Morning Lesson March 30, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Passover - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. (Come unto Pharaoh #58)
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we are learning we come down to Egypt, we enter Egypt to the recognition of evil, the recognition of our ego, our nature and certainly this is a very important time. Because after that we only correct what we received in Egypt, all of the desires, thoughts, that we acquired during the time of Egypt when they get to know the evil inclination, our entire nature, our ability to connect or inability to connect with all of these vessels, with all of these discernments, we later come out and we start our spiritual ascent. But first of all we need to feel which desire we exist, and how can we invert this desire that we acquire from that state called Egypt, or from Pharaoh. How do we arrange it so that later on we can receive in this desire, a reward, a payment, fulfillment, attainment, and revelation? This is why this period of time is a very important period of time and we need to try as much as possible to understand it more and more to feel it and to engage in it so much so, well you see how we are advancing slowly; it's not just reading. In each and every excerpt it has within it a lot of Internality, the discernments that we need to discover in order for us to truly have room for the revelation of the light. Therefore, let's approach the excerpts and learn from them as much as possible in more detail and let's try to not forget them. Anyone who wants, anyone who can, should write some summaries of what we are talking about, later on it will help you.
Exit 58 (03:14) Twice
2. R. (06:15) Look at what he writes at the very first sentence, that we need to work not in order to obtain something but in order for us to have a desire to obtain it that is the problem it is like when you have a set table before you and that is no problem to receive the food, however the problem is that it depends on your deficiency. Therefore We need to work on the deficiency, the right deficiency in quantity and also and quality.
Reader continues: (04:21) “Man's power who must toil…”
3. R. (04:54) A complete desire is that we only want to the help of the Creator because we understand that by ourselves we cannot do it and we don't even have the right desire, but rather in order to receive that desire from above the Creator this is what we need that is for us to have a deficiency for the deficiency, for the right one.
Reader continues: (05:19) “but rather the obtainment it's not that man's work…..”
4. R. (06:15) This means that we lack nothing but only one thing, for us to have a real correct deficiency according to quality and quantity because the upper light is there abundantly it fills the whole of reality, and it is only a vessel that is the right deficiency that we need. We usually cry out where's the light, where's the fulfillment, there is no filling because there is nothing that is able to reveal the filling. The deficiency in us is not yet established correctly. That is the entire problem. So we need to work on the vessel. This is why only together, only by prayer in order to connect, in order to have between us the formation of the right vessel, this is what we need to yearn for.
Excerpt 58 again (07:22)
5. R. (08:56) This means that the force of Pharaoh that grows inside of our hearts, we actually need it specifically in order to yearn with the right power and to the right thing and the abundance is in absolute rest everywhere, all we lack is the vessels.
6. S. (09:21) What is a deficiency for a deficiency?
R. For me to have a deficiency for the deficiency for the help of the Creator, for the filling for the right vessel. So that the feeling that we want also what we want is reflected light. We want to have the intention to bestow in which we will then be able to receive everything from the Creator. Then all of our reception will be as bestowal.
S. So is this a result or what we work on?
R. It is a result of our request that we will have a deficiency for a deficiency.
S. We asked for a deficiency?
R. We need to ask for the right deficiency, that what we will lack is the right vessel. It is a vessel of bestowal, not to receive but rather to bestow, to give.
S. I'm getting confused because we said that we work on the connection, the result is the revelation of the deficiency, so what's the order? What are we working on and what's the result?
R. The result is also the revelation of a deficiency more than that we don't need because the fulfillment is abundant, it's everywhere it fills up the whole of the reality. We exist in the upper light. Our problem is that we do not discover it because we don't have the right vessel for it.
S. He says that the help is the hardening of the heart.
R. Assistance to bring us to the right deficiency is the hardening of the heart.
S. So the hardening of the heart Is by itself, is not the deficiency yet?
R. No, it is a means, come unto Pharaoh for I have hardened his heart. Well, listen and put all of these things together and think well. Come back, become confused, come back, become confused again. This is how you will reach something new. What is it that you want to reach? Then you will scrutinize it. What is it you want to reach? Only a desire, the right desire because the fulfillment exists, is there. It is like you turn the knob of the radio receiver, and you catch the wave, the wave is there, you just need to connect to it precisely.
7. S. (12:45) If we remove our egoistic view, and we see ourselves as our true size, that the deficiency is built automatically?
R. We need to work on the right deficiency, we will see you soon in the next few excerpts also, so much so that the right deficiency is what we need to lack. The deficiency for a deficiency like he said the assistance from above and he sees each time that he is more deficient and cannot emerge from the governance of Pharaoh. The assistance is called, “for I have hardened his heart”. It follows that the hardening of the heart is required in order to have a real need for a real thing. Take it slowly, okay.
