Morning Lesson January 23, 2022, Transcription
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Part 1:
Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #33
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we need to continue on the same lesson and indeed all the topics we are going to take in the wisdom of Kabbalah, they all converge into the same topic of faith above reason. Whereas as much as we get to know and understand and discuss and study even, if we cannot feel yet we cannot understand what it is talking about. Nevertheless it is working on us. This is an opening for those who knock on the door of repentance that we keep knocking on the closed door until it opens up, and it will open up. Exertion after exertion, day in day out it, it enters, it opens, it builds in us vessels in our brain and heart, new vessels. It also changes the old vessels as we understand more and more how there is an additional force here, an additional method, a special method. Whereby approaching it, entering it we are getting into a new view, a new understanding, a new brain, and new heart that we did not have before. In this way, we advance. If you have questions, please ask them. We have no choice. The path is made of questions and answers and the important thing is the connection with the friends and the tendency towards the Creator. To connect between us and demand of the Creator in prayer, with a cry, with all means possible. This is our work
Reading 33 twice (02:36)
2. S. (06:09) So it turns out that we can discover good that does good only in the vessels of faith?
R. Of course, in our vessels we cannot reveal anything at all, it is the will to receive, it is disconnected, it is opposite to the Creator, contrary to Him. We cannot feel that Creator in our will to receive or His attitude or anything, only in vessels of bestowal according to equivalence of form. We see it also in technical systems where I cannot hear with my eyes or see with my ears. Where each phenomenon in nature needs to perceive in the appropriate vessel to reveal this phenomenon. To reveal the Creator, the force of bestowal we need to have a vessel by which to reveal the force of bestowal. This vessel needs to be on one hand opposite to the force of bestowal and that is the will to receive the Creator created; and also in accordance with the force of bestowal in order to perceive it. It is called restriction, screen, reflected light, everything I do on the will to receive. In this way, we build a vessel for the revelation of the Creator. Everything according to the laws of nature.
S. It turns out that that is such a state as he writes that Divinity is in the dust, and we cannot justify the Creator. Then we rise in connection with the friends and then we can justify Him and determine that He is good that does good, but it is to a certain limit. Meaning that only in that connection you can justify Him and thank Him, not in a different state.
R. You go through various states, you are incorporated in various creatures who are part of your soul, and you are part of their soul and in this mutual incorporation we come to a state where the sum total of our connections between us will attain the Creator in its entirety.
3. S. (08:47) What is that state of the dark world where he wants to believe above reason that the Creator is good who does good?
R. From the darkness, deficiency, the understanding that he cannot feel, perceive, attain or be in any sort of connection with the Creator, and the world is dark around me. It means that I do not understand where I am. It is like a baby standing in the middle of the room who cannot move. He does not have the correct impulses in what direction to go in, the beginning of any action or anything like it. This is how a person feels himself in spirituality, at the entrance to spirituality. Don’t you feel it? A little bit.
S. He describes a very extreme state here. Because all he wants is only to justify the Creator, to feel Him as good that does good, and he feels darkness. If he does not have faith he will not succeed.
R. Yes, I feel darkness in my life, depends on the degree of the darkness and the modes of darkness that is on one hand. On the other hand I understand that if I do not attain the Creator the whole world will be restricted, where everybody lives and sees and there is no truth in it or anything. The will to receive the Creator gave me with the point in the heart does not let me calm down. I have to rise above the degree of being from animal to the degree of man, at least to some extent. This is how I advance.
S. What prevents him in that state? What does it mean he wants to see the world that the Creator created as the good that does good, and he does not succeed?
R. There are mostly two things. On one hand I want to feel good and if I cannot attain the purpose of creation, the essence of creation I feel bad. The other thing is that I do not understand, I do not know where I am at, like each one of you. Where am I, what is happening with me, what will be and so on. These seemingly egoistic questions are in the direction of attaining the Creator since unless I attend Him, I am better off dead because my life is empty, and I cannot carry on the way I am. My life lacks meaning, it lacks a purpose. Advancing towards a purpose, seeing it from afar is something. I need some light in my life.
