Morning Lesson February 15, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for differences from audio

Envy - Selected Excerpts from the Sources

1. Rav’s Introduction: Envy is a very strong means and very important in our advancement in spirituality. In this world, we realize that it is impossible to advance without envy; a person looks at others even if he looks at the birds and wants to fly like the birds or he wants to be like the fish in the ocean with each and everything. First of all, we have to see it's outside of us and then our ego wants to have such qualities as well. As much as the ego is developed in a person or in a nation accordingly, we have more and more envy we have more possibilities to develop.  

Envy is a special thing that we lack nothing, we lack only what we see in others, we need to depict to ourselves how good it would be if we would have what the other one has and then I am envious of the other that he has it. Then this thing becomes missing in me. This is why without envy it is impossible to advance. Why did we pick this topic now before the Congress? Because in order to increase the will to receive to warm ourselves up, put ourselves on fire so that we will want more and more to reach our sublime goal. We need to acquire from each other desires in order to incorporate in them, in order to connect them together and for that we need envy. Envy is especially revealed in human beings, in animals it hardly exists that are on the level of the animate, on vegetative even less and on the level of still, not at all. That is in the development of the will to receive it starts to feel what the other has and even though it has no personal need for it but because the other one is enjoying something, the will to receive also wants it in order to enjoy. 

This is why we see that envy according to history, according to evolution, it develops slowly and gradually. There are people who have more envy and those that have less and usually the more developed we are we have greater envy and this helps us to develop more and more. If we see that we don't have a sufficient will to receive in order to advance towards the purpose of Creation in order to realize the purpose of life, the soul in each and every one then we have a society and each shall help his friend. So also each one can show the other something that it will be worthwhile for the other one to be envious of and to acquire in order to also advance in his amplified will to receive this is how he will make it greater in order to actualize himself.  So it's worthwhile to be envious as much as possible and for us the envy in our groups is a good envy it's not a bad envy because it grows and we will be able to reach our sublime goal faster. In a group we need in a healthy way, in a correct directed way to grow with our envy towards one another and with the correction of the envy, through the envy, God forbid, I don't want to lower the other one if I see it in something that I do not have but rather I am happy to acquire from him additional desires, additional actions and to be equipped with them as well. We also need to explain this to humanity, and to teach humanity later on when we will ourselves learn to correctly use envy. 

Envy usually would bring humanity to wars and problems. So we need to learn between us how to correctly use envy and later on that the whole of humanity should also use that. So instead of wars we will fight to rise above the envy and in that way we will advance towards our common goal. We instinctively realize that envy is a good thing and it causes development. We also tell a child, look how he's playing, look at what he's doing. Go play with him or look and do the same as he does, and we realize that envy is something that develops. It  promotes but that is in corporeality in spirituality it is several more times so because we cannot acquire a spiritual desire from anyone, but only if we will look at our friends and we will want to give to one another what each has, we won't hold it inside but to the contrary as it says, “Each one  will help his friend” that way we will advance through envy lust and honor as it says,” They bring a person out of this world.”  These qualities in spirituality actually work in order to bring us to a higher degree each time this is considered that they bring a person out of the world out of the state that he is in this is called this world to a higher state. 

If we do not develop through envy then we don't discover that we need to correct something. Rather specifically when we incorporate with each other and we start to acquire all kinds of qualities from each other then it is good if we discover in the ten, when I look at my friends in the 10 and I am envious that he has this and the other has that. I need more and more not to let myself rest or take some time off and cool down. I need to warm myself up in order to acquire these qualities which I am envious of these friends until they will also be in me or ask the Creator that you also give them to me and that way we specifically those qualities that I acquire from the friends through envy, those qualities I will have to correct and the first correction is in that I want to acquire them all of these qualities. Not by wanting that these qualities to disappear from the friend, no I don't want him to go to lower, to the contrary I want to be among friends who are strong who are greater the more they are so, I will be able to learn from that and to get from them these good qualities and later on once I already have these qualities then I can turn to the Creator and correct them. Here we have a few things the Creator has concealed. I cannot get anything from him besides the force of correction but what to correct? This is when I get from the society their forces and ask from the Creator to make the correction and this is how we rise. and also examine ourselves, do we have envy or not? Only to the extent that I have envy in me for the qualities of the friends to that extent I can advance and otherwise I just fall asleep. In short we can talk a lot about it because it is a quality that includes the whole of humanity the secular ones and us who are drawn to the revelation of the Creator or those who are not drawn to it, of course those who are drawn to the revelation of the Creator should be concerned about through envy, everyone with a great desire, he will be able to discover the Creator, he will be able to attain Him. Well hopefully we will advance in such a way.

2. S. (12.42) What is the spiritual root to the feeling of pleasure where we discover hatred between us?

R. No, no, what hatred? We are talking about envy not hatred, envy. Well envy is envy and hatred is hatred they're not related to one another. Usually in our world if I even was envious of someone, I feel rejection against him. In spirituality when I'm envious of someone I actually feel attraction to him because if he has a good great quality, then I also want it and I want him as a friend.