8. S. (14:04) Structure of four stages. First step is there is no deficiency for deficiency and then deficiency for a deficiency then the deficiency itself and the filling of the deficiency changes to bestowal, is this the structure?
R. Let it be like that for now later on you'll flip it over. You're speaking with your intellect, and I prefer that you reach it with your emotion.
9. S. (14:45) We're lacking a feeling in the ten during the lessons, during the meetings during the day, so the true deficiency is to bestow?
R. To bestow to the Creator all we can do is a deficiency. As it says if you are righteous what will it give him? That is we only need a deficiency in order to give it to the Creator. That's it, all in all that's why it is called the wisdom of Kabbalah, reception.
10. S. (15:33) On what depends on each time man's success in connecting the hardening of the heart that he feels and the fact that it's coming from the Creator, that it's help?
R. Just depends on the general support, on the general vessel and also the group and the person himself should pay attention and this is how one will advance. Whatever the mind doesn't do, time does. If one is drawn to it and he continues and he understands that his whole life is in that, that he will reach the Creator with the right deficiency then he succeeds. He succeeds.
S. How do we know that we do the work of man that he writes about and not that I am now going out to another place of work where I'm not actually doing the work for the Creator?
R. If you are in a simple mechanical form in the lessons, in the connections with the general group, the ten, if you're concerned about them, if you scrutinize that then eventually you should feel that you are advancing each and every day. Advancing in knowledge, in the emotion, in the intellect but also in the connection with the friends one time more, one time less so you can differentiate it each time and this is how we advance. Right now we are actually in an important time. in an important time when we are truly scrutinizing the vessels, the need for the revelation of the Creator. That it is not the way it is in our world, what we need here. But what we need is a deficiency for a deficiency. I want to lack what I need to have for the spiritual action and I'm asking help for that. This is why he writes that the assistance from above is in that he sees each time that he is more deficient and cannot emerge from the governance of Pharaoh. That is the more and more I lack, and I lack the right thing, I lack help. So according to that I feel that I am advancing more and it's not that I am in despair, and I just leave. Specifically, our work is increasing the deficiency within us more and more.
11. S. (18:52) The Creator created us as a will to receive in what form of bestowal will we create this vessel, how do we catch it?
R. First of all we need to reach the deficiency that needs to be in a spiritual vessel and afterwards we will know how to work with this deficiency. But first of all we need to lack what is missing, what's lacking in the spiritual vessel, meaning bestowal and the deficiency for bestowal is what we hope to get from above. This is what each and every one is lacking.
12. S. (20:10) In the request for the deficiency, can you help with what is hardening of the heart?
R. That we are asking for fulfillment. Instead of asking for the right deficiency.
Excerpt 59 (20:38) Twice
13. R. (21:23) So we'll have a need for the help of the Creator. Are you hearing what he says? That what I want to reach is, I want to reach a deficiency for me to have a need for the help of the Creator.
Reader continues: (21:39) “since there is no light without a Kli…”
14. R. (23:01) We see that spirituality requires of us to have a deficiency, a true desire. This is what we need, and we need to ask for that and accordingly we need to learn and accordingly we need to build ourselves in tens, in the group, in the entire world clearly so that besides a Kli we need nothing. We are in an ocean of light, a sea of light, endless it is the light of Ein Sof, infinite light and we just need a vessel, at least a spoon, to have a cup, to have a bucket, to have a barrel it doesn't matter what but at least you have something so that I will know how I can reach the vessel, how I attain it, and how do I achieve fulfillment in it. The feeling in the vessel is my degree of bestowal to the Creator in order to bestow. Even a spoon, something. But this is what I am able to give, to bestow. Or more a cup or more a bucket maybe a barrel, according to how much I am capable of preparing myself in order to bestow to the Creator. So we're not talking about reception but rather we're talking about bestowal, we are talking about the deficiency to bestow for us to have that. Therefore the will to receive that grows inside of us each time and confuses us, it is aiming us so that we will direct ourselves correctly to the Creator.
15. S. (25:10) When we ask for connection, mutual guarantee in order to give the Creator to be revealed, to give him contentment we are actually asking for the fulfillment?
