Morning Lesson July 6, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Advance By Overcoming - Selected Excerpts From the Sources. #6
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1. Rav’s Introduction: We are created beings we are the opposite of the Creator who made us such so that we by ourselves by our own desire by developing our desire our yearning we will be able to overcome our egoistic desire which is the opposite of the Creator and reach equivalence of form that same desire to bestow like him gradually through degrees as we call it and this is our work as it is written, make your will as His will, and by this we come closer until we begin to feel the Creator and we begin to be connected with Him until we are in adhesion with Him up to one hundred percent when the connection between us becomes such that we become completely like Him and this is our work, this is our way, this is why all that we have to do is only towards this connection that specifically at a time that we are in our state in this life in this world we will be able to take a few first step towards the Creator and in that we have mutual help in that we have the study what the Kabbalists have left for us the materials by which we can grow stronger and direct ourselves more precisely and take a few steps towards the goal.
Reading item #6: (02:18) “When one begins the work he begins with faith ...”
2. R. (03:48) This means that here Rabash explains to us that in the beginning we have the yearning and we need to actualize it as much as possible by studying by making a group and connecting between us as much as possible as it says, in trickery shall you conduct war, so even though you don't want it so much you pressure yourself you press yourself and you’re drawn and drawn towards the goal toward the Creator and then you see that it doesn’t work it doesn't help meaning by your own forces you cannot achieve the goal even though you very much want to and gradually you are wasting these forces spending these forces for a year, two years, could be ten years it doesn't matter but you need to reach the state where you are despaired of your own forces that the forces that you have in your intellect in your emotion and whatever it is by this you cannot achieve the revelation of the Creator adhesion with the Creator equivalence of form with the Creator you cannot and then you begin gradually to begin to shift to the next stage you go through the despair it's not so simple but you go through the despair and you begin to understand that if by your own forces you cannot do it then you need to pray to ask to connect with the Creator in each and every case even though you cannot reach Him like you wanted to attain Him before but you have the possibility to be connected with Him because He created you and then a person begins to aim his heart to prayer to the Creator he’s willing to do anything that is required of him bit by bit this comes gradually everything that is required of him as long as the Creator will give him some connection and some nearing until he reaches a state where he is despaired as well if I cannot act at all and I entirely depend on the Creator and I don't feel the Creator and each time the connection between us if some yearning appears on my side towards the Creator later on it stops and again it awakens and again it stops and so the person starts reaching despair and he gives up he wants to leave the path and then he reaches the final stage which means that it's not within his power that he can advance to the Creator and it’s not according to how he annuls himself but by him praying asking and then this prayer helps it opens for him the gate to the Creator and he begins to discover him to feel him and to connect with him.
Reading #6: (07:38) “When one begins the work he begins with faith ...”
3. S. (08:56) This state of prayer is despair and without the help of the ten you can't reach it, it's impossible.
R. Is that a question or a statement?
S. Is there another option besides this?
R. No, besides what they write to you there is no other option you need to arrange a group an environment from which you get forces and with them you can advance.
S. So there's a different question then, in a connected group we receive warmth and love, it's good, but how do you fall into despair from that?
R. No it shouldn't be this way we don't need to leave the group we need to discover the Creator specifically inside the group why are you speaking nonsense why should I give up on the group despair leave it and approach the Creator, the Creator is as the sum total of all of the forces in the group He’s the result the summary of the group.
S. I mean the deficiency for the Creator in addition to what's in the group, how did not settle for what's in the group?
R. If you'll be incorporated in the group as much as possible then out of your incorporation in the group you'll receive a deficiency for the Creator and the right deficiency there is no Creator but only what the group will portray to you what the group will present to you that is called the Creator, the sum total of all the qualities of the friends, all of the forces of the friends as much as you will be able to accumulate as much as you will be able to accumulate within you that will be called Creator there is no Creator there is no Creator but as much as the group inside of you according to your efforts will give you this image it will establish for you this form this force if the friends will not connect inside of you according to your effort then there will be no Creator, the group is like a telescope, it's like a special device that through it you discover this force which is completely concealed from you, which is the Creator and not a Creator which is somewhere out there outside of you but in the form that is revealed inside of the group this is why He's called BoReh, BoReh come and see.
S. Turns out that the result of working in the ten should be a lack for the Creator otherwise we're doing something wrong.
R. That is true the group has to be concerned that it will always have a yearning for the Creator through the connection with the friends.