3. S. (13:47) In the previous lessons I heard you say that there will be ten’s that reveal the Creator but they should not tell the other tens. Will this create positive envy, towards other tens?

R. I don't know what you mean.

S. You said there will be tens that will bring forth envy if they will share with each other the fact that they are serving the Creator?

R. Each and every ten wants to serve the Creator so there is envy between the tens since each one of them is serving the Creator in a better way? Very nice, very good. In spirituality envy is something very positive, in corporeality envy is in order to be greater in food sex family honor knowledge, to develop a greater will to receive. In spirituality envy is in order to develop the will to bestow to advance towards the Creator. What is the question?

4. S. (15:29) Good morning I really envy Rabash the way he nullified and reached the degree of the Creator, I am very envious of you dedicating yourself and the work for the sake of the Creator, can I envy the Creator too because I want to be like him?

R. There's no problem you can be envious of the Creator and want to be like him and to be like Adam means to resemble the Creator and to carry out all the action towards humanity that He is performing.  Very nice you have a good desire.

5. S. (16:14) In what qualities am I supposed to envy the friends and which not?

R. The fact that I see how much the friends have qualities by which they connect together how much they're aiming themselves towards mutual bestowal and how much they are constantly trying to reach bestowal towards the Creator all of the qualities that are aimed towards the state end of correction.

6. S. (17:05) Is there any positive jealousy that corporal people can use?

R. Positive envy especially in children, because it helps them to develop and we also tell the child, our child, look at the other children, do you like them. Look what they are doing and do the same. We awaken envy in him because we want him to develop. This is how progress happens through positive envy. Every envy that causes development of the person is positive envy, but beyond that we would need to see the envy can be negative because he wants not only to develop but also to repress the others, to put him in the corner.

7. S. (18:29) When negative envy is expressed in a negative and destructive way in our ten in our connection, where is the responsibility of the ten, therein lies with the responsibility of the person?

R. I don't know, I'll tell you, when we are aimed towards the revelation of the soul, the correction of the soul that is the correction of the ten in which the Creator will be revealed, this is called the soul, the ten which comes to the fulfillment, when the Creator is revealed in it. If we are aimed towards that, I don't think about any corruptions that is revealed here is only in order to aim us correctly, therefore it's not worthwhile for us to think about negative things. The most important is specifically the opposite. To amplify the envy as much as possible because it increases our will to receive so that it will be aimed towards in order to bestow don't be afraid.

8. S. (19:57) You said that everyone needs to envy what is positive and negative envy in the 10? Will it always continue to rise degree after degree or at some point does it stop?

R. It does not stop because you will be envious of the friends, then you will be envious of the great then you will be envious of the Angels then you will be envious of the Creator truly so. Best degrees will come in the meantime, we should always see how through envy we warm ourselves up towards the spiritual goal is it clear?

9. S. (21:02) I see the qualities of friends, they are so great and I'm envious of them, what does it mean that I'm correcting them because you said that we need to correct his qualities?

R. If through envy you increase the will to receive then you have to use it, this will to receive in order to bestow. 

S. How can I use those desires in order to bestow?

R. You want these qualities to be in you so then you connect with them and together with them you work in a circle, in a 10 and this is how you correct it. Correct your inclinations, so they will be in order to bestow, the more you get from them desires and intentions and the more you correct them towards the friends, this is all of our work, each shall help his friend. Everything that you get for your spiritual advancement, well most of the qualities and intentions and forces you get from the friends.

S. Let's say we have those qualities, we are integrated with them, you are integrated with the desires, what does it mean we're connecting them relative to the Creator?

R. These qualities between if you want to use them between you and the Creator it is considered that you are correcting them, out of the connection between you with all of the new qualities as well you have acquired from each other, you want to turn with them to the Creator

S. So he will do with them what?

R. We want him to correct them, to arrange them?

10. S. (23:38) Everything starts with envy, a desire has developed and then what are the precise actions, the concrete actions that we can do so that in a conscious way we will receive the qualities like a candle from a flame?

R. You need to try each one to show the other how much he wants to reach bestowal and connection, adhesion with the Creator each one should show this in all kinds of different manners to the friends and then each shall help his friend.

11. S. (24:40) I have such an impression that envy is a very high quality, there are two complexities and implementing envy I need to see the friends above me and the second thing is that there needs to be great importance towards spirituality? So I need to weigh myself towards this?

R. Yes, yes, it is true.

12. S. (25:13) How should I come to such greatness, such love of friends so that I will only see the good great qualities that are into the Creator?

R. Look at them the way they relate to one another, how much between them they understand each other better and relate to each other better than how you relate to them and you will see it you will see it and you will have envy.

13. S. (25:54) What deeds invoke envy in friends?

R. When I show the others how much I relate nicely and correctly to the society, I want to do everything that they want so long as they will go together towards the goal. For this you don't need to be very wise I mean these are things we need to understand from this world.

