Morning Lesson October 3, 2023

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Part 2

Shamati 25 - Things that Come from the Heart

Reading Baal HaSulam. Shamati 25. (00:27) “Things that Come from the Heart”

1. Rav’s Introduction: (01:24) We see this many times in life. Let's say now, each one is with the friends in the convention and he hears and sings and all of that, but in a little while he will be incorporated in the general public again and that general public has all kinds of other thoughts and purposes, they will influence a person, a person will come down again, so it all depends on the extent that a person tries to position himself in the right atmosphere.

Continue reading (02:15) “Then he, his mind, his heart, and his will is annulled before the majority….”

2. S. (06:05) What is Dvekut, adhesion?

R. Dvekut is when you feel your heart, your mind together with the other friends as if you have one heart and one mind.

S. Is it more like an act or like a system?

R. It's an action.

3. S. (06:46) He finishes it with vitality. What is our vitality as a society? How can we always adhere to this, because by this we can adhere to the Rav to the books?

R. As much as we can connect according to our common volume between us, in there the spirit of life, the light of the Torah, the upper Light can enter there. It's still in small measures but it gives us an ability to breathe the air, the spiritual air, to feel ourselves that we are above this world and in this way we advance.

S. Then we dive again and we go up again and take another breath?

R. Yes, up and down, up and down, ascent descent, ascent descent, but it all starts from a descent.

4. S. (08:15) He says it's a Segula, a remedy to adhere to his teacher but if he is already in the authority of his teacher how can he adhere to him?

R. Come back, return, to do what his Rav is demanding. What is he demanding? Arvut, what we just read in the previous article today, that is it. So a person needs to try to keep the law of the Arvut because this is what his Rav is demanding of him.

S. This mutual responsibility, can he keep it even if he fell to a different environment where he falls to the authority of all the other desires?

R. Where he could not even remember that he has a Rav and he has Arvut because he is under the control of a foreign system.

S. What is the article about? I can’t understand. He says there’s a Segula to adhere to his teacher and that will save him from any situation.

R. Great. You have to try not to fall and if you fall so be careful that you don't really disconnect from the Rav and in this way help oneself, to promise yourself, to go back up quickly.

5. S. (09:49) Why shouldn’t I rely on my intellect?

R. We see on you that you are very smart and I agree, but for spirituality it's completely not sufficient. It is not enough. In order for our whole mind, our mind extends from this world. Only to the extent that we connect to one another and then between us we have common vessels then from those common vessels we can rise to a higher degree. That is it, but each and everyone can’t take himself out of what he is in, to a higher state.

S. Why should we rely on the connection between us because that changes also all the time?

R. Yes, but it is a system, that there we annul one towards the other, we work above our ego. That is why there is a better possibility to succeed in that way.

6. S. (11:48) When a person falls and doesn't feel the adhesion to resolve to his teacher, should he try to use those feelings that he had before? Those sources, those things he had already experienced because the feeling is that the Creator closes everything?

R. And he's right, He's doing it correctly in order for us to find sources, different ways, higher degrees.

S. In other words the previous experience interferes, we have to get rid of it?

R. Yes.

S. And you're helpless.

R. No, you ask. Ask for your next ascent. Don't remain in that state and don't look where you're falling into, just ask for the next ascent.

S. The feeling is that we have to rebuild the puzzle?

R. Yes, that could be.

S. Meaning to follow the Creator's signs?

R. Into a greater connection between the friends, that is the direction you have to go towards.

S. Thank you Rav, but it’s repulsive at that moment?.

R. That is clear, it is against our egoistic nature.

S. Can there be signs of the Creator that someone is rejecting you, repelling you?

R. No, no, just your private ego.

S. Meaning I should ask exactly on that point?

R. Yes, but you need a bit more happiness and hope and overcoming and not like a minor state like you have.

7. S. (14:41) It turns out from the article that when we at the convention attain a new degree, a new level of connection between us. After the convention we have to keep the vessel, that’s the Kli you’re supporting but it turns out the friends are going home and then there is this kind of dispersing, that's what I feel?

R. It's not dispersing, it's an opportunity to sustain that connection that we attained here.

S. So how do we do it and not wait for the next convention but specifically now?

R. What next convention, that’s in half a year.

S. Right, that's what I'm asking. How despite the physical distance we keep the connection?

R. I don't know. I don't know. You have to determine between you such connections that you will feel each one of the other everyday. I give the morning lesson, then the noon lesson, that's it, and you have plenty of time that you can write to each other, speak to one another, adhere to one another, but you must, you must work on it. It's not that I put down the check mark and I called a friend today. It's as much as today I have expanded my spiritual vessel. How do I expand my spiritual vessel?

