advantage of light out of darkness. This is how he will advance with the correct spiritual advancement because it is impossible to discover the Creator unless it is Amalek that exists within man's heart.
Excerpt 9 (09:08 -11:30) x 2
2. S. (11:37) We said that we can't defeat Amalek of ourselves without the Creator's help. What does it mean?
R. We need to try as much as we are incapable of standing against our ego if we truly want to stand against it then to be in the force of bestowal. We immediately discover we have no forces of bestowal and no desire for it even but rather only some inner drive. Maybe for those who have a point in the heart and they try to develop that point in the heart and they see that they are incapable of it doesn't really become stronger but rather to the contrary the more a person advances he may feel more and more how weak he is. Rabash would say that now you also know that you are a rag. Meaning the more that we advance the more weakness we discover why? Because this is what the Creator did on purpose in order for us to need him more and more because we have no forces. We are in the middle; we are like the expert point. We don't have the will to receive which is ours and not the will to bestow which is ours neither one. The will to receive this is Amalek, in order to receive the force that is opposite the creator, who is the force of bestowal.
Neither the force of bestowal nor the force of reception is our forces. This is what this creator says, he himself is the force of bestowal, and he says, I created the evil inclination and I created for it the spice. We discover that we can't do anything not from the good side nor the bad side, rather these states control us. So, if so, how can we determine to some extent our development the pace of our development? We scrutinize it and we see that the pace of development, this is what we have to change and we can change it and this is through our efforts in the ten that's on the one hand. On the other hand, besides the pace of development we cannot do anything, it is all through the scrutiny within the connection between us. These two forces, the Creator and Amalek in order to receive and in order to bestow the two of them work on us and we are in the middle.
This is why the war against Amalek is not quite a war against Amalek, it's really the Creator's war against Amalek. The Creator fights with him, he awakens him deliberately in order to reveal and show himself, then we will get to know this phenomenon so we can see one on top of the other. This is why we must relate to our will to receive as an angel, or a messenger. It comes from the side of the Creator and if we relate to it in such a way then we already are above it. We are already in the Creator's place that he uses the bad force one time the good force, another time in order to give us all kinds of such discernments that are opposite to one another in order for us to become experts, knowledgeable about all of the qualities of our nature.
S. On the one hand I have the will to receive on the other my will to bestow both are not mine. I am a rag in between. How do I call the Creator to fight the war now?
R. What do you have?
S. Nothing that's what I'm saying.
R. There's no such thing as you don't have anything, that's not true. This is the problem that you think you don't have any things, you have a method, which is called the Torah and you have the teacher. You have something that you can study and you have friends with whom together you can apply the study. Don't say you have nothing.
S. Okay so using all the means that we have the teacher, the Torah, the 10. How do we call the Creator and how do we invoke this acting force to really fight?
R. This is what we study all the time. If you implement it during the day, that's fine. But if you only live from one lesson to the next and in the middle of you disconnect from the realization and the implementation from the morning lesson of course you will not advance. Just like now we are studying right now we're studying the war against Amalek. How we enter a fight of the Creator against right the force of bestowal and the force of reception. There standing one against the other, how do we or what can we do between us or between them? How can we arrange these forces so that they will influence us in such a way that we will advance towards the Creator? This is actually our work.
S. During the day I try the friends try we try working fighting but I simply want to understand what is it that the force of the Creator comes fights and we defeat Amalek?
R. The force of the Creator is revealed and if he fights and wins on the condition that you want it to happen this way. That you want to discover the force of bestowal and then the Creator becomes revealed. That you want to discover the force of reception, then Amalek is revealed and you are in the middle. You actually determine this entire process of this war and a person should feel to what extent two forces are operating within him.
S. That we defeated means that we simply get an opportunity to bestow?
R. That if you win to the same extent that you are winning, you are subjugating your will to receive and it enters the will to bestow then it will be to receive in order to bestow.
3. S. (19:39) Why is this war long?
R. The war is long because it starts from the beginning of the spiritual process that if a person goes through and to the Gmar Tikkun, end of his correction until the end of correction because it cannot be that this whole process which is actually the revelation of the Creator to the created being who exists in this world. The revelation of the Creator to the created being, this process can exist and take place only by the evil inclinations the Creator can be revealed opposite more and more and therefore without Amalek, it is impossible to advance this is why is revelation is actually as it says from generation to generation from degree to degree.
4. S. (20:49) You said that Amalek is a force that exists on all levels of the desire. I think that in life we are acquainted with this force but actually it's a force coming from the Creator that we would gradually have to reveal. What are the questions that Amalek gives a person, we hear that Pharaoh asks a person how can we get to Amalek through his questions?
R. All of the disturbances against connection against turning to the Creator they are all Amalek however there are such that are small, these forces, and we cannot quite discern them but later on, if I lock myself on the Creator then any deviation serving me from aiming myself only towards the Creator, I can already say it's Amalek.
5. S. (22:31) It says what we just read that it's possible to complete the evil inclination only by strengthening our spirit and then a person wins the war we're on and on one hand he becomes despaired, on the other hand he grows stronger where he starts everything new. How do you combine these two qualities to despair and become stronger on the other hand?
R. We have to work on it there's nothing you can do about it we have to work in the 10 in the group and as they write from where did they write all these articles, our teachers because they participated in the war with the Creator on one side and Amalek on the other side, the work to receive the works of the Keter and Malchut, it doesn't matter how they discovered these things and out of that they write to us what are the relations between all of these forces on all of the degrees from here to the end of correction and we have to hurry up and discover them.
6. S. (24:01) If I understand correctly winning the war of Amalek. In order to win the war, we need correct prayer to raise the right prayer to the Creator and this comes through the correct work in the 10. If we are working in the 10, how can we really know if we have the right intention that we are doing the right work in order for us to win this war?