14. S. (26:35) Lust is a quality that is considered pretty negative so how can a negative quality in this world become a positive one in spirituality?

R. I don't know what I can say. My language is not sufficient, I think about it and read about it, we have enough materials so that you will be able to find an explanation.

15. S. (27:20) I feel that I actually don't have any envy with the connection with the friends. but in context to the wisdom, the knowledge I have more envy is that and then any beneficial for the 10?

R. Not so much. It is also good but not so much, the most important is if we will be envious of the warm attitude between the friends and how close each one is to the others.

16. S. (28:12) I understood that to envy the qualities of the friends in that I also acquire those qualities, I acquire only the good qualities or everything that comes from them?

R. In whatever you're you are envious of this is what you acquire.

17. S. (28:41) I wrote at the beginning of the lesson that through envy I need to want to transfer from one to another, what is he in the friends? Do I understand correctly that the end of the not for the sake of myself but also so that I will in some manner connect it to others as envy connects?

R. Yes, it's true I need to use envy in order to awaken these qualities in others, envy in itself is a quality inside the will to receive and it is not the quality that the will to receive within it that it's true, envy expands the will to receive, I use it in a special way and therefore we should all development.

S. So if I see certain good qualities in a friend I want this quality does not just come to me but through all the friends in the ten.

R. Yes but first of all whatever I see is good for my spiritual advancement I want to acquire it and there's no problem with that, do it because it will help you reach bestowal.

18. S. (30:16) When Rav Zusha talked to Rabbi Elimelech, in the end you talked about greatness you said I won't receive blows, why shall I be like him?  When we're educating ourselves how do we eventually, how does the envy awaken and why are we not beating ourselves up for not being like him and take from ourselves the right point?

R. Because through envy we want to amplify the will to bestow and in this if we look at the friends we're envious of the quality of bestowal that is revealed in others as greater and this pulls me, it aims me towards correction so as it says counters envy increases wisdom.

19. S. (31:31) If we participate in some forms of projects in the world Kli, we can be very easily envious of people we work with and when we go back to our 10 it is very difficult to nullify ourselves before the 10, is it right to envy outside of the 10 and not the friends inside the ten?

R. I don't think, it's true what you say, but most of the envy should be in the 10 that we should be envious of one another how much the other appears to me, that he is engaging in the spiritual work, in bestowal and other things in a way that is better than me. Through that I will have to calculate, so what do I have to do, I don't have the vessels to do it, the desires, the forces, where am I? Then I'm concerned about the realization of it through envy.

S. In order for me to envy the friend does there need to be some force?

R. In order to be envious of the 10 you have to be inside of the ten to try to work with them to be connected with them and then you start to distinguish in them forces of bestowal and then you will start seeing such forces of bestowal that they themselves do not discover in themselves but you will discover them.

20. S. (33:47) I envy the ten, then I just remain with that impression, what do I do with a person when he is envious, what is the work of being envious, I can stay in envy a long time but not move?

R. I understand you but this is a bad state because you feel as an egoist that it is convenient for you to be among good people who are concerned about spiritual development and basically are on the same as them, that is not good. You need to reach envy towards them envy.

S. I'm coming to envy but what do I do with the envy, does this envy need to point towards doing? It's obviously connection, but my thing is that on one hand like we said I can feel envious and remain on that wagon and not do anything from it but I feel like the envy needs to push me to some kind of work and not just remain envious, that's not a state for anything.

R. So you're not listening if you are envious then you are on fire, you are burning you cannot enjoy envy and you must well, the envy compels you to perform all kinds of actions in order to actualize that fire of envy. You see, it is a sign you are not really envious but to be among the good people who are pushing the wagon and you are in the wagon advancing towards the goal, it's a lie you are not advancing in any way, you are not correctly using the time.

21. S. (36:09) Until now I am envious of the actions of friends but I see that I don't succeed. I can't do what they do but today during the lesson I understand that maybe I need to envy their force, their desire to bestow is that right?

R. Yes of course, you look at what they do, you hear about what they do, you see how much they are connecting, how much they are bestowing, how much they are talking about their greatness and the greatness of the Creator and you are seemingly on the side. So what are you going to do? You have to do anything possible in order to enter among them and together with them to reach the same attitude towards the spiritual work like them to incorporate in their surrounding light.

22. S. (37:14) If I manage to see in every friend his greatness, his uniqueness, the form in which he acts towards connection, one friend let's say through his whole corporeality, through spirituality I slowly, slowly acquire those qualities I become like that?

R. If you are truly envious than you do acquire it but I hear something else here, one friend threw away all of his corporeality for the sake of spirituality, what does that mean I don't get it?

S. He moved to a very minimal corporeal life and removed all of his things beyond necessity.

R. Well we need to see is that correct or is he becoming righteous? Maybe his next stage is that you will go sit on some hill and show everyone that he is not doing anything, doesn't want anything.

