Morning Lesson June 8, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: It is a problem we're even after a convention and all kinds of awakenings, gatherings of friends and activities, we think we have reached something new and the next day as usual we learned as it should be that we saw even deeper than it was before. Because our entire path is in a zigzag, the higher that we rise the more we go down and we rise even more and go down even more. This is how it is like in a saw tooth format that we rise and descend, rise and descend. Here comes the question of how we are nevertheless in the same direction being drawn to the Creator and demand to him even though all kinds of states happen for us above and down, above down. These states below are much more extended and take longer, felt more than the states that were up above. So how did we first of all rise above them and understand that this all comes from the Creator that there is none else besides him and that we need to constantly be connected to him. Specifically in states that are most difficult and appear to us as disconnected from the Creator we are nevertheless drawn to him and we understand, feel and prepare ourselves to such an extent of a relationship that it all comes from the Creator and specifically in the states that we have no impressions or connections. Not with the Creator and not with a goal, especially in such a state we need to find support in the group so from that we will turn to the Creator and demand from him care. This is why here specifically in these breaks where the Creator on purpose gives these to us, where he renews for us the shattered Reshimot so that we will correct them, we need to understand that this comes so that we will correct and that we will turn to him demanding Corrections that we deserve oh, that we are truly deserving of them which is called the gate, the opening to those who knocked for repentance. Therefore to demand non-stop and for there not to be a difference which state we are in whether above or below, we demand and ask. Specifically preparing ourselves for a demand in those states where we are down. Then also even in the states where we are above we should examine whether this is according to our feelings or whether it's according to the appreciation that we have for the Creator in our eyes and this is how we will advance. Meaning to demand of the Creator no matter what the reasons are, is already something that comes later as we need to feel within ourselves the constant demand from the Creator, that I am consciously or unconsciously even when I'm sleeping and from my work and all kinds of states that I am in that I from within feel myself, that I am constantly turning to the Creator. It's important for us to have such a demanding tendency existing in such a way therefore it is written to demand of the Lord where he is, meaning constantly find him and demand from him even though he is hiding, in concealment. Where he is hidden only so that we will seek and locate, demand from him corrections and proximity as this is how we bring him contentment.
2. S. (06:32) What are we demanding below and what are we to demand above?
R. We just want adhesion, nothing else. We are not turning or scrutinizing in the states, especially the ones that we're in because who knows exactly what that state is or another whether I understand correctly or not. Who knows what is good to be in the state of above or below, meaning where we feel the states in our desire to receive, hence we demand adhesion for me to adhere to the Creator with the force of bestowal. We will learn from him and do such states as him in bestowing and it does not matter what state I am in, from every single state I should feel how to bestow.
3. S. (07:56) You said it doesn't matter in what state I am, we demand for the friends or maybe for our ego?
R. No, in every state we go out from the feeling from an individual personal feeling, in order to correct this individual state I turn to the Creator through the group and then I feel that my personal state is all defined according to the state of the whole group because all together I'm a result of the ten. Certainly I begin from our personal desire, from our personal feelings for the time being practically this is how we are.
S. The result of the ten is how I see the ten in my qualities so I need to ask for that or what am I asking for?
R. Correct.
4. S. (09:36) I heard you say now find him and ask, so far I just ask, what does it mean to find the Creator?
R. To find the Creator is the internal force that is in the 10 that arranges for us all of the states both personal ones and the general one so we turn to it, to him and from him we demand him to change our state so we will be adhered to him.
5. S. (10:12) About our connection in the 10, whether it is not time to go back to the physical connection that we had, singing and dancing together, being together, sitting with you in the lesson and feeling this great power of yours, isn't it time that we just come out of hiding as we're still in the hiding and the rockets have stopped and the pandemic is over and we're still in hiding. We are connected through the screens.
R. I understand you but tell me what will our friends that could not connect like you do?
S. Bit by bit their state will also change?
R. Not about us, I'm asking about them, you have thousands around the world, why do we need to be differentiated, why don't we need to be like them.
S. We need to drag and carry the world.
R. By sitting together with a few hundred people together you think that the other thousands that are not in that will feel by that also closeness?
S. I'm sorry to say it but I think that if we sit together we will also go out to the streets, to the malls, to collect the points in the heart who don't know what they want from themselves.
R. Who is bothering you to do that right now?
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S. I feel that you are making an effort every day to go to the studio and that we just wake up from the bed and come to the screen that we don't make an effort like you do.
R. I am not exerting, my bed is a few dozen feet from the studio, truly so as I have no effort there I am telling you, think well what you are saying and whether the fact that we will sit together in the quantity of a few dozen people that by doing so will we find ourselves standing out or differentiating ourselves from the others. How will friends from all over the world feel?
