Morning Lesson December 20, 2021, Transcription
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Part 1:
Baal HaSulam - Shamati 175. And If the Way Be Too Far for You
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, this too is a short article, it's an important one and very practical. We encounter it because it's about our relation, our attitude to the path to the goal. How we feel all kinds of interference as distractions, and it's hard for us to convince ourselves that these disturbances are necessary, that specifically through them we rise, and don't continue on the same plane. On the same plane meaning like everyone else in this world. Precisely because there are interferences and disturbances, we have to overcome them, and rise above them, and in this way, we gradually reach the spiritual world.
Shamati 175. And if the way be too far for you
2. R. (01:41) Yes, well the article talks about the deficiency that we have to develop. We are given it, we are given a little bit of it and we have to increase it, give it shape, the right direction and then we'll reach the goal. Otherwise the road will be long and hard. It all depends on how we process what we are given in order to advance towards the goal. If we process it correctly, we advance in the shortest way in a straight line from where we are, in and straight to the goal. Then we can really ideally, go through the path as we read in the study of the ten Sefirot the Introduction of the ten Sefirot we can do it within three to five years but if we don't accept the conditions if we can't process them correctly, add them, join them from one person to the next, to increase them through all kinds of activities such as unity in the group and all kinds of forms of correct study, then we prolong the way. This is what he says, Rav reads: “And if the way be too long for you, too far for you that the road becomes long and far. Then he cannot bear it.” It seems impossible, too long, too hard. Interpretation, “Why is the way so long because you are not able to carry it, to bear it you can't overcome it, why? Because you cannot carry the burden of Torah and Mitzvot the Commandments,” the carrying of the burden of the kingdom of heaven, that's why the road seems too far and long. He is probably not correctly using all the instruments all the means, because the Creator makes no concessions. We are in the opposite nature from His in the beginning of the way, and we have to discover time and time again how opposite we are from Him but by this we correct ourselves more and more in adjusting and adapting ourselves to Him. That's the whole path, that's why we walk on both feet, two lines. On the left we discover how opposite we are from the Creator, on the right we can accordingly correct ourselves and see how similar we are to the Creator. In this way we go left right, left right, darkness light, darkness light, night day, night day, this is how we advance. He interpreted, “Why is the road so long because you cannot bear it or carry it. Because he cannot carry the burden of Torah and Mitzvot, Commandments.” Commandments are all kinds of actions we take in order to bring ourselves back to the correct form of the vessel of Adam HaRishon where we are all connected together. First of all those who have a yearning, those who are called Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator and following them, all the people in the world, so Baal HaSulam writes as red, black, white, yellow, everyone should come to it. Rav Reads: And the advice for it the verse says, “Bundle up the money or the silver in your hand Kesef,” silver or money means Kesufin, longing, in other words there is a desire, will to receive, the beginning of the desire from above that the main thing we need to develop in addition to the desire is the longing. This is called Kesufin. This is what we have to come to, that's what we have to come to, how? Through the work between us. To draw, extend the Kesufin, the longing in the work. I am willing to work in order to have a desire for the spiritual goal. Rav Reads: “Through the yearning and longing for the work of the Creator we can create we can carry the burden of the Kingdom of Heaven or the burden of Torah and Mitzvot.” I'll be able to maintain the laws of connection, the main thing is loving your friend as yourself, this is the great rule of the Torah and also Kesef, the longing concerns shame. Because one was created for the goal of glorifying the Creator meaning that every time I grow, I see how the Creator grows bigger and greater in my eyes, more important, more comprehensive, all-encompassing and accordingly I check my own situation. Rav reads: “This is called existing in order to increase the glory of Heaven. As it is written, “Blessed it is our God who has created us for his glory.” The Creator created us in order for us to appreciate Him, exalt Him seemingly, because by doing this we rise, we grow and, in this way, we discover Him. Rav reads: “The matter of Torah and Mitzvot in general are things that one does in order to be favored by the Creator. Because the nature of the slave is to want to be liked by his master.” Since then his master's heart is for him to the extent that we are dedicated to the Creator, to the power of bestowal the power of connection, to that extent we begin