S. This is what is missing but what does it mean?
R. He has a point in the heart that is what is missing. I am not talking about all of the people in the world who are as beasts, I am talking about people who feel that lack of meaning in their life, because it is like a life-or-death question. Of course sometimes they want to run away from it and shut their eyes, and crawl under the blanket; not to feel anything, not think about anything. But this is only so a person will feel how much he is still in the state of an animal.
S. What does it mean that he wants to believe that the Creator behaves with the world in private providence as good that does good?
R. He wants to discover the Creator’s attitude toward all of reality in truth. It is not because he feels bad, no, but because it is missing from his perception, his point, his attitude toward life. The fact that he cannot justify the Creator, which is what he demands. Without this there is no life, there is no meaning to life. We need to get up like everybody, run to work, come back from work, sit in front of the TV, watch some football or something, he cannot do that. Because for him this feels as if he is gradually dying, so he cannot. Because the desire in the point in the heart awakens in him. This desire gives a person that feeling that he is missing the main thing about life, and all the other secondary things he can play with them as much as he wants, but he knows that it is just temporary. Nevertheless you are on a train and the train is moving towards a certain goal. For the time being while you are on the train you can play cards, you can drink, eat, tell some jokes, do some things with anybody who is next to you. But in truth you can feel that the train is moving towards a certain goal, and you are not ready for that goal.
S. So this matter that he suddenly lacks this feeling that the Creator is good that does good, what is this lack?
R. That the Creator created with the right intention for each and every one and for everyone together. What does it mean, the right intention? Not that I will feel pleasant rather that this goal will be the highest goal, most serious, most eternal goal. I cannot see it, I cannot understand or attain it, I cannot realize it. These are degrees of attaining the goal and there at the end in the goal I am in eternal adhesion with the upper force who is opposite from me. By yearning to Him I acquire such an intention to bestow that I cleave to Him.
4. S. (16:33) Basically this state when you are in pain, where this the point of the heart pains you because you are not ready for the movement of the train, which is where you want to be. Because then you are in control of the point in the heart, no?
R. Yes.
5. S. (16:55) In this article Rabash talks about the dark world and then he needs to believe above reason?
R. No, I do not need to believe that the world is dark, I am already inside the dark world to some extent although it is dark corporeally for the time being. Anyone who is in the world today can say that the world is dark to some extent. But if I have a desire to reveal the Creator the world is dark because I cannot attain Him, I cannot feel Him, I cannot discover the essence and the purpose of life, I cannot discover why all of this is moving. Why do we live? That is what I am asking, and I cannot find an answer for that, for the time being.
S. If I am in a dark state, I cannot justify the Creator for good or for bad. So if I am in darkness, is it the state of the ten or is it a personal state?
R. Both. But how can I come out of this dark state? Only as the Kabbalists recommend. The fastest, shortest, most intense route is through prayer, the best way is through prayer. Because all the other things we can activate as if we have an opportunity, a possibility with the forces of the intellect and feeling. But in prayer I will discover that I do not have an intellect, I do not have feeling, I do not have the possibility of opening up the world and seeing where I am changing myself according to the world and so on. Meaning only the prayer which is turning to the upper force who arranged the current state for us and who brings us through this feeling that prayer is the only remedy that can help. This is the correct approach.
6. S. (19:53) In the article it says that the people’s shepherd is the whole people. Since the shepherd of the people is the Creator does that mean that the whole people are the Creator?
R. No, but through them I can begin to know the Creator according to the rule that I dwell among my people. The upper light, the Creator, the upper force dwells in the connection between people because this connection constitutes His quality, the quality of bestowal. When in general they discover the quality of bestowal, the minimal level of it in the ten, they can feel the Creator there, they can examine him, can enter into a mutual connection with Him.
7. S. (21:07) Rabash describes here that out of the suffering a person ultimately comes to fear of wanting to bestow to the Creator and then he needs faith. How to respond with fear when a person does not feel this pain but that more or less everything is OK?
