Morning Lesson July 12, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, the title is ruin as an opportunity for correction that if there were no ruin there would be nothing to correct. If there was nothing to correct we would lose the entire opportunity to feel creation, as the advantage of light out of darkness. This is the only way we attain, and therefore if there were no difference between the will to receive and the will to bestow, between darkness and light, in all of our senses we wouldn't even understand and feel creation where we are. If we had no feeling we would not develop the intellectual system, the awareness, and we would just remain as a small, primitive, and very limited desire. Rather, all of the richness that we have in our sensation, in our understanding, in the various discernments we have, comes to us specifically out of the fact that in our foundation there are two opposite things. One force, the force of bestowal, comes from the Creator, this is His nature and the force of reception comes in precisely the opposite way through the opposite projection from the Creator. These two forces operate in us, in between the two of them, not that we destroy one at the expense of the other or we create some kind of connection between them where one would annihilate the other.
It is just that we need to position them one opposite the other in a way that in between the two we exist with our perception, our vision, our healthy feeling. It's not through one thing we can perceive creation and not through the other, but rather in between the two of them, specifically together and this is called 620 times more that we attain the power and the richness that exists in creation. Therefore the ruin that we have at the beginning of creation, or the sin as we call it, the “sin of the tree of knowledge”, all of those things, it's necessary for them to occur because without that there would be no mingling or mixing of the Kedusha and the Klipot, and then there would be no opportunities and distinction between the two of them. Specifically through the distinctions between the two of them we build ourselves. We are not the flesh and blood, it is not our body, or whatever we have right now, but rather what we gather through the scrutinies between the good and the bad, the darkness and the light, the Klipa and the Kedusha. Whatever comes out of those, what we call the sparks that emerge, out of them we assemble our deficiencies, our discernments and the correct fulfillments for the vessel that is called the soul.
Through those discernments this vessel grows, expands, it becomes filled, and this is how we attain the understanding and the feeling of the Creator, in adhesion, in connection with Him. Therefore, we need to realize that nothing bad happens in creation but it is only scrutinies of what the Creator created and what He wants to scrutinize for us, what He wants to teach us. Studying Him is not how we are used to studying at school, or at home, in the kindergarten, and in all kinds of places that are higher, but rather studying Him means that He brings a collision within us of opposite qualities so that out of their collision within us, when we are in separation and in searching and in all kinds of states that are opposite, by this we eventually attain creation, the depth of creation, the width of creation, and by that we build ourselves. Any construction that we have to carry out, ends up being a result of our scrutinies, of the discernments that we get through the ascents and descents, through the shattering and through the collision between our ego, the will to receive with whatever is opposite it, the will to bestow. Let's go to the excerpts and from them we will learn what exactly is the ruin, what is the scrutiny that we have to make out of it, and how do we try to combine the pieces of the broken vessel so that specifically out of these broken vessels we learn about the depth of creation and about it's a nature so that eventually this is how we attain the Creator, the operator who is behind all of this.
Excerpt 1 (07:18)
2. R. (08:34) We need to say, nevertheless, that it is the revelation of the corruption in order to correct it, that is, the Creator needs to show us what is the difference, what is the gap between Him and creation, between these two forms. It is impossible in any other way as we learn, that we attain everything from something and it’s opposite. However, the thing is how do we relate to something and its opposite? Even though Kabbalists write a lot of words of, seemingly, speaking badly against the will to receive in order to receive, about the Klipot, the shells, and about to what extent they bring us death and sin and hardship. Along with all of that, if we looked at that from the right level, then we would not discover anything bad in creation rather that it is all covered with pure love. It is difficult for us to understand that and even to talk about it, we can't quite do it and we avoid it. People outside of us will not be able to understand it, to feel it, they will say that we are disregarding the whole of creation, that we do not understand it and we're not capable of identifying with all of the suffering that humanity is going through, that if we were to go through this suffering then we would also keep silent and we would not be able to bless the Creator on each and every step of the way. It is true, however, we need to distinguish between reality and a small person who is under the pressure of development. Kabbalist to go through this write that there is no bad in the world, there is only good. It is not that they didn't feel the bad, but rather they felt all of the bed, and they also feel during the correction, all of the bad and opposite that, all of the good force and nevertheless, they determined that this bad is what is allowing them to exist as a created being and to feel the Creator as good. So nevertheless it ends up being very weak in terms of the words we use and as much as we talk about it, well, “there is none as wise as the experienced one”. We will go through it, we will attain it, we will feel it and then, well, anyone who attains he attains and one who doesn't attain nothing will help him until he will also come to attainment.
3. S. (12:00) Why is the shattering of the vessels a correction?
R. Anything really is correction because it is on the way towards discovering the end of the work, the end of correction, the complete state that exists already. Anything that we discover in creation, even though it is a corruption, is in order to correct it. Therefore, we shouldn't relate so much to the bad things that we see before us, the difficult things, the corrections, but rather if we realize that we have to go through all of this with the intention of reaching a connection and correction and love, and unity with the Creator, then there is nothing bad in. Rather everything that is revealed is revealed in order to emphasize for us the good force that exists in the embrace between us and the Creator.
4. S. (13:35) There are states that we are familiar with of an ascent and a descent. What is the difference between regular ascents and descents and the shattering and correction?
R. Ascents and descents mean that I am in control of them, and I can even activate them. The shattering occurs through the revelation of the will to receive which is not under my control. I exist under the control of desires to receive that are greater than my force, my ability to hold myself with the correct intention, that's why it is called ‘shattering’, ‘breaking’.
5. S. (14:34) The Kabbalist described the process of the shattering and we learned this, but where is there an opposite example? How to study this, where to take in an example for this?
R. We don't have anything corrected as an example that we can see before us, there is no such thing. Rather you should do it according to how you understand it from the oppositeness. Instead of separation, connection; instead of hatred, love; instead of rejection, nearing and this is how it is. Something from its opposite is how we attain, this is how we build ourselves and therefore this is our special work, that we do it.
S. So it turns out that we need to invent this opposite form, it doesn't exist?
R. We need to feel the shattering, to try and understand what should be the corrected thing, that we are not capable of doing on our own, and that we are not supposed to do it on our own. Rather, all of these corrections are not a correction of the shattering, it is that on top of the shattering, we correct our connection with the Creator. This is why the correction is in that. So I should not be concerned about the complete vessel, it will be complete and it is already standing complete in eternity, Ein Sof. Rather, I need to be concerned that through the revelation of the ruin and the revelation of evil, I will connect with the Creator and I will create such a connection with Him and I will increase this connection with him each time more and more. That is, I don't pay attention to the states that I am going through. I am paying attention to the nature of my connection with the Creator upon all of the states I'm going through.
