Morning Lesson April 15, 2023

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

Part 2:

The Conditions for Connection in the Ten- Selected Excerpts from the Sources (Choosing a Good Environment. #11)

Reading #11 “He who strives to continually choose a better environment is worthy of praise and reward..”

1. R. (01:45) Because a person's future depends on that. Questions?

2. S. (01:55) How do I choose a better environment every time? I'm constantly in the same environment.

R. You may choose the entire environment, you're ten, you can choose human beings and also among human beings you can choose some of them.

S. But it seems the Creator choose for me.

R. No you don't understand. Before me there’s a ten. In this ten if truth be told I would see the entire humanity if I could see it right. Billions of people, nations, groups, whatever you want, it’s only that I can’t see that well. All I see is 10 bodies and nothing more. So we should try to see in all our friends who are so complex, multifaceted that every time if I advance, if I change myself, (that’s easier to understand), that if I change myself more I seen in them more sides, more shapes. It all depends on the person himself rather than the ones around him. Let's say that you take, I don't know how to say it. I once walked into a gallery with my friend who was a painter and he started explaining to me all kinds of conditions and colors and shapes, how to look, how to accept the paintings etcetera. I saw that there was a whole world there I had never seen, for me was just a piece of canvas and someone spilled something on it. Meaning everything depends on the way a person develops.

You can be like me, that I used to look at it like a donkey or my friend who was a painter who carried me to see these pieces of art. So it all depends on a person. When you look at the world you see the world in your vessels and someone else in his vessels. He may see the world full of colors, someone else looking at the world will may see the upper world through this world. He may see that there's another force, an upper force beyond the upper world that governs and runs the upper world, governing our world as well and governing himself ultimately. It all depends on the person.

S. It’s a good example but what happens if I feel that instead of the friend explaining to me about that painting he’s just scribbling? How can I see him as the Rav, as great?

R. I believe that above the friend there's another force, the upper force that’s almighty, organizing for me some place in society and by connection to that society I can reach to higher degrees. That's how it is.

3. S. (07:04) What is the action of constantly choosing the right environment?

R. Yes, there is such an obligation to constantly choose a better environment. We actually see it this way that when I come to a state where I see that I'm in a good environment, then I have to work on myself to make a better environment of that environment. Every time that's me, myself, that I raise the friends to a higher degree and the Creator along with them. That means to try to find a better environment for myself every time.

S. Every time it’s searching for the best conditions for the environment, for my actions to build the environment. So it's my responsibility to build this?

R. I have to keep searching for conditions that in my eyes will raise the society and then I’ll see them in the correct way. It could be that I reach a state that I see that this environment isn't enough for me, not good enough and I have to exchange it. That that can also happen and then I go from one place to another but that rarely happens. So eventually each one lands in the place where he needs to develop. But the right environment will never hold a person by force, that he will stay with them but if you want to go good luck, go ahead, leave. We have conditions, we keep those conditions, they’re important to us. Whoever keeps those conditions remains, whoever doesn't must leave. There are people that think that if they’re in a certain society they can also bend them according what they feel like.

4. S. (10:30) In your example with the painter this expert emphasized the gap between him and you. He had something and you didn't and that's a big difference, you couldn’t see his world. How does he perform this action when he emphasizes the separation and he causes extra connection between you?

R. He can, he needs to drag me to his degree and teach me and it takes years. Then I can understand his state, his attitude, otherwise no. Otherwise he could just explain like we explain to children.

5. S. (11:25) I am still in the question what is a better environment in the work, in the ten? Because it’s the same ten we chose and we’re all on the same path.

R. More connected to the Creator and also between you.

S. And how do I tie everything that happens to the ten. That’s what I heard, I have to connect everything that happens, I have to see it through my ten.

R. I don't understand.

S. If I understand you correctly whatever happens, all my experiences I have to connect them, I have to tie them to what I see in my ten.

R. No, I didn't say that.

6. S. (12:20) What does he say choose a better environment every time rather than build a better environment every time?

R. He chooses because he doesn't build the environment. He sees in it a more advanced environment every time.

S. If I invest in my friends they’ll be better and I’ll enjoy their greatness, is that correct?

R. Yes that depends on the extent of your closeness, to the extent that you love them.

S. What is the action of choice that may change my point of view on the environment?

R. As much as you love them you justify them.

S. Investing in my environment means to love them, this means investment?

R. Yes, of course.

7. S. (13:33) As much as I understand finding a better environment means to go deeper inside with the teacher, with the books and with the friends. So how to do that better, more?