S. Envy, they will feel that they want to reach that state and gradually it will happen for them too.
R. What will be for them?
S. The pandemic will end for them as well and can sit together.
R. I'm not bothering you to sit together with your 10 and connect, please try as I have no problem with that. I think that that is a good thing but to make it so that we here in Petah Tikvah will specifically connect and the whole vessel both in Israel and around the world will sit like now they are sitting, I do not feel this operates towards unity and towards connection, towards coming closer. It is especially through this that we will perform a differentiated form.
S. What we're missing is the influence of society that demands towards the Creator that we start studying about what we really want to demand but the demand is 3 or 4 hours a day and then we come out and that is destructive. When we're together there's this place where this corporeal influence influences the person and gives us the strength to continue and it is missing, the tens are meeting and we feel how much power it gives us to continue but the physical connection is missing. This demand that we want to reach as a single vessel not as isolated but as a single one.
R. Every person has a 10. Please work and sit together, read the article together, you can meet physically. I don't know in what states or countries this is possible, wherever it is possible and permitted according to the laws of the state that you live in, I am not bothering you with that. We can also see in the pictures as we saw yesterday from Moscow and several other places that they gathered and were there with several dozen people together.
S. That each 10 can't take this decision until the general group decides it.
R. The general group can't do this. It's not even according to the guidance of the health department or the physical ability, what are you demanding of me?
S. There are places in the world where the local authority allows the connection.
R. Then let them do this, I'm not telling you what to do. We operate according to the rules and regulations. You want me to be like a kindergarten teacher who will take you like little children and make connections for you to sit next to the table and everybody will take you for a little stroll with all kinds of activities together. I don't do that with you, you need to learn these things and to try and execute them between you if you think it is beneficial.
S. I don't think that you are our nanny but that we want to express our demand for this new need.
R. No one will take care of you, stop being a little boy, you are already 4 years old, you want to do something in life, do this that is all.
6. S. (17:55) In the beginning of the lesson you said that after the high state comes a descent, how do we treat the sense of guilt that comes with that fall?
R. It is written about that but a fool sits folding his arms over and eats his own flesh, this is how it is written that if we relate all of those things to us and not to the Creator then it turns out that we are eating ourselves up. That we are immersed in that bad feeling that we need to understand that there is nothing bad in reality, but rather it is also that we will scrutinize and correct all things. From the center of the tree of knowledge and therefore there is nothing evil that is being revealed unless it is for us to lead it 620 times each time to the good.
S. Can you please clarify why when we see all the sense of confidence that the descent comes right away?
R. Because there is nothing else you can do you have come to a confidence and connection and correction and why do you think you need to remain in that state so you can be prideful and enjoy it? Immediately a new Reshimot operates on you which throws you again to the feeling of a deficiency and once more you need to rise from it, this is how it is.
Excerpt 1 (19:58 - 20:44)
7. S. (20:49) What is the meaning of knock by knock?
R. That we are constantly in some state, changes of our state's that come to us even in the form of knocking of clashes that they are akin from which these sparks emerge from these actions from these beatings and this is what the new Reshimot emerge from, these knockings.
S. It says here we wait for the vessels to receive a start in bounty in what vessels?
R. The deficiency to come upon the records that appear so you will demand more adhesion only towards the act of bestowal that you want to reach upon all of the states that the Creator discloses to you, different states, unpleasant ones, ones that are distant from giving and bestowal.
8. S. (22:22) The last sentence here says that we will receive a reply to each prayer all at once. All of the requests that we ever had we will learn before that the Creator always answers so what does this mean that the Creator answers all the previous prayers at once?
R. First of all we have non-stop care, permanent care that comes because we are constantly under the influence of the Creator, under the light of the Creator no matter how we respond we always immediately receive a response from him. This light comes to us from the end of correction, from Infinity and this is how we are connected to it, all together this is the general. On the individual level each and every time when we feel ourselves in different states it is according to the records that are revealed in us and these records are revealed from the general shattering that took place and the personal shattering that took place upon your vessels. All together this is how we advance. It is a very simple thing as in spirituality. There aren't too many complex things but rather we are not capable of working with bestowal that is why we have a problem.
9. S. (24:18) The result of the knocking, the beating that there are sparks that advance us, why does this need to move us?
R. The sparks that merge from these knockings are the revelation of the vessel and the next degree that is coming up, this is we will learn soon TES.
10. S. (24:57) The Creator waits until we have the vessels to receive the faithful bounty. We will also be aware that we have the vessels to receive the faithful bounty at the same time.
R. Of course for the time being we're not aware of it because we don't have these vessels. We are operating out of darkness but when these vessels are refueled we start to feel and understand how we can find ourselves in darkness and without the vessels and to adapt our vessels more to the light that will come.
