Morning Lesson April 25, 2022 Transcription
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You Have Made Me - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we'll be getting organized towards the beginning of our study in the heavier arts in the wisdom of Kabbalah which are the Preface to the Wisdom of the 10 Sefirot. The study of the 10 Sefirot itself. Also the Introduction to the Tree of Life. Such materials in which we need to invest more both internally and also more externally, and therefore each should advance towards that and then we will see how do we enter the study in the right way so that the study will be into the depth of the things not intellectual depth but the emotional depth so that as much as we are going to connect between us. As much as we want to close our circles more and more, we also attain what is written in that text. Otherwise we will be studying it like wisdom, and that is incorrect. We need to study not the wisdom but the Torah, meaning the system of the light that becomes revealed to us out of the study. It all depends on how much we want to resemble that system, that spiritual system that we will be studying about. Therefore, for the time being we are studying a few things that help us advance towards the right study soon we will begin it.
Excerpt 1 (02:31) RABASH, Letter No. 76
2. R. (03:06 ) Yes, because the Creator does not exist without the created being. There is no created being without the Creator and there is Creator being without the created being. All these things were talking about the person who attains and so if we will go to keep those laws that the wisdom of Kabbalah explains to us, about the laws of bestowal, until we reach the keeping of the law of love, meaning the law of complete connection, then on the way we keep going more and more. We attain and we build that form, that system called Boreh, come and see, Boreh, Creator and this is how we discover reality in its true form.
The inner force inside of it is called the Torah or the upper light. Why is it specifically called the upper light? Because this force exists only in a system which is entirely directed towards mutual bestowing between all of its parts. If we assemble all of the parts of the desires and thoughts in a single direction, through our desire, through our inclination, then we achieve or attain the degree of separation between us that is constantly becoming revealed more and more. This is called Aviut, coarseness, and above it we attain the degree of connection between us, as much as we are capable of it, in spite of the separation we are able to connect above it. This is called Zakut refinement and so we retain the refinement on top of the coarseness,the connection on top of the separation.
This is how we actually reach a state where the Creator says 'you have made me.' By that we assemble the form of the upper world, out of these parts, out of this puzzle, that the Creator gave us, broken deliberately, in order for us to connect between us and put it together. This is all of our work. All in all the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only about the connection of all of the parts in creation. In all the different levels, and principle this is upon the four degrees of coarseness that become revealed and between all of the different parts, meaning between all the people in the world, so that the still,vegetative, and animate are included inside of us and the speaking degree. This is actually what we have to put together to connect everyone. This is how we assemble the form of reality and it receives the form of the Creator. BoReh ,come and see. This is our role.
3. S. (06:54) What to turn the Creator into the partner in the process of 'you have made me'? What is the partner in this process?
R. The partnership we didn't talk about that yet but we want him to give us forces that will assist us.
4. S. (07:19) You said on one hand we are building refinement above the coarseness by our connection. On the other hand, we're putting together this upper world by the parts of the puzzle. How does this connect? How are we connecting and building the upper world?
R. Specifically it is possible to build the spiritual form only if we connect all of the desires, the thoughts, the qualities within us into a single form, a single picture or in other words or if we will compose out of all of the broken parts a single Adam. Such a form that includes inside of it all of the qualities, thoughts, desires, actions, everything that and only that we can only imagine that exist in reality. If we connect it nevertheless together. How together? What is common to all of them is the form of bestowing to the Creator. When we assemble it then out of all of these opposite things if we direct them in order to bestow contentment to the Creator and the Creator also does not exist but rather that unity of ours that connection between us it becomes the Creator, come and see and then it comes to be that you have made me. This is how we reach the revelation of the Creator to the created being. That is, we actually discover what we did, what we made.How do we come to a state where all of our creations are the complete form and this is called the Creator. Above that, certainly there is the upper root, the upper force which we do not attain. What we have to attain is the result of our efforts to connect.
5. S. (09:50) Many times you said that we need to perceive and grasp this material emotionally. What is the difference between understanding it intellectually or emotionally? What difference does that make to us in spirituality?
R. Intellectually is to perceive something that is related to numbers that is related to wisdom but not to emotion. The substance of creation is emotion, it is desire. Therefore we need to try with everything that we study, to define it in our desire, closer farther away, contradictory or again close, how much and in which manners, it is not out of us being particularly emotional. We're not so emotional however the substance of creation is emotion, it is a desire. This desire is manifested in such a form within us. This is why we need to develop our desires more and more and especially where do we develop them? In the relations between us. In the relations between us. We have no other way but only to come closer to each other. In this we discover rejection and that we make an effort to come closer, and out of these two forces, contradictory forces, we put together systems just like all the systems in our world they all include two forces, for and against plus and minus, hot and cold, pressure in the opposite of that, and so on and so forth.
