Morning Lesson April 24, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: This is truly the opening to be righteous. Pay attention, one who wants to be righteous he has to listen really well to those excerpts that we will hear and are going to read right now. Righteous means one who justifies the Creator in all the actions in all of his deeds not because he knows how to suffer and he can paint everything in a rosy color. But rather because he corrects his own attitude to whatever is happening inside of him and to mankind, everybody together, each one separately and he arranges himself in such a way with his qualities, his senses, his perception so that he sees that everything is good and Hassidim only. It is not that he is undergoing some internal persuasion like in this world, some brainwash as we call it, but rather that person dyes a correct perspective, a corrected outlook on reality. He sees that there is no bad in the world but rather it is all the holy Shechina meaning the Creator's existence as the good in doing good in the whole reality. We will try to talk about it a bit and of course we have to work on this all the time and to see to what extent the Creator deliberately is giving us all kinds of conditions in order for us to work on it and to be able to justify him in all kinds of different states and that way to reach a state where we will be complete righteous. Where accordingly, according to the equivalence of form we will be adhered to him. Let's see what it says in the excerpts and we will try to realize it. If there are any questions go ahead and ask. I hope very much that we are already almost ready to begin to study TES internally. Well if not now in two three months but already with all of these preparations that we had and the question is how much does each and every one try to absorb them. However, in essence we will be ready soon and then we will see the true Kabbalah.
2. S. (03:47) We accept the reality as we do, what does it mean to discover the Shechina behind it?
R. We see in every place, in every action that it is the Creator's action there is none else besides him and he is good who does only good so we also have to try to see these things in the form of good who does only good. Even though in the beginning we do not see it this way but we have to work on it to arrange ourselves to aim ourselves in such a way to perceive reality to see, to feel to understand to go over all kinds of articles each helps his friends in the connection between us until we discover everything in life and it does not matter in what states we go through that it is all through. It is all truly just revealed Mercy, the holy Shechina, only good we are truly in the ocean of the Creator's good attitude we exist in him. We never come out of the Creator, we never escape from him, we just receive an opportunity to develop ourselves and to feel in whom we exist, like inside the mother's womb, we are inside of him as we say that our heart will rejoice in him, this is what we have to reach.
S. What does it mean that behind this we discover something as if we existed in the creator's mother's womb?
R. I have to feel that I am surrounded with the creator's Mercy and this is how I feel it. All of the states that differ from each other, in that I see and feel that I am not identifying with the good who does only good, it is a sign that I have to correct my attitude, my vessels.
3. S. (06:21) What's the difference between correcting the relations or the qualities and the internal conviction?
R. We will learn right now. You are right but we will learn it now this is not in a conviction persuasion we don't have to have some inner exercises here that it is all good and does only good although I don't feel it. We have to reach such a vision, seeing it in all our senses and vision is the highest sense. That this is how I feel myself that I am inside the good who does only good in there is none else besides him maybe we should start reading.
Excerpt 8 (07:14 - 08:02)
4. R. This means that we have to feel bad and say that this is coming from the Creator. We feel it, we accept it, we understand it and we attribute it to the Creator. You should not hide it and close our eyes and say that everything is good and doing good, that whatever we see is incorrect. What I see and what I feel is the truth and it is coming from the upper force only. And what's next?
Reader continues: (08:31 - 09:05)
5. This means that it is worthwhile to feel the sorrow. It is worthwhile to discover to tell ourselves that this is punishment and it is worthwhile to make corrections through prayer so that we are correcting the punishment so the sorrow goes away and then we truly make a great correction over whatever the Creator awakens in us.
Reader continues: (09:35 - 09:59)
6. A correction is that a person above his feeling of the sorrow that is getting in his life, everywhere in his life when he gets some affliction, sorrow, of course he can say it is coming from the Creator because there is none else besides him. There are no Klipot, shells, no bad forces, there is no Amalek, it is only the Creator who eventually is awakening through all kinds of systems, all kinds of feelings of suffering in the person, it is all in order for him to eventually say that yes it is all coming from the Creator. It is not a punishment but it is coming to me so I can respond to it correctly and I will accept it as a correction. The correction is through the prayer that in that place where I feel some problem, trouble, I have to, there in that place I have to make the prayer. Which prayer, precisely what the prayer is about, we will talk about it. That is the response, that there is the feeling of suffering in different forms, the awareness that it is coming from there is none else is beside him and that he is good that only does good. This is why I have to respond to it in such a way that I pray. What am I praying for? I am asking to respond correctly to whatever the Creator wakes up in me. He is awakening in me some problem, some trouble, some feeling of pain, it doesn't matter through which incident and in what forms he is awakening in me this bad feeling. I have to try to correct myself through praying to him that the Creator would help me so that he won't change reality but he will change my vision so I can change my outlook on reality so I will feel instead of that bad reality a good reality. In such a way I elevate myself from this world to the higher world. And then according to the degrees of bad revealed in me Aviut, coarseness of Shoresh, Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Dalet, accordingly if I can rise above them to justify the Creator and to unite with him on top of these degrees of coarseness which are revealed which bring me all kinds of problems with understand if above this I can connect the Creator that it is considered that I’m rising on the ladder of degrees. This is how we get closer to the Creator each time to be justifying him more and more that he is more and more righteous each and every time.