R. What you have before you and what’s written, what the Kabbalists wrote, try and combine them and that's it. Implement what the Kabbalists are writing about in this society here before you.

S. Sometimes there are disturbances.

R. Sometimes? You are spoiled. Sometimes there are disturbances, yes.

8. S. (15:23) Can we say that a good environment is my intention to make the friends bigger?

R. Yes.

9. S. (15:58) Are there different degrees of wholeness within a complete prayer?

R. Yes of course.

10. S. (16:26) Regarding the complete prayer and environment of the ten, is it worthwhile to reshape the prayer throughout the day in order to deepen our feelings and come to an emotional state?

R. It's worth trying that, it's worth trying it.

11. S. (17:25) It seems that freedom is really in the choice of the environment. There's no pressure, a person can choose in his environment how much pressure he puts on himself and that's not a war like the war of the inclination that you have to fight. It’s as if you really need to choose how much pressure you put on yourself. Now, were it the war it would be more, a person could really choose here. Why is the freedom there?

R. Why do you think you have freedom?

S. I would feel freedom if there is like a choice, an action for the friends or against the friends. If I want to give to the friends, bestow to the friends I can choose not to but when I choose an environment it’s as if the Creator really gives you freedom, that’s the way it seems.

R. What freedom? He brought me to an environment, He organized an environment with this condition, He organized my character with all the conditions in me, so what freedom is there? What freedom, that I need to adapt myself to the environment? So what freedom is there? It all depends as much as I understand or not how I adapt myself to the society.

S. What does it mean this adaptation between me and the environment?

R. As much I see the differences between me and the environment.

12. S. (19:40) It actually seems that many times friends feel that they have the freedom to choose, how much to take part, maybe I'll come maybe I won't.

R. It seems, they think it’s like that.

S. This area seems gray, choosing the environment.

R. Gray from human feelings.

S. Why here is it so concealed, because someone may see the choice of the environment?

R. It's concealed so we can raise our sensitivity and enter a higher degree of freedom of choice.

S. But it's not even clear many times that there is the work. I may choose how much I take part in the ten, how many times I’ll come.

R. That's the whole thing.

S. It doesn't seem black and white it’s a very gray area, why is it concealed?

R. As much as you put clear limitations here for yourself by that you’ll advance. As much as you’ll want to erase those clear borders you’ll feel more pleasant but you won’t advance.

S. What is the criteria here to choose the borders, the limitations correctly?

R. That you put yourself under pressure, to a lack of choice, to a state that there is no freedom of choice.

S. I choose between what two choices, it’s concealed?

R. Look at what Baal HaSulam wrote, he who chooses and so on.

S. But Baal HaSulam doesn't write if I have to sit it with my friends or stay home, to come to some duty, to take responsibility in the ten.

R. Why not? He who chooses the better environment every time.

S. Oh I stay home, I make my intentions.

R. Say in a clear way according to how you're doing it and you’ll see that every time you’re under press, every time you have a choice, life or death. You’ll see.

13. S. (22:25) In the excerpt he writes that we can’t really do anything but two actions, make for yourself a Rav and buy for yourself a friend. I'm asking a question but my intension is the other side. I see the actions I do to the friends, the way I acquire them, I buy them and it's not clear if they see it. So how can I see what they're doing for me, how they’re buying me?

R. Ask. Ask one friend and another friend what he thinks about that. Not that you want to organize them or confuse them, you are asking towards yourself maybe. I don't know what to do.

S. How can a person see this action of buying?

R. You're asking questions that are a bit about psychology that I'm having trouble with.

S. I will try to ask differently. A person performs actions, he has to choose if he comes to the duty or if he does actions, how much time he invests in the environment. Are these actions of buying the environment?

R. In all your actions towards the environment you're acquiring them, you're buying them.

S. How can I see these actions of buying when they are done towards me so I will know that I am doing the right action for society and not living in some illusion, that I'm performing intentions in my heart?

R. I can't concentrate anymore.

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