8. S. (16:56) How do I expand my spiritual vessel?

R. By connecting to the friends. You have to open your heart more than you did before in order to accept that friend, with his thoughts, with his desires, with his feelings, inside to yourself and you are demanding, you're asking, you're giving examples that he will do the same thing with his vessel, that you can enter him, and then man will help his friend.

S. He wrote before from books and from authors, that is his advice.

R. Right.

S. Where are the friends?

R. They are in there of course, what do you mean? The authors, the books, the ten, the greatest of the generation, our teachers, all of them, it is all together. You have everything, you just say that you’re lacking in order to be more connected until we reach one vessel and discover the Creator, one Creator for all, and that's it. Then before us the spiritual system opens up and then you don't need anything else but the next world. Everything is clear and everything is felt.

9. S. (18:51) In the article he wrote that as long as he doesn't have the force to determine the whole world to the scale of merit, so they determined for him. Can you explain how it works?

R. They want to bring him down from his state, they want to bring him down to lower him from his state, that's it.

S. What I don't understand is when we're successful in determining the world to merit, how does it flip over what happens?

R. This we need to understand, but the most important is to be connected to the friends and other than that, together with them to try to rise from degree to degree, more embrace, more scrutinies, this is important.

10. S. (20:45) We learned that the entrance and exits are what happens in spirituality. We enter and exit spirituality all the time. He writes that we always have to remain in this state?

R. Because the Creator always tries to add to us more ego, more coarseness, and we have to resist it, well not resist but rise above it all the time.

S. How does it happen?

R. Every single moment the Creator wants to increase everyone's selfish coarseness, more ego, more ego, and more ego every single moment. This is what the Creator wants to do in each and every one, and we have to try each in every moment to guard ourselves and remain in that same level of connection with the Creator, despite the growing coarseness we want to be growing stronger, that's it.

S. Is it correct when I go to the external world I absorb their desires, and then above it I try to overcome them?

R. The fact that I come out to the world should not disconnect me from my spiritual world, under no circumstances. I simply need to go above this world, there's this world, there is the family, job, kids and worries, I have to go above it besides all that I have to feel that I have to rise to higher levels to the Creator. This is what we need to do.

11. S. (23:34) It's hard to go in this world and also ascend?

R. It seems that way on purpose. How else would you be able to rise? If you weren’t specifically in this world, above what would you rise?

S. He pulls you very deep?

R. You are not resisting, you're not connected to the friends, and you have such disturbances that you probably can't overcome, so on the contrary you have to be happy about the disturbances because you can step on them and rise higher.

S. But you get bigger?

R. On purpose so you keep climbing. Now there is no reason to complain this is our work.

S. There is a fear and a cry inside.

R. Dear, I'm telling you about the laws of the world, and how to emerge from our world and rise to the spiritual world. This is it.

12. S. (25:05) What's the difference between putting the check mark down if I connect to a tens meeting above my ego even if I don't want it, and compared to expanding my spiritual vessel?

R. It is the same, it's the same when you say by connecting with them, etc., etc. and expanding the spiritual Kli, that's it you're expanding the spiritual Kli.

S. Why aren't we afraid when we have meetings to search for the reasons why I don't come? There are always reasons why not to come, but sometimes I say oh it’s my kids, my Grandma's birthday, my.., I don't know what. Why aren't we afraid that if we have a moment to connect even for a minute, why aren't we afraid that if I don't do it I will damage myself, my ten, and the whole world?

R. We don't appreciate enough our ability to be connected for even just a moment. We don't appreciate it. It's just one moment, never mind there will be another one tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. We don't want to appreciate it and it's a big problem. It's a huge loss, it is a great loss. It is a very great loss.

13. S. (27:04) When we read the articles it seems that we have three pillars; the friends, the teacher, and the books. Following the friends brings you to Arvut and following the teacher and the books brings you to Dvekut. The question is, is there a hierarchy between those three pillars and how they connect?

R. There is a much more, a much wider, higher hierarchy than what we are saying and we will study it a little later, maybe at the next convention. I hope to see you there as well.

14. S. (28:24) I would like to continue the friend's question, is it possible to sustain this additional Arvut under a cover that it won't be revealed?

R. It will be revealed and more Arvut will be expressed.

S. Yes, I feel the desires growing, but I don't want it to be expressed, I want to remain in love?

R. That's how it should be, it's the Creator who does it.

S. But then you devour yourself?

R. You don't devour anything, you just have to rise and increase your connection with your friends.

S. If something negative comes out is that normal?

R. How can it be, only because of this that we rise.

S. So in the end completely horrible things will be revealed?

R. They will not be horrible because you will be ready for them.

S. But has to be revealed externally too?

R. Yes, and you will be happy, Kabbalists are happy about this.

S. It’s a bit scary.

R. Hold on to the friends, hold on to me, to everyone together and nothing will frighten you. How are we living here on this planet on planet earth? We can't even imagine what could happen any minute, under the ground, from above, from every side. Anything could happen, we just get used to it. We don't attribute importance to it, but actually, there is nothing worse than our world, nothing. So look at the future with joy and a smile, and hope.