6. S. (17:17) The correction that was made within a person by the Creator, is that constant?
R. No, it says that you are elevated in sanctity and lowered in sanctity. We never have the same shattering and actually, it never repeats. We correct something, we’re done. Now we have new discernments that are waiting in line from the lighter to the heavier in order for you to correct them.
7. S. (18:03) To understand this concept, is the pandemic the kind of destruction? When it started then you said that the types of connections we had until now have ended and then we need to try to build a new kind of connection.
R. The new connection is a new degree. It means that this is for the better, not for the worse. This is how we need to look at it. You are elevated in sanctity you are never lowered in sanctity
S. So this is an example that came from above. How do we generate this from below, upwards, this is example of destruction?
R. Through connection between us we correct everything. There is no more than connecting all of the parts that were shattered and flew away from one another in the sin of the tree of knowledge, and besides that sin of the tree of knowledge we have no other ruins. All of the other ruins that we have on the other degrees, those ruins in each and every state that you have in the decline from Malchut of Ein Sof were established by the Creator down to our state in each and every stage through which creation fell from degree to degree. You might say that everything is a ruin, however we only count two ruins. One is in Mochin of Haya, this is the great level and the other one is in Mochin of Neshama. Opposite that we have the correction of bestowing in order to bestow from below upward, and later to receive in order to bestow. These two degrees are the primary degrees in the correction of the vessels, and there is no more, everything is included in these. This is considered reaching the state of an incomplete righteous, to bestow in order to bestow, the degree of Bina, and to reach a state of receiving in order to bestow, a complete righteous, the degree of the Keter.
Excerpt 2 (20:57) Twice
8. S. (23:25) It is clear why the good isn't revealed, so that we will work. It is unclear why the evil isn't also revealed?
R. Why is it not revealed? The evil is revealed exactly to the same extent, in the same form, that we are able to suffer it so that we will not break but rather realize that it is bad, understand the nature of the evil, and understand by what we are able to correct it and reach correction, that is, to rise above it, to see it, so we are not truly below it, beneath it as in the first moment it is revealed but rather to rise above it and to process it in such a way that we elevate it to the Creator and ask for correction. We don't ask for correction to correct the evil, but rather, upon this evil we will draw closer to the Creator and by this we will give Him contentment. We shouldn’t erase the evil or break the evil. We don't have the forces for it and there's no need for it. The Creator created it in order for us upon this evil specifically, we'll find the connection with Him. That's why we should also respect it as it says “the angel of death will become the holy angel”, that we attribute the same importance to the evil force as the good force. The Lord has made one opposite the other and this is how we get closer to the truth.
S. How can we be active in this and not wait for the revelation of evil?
R. The revelation of the evil that is revealed, whatever is revealed, is revealed in all of the degrees, the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking within us in all the degrees of coarseness, root 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. We need to scrutinize the essence of the evil. Eventually this evil is not bad because it is correcting for me all kinds of corporeal things related to my beast, but rather the essence of the evil is that it is corrupting my connection with the Creator, it is separating me from Him. So opposite that I have to get up, to rise and demand correction, this is what is nice and good. Each time I discover to what extent I have a corruption in terms of lack of love, lack of giving to the Creator. Lack of an inclination and connection. Opposite that, I am asking for a correction. This is called ‘raising MAN’. I am not asking for myself that the Creator will correct me and correct my state, rather I am asking that the Creator will help me to get closer to Him in order to bestow to Him, to be in adhesion with Him, and by that to give Him contentment. These are the corrections that each time we rise a degree in our understanding, in our discernment and this is how we advance. We will talk more about it, there are a lot of materials about it.
Excerpt 3 (26:59) Twice
9. R. (28:54) The breaking of the vessels when there was a mingling of the will to receive for oneself with Kedusha, holiness, when the partition between them was broken because the vessels broke. What does it mean that they broke? That the vessels that were in order to bestow received an intention to receive. Also there was the matter of the sin of the tree of knowledge which caused holy sparks to fall into the Klipot, the shells, and it follows that the breaking of the vessels and the sin of the tree of knowledge caused the created beings that come after, to receive its sustenance from ABYA of Klipa, shells, that we are nourished by the Klipot.
10. S. (29:48) What does it mean that the will to receive was integrated into holiness?
R. There was a partition, as we are now reading, between the will to receive in order to receive and the will to receive in order to bestow, and by the shattering they mingled and mixed together and so it's hard for us to distinguish between them. It's only with respect to the person and it's difficult for us to distinguish where is this desire, in order to receive or in order to bestow.
11. S.(30:39) Through the evil we rise towards the connection to the Creator, this is what I heard, but it seems like it is a fixed game, the Creator wants to promote us towards connection with Him and He wants us to love Him?
R. Of course from the side of the Creator there is nothing new here, but it is something new towards us. Like we play with children, is there anything new here in our game when we play with children? Rather we do everything in order to develop them, to elevate them.
12. S. (31:25) Can we correct ourselves only through the evil?
R. If the evil will not be revealed you will have nothing to correct. You will not have the possibility to say that I am separated from the Creator, you won’t have the possibility to discover the Creator exists and He is separate from you, and you won’t have the possibility to get closer to Him and adhere to Him, to start to get to know Him, and take on His qualities and to exist on His level. Evil is not evil, it is not bad, it is the revelation of the deficiency. What do you lack in order to reach the degree of the Creator? This is called the revelation of evil.
13. S. (32:29) How can we work in the 10 in order to identify the thoughts of the will to receive and by that they are causing us harm or taking over?
R. We can recognize it only on the condition that we learn about bestowal, that we are in a society that respects bestowal, where we try to ask of the Creator, that He will shine on us with the light of bestowal and then opposite that we see what the Klipot, the shell mean. We begin to hate it, to distance from it, and that is how we advance. All of our advancement is only through us asking for more reforming light. It shows us to what extent in order to receive is bad and in order to bestow is good. This is how we advance. To distance from the bad in order to get closer to the good, this exists within our nature, however, each time we have to discover what is bad and what is good on degrees that are higher and higher. This is how we rise and rise and rise in our values. The value of the bad and the good value determine our sense on the degrees. It's either with the right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot. This is how we rise and rise on the degrees. Try to understand this principle and you will see how much of this is right here ahead of us and we can use it.
14. S. (34:48) What are holy sparks?
R. The holy sparks are the parts of the vessels that were in order to bestow and they fell into the general will to receive in order to receive, then they create discernments in the will to receive in order to receive, to what extent it is in order to receive, the opposite of the Creator that is the opposite of Kedusha, holiness. The difference between in order to receive and in order to bestow, the smallest one, is called a spark. It all comes through man's feeling, not that it exists on its own but rather it is only with respect to the person who attains it.
15. S. (36:03) The sparks that fell were already integrated. Why did they have to fall upon the Klipot and discover the evil inclination and not immediately be corrected with the quality of Bina?