R. This is a lack of connection with the environment. Do not think of the environment in such a way that what can I get from the friends? I have known them for years; they cannot give me anything new. Rather when we connect, in the connection between us as we stabilize it, arrange it, even 101 times, each time our connection has a different style, a new style. Therefore I receive a new kind of awakening from it. Do not disregard it. Therefore any time we connect although I disregard it somehow, it is certain that the will to receive in each person both attracts and repels me from the connection, I have to understand that each time the connection presents a new style, a new mode. I need it in order to advance.
8. S. (23:06) This question that comes from the body, “what is this work for you” when will this question come from the environment?
R. Until the very end, until the end of the degrees, even on the threshold of the last degree. There the questions are much more difficult.
9. S. (23:46) What deficiency would I be in that I realize a dark world and rise above reason? How exactly will I demand that the Creator give me the power of faith?
R. If you reach such a deficiency, you will have no problem. You will feel what you are missing, and your deficiency will certainly feel the Creator. Because this deficiency is in Him, and He lowers it to you. Do you think you are the first? No, the Creator is the first and you are the result of that, the outcome. So it is all good as long as you feel the deficiency and you understand that this deficiency comes from above and you have what to turn to Him with, the Creator.
10. S. (25:13) It is not clear if the power of faith is the result of the efforts in connection or does it enable us to connect to begin with?
R. Both. The force of faith is the result of our efforts to connect although it does not bring us to success but to a prayer, to despair and prayer. As a result we receive the ability to connect and, in the ability, to connect we discover the structure that exists between us, the form of the Creator, the form of the corrected vessel to some extent. BoReh, come and see. And that is how we advance.
S. I did not understand. There are efforts to connect, there is prayer and then we discover the power of faith? Or does the power of faith enable us to connect? Is the power of faith a result of connection or does it enable the connection?
R. The force of faith allows us to connect. The connection is the final outcome.
S. After that then what is the connection between us and faith?
R. We use the force of faith to reach connection and our connection resides, dwells in the force of faith.
S. So how to achieve faith before we achieve connection?
R. Through prayer.
11. S. (27:09) When they say Divinity in the dust does it mean that we are misusing the vessel that can reveal the Creator?
R. Shechina in the dust is a state that we have to reach. We are in it. By that we come to the truth, the truth of our state for the time being. Where our attitude toward one another, toward the Creator and all the relations between us in our structure, it is all in the dust, all in order to receive. This is the meaning that the connection between us has to be the Shechina, the place where the Creator dwells, in that connection. It is still not corrected
12. S. (28:21) How to move from the feeling of darkness in corporeality to darkness in spirituality?
R. If the person feels bad, he will look for anything in life to improve his state, to feel good. The person might never come to the question that I feel bad because the Creator is missing from my life, it is not important, it doesn’t have to be there because the tendency towards the Creator, not to religion but towards the Creator, this has to be a tendency that comes from a special desired that awakens a the person’s desire, the person’s heart called “the point in the heart” where in truth the person is searching for the Creator and he might be asking himself the question of what is the meaning of life. There are many people, most people are asking themselves about the meaning of life, especially in during infancy, adolescence but after the adolescence, we forget about it because we have other questions about sex, family, and different fulfillment, and we forget about it, that’s when they forget. Hence, the questions, should they open up and be properly directed through the environment. This is what he explains in the article, The Arvut.
S. You are talking about ordinary people in this world or us? Meaning the darkness in the corporeal world, does it prevent, hinder the person from advancing to this lack, this spiritual darkness, and what do you do?
R. Each and every one according to the root of the soul has a corporeal burdening as well. You can see it in which direction, which states people enter in their lives. Suddenly they get mixed up in all kinds of businesses or all kinds of groups, societies, bad friends. All of this is appearing as the result of our intermingling in the vessel of Adam HaRishon after the shattering. They are still in this cauldron that is sitting on an open flame, and we are inside this pot, all of us.
S. Meaning this is a mandatory process?
R. If you are asking about people on the outside, not about our people, then they have to go through these things; but we live in such times where we can tell them about the meaning of life. Part of them can join us and save themselves from their difficult lives to have some light and add some purpose, on one hand. On the other hand, when they connect together, connect to us, quantity plays a big role as well. The work, although it is great, it divides into many individual forces where if they connect, they can quickly reach the goal.