to see how it is the great all-encompassing law of nature. That everything is in it, all of creation, all the worlds. It is here he continues Baal HaSulam, Rav reads: “The many actions and meticulousness that one becomes proficient in are but a means.” Meaning all the commandments, all the activities, all the exercises we do are only instruments, means by which to be favored by the Creator. Then he will have the desire to go to Him. Meaning to the extent that we try to approach the Creator, and to keep his condition of connection among us in order to approach Him. This is the only condition, and we build the vessel and expect Him to be revealed in the vessel according to the equivalence of form between Him and our vessel our connection, then accordingly we approach the goal. So it is here, all the many actions and strictness that a person becomes proficient, are only a means by which to be favored by the Creator and then he will have the desired goal in his eyes and then we will be incorporated in the goal and we will realize it. Rav reads: “A person absorbs Torah and Mitzvot, meaning all kinds of activities in order to achieve correction but to be liked by people. If he, does it not for the purpose of actual correction but for the sake of people.” Because he can do these things for people, yes and he turns the needs of Heaven into a means by which to succeed in corporeal life. In other words he wants to advance spirituality in order to get corporeal success from this. Meaning through them he will be liked by people and as long as one is not rewarded with the Torah Lishma, for her sake, he works for people for the sake of people.” Meaning whether we want to or not as long as we haven't achieved the actual intention to bestow, we are necessarily in the aim to bestow in corporeality the lowness, the small one and we're working for the sake of people, it is the law, it is our nature. Rav reads: “Although one has no other choice to do anything except to work for people, meaning to take pride, to exalt himself, to glorify himself in their eyes he should still be ashamed of such servitude.” That is because he has no choice, he's working only to glorify himself in the eyes of the world. That this is what is happening to him and this what obligates him then through this Kesufin, the longing, meaning these yearnings to be liked by people, he will be rewarded with the Kesef the longing of Holiness. Even by this gradually, if you work against his will he is still working. It is called integrating the intention to bestow with the intention to receive a reward from the environment so they will appreciate him, for example. Rav reads: “He is still yearning for Kedushah, Holiness and gradually it operates on him and binds the money or the silver in your hand,” this means that even though the craving is not up to man, what he wants and why he wants it, it all comes from above. Rav reads: “If he has no desire, for he cannot do anything,” we know this on ourselves that sometimes we lose the yearning, the desire, and we see how then we fall and we can't do anything. Rav reads: “Nevertheless he should show the desire for the Kesufin for the longing” meaning I want to long, I want to be burning with longing. Meaning the desire to want to yearn we have to show the desire for it meaning we have to show the desire and longing to the light, yearn for the Creator meaning to yearn to increase the glory of Heaven, meaning the Creator the power of bestowal, the power of connection will be great and prominent in controlling all of reality. I have to behave in such a way as if I am only in this force and I yearn to increase and glorify and, in this way, I come to a state where I am liked by the Creator and there are small additions to this article. There's a discernment of gold and silver and what are silver and gold in the wisdom of Kabbalah? Kesef means he has Kesufin, longing in general, longing for spirituality. Zahav, gold meaning give this gold, it's when he wants only one thing when he's more direct and his work is specifically for this. And all the longing and yearning he has for several things are canceled in this one desire and he says, give this only the Zahav, gold, give this, meaning he does not want anything but to raise the Shechina, Divinity from the dust. Rav reads: “It follows that even though one sees that he does not have the proper yearning and desire as it should be for achieving the goal he should still see and exert in deeds and thoughts to obtain the desire.” It's as if I have no yearning, why am I coming to the wisdom of the Kabbalah, to the group, to the learning. I see others who have gathered here that they have the desire of the yearning, and they get up and they run and they do stuff, the Creator gave it to them and the Creator did not give it to me. If he didn't give it to me, I can sit quietly, no, not necessarily. You need to nevertheless come to such a society and yearn to do all kinds of activities to immerse yourself in them, to bond with them, to dilute yourself, dissolve in them. By this you will receive the impressions from them, do what they do even if they do it willingly and you're doing it unwillingly like a little child that looks at grown-ups and does the same things that they do without knowing why he does it but he looks at them