Morning Lesson May 29, Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: Actually, all of our work as created beings is to reach adhesion to the Creator to reach the same act of bestowal as him. Him to us and us to him and by this we can attain his degree, we understand and feel him and truly elevate ourselves to the degree of the Creator and with this action which is the end of our work, we truly need to reach complete congruence with the Creator with this action and in this we have two actions, the first is nullification, self-nullification, restriction which we call the first restriction which means that I don't receive anything for my own pleasure in order to fulfill my desire to receive to encourage and support my ego in any form. Gradually, slowly the created being becomes capable of doing this by receiving from above the light that shows the person there he is truly receiving for himself and later on we also get help, the special light that helps us to rise above the desire to receive. Later even more even to invert the desire to receive into a desire to give not the desire to receive as it is but also to add to this desire to receive gradually the intention to bestow, it turns out that by this we cancel our own authority through the first restriction, through nullification and by this we take the first step towards adhesion to the Creator. We are filled up with the feeling that we resemble the Creator to some extent this is called the light of Hassadim and we later even perform actual nullification, so the same desire, the same nature that exists in him, the nature that has in him we invert it through the right intention in order to bestow and it becomes an act of bestowal.
We see that it does not matter that this action is actually reception, receiving the light but the essence of the action is bestowal to the Creator and this way the created being reaches adhesion to the Creator and through all these actions we give contentment to the Creator. The Creator has no greater pleasure but the created being wanting to resemble him. This is actually all our work and we need to try to be in this all the time when we are capable of catching ourselves that we are fully aware that not to search for anything besides this. This is called that we have to constantly have to crave for adhesion to the Creator. These things are already familiar to ask but each and every day because in each and every day and even a few times a day even every moment, for us the records, the Reshimot are renewed from the shattering of the system of Adam. Relatively we are between one and the other and this is why we have to renew this work of hours in the annulment of using the desire to proceed with the intention to receive which is the action called first restriction.
Later we also have to try the same desire to receive after the restriction in order to bestow so that we may add to this desire the opposite action. That we are receiving but however with the intention only to bestow. This is more difficult and we have to be ready for this but we will reach this as well. We actually have a few actions here which on their own seem to us as opposite actions restriction and then specifically opening up the restriction and receiving. Earlier it was forbidden to receive because it was in order to receive and later to the extent that we acquire the intention to bestow we can open up the desire to receive and use it. Then the desire to receive that uses the intention to bestow it specifically becomes an actual vessel of bestowal. This is how we need to learn what to do and this is why our wisdom that we study is called the wisdom of Kabbalah, reception. That we learn how to use that only vessel that we have which is the desire to receive and use specifically this vessel, this desire in order to resemble the Creator to reach adhesion and bestowal to the Creator.
2. S. (07:00) You said that first we restrict and then we use the desire we enjoy from bestowal to the Creator through the light of Hassadim and then I add to this the desire to receive. What does this mean to add the desire to receive?
R. We are all of us to begin with a desire to receive. This is why the very first action is to restrict ourselves because this desire to receive that uses what it can in order to receive, it is shutting us into some special area from the whole of reality, which is called this world. We want to come out of this world and the Creator exists in particular in his actions outside the intention to receive outside of this world and this is why we need to try to rise through our actions towards the actions of bestowing, towards the Creator's actions. This way we begin to get to know him, we begin to know reality, we begin to know the upper world and we start living in the eternal and complete dimension which is the world of bestowal just like the Creator. To that extent that we acquire the actions of bestowal, that we perform actions of bestowal than we understand and feel what the Creator feels and this is considered that we are coming closer to him that each and every time we succeed in forming actions of bestowal that are more and more concrete greater and greater.
It depends on the degree of the ego and we can rise and build our actions against it and it is all manifested in a way that is practical in the group not necessarily physically in actuality although it is not redundant but it is more important in our world in our intention. How do I want to help the friends so all of us together can reach out of our connection, connection with the Creator? This is why I said that here there is the act of nullification of my desire to receive that I don't want to perform any action that is realized in my desire to receive as it is. Afterwards, when I am willing to do this, all the desires that appear in me and I have before me additional actions that are bestowal in order to bestow which is called the degree of Bina this is the first step towards adhesions to the Creator then I begin to feel that I am already above my desire to receive. This is considered that I am in the light of Hassadim and it is considered our “tower flying in the air.” That I fully feel myself that I am not under the control of the desire to receive and later I can even use the ego the opposite way, that I will use it in order to bestow. Let’s put it this way, if I come to the host and I perform a restriction, I don't get anything from him and later on I can receive from him such things that I might say that I hardly enjoy them or they are such that I receive them because of necessity. And later on, and this is considered that I am using only the vessels of bestowal which is GE and later I can even use my vessels of reception the AHP when I receive things from the host that I truly enjoyed. I feel my desire to receive more and more in a way that I can wake it up as cruel, brutal as possible but also in order to delight the host.