S. So there's really this very broad phenomena that I've noticed we're between envy and disregard the distance is very not far. It's like you can see a friend like from importance truly arranged his life so that he will have a place for spiritual development and then you can see his importance, on the other hand you say well of course he's going to invest in spirituality because his life is comfortable?

R. We need to scrutinize more and more what exactly is the quality of bestowal and not to get into all kinds of excuses that our ego brings us and then we become “righteous”. We have to be very careful about that. In many cases, a person gets into righteousness and shows himself and others that he is Holy, that he is a saint, that he is performing such beautiful actions, here what is required of us all in all is to enter the environment more. if I want to be certain that I am advancing correctly, am I more adhered to my environment to my 10 more today than yesterday.

23. S. (40:11) What should we do with the fact that I understand when I'm supposed to be envious of, I see upon it not being able to envy certain friends?

R. You don't have to reveal your envy to the whole world, who says you have to do it this way but if you want to help a certain friend then you show him in a gentle way, a subtle way how much you are incorporated with the society, how much you are a journey to connect with them and this is an order to stimulate him, not more than that.

S. To act in this?

R. Yes to also act.

24. S. (41:15) There's a certain clash in this explanation one hand we yearn for connection and unity and envy is seemingly some measure of disconnect, differences, this leads to hatred?

R. Everything becomes clarified you should ask more and do more to do and do and then you'll have questions that are to the point about the work, then we will talk about it for the time being it is all theory.

25. S. (42:05) Is it more correct to want to be close to the Rav than the rest of the friends or to make friends closer?

R. Means means more and more to try to actualize what he is telling us there's no physical closeness here, no closeness in anything but only to hear what the Rav says and try to do it and you shouldn't be closer to Rav at the expense of the group because everything that Rav says you have to actualize it in the group and not in any other way.

26. S. (43:08) What does my ability to envy depend on?

R. Your spiritual development. Let's say that there are such primitive peoples who are not envious of what we have, there are more developed peoples who already are envious of something that we have to some extent. That is the more developed people are in their corporeal development they look at another Nation, other people and they are envious of all kinds of things that they have there and they do not have. So it all depends on the degree of the people's development.

27. S. (44:11) In principle the connections between friends are there, I just don't see them, how to learn to see these connections between the friends so that they will ignite me also if this connection is not clear in my eyes?

R. The friends will be revealed to the extent that you wanted to be on the same level of bestowal that they have between them, to try to be in bestowal between them then this connection will be revealed.

28. S. (44:57) Envy in the 10 makes him feel ashamed of his petty acts, is that okay?

R. Yes that's very well correct.

29. S. (45:24) Is there a relationship between envy and pride?

R. Yes if I envy friends powerfully then I can be proud of it, that I'm jealous that I'm envious. Envy is a force of advancement to the extent which I envy more new things for the sake of attaining the goal, the spiritual goal, then I'm greater and then I am and open my envy more towards others and then I'm more proud. On one hand I am in envy on the other hand I am in pride.

*Excerpt # 1 Reader (46:32 - 47:36) 

30. S. Concerning this envy if I'm aware of negative envy, can I use this in a positive way and how can that be done, does it work in the same way as fate above reason to use it positively, the negative envy, how does it work?

R. Let's say I come to your home and I see that you bought some new thing, some big mixer or some special unique coffee machine and I'm envious. I'm aware that envy is not purposeful envy and then from it I start searching what I need to envy you of. Because nevertheless you are in your actions towards the Creator, each of us includes desires and qualities that are different to others each in a different way so you're doing something in the Creator's work in the connection in the group in a tendency towards the Creator, in all kinds of things. Something that I don't do out of your nature but when I look at you and what you are doing and I'm not doing those qualities and then it causes a certain incorporation of mine in yours and yours in mine and in this way we advance towards the goal. That's one of the means of one will help his friend.

31. S. (50:07) At the moment we will attain the desire from the friends then we've come to the Creator in order for him to correct them and arrange them what does it mean to correct them and arrange them.

R. If in the friend, I see that the qualities and desires that awaken in a friend are also good for me to advance to the Creator then I asked the Creator to help me correctly absorb those qualities and desires so that by them I will come closer to the Creator. I already have a certain partnership with the friend by which I acquire this and I have a connection with the Creator here and in such a way we integrate with one another and advance closer to the Creator. We don't come closer to the Creator by moving forward but rather by incorporating in one another, advancement to spirituality is by us place and connecting more to one another.

32. S. (51:47) Sometimes envy causes us to feel shame when we want something that the friend has, what can I do with this feeling so that I'll make sure that I can work with envy in the 10?

R. I don't think feeling in me and in me shame the fact that I see that my friend is successful in some quality by which he connects the friends, connects to the Creator and moves forward more and more, then why I'm ashamed of what, from my state? That's okay it's always that way, but that state that I'm ashamed of awakens me to ask for forces from the Creator to advance as well. So shame there in this place is a beneficial shame.