R. This is all with respect to the person that through all of these discernments, should become similar to the Creator. Everything that happens, happens inside of the general will to receive that the Creator created. Through all kinds of states like this that go over the will to receive, the will to receive through them becomes perfected and it reaches resembling the Creator. The will to receive remains the will to receive, however in its intention it is constantly updating itself more and more in order to bestow, that is to use all of its elements, all of its desires to enjoy, and invert the desires to enjoy. What is it going to enjoy from instead of when it was for paying attention to its own individual states? To what extent I feel that I am enjoying gradually it shifts to a state where it checks that the Creator is enjoying, the other is enjoying, through the group, the friends, but eventually the Creator. The Creator is farthest from us, this is how we learn from “the love of people to the love of the Creator”. This is actually the process of our correction, through that we come to identify with the Creator. He is entirely in order to bestow and we also acquire our attitude to whatever happens entirely in order to bestow.
16. S. (38:38) When the worlds were created and then there was the shattering and then the will to receive and the will to bestow were already integrated, and when the worlds of BYA, of Klipot, shells, were created and what is the addition of the new desire where the person is created among them? That to start with, he’s built of these things. What is the additional desire of the souls that were created?
R. The difference between a man, Adam, and a beast, and all the more so with the vegetative, animate and still, there is an essential difference. In our world we don't see it. We see a human, we see a beast, and if you ask doctors they will say that there are bigger differences between animals versus the difference between a man and a cow, let’s say. There is not such a big difference but rather the difference, and also in terms of the perception, we are not yet studying correctly and sufficiently in order to say that animals exist in a more primitive manner than ours. They are capable of building and preparing everything for themselves whatever they need for their lives. They actually live in a way that is much more functional and rational than us. Yes, they are not doing anything redundant, but rather it is all according to the commands of nature. They feel whatever the Creator is demanding from them and they do it without any criticism, without agreeing with it or anything, they just do it automatically. This is called the animate level, that is, the animal keeps 100% the Creator's desire over it.
Then comes the degree of the speaking and the speaking exists inside his ego, he has a certain disconnection from the upper force. Well of course, this disconnection also comes from the upper force that does that to him on purpose. The speaking, the degree of Adam, he starts to do nonsense, meaning seemingly not in agreement with the upper force and not in the Creator's desire, seemingly the Creator does not operate him but rather he wants to be greater than the Creator. We want to build a tower that wants to reach the heavens as it was in Babylon, it's a symbol. In that he reaches very special states where he starts to discover the deviation above the degrees of the still, vegetative, and, where his ego wants to rule the whole of reality. His ego does not agree with the Creator and he wants to be above all the forces of nature. This is how he wants to advance.
S. Can we say that the souls are just the degree of Adam and the worlds are the degree of still, vegetative, animate?
R. In the souls, there are the degrees of the still, vegetative, and animate, however they are just inside of Adam, the human, these are simply the degrees of the intensity of the attainment of the force of bestowal. This is called Neshama.
S. This is due to the sparks that fell?
R. Yes, when we actualize these sparks these records we reach degrees of bestowal and those determine the magnitude or the height of the soul.
17. S. (43:37) Can we say the shattering of the vessels is that light left the vessels?
R. Yes, as a result of the Kli not being similar to the light, the light that exits cannot be revealed in such a Kli because there is a contrast between the nature of the light and the nature of the Kli. It can no longer exist inside the Kli, inside the vessel, and it disappears from it as if it exits it. You can say that it remains in the Kli but it is not felt there. What is felt in the Kli is only according to the equivalence of form between the Kli and the light.
18. S. (45:00) It is written that the will to receive, receives its sustenance from ABYA of Klipot. I don't understand how the worlds of impurity can give anything to anything. It is not clear to me how this works?
R. We are under dominance from above, either a large egoistic desire or a large altruistic desire. They both work on us and they activate us, as it says to hold onto a tallit. A tallit is a person. The good inclination and the evil inclination lead a person to correction. We can see that upon ourselves. One time we are in a state where we want to receive everything, feel it in ourselves and disconnect from the others and if not from disconnection from the others, then in order to dominate the others, control them; another time we want the opposite, we want some form of bestowal, of connection. These are forces that work on us, two systems, and we are between two systems. You always need to leave something to think about. What will you do throughout the day? You will not have anything to think about and your head will be freed, empty? That is not good.
S. I can't understand that we are increasing through bestowal but it seems here we can also have something through reception and impurity. We started to speak about this system the last few days, we talked more about the Klipot and read more excerpts about the Klipot and the world of Tuma’a. We need to feel what's going on, we need to understand how we can also grow with this will to receive in order to receive. Here it talks about sustenance, that it maintains it, how the other system is allowing the will to receive to be maintained. How does this all work?
R. We are only a will to receive and we have nothing from the Creator’s quality of a desire to bestow. But we receive bestowal from the Creator upon our will to receive. That builds in us an intention to use our will to receive in order to bestow. We are the will to receive and always remain a will to receive, and we cannot exit that. You need to discern, to differentiate between the will to receive and the intention to receive. The fact that my substance is a will to receive and that it will remain that way forever, that is, I am considered a created being. And the fact that I want my will to receive to act as if it is a desire to bestow that is the correction of creation. That's what I try to turn myself into, that's what I try to make of myself.
All of our studying is to draw the light that reforms that returns us to good, to give us the intention in order to bestow, to my desire. That is the entire benefit of the wisdom of Kabbalah and that is the only thing that we need to do. In order to reach that we build groups, study, all kinds of different means but in the end what do we want? That our will to receive will get the intention in order to bestow. The will to receive is already arranged from above according to the descendants of the degrees, and it is in its only to the extent that we can connect to Him, to adhere to the intention to bestow. Meaning we will not reach the next degree in the path if we will not have the strength to rise upon our current degree in order to bestow. We can do that, it's like in school first grade, second grade, third grade, and so on. That's how we advance, you cannot jump ahead, you need to go through every single grade. It is the same here.
19. S. (51:12) What brings us to draw, to extend the reforming light?
R. To draw the light that reforms it's mainly the trouble and suffering. The trouble can be physical, bodily, human and spiritual. Yes, the suffering that I feel in pain, in Hebrew it is ‘narrow’, I want to expand my state because it is pressuring me and then I ask for corrections. That's what it starts from, that I feel bad and then through being connected to the friends, and then through them I begin to make calculations with respect to the Creator, then I start asking for higher corrections, ones that are more detached from my animal and that way I reach in order to bestow
S. But how to begin with, do we get to such a disposition of feeling the spiritual trouble?
R. It's through Reshimot that fell in us in the shattering of the vessels in the shattering of the soul. Then we are in a state that we want to feel where we are, where we exist, and from that we advance.
S. Only out of the person falling into the society? It sounds like this is the only thing that can lead a person and change his direction to pay attention to spiritual troubles?
