Morning Lesson February 19, 2024

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

Part 1:

Rabash. Article No. 31, 1991. What Does It Mean that Charity to the Poor Makes the Holy Name in the Work?

Reading: (00:42) “I will give you rains in a season…”

1. Rav intro: (39:59) What is the complete deficiency according to the article?

2. S. (40:22) How to work without any reward, to agree to that?

R. Okay, more?

3. S. (40:36) In every state, in every degree, to ask the Creator for help that He will give the help that is necessary for that degree.

R. Yes. More?

4. S. (41:06) I need to come here everyday and give a new effort to bestow to the Creator and every moment when I leave this path and I don't make this effort I'm robbing and I should take this responsibility everyday for the sake of everyone, to come here truly with the true intention to give contentment to the Creator because Malchut is poor and I have to constantly give her the good and pleasure that the Creator wants to give us, to give the whole of creation.

R. Yes.

5. S. (41:57) The lack that the person asks that the Creator will give him does not come from within himself.

R. Yes.

6. S. (42:22) To yearn with all my might to ask to be Adam with devotion even if I die I want to be Adam.

7. S. (42:54) According to the article he writes that the true deficiency is that person should want that the Creator will reveal to him what wholeness is and then he will know what he needs to reach, where he needs to reach.

8. S. (43:25) Here he also writes that a person should find the connection between him and the Torah, to constantly search for this connection between him and the Torah, that too is a lack. 

9. S. (43:58) A lack that the Creator will clothe in the friends, in the Ten.

10. S. (44:16) Man is the only one who can complete the purpose of creation by providing for Malchut, by this he helps the Creator, he completes the purpose of creation. 

R. Good.

11. S. (44:44) A true lack is fear towards the Creator.

R. Good.

12. S. (45:14) He writes here that one should reach a knowing of what he truly lacks. We need all the time to scrutinize what is it that we truly lack? I guess that's our work.

13. S. (45:59) When we can stay with the words that he writes here, the fear of the Creator is like a woman, a deficiency and the fear is that on top of this we want to give, let Him receive everything but we want to give Him contentment. We want to receive everything but for Him.

14. S. (46:40) He says that we must not stop giving alms to the poor. We have to constantly ask and not to give up even if we don't see a result, the main thing is to continue, not to stop. It is not quite clear what alms for the poor is but it says that we should not stop that.

R. Yes, more.

15. S. (47:09) Yes, he also says that there is that lack of Rabbi Shimon who cries and says,

woe unto people who do not know and do not look at the glory of their master the Creator is hidden, but he says here, to make the holy name each and every day is giving alms to the poor like the friend said.

16. S. (47:48) Also he writes, by this it turns out that prayer is the most important. That a person should pray to the Creator to give him the power that is necessary for anything related to the work in the Torah and also in the prayer. The person should always have the need to advance or just to enjoy the gratitude, or enjoy the fact that he has a deficiency or that he has some wholeness but to constantly search for how to advance and to be connected to the Creator so that He will advance him.

R. Okay.

17. S. (48:33) The lack for the greatness of the Creator, to serve the Creator.

R. Good. More?

18. S. (49:02) Yes, I think that the strongest sentence in the article is when he writes that he will give the need, that the Creator will give the person the need, the lack for the work of bestowal so that’s where that ‘need’ is the strongest word.

R. That's it.

19. S. (49:33) We want to advance, we have a lack and a question. Many friends in the Ten say that the corporal work takes the majority of their time and doesn't leave them enough time to work with the Ten. How can we overcome these attacks on the body and on the needs of the body that come from outside the Ten and how can we use them in the work in the Ten?

R. I don't know but it seems to me that if we succeed with our intention, then we can do all of our work calmly, comfortably. To complain that we have no time, that we must be like slaves all day long, all night long, immersed in spiritual work, that's not good, that's incorrect. A person has to combine these two things. 

20. S. (51:23) A lack for a lack, meaning the desire that I will have a lack first of all?

R. Yes, correct. 

21. S. (51:47) The reward for a Mitzvah is a Mitzvah in addition to the fact that the desire should also be to bestow, that should be the filling?

R. Yes.

22. S. (52:06) Why is it necessary for the lower ones to connect Malchut with the Creator? He's connected anyway?

R. Because it's the greatest, the biggest vessel of reception.

S. What dwells in the world Tzimtzum, the restriction or Malchut of Ein Sof? What dwells in the world? What governs the world?

R. It depends, related to whom?

S. With respect to a person who is going toward the correction. What does he have ahead of him?

R. It opens up before him the possibility to bestow.

S. He should say that there is a restriction over the world because he has work?

R. Yes.

S. It brings up a question. What is the difference between the wholeness that a person should achieve and the general Malchut?

R. The wholeness that a person has to come to means that his entire desire would be only to bestow to the Creator with his eternal embrace and adhesion and that's it.

S. About Malchut being poor, should we demand from the Creator that it won't be poor, he should not accept the fact that he's poor and here in the article he's not supposed to demand from the Creator the feeling of Malchut, that he will be able to impart to her?

R. This helps him. When the Creator shows him that Malchut is poor and destitute it helps a person advance.

S. The request and in the prayer he should ask to fill Malchut, not to agree that she's poor. We should ask for the popular possibility to fill her, right.?

R. Yes.

S. How can this coincide with the fact that the work is only because He's great and ruling?

R. Yes.

S. Should I find out how these two things coincide?

R. Why does it not work out?

S. Because here he says that we should not demand anything but work only because He's great and ruling but here a person actually has great work.

R. What is great work?

S. To see that Malchut is filled that there's advancement in the direction of the Creator, that reality is filled with the knowledge of the Lord. What does it mean to settle for the word that He is great and ruling?

R. There isn't anything else besides that only to attain that the Creator is the one who's running everything, who's controlling everything.

S. How does it work with the fact that Malchut is poor?

R. It depends on in which quality is he poor. That's it. Malchut is the will to receive and it remains poor and meager but when it wants to be connected with everyone and to bestow the upper light to everyone and fill all of reality by that she is not poor and meager, she is Malchut of Ein Sof.

S. This is the reality that one should build for himself?

R. Yes, after all, all in all we have to connect both Malquot, Malchut of Ein Sof and Malchut of the restriction of this world, you have to connect them together.