All of the pleasures that exist and enter me in practice as they were before the restriction before creation when the vessel of Adam was fulfilled however later I am capable of using this through in order to bestow only where it does not matter what I do, it does not matter how much I receive. I feel that all of this I need to enjoy. I need to feel all the flavors in the desires however my intention is that I am doing it specifically only for the Creator. This is how we correct our vessels. We have apparently to work in the first stage that whatever we do is all not to receive anything for ourselves but only for our existence and by that we give contentment to the Creator because this is what I want, this is what I am capable of doing for him right now in order to get closer to him.
3. S. (14:14) How do we know the next Reshimo is waking up and what do we have to do when this new Reshimo wakes up?
R. We don't need to worry about this. I only need to be concerned about what I have right now and what will happen later in what form I do not know and I cannot ever and it should not be my concern at all. In each and every one of us there is a chain of these Reshimot, these records from here until the end of correction and I need to wake them up just like in every person there are already elements, information, data about all of his offspring until the end of correction, all of my offspring. The fact that we do not know this but there are such people who do know this and they can tell you what you will have and what will happen to you and so on. So, this is how it happens there is this feeling in a few people and the Sages see spiritual things not so much physical things. However, in each and every one of us there are records about the entire Reshimot because we are from the vessel of Adam before the shattering and this is why we have all in us all of this data the information we have them in all of us about what needs to happen so we can get back to the complete state before the shattering.
S. (16:21) So we do not have to see the signs of the Reshimot but there must be something there restriction is always the same restriction or there are signs we need to receive in other way.
R. These are not signs we do not know we cannot discover what is our next Reshimo in order to discover, we need to be presently in the present state in Hesed, delighted in Mercy and I do not care what happens to me, I just want greater adhesion without any characterization of this adhesion which I fantasize for myself. I don't need this fantasy, I just try to adhere more to the Creator. Just do everything you can so in the present state you can be as adhered to the Creator as possible. And how to do this? Through the ten. There is no other form to show the Creator that you are ready for the next degree a little bit more than before and then already you get a new spiritual state.
4. S. (17:44) Once again the Creator sends me thoughts that distance me from the lesson from our meetings with the friends and I do not want to work for the society, it says just work for yourself because then you will be rewarded more. How do you work with this?
R. If it is during the lesson, you must not think about this as if it were not existing, you have to simply disconnect from it if it is during the lesson. If it is outside of the time of the lesson, you need to scrutinize precisely what are these desires and thoughts that may bring you to necessary success. This is necessary in life so that you will be able to supply yourself with whatever you need for yourself in the family and for the rest again you need to go back to what is necessary for your spiritual life, this is how we need to live in both worlds.
5. S. (19:15) What does it mean that I wake up a Reshimot, what is this action, is there some active participation from my place?
R. If I want to be adhered to the Creator in everything I have right now, what the Creator is giving me right now, for sure he is giving to me and it is sure that He is bestowal to me, and I cannot resist the state I am in right now. Instead, I have to see how I use it in this present state as correctly as possible so in that state that I exist in if I perform actions to correctly actualize the situation, the present Reshimo record which is operating with me. In this I progress to the next state however I need to think only about this state I am in and not to philosophize and imagine the next state. How it will be is not my business but instead I have to be adhered to the Creator, this means that in any place I am in, that I have to search how to be adhered to the Creator. This is it, do not search other states or future states there is no need for this. If you are right now in adhesion with the Creator then you are already in adhesion so try in each and every state you exist in as much as possible to adhere yourself. Then suddenly you discover that either you are an embryo or you are a baby you are a young boy it doesn't matter you are in adhesion with him and nevertheless in each and every state the Creator gives you. It is him giving it to you, so from his perspective each and every state is perfect and whole and it depends on you how you accept this perfection.
This is why contentment to the Creator; we do not have to reach the end of correction but in and every moment we can give him contentment through adhering ourselves to him. The fact that he is changing the conditions he is changing them and you up on all those conditions you want to keep your adhesion to him like a baby. If the baby is adhered to the mother, then the baby feels good and the mother feels good, what can be better than that however the Creator prepared for us degrees through which we have to develop. So, we do develop but nevertheless this development is not that we invite him we just want in each and every moment to be adhered to the Creator and in this adhesion, it has to be such that we by our own, we do not want to change the situation. Adhesion is adhesion. It is wholeness. If I am in a state where I do not want to change anything as much as I give myself to the Creator as much as I am in adhesion to him as much as I belong to him that I am seemingly already in the world of Ein Sof. There are some additional details which we discover later by ourselves if we think about it.