R. Yes, there are many parts to the place as it is written.
20. S. (53:30) When the Creator gives us some kind of a disturbance that we feel in our ego and we make the conscious choice to be in the intention to being above it, and use what He gives according to His intention of using it as a means to correct, is that considered using the will to receive in order to bestow? Is that the correct intention?
R. We gradually, slowly, slowly arrive at the right intention only at the end. All of our corrections are the corrections of the intentions, how we use what we have, how we use this will to receive that is all of our intentions. That's how we correct it more and more. Everything is measured according to our intention.
21. S. (55:00) If I understand it correctly, the evil inclination is because the created beings are receiving their sustenance from the world of Tuma’a and in order to bestow, is this in order to bestow from the worlds of Kedusha?
R. I understand it doesn't work out yet. On one hand, it's a desire and on the other hand, it's an intention, how did they become attached together? They become attached together because they are included in one another in one topic and we see that also in us. I use my desires but why, what for, what do I intend for, what am I drawn to? How do I see the bottom line? The result of my action, this is called intention. What am I operating for? So there is a will to receive and the will to receive has many intentions and we do not judge the action according to the desire itself and the action of the desire but rather according to the intention. You bring a little child to see something, and he sees, let's say, one person takes a knife and he sticks it into the body of another person. So to the child it is obvious or to somebody who doesn't know what is happening, that this is a crime and in another instance you bring him to the operating room and he sees the same thing, that one person is sticking a knife into the other’s body and he gets paid for it even. Everyone respects him so what is going on here, what is going on is simple, what is he doing it for, to whose benefit is he doing it or is it either for his own benefit in order to let's say to express his anger or in order to heal somebody else. This is why we say we never take into account the action itself but only the intention, the nature of the action to whose benefit does it happen. In our world we understand this somehow when we feel it we are used to it but in spirituality it works in a very sharp way, it's only according to the intentions, the spiritual world seemingly filters for us all of the corporeal actions and in general all of the actions and what remains is only the intentions, the spiritual world is intentions everything is measured by intentions, it is made by the intentions.
22. S. (58:31) The system of the shells it gets nourishment directly from the Creator? Or is the person also involved here, the system of the shells it gets nourishment from the Creator directly or is the person also adding here some nourishment by his own actions?
R. Yes, sure, there is a system of shells and holiness that they have some relationship between them and through our actions we create a new relationship between them and we want more and more forces to work from the side of holiness. We are passing from the side of the shells to the side of Holiness. All of the sparks, Baal HaSulam has many examples of the king wanting to transfer his treasure from one place to another.
S. It is clear that we are trying to shift things from one from impurity to Holiness but maybe we are operating to make it worse?
R. No, maybe we are capable of only acting ourselves and then realizing how we acted incorrectly and even that we need to understand that it's done with agreement of the upper force that we must have all of these things and we must go through all of these things just like we have many such examples in history. The prophets where they knew in advance about all of the ruins that would happen and also how Jacob told his sons in Egypt about the destruction of the first temple and the second Temple and so on and Kabbalists they expected this, they anticipated it in advance. Just like Rabbi Akiva said “I knew that it was bound to happen but until the destruction of the second Temple took place, that I now am witnessing, then I had some doubt and now I have no doubt that the Third Temple meaning the final correction of the vessel will arrive”. We need to go through this through our exertion, it's like you need to study in school if you want to study 10 years then for you that is for your benefit and you go through it positively enjoy it, if you want to study but if you do not want to study than what suffering you have every day when you have to go to class and you pull yourself to do it. So it all depends on our attitude, if you have a group and this group awakens one another, it all depends upon awakening between the friends and nothing besides that can work, even the Creator can't work. The correction between us that we influence upon one another is much more than the Creator can act upon us, it is all given to a person that is within a group.
23. S. (01:02:42) What is reception in order to bestow in the 10, how is it manifested?
R. This is to transfer everything I get from the Creator to my 10, and I want to fulfill my 10 with all of that and raise them to the next degree. That is what we need to do, so for that I need to be included with all of the friends, when I am included by them I need to feel that desire, their intentions, their inclinations, to be inspired by their deficiencies and with this incorporation that I received from them, I raised that to the Creator. So it turns out that I am the first and I pull them forward and that is how it is with each friend in the 10. Rabash writes about it in the articles on Society.
24. S. (01:04:10) We asked for the light so that it will correct our will to receive. Why did the Creator need another system of impurity in order to activate us through that system? What is the reason for it?
R. The reason is simple: if I now place you inside of a room that is filled with light, and there is nothing there that can create shade then you will not see anything in that room, you will not be able to identify anything. How will you exist and vice versa? You have such animals that are living in complete darkness like underground or that have no vision. They do not know what light is. We need to understand that light is something that helps us identify and differentiate between the Creator and the created beings and then even though we are the created beings, we can use this discernment to raise ourselves to the degree of the Creator and to exist on the degree of the Creator.
S. What I meant is that it creates in us, in our perception, this shattering when in fact we are created and corrected?
R. Of course, through the shattering that He has created in us that is considered that I have created the evil inclination and through that we reach discernments, if you don't have discernments then you are like a baby, you are undeveloped. That you cannot identify between this or that or anything in life. Do you understand what is the difference between someone who can identify between one thing and its oppositeness and one that can't? The differences here on all levels, on all different degrees on the devices that we build, all-in-all, that is, all that we need to discern more and more between one thing and the other. Because the difference between them, that is where we discover wisdom and there we can use the differences between the protons, neutrons. It doesn't matter what in stars and quarks and no matter what, look how many flavors you have in food. Discernments between this and this and this and that, what do you have, our entire life is built from thousands of discernments and all kinds of things in every single one of our senses there are many, many discernments. An expert is someone who has more discernments in a certain sense. For example, a musician can tell you about the music in a million discernments. If I am not a musician and I don't really understand that feeling, then for me it is two notes and two levels. That's how it is what we do through the wisdom of Kabbalah, we acquire sensitivity in our perception of reality, more subtle discernments, a wider spectrum and through them we begin to feel what is in order to bestow that it disappears from us more and more discernments in this until we begin to attain the essence of bestowal which is the Creator.
25. S. (01:08:51) How can it be there if the will to receive, receives its sustenance from the Klipa what the developed is the intention to bestow how does this happen?
R. First of all ABYA of the shells itself it carries Holiness in it because Holiness carries it. The light carries the shells, they cannot exist without the light in them because they exist only in order for us to attain their oppositeness from the light because through them we will make and discern all kinds of discernments, all kinds of forms in the light. Without a shell you cannot discern any of that, what will you see? Only bestowal, you will have no flavor for bestowal you can't, you need to have salt and pepper and you have to have every in everything you have to have its oppositeness. I've given these examples many times when you make cakes then you add cognac to it and that you need something to break the flavor.