R. We are asking for the deficiency so that we will have, well, a deficiency cannot be unless when people connect, people who are different contradictory that is why it says the minimum of many is two. Even two when they connect already they establish a connection, a vessel because they connect above the original will to receive of each one and the light is in absolute rest, it fills the whole of reality. It is only the Kli that we need and the Kli is established out of two contradictory desires. They cannot be any other way; they are always different. When we unite them then we unite them for what purpose, under which umbrella? In order to bestow to the Creator, there is no other reason, no other possibility. Therefore if we connect between us in order to bestow to the Creator, then out of that we already get help from above so that we are able to connect and then two different desires connect, by the influence of the upper light, by the influence of the Creator. Then they are able in the gap between them to start to feel what is connecting them. Their root, their one route for the two of them, how this root has bestowed and created them as different and when they want to connect they simply come back to that root, and they feel it. This is our work. Therefore the light is in absolute rest, and it is only the vessels we need.
16. S. (27:50) Other than the hardening of the heart what other ways do we have to receive a deficiency?
R. This is the only thing we are given from above and we don't need anything else, the revelation of the deficiencies. This in itself the hardening of the heart is discovering the deficiencies, discovering how different we are. We are saying that we have a root up above and he creates us, so he increases the feeling of the gap between us. This is called the revelation of Pharaoh between us and the more he grows and grows, we feel more and more, ourselves in restlessness and we search for what to do until we reach correction.
S. The hardening of the heart is again what's revealed between us, what separates us?
R. Yes.
S. That's the desirable path or the least desirable?
R. What do you mean undesirable?
S. Maybe there's another path?
R. No, there isn't any on till we will feel the problems that we are contradictory, far away, that we are in war, that we are in problems and that it's impossible for us to complete each other, to make peace. In that way we eventually reached the decision that we have no choice. We have to work on the connection. There are light souls that feel that and understand it quickly and there are very hard, heavy souls that exist even between us but until it reaches them, it takes quite some time.
S. When we raise a prayer, connect, and raise a prayer, is that a reaction to the hardening of the heart or is that to save us from the hardening of the heart?
R. For us, those who are raising the prayer, how can you ask me about that? Each and every person who raises a prayer, whatever he intends that is his prayer, those who search for money, honor, knowledge that those who want to profit and succeed well in all kinds of other things maybe spiritual ones.
S. The question is can we say spare the feeling of hardening of heaviness?
R. We need the hardening of the heart without that we have nothing with which to reach out to the Creator. When we approach the Creator, when Pharaoh is pressuring us so much is confusing us and doing with us whatever he wants so that we have no choice. Like a baby who runs to the mother and cries before her, that someone hurt it. This is how we actually appear when we turn to the Creator after Pharaoh arranges the blows for us.
17. S. (31:20) So our entire work is in creating a need?
R. All of our work is in creating the need, the right need for the Creator, yes, for the help of the Creator.
S. So the process we undergo in Egypt, what are we building the vessels, what is that thing?
R. Yes, yes, we discover that without the help of the Creator we cannot emerge from our will to receive in order to receive. This is actually the escape that we have no choice but to exit his control.
S. So why come out if we manage to build vessels in Egypt?
R. Build the vessels?
S. Yes, we obtained the need for the help of the Creator.
R. Yes.
S. So why come out if you have the need there?
R. In Egypt, in those vessels that are under the control of the evil inclination, you cannot build another control over the evil inclination, you have to rise above it and to start to be between the Creator and the evil inclination. Then to begin to combine between them in order to reach in order to bestow in order to bestow later to receive an order to be so you have to work with both of them.
S. So on the need that we build, what is that vessel exactly, what does it lack, what does it need?
R. This vessel wants one thing only, for it to have a need for the help of the Creator.
S. What is our work in connection, in what the work of the ten creates this thing?
R. Discovering that without the help of the Creator we cannot advance towards the purpose of creation in anything, a need for help.
S. No translation
R. When one begins his path he doesn't even think about the help of the Creator. He thinks that he will achieve it by himself as we're used to from our life and he advances more with his intellect or more with his emotion where with all kinds of things than he is told, no. You have to be incorporated into ten, well okay, let's say that this is what they are saying, but he doesn't understand that also he learns that this is how he builds his spiritual vessel, ten Sefirot, Partzuf but, well somehow, and indeed the need for the help of the Creator this is what we need to get in the exile of Egypt. This is what we acquire in the exile of Egypt, that without the Creator performing over us these operations of correction, we are incapable of reaching anything, we will always remain under Pharaoh’s control.
S. On what depends on our ability to change the chase for fulfillment to the chase or the pursuit for the need for the help of the Creator that he will lead us in every stage?