Excerpt 5 (23:25 - 26:18) twice
6. S. What is the work?
R. The work is the effort against the desire to receive.
7. S. (26:35) He says that the reward is the work itself, the reward is to exit the exile or the state of the desire to receive, is it the same thing?
R. It is not the same, there are many forms of the reward but this reward is entirely in that I give contentment to the Creator from zero to one hundred percent and then according to my state I make efforts in quantity and quality. Accordingly, I can measure the reward. I do not have any possibility to measure the reward except by how much I exert in order to give contentment to the Creator. According to this I can feel the essence of the reward, the purpose and realization of the reward.
8. S. (27:57) It is up to us to build the intention. What does it mean to build the intention, is it not cumulative?
R. If I want to work in spirituality then I need to work in order to bestow and this is why first of all I build the intention to bestow as much as I can I also add to each the action so that my action will be precisely in order to bestow. This is why this is how I work so first of all there is the intention, maybe first of all there is the restriction and then I build the intention in order to bestow and following this as much as I can add action to it, I do that.
S. (29:10) Let's say we work in the ten and different things happen and the mind is not always ready to digest the sensations and everything that happened so how to build the intention and restrict to make this match between the sensation and the mind in the work of intention?
R. Constantly think about the intention and according to the manner of the intention into the degree reform actions and not in any other way. It is better to do little but with the right intention. Everything is measured according to the intention not according to the action itself the action in spirituality it is the intention itself.
9. S. (30:24) How can we make the Creator important to us in the 10?
R. How can we make the Creator important for us in the 10? By thinking about Him, forcefully thinking about Him. How important the Creator is, how special He is, how much He is doing. Let's talk between us, and that way we’ll make Him great between us.
10. S. (31:07) The planning of our actions, is it not the desirable result?
R. That we plan things ahead? That has nothing to do with the outcome. There is the matter of being concerned about doing something, planning and what we want to reach. Then there is the action, and during the action, especially at the end of the action, we have to check how much we achieved, what was the ‘desirable’ - why we did, why we didn't and to what extent. This is our work.
11. S. (32:14) What is this work in this effort against the will to receive?
R. Against the will to receive in order to receive. We want to invert it.
S. I thought what characterizes the work is not that much against but to add importance to the quality of bestowal because we cannot fight against?
R. If It's in practice then you are right. In order to actualize it correctly, we need to think about the importance of bestowal relative to the importance of reception.
S. It says here in the excerpt we read that ‘this is done by diminishing the force of the will to receive’. It is not clear, there is always a question how to balance this? Do we really need to diminish the force of reception?
R. Lessening the force of reception, I need to do it on the condition that I’m receiving in order to receive but if I’m already working in the intention to bestow then I do not have to do this. It all follows the intention, the intention organizes everything.
12. S. (37:26) If carrying a necessity, can I also bring contentment to the Creator.
R. By keeping the necessity can cause contentment to the Creator if your intention is to keep the necessity and in all the rest, to advance towards spirituality.
S. Rabash wants to find, if I’m not mistaken, he says ‘necessity is something that I would be happy to be rid of but I have no choice so I have to do it’. So if a necessity a person enjoys from fulfilling his necessity, is he no longer bestowing contentment to the Creator?
R. Let's say just a person who simply enjoys keeping the necessity.
S. Yes, he enjoys his work, being with his family . . .
R. So that’s an animal, just an animal, the degree of the animate. If he has no intention in order to give contentment to the Creator, he is not Adam, he is not similar to the Creator to some extent. That’s it. He is just alive even though on the degree of in order to receive in a very small degree. even if he is not harming others, as if not harming others. We do not take this into consideration because in those, there is no calculation. They are not taken into consideration according to creation. The Creator does not take into consideration a creature who is working according to the will to receive, the Creator, Himself, organized for him. How is it possible to take into consideration a creature that is keeping that desire to receive that it received? If the Creator gives created beings the will to receive and then commands within will receive, and that creature keeps them automatically then it is considered that he exists in this world. It could be a person who is undergoing all kinds of changes in his states and he’s searching but he still doesn’t come out of the in order to receive, so he's still considered a beast. There is nothing in him that is from the form of man, Adam. Therefore, all-in-all, he is just keeping those same commandments which he received from above. This is why he is considered an animal. This is why it says about this whole world that ‘they all seemed as beasts. Whereas one who tries to rise above his will to receive and to be in order to bestow, he tries somehow to come out and perform actions that are as if against creation, against the Creator who gave him this corporeal will to receive. So he is already elevating himself from the degree of the beast to the degree of Adam. If he knows how to disconnect from his corporeal state, from in order to receive, and he enters into in order to bestow even to a small extent, it is already considered that he is shifting from the corporeal world to the spiritual world. This already is a different existence.