11. S. (25:47) Why do many free feel the need to ask the Creator and how can we intensify this quality in the 10?
R. A child is in a state that nature obligates him to turn to his mother because without her he feels disconnected from his mother and he loses his life, his world. That is why he screams and is constantly glued to his mother. We don't feel it that way because we ourselves need to discover the extent to which we are dependent upon Him, demands Him and are obliged to be connected to Him that without it we have no spiritual life. Slowly we received this through the examples from the society of one helping his friend and through the upper light that we are waking above ourselves which illuminates and gives us such a feeling this is what happens. Therefore it is good that we see an example from children, from the babies where their entire confidence depends upon their mother and from this we need to receive an example of how we need to be also connected and connected to our mother. To the Creator which is the higher degree from us always, just like a baby feels that the mother is a higher degree to him. Look at what he wants. He doesn't want anything except to be on her all the time.
12. S. (28:18) What is a Reshimot?
R. The record is an impression, detailed data from the next state where if you extend the upper light upon them then from this record a new state develops, the next state develops. Its coarseness and its direct light, reflect light and the 10 Sefirot.
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13. S. (29:09) How to move from the routine work of connecting in the ten to a demand, from a request to the demand? Our constant work of connecting in the ten is our routine work in the ten
R. For what?
S. To connect to make a vessel to bestow contentment to the Creator.
R. I don't understand what is the difference here? We need to try to connect between us in the 10's where each 10 is like a Partzuf of Adam HaRishon and in this way we want to connect between us with all of our shattered records with all of our tendencies and understandings towards connection until we try to collect this. Then we can turn to the Creator from this where on one hand we understand from this that the Creator chose us bringing us to the spiritual eternal state, the complete state in which we come to Him, connect to Him because in Him our hearts we will rejoice this is on one hand and on the other hand where we truly build a new place for a new world.
S. In the Congress we were all together making a concentrated effort and demand, with this one comment from now until the Congress then we kind of go back into the routine in a sense to the ordinary, how to maintain the demand or that we shouldn't, that it is fine.
R. In the convention we had an effort and we saw the whole world Kli which by the way you also see now somewhat on the screen ahead of you. I don't know, but I don't feel such a big difference between the morning lesson and the convention. I truly don't, as we are sitting in the same place using the same programs and software that we are coming to the same connections. A little bit more, maybe a little bit more in the connection because there's an additional awakening but do that every day. What are you yearning for so much, to the convention that passed? I don't know what you learn from that? I'm already thinking about what's going to happen a few months from now. Around September we will do our next convention and then from this next convention we will come to the next state so it won't be like what we had now but rather it will be a connection on another, higher level.
S. I'm not longing for the Congress but for the alertness of the Congress. How can we accelerate now after the Congress?
R. That is our daily work there is nothing we can do about it as we cannot constantly be under the same strain and pressure even though it is written that way but you understand that we have this and we have that that you can't constantly be in such high revolutions like in a convention, we need to understand where we are, who we are and what state we can permit ourselves to be in in order to exist, to hold on and not to fall.
S. So when he writes to knock time after time endlessly and tirelessly, there is no such thing.
R. That is how Baal HaSulam writes, I don't feel like I have such forces in me
S. This is the question, how do we achieve this kind of strength?
R. So we raise ourselves more and more not that we are already in. It is a matter of corrections. I don't think that we can do any more than we are doing. Look at the Kli which is advancing and that we need to be realistic, you can cry out that yes we will do, and then we will fall. It is best to continue time after time to truly grow more and more gradually. You can't do a convention and what you do it for 3 days, you can't do this and extend and drag it out for a month. People are people, but besides that whoever wants and is capable. Whoever has a 10 and has the study materials is invited to work 24 hours a day. Please, we will be happy for such help from anyone.
14. S. (36:27) There are no complex conditions in spirituality are these individual or from within the ten?
R. The fact that I stayed that there aren't complex states in spirituality, what I'm saying is that eventually the more that we learn about spirituality and understand it, there is a vessel, a desire and the light that influences the desire and in this connection between them would come to all the states, there are no problems it is not complicated. Don't think about it as being complicated, that it's bigger I'm exploding, no. I am exploding because I have a small vessel but actually there is no problem here to always resolve these things as lights and vessels, records and no more than that, so don't be fearful whatsoever.
Excerpt 2 (38:00-39:21) Twice
15. R. (39:25) Meaning that we simply need to constantly and constantly continue to demand it, to advance to the state that we are learning. How much is this corrected state and this is how we come to it, don’t put too much attention upon those states that you go over, that take place. Only about the state that you need to come to and then you will advance correctly. Because the state that you feel right now is according to your vessels at the moment for the time being. Take into account that these states, even though you can't depict it in a true and correct way, nevertheless you need to be drawn to it and you need to aim yourself towards Him.