This is how we compose between us systems of connection and distancing, rejection and attraction. We stand between these two forces, and we try to balance them such that they will become a system and as a result of that system we will discover the inner essence in that system. By that we study what is the inner force in nature that is standing behind this system, that is standing behind these desires of attraction and rejection. This is what we called the Creator. We will study this more and we'll get to know this. The most important thing for us is to nevertheless realize that our systems power all in all, include two forces, the force of rejection and the force of attraction. We cannot study them in any other way except through the connection between us. Outside of the connection between us it becomes some sort of physics or science that has no spirit of life, no emotion, that word again that we're coming back to emotion. This is what we are lacking. This emotion later becomes the feeling of the Creator.
S. All the opposites in the world hot, cold, left, right are these all different levels of the will to receive?
R. There is nothing less than the will to receive. Therefore the whole of creation is just the manners of the will to receive. Yes.
6. S. (15:16) Sometimes the person can see it and he's willing to listen about connection with the others only because of suffering, physical suffering and like how you see a person gets suffering and he loses confidence, like his family, his close ones and then he doesn't want to hear about anything. Why in life we have all these thousands of systems and complexities and it seems like what's it for? It's just a preparation and man makes preparation when he stands in front of the wall and he has to raise his hands to understand that from the Creator he needs to connect?
R. Yes, for the time being we see in our life we have no benefit of any connection to the correction to the final form of correction that we read about and it's true. However, later on we will feel, we will discover how much in each and every action of ours even when we do it without any sophistication desire nevertheless there is an action of an act of correction. That we have to go through all of these actions, these tiny ones even with lack of awareness because it all accumulates into one great round Kli and we have to put it together until the end of its correction, there is no choice, later on we will discover that. Right now it is difficult for us to understand that, why do we even exist? Why do we have all these forms of life that are less than man or within people, why do we have all of these forms that are needless? What are they living for, why are they born and live and die? We don't see any benefit and we don't see any benefit in us really towards the correction. However the system is a complete system and it actually includes all of the discernments from zero to Ein Sof, Infinity.
S. We see life begins when he literally cries out to the Creator, that you know this is what he wants from him and this is the purpose of life to be all the time in this plea to the Creator. The question is why do we reach such a cry out but not from suffering that a person's life will always be to just turn to the Creator?
R. It all depends on the connection in the group but this connection can also be not without suffering because we need to feel and to understand it to attain on each and every step that we take how much we are in darkness and light. The whole of creation is felt and measured, distinguished only by the advantage of light out of darkness.
S. There are pauses, let's say where a person cries out and he once again calms down and reality fills him with all sorts of nonsense and once again he wakes up only when he gets a blow?
R. It all depends on the preparation as much as one prepares himself to be in a connection with his environment, which is aimed towards the goal, it depends on one's daily routine on what one does, you see this is how it is. Do not disconnect from the ten and also determine in the ten systems of connection. I can give an example even though it's not truly an example. My daily schedule, today I have a conversation with an administrator. I had one also yesterday and I had one with another assistant and with the writers. Do we have anybody else today?
S. Today you have a meeting with three associates and the writers.
R. Yes, I have two hours in the morning that I talk to them and then sometimes also even before that, I have half an hour or something else and then afterwards I have other things. By the way, today I want to talk to two of my associates about the order of the study in the future. Then later on of course, I have meetings with the friends, and a prayer that you have, and other things. I try to take part in them if during these times I'm not busy. Everything should be directed in such a way that every so often a person has to go back to the group according to the schedule because who knows where we will be thrown in the middle of the day. We know how confused we are sometimes and we forget and so there has to be a schedule. An order where it says that for me that in these and these hours I'm going to do this and that. This is how we advance. The most important is to check how much we are improving the connections between us. Because no matter what, we exist in the last generation and the connection between us is actually the indication what can explain to us where we are, how much we are advancing.
S. We have a daily schedule, meetings with the ten and different things. Where is these peaks where I sit with the ten in the meeting, but won’t there be a sharp prayer that we don't waste our time?