S. So regarding this existence you speak of which is different, if I look at the 10 and I see in the friends that for them, let’s say for one necessity is enjoying the relationship with his wife and he makes great effort just to maintain this necessity, how is he bestowing contentment to the Creator in this, or is he not?
R. This is not spirituality and it does not do anything. One has to arrange all these things on the corporeal level like an infrastructure for his spiritual development but not more than that. In that there is no spirituality. We have to realize, are you building an intention in order to bestow to the Creator? This is why we were given a very clear sign about this. Are you connecting with the friends in order to bestow it to the Creator? If you have such a connection between you, you build a group, you build a 10 and from that you want to bestow to the Creator to the extent that you want to connect between you and bestow to each other, help and support each other. If you are trying to do so these are spiritual actions. Whatever a person does by himself, it is a corporeal action whatever it is. One cannot perform an act of bestowal which is called spiritual if he is by himself.
13. S. (39:23) What does it mean to be adhered to the Creator in the present moment?
R. Each and every moment in each and every state that I have, if I know how to feel it: Who am I? What am I doing? Where am I? Who am I connected to? What is happening to me? Who am I dealing with? Then out of this state, I have to try to reach adhesion with that upper force that is establishing this picture for me in the present moment.
S. How are you also adhered to the Creator at the same moment and don't want anything? The will to receive wants something in every moment.
R. So each and every moment you have to do it. That’s right.
S. What does it mean to be adhered to Him in the present moment, to be truly adhered?
R. But this is how it is always in each and every state wherever you are. Each and every time you will feel how much the conditions are changing and you, each and every moment, need to renew them more and more to constantly be in adhesion.
S. There is no moment of adhesion, there’s a moment of overcoming?
R. You have a moment of adhesion and the next moment is the moment of the next adhesion. Yes. This is how it is. Each and every moment, the present one is called ‘this world’; each and every next moment is called, ‘the next world’. We’ll get used to it.
14. S. (41:12) I'm not clear. We are performing actions in the 10 and this is not spiritual as long as we are not adding the correct intention but what is pushing us? What is the root of the same physical action in spirituality?
R. There is none, there is no physical world as it appears to us. It just appears to us in our mind, our senses but in truth the entire world is forces, only forces. And the fact that some of these forces are depicted to us with some corporeal image, this is how it is pictured in our vessels. Just like with technology, we can now, today, depict these things. There are things that are waves; and there are things that are not even waves but data -- what we call Reshimo, records -- and there are things that awaken in us or before us in certain forms. It all depends on the receiver. It’s with respect to the created being. It is not that there is truly a difference between these and those, what difference is there between the records and the spiritual Partzuf and the worlds? There is no difference. It is all with respect to the person who is attaining, receiving this.
S. It turns out that there is no root in spirituality of the corporeal work?
R. Of course, only forces are operating. Only the force of bestowal and the force of reception. The force of bestowal comes from the Creator, it is the Creator, Himself. This is how He is depicted in us. And the force of reception is what the Creator created opposite Himself so we would be able in the contrast, in the difference between these two forces, start to distinguish between Him and us. Without this oppositeness, this contrast, we cannot recognize anything. We need the contrast; we need the difference between black and white. Therefore, what the Creator created, it is something outside of Himself, the opposite to Himself, “I created the evil inclination” and if you can become similar to Him while existing in this evil inclination, for this, you have to receive the light from Him which is called ‘the spice of Torah’. The Torah is light so we use this light in order to make out of yourself, even though you are opposite to the Creator you can become similar to Him. Inside we remain opposite, we remain like a puppet which inside is entirely only desire to receive, but we arrange such a form, such a garment, a clothing that you resemble the Creator. So that your actions, even though inside you are in the will to receive, on the outside we are a will to bestow, this is why you are called created beings. Nevertheless, we become similar to Him, this is why we are called Adam, similar to Him.
15. S. (44:56) To clarify, how is the adhesion with the Creator supposed to come into expression? What is this thing? Is this some work in the thought towards the 10?