R. If you depict to yourself, that you are standing in front of the Creator and the thing that stands in your way to discover the Creator. Which is the force of bestowal, force of love, force of connection and not what you depict Him in an egoistic way that you might imagine. On the contrary, that you stabilize Him correctly in front of you as the force of bestowal, love and connection and what stops you from advancing towards these forces is called Amalek that is it. You need to look for ways to deal with Amalek, you will discover that you cannot fight it because it has control on you to start with, the evil inclination is the bad in a person from his youth, and all that you have left to fight it is prayer. And the Creator doesn't need more than that because you activate Him according to your request. And if you don't activate Him then He won't take any action. The Creator will increase more and more the force of Amalek in you, in order to show you how much you are losing, until you will get smarter and understand that you need the help of the Creator otherwise you are lost.
7. S. (26:10) How can we help a friend if he has a huge rejection, he cannot fight it? What is the connection between pride and Amalek in our work?
R. These are all the forces between that we have to discover and the most important for us is to realize that until we discover the prayer correctly to the Creator then we do not all levels from the smallest to the greatest.
8. S. (28:05) How will we see the avail of this evil inclination with the past and how can we move forward without (Rav continues)
R. We need to think not about Amalek but about the Creator, how much we are constantly yearning for him to reach adhesion, connection, to resemble him and Amalek, well through our efforts towards the good he will also grow his bad in order for us to have two balanced forces. As it said the Lord has made one opposite the other. This is how we will advance we only need to think about the good force of bestowal and connection and when the bad force will grow opposite, we have to understand it and constantly they understand this thing, that one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater this is how it needs to be in order for us to have a balanced approach for the revelation of the Creator on top of Amalek.
9. S. (29:29) How important is it in every given moment to correctly define who is putting these obstacles before us Pharaoh or Amalek?
R. It's all the will to receive that the Creator created opposite himself and there are many names for it as we read already that there are many names to the evil inclination. Amalek is simply, the highest degree of the evil inclination, that we read before all kinds of names we don't yet know them and this is according to the names of the Sefirot but this is not important for us. What is important for us only to see that these things have to be revealed one opposite the other, if we discover the evil inclination in the manner opposite us, we cannot discover the good inclination.
10. S. (30:48) How in the group can we come to thank Amalek that he is raising us to the Creator through his opposition?
R. We need to relate to the forces of nature not with hatred but with love and realize that the all the forces are aiming us through the Creator are meant to bring us to the Creator and this is why we have to use all of them as it says a person should bless over the evil inclination as well as the good inclination as it says, come in peace the angels of peace, ministers of the upper one. That by these two forces of person enters the end of correction and connection with the Creator it's not from our side but from the side of the general system there is no difference between the force of the Creator and the opposite force, the created being, they lead us to the end of correction. Therefore, in our eyes we shouldn't think that one is better than the other. Both of them are forces that develop us. one should be less over the bad as well as over the good.
11. S. (32:39) In medicine we say that understanding or revealing the problem is 80% of the solution, does the same principle apply in the work with Amalek?
R. Even more because besides locating, detecting what it is that we need to do, what we have to do, the Creator does the rest and we turn to him and ask.
S. For example I feel that the Creator he is tripping me, I see that it is Amalek but I feel that it's something I can overcome but every time I try to, I can't and it is hard to come to the understanding?
R. I suggest that you will be more connected with the friends then you will find the right way to connect with the Creator through Amalek and see that Amalek is actually what brings you out of Egypt, brings you out of the desert. He specifically by fighting with you he awakens in you such forces that obligate you to hurry up in the spiritual work.
12. S. (34:08) What is the right demand to the Creator from the 10 in order to defeat Amalek?
R. Yes, this is the right demand in general, any appeal to the Creator is a right one even egoistically because bit by bit a person starts to understand how to correctly.
13. S. (34:55) Yesterday you said that once a person feels connection with the friends, he feels that his entire life turns into a shell, that's the first acquaintance with Amalek?
R. Amalek becomes clearer to us not immediately and not in the time we are in Egypt but when we have already come out of Egypt, we are not truly in order to receive, rather we have a little bit some forces, some inclination in order to bestow. To that extent we can already discern where here is the quality of Amalek. It is hidden deeper within us and he starts to show himself Amalek after a person rises above his ego a little bit and then that quality called Amalek pulls in back into his ego.
14. S. (36:23) You told the friend to connect to the Creator through Amalek. How do you do it correctly?
R. We will study the other excerpt soon and you will see, it's a good question but we will try to study it through the excerpt.
Excerpt 10 (37:00 - 39:26) x2
15. S. How do we manage to enter this work as a reward?
R. These are actions in which you can show how much you are loving, how much you are yearning, how much you appreciate the Creator spirituality. What does it mean in a war? For example, lets you say when you meet a girl and you want to show her how much you are a man, mighty strong and also, it's the same thing here. These are causes for love that you need to show how much your inclination towards what you love is a very important one and how you can show the importance upon the fact that there is an opposite force which is against this love. Then you can perform actions by which the love grows stronger, how can we make the Creator greater if not for Amalek specifically out of our spiritual work where we elevate ourselves through 125 degrees until the end of correction. It is all because of Amalek I would say even in the merits of Amalek that he is giving us a burdening of the heart and upon this burdening each time we rise higher and higher and higher. This should be clear to us just like even in our egoistic world we have such examples.
16. S. (41:51) What does it mean that man strengthened himself in prayer and I cry to the Creator?
R. That by a person realize the two forces, not in just one force and it's not just his force or rather he himself is neutral and he exists between two forces, the positive and the negative and the Creator in such a way wants to develop him so that man will ultimately be incorporated with the positive force and the negative force however the positive force will rule over the negative force this is called that love will cover all crimes. This is how I am and we'll build himself out of being a zero on his own just a point but it takes he takes the desires to receive from Amalek and the desire to bestow from the Creator and this way he positions them one upon the other and therefore it always has to be that the side of the Creator will determine, it will be the higher one the more important one this is man's choice.