R. First of all everything starts from the still, this is what is written everything starts from the still, what is the still for us? That I have a certain schedule to follow the timetable, that all the obligations to be with them start from the fact that I have no desire, I become incorporated with them, I hear them and also among them according to a certain order, not according to his desire but he is compelled. Meaning we always start with us having nothing and then bit by bit we advance and you should know also that the more you advance, then those points of falling between the times that you connect, they'll be even more and more in the feeling of disconnection. Such that seemingly there is nothing. You suddenly get up from sleep or it's in the middle of the day, you wake up from something that it's as though spirituality. Which spirituality are we talking about, as though there is nothing. Once again everything starts anew seemingly, a new because every record begins from its broken form.
S. There is a mass that is fulfilling the corporeal part, the still part, there's a schedule and everything?
R. But if you are disconnected from each other, between something and another and that’s deliberately and you are being deliberately disconnected from above so you'll be able to sort new records, then indeed it happens to you. Let’s say a few times a day you feel that you were disconnected and it's not some problem but rather to the contrary, it is a sign that now you're beginning that new Reshimot record.
S. The more the sensations of disconnection?
R. That too is a sign that you are advancing.
7. S. (24:54) Is it the right way to approach the ego as a third person instead of ourselves?
R. Try it this way, try it. I cannot determine for you and tell you how you have to relate to it. Each one should go through all kinds of different states. “There is none as wise as the experienced one.” This is what it says, “there is not as wise as the experienced one” and only out of that we rise and we become capable with all the experience that we have acquired, to truly be in the right actions in the system. Okay?
Excerpt 2 (26:06) Twice
8. S. (29:10) Why is the Mitzvah the commandant of choice?
R. That we out of everything that exists before us, through the power of choice we choose the Creator that he is the source and the reason for everything that we feel, that we feel in reality. That whatever we have before us is the Creator.
S. How does that clothe in the ten?
R. That out of the entire reality that the Creator created, we can assemble a mechanism called the ten, and through it we can relate to the Creator, we can communicate with him in a mutual form. Through the ten we can feel him and discover him and arrange the ten in such a way that through the ten we turn to Him.
S. So practically what is standing before me the connection in ten?
R. The connection to ten is the communication device with the Creator.
S. So the ten is the mechanism in the goal to connect to there is None Else Besides Him?
R. That too but later we will see that the ten becomes a spiritual Partzuf and parts in which we discover according to the degree of the coarseness and restriction, and the screen and the refinement, we discover the Creator and we can connect with Him and incorporate Him inside of us.
S. How to hold on? It is seemingly two goals on the one hand connection and the other hand None Else Besides Him?
R. These are not two goals, it cannot be anything else. How could it be that if the created being does not arrange for himself the system of the group, or you can say already a Partzuf, the soul, the ten, it doesn't matter how you call it, that he doesn't have any contact with the upper force that is around him, he cannot discover him, he cannot influence him or bring him closer or receive him or connect with him or unite. How will he do it?
S. It's clear he has no no way but the question is what's before him in his heart and in his mind I want to reach a connection in the ten?
R. Desires, or you could call it the hearts of the friends so that in the connection between them as much as one can depict himself that he includes them, and he relates to them in such a way through them he relates to the Creator, the Creator is the totality.
S. So nonetheless here there are two, through them I relate to the Creator?
R. You can call it two things for the time being. Okay?
S. How to bring closer because many times there seems to be a divide like we work on the connection or on the vessel and now we're thinking about there's None Else Besides Him. How to bring both these closer emotionally?
R. Through the inner efforts that a person makes. It takes months, sometimes years until a person starts to feel that indeed everything exists inside of the connection between people but the connection between people is a concept that is hidden. Because the connection pertains to the Creator already it exists outside of us, outside of our circle, outside of our sensation, outside of our attainment, for that we already need to put in efforts a prayer, to try to connect between us corporeally in order to obligate the Creator to build for us the system of connection. This is called “if the Lord does not build the house its builders work in vain.” Even though we try to build it, in truth in every step as we build it we need to turn to the Creator and to demand of Him that He will help us, that He will guide us and that He will actually do the building.
9. S. (34:35) This internal effort that you just spoke of now you make an effort to connect the friends inside your heart and you reach some sum total, a summary of these desires of the friends how do I turn that sum total into something greater?
R. This is what we asked of the Creator that each one can make his own effort, even seemingly an anti-egoistic effort in coming closer to others. I feel the other, a friend who is outside of me, and I try let's say nevertheless against my nature to come closer to him but I see that I'm not capable of it and then I need to try more and more nevertheless to intensify within me the inclination to connect with him. I look at others and through envy, lust, and honor, I try to perform all kinds of actions in order to come closer to the friends nevertheless and I see that I'm not capable of it and then I turn to the Creator.