S. Yes, but sometimes we don't feel we don't have the power to ask from the Creator and it's unclear, should I ask for myself or is there some confusion here?

R. Start working with what we're talking about right now these are very powerful means for spiritual advancement try to use the envy in friends as you want this as well and it here to them in order to make with them the same actions and in this way you will advance. See how beneficial this is, you'll see.

33. S. (53:55) Not in all cases a person can use envy right? You talked about the fact that Rabash came to the lesson and nobody told him, how he can use envy in such a place?

R. There's no good envy here, it is seemingly negative envy. Because he has that he went to the lesson and didn't tell him about it. Well they did that especially, there was a certain dispute there and they related to him in such a way one time because he was the son of Baal HaSulam and therefore he could go in to Baal HaSulam whenever he wanted to and they were all envious of that and that's why he didn't tell them about that there was a lesson. That's it, a situation, a case that really doesn't belong to us, but what can we learn from this? That there is positive and negative envy just like we see in our world as well.

34. S. (55:15) What happens with beginners is that they say yes, we feel the envy we advance but it's better if we don’t call it and it's like something that they have from childhood, some stereotype?

R. You start working with this and you'll see how through and then you can even more and more advanced toward spirituality. If you take the forces in order to come to in order to bestow then those forces and this envy is positive envy in order to develop the will to bestow. Just like in this world how are we born like little animals and then we develop because we learn from others. Also in school in every place in the university and other places we learn and learn from others how it is best to take advantage of life, how to use life. It's the same in spirituality, I need to see how I use all my inclination as much as possible in order to reach bestowal that's why envy here is positive envy.

S. About the spectator like you said before, if it seems that there's some quality that is unattainable and the envy cools off, how do you work with that?

R. We need to constantly see how we see these things in friends so that will warm up our feeling of envy and then we'll be able to advance, we can't advance towards the Creator unless it's by acquiring through envy all kinds of qualities of bestowal from the friends. There's nothing we can do about it, this is a result of the shattering of the vessels, all the reasons, all the phenomena are as a result of the shattering of the one vessel into many pieces. That's why we need to try to use all these qualities and discernments that were created by the shattering in order to bring the vessel back to its previous state.

35. S. (58:12) At what stage in composing the connection in the 10 does envy come in?

R. You need to awaken it. You can continue in such a way for now.  How many more years like this you just need to awaken the envy and it has nothing to do with who of you is more of a veteran or newer, who knows more or who knows less, who's more spiritual or less spiritual. Envy awakens in a person out of his effort to see what a friend has and what a friend doesn't have.

S. When the 10 is connected, it enters connection, is envy there?

R. Of course, and and how, what kind of envy was there with the students of Rabbi Shimon when they wanted to kill one another.

S. Yes but when the 10 starts to come together we see the friend’s qualities. The qualities  of bestowal becomes a possession of the ten, so what is envy in those states?

R. What am I missing, that I'm missing such qualities?

36. S. (59:54) Is the development of spiritual envy like the development of the envy that brought about the development of human society?

R. No, we are talking for the time being only about envy that is inside a 10 or in the Bnei Baruch organization. All the rest of the forms of envy we're not talking about, we don't care about that right. We won't be able to jump to broader degrees unless we establish ourselves in our current state correctly.

37. S. (01:00:49) If I see the greatness of the friends and it awakens shame in me and the shame represses the quality of envy, how can I balance this somehow?

R. Constantly work on this and you will see, I can explain these things to you because the next moment it will flip to something else and more and more and more. A person that needs to work with these qualities begins to be an expert for himself on this and don't think that you can receive from me discernments and advice for every moment in life impossible. Therefore whoever learned is called a wise disciple, on one hand he is a student and on the other hand he is wise.

S. Is it correct to ask for envy from the Creator?

R. You can ask from the Creator anything's anytime always.

38. S. (01:02:10) If I understand correctly, admiration awakens envy of the spiritual qualities and the good qualities of my friends. Is this what I need to be envious of?

R. Yes, of course I need envy so that all that my friends have by which they are advancing to adhesion to the Creator. Those qualities, those desires, those thoughts, those actions I have envy of those and I want to have that as well. How can I bring forth receiving those actions, desires and thoughts as well? I turned to the Creator and ask him, because just like a little child that sees some toy with his friend and comes to his mommy and cries that he wants it also, moreover if you do it and you will see how the Creator will not hold back He will give it to you.

39. S. (01:03:50) In the present moment if I do not feel envy, does it mean that I'm asleep so I should admit that it is just emptiness and to start to pray to see the advantages of the friends and be envious of them?

R. Yes, you're actually right.

40. S. (01:04:18) I think that in our culture, envy is associated with a negative emotional charge. Psychologically I understand the questions that I come up with, is it always going to be some negative baggage? Can we therefore describe it like the revelation in the 10 that the envy itself?