R. How do we need to resemble the Creator? Imagine to yourself that instead of the Creator, it is you. In the form of bestowal, love, connection in everything. Imagine how you would behave with the friends. Make of yourself as if you were the Creator. Act towards them in such a manner and then see what it means to be Adam. Do such exercises with them.
16. S. (46:10) Regarding the restriction, is it something we are aware of? Something we do voluntarily, willingly? Is it done within the person when faith above reason rises above the will to receive?
R. Restriction is that I do against my initial, original desire in order to become similar to the Creator, at least in this that I do not receive, like Him. This is called ‘the action of restriction’. Equivalence of form, at a minimal level with the Creator, that I stop being a receiver, this is called ‘restriction’.
17. S. (47:19) If some Reshimo awakens in me and this Reshimo is felt in me as suffering, is it possible to accelerate this Reshimo and bring on the next one?
R. I need to realize the present Reshimo, the current one, and as a result of this I will receive the next record. But I do not need to work as if for the next record because I do not know what it is. I need to work with everything I have right now to arrange my things in the present state to maximum adhesion with the Creator. As much as I can depict it to myself, that’s it. Then from this, I will exchange my current stage for the next one.
18. S. (48:45) The topic is delighting the creator, giving him contentment. Can we even get to know this importance in the 10, if the Creator enjoys our work, because personally whatever I do I feel that I give even greater dissatisfaction than before, so I just want to go to the next lesson to cover to dress this dissatisfaction into the next degree.
R. We need to be in mutual actions in the 10 such that these actions will give me the sensation of confidence that I am going step-by-step each moment forward more and more. It all depends on our connection in the 10 and this is how we progress.
19. S. (49:50) What should be our intention so that the 10 is satisfied with the Creator and the Creator with the 10?
R. R. It is through the adhesion nothing else, what we do, as much as we do does not matter, if we make effort to give contentment to the Creator and we hope that He receives this. This is the work.
20. S. (50:35) How can we make friends feel that they have a strong desire to attend the meetings?
R. We are learning this from the articles. I cannot answer this, just more and more to read about the Kabbalists’ advice to us, to do and make an effort to follow them and do this and then you will see to what extent they are actually helpful.
21. S. (51:25)Regarding everything we are talking about right now from the beginning of the lesson, it is all revealed all the Reshimot are against the person's efforts to be in delighted in mercy, in nullification, in love of friends, but we are not always in those states as many times we are not there, there are different dynamics and resistance and the struggle in the ten, and it feels that sometimes instead of progressing this state of delighted in mercy turns out the dynamics of the 10.
R. It could be that it seems to us that incidentally we are not moving forward, but to correct ourselves to the state of delighted in mercy it is the opposite. I can be in any state it does not matter, I can be in whatever state, I am in it, but I am always adhered to the Creator through this. It is adhesion to the Creator which is the state which is the highest condition in my life, I do not want anything else only to be adhered to the Creator, so whatever He does to me it doesn't matter, I only want to be adhered to the Creator, and this is the condition for the state of being delighted in mercy, that I want only his mercy, Hassadim, so first make an effort to be in this, and by this I start to give contentment although not yet in practice actively, since we're not doing anything we just desire mercy, we do not have anything yet to give Him, but this state itself, this state of mine, in this I identify with the Creator, and that from this moment on I might be able to develop myself to give Him something actively as He gives me, and then we reveal such mutual actions that I will be for my beloved and my beloved is for me.
Excerpt 6 (53:51 -55:42)
22. S. (55: 52) You suggested to focus on achieving the degree of delighted in mercy, Hafetz Hesed, and you said nothing is required as this is a passive state, although it feels very active bestowal up on everything, that I just want to be adhered to the Creator not to want anything for myself, so is it passive at the same time it seems very active?
R. It is correct that it is very active in respect to physical life and passive with respect towards spirituality. It is a transition from this world to the next world from the world of reception to the world of bestowal, so in respect of reception we are in restriction and in respect to bestowal we are constantly checking ourselves, making an effort to enlarge the forces of bestowal.
S. If it's right to connect it to what someone asked before about our relationship, when I relate to these things of necessity, and it doesn't matter what I go through I just want to attach to the Creator, then can I say that I am using a necessity for the sake of bestowal?
R. It is correct and that's why we are also in this physical world, to begin from here, from within our physical actions to prepare ourselves for the spiritual world, for actions of bestowal. So even in our current state whether we want it or not we are already in bestowal even before we enter the spiritual world.