and does it. If we do the same it will give us the desire. Through those people who have a great deficiency, a great desire, we will receive the deficiency through them, the important thing is to annul before them and try to be like children before grownups. This way we can obtain the desire and this is called, bind up the money or the silver in your hand. One should not think of it as a small thing if I'm not giving it now, I'm just going to go to sleep. Rav reads: “No, it is in your hands to do. Rather for oxen with the grace or sheep,” meaning by this you will be rewarded with the most sublime lights. This is called helping one another, this is called using the general will to receive the vessel that we yearn for which is a complete vessel not a broken one. So if we, even though we are broken pieces from the vessel, we yearn to return to unite ourselves as much as possible. Accordingly we can raise ourselves a new vessel, we can do that. This is what we have to do there for what does the article try to say? If the way be too long for you but it gets harder, too heavy on you, it is just an opportunity that you are given now to advance more substantially. For real. If you know how to do it through connection through trying to be liked by the environment, the environment takes you as if on a boat, and with it you reach the shore.
3. S. (25:29) How can the environment influence me in moments when I don't have any desire for progress?
R. You're like a sick person and they take care of you but you have to get as close to them as you can. They will take care of you because you made a covenant among you. You agreed within the ten to reveal the connection between you and exalt it to such an extent that in this connection you reveal the Creator. This is the pact we started as a ten and now we have to continue. Each one should see that he takes part in it as much as he can according to the power and opportunity that he has right now, even though he's sick, not physically but spiritually. He is powerless, he is unable. It doesn't matter, He should nevertheless keep and maintain his place in the covenant. They all reach the goal when each one helps the others. We need to understand that what each one feels, thinks, and can do every moment, all of this is given to us by the Creator. He stands inside and wants to reveal Himself to us, meaning how He is working with us. We begin every single moment to try to want to be his partners, to be a little bit more connected, a little closer through our efforts to what the Creator is doing with us. We relate to all of our states as exercises from Him and on top of these exercises we reciprocate, we perform our own activities, our own responses, to them. So through all of our responses, our activities, we respond and He acts again and we respond. This is called a ‘dance.’ We connect among ourselves by this and with the Creator, and the Creator through the center of the ten connects to us. We begin to discover the mutual, the reciprocal activities between us and Him. Then, by this, the group becomes organized, the ten is then called the’ individual soul.’ Today we have many such groups and we can certainly awaken the whole world through this work as long as we perform these activities in the right order. We can awaken the whole world, to really perform a spiritual revolution. All the revolutions happened through a small team of people and here we are already a big team, a spiritual one, connected to the upper force. We are really can-do great things. This is what he is saying here in this article, “And If the Way Be Too Far for You” . We feel that the road is long but it is because the Creator reveals the results of the shattering to us more and more, layer by layer. So it seems to us that we are further and farther away, but we are not further away, not at all. It happens in order for us to make greater and greater efforts and reveal our connection to the goal with more precision, with higher resolution than before. We aim ourselves more precisely towards the goal. It is like when you fly from the United States to Europe. First of all as you fly out of the United States, you are crossing the ocean, you go over places and you fly over them. You still don't see where you are flying, but you are already on the way. It's the same here that even though we don't see the goal, we need to try to keep it in our sight, at the center of our vision. All of the things that we receive and do are still far, and we're still far from achieving the goal, they are all necessary and are revealed in order to achieve the goal. They all stem from the soul of Adam HaRishon when we were all together in one desire. We lost the connections between us through the shattering in order to now reconstruct these connections by ourselves that we had before. We search how to reconstruct them by ourselves, how we should be connected. It's against our broken desire because we don't want to connect, we don't want to achieve the goal of the intention to bestow, it is opposite from our nature. We create the vessel with the right power by this against our will. Precisely because it's against our will that it gives us the powers of bestowal, the powers of connection. They are very great. We then rise from the level of the created being to the level of the Creator.