4. S. (13:10) Why is the quality referred to as His presence, where is He present?
R. Where is this written?
S. When it says the quality of love is where He’s present.
R. You have to read it a few times, maybe it's a matter of translation here, according to this word I don't find it here in the text. I don't know what you mean.
5. S. (14:01) This common force in the group, how does it help us?
R. On his heart the Creator shines and He awakens the group and the friends in the group He awakens a deficiency in them in all kinds of different manners and in this way through that if we connect between us and we try to keep the connection between us each time more and more then by that we come closer to Him.
S. (14:49) And that is His help?
R. He helps us in that as well. He shines through the friends then we look at the friends each time a different way and we try to be with them in a connection in different forms and this is how we get closer the most important thing is the connection between us in order to be more similar to the Creator and to be more similar to the Creator then I have to annul myself before the friends I have to help them connect as much as possible we need to be drawn to the form of the Creator between us all of us together and in this way bit by bit we take on a certain form that resembles the Creator and then we begin to discover him.
S. It says here in the article that the person sees that he has no strength to reach it, so he asked the Creator, what does it mean the Creator help him?
R. Of course if a person asks when he is in the group he turns to the Creator and he asks for the possibilities the forces to annul before the group in practice then it turns out that by this he reaches nearing to the Creator I don't quite understand your questions because these are things that we already talked about.
S. I just wanted to understand what to consider as help from the Creator because I don't have the strength, so I ask of the Creator he gave the opportunity to nullify and the strength and what.
R. It doesn't work in such an immediate manner but actually it does we need to invest more in the prayer in the request in that awareness the recognition of what is it I want to where I'm not alright more more in a constant manner then you will receive discernments and later on forces to actually perform the connection.
6. S. (17:33) Working in faith, the work in faith, does it depend on our effort to connect, without the effort to connect we can't have faith?
R. Of course not how will you receive forces to be in order to bestow and to whom do you want to bestow if you don't connect. That is the work in faith and the work on connection is the same work.
7. S. (18:39) The despair it seems manifests in different ways and even there's different stages, there is such a stage that you feel like you're not advancing towards the Creator and you casted doubt there and there's a Klipot there’s despair, you can't agree that the friends don't reveal the Creator, that the world is not moving towards the Creator, always in these changing forms, so what despair is discussed here in the excerpt?
R. Despair out of one's own forces when one is despaired of his own forces that he by himself cannot reach anything, but he has a request and he knows exactly what is it he wants to achieve more and more and that he has to ask the Creator for it through that from that state where he arranges himself correctly in the group so we have here those same three conditions it's the person the group and the Creator.
S. If I can be precise about the despair, as long as we don't come to cry to tears then we don't reach despair?
R. Yes but it doesn't have to be in this form that you are saying it is true that is also written like that but crying it's a sign of weakness of the recognition of your own weakness and maybe by that a person reaches a state where he doesn't cry but he's happy that finally he discovered how much he's not capable of anything and now he's willing to give himself to the Creator.
S. As a ten we're trying to lift a rock and we see that we can't and it's that border?
R. Yes but it's not good to decide in advance that you are already in that boundary but rather just continue as much as possible so that whatever will happen will happen from above it's not that you begin some new stage a new state but rather you are pressing all the way until the end to the very end and all of the beginnings let the Creator do them.
7. S. (21:39) There is a demand and a need to connect with the friends but towards the Creator it’s the opposite to resistance, rejection so I think the Creator doesn't reject us so that we want?
R. So you should continue and apparently it will change, keep going, you will start to feel how these things come into place such that the friends will be closer to you, but the Creator will be the goal.
8. S. (22:25) About the approach towards the friend who has disturbances. Sometimes it feels like the friend doesn't succeed because he didn't make enough efforts, but could it be because we don't make enough efforts for him?
R. It could be, certainly we need to keep and help each and every one.
9. S. (22:55) What is the point that I'm aware that only the Creator can help, what is that point, this great deficiency that the Creator can fulfill?
R. Yes this point exists at the end of each and every state.
S. How do I come to this great and special lack that the Creator can really enter and bring the fulfillment?
R. You need to be connected to the friends and feel that nevertheless there is a place for the Creator between you.
10. S. (23:40) In the work when we do the work I suddenly see that I didn't do enough and each time it comes it's either the Creator shows it to me or, how does it happen each time I see I can add more, and I didn't finish the work and it seems as though it comes from me and not the Creator how to relate to that?