17. S. (43:32) Why does he compare the prayer to war?
R. All of our work because it is against the will to receive rules us, it is a war the will to receive wants to rule, we are aware of it, we realize it.
18. S. (44:22) It says that the exile intensifies, what does it mean?
R. To the extent that we advance, disconnection from the Creator from the Creator which is called exile from the Creator it is becoming more and more difficult this greater and greater burdening of the heart. This is called one who is greater than his friend is inclination is greater however as we advance all the way from here to the end of correction even though there's greater concealment each time, we also know how to overcome this concealment through the force of bestowal, the force of Bina, so that will not separate us from the Creator. It will not separate, will not hinder us because we overcome reception with bestowal, it's like there is a will to receive there is a screen restriction in a screen even a greater one the greater of the will to receive is nevertheless above it we build our connection with the Creator.
19. S. (45:52) Let's say that I am sitting in a doing a haircut and the guy is doing the haircut for me he is above me I cannot devote myself to him without checking out he's going to do it I don't manage to disconnect from this criticism what kind of a haircut is he giving me what should I do in that situation?
R. I think that your problem is that you are not connected enough to the friends and you're not getting examples from them because if you will see what they are doing then you will want to shut your eyes and put your hands yourself in the hands of the Upper.
20. S. (47:03) Where in the 10 is this boundary?
R. Amalek is the line that divides the entire world into two, the Creator and the Amalek is in the center of man's heart and to the measure to which man clears his heart for the Creator or for Amalek.
21. S. (47:40) We don't cause ourselves despair from this work, why are we not allowed to cause despair in the work because the source of the prayer is from despair and we raise it a prayer to the 10 so what does it mean that we don't cause ourselves to despair from the work?
R. We are dealing with each and every situation we are engaged in it, but despair of the work is the worst possible state than a person feels that he is powerless. that his hands simply fall and there is nothing he can do. That's why that's the worst state it is better to be against, crossed in dispute with the Creator but not despair. Even though it is impossible to go through the entire path without despair because in despair a person sees and discovers how helpless he is on both sides, the good and the bad side, though the Creator disconnection from bestowal, from the influence of the light and the influence of darkness. Then when a person is disconnected from both of these influences then he has nothing to rely on. It is the worst possible state but here, there is the group that can only already take a person to put him on a stretcher, strengthen him up to the point where he comes back to life.
S. This despair is when we, why do we still have despair when we escape Egypt?
R. This despair will be there until the end of corrections and against that we have to all the time strengthen our connection, draw the light of Hassadim, Mercy, in mutual bestowal where we help each other in this is the only way we will be able to advance. If you're not thinking about advancing through connection and mutual support then you will not advance.
22. S. (50:40) We learn that Amalek, the Creator, what gives us the direction to the Creator before we come out of Egypt?
R. Before we came out of Egypt, we had no Amalek. We are under the rule of Pharaoh. Pharaoh is not Amalek prior to that, doesn't seem opposed, an enemy wanting to destroy Pharaoh, no. He says you were and I'll give you everything you need me and I need you. Let's make some business together. Whereas Amalek doesn't come in order to kill when does that come, when a person is in the direction of the end of correction, is still far from it, just came out of Egypt, but he already has a line and he follows it. Then comes Amalek and says I will not allow you to advance, Pharaoh isn't like that, he says with your life see everything is open the land of Egypt, it is open to you go ahead. It's only after the exodus from Egypt?
S. What gives us the direction to the Creator inside Egypt?
R. In general we don't want him to be in order to receive and this is what we discern in Egypt, be more engaged in it you'll have more words, more discernment the main thing is to all the time scrutinize our attitude our relationship and the Creator on each and every stage what is changing in the relations between us and between us and the Creator.
23. S. (53:24) The ego has different degrees Pharaoh, Amalek do we use different approaches on each degree or do we always use the same approach in order to rise above them?
R. The approaches to turn to the 10 to rise above the ego in prayer, in prayer, this is what we forget. We want to make some kind of effort, some kind of our own, something by ourselves, all the efforts are only towards prayer. Don't miss out on this otherwise you can revolve around it for years over years in order to come to a complete and correct form of things. You just have to strengthen yourself in prayer and by it to reach a state where everything is and will be arranged by the Creator as a result of your prayer.
24. S. (54:54) How can we build a prayer in the tent in order to defeat Amalek especially in order to facilitate our spiritual state, our corporeal states sorry?
R. If we will be concerned with our spiritual development then certainly our corporeal processes will change as well, if we will be concerned with spirituality then our corporeality will invert into worse and worse states in order to awaken us to search for the reason for the bad situation. The quicker we understand that in connection and consent and a good attitude towards each other we can benefit our situation then if we try to correctly form, shape our connection, this way then we will be saved from the evil forces.
25. S. (56:50) Will the Amalek grow as we progress in the study?
R. Amalek will always come against the revelation of the Creator and the more the Creator grows the more Amalek grows, as it says anyone greater than a friend his desires are greater than his. That's how it's supposed to be one opposite the other otherwise you won't be able to discover the Creator. If the forces opposite him will be small because they have to be as great as the Creator.
26. S. (57:42) He tells us here that it's better to be in a state of pressure in the argument conflict but not separation. But it says that there is no better day in man's world when he is despaired of his own forces so how can we cope with despair and work with Amalek?
R. You confused a few verses and excerpts and you're connecting them without any reason every time we have to scrutinize what is good and in order to reach the end of correction in relation to that and through this scrutiny we advance. Also, from that we understand that with that bad forces, the good forces they are equally important and it is impossible to achieve anything unless by love covers all crimes so the crimes after corresponding to love and vice-versa to be one way and the other. We cannot build a new world. We have to understand how it is built and from that to come to correction. So sometimes, it's night and sometimes it is day and this is how we advance right left right left right. Therefore, we have to simply know how to act in both of these states but they come day after day night after night and this is how it's going to be and you don't have to wait for a day that is entirely day to come. At the end of correction there will be a day that's entirely day that means darkness and as light the darkness will be like day because of our corrections that there will be no darkness that we discover everything in concealment. That the concealment will be 100% but we will discover a 100% correction and that as if were in day, that's how it works.