I must not stop at that but rather it is to the contrary I need to accept this rejection that I discover even more each time in a way that is even more precise, more unique. I have to accept it as help from above that they're revealing to me to what extent I am not in connection. Then even more and more I turn to the Creator until I compel Him, I truly demand. You see how little children demand from the grown-ups. He cries, he demands he shouts, right? He does all kinds of actions with his hands and legs until he obligates us. This is the form in which the Creator also wants us to do it before Him but truly so. So, go ahead, do such actions, whims, before the Creator. It all promotes us, it all builds within us a new desire, a more true one each and every time.
Excerpt 3 (38:00)Twice
10. R. (41:50) The excerpt is very complex.
S. What do we need to unite?
R. What needs to be united? First, we need to unite the desires in man that will be directed to one goal. Then that's on the side of the desire. On the side of the means to reach the realization of the desire, they also need to be united but that already doesn't belong to man but rather the Creator that in everything that stands before us in order to attain the goal, we need to unite it to the Creator that He placed it before us, these means, in order to reach the goal.
That's how we do it. What helps us? This that we are divided let's say into ten, and friends that want to connect between them although they are different, opposing, they repulse one another maybe to such an extent that they want to kill one another the depends on what level of connection they want, then they reveal all sorts of forces for and against and balance both these forces they reach the middle line. It's not concession like it seems to us, the middle, rather it is truly a balance of two opposing forces for attainment of one goal. Slowly we know how to put them together so that being that there cannot be one without the other that they'll support one another. Then we'll see in how much we are complex in a wonderful manner in the ten that despite that everyone is different and hates one another and repulses one another. This will be revealed in higher levels.
That we along with this specifically without blurring out the opposition's between us, we make an effort to connect them. But once again to connect them not by this that we erase all sorts of corners between us, rather that we rise above them. That in everything they learn love covers all crimes then we attain all sorts of wonderful upper connections on top of all the forms that are in opposition contradictory, and these contradictory forms are more and more growing and we even more more make the effort to rise above them. In understanding that such needs to be, we put together the degree of the Creator above the degree of the created being. There is, what to say here? There are many states that we still need to go through, because we are not used to working in the manner of connection and disconnection and together love and hate.
Because in our world there exists either one or the other, or some concession between both but in spirituality it is not a concession both it's rather connect that rather love and hate they rather enter together into that same system called Neshama that has coarseness, repulsion, opposition of form and so on and along with this above this we have connection and refinement and truly the attainment of the unity the attainment of the Creator and the Creator is perceived grasped by us in two opposite forms, come and see. That also from darkness and also from light, that we put together this form that is completing between both these parts light and darkness and then we attain their source which is actually above us. We will talk more and reveal it. Okay?
11. S. (47:34) Why when a person annuls himself and he moves his concern from himself to the friends why is this not enough? Why do we also have to add a connection?
R. I don't understand you. Also connection if you want or don't want to recognize between care and connection. I don’t understand the question in short.
S. Seemingly the disconnection for myself when I expand myself toward the ten friends and I change my intention towards them this in itself is already the quality of bestowal seemingly.
R. What do you mean that the disconnection from the ‘me’ is the quality of bestowal?
S. I'm asking why do we also add this connection? What's this addition of connection?
R. Without connection how are you bestowing? Do you want to disconnect from yourself or do you want to disconnect from the troubles? In the extent that you connect to others in this way you would want to express your extent of bestowal, already spirituality.
S. Where does the Creator come in in these processes where's the point where we determine He is our King?
R. It needs to be revealed as the middle line. After all the efforts that you obtained that there is an upper root here that is giving you and making you darkness and light, then you reveal Him. That is between one and the other.
12. S. (49:25) How can we imagine to ourselves this spiritual root that this is the place that the Kabbalist cannot even describe to us so how can we depict it to ourselves, as a feeling, as an imagination? What is the spiritual root?
R. You will make an effort as much as you can and what we're talking about and slowly meaning gradually you'll get closer to it. I can't draw it for you, you need to attain each and every one. I can't get involved in that. I can just teach how to approach and that's it. It's like parents, the mother sends the child to school. She gives him everything and he goes out to school. That's it she can't go with him and sit next to him inside the classroom. So do what's necessary.