R. Envy itself can never be bad, even if it is corporeal envy or something because it always awakens it always evokes us and that's why I don't ever look at this as something that is negative or bad. It always can bring critiquing and to scrutinize and therefore I think there's no better quality than envy, the result of the shattering of the vessels, it's a direct result of it envy. That way in each and every one you have the will to receive that is immersed in him and that is the way he was connected to others before the shattering and after the shattering, disconnection a negative and from that actually we've had envy established there, clear?

Excerpt # 2 Reader (01:09:23 - 01:10:11) 

41. S. My ego causes me to find my friends at fault.  How do I get from finding them at fault to envying them?

R. You need to think more, how and in what are you advancing towards the goal. What are you lacking for the goal, a desire where will you take this desire from? You were once like Adam HaRishon with a huge desire then it was shattered into pieces and now you have just one very little piece from the totality of the big Kli that was in the system of Adam HaRishon. How from that small vessel do you come to that same big desire that you had once where you were in the whole system how do you get there? Only by envy, it's not just like that, we took this topic now to learn before the convention. It's a very important topic because by it we grow our desires for our vessels as without an increased vessel we will not be able to advance towards the goal. In order to be revealed the Creator needs a certain vessel which is called the Seah, quotient. Let's say he cannot be revealed in a vessel that can only handle let's say one gram of filling or 10 grams are 10 kilos. Let's say the spiritual sensation begins around us receiving let's say 10 kilos of filing. When we have a deficiency of 10 kilos of feeling then we start to feel this feeling as empty and then as filling and less than that we don't feel it, that's how it is also that our feelings, in our sensations. There is a certain instruments that discover that we are on certain sound waves, certain light waves, all kinds of waves that we don't yet perceive. We start to perceive them from a certain measure of a certain phenomena and until to a certain measure, a certain range. So it's the same here in order to reach a state in which we start to perceive spirituality not corporeality, we need to increase our will to receive more. More than that which we received from the shattering of the vessels where I have one gram of the will to receive, how do I make from it let's say ten grams? That's only by me incorporating myself with others. How do I incorporate with other desires, with other qualities and all the things that the friends have? Well with their deficiency that's why there is a matter that we are integrated together, we talk together, we learn together and each of us is integrated with the other. Whoever does not incorporate with the other or from the other he has no chance of reaching the revelation of the Creator because the Creator is revealed between us, in my will to receive where I increase it by the connection with my friends. therefore without envy without the expansion of the vessel we will not be able to reveal the Creator okay? 

42. S. (01:14:47) What does he tell me, a friend wants everything his friends have and he gets filled with envy, why should a person receive these things that he doesn't have?

R. If I feel the other, what does this mean? That which is in his feeling is as bad and that which is in his feeling as good, this means that I feel the other, then I connect to his feelings with my feelings. I already increase and magnify my vessels, this is how it is even in this world.

S. How can I distinguish between drawn after material things, how to make the distinction?

R. Very simple, it's relative to the goal within the importance.

S. Only to the goal?

R. Yes to the goal and to what else, only to the purpose of life.

S. I see a friend, someone that I'm very jealous of and I don't know its spirituality, it's not easy to see that I'm envious of his spirituality.

R. Then scrutinize what you are envious of and what you are not, because through envy we build these spiritual vessels and here we are in a true spiritual action and by building this vessel we are already in a spiritual action. Even though I don't have spirituality and I don't understand or know what that is, but the fact that I am incorporated in the friends in order to receive from them the tools, those vessels that I had prior to the sin of Adam, prior to the shattering it is already an act of correction. Then I correct my vessel and connect to it more additional correct desires for the attainment of the Creator and this is how I advance. Even though I am not in attainment yet.

S.  The Creator was envious of Adam. What does this mean?

R. As if it is, because the Creator envies us because we have free choice and the possibility of being above the will to receive. That is called, my sons have defeated me.

43. S. (01:18:03) In relation to what you said about the expansion and contraction in the 10 can I be envious of the inner qualities of the friend, to be impressed from building a common prayer?

R. It is best to envy the desire, the deficiency of the friends by which they move forward into connection between them and the Creator. That is how it is.

44. S. (01:18:52) How do I not cool myself off and lower the friends but rather to stay on fire and awaken them more?

R. By me envying them it is a sign that they have more than I do, meaning that they are greater than I and then by me coming to them, I want to advance to what is greater than me, so by that I acquire their vessels, I actually raise them by that and by what am I raising them? Because I become as AHP towards Galgalta ve Eynaim and then we can be as a small Partzuf to the big Partzuf.

S. I see that they are greater than me and that I am capable of being envious of them but I reject this feeling cooling myself off.

R. That's not good. What do you benefit from that? Other than becoming, repeat

S. That's it, how do I not cool myself off and how do I keep the fire of envy to push me forward?

R. I need to convince myself  how can it be that I will calm down. If it is truly cutting me off, am I coming closer to the Creator?

45. S. (01:20:29) Is envy the corrected form of the ego and if so should we use it all of the time, how can we give contentment to the Creator through this action?