Excerpt 7 (57:42 - 59:12)
22. R. Here he wants to touch upon something very delicate that differentiates between Kabbalah and religion because all of the religion demands a person to fulfill some corporeal actions and if a person fulfills then he thinks he is doing everything necessary. That is the main difference between the wisdom of Kabbalah and all of the religions. It is not just Judaism Christianity or Islam, but everything bad a person may form for himself in this world there are more than two thousand such religions and faiths. I heard in India and a few places they have already started building such unique structures, buildings to do their work against the Coronavirus. That people come and they bow down. I don't know exactly what they're doing there, they sing and dance and order in such a manner to influence the virus. It is not a joke as I have seen a bit about this, it is very interesting and they are correct if it is a phenomenon from nature that maybe we will do such a thing, that we will agree to 1 want and be respecting and with respect to this virus there is a lot of philosophy in this. So, what I want to say in sum total, what he is writing here in this excerpt is that we need to see how we are working, is it spiritual work or is it corporeal work. Am I doing this for the benefit of the Creator and this is called the next World? The next world is systems of bestowal as compared to systems of reception.
23. S. (01:02:08) It says that when he remembers him, he doesn't let me sleep. What does this mean?
R. I constantly think about how I bestow contentment to the Creator and this determines all of my attitude towards life because in reality there is no more than me and the Creator to the entire world ultimately that through them, we arrange and connect them and fill them I raised them to the Creator, that is my work. We make an effort to see before us only these two things, the world, at least a 10 in the meantime and the Creator, that I need to bestow to the 10 in order to bring them closer to the Creator. That is what is important to me.
24. S. (01:03:30) As I understand it is regarding something that happened in the past and you always teach not to look back. Why do we have to think about what happened, we should be looking ahead?
R. Time is a matter of the past, present, or future is an illusion that only exists in our mind. Envision that exists only in our mind that from our lack of adhesion that we are in such a frame. When we rise above time, motion and space from here we want to bestow then all reality becomes as one reality and we use this in a manner that is not important to me whether it is past present or future as there is no such thing, they are only opportunities to bestow which are entirely not important where I take them from the main thing, I reveal is these opportunities to bestow. That we are connecting all of reality into one connection. Intention.
25. S. (01:05:29) Friends chose the famous exit talking about men sitting together starting as a man of war and then finishing by being and brotherly love and giving contentment to the Creator. In BB we have a powerful tool for the workshop where we are sitting and talking. Are we giving contentment to the Creator?
R. The Creator enjoys hat we are connected that's him here we make an effort to return what is dependent upon us, part of the vessel of Adam into correction, into add he's into him, that is mainly our work and don't forget that we need to correct the shattering and as much as we are capable of doing this, this is our 10 that is called that the Creator brings man to the good-faith placing his hand and says take this for you and we need to make an effort in fulfilling the force of mutual guarantee between us slowly and gradually to advance to a state where we will feel that we are truly dependent on one another. That we are obligated to one another in the 10 and that we have no choice, we need more and more on a daily basis to feel ourselves that we are closed up in this vessel of the 10. Let's say we have a group of six in the time of Rabash when he was teaching us, he said it's not important, the number, some had 14, it is not important, the important thing is you are in the 10 and you make truly an effort to be together. From within this we advance so once again I repeat it over and over that we have no choice as we must feel ourselves as the vessel Adam HaRishon that is awakening to correction.
26. S. (01:08:37) Should I feel my intention towards the Creator or towards the friend that this is sincere and not just a false thought that I force myself to feel?
R. I don't know these are scrutinies, many are scrutinies that I cannot speak of them really in the lesson because some can understand correctly. There are many words that can confuse us. Scrutinize it on your own and the main thing is to advance each time and to understand from all of the confusion and all of the states, that the connection between us with respect to the Creator is the correct form and as much as you will advance in this, with the confusions between the states of this and that then you will learn from what you are going through of how to progress forward.
27. S. (01:09:52) Actions that you perform for the society but if you do them by yourself are they actions of bestowal?
R. Are you saying of yourself for each and every one?
S. Each and every one.
R. That is true because each does the actions on their own but within me how much do I want to connect and to raise them like a bouquet, like a vessel complete to the Creator.