S. Why am I even asking? In the congress, there is always love and overcoming every revelation even the smallest. This is felt in a very sharp way, theoretically, can we always live like this? Even when I just walk down the street I have such a strong connection with the ten that it's felt so deeply?

R. Of course it's possible. It all depends on you and on the ten. It's called the state of the Arvut, mutual responsibility. Where everyone is holding one another, check it, try. It's not difficult, you just need everyone to come to an agreement.

S. As we read in the beginning it depends on each one to invest in it?

R. Yes.

15. S. (31:55) You said that we need to hold on to every moment, not to hold on, to try every moment to be in connection. How to combine that, how not to steal from your family, from your relatives. The more you concentrate in connection you can be less in your family, so does that mean that the Creator again gives us disturbances in the connection between us?

R. The Creator gives us obstacles for connections, so we turn these obstacles into connections into unity, so it is all good.

S. What to do with the family, how to combine these things?

R. The family exists anyhow, you have to just like it's customary in our world any man or woman does you have to serve the family. That's it, everything else within you is only through the group to the Creator.

S. The family resists that we devote a lot of time to the ten, so how can that change if we connect between us more the family will accept it?

R. Not always, you have to talk about this in the family and ask the Creator to arrange it so that things will be smooth, so that your kin will agree with your path, with your study. It is not simple, especially for a woman.

16. S. (34:13) I would like to continue the question, how to value and not miss out on one moment of connection especially now when we scatter?

R. I don't know, stay connected between you, come to the lesson 5-10 minutes early. That's it, it doesn't take much for that, a connection of the heart.

17. S. (34:54) To increase the spiritual vessel does that mean to increase the Arvut between the friends and dissemination?

R. What's your question?

S. Does expanding our spiritual vessel mean to expand to increase the friends in the dissemination of the Creator?

R. Yes.

18. S. (35:47) We show examples in the ten to one another and sometimes successful more or less. The active wants to give examples to the non-active and the non-active ones kind of weaken the active ones, so how to do it so the inspiration from the active ones will be stronger than the non-active ones?

R. You have to take upon yourselves a duty, a responsibility although you cannot awaken the whole group you're taking what the friends who do want to do and you help them. There's nothing else, everything is done by force, and that is why it is called labor on the part of man. it is measured in units of effort. Okay?

S. So the tens are different in their structure, some are active, some are non-active, and we got used to the constant tens, we're not speaking about a change, and sometimes the balance is different. Sometimes it's very hard for them compared to like Moscow seven?

R. Envy is good, but you have to envy in a way that it is good envy, that helps you grow. You take an example from others. This is good. This is how you need to work with it between the tens.

19. R. (38:18) Okay friend, you, every morning and every noon are with me, and I’m very happy that you are in the lesson regularly, permanently, there is not one person in the whole Kli that is like you, really. The way you are in the group, your support, and your contribution. Good for you.

20. S. (39:07) What is true love? Connection through efforts above rejection or is love a direct connection between heart to heart?

R. There is never a direct contact and there cannot be, the connection grows gradually through the degrees of coarseness, one, two, three, four, so there is no easy way here. We always have to come closer through going farther. We have to learn it, but when we come closer specifically above moving further you get a much greater feeling of the connection you feel all; the whole benefits from it.

21. S. (40:48) We read in the article that only if a person is in holiness then he can argue with himself to follow the path of the Creator. What does it mean to be in holiness? What does it mean to scrutinize that state?

R. If he is above his ego and the quality of bestowal, and can therefore move himself closer or farther from the Creator.

S. What does it mean to advance more or less to the Creator?

R. To check himself. How he should build this relationship with the Creator and through it with the Creator, this is already his work.

S. When I connect to the ten, the friends and bestowal, I try to be in it. What does it mean that I check how to build the connections?

R. First, attain the sensation of the ten and then you will see the difference between feeling the ten and feeling the Creator. Then you will be able to check, perform all kinds of different manipulations, all kinds of feelings because it is all in you, both of them, the ten, being your vessel and the Creator being the light within the vessel and you will be able to sort of control, run, govern both of them.

S. The feeling of the ten is the vessel and the Creator is the light in it. What should we do with it to help the ten, advance toward the light?

R. No, no, we will talk about this separately. Now it will only confuse you and you will confuse others.

22. R. (43:10) By this I’m concluding my morning lesson, you're staying some more. Good luck to you and we will see you at the noon lesson.

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