S. It says when we see that the Creator is silent and unresponsive why is he silent?
R. Because that is how a person feels that Creator is silent and feels whether the Creator is there or not, why have you forsaken me, we feel it in ourselves that the Creator evokes in us that we need to search for him that he is God and he doesn't answer, He is not apparent and you can feel Him in anything. That we are constantly in states that are between the ascents and descents, that we have such states between us. That there are no ascents or descents that we are kind of hanging in the air, where we need to define our states. You will understand more and more where we are. Through the connection I have with my friends I can always turn to the Creator and ask through them for Him to awaken this state in me.
16. S. (42:02) What does it mean that the Creator's silence gives us strength to stand in the King’s palace?
R. Our silence, the silence of the Creator and his silence gives us the ability to arrange ourselves in order to come to the demand of Him, why are you the concealed God, that you created us and that you made this current state for us. Don't hide in it as we are demanding for you to discern this state for us and tell us exactly what we need to do about it since you should answer all our requests by raising MAN and make of us a creature that we can feel you and understand you. We need to be in constant demand all of the time. The demand is our constant appeal to the Creator. Just like a baby who doesn't come to his mother in all kinds of ways that are complex, you see how he comes, he comes and he climbs upon her, sits on her and demands. Just like that.
S. That is clear also because the concealment is there and the Creator seemingly doesn't answer. It works that way, but what is it about demanding all of the time that qualifies as to stand in the King's Palace?
R. What qualifies you is that you connect between you, this is the only thing we're in the connection between you that you can locate the Creator in what way you can climb onto his lap and how you can play with him just like Moses played with Pharaoh’s beard and this is how we have to continue with it.
17. S. (44:40) I am happy when the Creator awakens new Reshimot records and there is a lot of work in overcoming them, but how can I shift and transmit this feeling to the friends in the ten so that we are connected?
R. Here I don't know as you have advice from many of the Kabbalists what you can do or what you should do. You're with your friends in this world that you feel them. Please as this is where you need to operate and do all of these things on your own. I cannot tell you. It all depends on the states that you have and the personal states of the ten, you have a good ten so please.
18. S. (45:37) We see that the virus has hastened everything, that it put us into high gear in our development, accelerating everything. Is he standing in this place that is pushing us so strong?
R. Yes, we are moving forward through all of this and besides that now we are looking towards another kind of attack from above that we are going to have to respond to correctly, to the proper response from below. The virus didn't go away, it gives us a break so that it is felt how much it determines things and not us, with all of the fixes that we do, time after time it strengthens us straightening us out, emptying our pockets and brings our emotions to the surface, cleans our relationships, purifies them and this is how we gradually change. This is a huge mass of people. It's not a problem for the Creator to do this all at once but he does this in front of the eyes of the created beings. This means that all of the people of the world will see what is happening to them and understand and receive that, that they will go through it participating as much as possible. This is how they will get wiser and so bit by bit, meaning from one degree to the next, from one state to the next. It's not about how slow but by way of cause and consequence. Humanity will take on new states and as it does it gets wiser, grows. Why is it there because there is none as wise as the experienced one. By the states that we go through lately all over the world also, pay attention that this is all over the world, as this is to different extents and two different degrees but it is already happening at the level of the same kind of nation of Adam HaRishon as we are all together. It's not that we want to be together but that from above the higher providence works on all of us and this corrects us and connects us bringing us very close to more corrections.
19. S. (48:59) Why do I want to reveal the Creator? Is it equal to their being a sensation of a true state?
R. I didn't understand.
S. Is the desire to reveal the Creator equal to the perception of reality correctly, the true perception of reality?
R. The need to reveal the Creator is because he is our root that I depend upon him, in the person besides corporeal egoistic desires like there are in the animal level, but beyond the animate level of food, sex, money, honor and knowledge. We actually have just one desire which is discovering our spiritual roots. It is said our desire is to know our King because I really don't need anything else besides that, as if I am connected to my higher root. It all comes from him as there is no one where else to connect to, there is nothing more to want. It really is like a baby towards its mother as it doesn't need any more than that.
20. S. (50:49) It is written in the text that when the Creator answers the prayer even before it is done and at that time we shouldn't have any flaw and give no rest to it.
R. That his ego is not speaking right now, not awakening.
S. The second part of the second excerpt says that this is not what the Creator intended by his silence but in order to give you the power to stand afterward in the King's Palace when you have no blemish. So what is this state to not have any blemish?
R. Then what will you stand, how will you stand in the King's Palace you need to demand and you need something in your hand, what do you give to the Creator so that he also gives you that there is a connection between you so that you are in the King's Palace so there has to be demand on your part. On his part there is certainly a good. Well for that we have to come up with this.