R. When we try to magnify our will to receive through envy, lust and honor and to rise above our degree to a higher degree, by that we are bringing contentment to the Creator and it is not important how much we succeed or not, success is done by him. It is like a little child with his mother, the main thing for him is to somehow participate but the mother will do everything for him. That is how it will happen.

46. S. (01:21:42)  What is the difference between the good envy, admiration and wanting to make the friend greater like the Creator?

R. Good envy is when I want to have what the friend has and I thank the friend for awakening in me the envy, meaning in such a way that he is helping me increase my vessels and bad envy is the opposite where what I see in the friend I don't have I want him not to have it either. That is called bad envy. Just like there is a joke that he wants the other to have double what you get, then take out one of my eyes so that you will take out both of his.

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47. S. (01:24:25) There are qualities of the friends that are very hard to attain or maybe even impossible. Should I be envious of such qualities? If I do, I simply want to forget about the envy and put it aside, what should I do to be envious and ask the Creator?

R. Envy and ask the Creator to help me acquire those qualities and advance towards the Creator by them.

48. S. (01:25:08)  Should envy be within reason?

R.  Envy can be within reason but the later in the work it can be above reason.

49. S. (01:25:31) I feel great envy towards the sages and Rav, how can I have envy for the  friends to the same measure?

R. I need to work on that, if I don't see each and every friend as being greater than me it is a sign that I have great flaws in my spiritual work. There is no such thing that someone seems to you as lesser than you. It could be that he's truly lesser than you in knowledge let's say, in the study of TES but it is not that he is lesser than you in his standing in your internal way of his soul in spirituality. We should not negate anyone, no one, if possible you raise each and everyone to the degree of Ein Sof, if you don't do that with all of your friends, then it is a sign that you are still lacking in your spiritual work.

S. There's also envy in the efforts that the friends are investing, not necessarily qualities but their efforts.

R. It is very nice that you're envious of the efforts that they can do and you can't do.  That is very good because according to the effort you can at least say that they are greater, but we need to come to a state where we envy all of the friends, every single one of them that I feel myself lesser than everyone, that I feel myself as the smallest of them all where I barely exist among all the people of the world. That is what we need to reach, remember what Baal HaSulam and Rabash write in the articles about the society.

50. S. (01:28:02) Envy should have awakened a deficiency if I understand correctly to look for the good qualities in the friend that can promote me towards connection?

R. Yes, I can seek in each and every friend for qualities that appear to me as good and envy them and want to integrate, incorporate in them on one hand. On the other hand, if  I don't see in someone his good qualities that is the flaw in my sight, but it is not really like that but rather a person needs to bring himself to a state in which he truly is the least of all the creatures even those that are in the jungle, it doesn't matter where and how they're living or even those eventually, I need to see myself as being worse than everyone else. That is achieved slowly and there are many verses about that as well.

51. S. (01:29:38) How can we prevent ourselves from falling into a place of comfort and remaining there because it is comfortable and great?

R. You should follow each other, not to let anyone fall asleep, not to let anyone go and become indifferent or despaired but rather always try to warm up a place in the center of the group so that everyone can feel themselves on fire there. There is nothing to do and that is how you advance.

52. S. (01:30:45) I am often envious of the devotion and consistency of my friends. Is it correct to want the friends to be jealous of me?

R. Maybe, yes, if you are doing that in a clean manner pure, not for the sake of yourselves or for wanting something from them but only to push them into spirituality and to connection. Do this, Rabash writes all of these things in his articles and you are asking what is written there in the apparent way from the Social Articles of Rabash. I hope that soon we will go over that. We will manage to go over that before the congress.

53. S. (01:31:48)  When I am jealous of one of the friends in the 10 should I tell him this, what quality I am jealous of or just keep it to myself as internal work?

R. You shouldn't tell him it is your work but if you think it might help try, whatever happens to us with the friends we can try and then we can come back again.  It’s all in our reach.

54. S. (01:32:31) What is jealousy above reason?

R. There is barely such a thing, at least to our point for us envy is real envy where I discover such qualities in the friends that I am envious because I don't have them and I am certain that with them I can advance towards the Creator.

55. R. WSQ: (01:33:17) Which qualities must I search for in a friend in order to be envious so that this and they will take me as fast as possible towards the Creator? What qualities do I find in the friends so that by them I can reach a connection with the Creator very fast?

56. R. WSQ: (01:39:50) How can we awaken in our society a force of envy that will give us a desire, one for impulse, push to advance very quickly towards the goal? How can we awaken envy in each and every friend and in all the friends? What advice can you give us because without awakening envy, when each of us has a fire burning inside and we can increase the connection, the proximity of coming closer, we won't reach the goal as envious, the real key, the main points by which we advance. How can we awaken it in a constant and permanent way as much as we can?

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57. S. (01:50:15) We are told the Creator is jealous. What kind of envy is it?

R. No, envy by the Creator is something completely different, the jealousy of the Creator, the Creator's armies, this is something we will discuss later, not now  it will confuse us. The question is good. Write it down about the jealousy of the Creator's armies.