S. When I want to perform this action, I should hold the 10 in my intention.
R. yes, otherwise, how are you bestowing contentment to the Creator.
S. That I perform an action that will contribute to my 10 and the rest of the tens.
R. What are you doing for them?
S. I prepare the subtitles and I help with preparation.
R. Nobody is really considering these things, this is not considered good, good is too advanced to where the good witch is the creator, in what are you advancing them to the Creator, preparing subtitles is good, I'm not saying it isn't and also in this there is some spiritual action because you're doing it for the society, very good. But in any case, how must we check the action, how much are you progressing towards the Creator and how much are you becoming tighter together in a mutual manner that all are canceling their ego one towards the other that in sum total what is common between them is that they are ready for this.
28. S. (01:12:02) According to what we determine that one student is advancing and another is not, one is regressing one is progressing to what do you decide on this?
R. I checked the students according to how much they are in the lessons. If a student is in all of the lessons and as much as this person is capable, if he participates in all of the lessons then in my eyes, he is a good student. As much as he advances is not dependent on him if he reaches the lessons and if he makes an effort in his group to be along with them to listen to the lesson and he is hoping for this to advance him. Then all the rest is not dependent upon him as each one has a root of his own soul and in this each one progresses differently. Some progress very quickly and very quickly reaches some form of bestowal, a spiritual form and they're in it. Some have a lengthy process and barely learn as they seek many years to reach spirituality but it depends upon the root of the soul, the heaviness of the soul. How heavy it is, how horrible it is. According to this it has great thickness that this person when he corrects it accordingly, he will also receive the greater reward. Those who are greater than my friends also have a greater inclination. We are in the final generation and are awakening the worst souls that happened to receive correction until now then it turns out that our work is difficult and our correction is also very lengthy from everyone, from all of the souls that were in correction before and what can we do as we did not choose this matter, this is how it is and we need to do everything in order that we would have spiritual progress, all of us and we shall prepare ourselves for the next Berry that they shall have everything ready books, everything and they will be able to also correct themselves rather quickly.
S. And the ways for the next generation will become revealed for us?
us?
R. That's for the next generation?
S. How to disseminate to them?
R. Yes, everything we do for the next generation will be needed. Even though we see things that may not be Ok. That we need to do it a bit differently, that's the path that's how we develop, that's how it is also in science and in the wisdom of Kabbalah, and everything, we keep building as we see things. That is how it is in science and everything in life. We are building. We see that things are changing in life and we exchange it with something better. That is evolution.
29. S. (01:16:30) We've prepared a few questions from the internet
S. How come when we think about giving contentment to the Creator, we forget that the 10 is the means for it?
R. Because it's against our ego, there is nothing more difficult than connecting in the 10. Meaning fundamentally because this is against the ego. The 10 is the structure of all of reality just like we don't see it in the structure that truly all of reality is there and the repulsion from it is very great.
S. What is the meaning of actualizing the Reshimot, the records?
R. That we take a record from the shattering. The vessel that the Creator created broke it then all of these records that were there in order to bestow took on the intention of in order to receive and all of these records that are in order to receive now awakened in us. All of these Reshimot records we need to invert them as it says see, from in order to receive to in order to bestow that we need to invert the intention and this is how we use it correctly. That is, I use each and every Reshimot record not to my benefit but for the benefit of the creator. For the benefit of the Creator, I don't know what it is but the Creator is closed in all of reality and I can see the world and everything so it would be for the benefit of the whole so instead of the whole world where I don't even know where this is, .... so, I actualize this in the 10 which is something that represents the whole of reality, I learn from within the 10 what I need to do and then I begin to feel how in the small 10 of mine that I can discover the whole of reality. I don't need to go out and expand but rather in the connection between us I begin to discover that behind each and every friend there are systems, such great egoistic systems that I have to work on them to connect them and to connect to them to be above them and ai them to be in order to bestow. We hardly even need to leave the 10 but rather there is work this way and that way because we are still in the corporeal world.
S. You said that a person receives assistance, light is this something that is receivable that you can truly say is from the Creator?
R. I would say it this way that the help of the creator doesn't usually come to us just like in our world where I say I want to do something and then I get some tool and with this tool I can do something, no. From the Creator columns more in that I wasn't able to do something earlier and I asked, I wanted to do this action somehow and suddenly I see that I am doing it. This is how it is as help from the Creator columns not that I get from him help and I do it, but usually and there are some variations of that, but usually it comes in a way that the Creator actually performs the action. This is called the Lord will finish it for me and this is how it happens but we need to ask all of the time to ask and if we ask together for certain they will happen.
S. I am a beast and I don't know how to give pleasure to friends or to the Creator but I truly want to realize this is this the correct direction?
R. You should constantly ask, but not like that but to scrutinize what it is you are missing in order to be in bestowal and then you will see how much it works.
S. Necessity, not too much or too little do I need to suffer in my desire to receive and ascribe this as an opportunity to connect to the 10?