R. How do we replace our goal now for the time being?
S. Yes.
R. This is what we are learning, we talk about it and bit by bit more and more we absorb the spiritual advancement. This is actually the work that we are doing during the time of the exile in Egypt. What do we need to be there for four hundred years, meaning four degrees of the will to receive? That they will all go through the feeling of the exile. That we are disconnected from the Creator, from the good thing to something that is bad, intolerable, it is for us to want the help of the Creator. That's the first thing and later on that all of our filling will be in the will to bestow.
S. Our fulfillment becomes the need, the need for the help of the Creator that's what fills us.
R. Yes. If I have a longing, a yearning, for the help of the Creator. I don't want anything else. This for the time being is the degree of my adhesion with him, with the Creator. We will talk more about it, let's continue. I think that it's worthwhile for us.
Excerpt 60 (36:59)
18. R. (38:51) These are deep matters. I can only say that we can understand it in this way, the more I diminish myself, make myself smaller, I am in the upper light and I allow the upper light to enter into me and to depict in me the image, the form of the Creator. Therefore as much as a person makes himself a zero, that's how much he grows up.
19. S. (39:31) My heart doesn't hear and feel like a concrete wall. What should I do even if I cannot pray?
R. When you feel like you cannot feel and your heart is a wall of cement and you are blocked, it already means that you can feel this blackness and that's a great thing. Now you just have to think how through the blackness of the heart you bring the heart a certain impression. Not from the will to receive that's normally there but from the will to bestow. How can you try and enter with your heart into the friend's heart? Make practical actions without much intellect then from these actions you will attain the intellect and the feeling. On that it says whatever the mind cannot do, time does. Try it and you will see.
20. S. (41:20) You said that I annul myself and I give the Creator the possibility to get into me, to enter me, what does that mean?
R. If we are in our will to receive we are like a ball that contains the will to receive and the Creator is surrounding us and then if I feel him pressuring us, lacking certain things, in this way discover deficiencies, more and more deficiencies. If I work in order to begin to connect to this upper force that is outside of me then how can I do it? This upper force outside of me is entirely to bestow, I have no way of feeling it or understanding it, depicting it, it will always be a depiction of my will to receive. For that we were given a ten the group, the Creator shattered the Kli of Adam HaRishon shattered the vessel of Adam HaRishon, how much I connect to them I constructed in me a system that I can perceive these qualities of bestowal, of connection which are already the qualities of the Creator, the qualities of the upper world that do not exist in our world. We see how our world more and more is the will to receive.
S. So how does the Creator eventually enter me as a result?
R. The Creator enters into me to the extent that I mix with the friends and to the extent that I obtain the desires, the qualities, the desires of the friends, in them I receive the quality of the Creator, the forces of the Creator. Therefore I have no way of reaching the Creator, of filling myself by him except through the connection with the friends.
S. Well I, for example, try to become incorporated in the thoughts of the friends, and to include it inside of me about how inside of them I notice the Creator's quality?
R. Not in them but in you, when you are Incorporated in your friends everything you receive from them, you also want to feel the Creator, you want to discover the Creator. This is called from love of people to love of the Creator.
Excerpt 61 (44:55)
21. R. (46:39) That's the main thing, meaning the Creator is always playing with our hearts, with our desire and raising them up more and more egotistically in quantity and quality and it's all in order to bring us to a state where the degree of the hardening of the heart will be such that a person will not be able to take it, that he has to solve the problems and the Creator helps him. That's why it says come unto Pharaoh for I have hardened his heart. The Creator seemingly makes a match between a person in the Pharaoh, evil inclination, he puts the evil inclination, he reveals the evil inclination more and more in a man’s heart until a person cries for help because he cannot take it anymore. It turns out that by the evil inclination that is growing within a person, the person begins to acquire the feeling and the intellect that only the Creator can help him. This is the meaning that the Pharaoh brings a person closer to the Creator.
22. S. (48:02) If the choice is between the hardening of the heart vs. turning to the Creator, why is that a choice? Clearly the hardening of the heart is something that nobody wants.
R. No, I don't choose the hardening of the heart, the hardening of the heart comes to me from according to how much I am in a group and dissemination, how much I try. Then accordingly the Creator can turn up my egoistic desire more and more because correspondingly I perform certain actions and somehow balance this excessive will to receive.
S. Where's the choice here, that's the question, because the hardening of the heart leads to us turning to the Creator that's clear, so why is it called a choice?
R. The hardening of the heart comes to us only to a state where we begin to cry out. This cry reveals help from above and I begin to see that the main thing for me is for the Creator to explain to me what I am doing with that Pharaoh, with that huge ego. My choice is continuing in spite of the hardening of the heart and eventually I see that I have no way of doing anything but escaping. Even though it's dark and there is no certainty, I like everything, but I prefer it to being under the control of the ego, the evil inclination of the Pharaoh and this way we run away from Egypt.