R. Continue and keep doing and check what exactly is it that you need to add. Maybe it's not precisely what you have along the way so examine yourself.
11. S. (24:28) How do you reach a state where all the ten comes to a collective despair some in our ten are in despair some not, so one does reveal the Creator and the others don't, we said all of us should reveal the Creator so how?
R. But for that not everyone needs to be in despair which one does his work and in each and every state that he is in there he has to do his work as much as possible and it's not that we are all despaired and broken and everyone is hopeless, no, that is not the right state.
S. For a common prayer as far as I understand each and every one needs to be in despair?
R. No incorrect there are those I should be grateful, there are those that should praise and there are those who need to cry.
S. So there are some who don't feel like they need to pray, they need to still do things.
R. So let them do what they need to do, don't pressure them, don't demand from them then you will see that this is how it works in the best way.
S. I asked a very simple question, how to come to a common prayer where everyone cries, come, and save us, that's what happened in Egypt, they all cried, take us out.
R. Okay I guess we'll have to talk more over time, you are not listening, what can I do.
S. It's written about Egypt and their cries shall rise up to heaven, all of them.
R. Don't interpret whatever comes to you in each and every thing you have a state and it’s opposite there are ten Sefirot and each one is different each one is different in all directions but all in all from all of their state they have a single direction to get closer to the Creator but in coming closer to the Creator each one performs this action in whatever state it is in the state that it's in and all of these Sefirot are opposite Hochma, Bina, Tifferet what do you mean each one of them is opposite of the other and this is how also the one created being is the opposite of the other in Panim and Achoraim face and back Malchut of the upper one becomes Keter of the lower one so how do you want them to be otherwise why do you have ten it's that just that they have a single intention from all of their states to connect between them and to the Creator that is all but it's not that they are similar in their internal state each one of them that is similar to the others.
S. Okay so I have a question, can the whole ten reach spiritual revelation if not all of them reach the same state of despair?
R. Of course the ten can reach it not the same state of despair but all kinds of different states where they also have some who are not despaired in the same manner.
S. The one who is not in despair will also achieve revelation of the Creator in the connection between us?
R. Yes, yes because he performed in the group, a different role, it will be good for you to think about it and to be a bit less strong, determined.
11. S. (28:34) Sometimes satisfaction comes through prayer. How can it be clear to us?
R. Again.
S. Sometimes satisfaction comes through prayer. How can it be clarified for us?
R. No, it's not the revelation of the Creator it’s some correct feeling out of the work that he’s pleased with himself it’s a kind of an ego that is revealed in him in such a way that he is pleased with how much he's crying how much he's asking how much he's helping the others the friends and so on this is a kind of an ego that is revealed in this form and that too we have to examine and go through.
12. S. (29:43) To say if a person sees the despair and his friends, not in himself.
R. Well what then, what's the question?
S. What's the response then, to pray then that it doesn't come from me that I don't see myself in despair, but I see that I am despaired from the friends.
R. So pray for them, ask for them, help them.
S. That's exactly the same process to pray that the Creator can help.
R. But the Creator cannot help them if you won’t ask, and your role is specifically to ask for them; one who prays for his friend is rewarded first; this is your role to pray for them.
Reading item #7: (30:45) “Even when he comes to know that the Creator can help him ...”
13. R. (32:22) You see that in everything that he is turning us around in this long sentence it’s again to pray there's nothing else to pray and to pray and to pray because all in all the Creator demands of us that we will reach through the request to Him the revelation of the true vessel so that He will be able to correct it and therefore it's like a little child who's crying screaming in the toy store that he must get something that for him it’s the whole of life a minute later you show him something else and he already forgot about this one completely and now he wants something else and we it's the same with us so until we discover the right to the Creator doesn't give us anything we need each time in every state and every degree we need to discover the correct deficiency to the Creator and this is considered that we acquire the degrees and we step on them.
14. S. (33:37) If everything is given to us from the Creator then in what conditions will He give us the state of despair from our own strength?
R. Whatever He will give He will give I just need to see how from each and every state that I'm in I can see the group as more solidified in another degree in coming closer to the Creator by that more and more and more adapting ourselves to the Creator so that the extent that we will have a connection between us according to our state which is as much as possible then the Creator will be revealed and then we will start to work with Him directly meaning with my restriction screen and reflected light receiving in order to bestow we to Him and Him to us and so on and by this we will discover the world the upper state the eternal world.