4. S. (33:08) Do we connect all yearnings in the ten in order to reach the eye of the needle?
R. Ask. Of course we can't. All we can do is with our intellect, maybe with some feelings, by words and we can express how important it is to us. It's important but we cannot do anything other than increase the importance. To the extent that we scrutinize the importance we see that it is not up to us, it is not in our hands. We only need to turn to the Creator and do this business, to partner with Him. The Creator helps us with the yearning, with making the vessel when we try to yearn. We receive all the powers, all the means to connect among us from Him and build a place for Him to be revealed in all the created beings.
S. What are the steps in the work in this mutual desire we all reach to raise Divinity from the dust?
R. When we come to the wisdom of Kabbalah, we just want to know what we are living for; it is a general question. Whether he is aware of it or not, each one dresses it in all kinds of clothings of his own. Why? What for? He wants to discover the essence and purpose of life. This is number one. Number two is that we encounter many questions as we work, and we begin to learn, to work, to know the shapes and the forms. We begin to understand immediately when we begin to learn that we are a desire to receive opposite from the Creator, that we are bad. We can't do anything; we are opposite from spirituality. We don't know what to do with ourselves and then we come to despair, a feeling of remoteness, called a ‘fall,’ darkness, etc. In other words, I don't feel satisfaction in my will to receive that wants to somehow be filled, but it can't be filled because it is opposite from the source of light. It seemingly gets complicated. We want to get filled, to receive, to know, to feel, but we are told, ‘No, you need to put these things aside and develop a desire to work without an egoistic goal. You need to make precise efforts in things that you don't really want and don't feel are important.’ Why would you do it? You do it because you look at others and they look at you and together you come to a state where what wasn't important to you before becomes important. Why? There's no other choice. If you want to reach the truth you have to rise above the false, above the egoistic will to receive. This is how we advance. It's not simple but we have the upper force which nurtures and operates on us. We feel that we are changing and that He is helping us, improves us, and makes us better. This is how we achieve correction.
S. We go from the love of people to the love of the Creator, meaning we have to build bestowal towards the friends in such a way that the Creator is present. What does it mean that the person should be ashamed?
R. He needs to be embarrassed because in his entire life what he wanted to do was pleasing to the eyes of the audience of the world. That's what each one wants to do because then we receive appreciation because the audience thinks that we are wise, big, brave, and so on. All humans work in this world only in order to be bigger in the eyes of the environment, of society. Look what the biggest managers to the smallest people are doing. Everyone measures himself with respect to the environment. It is clear that no one wants anything that feels like a beast to him. The most important thing to a person’s ego is to make himself bigger in the eyes of the people. Animals don't have such a thing; the still, vegetative, and animate they don't have this instinct. Wolves and other animals in groups or packs may have struggles like who is the leader of the group, but it's on the degree of instinct. They can't do anything about it, it is not in their choice. It is simply instinct that pushes these animals to behave this way. Our instinct is called the evil inclination, the will to receive and it pushes us to bigger things. That's what we do. All of our work is to find favor in the eyes of the people. There is nothing worse than when a person is degraded and is put down. Feeling shame is the worst. Spirituality should be so important to us in our spiritual path that it doesn't matter to us what the whole world will tell us. The main thing is that you, together with your friends, adhere to the Creator. That is the most important thing. We don’t look down on all the opinions of the whole world, we understand them. We know our place and their place, but we don’t work in order to find favor in their eyes.
5. S. (42:15) When a person initially observes Torah and Mitzvot in order to receive, to be liked by the Creator, what is the need for it?
R. I don't know exactly what you translated there, so ask the question again.
S. It seems like a person is working for the Creator, he wants to work for the Creator but initially he is only working for his environment, the friends, to be liked by them, that's why he is working?