S. Something's very subtle, not the way that it appears to the will to receive it's a lot more subtle than that?
R. It sounds one way or another and that's what we have.
23. S. (50:18) Justify the Creator's actions, sometimes it succeeds only sometimes after the action, how do we reach a state where you are able to justify the actions as they take place?
R. How can it be that will justify actions that do not exist in us but that will exist in us later? How can you know this, where are you taking this from, how can you correct them? I don't understand such a question. Work does that exist in reality, we work with what we have, what's revealed in the vessels, that's what we know. We see more light or we see more darkness, that's what it is. That's what there is. You're asking about some philosophy. How in advance, what do you mean in advance, where are you getting this, how you can see anything in advance, there's nothing like that in all of creation, you are taking that from your intellect. That's totally not serious, it's not the wisdom of Kabbalah. To believe what's written, also know we constantly learn that we don't understand what is written but that what is written is only as a guidance for the correction between us. By that we attain new discernments, and we are learning.
24. S. (52:13) What does a ten look like when it is actually running away from Pharaoh?
R. We didn't come to it yet, soon we will come to it, and we will see.
25. S. 952:35) How to increase seeing Pharaohs' control is equal to our free choice?
R. The Pharaoh brings a person to the point of choice, and he is the one aiming us forward.
26. S. (53:00) How do I identify the hardening of the heart in the ten?
R. You don't see it in the attitude between the friends?
S. Everything is usual, it's always the same.
R. It's a sign you're not even working on the connection between you, the ever-growing connection. No one wants to soften his heart, to place the friends inside, no one is thinking of replacing thoughts and opinions of the friends with his thoughts and opinions. This is very bad.
S. So how do we break through that, what kind of revolution do we need to make?
R. First of all understand that it is necessary, it is essential to do it if you want to attain a spiritual vessel. I don't attain a spiritual vessel if I don't replace my desires and thoughts with the desires and thoughts of the group. Not immediately, not 100% but as much as possible gradually.
S. What should we ask the Creator for the friends so that this will help them the most?
R. That they would manage to connect in their heart to such a degree that the Creator will be revealed there and rejoice from his work. After all, we just need to help the Creator do his work. Hence our actions are called serving the Creator. We only ask, demand, we pray to the Creator to do it, seemingly allow him to do it. This is the meaning of my “sons have defeated me”. That's what gives him happiness but he's doing all the work. We just need to want him to do it.
27. S. (55:32) You said a little bit earlier that the hardening of the heart occurs as a result of the correct actions in the ten if I heard you correctly, so it turns out that together with the hardening of the heart addition of the will to receive and the will to bestow is also added?
R. No, there's only the will to receive which keeps growing and together with that we feel about this will to receive a sense of pressure from the surrounding light from the Creator. There's an internal phenomenon of the growing of the will to receive and there's an external phenomenon where it pressures us accordingly according to what's happening on the outside, the will to bestow and then we are between these two desires and consequently we feel ourselves in such a state of discomfort.
S. But we perceive everything out of the edges, the extremes out of the feeling of the difference, so how can we get from the will to receive to recognize the will to bestow?
R. You will discover in the vessel itself that exists between the inner light and the surrounding light, both of these lights operate on us, and you'll see how it's happening. None as wise as the experienced.
Excerpt 62 (57:48 )
28. R. (01:00:06) Because according to his request if it is a true one, he is grateful for keeping the upper light and not living in a runaway and all kinds of directions. By that he attains and demonstrates the degree of importance he has for bestowal, which is the main thing.
29. S. (01:00:33) As I understand it, going to Pharaoh will hold me and our ten that goes to Pharaoh. What does it mean that a ten goes to Pharaoh?
R. As much as the friends in the ten try to be connected between them towards the goal, this the meaning of going together to Pharaoh and to the Creator. The Creator is one and the same thing, it only depends on how we turn to them but in truth the Pharaoh invites the group to the Creator and the Creator invites the group to Pharaoh that is how it works. That's how it works for us, we are seemingly a neutral body, and we must incorporate with the true will to receive which is the Pharaoh and bring it in order to bestow which is the Creator.
S. What is this operation, this walking itself, what needs to happen?
R. Constantly be in connection more and more internal connection between us.
30. S. (01:01:55) Man’s inclination overpowers him every day and we recognize that in this work even if one time we succeed in getting help from the Creator, as it says come unto Pharaoh. The next time we get an additional hardening, it seems like we are studying in the same state.