13 S. (50:45) From the beginning of the lesson from different angles at least I hear that you're talkin about these two forces that must stand one opposite the other and only through this struggle between them the middle line is born and the Creator is revealed. The force of separation that's very clear. We don't need to make an effort, we can feel it but the opposite force it feels like it's a small Partzuf and I realize that this work that needs to be done you constantly talk about it also but I can't knock on this point. How to increase the force of connection between us? What exactly is missing? What should we add so that it will be a prayer that the heart is in it?
R. This you need to reveal you can ask a thousand questions if they are all right and correct but an even more correct and precise question I cannot present before you that you should ask one way or another. You need to make an effort and also question how to put it together more correctly. It's all more work in the building of the vessel of the Kli.
14. S. (52:00) You said that we need to unite all the desires this is clear inside a person but if I see in the ten completely opposite qualities, one speaks about honor, the other one speaks about lowliness, one talks about the topic of working above reason, the other one says I am right. How can I connect inside of me all of these contradictions? I do turn to the Creator I ask of the Creator but how long should I turn to Him and ask until I will succeed in touching the Creator so that He will help me see the connection between these different parts these different desires?
R. Your approach is incorrect. I don't need to incorporate with the questions of the friends that that's how they express them. I need to incorporate with their desire. Desire and each one attains in their desire the Creator in different manner, so I need to incorporate with their desire. Let's say we go together hungry, we find a restaurant and we go inside. Now imagine to yourself from the thousands now before you on the screen each one orders something that he specifically wants and then suddenly you see here that no one is similar to the other.
This is how we need to understand the matter that each one expresses their desire in their own manner and I don't need or I could never truly incorporate in their desire rather in what they want the goal because in Him our heart will be in joy, in the goal there we are incorporated together. I don't need to correct the friends and their desires, nothing, just that we'll be together in one goal. In one goal it's not that each one will have the same desire meaning the same portion that we want to eat, no, we want to be together. Each one in his expression because each one truly remains in his private expression as a component of the ten Sefirot of the soul. Then ten times ten and more and more until we reach the one Neshama of Adam HaRishon, the one soul of Adam HaRishon.
S. How do we reach the center of the ten which is the common point where the desires all become focused in a single point in which we can discover the upper force or allow it to be revealed?
R. Each one has to reach a connection with the others above all the differences between us.
15. S. (55:38) We're not used to working with disconnection and connection simultaneously. In corporeality these things don't exist so we're not used to that work. When we ask you all kinds of things you say the solution connection. The solution is connection, this is this work with these two extremes these two ends. Is that what you mean by this connection?
R. The connection is what we can put together between us on top of all differences between us. On top of all the opposition, the contradictions between us. That all the contradictions remain we don't erase them otherwise we will rise to the Creator. We receive all the wealth, all the desires and thoughts and opinions that there is in creation and we put together the point of connection above it. Not above it, that's what humanity does not understand. Look at what we have wars and problems and it's going to be more and more. This will ultimately obligate us to find the right approach, the correct method. How to finish with all these things and the correct method is the method of Kabbalah that love covers all crimes. The crimes and the transgressions will all disappear. The contradictions between us, the desires between us. They are going to grow more and more contradictory. I cannot subjugate the other and force him to think like me and be like me. No, rather each and every one rises above himself in order to connect with the others only in such a manner. The Creator which is nature, Elohim in Gematria is nature. He will obligate and we will learn how to reach it and we are on the way to it. All of humanity is, in all sorts of levels, degrees and states.
S. What is this action that a person rises above himself and he connects?
R. The main thing is connection. You only see one thing, we must attain connection but each one is in opposition to one another and between themselves and so. Yes but here we need to learn how we connect between us above the desire, each one privately because the connection will be above us. The Creator is the point of connection. That it will be above us thus we all rise to one point of connection.
S. To learn what does it mean that we need to learn this?
R. We bit by bit put together a system that the point of connection will always be above us. That's called' love covers all crimes'. The point of connection is called love and the contradictions between us are the crimes. Each time we rise from crimes to love, from crimes to love or from disconnection to connection and connection to connection. Thus everyone and everyone from lack of choice we give an example to one another and help one another because there is no choice. That's the nature that is revealed and it is true full intensity. It will cause us horrible troubles, if we don't fulfill it.
16. S. (59:36) First of all I would like to express a great impression from the questions of the friends we could see. There is an awakening here and you are right when you say that the whole vessel is advancing. We can feel the deficiencies of the woman.
R. Yes, I am very happy also revealing maturity.
S. Certainly, so thanks to you. I want to say this, you tell us about it and Kabbalist writes about it Rabash writes about it, that opposite us everyone is corrected they are all in wholeness with the Creator. Why don't we maybe do it like in the mafia ,where they kidnap a person and they don't want him not to know where he is so they tie his eyes and put a black rag over his eyes, so we simply won't look at the faces. Maybe we'll just shut our eyes and not see these things flaws.