27. S. (01:00:34) What is the difference between concealment and the rule of the evil inclination?
R. Concealment is a feeling and the rule of the evil inclination is determining the state. It is possible that I am under concealment but along with it, I thank and understand that it is concealment and from it I build my future state. Concealment can be an actually very beneficial time for advancement. The Creator didn't create anything just so but each and every state that we go through is necessary.
S. Is the rule of the evil inclination specifically through under concealment?
R. Yes, especially.
28. S. (01:01:45) Can we hasten the time by praying?
R. And only by prayer.
29. S. (01:02:06) If the main weapon is prayer how do I know that my prayer is heard by the Creator and I get answers from him?
R. If you don't know yet it doesn't matter you have to continue in prayer but the prayer has to come along or go along otherwise it is powerless.
30. S. (01:02:41) What does it mean to lock myself on the Creator?
R. That I don't leave him night or day.
31. S. (01:02:55) It says here that one experiences whatever he experiences yet as long this means that when scrutinizing and sharing with each other our experience we reach the prayer that is directed correctly?
R. Yes, correct.
Excerpt 11 (01:06:26 - 01:07:53)
32. R. Still kind of complicated for us. Let's keep on reading well number 12.
Excerpt 12 (01:08:16 - 01:09:04)
33. R. It is not really grasped, as I see. It is good to see that we don't really grasp it. This is already a degree that we feel that we are not grasping these things.
Excerpt 13 (01:09:33 - 01:11:20) twice
34. R. Meaning the entire war we had on Purim, it is also these two forces of connection and separation division. There is a divided nation that can't be together and to this day we see the nation of Israel, they are all dispersed, estranged. Each can find himself in the corner in the world and be there unrelated to others. The ego is built in such a way that we are very far from one another. And through the big problems and troubles that the Creator brings upon them only then, because they have no other way out, they can come closer and stand each other.
35. S. (01:12:29) What is the power of unity and what does it mean that we get it through Mordecai, the righteous?
R. Mordecai, the righteous, means he was found in the connection and Haman was against the connection. These are the two forces we have in nature. Here we see how much this case, the story of Purim, they're playing between the two of them in order to determine our advancement towards the end of correction from this point onwards. What is he saying here? We are reading 13, “. . . when the children of Israel become one bundle Amalek has no control over them.” This is clear that these forces are connected after the shattering of the vessel of Adam HaRishon. Those who connect and the ego is no longer working there, rather it's the opposite, they turn the force of separation into the force of unity and there they discover the force of unity which is the Creator. “Only in Rephidim from the word ‘separation,’ this is why Haman slandered. What did Haman tell the king? “There is one nation scattered and separated. Since their whole power was in unity and now, they are a nation separated. In truth, this is why we couldn't destroy them.” And through the sins, the forces of Amalek awakened and did not let them unite. What was the advice? Go and gather all of the Jews who have to be assembled for them to come together and pray for their soul, for them to understand that connection is their salvation. We're not talking about corporeal death, here, but spiritual degrees, and all of this comes entirely through gathering, assembling. Now the righteous Mordecai joined them and they became connected through him since he had the power of unity.
36. S. (01:15:36) This process of Pharaoh, Amalek, and Haman is a methodical process that repeats every year within each one of us?
R. It is a process that all of us have to go through. Each and every one of us regardless of your sex, nationality, the nation you are a part of, regardless of the part of history you are living in. This is something that happens with every desire to receive that disconnected from the rest of the desires from the shattering of Adam HaRishon. And after that sin, after this destruction of the vessel of Adam HaRishon, all of his parts have to advance that way towards correction.
37. S. (01:16:54) All of the degrees of our paths are described in TES. What is the value of hearing about all of these stories and all of these characters with Egypt and Amalek, Purim?
R. If you will just study TES, you won't understand where it is inside of you, how you are related to this, where are these degrees of Aviut, coarseness, Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalat, inner light, surrounding light, the collision between the Reshimot. You won't understand what it is all about because you're not in that system. However, if you read it as literature then you can at least envision it, somehow psychologically, as something that is related to you. This is how you can somehow begin to come closer, at least to start thinking, are you related to this or not, to what extent. I have not yet seen a person who opens TES instead of all the rest of the books that talk in a more literal way about the corrections, literary way, as if it caught or grabbed him and he felt that he is opening up his soul. We also see from history how Torah is written as a story, how is the Talmud written? The same, as stories. Instead of the upper forces, it takes people, animals, trees, different states of our world, it's called ‘the language of the branches.’ Baal HaSulam explains in the first part of the inner reflections, Histaklut Pnimit of TES that we have no choice, the sages have found a language to convey this wisdom to people who are not in spirituality and also how to pass it on to each and every generation in the form called the language of branches. The Creator, instead of corporeal or spiritual discernments, which are Behinot and so on. But the qualities, the results of these spiritual attributes in a way that we can understand, give us some kind of feeling that we can sense.
S. What we want is an emotional impression from all of the study. We need to have this impression that we need something.
R. From TES you have a stronger impression rather than from the stories?
S. The question is from all of these stories we should be able to somehow reach these emotional states so that when we move to TES, we have the preparation.
R. We have to reach between us such states that we will develop a vessel of perception, understanding in mind and heart, for them to be in order to bestow. Then inside of us, we will also be able to describe all of these actions that are written in the language of TES and the language of Kabbalah.
S. The answer is probably to pray but the question is how do we have a deeper emotional connection to what we are studying now?