S. From the excerpt it follows that we come to despair, the question is when will the Creator give us this state?
R. We for sure will get despair out of our own forces and we will have to ask the Creator and in turning to the Creator we will realize that we are not getting an answer now why are we not getting an answer because we don't have the prayer of many and then we will reach a state where we do connect and ask of the Creator in the right way that’s it here a person has to break himself a few times there is no choice and he has the whole way ahead of him where he will have to break himself and place the spiritual state above the corporeal state and advance in that way otherwise I am dust you are dust and to the dust you shall return.
15. S. (36:28) You said that only a child or someone who is not in his right mind does things without a response so if a person sees no response from his prayers where does where do you take the fuel to do it again and again?
R. Look at the friends think how come you don't have it and also realize that in the state where you stand no chance and you are despaired then you have nothing all in all these are phenomena that happen inside of your small corrupted will to receive and therefore it's worthwhile to rise a little bit higher above it and from there to look at the true state don’t decide and don’t operate out of your small corrupt desire this is truly look at how such a great disregard of what you have the Creator is giving it to you to see it so that finally you will see who you are and what you are He’s not ashamed because of the fact that He made you in such a dirty loathsome way because he gave you the opportunity immediately to advance to advance toward eternity and wholeness and He has no other way He created you from the wholeness and eternity He you brought you down to the opposite state so that you will be able to participate in your own construction and reach an internal and whole state.
S. What is His goal and not answering my prayer all the time?
R. He's answering your prayer in that you also don't feel that He's answering you so that your will to receive your despair, your disappointment will reach the right measure.
S. How in the state of despair not to just remain in despair and turn to the Creator and not just remain like I’m an egoist that’s it and that’s done and that’s that.
R. Connect with the friends and together with them, through them pray, rise to Him that is the way besides that don't you feel that I'm also in this that I'm also gathering you try to feel me as well.
S. We do feel but how to use that?
R. I have nothing more to say but just connect and ask the prayer should be the prayer of many the fact that you sit, and you cry on your own that doesn't help much.
16. S. (39:59) I would like to be more precise about a few points that you mentioned before. It seems that on Shabbat afternoon you said that when I come to a state where as much as I’m the opposite of the Creator and I cannot do anything about it specifically at that point if I heard correctly we reach there responsibility for the fact that nevertheless we have to do something, and I become capable of it. You can maybe elaborate a bit more, how does it happen, from this force of responsibility?
R. I can't explain that to you, you have to feel these things on your own where that inversion happens to you it happens where you can leave that point completely you can disregard whatever state you're going through whatever it is I can relinquish anything and then you will flip to another state.
S. I wanted to be more precise about also what you said yesterday to the Balti group that if we choose to ask for a greater connection or a force to cope to overcome then he should ask not to overcome but to have a greater connection. Many times we do ask for the power to overcome.
R. Of course we do but first we have to understand we have to prepare the Kli the desire and the desire has to be collected shared I can't ask on my own for spiritual progress spiritual progress is bestowal and to whom am I going to bestow I'm not going to bestow to the Creator I can't there is no Creator He exists and appears only if I connect to others to my friends to the group so if I have no group then to whom do I want to bestow where do I advance to whom but there's no one so the prayer becomes empty it's like a kid or a baby who’s screaming but not knowing what's going on.
S. Today earlier you also said that we shouldn’t press the friends too much and demand of them. I see that it's hard for the friends to work in overcoming so what will be more effective if I will feel that and ask for them for the force of overcoming or if I directly will tell them certain things that we need to do?
R. No we don't talk about it in a direct open way I can just connect with them help physically if there are such circumstances between us where we need something or organize things but basically what we need is prayer. Prayer.
17. S. (44:00) These two kinds of prayers appear in me, the first kind is that my response is in response to everything that is happening I tried to link it to the Creator through the ten and somehow the moment that I feel that I understand that, that it’s a technology that I can work with. The second kind is the prayer of many and here I would like to scrutinize, what should we rely on or be supported by if in the first kind I could somehow expect a response from the Creator, here we write some prayer in the morning, and I'm supposed to be incorporated in it throughout the day so what should be my approach here?
R. Try to always increase your connection with friends as much as possible and pray for them that you care for them and you're responsible for their progress that's the matter of Arvut.
S. The words of the prayer are just as some kind of a help, assistance?
R. Arvut is what we have to determine between us that everyone is a guarantor for the others.
18. S. (45:33) If I feel the state of despair out of my own forces, the true prayer is when I pray for my friends in spite of the state that I'm in, or I should pray for myself and ask for the Creator to give me forces?