S. So there is no complete disconnection, the fact that the shattering occurred in the sin of the tree of knowledge?
R. No, you never detached from Holiness don't think that you are detached from Holiness, God forbid, but goodness and Hessed will chase you all the time the Creator chases you and bring you these through these disconnections it says if you're completely lost and in the place where you see that you have dropped into such an abyss where you are completely lost and there is nothing that can help you, I would rather be dead than alive, that's where the ascent begins. That's how it is in every single state more or less than what we feel. That is how it happens, when a person from these points of despair that he attains then he can consider that to be an ascent that he had none like it, next time it will be more. That's how it is. That is the beauty of creation that no matter how much we despair and still go through it we will see that there are greater and greater discernment that you cannot imagine to start with that comes and the destruction continues and until it does not exhaust itself completely and realize itself completely upon humans upon people then you have not corrected it you need to feel in the lowest point of the shattering that you are willing to give up on everything upon your life. There is nothing for or to, and then from that you rise a thousand times the righteous one falls and gets up.
26. S. (01:12:37) You gave us an example of how we received in order to bestow in the 10, that I take the desires of the friends and the intentions and raise it to the Creator, but what do I receive in those vessels of the friends?
R. In the vessels of the friend you discover the Creator, you know what Partzuf is right? It's Malchut and before the upper 9 Sefirot and the upper light. So to the extent Malchut can cancel itself towards the upper 9 Sefirot then it discovers in the upper 9 Sefirot, the upper light. So the upper 9 are your friends, they are your group and Malchut is you, this is how each and every one should see it. Then by annulling yourself toward your friends you discover in them, the Creator. That is called that the Creator stands behind every friend.
S. I'm annulling myself before my friends and I incorporate in their deficiencies, but what does it mean that I elevate these deficiencies to the creator?
R. That you want to help and bring them closer to the Creator. It is clear that you exist only to be the connector between them and the Creator that is your entire role.
S. I feel the way I feel the deficiency of the friends and they are concrete people in my 10, what does it mean that the Creator answers to those deficiencies, should there be certain changes in the 10 or I feel different or?
R. I need to be the conduit between them and the Creator, that's it. And every time more and more upon the discernment that are revealed. I am not going to calculate what is happening because I don't understand, later in the future I will reach a state that I will know and I will feel what I am really causing. It will be on the condition that I will be able to work on it above reason in order to bestow otherwise, it will ruin me if I will see that I am really connecting them to the Creator.
S. What does it mean about the reason, doesn't it mean that I don't need any proof, to understand it in any way?
R. No, above reason is in order to bestow, that I don't want it to enter my vessels of reception but only that I will grow in my vessels of bestowing in order to be more like the Creator, to resemble the Creator. Knowledge I don't worry about, I don't need any knowledge, the purpose of knowing is not to know. I want to feel all of creation that is in me, in my will to receive and then I will be in control of it, feel it and it will be mine, I own it, whatever enters the desire. My mind and my brain only helps my desire to get around for the time being.
S. When I feel love towards those desires, those friends, does it mean that this is within reason or above reason?
R. love is an upper light that fulfills the vessel completely. It is the light of Yechida giving me not just knowledge, but also the knowledge of how all the forces and discernment complete one another and reach the complete integral connection resulting in love. Love is the result of completion. That is to the extent I can explain it in words.
27. S. (01:17:51) You told us in the lesson that everything is about the intentions and this is our work, with intentions, you also said a few times that we always are elevated in sanctity so can you please connect these two things for us?
R. I have nothing to connect, it is the same you add in sanctity and you add in the intention to bestow it is the same.
S. So we add in the intention to bestow before any action?
R. Yes.
28. S. (01:18:34) About what you explained about the wonders of the ways of Kabbalah, as we delve into the revelation of the evil on the way to the Creator, we are fighting and struggling for the connection between us so the question is are we already working on the revelation of evil and getting closer to adhesion to the Creator or we still in the stage of preparation?
R. The thing is, we are not aware of the state that we are in, who governs us, in what system we exist, it is like a baby that is born. They are either born into a family that is very poor or can be born to a king and a queen. The baby does not know nor can he make any discernments here or there. Whatever he needs he cries out both here and there and whatever he gets he gets and he enjoys it both here and there in these two families. That is why we can't as long as we are okay, let's say we are a baby even though we haven't been born in spirituality, to the extent we don't understand our state, our importance. That we are being born as the sons of the king, the king of the entire world that all of the eternal reality is governed by and we need to be born to that degree. He is now preparing us and we are now in the preparation to be born, the months of pregnancy.
29. S. (01:21:17) I would like to know if the shattering of the vessels and the sin of the tree of knowledge, is that the same thing?
R. Yes, it is the same thing. The shattering of the vessels and the tree of knowledge all of it is related to the shattering and the sin of the tree of knowledge as there is nothing more than this and all of the rest of the shattering are a result of breaking into more and more pieces. In our world it could be a difference of thousands of years between them but they are a result of the same shattering. It was one sin that they wanted to use in order to receive, from that comes all of the destruction and the shattering and all the sins of the world.
30. S. (01:23:04) The essence of the sin is the reception of pleasure with no relation to the giver, what is there in that sin of the shattering?
R. The Creator reveals to us our nature which is opposite of him, which is the will to receive in order to receive, this is the main thing in order to receive. The fact that it's the will to receive doesn't matter as the desire to bestow is the Creator and we don't know what that is. For us it is just a desire to receive, which works in different manners and that is why the desire to receive we have nothing to check, we are always in the will to receive as we never have in as they will to bestow as that is only in the Creator. We have only to leave the will to receive that can be in changing of intention more and more in order to receive or more and more in order to bestow, from 100% in order to receive to 0% in order to receive, from 0 to 100% in order to bestow but we always use the will to receive. That needs to be clear. That is how we correct ourselves that we want to correct the intention upon the desire, so what is the connection and the relation between the intention and the desire to the extent that they desire to receive his greater that we can use it in order to bestow and the action is considered greater. We measure the action to be so according to the desire to receive which participates in bestowing.
S. The reception of pleasure in order to bestow does this strengthen our connection with the giver?
R. Of course.
S. So this is the essence of the shattering that the pleasure seemingly rejects and pushes you away from the connection with the guy?
R. Yes, correct. That is what is written. It is good that you understand.
31. S. (01:25:58) Can a person rise to the world to the degree of the Creator and fall from it?
R. It is written a thousand times the righteous man will fall and get up, that in the path of correction we fall and we rise and these falls come to us from above and the ascent through our exertions and the exertion isn't to correct the ascent but it is to connect to the Creator and to demand from him the forces of correction to rise. This is the difference, a huge difference as the descent comes to us from above through revealing the records from the shattering that is already ready for it, all of this chain is ready. The ascent is by connecting to the 10, to the Creator locating the conditions for the ascent and stabilizing it through our prayer to the Creator to raise us as he makes the ascent according to our request. Of course we have no strength to rise as where would we have this from? This is how we do it.