Excerpt 3 (53:06-52-39)
21. R. (54:39) Meaning with the Creator we have a very simple kind of connection, that he is always listening and sharing with us, that we are open before him and there is no problem towards him in the sense that we are always under his constant care. On our part however, there needs to be the correct attitude to his treatment that is we need to constantly detect, demand and understand his ways in order to gradually resemble him.
22. S. (55:26) We need to understand and accept that the silence of the Creator is a form to pressure us to ask and demand. This is the way of the Creator, the way of his silence, the way for us to make efforts in demands and prayer by that he gives us the motivation?
R. That also, but the most important of all of those things that they need to come through the group to aid them and from the Creator, through the group. We will demand that He will connect us, that we will always be a correct vessel for the reception of his abundance because by that we bring him contentment. Whatever happens we always have to be more and more on top of whatever disturbances we have to be more connected in order to receive from him in order to bestow to him this is the main thing.
23. S. (57:00) We are advancing after the Congress I see tens that are progressing without any disturbances and on the other hand I am asking, why does the Creator use the topic of the physical connection between us which makes it so much more difficult for so many friends to be able to work to strengthen the virtual connection between us in our hearts? What is it about the physical connection that still blocks us?
R. You want us to come together to one place?
S. No, I meant that the memories from the physical connection and the support that we have received from this connection is truly pushing us forward?
R. When we had the big Congress in Israel?
S. Not only that but also when we met in Petah Tikvah. When we met it also gave us fuel for the whole week.
R. I don't want to make or create a gap, a difference between what is happening in Israel and PT and what is happening in North or South America, Asia, Europe or Africa. I don't want to create a difference to divide the world into pieces where those can come together physically and those cannot. If we can't we can't that's how it is in the meantime, later on we will see you as maybe there will be change but internally within me. I feel that certainly I don't have an inclination, and a foundation to make a physical gathering with a few hundred people here in our center and by that we will be separating, differentiating between those who are here and everyone else in the world. Which to me is all the same, it is all one.
S. I agree with you 100%, my question is different, we still see that still even though we're going through this stage of virtual connection that is a huge advancement to the world Kli that we are connected to and understand them, but on the other hand it's like the Creator giving us this feeling that you're going forward but wait, this invitation to the physical connection which binds between us not letting us reach forward into the virtual connection which I agree is the future connection.
R. It is a Klipa. You have to try to be connected to all of the friends all over the world internally, spiritually not even virtually. We hopefully will come to a stage where we won't see these faces on the screens, we won't see that but we will feel it from within that I am with them internally connected and I don't need to see your face or your neighbor's face or all of the other groups that we are seeing right now on the screen. We don't need those groups, we need to feel them closer and closer to this global vessel of Bnei Baruch and that is it, don't bring me all kinds of problems and troubles and emotions. We will see that later after a few months however vessels and demands will change and then we will think.
24. S. (01:01:58) If we can just close this topic you said that the desire for the physical connection is a Klipa, many times in the 10 we debate whether we should meet physically and sometimes you say you're not against it. In the Congress you say you're happy when you see the 10's meeting together. What is the correct attitude towards the desire to meet physically sometimes?
R. Because we're still in the states so of course yes, but in truth I have to be yearning for the interconnection.
S. Should we try to resist this desire to meet physically?
R. Not to resist but know that the future is that we won't feel the bodies, but that we will feel our interconnection only.
S. The future is clear but let's say that there is the thought of meeting physically in the 10
R. If you all want it then meet, I don't understand what are all these questions?
S. Because you just said, it is Klipa.
R. Yes, of course. We live from the Klipot.
S. We should not resist this, even though we're not supposed to be in them?
R. I don't know what is written, I don't like your theories.
S. I'm not trying to be smart, if you tell us this is Klipa should we try to resist this inner desire.
R. I don't need to resist. I need to see how we use this correctly when we are in a time when we are still living off the shells as the shell guards the fruit.
25. S. (01:04:05) Maybe something that will cause us to accelerate and demand from the Creator is to mix the tens?
R. I don't want to hear your philosophies, I heard it a few times already as you're always pushing me in these directions, you didn't hear it from me and don't bring up these things, I am reminding you for the last time.