R. How will you advance then if you do not see the flaws? Love covers all crimes. How are you going to enlarge the love if you don't see the crimes?
S. Yes you are right. On the one hand, yes, you say we need to rise in faith above reason. You need to have reason but sometimes we get carried away. We get drawn into this.
R. That too is an exercise that the Creator is doing with us so we will know what our nature is.
S. How do we balance this? How do we build the reason and then rise above reason? How do we see what is opposite us and balance it? It is an effort to always rise above.
R. Patience and prayer. There is nothing more that you could do. That is what I can recommend to you. There is no more. You can be confused by all sorts of other different methods. Please go ahead. Nobody is stopping or holding anyone down but look according to what they are writing. Can you realize what they are writing? Can you actuate it ? If you can, then you can reach the result, if you cannot realize it yet then it is up to you to advance and realize it.
S. When we try to be an adhesion with the Creator and we pray all day long and then you say that the Creator includes everything, what is he including?
R It is the root of all and from Him seemingly all of the opposite things.
17. S. (01:02:34) You say that love covers all crimes but it turns out that over all the crimes we only end up with greater crimes. With any small revelation of love we see that it is actually coming from the ego. Where is this love revealed? Where's the Creator revealed?
R. In the meantime you don't have a basis for revealing the love because you have not truly revealed the hate.
S. The hatred just keeps on increasing so when will we
R. You must not be increasing enough so that you are overcoming evil with the opposite love.
18. S. (01:03:25) The connection that we aspire to is the connection and disconnection or should we reach a connection which is a permanent connection so that we are all always connected to the friends because what is happening right now is connection and disconnection, connection and disconnection.
R. In the meantime.This is how it needs to be.
S. In the end we need to reach connection in a heart that will always be this way
R. Connection and disconnection yes. Until you want to kill them and then the opposite also.
19. S. (01:04:19) Like something new it is as if you are incorporated in a process but it is deterministic also from the side of Egypt like we learned and now this feeling is that each one is carrying a heavy burden, luggage of desires, of deficiencies and it is very hard to cope with it. However there is awareness, awareness and feeling and each one wants it but we are lacking is to have this deficiency all at once, this is why we are not succeeding and doing it all at once.
R. We need to pray on this too, you're saying it nice.
S. What should I pray for that my friend will….?
R. That the ten will have one lack.
S. We are praying all the time.
R. So it is not in my power to do more than to tell you these words, the excerpts from the Kabbalists, the rest is on us.
S. Even in that, we receive each time and the lessons we receive those same impressions. the same states even that. it is not that we have disagreements but each one receives it inside in his own form and even in that we cannot connect. We had an argument about decision-making, how do we take decisions and I said we cannot even take the right decision and about that we also had it is so much so, that we cannot agree.
R. I understand at all and I feel what you feel but again I have not more what to advise you except for to read, you know how to read and read what they write. That is it. What is missing is the prayer of many, the prayer of the public, to try to connect between you everyday for some few minutes and ask.
20. S. (01:07:20) We talked about the fact that because they are not revealing the evil within us sufficiently and the more I open it up inside of me, let us say if I compare myself today to how I was five years ago or in the beginning of the path, I was so confident, inspired and my previous self is very different. Because today I discover so much actually I love my previous self more, I would like to go back to that previous state so how can I advance in that state?
R. The more person advances he has more troubles pains, yes and he receives more and more blows, you want to be a little kid like you were and you're being taken care of nicely but now you've grown, you need to run to work and to think about where you're buying food and how you are feeding your household members and a thousand and one such troubles and worries, what to do, right. Now I want to return of course, right, do you know what you want to go back to, you want to go back to being in your mother's womb, there everything was given to you without a question or anything and you were disconnected from all troubles but there is no choice, there is no back. Rather only to be big and so big that from connection between us we build the spiritual womb and from it is born the new world. So do not cry about what was, rather you need to acquire importance in our goal and to get closer to it to realize it, that is it. That is how it is, the whole world, look at what is happening.
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21. S. (01:13:00) I've been hearing for an hour and a half that we talked about if he says that if a person should ask to build the structure of Holiness inside of him, what does he mean by that?
R. It means that we, from within our hearts, meaning from within our desires, will build one desire and from it we will want to bestow through all the friends to the Creator.