R. We're talking about this all of the time. It is only by you trying to implement with the friends and as a result, you will develop your inner vessels of receiving and giving, and correspondingly also spiritual discernment. Our entire problem is that each of us is locked inside himself, not coming out in the direction of the friend, not allowing the friend to enter his heart. We can't understand this language. It is as though we shut our ears and in general all of our senses.
38. S. (01:22:55) What is the meaning of ‘heaviness in the faith’ in the work, and how much do we need this heaviness in order to advance?
R. We need to feel the ‘heaviness in the faith’ in order to better develop this quality. Suppose each and every one of us have a certain degree of faith and if we want to rise above that then we have to feel that we are in a burdening of the heart, under this kind of heaviness that forces us to develop more faith. Faith means the force of bestowal or a person’s willing to bestow, willingness to give.
39. S. (01:24:07) What is this force called the Creator? Is this the energy like some supercomputer?
R. This force is called Creator is a force above everything else, and He, Himself, is divided into two forces, the positive force that we call the Creator and the negative force that we call the evil inclination or Amalek. Man is at the bottom as the neutral part where both of these forces are working on him. We have to choose which forces do we want to act and which forces do we want to be included.
40. S. (01:25:13) What sins are we talking about? What is a “sin?”
R. There's only one sin, the will to receive.
S. This is the only sin there is?
R. What else is there? What is there against the sin? A mitzvah, commandments, to be in the force of bestowal.
S. So, how does this relate to what he said about ‘going to gather all the Jews by assembling I hide the sin?
R. Through connection. There is no other correction besides connection because in connection you cancel the ego existing between people. And then to the measure of the annulment of the ego, when you connect then the Creator can shine in them, to the measures they have canceled their ego and have connected with one another, there you have conditions in which you can shine.
S. When we have congresses, do we hide the sins?
R. Each according to the measure of his participation. Each according to the measure of their participation. There are those who get much strength and spiritual advancement out of it, and there are those who came to have a good time, which is also good.
S. Is there anything else besides gathering in order to remove the sins?
R. That is all there is in reality. Connecting above the sins brings about a degree where there is light against the darkness and then you obtain the light opposite the darkness.
S. Each morning when the ten gathers, is this considered a Congress and it removes the sins?
R. I don't know whether to tell you yes or no because I'm in doubt whether you will know how to use these things correctly.
S. What do you mean?
R. We will continue this another time.
Excerpt 14 (01:28:13 - 01:31:52) twice
41. S. (01:32:26) How can you remain in joy when you have a burdening of the heart if at that moment there's no connection, it’s turned off, the connection with the Creator and you don't feel you can turn to the Creator?
R. The problem is you don't feel that you are gaining anything by it. That the greater the resistance towards connection, to the work, accordingly, you benefit. This is the problem that you don't feel that the reward comes in parallel to the exertion.
S. Sometimes I feel there is a profit in this but it's so deep that you lose your connection.
R. In that case, we have to join society and strengthen ourselves by it. But there is no such thing that we are burdened with certain states by which we cannot gain an advance to gain exertion and advance on the path. Because everything is aimed, directed only towards attaining the final goal. Even in the worst possible situations where we think, that's it, we are retreating, we're going backwards. No, not at all, there is no such thing. We are being raised in Holiness and not lowered, always.
42. S. (01:34:28) How is Amalek of above expressed?
R. By giving you confusions, weakness, all kinds of such things that disturb the connection and your spiritual work, all kinds of things. The main thing is it decreases the greatness of the Creator in your eyes, very simple. You start saying that you have nothing to work for and no one to work with, that you're not on fire, everything has turned down. You had a bonfire in the past and now you don't, someone has poured water on it. The work is the same, it’s simple. It is the connection with people and according to the degree, we try to attain the force of bestowal which is between the friends to the extent you try to be together, the force of bestowal has to be born out of you.
43. S. (01:35:58) Why does the Creator want our prayer?
R. Because a prayer means raising MAN, raising the deficiency according to the extent we are asking, He can give us the forces of correction and fulfillment.
44. S. (01:36:37) Why is the prayer helping not to be impressed by the evil tongue of Amalek above the slander of Amalek?
R. (reading from Excerpt 14) “A person sees that more than a prayer is to pray to the Creator not be impressed by his slander as there is nothing you can do; this is regarded as a person who wants to blot out the Amalek in his heart and his mind.” A person reaches a state where he has no strength and the force of the heart and the mind are above it. And only if he draws them, he can overcome the disturbances of Amalek. Meaning Amalek brings him a negative spiritual degree which seemingly blocks the abundance, it contradicts the greatness of the Creator and accordingly, or opposed to that, a person has to pray especially that the upper force will bring him the recognition of the greatness of the Creator.
S. Why is the prayer to not be impressed by the slander?
R. What he needs is the opposite, he needs to be impressed by the slander. To be happy about Amalek giving him this slander and he can overcome it. How else can he rise? We have to rise to spiritual degree, how will we rise if we don't get the hardening of the heart from above, the slander about the Creator, forces of separation, rejection, and hatred, envy and honor, lust. How will we rise upwards in the spiritual ladder if we don't get any disturbances? As opposed to escaping the evil forces is what forces us to rise in the degrees. Otherwise, what reason should I do it, get a need for it? This is why we should be thankful for the general evil inclination which Amalek is part of. We have to be thankful to it because it helps us to advance. We ourselves are a neutral point, we would never be able to reach it, to look in that direction or to discover it even in the slightest.
S. A person is supposed to blot or erase Amalek from our heart and our minds. What does it mean to blot him out?
R. Amalek works in a way that brings us down, in a way from the spiritual state, that we have to against that, blot it out. Meaning that we don't want to erase it from the world. We just want to erase our impression of it so that it won't affect or cool us down, won't push us away from the Creator. This is why the war by us fighting against it, we become stronger and we advance. It is a very important and positive force. It acts in a negative way but it helps us to advance.