13. S. (33:17) What hinders our initial contact with the Creator?
R. To attain the initial contact with the Creator, what bothers us is the lack of desire to attain the true connection between us, and this will be our vessel and the connection with the Creator will be the light.
14. S. (33:48) If I cope with difficulties I cannot overcome, do I need to surrender and ask for strength from Him, or do I have to ask myself what I can do to bring Him contentment?
R. Through the society, it has to be clear to you how to bestow contentment to the Creator because we make the Creator, ourselves, from the correct relationship between us in the society. He does not exist, it is Come and See, each time we will have a new Creator. How can you imagine Him, portray Him as the true, correct connection between the friends, and it cannot be more than that? In other words, as much as you relate to the friends and you want to connect with them, connect them from the bottom of your heart accordingly you construct the Creator.
15. S. (35:31) I noticed that if we ascribe the state that we need to be in and where we are now, there is a big gap. So is that the correct deficiency, this longing?
R. Yes.
S. So what can we add?
R. Only the connection between you. It helps you bind together what is present and what is desirable, these two states.
16. S. (36:17) What can we do if we cannot connect with the state we just read about?
R. You have to annul before the friends, this is the safest, most correct, always beneficial way.
17. S. (36:49) When he writes, “one has to make something for the sake of Heaven and not for his own benefit, then the body immediately asks, “what is this work for you?” How can we describe this calculation when I do something for the sake of Heaven?
R. For the sake of the group, very simple. You were given to work inside the vessel, and you should make sure this vessel is as whole as possible, complete.
S. In the preparation for the lesson, a friend asked: ‘we are supposed to care about the friends’ but what should I think about which will mean that I am thinking out of concern for the friends?
R. That your heart will open, and I will be able to enter their heart, and they will be able to enter my heart and we will come out with a common heart.
18. S. (37:48) How can a person who feels like a baby in the middle of the room in a dark world, how can he want to advance in prayer instead of just sitting and crying?
R. This is a high degree, the person cannot just come to a prayer from nothing. It is after trying many things, getting many disappointments until the person feels that there is nothing left but to pray, and in the prayer, when turning to the Creator he already has a connection with the Creator, he has a feeling with the Creator. Not necessarily a clear sensory feeling but the feeling nevertheless of the presence, certain presence just like with the surrounding light. If the Creator is a present the person feels Him, he receives from Him, he is in this mutual communication with Him and then the person can do it. It does not come right away, of course not. To come to a prayer. This is what the Kabbalists write but the importance of this? It is not so simple to come to this because when we come to a prayer our entire path becomes a path of prayer.
S. So what is in the meantime because until he has a prayer, every little touch of the darkness throws him?
R. To come to a prayer all of us together to obligate each other and bring ourselves to an artificial prayer, there is simply no choice. It is exactly according to time that each one remains each other that we have to do it, we have to.
19. S. (40:23) The desire to know the meaning of life and the root of my soul, does it go away during the years, or it always remains?
R. Depends on the person from above. They want to play with him, they want to raise the person, and the person has to see how much it exists at the ‘top of the mountain’ before him.
20. S. (40:59) Does corporeality prevent the person from reaching the goal or everyone in his state, the Creator let him advance in the ten in the best possible way?
R. Both corporeality life and spirituality come from the same source and the Creator is playing with them relative to each one of us; and for the whole group by forcing one to consider the group and the general vessel, everything towards the end of Correction, everything together in a single system so they do not think these things are separate.
S. You said that everyone receives a burdening according to the root of his soul and in the Arvut between us we can rise above this, so we all advance together?
R. If you reach such connections then certainly.
21. S. (42:04) In the beginning of the excerpt it says that in a state where he sees a dark world and he wants to believe, above reason that the Creator behaves to the world as the good that does good in private providence. What is the focus on private providence?
R. That the Creator is doing it relative to him, he cannot say about the whole world, he is not in general providence but in private providence he must believe the Creator treats him as the good that does.