R. That's what I am saying, you don't understand the text. The text is translated not exactly correct and so I am explaining it to you always each and every text I read and explain. What I recommend doing is what I once did with myself in the beginning of the path, I would take an article from Shamati and I would paraphrase it in my language my language, it doesn't matter to me how he is writing there, money in your hand and the way be far from you, all sorts of things, what do I need all of these nice words for, I need to know what I need and not all this poeticism this nice literature, I need something for myself short and to the point that I should not be mistaken. So what I recommend for you after the lesson, whenever you have some time during the day, take this article and you write it out in your language, in your words, that you should understand what it is talking about. This is what you should do with each and every article of Shamati. First of all it will be shorter and clearer and you will not have questions. I promise you that whatever questions you may have, you yourself in this paraphrasing, this work you're doing you will scrutinize.
6. S. (45:32) The more we advance the farther we feel from the Creator, what gives us the power, the strength to yearn to continue to advance?
R. That we went through some previous states, the previous state is already in us, and it is our good foundation to a certain degree, then it is revealed to us a new degree. You have seen how the little kids climb stairs right? You walk the stairs and go up but the child stands on one step and then he begins to rise to the next degree, it gets hard for him, you will see it right? That's exactly how we are, so first of all we have our own step and we need now to rise above to the next degree. The next degree of course we need forces for it, we need appreciation of the next degree that it should be bigger not to be afraid of it, to reveal desire for it, it could be we do not have enough desire for it. I need to connect with society because each and every degree is that we connect more and more and when I look at them, I don't see that we are connecting more. I don't see it, rather it seems to me nothing is changing but that's not correct. Otherwise we would have no opportunity to rise. What's written and if the way is too far for you, that the way appears to be farther is because you are capable of putting up with seeing it as far and difficult and you know how to overcome the distance and the hardship. For you, this path shall turn into pleasure. For truly like mountain climbers, people climb mountains but what's the point why are they doing this, what is there? It's so difficult, it's so dangerous but no, they say this sensation that you climb the mountain, there is nothing more than that. Nothing bigger and I believe them because it's by root-and-branch that's how it occurs. So we don't want to climb these mountains but what we have before us is what's called the mountain of the Creator. Here we need only to come together between us with importance. That's called that you shall accumulate the Kesef in your hands, it's from the word Kesufin, longing and if you generate this longing in your hands along with the friends there is no problem because envy, lust and honor bring a person out of the world, from the place where he is in, called his world, to a higher place. Thus envy, lust and honor, it all depends on the society, your connection with the society.
7. S. (49:40) What is the quality of silver and of gold in the work in the ten?
R. Kesef, silver, money that he generates a tendency, a desire for it and Zahav is that he has already found the correct desire and he is progressing. That Kesufin, all the yearnings that he had before, he already processed them and is advancing correctly. He already has a desire which is Zahav. We have spoken about this that in Hebrew there are no words that they just came to us from some incidentally. Rather they all come from the influence of light on the vessels that's where all of the vocabulary, dictionary of words in Hebrew comes from. Now we speak this language but usually it wasn't actually spoken, it was only used for scrutinizing spiritual vessels.
8. S. (51:25) What should happen for a person to shift from Lo Lishma, not for her sake to Lishma?
R. It is the desire of the Creator. The desire of the Creator in order that you shall awaken the Creator that will spring you from Lo Lishma to Lishma. You need to awaken him and in order to awaken him you need to make correct preparations for the reception of Lishma from above but you need to make these preparations below meaning you need to be in a ten and you need to be tied to them in whatever you are in. Something unrealistic whatever you are in, whatever the Creator gives you, meaning with all the conditions he gives you that you use them in order to be tied with the ten. That is actually the condition for the reception of Lishma, where would he give you Lishma from, it's called the intention to bestow, it's called above the ego, where does he give? You need to be ready in such a network of connection with the friends in order to receive this illumination from above called Lishma, the upper light from above that influences and that fills you and changes you from the intention to receive to intention to bestow. How will you receive it if you are not ready, if the environment is not ready? To prepare yourself and the environment, you must. You must. Then you will advance.