32. S. (01:27:50) If a person is going through sharp impressions what is the effect on the group?
R. Influences to the extent that he is connected to the 10 and wants to connect to the Creator and understands it is possible only through the 10 until he gets that it takes a few years until he connects to the Creator and it is clear to him that he connects through the 10 and to the extent that he is connected through the 10, only to that extent can he hope to be connected to the Creator. That is how he rises.
33. S. (01:29:09) Indeed about the discernment if I teach a child music I want him to be able to discern between the notes to be fully aware and follow what I am teaching him so how does the state of his ability to discern spiritual discernment help us to learn from the Creator?
R. We also teach according to the same rules when you take the same child he has no discernment. He can't differentiate between the notes, he only hears but he doesn't really understand what is happening. He can't differentiate between the qualities of these notes until slowly, we teach him discernments that are greater and greater. What is the difference between a person who listens to simple music and one who listens to unique and very high symphonies? There is a difference. How many musical creations do you have, compositions? There is a difference between someone who studies this and someone who has not, someone who has developed the senses and someone who has not. You cannot take for the Philharmonic someone who is not into it and is not really incorporated in it and his main engagements in soccer let's say. There are those who are drawn to this and there are those who are drawn to that, but if you want to develop in a person this unique sense you have to work with him for many years. Especially spirituality to differentiate between the Creator and the created beings how he relates to us that we should be worthy to be in connection with him and to be partners. It demands a lot of time and scrutinies and the main thing is that a person does not despair, in any case he understands and is being taken care of, whatever maybe even though he may want to die he is being taken care of and he has to go through these sensations, that death is better than my life. That is how it is. It is all in order to be a professional in the discernments between the light.
34. S. (01:32:25) Is the intention always the same but the discernments are only a result of the desire to receive?
R. Yes, all of the discernments, the difference between the light and vessel, also this small world and very little sensations and discernments are a result of this.
S. So I can't discern the intention itself. Am I making the intention more precise according to the desire that I feel?
R. Yes, because according to the desire the intention exists, it all explains to us a desire.
35. S. (01:33:28) Please tell me what is this creature that says “I” am bestowing?
R. “I” is a desire to receive and they bestow where is the same intention that I acquired above the desire, that I use my desire and formed as opposite of itself.
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36. R. (01:35:08) From within this the sanctity enters the shell by the breaking as a result of many pleasures that the show aggressively enters into us and wants to show us that there is a lot of pleasures, fulfillments in the shell and it is worthwhile for us to engage in the Klipot, in order to attain these pleasures.? People run here and there as it says there is no person who doesn’t die and is not left with half his lusts and this is how we go from incarnation to incarnation. Ultimately it reaches a state that we despair and we go from Klipot to sanctity.
37. S. (01:36:07) What does it mean to engage in the Klipa?
R. That I am found like a fisherman, catching the fish with my fishing rod and that's how I always want to catch the pleasure out of my life. Where can I catch the pleasure or maybe I'll lie down or maybe I'll watch TV or play something or eat something or listen to something? It doesn't matter what I'm always looking for, how can I fill myself with what possible pleasure I can create with as little as possible effort and maximum pleasure. This is the will to receive and how it arranges made
me.
S. This is a Klipa?
R. Yes, there are many Klipot shells and it is called a shell because it covers all of the bestowing of the true eternal pleasures. But yes that is already a Klipa.
S. What is bestowing in sanctity?
R. Sanctity is that I look for a pleasure in bestowing that it is similar to the Creator to the extent I am in equivalence of form with him, I reveal him, the upper world, the world of bestowing as our entire world is a world of reception.
S. When working in the 10 could it be that I work and use the force of the Klipa?
R. Why not? You have many organizations in the world such as reception, for them this is very exalted, just because you're in a group doesn't mean you are in sanctity. Specifically in groups you can have very extreme states of either sanctity, or shell.
S. How do I make certain in our 10 we are working in sanctity?
R. What are you directed toward, you're not looking at the group yourself but rather onwards where the group is aimed towards. You say Adam, the person, was directed to the group now where is the group directed to, towards the Creator.
S. The general group of Bnei Baruch we have the direction you are giving us but as a 10 I can't say if we have a direction.
R. We need to see the direction of Bnei Baruch according to what we see from the writings of the Kabbalists and also the direction of each and every 10 especially for Rabash’s writing for the 10s of what he writes there as we have a lot of material about this. We need to discern and learn this, see, to understand and request the understanding from above, from the Creator, that we shall understand more that we can advance. I don't think that you need to see me as the leader. I teach, I show you places, I get you familiar with our sources. These huge ones that founded the wisdom of Kabbalah for us that revealed the Creator to us, we need to connect with them.
S. A person's intention toward the 10 I think it's clear to the whole world Kli that we are working on it very strongly, I feel that it is not clear what it means that the 10 is aimed towards the Creator. The 10 as a 10.
R. That all our directions and connections, all of the deeds between us are all accompanied with the intention that it will bring us together with intention to the Creator to reveal him in the connection between us. I have no more to say, go over it a few thousand times and listen to it.
S. If we will truly work on it so I will have more clear discernment in this?
R. Yes of course, how it will not be as always when we go over the same things we have deeper discernment, deeper scrutiny.
S. For now we are lacking the work to come closer to the discernment?
R. We have no more to do but just to make an effort more in the cooperation between us until we find the Creator there.
38. S. (01:42:03) You asked when will the pleasure to myself become a shell or a problem toward spirituality?
R. Pleasure for myself is always a shell, what is the question?
S. If I go for a walk or I go swimming at the beach to enjoy a good meal?
R. You are talking actions and not intentions, the difference between shell and sanctity is not about the action rather about the intention, you can go to the beach and makeup this an action of sanctity like Rabash used to travel at the beach, I would be next to him and it was truly a very holy deed. You can do all kinds of actions that you are spreading billions of dollars among sick people around the world and it is an action shell and not sanctity because by this you want to be the president.
S. What does it mean to close the right direction on an action I am enjoying, to think that if I am enjoying the Creator is enjoying?
R. The reason why are you doing this?
S. Let's say I'm eating a good meal and really enjoying it.
R. What is the reason you are doing this?
S. I can say it's in order to give contentment to the Creator.
R. Don't say and stop talking so much, what do you feel in the action, in the doing?
S. Usually I feel myself first before the public or whatever is outside of me?
R. All the actions and the intentions are in order to receive.
S. How to change that state?
R. Begin to think before each action how you do it in a different intention, the intention to bestow that in this you will bring contentment through the friends to the Creator. Think that you want to bring contentment to the Creator and then think that there is no choice as if you truly want to be directed to the Creator you have to pass it through the friends.