22. S. (42:41) Why is it that even though the person is in the wisdom of Kabbalah, he still feels a sense of emptiness?
R. He's not in the wisdom of Kabbalah, he is still not receiving from the Creator and giving to the Creator, so it is still not the wisdom of Kabbalah but the preparation.
23. S. (43:06) How to reach equivalence of form with the Creator if we do not feel Him as good that does good?
R. So we do not come to equivalence of form, what are those questions? There is no equivalence of form if the Creator is not the good that does good how could you connect to Him?
S. So from that point of feeling of separation, how to achieve equivalence of form?
R. We must treat Him as good that does good, above your powers, thoughts, desires and then we begin to discover that there is truly something that is good that does good, but you receive His bestowal in vessels that are opposite. Everything inverted from Him.
24. S. (44:02) In the beginning of the path, I had a very sharp deficiency for the revelation of the Creator. As years went by this deficiency blurred out; today even then I suffer blows in life, the deficiency for the revelation of the Creator is dead. It is important to note that I am very active in the lessons and dissemination, but I do not have this demand to reveal the Creator. What to do?
R. You can understand that it happens this way because along the way when we discover problems along the path, these problems appear more important than the goal itself, somewhere in the distance, this great universal ideal purpose. But I have a few things before me, like mundane things as we can say, this is why I care about them more. This is true, this is correct.
25. S. (45:13) You talked about the vessel that we need for the revelation of the Creator. On the one hand, it needs to be opposite the Creator and on the other hand, it has to be compatible with the Creator. Is our Kli a yearning for something we do not have or is it more than that?
R. We do not have a vessel for what we do not have. It is certain that whatever we yearn for is in us, but it is not revealed and because it is revealed but it is in me, it pulls me in and opens me to reach what is inside of me because the whole world, the end of Correction is me. Except I cannot open my heart, my brain, and reveal this state but it is all there. This is why it is called ‘the concealed world.’
26. S. (46:20) Our ten did not ask a question yet and we are afraid that you will not be happy with our question.
R. I can tell you in advance that I am not going to be happy so what, ask; nevertheless ask the question.
27. S. (46:54) How to change in the ten and finally begin to feel the power of faith?
R. How do we change in the ten when we begin to feel the force of faith, in order to feel the force of a faith? Well, you need to come closer to each other and to love each other because you need to discover that you are parts that together make up the soul. Each one needs to be incorporated into the others and whatever is in him and what is his, is only when he annuls himself and is incorporated into the others, and each and every one has to do this in the ten. Meaning who am I in the ten when I annul myself and I am included, incorporated in all my friends? This is called “me” because I annulled my ego and in my annulled will to receive, I absorb the force of bestowal from all the friends, and this is considered “me.” This goes for each and every one, so on one hand, it is as if I cancel myself, on the other hand I did not cancel myself completely. Rather I merely annulled my ego, but I am included, I am absorbed into the friends, and I absorb them in my true will to receive – the natural will to receive that the Creator created. Like in a photographic picture where I shoot a picture of you and place this image against my will to receive. And then it works out that whatever I shoot over my will to receive I shoot the image of the Creator, the Creator. I annulled my “I” and received an influence from you and it is actually not you, but it is what the Creator created before me. Then I absorb the attitude of the Creator towards me, and this is called ‘the intermingling,’ incorporation. Well, I do not have the words, but I think about this, this is how we advance.
R. I am very happy with the women! They are smart, they ask on point, deep questions. They do not go in all kinds of directions like the men, like children.