R. Do everything you think might help you be more connected with the 10, do it. And also know that you don't always succeed and the Creator is giving you the opportunity to fail and to the extent that you later discovered that you didn't do it correctly and why didn't the Creator stop you, because you were just regarding the friends and what can you do? This is how he is teaching us.
30. S. (01:23:20 ) You said that each one has their own root of their soul and everything comes from above and in the 10 there are gaps, what do you say to a friend that he feels he is far and distant and that everyone is advancing at any moment and I am not comment not in the root of my soul certainly but through the 10 he can advance that he feels he is not behind?
R. It is always this way, the people who advanced their advancement is in that but they discover how much they are lagging behind and even if you go among the scientists and you start asking them all kinds of things, they will say well we don't know about this or that, we are in doubt about this and this is not known, these are true scientist. You go in between ordinary people and they'll say yes, this is this way and that is that way, meaning the person that is advancing he feels so much he is still lacking., One who is greater than his friends his inclination is greater. This is why specifically these people have doubts.
S. How do we each one helps our friend; this is what the Kabbalists tell us to advance the friends?
R. The more we invest in the 10 and beyond their invest in dissemination to the general vessel this is how we advance because all of these vessels are mine and the fact that I am doing this against my ego that I have to publicize to them and teach them and care about them these are truly ask bestowal.
31. S. (01:25:55) What does it mean to receive more in spirituality like my heavier soul received more reward?
R. Yes, the heavier the soul came from the heavier layers of the desire to receive in Adam HaRishon so the records are very heavy, very hard, thick coarse, this person to the extent he awakens toward spirituality, he awakens in a very slow manner and he has a truly great ego, he doesn't hear very well what the others are saying because the ego is blocking him. He doesn't see beyond what the ego allowing him to see you can connect in a simple way, but any more than that his heart doesn't allow him to feel them inside his heart so he performs actions, however these actions are just like putting some medication on the outside of his body but he is not getting it inside. This is how we feel what is happening to us especially in this generation as Baal HaSulam writes, this is the generation of the worst souls in reality that could not be sorted earlier. This is why it is upon us only to continue and to be proud that we are the worst and that we were given such a state where we are actually correcting the most broken vessels and we should advance. Creation has to reach correction, all of it so sooner or later we will reach it and the most important is that each and every moment of our existence that we will reach states where we do want to be in adhesion with the Creator and whatever state it is. If I am right now, don't even tell me what state I'm in, it doesn't matter whatever state that I'm in. I want only one thing to be at here to whatever I am in right now toward the Creator, this is called wholeness and this is how we need to see ourselves.
S. What is the greater reward that we are receiving?
R. The greater reward he counts it in a different way, he counts the reward that he is capable of doing something without any response from the Creator and he does try to recruit the forces to perform actions in order to bestow, he doesn't need an answer, he doesn't need a reward my reward is that I am working up of any reward. Give me the power, the strength so that I will be able to work in such a way that I will have no reward, no response. This will truly be the true reward.
32. S. (01:30:15) We heard that a good student, one that advances is one that is in all the lessons and participates as much as he can so he is a good student. What is an advancing 10?
R. A 10 that is advancing is already a spiritual structure, that they feel themselves more and more converged, solidified in one heart and mutual bestowal to one another. One in the 10 carries for the entire 10 and each one for everyone reaches a state called mutual responsibility and in here they begin to discover Torah this is where they discovered the Creator's actions toward them in practice and that they are bestowing to him in practice in return and this is called I to my beloved and my beloved to me. That they are already establishing the system, Adam HaRishon.
S. How do you measure an advancing 10?
R. I look at you and I see it.
33. S. (01:31:46) A few minutes ago you mentioned an expression, an interesting one, that the 10 is the structure of reality, could you explain a bit more?
R. That if we come to a point that we are connected to the group and in the group, we can discover all of the details of the whole global reality because the particular and the collective are equal and so there is no problem to be in a 10 and from the 10 studying the whole of reality.
34. S. (01:33:04) What do you recommend we do that we can advance between us in a way that we will be able to hold onto the unity between us?
R. It is only according to your concern, your discussion, you need to sit down and discuss this. Give yourself time to see how you conclude, what your work is, what you all think you should do as your next action and from step to step, from time to time you come to states where you see but everything comes down to this round system that you are putting together, discuss this. You need to discuss this, try. Don't just go through everything silently, some speak more and some speak less but the group needs to share a few words about what is the state that they are in.
35. R We can study TES whatever you want it's moved to TES.