Excerpt 4 (01:04:45-01:08:21) twice
26. S. (01:08:21) What did Baal HaSulam mean when he wrote about some kind of idle matters?
R. In spirituality there is a ladder of degrees. In these are degrees that are always raising us higher and higher to degrees of holiness and some accompany us next to this main ladder and then there are a different shapes in them so that we understand where we are, left, right, perhaps up and down, and perhaps other twists and turns that we can go from the vessels of straightness to the vessels of circles and other things. Next to every holiness, there is a shell as the Creator created this so that in each and every step, in our ascents, in the ladder of degrees we run into many states that we didn't think of that are kind of suddenly awakened, these states. We don't know whether they are correct or not, what is going on as we need to be ready for that the main thing of course is the 10, which is that which we lean on, that place where I can always find myself and fall into their hands and rest there and stabilize myself, reset myself, and then once again to keep going with them. It is for each and every one. This is the progress, it is like this. The progress of the 10 is that each one falls from it, tries to get back, everyone helps him and in the 10 in general each must help each other and every one to connect from the state that he is pushed into a more advanced state.
S. These idle things we need to think about?
R. Yes, but not those not that much. If you don't pay attention, you can't advance .You need to work with them but a little bit just to the extent that you need to step over them and advance.
27. S. (01:11:19) There are things that are very difficult for me, he says even every hour that when he goes through the shapes that are not of Holiness that he should pour out his heart that the Creator will save him. I started to tell you that yesterday I had a horrible states that I went through and I'm asking myself what does this mean in every hour and despite everything that happens, what to just accept whatever happens to you, sufferings and blows?
R. A person needs to always see what he is going through, if you truly work correctly then He should always be feeling how much he has foreign thoughts, desires, intentions, disturbances. Without which we cannot advance, as our whole progress is on top of the broken vessels. We are the results of this shattered collective vessel and so we simply need to always go through that meticulously, patiently through the group that is our path. Without the Klipot, without the broken vessels, without the bad states that come to us, how will we build the corrected vessel of Adam HaRishon?
S. He writes that from here in the Creator will save him from all of his states. We all go through difficult states but when you're in this state you don't necessarily remember the Creator at that moment, how do you come out of this movie but also remember the Creator in the middle of the blow?
R. You need to try to get used to from your experience, so that you go into descents, that you go through this or that you, yourself are capable of doing that by the 10, or that the Creator is saving you but that he is saving you, you try as fast as possible to come out of the descent into an ascent bringing contentment to the Creator from searching for how to be in a more advanced state.
S. Is there an option that I need to share my 10 in some way about this blow? Is that why they exist?
R. If you really can't do anything then you can ask them but normally we don't need that, it is enough for us to have a connection with the 10 and if you turn to the 10 quietly feeling the general spirit of the 10, that is enough.
S. So, we shouldn't share the blows in the troubles we have?
R. No, no one needs to see your blows, why and what for what do I get out of that?
28. S. (01:15:16) It is written in the excerpt, that he talks about a person, the Creator, the hearts, different thoughts, where is the 10 in this situation?
R. In no place besides the articles of Rabash or the Zohar, it doesn't speak about the 10. What speaks about the 10 as a Partzuf that is it. A Partzuf that we erect and advance with. But generally in the wisdom of Kabbalah we're not talking about the 10, it's not written about the10 as the10 is a human composition. We are talking about Partzuf from the connection of the 10 friends. How we can make it into a spiritual connection between us. What can we bring to the spiritual connection that each one finds his shape, his nature is bestowal and in this way we connect between us building each time a new style of connection in the 10s. This is how we advance on the spiritual ladder.
29. S. (01:17:11) It says when forms are not of holiness it will instantly stop when you remember what?
R. Yes, that he remembers the Creator and he starts working because these forms that he is going through usually disconnect him from the Creator. Each and every state has to start from disconnection from the Creator because it is the Reshimot (records), coming from the shattering, in the beginning of recognizing the Reshimot from the shattering. It is because a person is detached from the system of Adam HaRishon, from the whole group, from spirituality in general. Possibly even from corporeality and being like a beast. Let people delve into Excerpt 4, you seem like adults that can take some porridge or even some food that is more solid and you're still asking for breastmilk, no.
Excerpt 5 (01:19:15 - 01:21:29) Twice
30. S. (01:21:32) How can we pour our hearts to the Creator like Baal HaSulam says?
R. First of all, no one has a heart. A heart means that we connect ourselves together into a single desire then this single desire is called a heart. Therefore let us connect the desires. Let us aim them towards a single goal. This is called being as one man in one heart. Let us clarify exactly what kind of common desire we should have in how we demand from the Creator. What is the main and most important demand? We will turn to the Creator so that we constantly come to Him and demand like a child who doesn't but let his mother rest. Let us do this. The examples are right in front of us in this world. We have to do them on the level of our desires which is called ‘the spiritual world’. So go ahead, let us do this and succeed and make contact with the Creator to start receiving discernments from Him that relate to our spiritual connection. And in our spiritual connection we will begin to discover our spiritual state. We'll enter a dialogue with Him this way. ‘I for my beloved and my beloved is for me.