Excerpt 34 (50:27) twice
28. R. (55:52) How can we organize a prayer? Let us say we reach a state where nothing can help us, we cannot do anything. Soon we are going to come out of the lesson and again run off in different directions, different business. It is all confusing to us and it is all done on purpose. We just need to take into consideration one fact, that our entire corporeal life in the family, at work the different things we have to go through with others and ourselves in this life, with our parents and our kids, at home, at work, each, and everything, all of this comes to us from above. Of course from that we need to think about connection, the inner connection, our inner connection. The Creator arranges this connection according to our prayer, according to our deficiency, our request. So how can we reach a state where we are constantly in prayer, that we constantly depend on the Creator, we constantly ask of Him to do, to care for us all the time? We are like an embryo in his mother's womb. When nature invites in him all these desires towards his mother. That he wants and wants. He wants to extract from her all the food and excrete all the waste towards her. He wants to receive everything that he needs, and he lives in such a way that he has this tight bond with his mother. He has different forms to his mother's brain, his mother’s organs, anything that the mother has he lives at her expense. We are the same with the Creator. So how can we take from all of our organs, all these forms of connections between us, how to reach a feeling that we are connected to the Creator? We wish to receive from Him each and everything that we have. Just like with the embryo, to receive from Him all kinds of fulfillments, discernments. He should arrange us in this this way, that in each passing moment each passing day we will begin to feel ourselves more and more correctly organized, stabilized, and in this way, we are building ourselves. The Creator is building us but according to our general demand, and we still cannot veto that demand but with each passing day we have to try to identify our requests, that there are more details. This way we begin to approach our connection with the upper one. So we need to think about it throughout the day. How do we organize such a prayer although we are parting ways? This is how it needs to be. The Creator arranged for it but together with our thoughts and intentions we are in connection between us, and from us to the Creator. For this state not to escape us, not to disappear. The whole time as you say the group is together and turns to the Creator and demands from Him more and more advancement in the connection between us. To attach, to unify our parts into one, and then we will begin to feel how we unite together into this one body. Where our desires, thoughts, and yearnings, whatever they may be, gradually from all of our fragments, since this is why we are in an egoistic form, all of our fragments start to complete each other. To the extent by connecting we go from the forms of reception to the forms of bestowal. It happens as a result of the connection between us and in those thoughts and desires we begin to mutually bestow to each other. We want our actions, our thoughts to include everyone in it, from our connection to an integral connection between us, then we begin to discover the Creator dwelling in us and He is the one arranging all those things and we begin to come closer to the feeling of life in this embryo. It has the beginning of the spiritual life already. This is called the beginning of life, the beginning of Ibur, conception, the true beginning. There are three days for the absorption of the sperm and then all those corrections. Everything is ahead of us.
29. S. (01:02:51) If we are in the battle why can't we be grateful?
R. Each one of us is attacking, maybe we are not aware of it, or we are aware of it, but in truth, the true attack begins from recognizing our hater, our enemy, the one who disturbs us, who is aimed at all of us, not at each of us individually. So we need to talk about it a bit more, we will come to it. You will see that already today there is a change in the lesson. We wish to aim it more internally, towards the form of conception, well a few things but that is how we are advancing. It will be fine; we will detect all those disturbances along the way.
30. S. (01:04:29) What does it mean that the prayer is already considered help from above to achieve faith above reason?
R. I will tell you and we will later discover it, that before a person awakens to pray and to ask the Creator for something, the Creator comes to the person and introduces the prayer in their heart and in their soul, which is what we will discover. The deficiency, the plea to the Creator through the friends in the connection between us, all those things, the Creator does them ahead of time. He is preparing us like in this kitchen, he is cooking something in a vessel, he is preparing it for us. We accept these things. We see them and discover them as our own seemingly. We turn to the Creator, we want to ask from what comes from within us, but it does not come from within us, there is nothing. On that, it says: ‘I am the first and I'm the last.’ Only the Creator does everything and all that is required of us is one thing: patience, persistence. Go back every day according to our state and our spiritual states can change but according to that order, that schedule, it has to be. Then on that it says anything but leave. If you come to the lesson and as much as you can, you participate in the lesson, if you do something in between the lesson, for the society although you do not want to do it but nevertheless, you are doing it, maybe not always; but in short, the important thing for us is anything but leave. Then you will see how at the end of the day it comes to you because you are in the general vessel. If you remain in a state, in a standby state then it comes to you. So the important thing for us is to try to keep going, day in, day out, and try to always re-listen to the lessons before you go to bed, the second half of the day, and another time as well. You will see how it works on you. I do not think that listening to the lesson once that it is possible to perceive, absorb the inner force that exists in the lesson.