45. S. (01:41:18) Amalek does not let him work for the benefit of the Creator, as a vessel?
R. It is a deficiency, over the deficiency you have to bring the force of the restrictions green and reflected light and then you can work, but who discovers this will to receive which is in the foundation of the spiritual Partzuf, the foundation of the soul, Amalek.
S. We assembled with the ten and there's not always a clarified intention that it's done for the sake of the Creator how do we do this with a restriction screen and reflected light in this work?
R. Start connecting, I don't understand what the problem is, after reading dozens of Articles and speaking for hundreds of hours about these things what is the matter with you?
S. The question is, we are starting to connect, let's say we gather, how to do a spiritual action from a physical action?
R. This has to come from the light that reforms, where will you find the screen in the upper light in the restriction, these degrees it has to be scrutinized by the light. You are not yet connected to this extent so you can discern these discernments between you.
S. What does this mean you're not connected yet?
R. That you don't have the connection between you that can scrutinize all of these subtle spiritual discernments When you are connected to a person, you have a connection like with your friends or maybe your relatives that are different kinds of relations, connections. In spirituality there are different kinds of relations and you can measure these relations, you can check them and examine them, and prove them like in corporeality to a certain extent.
S. We are doing actions everyday like all the friends, connecting on zooms, lessons, when does this force come that gives the screen the reflected lights, the restriction?
R. When you make the right effort for it, make the right effort and pray, along with each and every effort you have to pray to the Creator because if you think you're retaining this on your own. This is a big mistake. Your whole effort should be to end in a prayer.
S. What does that prayer need to be?
R. It should be very simple, we did this in this, and you finish the work. This is the meaning of the Creator will finish the work because we ourselves certainly can do nothing. But when you take him as a partner and put him inside your 10 and you want to work alongside him so that you don't have an alien god, then bit by bit you start discovering that he is in partnership with all of your actions, with all of your prayers and you have to ask him until it is scrutinized out of not feeling it.
S. What does it mean that he participates as a partner in our actions?
R. I can't even tell you. The Creator is everything from beginning to end. The Creator is directing you; he is changing through you. He is always inside as the foundation of the whole process. Because each and every change you wish to perform in your hearts and minds, the Creator is there. The only question is how do you establish him with respect to you? There is something that happens in nature and there is something which is above nature, what happens in nature is that the Creator is changing everything and making everything, all of your actions affect him and he affects them. Another thing is what do you want to happen, how do you imagine things should be. I see in front of me many groups now, each group has a special force holding it, sustaining it, connecting it. Where is this force? It's not between you, I see in front of me, 18 or so groups and this is how we should face them, it is how you accept reality.
S. How can we together with the friends receive reality in such a way that we will really discover the force that sustains the group?
R. We should pray, you're all asking questions that are around the points you should be asking.
S. What is that point?
R. The point is simple, don't worship an alien god, except the Creator in the center of the 10. Work with him and don't come off of that. Constantly demand him, demand of him.
46. S. (01:48:56) It is written that Amalek above and Amalek below what is the difference?
R. Amalek in our world is the corporeal earthly ego, Amalek above is the spiritual ego, the posterior side of the Creator.
S. Amalek of the spiritual world, which is more internal and connected to the thoughts, does this mean that every friend needs to protect and watch over himself to not bring his thoughts of Amalek to the 10?
R. It is a scrutiny of each and every one and all of us together as we have to be concerned about the thought, how do we examine it, increase it, cultivate it in such a way that the thought of the Creator will be above all other thoughts. We don't erase anything we just want to arrange the values of our thoughts, our desires and to work this way all of the time working on our values.
47. S. (01:51:34) In the 10, each of us remains within himself and we're not entering the heart of the others, I feel that at least I don't know how to connect to the thing in how did justify the friend, and on the other hand that we're bringing off our gloves, opening to them to demand the truth, I don't know how to balance those two things?
R. Talk to your friends and ask them how they are successful at that, talk about it.
S. I feel it is an obstacle of our 10.
R. Talk about that as well and later, tell us.
48. S. (01:52:28) I heard that you said, you won't have a foreign God and the Creator is in the center of the 10 and we have to at least work with him, the force that battles, is Amalek and if so how do I battle this?
R. Along with your friends perform, make an attack so that this force won't erupt but rather that you conquer it and by that you raise yourself.
49. S. (01:53:03) What is a 10 that talks with the Creator?
R. They can scrutinize between themselves the force of connection, by the force of connection they can scrutinize the center of the connection between them to turn to the center of the connection between you and to demand all kinds of change. It will affect the center of the connection to them, on their behalf they locate the center and demand from the center where the Creator is, he is seemingly hidden there in the center of the group, perform these actions so that you can help us to be in mutual bestowal, mutual connection.
50. S. (01:53:55) Can I build those powers of faith when I am in a state of despair to reach prayer?
R. Why do you need the force of despair? You should never reach despair. You never want to feel despair, you should reach elevation, good strong forces so you can rise, fly. Don’t yearn for despair as if the more despair I have, the greater my prayer will be. This is not correct. You never need that. This opposes entire creation, the upper force, the Creator. Why do we need to search for an opposite force from it?
S. To reach the power of faith to come to prayer how do I build the power of faith in this state?
R. By the friends influence on you when the friends bestow upon you there is the Creator's bestowal up on you, then you get the force of faith, the spiritual force, the force of Bina, riding over the forces, force of Malchut. Try to focus on your attention specifically and you, with your forces in a mental and emotional attack, will scrutinize all of these things.
51. S. (01:56:19) How do I develop these scrutinies in the 10?
R. Continue between you and the 10, who else should know? A 10 in spirituality is one force.
52. S. (01:56:48) We spoke a lot about force today, the force in the world is considered a vector force that enables defining the dynamics and the manner of change in time and forces. We can measure newtons (a newton is how much force is required to make a mas and other forces. How do we measure our force, how will we be able to understand with time that we are a strong ten?