R. One who prays for his friend is awarded first, that is what is written.
19. S. (46:10) In continuation from the question from Kyiv, the feeling of responsibility appears, you should also feel responsible for my wife?
R. I don't understand.
S. Should I go forward to the ten with that?
R. I don't understand the question.
S. A friend from Kiev asked about the feeling of responsibility, and I'm asking if is it correct that what develops the responsibility is also to take the responsibility over the wife, the woman?
R. I don't understand what it has to do with the wife.
S. In what other way can I even understand what responsibility means?
R. You have our corporeal life wife, kids, work, family, childhood friends, each and every person has that, here you came to a place where you want to make contact with the upper force, right, to rise to another level of existence so focus on what is discussed here what are you writing a new teaching now that you need to be a responsible for your wife, I don't understand you, we’re talking about the group, that's where you need to connect to be responsible for the group for the friends, the responsibility you have for your wife and kids and other things that world that's your business, your corporeal business.
20. S. (48:16) You said today that we should connect with the friends and ask for them, you said once that you can ask for your friend only to the extent that you participate in his deficiency and this has been hurting me for a long time, in between the meeting when I'm not connected physically with a friend and I don't have a direct access to them so they think I can do is to listen to the lesson for a second time and somehow through this deficiency that I feel when I hear the lesson I can ask for them, is that the request or…?
R. No, you have to continue clarifying the request.
21. S. (49:19) You said before try to feel me as well that I'm also gathering you, what do you mean?
R. That I'm also among you with each and every ten, more than that I'm not going to say.
S. How should the ten correctly use the force of Rav that they have within them?
R. As it says about the friends the Creator so another force that’s between you.
S. How do we use this force, what does that mean?
R. Just like towards the friends and the Creator both nullify oneself and be drawn and attracted.
Reading #8 (50:17) “Baal HaSulam says all the preventions and delays…”
22. R. (51:14) Yes, on one hand to think he threw make a way but if he keeps going and going this finds that he's actually moving coming closer.
Reading #9: (51:52) “We must know that during the work when the will to receive ...”
23. R. (52:49) Waiting we have to meaning we have to force ourselves to come together and also Samantha creators force and do both this and that every day as much as we can and then we will see how we win on the path. These are two actions we have to do forcefully to get closer between us and get closer to the Creator.
24. S. (53:30) What does it mean to grow accustomed to him align of growing father?
R. The line of growing farther means that as much as he feel father and father he's making actions of getting closer even though he is going the opposite way because he understands that the 10th that's how we advance Baal HaSulam explains that looks like a wheel the part of its going forward the other parties going backwards with all in all it's actually moving forward so we don't pay attention to the worst will to receive that has become reveal but on top of it we build a stronger connection between us and with the Creator.
S. So I'm in the state of gratefulness while moving away?
R. Both gratitude and labor and everything.
25. S. (54:58) In excerpt number 9 I wanted to ask you it says to blunt its teeth means to advance only by action up by argument so what difference is there between an action and an argument?
R. An argument means I am Incorporated in my will to receive and I hear it and then I try to answer it but the hearing it I already included with it I'm impressed by it and that's not good I should always be in the direction of the stole therefore not to start arguing with my nature with my will to receive with all its mind and heart that comes from a move towards Connection in the Creator this man being above the argument and that with that kind of pressure that kind of progress I'll begin to see spiritual outcome.
26. S. (56:23) Sometimes the person receives rejection and somehow he manages to overcome and turn to the Creator. Sometimes he receives rejection, and he realizes he received a rejection but he's not able to turn to the Creator. What's the reason for it?
R. This has nothing to do with whatever we're given from the Creator; we have to work with it because we're moving towards a new level so what you are getting you can't say if it's correct or incorrect or what for why is always for progress always.
S.
You
said
we
need
to
be
incorporated
in
the
ten
and
ask
together
and
ask
the
Creator
together
cut
the
ten
doesn't
feel
the
state
of
an
individual
person
cut
the
ten
doesn't
feel
the
state
of
an
individual
person?
R.
Doesn’t
matter,
the
person
should
feel
that.
Not
that
the
ten
needs
to
match
itself
to
the
person,
the
person
needs
to
match
themselves
to
the
ten.
S.
The
person
in
that
state
cannot
turn
to
the
Creator,
so
how
does
he
do
it?
R.
He
can
turn,
if
you
incorporate
with
the
ten,
and
from
that
you
can
turn
to
the
Creator.