S. To benefit the Creator we have to always be in prayer, is that correct?
R. It is preferred. But you know we are human; we understand the difference between what is preferred and what is actually happening. You know, once I used to see before me more groups: Italy one, two, three, and four, but today I only see Italy four. So where is everyone?
31. S. (01:09:01) Can you explain what is a cup of blessing, in the article?
R. A cup of blessing is when I raise my glass, what I received in the glass I received it from the Creator, and I bless Him for giving this to me. That is what a person should say about anything in his life, anything he gets he gets from the Creator. He gives a blessing for everything and anything he receives because he receives it for the benefit of himself. This is called a cup of blessing.
32. S. (01:10:07) Many times in the path we talk about the one who is going to purify is aided, the Torah but it seems like it is just a temporary support towards the ego, and it prevents me from achieving the true despair. How do you help the friends with all this?
R. We need to show the friend that we are impressed, nothing more than that. In all the words of wisdom you wish to explain to him and pass on to him it does not work. Only through envy can you awaken the friend for a desire in the right direction. That is what we need. Additionally, I am telling you, especially you, we need to activate emotions, our feelings as much as possible. The intellect does not work, it does not work. The intellect is a result, it is an upshot of attainment. But the feeling, this is the true thing. Although we can ask what is there in the feeling, but the feeling is the main thing in nature. Nature is a desire and not intellect. Intellect is an upshot of the desire. There are entire articles about it: Shamati, Baal HaSulam, Rabash. We have to read it.
33. S. (01:12:16) We're always trying to create a warm environment in our ten, but it feels like the opportunities to go above reason are specifically when we each have our different opinions and we are banging into each other. So what is the advice on when to just keep everything warm and caring and when it is important to speak our different opinions and bang into each other?
R. Okay do you wish to kill one another or not?
S. No.
R. Then it is not good that you still do not want to kill one another.
S. We have this also Rav, but we are always trying. Maybe we had it too much, so we are compensating on the other side to try and always be nurturing.
R. A good warm environment is such where inside a fire is burning and no one is in agreement with anyone else, and above that you are creating connection. This is the meaning of building the degree of faith above reason. Where inside is the conflict and disagreement and above it the connection, and only in this way will come in contact with the Creator.
S. Being kind to each other kind of extinguishes the flame…
R. No, one should not interfere with the other. On the contrary the fact that inside we are against one another and even hate one another on the level of disagreement, this has to give us additional impetus to connect to one another in spite of the hates, and to try to understand what it means to be in two lines. Right line and left line, the line of hate and the line of love. “Love covers all transgressions.” We need to know how to do it, otherwise we will not be able to feel the Creator. Think about it, try to come closer to it, talk about it and you will see how it actually works.
34. S. (01:15:34) How can everyone in the ten incorporate in the thoughts and desires of the others during the day?
R. I do not know, but it seems to me like you have to somehow try to be in contact among you, through computers, cell phones. Today it is not a problem, look what the Creator gave us. What kind of intelligence to develop such communication means, so try to be in this. How can it be that you are letting go of each other this way? It is not good not to be connected to each other. Every time you are not in contact among you are in danger of disconnecting from spirituality, disconnecting, because then you have no power from a side that helps you, that guards you and you fall into corporeality. The more you are together in mutual connection among you the better. Today there are many people and even entire countries that are closed. People are not working, or they work from home instead of going to offices for their jobs. So try to be more connected among you, and use your time as best you can, even while you are driving, doing anything. Be in contact with one another and hear from one another all kinds of words of wisdom.
S. What does it mean to complete each other?
R. That what I cannot, the other can. What I do not feel, the friend feels. We use the excitement about our connection, the wisdom of each and every friend as much as we can. All in all it elevates our common level, our collective level and then this way we approach the Creator together. We have to try to fill up all of our moments in life, unless I owe my boss at work where I am indebted to him, but every other moment all the other moments I have to be connected to the ten. Hearing from them, seeing through them, everything that we decide on during the day. It is really important, very.
35. S. (01:19:12) He writes in the excerpt that he must pray and believe that the Creator hears his prayer. What is that prayer?