R. We measure each and every force upon the amount of matter that you can work with, that you can work on. This is how you measure in spirituality as well. The spiritual force is measured according to the extent it can increase a corporeal amount, the will to receive is how it is measured in the degrees of 1 2 3 4, upon the corporeal coarsest degrees (1234) that's why we say the lights of the Root 1 2 3 4 NRNHY they perform actions of raising the desire to an order to bestow from the degree of Malchut to the degree of Bina.
Excerpt 15 (01:58:29 - 02:01:24) Twice
53. R. We arrange our relation in order to receive below, this is how the Creator accordingly organizes it above. This is included in the entire plan of creation that we perform. We act from Malchut and the Creator does it from Bina.
54. S. (02:01:48) Maybe we should learn in the lesson how to scrutinize properly in the 10? As we are facing the problem of how to do this according to the rules of Rabash on one hand and on the other hand how to be constantly demanding. There are many conflicts there.
R. I respect you and understand what you're saying, so start doing it and tell us what you did.
S. we're asking because we're doing this, we try to scrutinize how to do the scrutiny correctly, we're finding it hard to scrutinize properly without harming the relations between us. It's after we have tried the scrutinizing that we are asking.
R. Scrutinize with other groups, what do you want from me? You see what the Kabbalists write and I am trying to pass it on to you as detailed and chewed as possible, I don't know what else to do. Even if I talk about it another thousand words it won't add anything. The scrutiny won't take place, there would only be confusion. What we have to do is to do this through your personal exertion within your society and then it will enter more and more.
55. S. (02:03:58) It says a person should first acquire deficiency and then we can say the Creator fills its deficiency, is there any stage between having the deficiency and the Creator filling it? Should there be some prayer?
R. Yes, revealing the deficiency, the fact that the Creator fills it between those two there are revelations, the action of the person that he is asking the Creator to fill that deficiency. That is what must happen.
Excerpt 16 (02:04:54 - 02:07:44) Twice
56. S. (02:14:37) We see tens have questions of how to scrutinize in the 10 so what are the rules of discussion, you also said last week we should have some connection between the tens, a subtle connection between the 10 so there is some room here to be impressed from the other tens?
R. What are you trying to scrutinize?
S. How can we have a discussion in the 10 without it hurting and harming the relations between the friends, without disintegrating relations?
R. First of all, we start from blessing the ten, we talk about the greatness of the 10 and the special opportunity that we have to reveal the Creator which is the vessel for the revelation of the Creator. That the Creator takes care of us only through the 10, taking care of each and every one that we are not considered as one unless we are together. At first, we need to talk about that Rabash also discusses this in the Article: The Order of Assembly, that the 10 is the special vessel that we have been privileged that we have this vessel so that now we need to already approach another scrutiny. What do we want to scrutinize by this vessel, by this 10? That way, go even deeper, that the 10 is the vessel that you can scrutinize almost anything and everything especially when we are talking about what you want to talk about.
S. What does or does not belong to the 10?
R. Maybe there are certain states that are individual and personal between me and my children, with my parents, of course you can't say that this is all inside the soul and things that are scrutinized. But eventually, we don't drag everything into the 10 to scrutinize, the main thing is for us, what and how we can achieve a certain connection between us so that the Creator will be revealed because the revelation of the Creator is the answer to all the possible questions that can be revealed.
S. What do I bring into the 10?
R. I can ask about anything and the 10 must sort through it and say these questions were not going into it and these we are entering, spiritual questions of course we need to scrutinize in the 10 because there's nowhere else to scrutinize them. And other questions it depends on the situation, it depends upon the time that we are living in it depends upon many external conditions that don't have anything to do with spirituality in a direct manner.
S. How does a 10 decide what it goes into or not?
R. Yes, in accordance with that.
S. Who in the 10 decides what is spiritual and relevant?
R. Every 10 can make that decision, let's say in my 10 that one friend wants to get divorced, there is such a thing that happens even in practice, so we need to decide whether this thing, of course it influences us as everything does, this is how we are built, all of humanity as 1 ten. So certainly, everything is inside, but we can say no, for the time being we're not capable of influencing this and we're not taking care of this matter or on the other hand maybe
S. Do we go into this divorce, how do we decide whether we're going into that?
R. That depends upon the relations between them, maybe they don't already live together, maybe there are children come out there are things that you need to scrutinize but if as usual come out with us as in Petach Tikveh, a husband and wife are together in a community that we can discuss about these things and that we need to discuss this and eventually we need to discuss whether divorce is something that is necessary that has no other alternative that we are not capable of moving on without this. We need to protect the family as much as possible especially when there are kids.
S. How to have open discussions without the gloves on, to just say in the face of everyone?
R. I think in the 10 it is very simple, what do we have to hide from one another? We are in a 10 and we know each other for years already and other than that we understand without us disclosing all of our flaws between us that we won't reach the revelation of the Creator for the purpose of creation, so what do I have to hide? From my beastly life, what does this give? I know so many friends in so many states that are in each and every one personally in between them and I still don't understand what can be that a person needs to hide. We are all animals and we want to reach the degree of Adam along the way we need to help one another.
S. We are talking between us but we can't reach an agreement, half of us think one thing the other half something else.
R. That we need to scrutinize according to the store sis and for that we need to have some guards and people who will watch over us that will help us in our society, in our international diversified society to explain to us in every single situation and accordingly to each and every group what we need to do. Other than that, we have another problem because our groups could be very diversified and to some of the group appears as a very harsh thing, like divorce, maybe to the other half it is accepted as a usual thing or maybe there's nothing to talk about further. It all depends upon the group, the society that they are in. Nevertheless, we need as much time as possible that you can devote to it, not that we will engage in this now all the time but we need to engage in it so that we will have more stable 10's.
S. Maybe we can talk about families and other occasions but so we're talking about practical things like preparing for the morning lesson, how do we choose in these social matters of the family of the 10 itself?