9. S. (53:33) Why do we want to resemble, on the one hand and on the other hand we want to stand out each of us, what is the root of this?
R. I, as an egoist, I feel my ego only with respect to the environment. If it were not for the environment, I am not an egoist I have no one to feel myself above, to be bigger than, to control. Meaning if a person lives inside of his family primitively, like thousands of years ago, that's not called an egoist. The ego begins to develop from when people begin to connect into some bigger groups, then the will to receive awakens in order to control others, to dominate others and so on. In order to develop the ego and in order to be a bigger society, the bigger the society is, the ego can develop more then we have hierarchy, we have all sorts of layers, levels and so on. That's how the ego builds us and accordingly we seemingly build the environment, the society, humanity, it's all by the increasing of the ego and all of us each one of us and all of us together according to how the upper light influences us, alright?
10. S. (55:23) What does with grace or sheep mean?
R. One should not think that if it is in the hands of man, it is a small thing rather for oxen with grace or for sheep, meaning that we can increase the awakening that we receive from above, and bring it to realization below as the most important thing. He continues, “meaning if for only by this he will be rewarded with the most sublime lights,” meaning that don't think that you are receiving is small vessels, no, if you arrange them correctly, you'll reach a state that specifically by the oxen or sheep you will advance. There is a lot of commentary on these oxen and sheep but ultimately in some total it is light of mercy and light of wisdom that will advance. This is in parallel to Kesef and Zahav, Kesef the light of Mercy vessels of bestowing and Zahav vessels of reception light of Hochma.
11. S. (57:11) How far are we really from the Creator?
R. Good question, truly good question, as much as your will to receive controls you. I have no other opportunity to answer you. You need to cut from your will to receive and use it on the intention to bestow and not just cut it off, maybe today you will begin to stop eating and stop drinking and the day after stop breathing, no. You are cutting off from your will to receive as much as you are able to concentrate all these matters to be directed to connection with the environment and connection through it with the Creator. That's it, to what extent, that depends on us. We now are as you also see now with the external world, In acceleration, very rapid development. So it's hard to say what the distance is. Baal HaSulam says we're in the last generation so we must make the effort to truly live like in the last generation and all the rest is not important to me. The babies who are born today does he know what period of time he is in, what conditions, he doesn't know. I look at my grandkids, they have no idea. I have the youngest one who is a year-and-a-half, what is he now? Look at him and then look at a baby who lived a hundred or a thousand years ago, same thing. Thus we don't understand yet where we are but we need to believe in Kabbalists and do actions like they say. Then we will feel very quickly how much the time is unique, how much we receive a reaction and advance. Our goal is to hasten the times. The times of development
12. S. (01:00:08) If we could describe the ideal ten that can hasten time and in the most correct way and every friends’ yearning for spirituality, how do we describe the relationships among the friends in the ten?
R. That each one wants to help the others to reach spirituality as quickly as possible. That's it that's called that each one shall help his friend, we don't need anything besides that. You can say that in all our work, the distance, all of our stops along the path, we should understand that the main thing is to help the friends and in such a mutual manner we push all of us the entire ten to spirituality. That if I care for the friends, that I truly stand behind them and push them forward to spirituality, that actually in this I am realizing myself, in such each and every one is as the Malchut with respect to the first nine Sefirot. That's how we need to work that the Malchut works in opposition to itself, objection from itself in order to support the first nine Sefirot and this is its entire goal and then we will operate in this manner towards the goal, towards the group, we advance very quickly.
S. It seems like in the ten they're our friends that you don't need to help them like they managed to overcome and some friends don't manage and they have more difficulties?