31. S. (01:23:58) How can we adhere to the Creator with joy even though our ego is constantly with complaints that we are receiving the work of bestowal, the ego always comes and complains. How can we be in joy above those complaints?
R. I am happy with the complaints of the ego because these complaints bring me towards the Creator. I am happy with all of the forms of the ego that are revealed because the Creator created him specifically so that by using my ego, meaning above my ego, I will find the Creator. Just understand: it is impossible that I have a connection with the Creator. To begin with, it is impossible that the created being will have connection with the Creator. What did the Creator do? He created the ego and if we demand above the ego, yet by standing on top of our ego, if above the ego I demand a connection with the Creator than I get it. This is why it is said. ‘One who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than himself’. Meaning if the ego is greater, I can grab a hold of the Creator more. We need to be thankful for what the Creator has created, to bless the Creator for doing that because he didn't create anything redundant in creation. We just need to know how to use it properly. To use it properly is what we are trying to do in the 10. To ask from the Creator to receive the strengths from above to advance.
32. S. (01:26:39) The cessation of Dvekut, when does this become like a portion of the embryo, the spiritual embryo?
R. The cessation of adhesion is one of the states by which the spiritual embryo is built. Yes, without this cessation there cannot be the next spiritual state so there has to be a cessation between each and every state so it is more like a pulse. There is a beat, beat, beat. This is how it needs to be, with these pulses, we advance.
S. So we use them as exit and entrance in the work? (Never heard a question)
R. Correct. The revelation and concealment of the Creator is how we advance. There is an article on this.
33. S. (01:27:59) Can you elaborate on the difference between ‘the fool that is under the reign of disturbances’ and the other one?
R. The fool, the one who doesn't understand what is happening to him, why the flood is raining on him, he doesn't want to accept that these things are good for him, as well. This is why he stays a fool. However, one who accepts everything in life as coming for progress. It is impossible that there is anything created by the Creator as harmful for no reason. It is all for the sake of correction. So this kind of person advances.
34. S. (01:29:11) I’m reading the words of Baal HaSulam, here. In excerpts 5, he is speaking of a very exalted state when a person reaches adhesion with the Creator and I feel a gap. I feel a huge gap between the state that Baal HaSulam is speaking about to my state to my state... Do I need to pray about this gap?
R. Yes. This is called, ‘when will I arrive and reach the deeds of my ancestors’?
S. Is this a private prayer?
R. Private, personal but so what? A private, personal prayer talks about the current state and the state that you want to achieve. The state you want to achieve will always be through your connection to the 10. You can't have an advanced state if it is not in a tighter connection in the 10.
S. So this connection between the private prayer to the connection in the 10, I am confused. I admit I don't understand how it connects to one another?
R. I understood. I just don't understand how you don't understand it. There cannot be a more advanced state if not through a tighter connection in the 10 because the purpose of creation is for all of us to be incorporated in one 10. All of humanity into one ten. And in that one 10, we will all be incorporated in one another indefinitely. Our whole progress is becoming more incorporated in the 10. In truth, you don't need to learn anything else except to know this principle, except we can't learn just about this one thing all the time. This is why we learn many things around it. But in truth, other than being incorporated deeper and deeper into the 10 in corporeal desires and through it to spiritual desires and through it into perceptions that each one is also 10 Sefirot, etc. We have nothing else to do. Our whole development is the correction of the shattering. There was 10 Sefirot in the structure of Adam HaRishon, which was similar to the Creator which is why it is called Adam, and it broke, meaning it lost its contact and feeling with the Creator. Now it's going to reconnect itself in order to show the Creator what it can do and by this brings contentment. There is nothing else to do.
35. S. (01:32:42) Tell me please, everything you said about Klipot, that we have to go through these states, when a person enters that swamp, or the quicksand and sometimes it happens that the more that you resist the more you are so down. Are there such states in our work that I'm trying to come out of the disturbances but that I'm sucked inward even stronger. How do I prevent that?
R. Only through the environment. You have no way to avoid mistakes except by checking every step of the way if you are realizing the situation when you're more connected to the 10, being more Incorporated, more annulled before them, etc. Only in this way to check or test is only in this.
36. S. (01:33:57) If you feel that the friend is pulling for himself, pulling yourself to him?
R. There are such friends, there are such states in each one. But I have a 10 in front of me. I don't pay attention to someone specifically because of his personal state. I have a 10 in front of me and this 10, more or less, has a general spirit, a common state. I have to annul myself before that common state and see to what extent I can benefit this common state and raise it even higher.