R. Seems to us each time we backtrack even worse.
S. Exactly and it is very difficult to overcome that, and each time to give new work in the same place because the feeling is he will always stay in Egypt, and you do not want to do it again. How do we work with this complaint, with this claim of Pharaoh who says, ‘You already tried it and you see that you stay in the same place?
R. Each time it will be new in your eyes, each day a person is a new man. I have to understand that this work does not end, as it is written ‘There is no rest for the righteous neither in this world nor in the next.’ Consequently we have to advance each passing day and without the ten, without the support it is very difficult for the person, and he plunges into despair at not being connected with the ten. There's such an obstacle before him that he cannot overcome it.
S. We feel it in the ten and not as an individual person. As a ten we feel it, that we have made some effort, we received help, but the hardening actually grows.
R. It is a sign that the friends in the ten do not feel themselves obligated to awaken the entire ten, each will help his friend. How can it be that you need help and will have and let go of one another and each one in the ten doesn't care if the ten is going up or not. I understand that each one is either in an up state or a down state nevertheless, in spite of it he has to guard himself and ask himself what I am doing towards the group.
S. Is this coping of the ten with this repeating state, is this what feels the connection between us in the end?
R. It builds the connection, it builds the general vessel, it's the main thing we need in order to advance towards the purpose of life. What do you think that I'm getting up and getting to the lesson and each time with great energy and spirits and full of knowledge and a strong mind? I told you how I used to see this giant Rabash at the moment he first woke up, you could not tell that this person has any spirit of life in him, and he who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater. It will become more difficult to wake up, to recuperate and awaken the friends and support the friends. This works in a very serious manner on us.
S. How do we overcome this fear, we always stay in Egypt?
R. First, one needs to be responsible for coming up to the group before the lesson. When a few moments before you gather, you gather 20 minutes before the hour, and you come another 20 minutes before that or less. Look at it and start to awaken one another and when you come to the general awakening of the entire group in the ten, that is entirely in the state of upliftment. We measure this upliftment according to the importance of the goal. This we can do with; each one will help his friend. I’m passing it from one to another.
31. S. (01:07:30) I would still like to scrutinize in the ten and also in the external world we see how the Creator is spreading people, separating there. People start to notice that the connection between them is disconnected and broken, and they want to connect more, so it won’t fall apart entirely, disintegrate. It is like a closed circuit, so people want to connect. Is that bestowal?
R. Of course not, it is their ego that’s how it works. Only if I take into consideration the goal and relative to it, I wish to arrange myself and I wish to arrange my attitude to the friends and aim towards that, and how much I am incorporated in them and that's how we advance to the goal. Accordingly I can say that I exist inside of them on the way to adhesion with the Creator.
S. This means that it is in the middle between connection and separation, is that what you said? That it is somewhere in the middle between the two of them, this is the state of bestowal?
R. Let's say.
32. S. (01:09:12) When we ask out of the need, which is clear, but in our daily work we work with the prayer, we might say according to our schedule, and this brings lower the quality. We realize that we need the prayer according to the schedule.
R. There has to be prayer according to the general calendar of the general nature like morning, night, evening just like we exist according to the astronomical time. We also exist according to how we determine our daily schedule. So, we have this division that works both ways. There is no other way, the important thing is what we decide on.
33. S. (01:10:28) You once answered this question, and you said that the Creator needs to want to change my qualities and I need to enable Him, to allow Him to do it.
R. According to our request we can ask the Creator to change our qualities.
Excerpt # 63 (01:11:00)
34. R. (01:13:00) That’s what we discover. That the hardening of the heart, the problems, the disconnections, the disappointments, the heaviness that we feel all of it is in order to bring our heart to a state where we can reveal the Creator in it.
Excerpt # 64 (01:13:23)
35. S. (01:14:24) What is the difference between the deficiency of a friend and the deficiency of a group?
R. For the lack of an individual the Creator barely listens meaning he doesn’t operate on the upper light because the light is in complete rest and he demands the vessel to be suitable to it, to him, and that’s the difference. So, as much as we pray for the ten or incorporate with the ten then surely that we're entering into contact with the upper light because then the desire of the ten and the desire in the upper light in something they are an identical, rather if the person only by himself that is called a cry in the desert. It has no result, barely.
36. S. (01:15:35) Is it a complete desire accepted after the entrance to Egypt. Is that what brings to the state of Exile?
R. The whole desire we process it in Egypt and when we will have the whole desire, a small one but already whole, complete, then we already are capable to advance towards the exiting of Egypt from exile.