R. Spiritually nobody can overcome without assistance from you and the ten, nobody. No such thing that they are advancing on their own, that is not progress. They can be wiser, they can be speaking nicer, but spiritually and spiritual degrees nobody can rise even to the smallest of degrees if he doesn't receive a push from the friends. Nobody. So if somebody feels that he has advanced, it's a sign that the friends have thought about him.
13. S. (01:02:53) What should we do in order to accelerate the yearning while there is the burdening of the heart?
R. Give an example to others. If I see that somebody is not in a good mood, he is weakened and so I come to him and say listen you see that other guy from the group, it doesn't matter let's say John, right, you see I think he really needs some help, let's go together with you and begin to think about him and show him how much we can advance, that's it. I’m not even let's say intending to this John, I'm intending to this first John, that I want to make him a partner to help the same third friend so I am awakening him with this. But in such a manner it is the best way and then he feels responsibility, he feels some goal along the way, some importance, some action and in such a matter he exits his state. The best thing to exit each and every state is to incorporate in an action of bestowing.
14. S. (01:04:45) What's the difference between working for people to working for the Creator?
R. We cannot be directed to the Creator because the Creator is everything. It's force, its mind, its desire, its intention, it’s state includes everything, he swallows everything and so I must yearn through everyone to the Creator and it cannot be that I am directed to him on my own, it cannot be. I must take the entire vessel into account because on my own I am a very small Sefira in the general vessel of Adam Rishon and I am not tied to the others I am not even a Sefira because a Sefira is Illuminating but I can only illuminate when I have ten, so the question is then what are we doing, how do we reach that? So we connect and we turn to the Creator from this connection and we request of him to connect us in a correct manner because who knows how I am connected, correct or not correct. The Creator corrects the connection between us and that's how we reach correction and when we come closer to one another, in this extent we are getting closer to the Creator. This is the most precise measurement, if I could just identify how much I am close to the friends but in this I am measuring. actually my closeness to the Creator. I have no other vessel and we do need. because in the extent that we are connecting in the ten in this extent we get closer to the Creator. He is within us, inside, and so to measure we can only by this that we feel the friends close. Here the friends of course it's not simple, I don't feel them so close, I always have something against them, something that stops me, that is cooling me down, and we need to work on that once again, how do we work? It's desirable that we, together, each one that he feels some distance from the other, then it doesn't matter that we're sitting even in a roundtable right with a big distance from each one like you see in the UN and all sorts of places how politicians do. But we turn to the Creator to connect between us for lack of choice because first of all tell him that you don't want and that you are rejecting and pushing one another, yes, reveal the evil how much it is present and then suddenly begin to reveal how it is so silly, what are we talking about, where are we? What, I'm rejecting them? My friends? Yes, what for, what will I get from this, what is this life that I'm making such calculations compared to before us that we have an eternal goal? How is it possible that suddenly I am like in some swamp of egoistic calculations and then you scrutinize and you'll have renewed force that you turn to the Creator and you request. Women are more capable of this than men, so please do it and give us an example. Because specifically from the will to receive, women can succeed and save the men. From the privilege of the righteous women, do Israel exit Egypt. Specifically women. That's what's written in the Torah. So we are ready and expecting of you.
15. S. (01:09:44) You mentioned the concept of dancing with the Creator. Is it about him awakening me and then he is moving away so I will take a step forward towards him?
R. Yes that's called a dance with the Creator he's getting further and closer and turning around and such and such. I feel that I'm changing and such forms that I'm changing inside my relation to the friends, to the world, to myself, attitude to the Creator and all these four appeals. I feel that the Creator is dancing with me.
16. S. (01:10:34) What should we do today to be the Creator's partners?
R. To be partners between us as much as we will be closer to a partnership between us such, we will also reach partnership with the Creator.
17. S. (01:10:54:) What does it mean to be in mercy towards others?
R. Mercy towards others is that I annul my ego in order to look at them through envy, lust and honor. Rather I want only to cause them good. I cannot yet cause them good, but I would like to. That is called that I am relating to them out of mercy.