R. You have to make concessions, also with the verses, songs and pray everything is good to do before the lesson. As long as we awaken the heart. Let us check by what we awaken the heart more it helps us to be more concentrated and accordingly we will progress.
S. About discussing without gloves, on the one who Rabash teaches us to act out the greatness of the goal.
R. Kabbalists obligate us to do this on purpose. It is not that we are lying to one another, we are lying to our evil inclination on purpose in order to awaken it in the direction toward the goal.
S. Why should I take the gloves off and say the truth I should cover?
R. Only in that way where I am operating that way towards concealment that the Creator is great that he feels everything, his glory in my eyes I don't see my feelings. I don't feel anything, why am I saying this? I'm saying it this way to work with my donkey so that it will recover and awaken to receive some stimulus to move forward.
S. In the 10, I should work out the greatness of the goal?
R. Yes.
S. There are no secrets, be honest with no gloves on?
R. Nothing clashes but we need here each time in different states and there's no protection of those screens that were above them so we have to be cautious and to approach each thing in a certain manner and a certain way that we need to awaken the society to protect within the society each time as guarding from the inclination of going forward.
S. We have nothing to hide in the ten you said?
R. That is in general but no one can disclose himself completely.
S. Let's say that I have criticism of my 10 and I want to say in a certain way directly can I say this, or no?
R. As much as you can a great in your ten with this. We have nothing to hide in the ten you said.
S. What is the right for the development?
R. It is right to go in accordance with what the 10 is ready to go with. Just as we see from the development of man, the more developed he is you can reveal and teach him every single day and every year we add more, maybe we will come to a state but not today but that we won't have anything to hide from one another because we will all feel that this is all just being animals. We used to see this from the world that people had many things from each other but now it is more and more disclosed.
S. When you say to take the gloves off in the 10 what does this mean?
R. That we need to be more disclosed to each other under the chance that we agree to be in some respectable relations with one another.
S. How to have a practical discussion without the friends being hurt emotionally?
R. To perform it with love is the key.
S. A 10 that has no discussions is not advancing?
R. It's not good that they don't have discussions, it is worthwhile to spend a half-hour a week to talk about themselves to the point.
S. How to end a discussion with none else besides him and covered with love?
R. If there's nothing else besides him, you conclude the discussion and then of course it is from love. When you end the discussion with none else besides sitting because you conclude the conversation that the Creator is none else besides, that he controls everyone and that everyone receives this with joy, his authority in providence.
S. How do we measure the borders?
R. In accordance with our agreement and according to our love. All together we need to watch over this that even if we don't talk about one another and they disclosed manner, 0%, but that we want to awaken the love between us and then in accordance with the degree of love between us where we feel that there is a place to add a little spice salt and pepper then we can scrutinize. But don't destroy the love but only strengthen it even more.
S. Should every discussion and with a concrete decision?
R. Not necessarily so it could be that we're just in a discussion where each felt there was just a little more open even if there were a little clash, then we can see that the clashes were something that caused us to come closer to a mutual understanding.
S. You say we should find answers in the sources but everyone can justify themselves through a verse to justify his view.
R. I come to the 10 not to justify myself but to subdue myself and have others teach me, what do I have by justifying myself. I won't progress by that only my ego will grow.
S. What is considered a decision, and agreements with the 10?
R. Everyone needs to agree even though each and every one may feel together himself in a different way, agree more or less, enjoy or not, the importance of the goal needs to decide where it advances in this are not according to the importance of the goal. As much as possible I need to annul myself to be included and incorporated in the 10 and if I forget everything and enter with my eyes shut this is how I come to corrections.
S. What is the result of a successful discussion?
R. It is that we attain connection in our hearts.
S. There is a lot of tension about vaccines, those who have taken the vaccine they want together physically and some can’t so what to do with some who have not?
R. What is for the benefit for the other ten?
S. Maybe we have reached a state where we should have some tens who are vaccinated and some who are not?
R. We have reached the state in our society that we are all vaccinated, you can see that some countries that have been towards the inclusive vaccinations that they are ahead from other countries, there's no conspiracies there were just following what the experts have said. The experts who are wise and don't want to be vaccinated because of their thoughts or their agreements, or their concepts then they can feel themselves that they are outside of the organization. The organization has to receive decisions that put an obligation upon a person to do this. It's not just to sanctify the Creator, it is much less, now we want on the 16th of May and at the beginning of June we are having time to assemble and these people won't have the ability to enter the facility. Right now, we're referencing the men, as we progressed, we will see beyond it. Other than that, I'm not certain that this virus has left us and is not coming back.
S. What is your recommendation?
R. My recommendation is to get vaccinated.
S. If someone doesn't want to?
R. That is his problem but he can't also do whatever he wants to accept upon society and come here with his decision. He doesn't pull us.
S. If the ten itself, not to do with an organization or an event they just want to meet what about this person?
R. I don't know if it is customary in our building that no one enters without a vaccination.
S. Will it be correct to make up a 10 of friends who are not vaccinated?
R. I don't know I haven't checked these things but if they were truly justifications medically, not from some grandmother's remedies, but a medical justification then would possibly give them the consideration to set up tens from among them.
S. Anyone who has more questions send them to boardworldkli@gmail.com
R. According to what the Kabbalists tell us we can take out all the answers, the discussion is from people who want to draw their decisions to their direction not in a way that it seems to them written in a clear way by the Kabbalists. I know as much as I went to doctors Rabash where he received all of the treatments there, the surgeries, every single thing. He said permission was given to the doctor to heal, he didn't want to look for another doctor there but regular conventional medicine. You can add to it what you want but you don't have a replacement. This is why especially if there is 100% confidence that those who received vaccinations were protected, there are nevertheless percentages that are in doubt and this is what we have to watch over these things. In a few more months these things will be more clarified.
S. What is the ability to go with the annulment as much as the Kabbalists.
R. So much as it convinces a person with the force of the society and the force of kabbalists that this is how they spoke.