37. S. (01:16:27) If all our work is to create a need for the help of the Creator. Does this mean that the love that we want to reach is the desire for complete dependency?
R. Correct.
38. S. (01:16:46) Does the accumulation of many zeros mean a lot of suffering?
R. Depends on the purpose of the person, if the person is going according to the line that he's always subjugating himself and making an effort to see himself as a zero, then in this, he reveals just how much he is advancing and he has joy, gladness.
39. S. (01:17:29) What does it mean that each time the letters of the Torah are added?
R. He understands and feels between the darkness and the light all sorts of forms of completion that are completing one another that they build for him new sensations called the letters of the work.
40. S. (01:18:04) How can we help one another in obtaining the right lack?
R. Simply, more to speak about what’s written in the articles, in our material, that we need to chew our material many times and I'm telling you out of experience, my own experience, that I am already in the study of Kabbalah for 40 years and I reveal in all these sentences new things and I'm sure and I know and I feel that this is the especially from Rabash, that this Rabash planted in them all those same thoughts and desires that awaken in me to this day. I advise you to search for it and you will see.
Reading excerpt # 65 twice (01:19:15)
41. S. (01:21:34) Why isn't it enough when they say the Creator is great and I'm the small and do whatever you want with me. Why do we need more choice after that?
R. He passes on and gives everything to the Creator. That is called he's working in devotion So, from the smallest to the biggest final action.
42. S. (01:22:03) Why does this hard need to be hardened again. The Creator is controlling and is governing. Do whatever you have to do with me?
R. He is not making limitations, borders, he's not making any conditions for the Creator. Now it's the end of Correction give me, no, rather I am ready to continue because for me the work itself can choice that I choose to be adhered to you, and above all the other options, in smallness as a point is adhered as a drop of semen adhered to the womb, and I am willing to remain in this and from this point I'm ready to do everything.
S. So, the hardening of the heart is a certain answer from the Creator to his request? Like you asked to be like that. Let's harden your heart and you will be able to see that you are in such a state?
R. Yes.
43. S. (01:23:08) In excerpt #63, it is written, first of all that the Creator gives the hardening of the heart in order to come to a lack in order to bestow and later it’s written and by that it’s understood that only later the Creator harden his heart, meaning after he entered into the work for the sake of the Creator and not beforehand, So, it's not understood, is it first the hardening of the heart or after he enters in the work?
R. No, specifically after, after a person finishes the work, completes the work, he sees that the Creator arranged everything both the states before, both the hardening of the heart during the process and also the final form, that all this the Creator did, and the person he just in such a form, such a manner, passes all these sensations upon him in order that they will bring him to the height of the Creator.
44. S. (01:24:36) If a person intensifies the pace and advances towards the Creator, it’s felt that his pace as he’s running and running increasing and increasing more and more and all of a sudden he's simply stumbles upon the wall and falls down. It is harder to rise after that, is that right? In the continuation, he rises, and he knows how hard it is.
R. You’ll think, I go through a few states and then you will be experienced and then you will ask because in the meantime you are asking things that you haven't truly gone through so let's wait until you will speak out of experience of life.
45. S. (01:25:59) You said that this point in which I am ready to work only in order to be in the effort in the direction of bestowal to the Creator. What is that point, after all we're always yearning for the revelation of the Creator big things so how?
R. We do not need to yearn for revelation of the Creator, we need to yearn for devotion, for bestowal to the Creator. It’s not the same thing. It's quite the opposite if I am yearning for revelation of the Creator than I am entering greater darkness. I am stopping myself, I need to yearn for work, for bestowal in adhesion in the Creator, adhesion is not revelation. Revelation, it reaches, comes, and not in a way that we can describe, imagine ourselves to our ego.
S. So, I want to be more precise. What does it mean adhesion with the Creator if it's not His revelation?
R. Adhesion in the Creator is adhesion according to the action, according to the intention, the result from the action, which is all to bestow in the direction of bestowal and to open, we want to open and know only in what we can bestow, in what we can adhere, reach equivalence of form, only this we want and all the rest now, we need to cover. That’s our work, both in revelation and concealment we need to keep this border, this limit that we are operating only on the intention to bestow.
S. In our work towards friends and dissemination and the ten I after all want to feel that force that’s between us.
R. To the extent that you're feeling it, a need, that you lack to be adhered to the friends that together you can bestow to one another and also to all of reality in order to give contentment to the Creator and surely you need forces, and you pray that you will have.