18. S. (01:11:36) how can we do a spiritual revolution here and now you spoke about it before?
R. That we make an effort between us to join to the Creator that's actually everything and after we do this together that we do this, we care for dissemination. Dissemination. Because in the success of dissemination we are very dependent. You see what's happening with the world, we are now getting close to a few more blows of inflation and in danger of war, of climate, all sorts of problems. We need to show people how to be satisfied with little on a corporeal level and how to expand our desires spiritually within a person, then a person won't feel that he is losing something from his life or the opposite he is exchanging the corporeal matters, that you have no use of them, that he's truly invested his whole life in them. He needs to invest a bit in connection in understanding the structure of the world to rise above his degree of animate to the degree of speaking. To the degree of Adam, similar to the Creator, this is what we need to explain to people today. Today they're in such states that they are ready already to digest and recognize that we have no choice, we can change our state specifically by connection between us. By changing our attitude to reality.
19. S. (01:14:01) Why is it specifically money, silver something of material, how is this connected to the Creator?
R. We take names from this world and according to their roots in corporeality we call their roots in spirituality, and the spiritual world, so it's not Kesef, money or Zahav, gold as we call in this world but rather from spirituality to corporeality, money and gold give birth in our world to such foundations of money and gold, Kesef is called the will to receive and Zahav is called the will to receive with the intention to bestow, in the spiritual world. In our world it is just metal but we take the roots, the branches as it is called the language of the branches, in order to scrutinize spiritual matters because in spirituality there are no words, there are no names. We take the names for spirituality from the corporeal world as we can learn this from TES or from the Essence of Religion and Its Purpose, the Language of the Branches, so go into the archive and you'll find the Language of Branches a lot of material about that. Where the language and the words come from, the shape of the letters and all of these things that we use in Hebrew come to us only from the wisdom of Kabbalah. The essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah there is an article by Baal HaSulam and you can also read about it there.
20. S. (01:16:09) How to say the will to receive of my own and how to see the will to receive controls?
R. That is a problem because in order to see the will to receive in the right way I should get from above some upper light in order to distinguish between it and the darkness. This way I can scrutinize where exactly I am, what exactly my desire is, what is going on with me. Otherwise I can't, otherwise it won't work and this is why there is a problem here. I should advance in order to come closer to the lights and this is considered 'by your light, we will see the light and then I can scrutinize what desires act in me. It's not simple, it is only by everything being stuck because we don't work in connection in the group, I'm talking both about women and men and we can't jump above that, skip that. Because that is the vessel to scrutinize the extent of the connection that we have in the end so examine this every day, how much you can be connected to that and if you can't that is also good but at least use all of your strength to do dissemination.
21. S. (01:18:07) What does it mean to be in the liking of the creatures?
R. In the liking of the eyes of others means that you are helping them to advance to the purpose of creation. Only that and no other way. They can like you because you are handing out money or something else, that is not considered that you are in the liking of others because by that you are only causing bad things to them, to really be liked by others means that you teach them the path of bestowing and by that you can be certain that they are advancing towards the good.
22. S. (01:18:57) How to define and use correctly the qualities of the will to receive so that this will work for the society and not just for me?
R. We can certainly also use the will to receive even if it is not corrected in order to bestow even if it's not connected to the society. What we need is a place, we need instruments and we need maybe to organize a network of connection between us, all kinds of corporeal things in this world. Perhaps in this, some people can support us not only with money but with strength or knowledge that they have, etc. That is also considered to be liked by the group. To be liked by others means that I take their main desire, what the friends have and I help them to advance. By that I can be certain that I will be liked by them in a nice way, a good way so that they will understand this properly and advance.
S. (01:20:38) What are we missing to succeed in dissemination?
R. Dissemination is a very important thing because by drawing the entire humanity to follow us, by that we determine that we too are holding ourselves in the first line of general advancement. How can we do that? I don't know, it all depends on you. You should ask'
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R. Good so thank you as well