27. S. (57:53) How do we turn distancing to nearing, or connection?
R. That even though you’re moving apart…
28. S. (58:41) My argument with my ego….
R. No, no, it says we must not argue with our ego. It says about this, blunt its teeth, that is the only way.
S. So it turns out that this is his territory or?
R. The Creator gives you a greater will to receive so that you can rise above it and an even greater will to receive so you can rise above that so the will to receive that now surfaces in you, you can’t do anything about it and when you start arguing with it you definitely are losing.
S. This is clear but if this is so isn't it the same thing as scrutinizing the recognition of evil, how do I recognize evil in me?
R. I don't want to scrutinize the evil in me, I want to be above it.
S. So how will the deficiency come, not through such scrutinies and examinations?
R. I want to be in bestowal on top of all that will to receive that becomes revealed, that's it.
29. S. (01:04:13) If a person still feels strength how can he turn to the Creator with a prayer that will be as powerful as in the state of despair? How not to waste time on useless efforts?
R. He feels strength and with it feels deficiency and if he doesn't feel deficiency he has to connect with the group and receive the deficiency from there and then he'll have a true opportunity to advance.
30. S. (01:04:50) We learned that before we turn to the upper one with a prayer we have to establish between us his greatness. Does that mean that if we don't have fear before the prayer that we won't be able to raise the right prayer?
R. Right if we don't have fear, if we don't feel that without prayer we cannot attain anything spiritual then we can't pray, and we don't attain.
31. S. (01:05:30) Does the Creator always answer our prayer in the ten even if we're not capable of noticing his answer?
R. Yes and I'll say even more now that we are in a lesson. I'm talking to the women and whether we all like it or not there is a general framework that connects us and I'm also working with you, and we're all connected together. All of the women group and myself so we together turn to the Creator, and we're all tied to the Creator. That's a very big force and it's a prayer. So those who participate in the lesson together they each time make steps forward as opposed to those who are not so much in the daily lessons so even though on the one hand I'm saying that women don't really have to, they can advance in any case but being together in the lesson and praying together during the lesson, wanting it and also together with me, that's big spiritual work.
32. S. (01:07:12) The Creator hears the prayers of many, and it doesn't matter if a person has good qualities or not so what are the good qualities for raising the prayer?
R. The good quality for raising the prayer is discovering the bad qualities in the person.
33. S. (01:07:39) What detains us from reaching despair, from reaching the point where we are worthy of prayer?
R. From the pain of not seeing our nature, our egoistic desire to receive and therefore we don't feel that we have to get rid of it and that's what stops us. We don't feel the bad that we have to use all our strength to escape. We don't feel it within us and that's why we don't advance; therefore, our prayer is not a prayer. It's not about correcting ourselves, that I feel within that I'm all bad, that I discover I have evil and then I want to get rid of it, to get it out of me.
34. S. (01:09:05) What to do if I feel rejection from connection with the ten?
R. Alright so pray for that. That I want to have a force of attraction towards the ten instead of the rejection force I have now. The rejection force is natural of course, all of us have this power of rejection or at least neutral just kind of a disregard, I feel some wall between me and the ten. It's natural because I am inside my ego. This desire is the closest to me and the group exists somewhere outside of that and out of 24 hours a day I always think about myself and if I think a few minutes about the group, what kind of force is in that? So only by the Creator, when we ask Him to change us and give us the importance of the ten, by that we will get closer to the desires of the ten and want to incorporate with them and that will raise us to the level of the upper world. You can do that by suffering, or you can do that by the Torah. By suffering it's not worthwhile. You also see in our worlds how many ways to suffer can happen, we want to advance towards connection between us and the Creator from the good state.
35. S. (01:11:12) How to recognize the ego when we speak from the truth, from the bottom of the heart?
R. That's according to how connected we are.
36. S. (01:11:30) What does it mean to disregard all of my states in order to reach the inversion?
R. We have to try to connect to the friends and see, also, how my nature resists that and then ask for that. That I want to overcome my nature and fight it so as to better connect with the friends and understand that it's all done by the Creator. He created the evil inclination and therefore I'm coping with it here so the more I find rejection towards my friends I have to say I'm actually revealing the work of the Creator.
37. S. (01:12:36) What does it mean to blunt its teeth, what is this action precisely?
R. Blunt its teeth is a very lofty action but in our little degrees it is that I go forward against my will to receive as much as I can, and I go head on.