58. S. (01:51:26) I want to ask about envy and you told me that you need to yearn for connection and everything will succeed.  Did I understand correctly that the jealousy is the result of this that I want to help the friends being that I am so small and I want to adhere to them and I want to acquire their qualities, to help them connect more? To be in adhesion?

R. Yes that is correct. The thing is that we were connected prior to the sin of the tree of knowledge, prior to the shattering of the vessels of Adam Ha Rishon and in the connection between us we were all incorporated in everyone else ideally. Later by the shattering each one detached from the other then it turns out that each one. Now what each one has is only only his point, what others have is lacking. Before the shattering we were all incorporated in everyone else. What everyone has is only his point and he doesn't have all of the other qualities. Without connecting it to himself he cannot discover the Creator in them, that is why the revelation of the Creator depends upon how much incorporated in the qualities of others, this is what he says. The only thing that you are lacking is to come out to the field that the Lord has blessed and to collect all of these drift organs that are a part of your soul. This is our work and this is called the work of the field, the field that the Lord has blessed and in this field we find all of our broken vessels and we want to connect them, to be incorporated in them and this is all done by envy. When I envy the friends who have because I am in my ego.  I see what they have and I don't and I am envious then I come closer to them by being incorporated in them and this is how I reach the full integration of Adam HaRishon as the matter of envy. It is not to simply play, to truly correct our broken vessel but by this we come closer to the purpose of life, the purpose of creation.

59. S. (01:54:51) Any person can convince himself to be jealous of his friends or is this the work of the environment?

R. No, it is the environment that shouldn’t influence the friends just to come in and be with friends, our egoistic desire won't let me do it because it wants to rest. What the ego wants is fulfillment and rest and it is willing to let go of the rest only in order to get some fulfillment and by seeing the friends that they have and he doesn't, this is not yet enough for him to surrender the rest.

S. So it's not that I have to go and convince myself that  how great they are? I don’t see how that works.

R. It is true you have to decide about this together between you in the 10 that each shall help his friend as Rabash writes in the articles about the society.

 

60. S. (01:56: 08) Is it right to say without awakening myself even a little bit the desire to bestow to the friends the correct jealousy cannot awaken in me for the friends?

R. It may be so if you have this opportunity then yes.

S. Meaning if I don't have the force awakening in me how can I be jealous?

R. Ask, tell them you are dead and that you can't do anything, please talk to me, awake me in any which way you can, I myself am dead. Then you will see that if you asked correctly, they will wake up and give you that and then you will start waking up. Just like we get from the example of the Baal Shem Tov that his helper, his servants told him Aleph Bet Gimel the letters.

S. I'm usually concerned about presenting myself this way. Do you think it's okay?

R. Don't be afraid of harming the friends if you're thinking about the general goal of everyone try reaching out to them and you'll see that they are enjoying it.

61. S. (01:57:49) Friends talk about jealousy in the friend who is in complete nullification of himself yet we don't see this revealed to the eyes so how are we jealous of these qualities?

R. That is also something that should be praised if we have envy in the friends but it is under the condition that we are aimed correctly to locate such qualities, to appreciate them. We have to talk about it. There are such articles by Baal HaSulam and Rabash in general how important subjugation is and how beneficial it is to the spiritual correction.

62. S. (01:57:57) Jealousy is like an evolutionary mechanism to awaken the soul of Adam HaRishon in you  by acquiring the qualities of the friends?

R. By that you are building the vessel of Adam HaRishon when you are incorporating each other and you really want to be integrated as a complete system, one in the other and that is basically building the vessel of Adam HaRishon, the building itself.

S. Because I am envious of the qualities of one friend or another, from that the soul of Adam HaRishon is built?

R. You first of all see these things you are envious about. You are thankful to the Creator for bringing you to see the friends being great and that you may envy them. You are thankful to the Creator that you can integrate in them so you can grow along with them together. You are incorporating in their qualities and you are hoping that they will also incorporate in your qualities. Meaning this whole process is already a process of connection in building one general vessel to reveal the Creator.

S. Let's say I saw some qualities in the friends that I am jealous of. How deep do I need to incorporate in them?

R. You want them to be yours so that you also will incorporate these qualities by having these qualities when you are incorporated in the friends, you are included in a certain spiritual system These innate qualities you have they are your beast. The qualities that you acquire from your friends. This is your soul. That is how you should see it, that is how one should see the other.

63. S. (02:01:31) Over the course of the workshop we felt joy from each friend. Is this the field, the blessed field that we must work upon?  The field of mutual happiness?

R. The field that the Lord has blessed is called all the desires by the friends that are aimed at the purpose of creation. I am envious of them and I can also connect to them as either I take them to me working with them or I am incorporated with the friends and work with them there but either way I connect with my friends. Either the connection seems in me or in them but later I locate it to be a connection between us. This is how I reach a new common vessel where the Creator is revealed.

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