R. For the Creator to give me the strength to believe that He hears the prayer. To give me the power, the knowledge, the feeling that if I turn to the Creator then He hears.
36. S. (01:19:46) What is mercy in spirituality and how is it expressed in the connections in the ten?
R. Mercy in spirituality means that the Creator gives us every moment the best state for achievement of the goal.
37. S. (01:20:14) What does it mean that our prayer has to be more detailed?
R. To understand exactly what we are praying for.
S. Should there be a prayer for the time I am sleeping, or with the family, or at work?
R. It does not matter. You can be anywhere with the prayer in your heart.
38. S. (01:20:43) The only advice is prayer. It is not clear for who or for what someone should pray. If it is personal or it is our mutual prayer?
R. It needs to be together. The collective prayer, the common prayer, and the personal prayer as well, it is called a prayer in public, when all of us pray together. This is the real prayer, which is what the Creator expects, what He waits for and what He hears.
39. S. (01:20:23) Excerpt 34 completely describes the state I am in. How from this state can I ask for the ten?
R. From any state I have, I have to urgently and as quickly as possible come to a request for the ten so that all the awakening that I am receiving, I am receiving from above, from the Creator. It all is in order for me to connect with the ten and from the ten to ask of Him, turn to Him.
40. S. (01:22:05) Why doesn’t a person use the knowledge that it is only the Creator doing this and that the prayer is our only task. Why can't we remember this?
R. It is an order for us to try to be always connected to the Creator and every time search for a new connection with the Creator.
41. S. (01:22:30) A person needs great mercy according to this. How will we be rewarded with great mercy?
R. When we all feel that we are dependent on the Creator like a baby dependent on the mother. We can only hold on to Him, but all of us together. First of all between us and then in the Creator, and in this way we will exist. That is the only thing giving us existence.
S. What is the biggest obstacle preventing us from praying?
R. Pride.
42. S. (01:23:15) Does a person have to be in this place, which point above reason, and only then he can feel the deficiency for the Creator to give him faith? So first you have to get to that point above reason and then ask, or can you ask in advance?
R. It is impossible to ask an advance. We have to feel the deficiency, and we need to criticize the deficiency, check it. Is this a deficiency that is related to the group, to the ten? Then we have to turn with this deficiency to the Creator. If I turn to the Creator without scrutinizing the deficiency it only harms me.
43. S. (01:24:08) On one hand we here we should turn to the Creator with prayer after we have tried with all of our forces and saw that we did not succeed, and not before. On the other hand we are told to pray artificially. When should we do this way, when that way?
R. It is best if I depict to myself, my ten, their desires. The ten can be two, or five, or eight, it does not matter how many. But I depict our deficiencies and I want to connect all those deficiencies together and, in this way, to elevate them to the Creator, to organize us correctly. Then He will be able to fill them with his force so the connection between us will be in order to bestow upon each other, and from that connection that we will achieve in our common desire to bestow upon each other, we will have a desire to bestow upon the Creator. This we want to receive from Him. This is what we need to ask, this is what we can demand and receive, and then we realize it.
44. S. (01:25:37) What is the purpose of this process, that a person prays, he does not get an answer, he gets despaired, what is the point of all of this?
R. It is for a person that it will be precious to him, that he finally receives the prayer, that he finally reveals it, feels it. That it is an expression of his innermost desire.
45. S. (01:26:10) In the morning lesson there is a huge opportunity to pray. How to keep this force during the day?
R. Connect during the day some more and speak amongst yourselves. I see people are constantly on their phones speaking, so speak on your phones as much as possible and try to build this constant connection: blah, blah, blah, but not about blah, blah, blah, but about your things, that you want to connect your desires to the Creator, to rise toward Him etc., to have a mutual type of connection. Just like you speak among yourselves, with what to turn to the Creator. The Creator needs to be alive, a living thing, not something that is amorphous, unknown, it needs to be alive. That He may be a living God for you. Then you speak about it, and you turn to Him, and then you talk about that, about what you think you are receiving from Him or not receiving from Him and again you put together some plea to Him and speak to Him again. You receive from Him again or maybe you do not. Let us go, we are taking a break.