46. S. (01:28:54) If we can develop that, you see the greatest achievement is the deficiency, the yearning. How to cultivate it more maximally between us?
R. It is only by connection between you, from within that you will be able to take everything but from within the connection not from outside of it.
S. What do you mean by this connection?
R. You're not looking at the final goal, complete adhesion, complete connection with the whole Kli through your connection, through the ten. That you need to look like you are shooting, you're looking through the aim, through this sight that is close to the eye, and the sight, the reticle at the end of the gun and that’s it. So, both these edges in the barrel from the beginning and the end, yes, they need to be lined up with your eye. Israel and as one, and then you reach the goal.
S. Meaning, in such a personal effort in connection with the friends I need to hold on to the whole purpose of creation?
R. Yes, otherwise, your bestowal is not true, isn’t complete.
47. S. (1:30:39) It sounds like our attitude towards the hardening of the heart should be as a payment of our work in ten. Is this so?
R. It is not payment, it is a reward, this that I'm given work that’s a reward. This that I can give exertion in order to reach the goal that’s also a reward. There is no work, exertion, payment. It’s all a reward. It does not matter; it will be clear to everyone later on.
48. S. (01:31:51) How do we create the correct lack, the correct Kli and how is our effort measured?
R. The correct lack we establish that by this that we are speaking together in the ten and we clarify, scrutinize to what should we be yearning to, that this yearning will truly be in the same line, the same channel as the Creator.
49. S. (01:32:20) How do I make room for the friends in my heart if it's obtuse, it’s closed?
R. You make the effort to open up my heart that in thoughts I intend nothing. Only, if we are all connecting and despite that I am very much not one that's not entirely in that but as much as I, nonetheless, want to give them a room in my heart, then in the same place that we are entering together, in that same place, yes, we will reveal the Creator.
50. S. (01:33:02) We are aiming ourselves to the deficiency for the help of the Creator. What help do we need from Him?
R. I do not know, if you do not have a need for the assistance of the Creator that you have no prayer, you don’t have who to turn to, and what to turn to, what is it you need first of all to scrutinize? Do you need help? For what? What do you want to reach? And then turned to Him. But seemingly it comes to the Creator without the justified true lack, it does not work.
Reading Excerpt # 66 (01:33:53)
51. R. (01:35:07) Yes, meaning we need to understand that the Creator hears all the prayers the true ones, that a person takes out as much as possible as much as he can from his heart and he doesn’t escape, he doesn’t run away he rather persistently like this little child he doesn’t let go because he knows he's depending on you and so he doesn’t go he knows very well how to take advantage of you and he has no mind he does not have so much developed sensation but only one thing that he knows he is dependent on you and thus he doesn’t not leave. Meaning we do not need some big sensation or some big person here and some big wise mind rather only the sensation of dependence if I know I am dependent on Him only and that is it, then I don't leave and I continue and I continue like within nature we have examples from the baby and the adult and the child, the little child and thus he wins over the adult and the adult feels he has to give the child and such we also have to turn to the Creator that if I have the true lack I don't leave the Creator and ultimately as much as I need I will request of him until he will do it and I also need here to believe to believe our sages, that each time that I am requesting even though my requests are incorrect but if I don't leave them then each and every request of mine it builds in me the next request to be more true, closer the correct one until I reach such a request that the Creator answers.
52. S. (01:37:24) What can we do in the ten to soften the heart of the friends?
R. To give an example, that is the main thing, to give an example.
53. S. (01:37:51) How can we help the will to understand that it needs to come down from this whole endless chase of achievements, only blows will help it come down?
R. Not blows, we don't want blows. We want that there will be peace in the world and today, already today, from the morning that the world will feel itself that it is the infinite vessel, the spiritual world, without life and death and all sorts of suffering and problems. That everything is in complete goodness and wholeness, and we don't need any troubles and blows. It all depends on our plea to the Creator. Rather we're incapable of requesting and that is a different problem, so let's make the effort to request of the Creator. The end of correction already from now onwards, all of us, in the whole manner, and there is no problem. Let's not go on less than that if you say less than that you're saying that the Creator is not capable, that is it. So, it all depends on your plea.
54. S. (01:39:00) If the Creator is great, what does the Creator do on His side, on His behalf because in the relations of a parent and the child, the parent understands the deficiency of the child?
R. The Creator, as it is written, is playing with the whale. He is playing with all of the creation and gradually, slowly brings it to the correct lack and gives us the opportunity to shorten the times, to sanctify the times, in order that we will request from Him the correct solution on the spot, if we can do it, we will receive it soon, if we cannot do it, then gradually.