S. Yes, but it is all about annulment towards the friend so what is the problem, he was asking about, everyone else was asking about how do I fix it, how do I succeed?
R. Because you are an egoist.
S. How do I overcome it?
R. You consider yourself more than everyone, even the Creator. So you need to make of yourself truly a zero like Rabash writes in the social articles, to annul in such a manner and then in such a manner you can adhere to them to enter them like a drop of seed in the womb and begin to develop until you reach truly the spiritual fetus then you will be born and you will be big.
S. So this whole patent we are talking about, is to annul before the friend so why do I have a problem with it? If I know the solution why can't I solve it?
R. Because exertion in this world, like in the mind that is not an action and then an emotion.
S. So I have to attain the emotion here?
R. You need to truly want to annul before everyone, to everyone and then you will feel that around you there is only the Creator.
S. So what will lead me to agree to annul in such a way how can I reach such annulment towards the friend that I can, it's just like suffering for years, how can I do it?
R. Correct connection in the ten and prayer.
S. So that is the solution?
R. Yes, …. so you are like me.
S. So why is it so difficult to do it?
R. Execution is difficult but the execution is possible by the light that reforms that we see that we are changing a bit more in a bit more, from time to time so we need only more and more to connect and give it pressure or urgency united.
S. So it is a process it cannot happen overnight like the Exodus all at once?
R. The Exodus of Egypt happened after many years that they were in Egypt.
S. Okay, thank you.
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22. S. (01:17:40) On the one hand the Creator puts everything in front of you, the group the friends, the lessons, the Rav, we have it all before us, on the other hand it is like he takes everything and he says come and ask it from me, so what, where is the choice here?
R. He wants you to ask from him to develop a deficiency for his help in such a way that he would indeed help you, more than this deficiency he does not need.
S. So where is my action, where is man's action?
R. Your action in the group and the work in the group is to attain such a deficiency that you would want the Creator’s help so much so that you would obligate him to help you.
S. But I cannot, he takes the forces from me to do it.
R. Incorrect, that is not correct, he gave you all the conditions by which you can reach a deficiency, such a great deficiency, a clear deficiency that you would obligate him to help you.
S. Right he gives the conditions that I feel but on the other hand he also takes away the forces to ask.
R. That is because you do not connect enough with your friends. There is no desire in you that is certain, one man could not have a desire but when you connect different desires towards one goal then you can reach such a common desire that the Creator could not resist and he surrenders, this is what it's called “my sons have defeated me”.
S. What does it mean a mutual desire?
R. Everyone connects and demands the Creator that he would correct them and instill in them such a desire that it would be suitable for the revelation of the Creator in order to give him contentment.
S. And if not everyone has the same desire for it to happen?
R. That is what we are praying for to have a desire, for us to have such a desire that we would awaken the desire from above.
S. That everyone needs to stay in the same desire?
R. On that we pray, this is what we ask for. That the Creator would do it that you would have such a desire as the prayer goes.
S. How is that desire expressed, everyone is in the same prayer, same demand?
R. Yes, the same desire, the same prayer of the same request, one that we live in.
S. So is this exactly so what is the choice if the desire comes from the Creator what is the choice?
R. To ask the Creator to give you a desire. Okay?
23. S. (01:21:12) What does it mean that man's heart becomes a temple?
R. Man's heart when we put our desires together these desires become a place in which we reveal the influence of the Creator on us, hence this heart becomes a sanctuary, a sanctified place for the upper light.
24. S. (01:21:56) In our attempts to connect our desire in the ten, what does it mean that we are rewarded with a dwelling of the Shechina?
R. That we come to such a desire that the Creator connects that desire, connects everyone's desire into one desire that includes all of the other desires but it is one that is aimed at a single goal to be a support for the revelation of the Creator in order to bestow contentment to him. In this way we feel ourselves connected between us and from between us to the Creator.
S. What does it mean to be a lean (support) for the Creator to be revealed?
R. That we are creating this foundation this condition that in our connection we are going to reveal the Creator, reveal contentment to Him. How much we truly want to bestow to him together.
S. We wanted all of us together to bestow to him the friends and our desires that are connected to one another. It is not the divinity, it is not the Shechina. What else should be added in order for it to become Shechina?