39. S. (01:45:07) You were just talking about the connection in the 10 the question before and I wanted to update you, and I hope it's appropriate to do it now about the meeting that North America had today between all of the tens and it was an amazing meeting that we had as we started it with a good intention and we spoke about the Rabash principles, about implementing them, we all had a very good intention and we felt your teacher, we felt Rabash very strongly today in our meeting and I thought about a lot of deficiencies with all of the tens, with all of the friends and we have great gratitude towards your teacher and his writings and we are going to implement them. Thank you very much.
R. Great, I am very happy, I hope you will develop and we will reach a state where we will even have a convention in North America. I desire to have a congress in North America, like I used to do but it all depends upon your prayer, if you want it, it will happen. We will shoo the virus away and clear the path.
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40. S. (01:50:03) Do we have to go through all the worlds of impurity?
R. Each one according to the root of his soul, there are those that belong to very deep records and there are those that belong to very deep records but that each one has to go through the path from his date, he stayed at the end of correction, that he is tied to everyone and with all of his intentions and all of his actions are from the root of his soul that he is that would be on the intention to bestow. Meaning as much as I am in creation with the desires and qualities that I have that I have to realize all of my forces on the intention to bestow. Of course in this, nobody is similar to the other, no one is like the other and we can only aid one another, assist each other because we are in one system so as much as I carry out what is up to me and what I can carry out, I need to think in this, I am helping others.
41. S. (01:52:07) The excerpt partially answers my question but to ask about these parts of holiness and the Klipot, it is not certain how the forces of reception and bestowing are mixed up. How does this happen, how does sparks of holiness be in the shells, how do they not break through?
R. Very deep and good question. Let me tell you what holds sanctity should exist in the shells, the purpose of creation that they are tied both in the beginning of creation and in the end of creation and that the entire path that creation goes through is in order to sanctify all of the evil inclination to be as the good inclination. Yes, the angel of death needs to be as the holy angel and this is what holds the sanctity in the shell. Because the sanctity is the force of the Creator even though it is in the shell that the shell is the force the Creator obligates and maintains. Just like it says you enliven everyone and they exist together and there is no difference between sanctity and shell as it is only with respect to us, the corrupted ones. But with respect to the upper there is none at all. There are sources that say there is no evil in the world, only those who have not corrected themselves and to the extent they have not corrupted themselves.
S. Holiness is like potential?
R. Yes.
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42. R. (01:55:33) I'm happy we are all Incorporated here together and I feel how we are going through a bit more correction on everyone and it is good we are participating like this.
43. S. (01:55:49) While being under the control of the Klipot we are chasing the fulfillment that the desire demands which is revealed from the records and by that we are increasing the desire to receive is this correct?
R. Yes, the shells enliven us and take care of us as we are nourished by the shells because we are wicked, meaning under the intention to receive but along with this the shells, they educate and bring us to correction. We develop by the shell that shows and draws us seemingly the good thing on the intention to receive but then it shows us how much it is not correct and how much it is bad on the intention to this evening. This is how we learn, we get educated to begin to understand more about what is the depth of creation, the manners of creation.
S. What is the matter that we need to raise these sparks because he says they're already holy so why do we need to raise them?
R. That I want to belong to all the sanctity I have to Atzilut, to the degree of the Creator. Because in him our hearts will enjoy that we want to rise to him to be drawn to him that is how we need to see ourselves.
S. Doesn't it mean to raise vessels that are corrected, but why the sparks?
R. Yes of course, these sparks are reflected light and that we need to raise to the intention to bestow.
S. If the sparks exist in the vessels after they were shattered in BYA?
R. Where else could they exist but in the shells in the guarded vessels this is where the sparks exist and then I need to scrutinize two different shades from the shell and raise it to Atzilut as much as possible and how do I do this. Let's say that I reject and am repulsed by the friends that I don't want to connect with them, but we look and find among us such desires we can connect and tie together to get closer.
S. This is the correction we are doing?
R. In our work and our level this is already a correction.
44. S. (01:59:44) How should we scrutinize our intention, on what fields of our life, only in our ten, in dissemination, on any action in my life?
R. The main thing of course is in the 10 and all of the rest as much as you can because you are not free like in the 10 because I'm on the rest of your engagement you must carry out actions in the intention you can add according to how much you are capable but the main thing is to work in the 10.
S. So what is to scrutinize my intention in the 10?
R. Why do I want to and why am I acting?
S. Why in what?
R. Why are you performing the actions in the 10 is the main thing?
S. These actions are mainly internal; there are not a lot of physical actions we are doing.
R. In the meantime, hopefully soon we will also do more physical connections between us, conventions and in any case yesterday we were also in some participation in our meal and that is a huge connection. In our times it is easy to make such a connection as it is not so simple. We cannot appreciate enough opportunity that we get from above, for it to be connected by technology, that our egoistic desire determines that we can't get closer to one another and the desire to bestow helps us to put together such a meal of connection between us and the result of this is very great.
S. During the day obviously we're not always together so what does it mean to and scrutinize the intention in the 10 when we're not physically with them?
R. What does the distance matter with the intention? Where is there a connection between one and the other? If I love someone he may be at the edge of the world but does it bother me to love him? Do I have to feel him next to me? Is this love between a man and a woman? This is love that goes through the Creator, that we want in him all of us to connect and in such we operate.
S. On what actions do I clothe the intention?
R. As much as possible to attach it to in order to bestow that we participate together in the gathering this is already participation and assistance, incorporation. If I would sit alone in front of an empty screen would I get something? But like this we all get together and we are supporting one another talking about something.
S. That I understand but that is when we meet but except for our meetings, what does it mean to scrutinize the intention in the 10?
R. We connect during the day, twice, three times that you are in the lesson together and before the lesson you prepare yourselves in intention, at least I see this as I do belong with you. Whoever participates in this or not that is their own matter, actually it's not their own matter as it belongs to everyone, that each one needs to care for this as much as they can truly drink from this preparation to the lesson these forces of bestowing as it is very important. We have no ascension by the amount of knowledge that we have. I see some people with TES where you tell them one word and he continues talking to you about the next page. That is not saying anything about one’s attainment as the computer knows more than you. Intention.
S. Except for the gathering of the meals we can't clothe the intention in the 10?
R. Please do it, for this you don't have to get closer or talk to them.
S. That is what I'm asking
R. There are no actions, even without actions.
S. I can make an intention without an action?
R. Yes, if you have no practical action now then you think about the actions that you're getting closer to one another in your awareness, yes, and on that you add the intention for what you are doing this for, how you are awakening them.
45. S. (02:06:05) Is it by action that the world ABYA rises to Atzilut?
R. Not the worlds of ABYA, the worlds of BYA rise to Atzilut there we have the light of NRN, when BYA ascends to Atzilut and there the light of Chaya comes and when the light of Assiya ascends to Atzilut the light of Yechida adds and from that AHP that raises to Atzilut if the action happens on all the vessels there is an action called a descent where the AHP descends to its state and with it that whole area is sanctified under the Parsa and the upper lights can also pass under the Parsa and the end of correction takes place. So in this world all of the light shines.