S. This general spirit, is it a spirit that we're all incorporated in?
R. No, there's no such thing that is incorrect. (That means) then there's no 10.
Excerpt 6 (01:35:20 - 01:36:17)
37. R. (01:36:25) So he says, “a person should try to have a strong desire to obtain a desire to bestow, to overcome the desire to receive.” In other words, if he has these brakes he should try to make them as short as possible. It’s not like he doesn't want them to be, let them be and let them come upon him. But he wants to shorten the time that he is disconnected from the group, and from the Creator. This is what he wants.
Excerpt 7 (01:37:04 - 01:39:00) Twice
38. S. (01:39:03) How can a person determine and say ‘I have a 10’?
R. To the extent that he needs it. I may be in a great 10, huge, strong, spiritually but I don't feel that I need it. This is a sign that I have no 10. The level of the deficiency is for the 10, this needing of the 10 is what determines whether I am in it or not. If I feel that every step of the way that I am connected to it, and in order to understand the situation, prepare and realize the response for it, and detect the results of what I did through all of those stages, I have to be in the 10.
39. S. (01:40:47) He writes in the quote: “longing and yearning in a never-ending coupling.” These are not opposites?
R. Why?
S. Because the longing and yearning is when he's not filled, he’s constantly longing and he’s constantly yearning and he enjoys it?
R. And at the same time he is in a never-ending coupling, it’s great.
S. How together?
R. In other words, he connected his deficiency with what he receives from what the Creator. So he really enjoys. He receives from the host this connection and he has a deficiency for it. He uses this deficiency to receive refreshments from the host, and he has a deficiency so he uses this deficiency to receive from the host, so what could be better? Complete deficiency and complete light. It’s the end of correction.
S. So a ‘never ending coupling’ is what?
R. As the state of the end of correction.
40. S. (01:42:04) He writes that ‘he has to know in his soul’. How do you understand? It hardly stays in your mind, how can it enter?
R. Deficiencies. Our soul is deficiencies. I need to know out of my deficiency what is revealed.
41. S. (01:42:35) Didn’t hear a question
R. Well, I can't tell you what it is. It’s indescribable, ‘the repentance from love’. It means that I have achieved adhesion with the Creator because of love, because I love Him. It is already above that usual or regular deficiency. It is a wonderful thing.
42. S. (01:43:14) You said that this incorporation in the 10 takes place in stages. First of all, I incorporate in their corporeal desires, then spiritual, and then there is a certain perception. Can you tell us more about this?
R. It is about Ibur, Yenicka and Mochin. It’s the impregnation, the suckling and adulthood. It is the development of the spiritual embryo. Just as we have in the corporeal world, the impregnation, the conception -- beginning with the drop of sperm that is in the womb, the conception -- then it is born and you have the suckling, the nursing from the mother, and it completes the years of nursing and then it has got Mochin, when it grows up and it's more of a human being, a grown-up. We learn this on the top of 1,000, maybe fifteen hundred pages of TES. It’s the main thing: Ibur, Yenicka and Mochin are the main development of the Soul. We will get to it.
S. Is it dependent on the depth of my incorporation?
R. To the extent that you enter the 10, connect to it. I won't tell you more than that now.
43. S. (01:45:11) He writes that the Creator is the extent of his longing. I can tell myself in my mind that a state came from the Creator. How does it develop to such a state that he remembers?
R. You have your own intellect and you have the intellect of the 10. The intellect of the 10 also belongs to you if you want to adhere to them, to relate to yourself to them. Then you'll have both the feeling and the intellect of your own and from the 10. Through the intellect and feeling of the 10, you have contact with the Creator. Try to work in this way and you will see that it works.
44. S. (01:46:26) It says that ‘the Creator is chasing him to the same extent that he is chasing after the Creator’. How to understand that the Creator is chasing? Should I understand that to the extent I have a deficiency, this is the extent that I’m connected to Him?
R. To the extent I have a deficiency, I have the connection with the Creator. Yes, you said it correctly.
45. S. (01:47:30) Could you help our 10 understand what the Klipot are and to discover when they appear?
R. A Klipot is every thought in spirituality that is outside of the 10.
S. What can we do in order to locate the Klipot when it appears?
R. Try not to pay attention, the more that you think about the Klipot the more you feed it, nurture and strengthen it, the best is to disconnect yourself from connection with these thoughts which are outside of the circle of the 10. You don't think about them, except for the necessities and in this way you don't feed it then it becomes canceled.
Excerpt 8 (01:48:55 - 01:50:03) Twice
46. S. (01:50:20) How do you mount the extremity all day and all night?
R. The 10 is the vessel, and the Divinity is the feeling that comes into this vessel, this receptacle, so through the 10 we have to constantly ask and pray and demand to the Creator to be revealed in the ball, in our 10 and by this we please him. By this we reveal the Creator and achieve adhesion with the Creator which is really our goal.