R. That our desires would connect together would complement one another, complete one another and be the right desires for the Creator to connect together and to fill with the light of Hassadim. Then we would want to be connected between us and then later we will discover and this is a more advanced stage, we would discover how from being connected between us to bestow contentment to the Creator to actually revealing him. Then we become a vessel for the revelation of Hochma and the Creator will be revealed in us. First we come to the connection between us or we conceal the will to receive between us. We only want to be connected. The most important thing is to be connected. This means that we come to the light of Hassadim, the vessel of Bina and the later we come even to a stage, a state where we connect ourselves to such a degree that we raise ourselves to the vessel to the light of Hochma to receive an order to bestow when we are ready to reveal the Creator because by that we give him contentment. That is a very high degree.
S. We need to focus on connecting and revealing that desire. What does that mean?
R. That each and everyone wishes to sort himself out to aim himself, arrange himself towards the group so we will have only one desire. To bestow contentment to the Creator. That's it. To connect in order to bestow Him contentment. We can't do it yet in practice we do not know what it is, but that is the purpose of our connection.
25. S. (01:26:12) What prevents us from discovering the hatred, full of hatred so we can rise? How do we do it?
R. We cannot even connect to it with what we have now. We get repulsed by one another let alone if that hate would be revealed, so from above they reveal to us a certain level of hate and repulsion that we are able to overcome. If we cannot overcome it then we remain as we are and we do not advance. We have fights with one another and hold grudges towards one another. We do not speak to one another. We don't understand that these relationships are revealed to us from above in order to show us our ego that does not let us connect and reveal spirituality. I hope that you hear what I'm saying because still this is still the situation between you. Both men and women, especially women.
26. S. (01:27:44) What actions belong to the created beings that they work on the vessel?
R. What kind of actions belong to the created beings? To try to connect and pray that this connection will come true. Because by that we give contentment to the Creator. I need to see the group and imagine that if I connect to them despite my desire, it is not urgent for me, it is not important, but if I connect with them I give contentment to the Creator. Like a mother who is asking her children to stop yelling at one another and to stop beating each other up but to actually connect and be good kids. Do a form, the acts of connection in practice because if not you are not nearing spirituality just know that you are not getting near to spirituality.
S. During the war we went into a state that no one can plan ahead, there is an understanding that we are not in control of our life and that everything depends on the Creator but it is a bad feeling, it takes the spirit of life and forces to work if it all depends on the Creator how come we plan our work in our spiritual and corporeal life?
R. By our request we obligate the Creator to change us.
27. S. (01:29:49) How in practice do we connect to the Creator through thet ten?
R. We organize the ten in such a way that their creator is revealed. The ten is the vessel, the Creator is the filling in the vessel. It all depends on the vessel to the extent that the vessel is organized and mutual bestowal so it will reveal a higher and higher Creator.
28. S. (01:30:26 ) We are asking for an example if you can. How do we in practice connect the Creator to the ten.
R. How will I show you that? You don't understand what it means to connect more between you? Like a mother who loves her loves her baby is that clear? Try to reach that in the connection between the friends.
29. S. (01:30:53) I heard you answering before that disconnecting and then connecting again isn't a problem. What if the disconnection is for hours?
R. It can be hours, days, and even years.
30. S. (01:31:16) What helps overcome rejection more than a time schedule in order to build the Creator between us in the ten?
R. I see that it is the same question over and over again. Are you looking for excuses not to connect? So just let it go but there is no choice. We have to put in the effort and nevertheless be drawn to connection more more complex, more and more tight, and each shall help his friend as much as possible and show an example from that we will feel how we understand more and more with what Kabbalists write about and such forms of connection will be begin to appear before us that we would feel in them the degrees of coarseness, the degrees of refinement, restriction, screen, reflected light and other spiritual phenomena. It is all revealed to the extent of the connection between us according to that degree of connection.
31. S. (01:32: 40) One hand I hear you say that we do not need to change the desires of the friends just to be in one goal. On the other hand I hear you say to pray that we have one deficiency, so can you help me set this confusion right?
R. Having one deficiency does not mean it is the same exactly the same deficiency in and every one, it can't be because according to the root of your soul each one is different than the others but we yearn as much as possible to described depict one goal of the Creator, the force of bestowal so each and every one portrays himself as much as possible as resembling the Creator relative to his friends.
S. Should I ask the Creator to the field to change the desires of the friends?
R. No. Because each one judges according to his own flaws, if I see the friends as egoists, it is my ego who is seeing it. Like looking at a baby, a neighbor's baby and you see in him various flaws where in your baby you do not see it
32. S. (01:33:04) What is the point in the heart that becomes the place for divinity to dwell?
R. I do not understand, what about the point of the heart? We need to nurture it,grow it until we reveal the Creator in it. The point in the heart is revealed to the extent that I am drawn to adhesion with the friends.