46. S. (02:07:51) Can we say at this point that we decide upon the intention to bestow in all of our actions, is a measurement?
R. It could be.
47. S. (02:08:26) When we are doing bestowing actions in the 10 I feel empty.
R. Why do you feel you are empty?
S. It is like I am passing from myself to the friends.
R. That's fine that is very good. The most important is that you are feeling them and they are getting filled and you are happy with that and you disconnect from your own pride, from your own vessel that you are included in the general vessel in that is great and exactly what we need.
48. S. (02:09:29) We take your advice to read every day and article Rabash to realize it and before we read it there's a friend who says we are reading this with the intention for greater connection between us two can bestow a ten meant to the Creator and there is a friend that just feels the incorporation from the reading from what you have told us is enough that we don't need to say the words.
R. It is better to say it before reading.
49. S. (02:10:27) What can we do when there are great revelations of the shells then we have the sensation of despair, that we can't even hope?
R. You need to be happy that the Creator is giving you such disturbances that specifically by that resistance you can do great work and advance in a very meaningful way see, like in technology, electronics that the more resistance you have that you can work upon you have more work, more of a result. That is why I don't ever cry that you have a lot of work or difficult work as Rabash writes about this in his articles that the father left his son a big factory and a huge business and the son is crying, why is he crying? He is not happy with his inheritance, he has to know how to approach it and to be happy because specifically by the resistance that he has he can get the correct capacity, power. It is clear to us by that we reach great success and on that it is written he who is greater than his friend has a greater inclination, the inclination is what stops you and gives you the resistance as much as you discover you have a big inclination before you then you can reach a higher degree than everyone and you can as I am telling you.
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50. S. (02:13:41) Meaning from the spiritual shattering all the vessels on all the levels scattered from the desire to receive and when we work on the will to receive and everything that comes to us we raise all these sparks back until they all connect and formulate to that one's spiritual corrected vessel.
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51. R. (02:15:08) There has to be a completion between the shattered vessels and the forces of correction.
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52. S. (02:19:00) Why does he write here that the vessel is the desire to receive for himself?
R. The will to receive belongs to the Creator with all of the corruptions, everything that he did the creator created the vessel, broke the vessel, this desire, that desire, this intention and bad intention. Who created it? Who created the will to receive? The Creator. Who created the evil? The Creator. He says I have created the evil inclination, so what do you want. The Creator created it. There's no question about that and all the evil comes from the Creator, you don't have any other source of evil except for the will to receive. Now the desire to bestow comes from the Creator, no, so your desire to bestow comes only according to the request of the created being, so it turns out that the Creator is evil and the created being is good?
S. The Creator is not the desire to bestow himself?
R. He is the desire to bestow but I'm asking towards us where he is bestowing from Him as you only see evil.
S. It turns out the Creator is evil, he created all and is doing it?
R. He does everything to take us through all of the actions and states so we will feel all of creation from beginning to end through all of the states that are ever there that when we feel it we will truly understand and attain and control. He wants us to receive it from him and that we will be like the landlords of creation. That by that, we can ascend to his degree, to the Creator then we will understand the good but the good is attained in the end for now we have to listen to what the Kabbalists say and do it but in all of our doing we need to have the right intention that we are doing it in order to discover the actions of the Creator as the whole and the good.
S. In total the bad that he does it is our flaw that it seems to us as bad?
R. Of course.
S. So love covers all transgressions with the friends and the Creator?
R. Let's say, there is none as wise as the experienced. Start doing it and you will see.
53. S. (02:22:45) Rabash writes in this article that if we want to work only for the sake of the Creator this is hard work but Baal HaSulam and Rabash explain if we feel happiness we're doing the work wrong so how does this work?
R. We want to reach equivalence of form with the Creator not because we want it but because he enjoys it. By this we receive him as the whole that we want to resemble the whole to the extent you make the efforts in order to resemble him that is called performing the commandments, actions of bestowing and by this you supposedly say that that he, according to his nature and his actions, that is the right and only thing. Organize your intention in that way and you will succeed.
54. S. (02:24:00) We have to have the right intention all the time but in our degree we don't have turning the intention on or off so I am worried we won't be able to make an action because we're waiting for the correct intention all the time?
R. No I think that you are lying to yourself, you are saying this, that I won't do anything until I have the right intention, you do it and you ask to have the intention upon it.
S. That is what he's asking. He wants to make certain if I wait then I really won't do anything.
R. Yes exactly, you have to do and ask upon what you're doing to have the correct intention as this comes from above, doing it depends upon you. Try to come close to the friends, to the group and ask for the right intention, from Lo Lishma to Lishma.
55. S. (02:25:38) Recently we say in dissemination that there are only two forces that operate in reality, one is the negative force do you will to receive, the intention for reception and the second force is the force, that same force with the intention to bestow where we say the upper force that restricts, delays how do we define this?
R. I don't know, but in each stage we have two contradicting forces and all of creation is between them and there can't be one without the other. That is what we explain in physics, etc. there are two forces that work and we see this in relationships between us, look at this world how the world is behaving where people are so confused between these two forces that are activating them, the force of reception and the force of bestowal, more or less, each one is judging himself in the others this is why the wisdom of Kabbalah comes, waiting for the world to feel itself as confused, needing a scrutiny and correction and then it reveals itself more and more. We have reached a state where we are coming to a dead end and we don't have any limitations. The forces that we can acquire, but we need to scrutinize what the relations between these forces have to be in this is called intentions. The intentions of our forces of how we can organize ourselves in this world, now we are in a very critical stage where we have problems that we have gone through all of the processes that we need and now we see that nothing was successful now. We are ready to see in advance how unsuccessful it is and that we can't have any success in it. Now is the time of the revelation of the wisdom of Kabbalah, the only thing that will help us come out of the threatening state so let's strengthen ourselves in dissemination and the connection between us and let it shine the light in our world. We need to be confident and certain that it is possible and not that we are so small that nobody knows about us or does not agree with us. Who agrees with who today? Everybody, the whole world is still.
S. The question is, come out the negative forces clear, that is our will to receive the positive force is the force of limitations from above work in bestowing?
R. There are no forces that come from us. It all comes from the Creator or it comes with our invitation or according to our prayer so let us try to activate our request more as it is written and I wish he prayed all day. Let us ask and demand and want to be connected to him no matter what prayers and what request, like a baby who wants and wants and by this we can ask. All the best everybody will connect tomorrow, try to scrutinize more and more this matter of the scrutinies. That the destruction, the descent, the distance, the hatred and rejection that are all essential for the revelation of the correction and the good.