7. S. (13:19) Why do we have to regret the afflictions if it is a correction?
R. We do not need to regret the afflictions, the crimes as people think, this is not correct, this is suitable for ordinary people on the street religious or secular. We do not regret these states because we do not do them there is None Else Besides Him and the only Creator has done these state. We don't have this approach that we have to ask for forgiveness for whatever we did. This comes from above from the corruption of the soul which the Creator broke, the initial Soul of Adam HaRishon in general, there all the corruptions appear. This is why each and every corruption even though I feel it on myself, it is not mine, it is only for me to escribe everything to the Creator, to justify him and to adhere to Him. In that way I will reach being righteous, adhere to the Creator. This is why this whole action was done of the shattering, the distancing, the confusion but it is not that and also I do not need to regret the fact that now some sorrow is revealed in me, some corruption which seemingly I caused. If I regret what I did in the past that I’m not keeping the condition of None Else Besides Him we have to realize that here we speak like Kabbalists telling the truth not like people on the street who are blind.
8. S. (15:42) So he should feel the sorrow and the pain in order to have a correction?
R. Yes he should feel the sorrow but he should not escribe it to himself, the Creator is awakening this in him in order to edge him correctly to the correction of the soul.
S. So does he feel the affliction or doesn’t he feel the affliction if you attribute it to None Else Besides Him?
R. He is feeling the sorrow because he is not yet in there is None Else Besides Him, but it’s not in that he himself performed the transgression.
S. So the sorrow should be only on that?
R. Yes that this transgression only comes to us from the shattering of Adam HaRishon, take it slowly because we have to enter this we have to live in it we have to exist in this state.
9. S. (16:35) So everything comes from the Creator and now we feel each other in this internal feeling when we come out of the lesson we feel each other as through the external mind and we have to accept that He wakes up in us correctly, there is no connection with the 10,with the Creator at that time.
R. If I want to ascribe everything to the Creator then I have to appeal to him through the 10 because otherwise it does not reach the Creator. The Creator is in the center of the 10. If you connect to him if you dial to him like on the telephone I have to do it through the ten. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. How many friends do you have? If you press all of those buttons to the last one then you get through the Creator. This is how you have to get used to it and always work on that because otherwise you cannot reach the Creator otherwise maybe you are crying or a praying but this is called crying in the desert.
S. So it's only in the thought that we are connected.
R. What do you want me to tell you? Of course only through the thought.
10. S. (18:24) Can you explain to us what it means that the person is not inheriting the land before he sins?
R. Before we reach the spiritual world which is completely broken and we have to put it together like a puzzle. This puzzle we put together through the friends piece by piece each time that some corruption is revealed we then try to aim ourselves to connect ourselves together into the examination that this is coming from the Creator and we understand this and we feel this and we ascribe everything to the Creator and in this way when we put together this puzzle in the right way so that the ten is discovering the Creator. For the time being we are working on it in a more personal individual way. Each and every one of through the ten but later on we will also work in the ten like the students of Rabbi Simon.
11. S. (19:59) Not to receive such punishments, what kind of prayers should we raise to be in order not to receive punishments?
R. We cannot stop the process of correction as you can see in the whole world it is the same with us but we have to try as much as possible to flow along more correctly internally with this general current that everybody is going through. We have to try as much as possible to be towards the center of this current it all depends on the connection in the ten in between them and towards the Creator. But we are not resisting the changes even more so we are happy with the wicked that is revealed.
12. S. (21:22) Then there is a problem on the physical level we have to regret and feel this sorrow, it sounds like we don't need to regret the problem itself but the fact that the Creator was forced to send us this trouble?
R. If this blow is revealed on the physical level than first of all the have to understand that it is also coming from the Creator that it is coming ultimately in order to aim as correctly to the source of the blow which is the Creator and he is the good that does good in order for us to straighten our attitude through reality to him only. Because we are talking about the Sages who want to attach themselves to the Creator and this is how we need to see each and every blow. That the nature of the blow is more corporal, more social, more bodily with family and so on that we don't understand yet, why do we receive such sufferings such a particular different blows but this is how we need to relate to this.
13. S. (23:14) When the Creator give you these blows, we usually respond negatively. How can we respond correctly?
R. We always begin each and every situation in spirituality that we are criminals. That we are opposite to the righteous we cannot justify the Creator because the evil inclination is revealed more and more showing us each time some flaw in creation in the Creator in the friends, in everything that is outside of us and we have to realize that whatever is revealed in the whole of reality around us including the Creator, it is all our own flaws my personal crimes and I have to correct them that I unite the whole reality and through it with myself the whole reality with the Creator. That I justify the whole reality and the Creator that manages it and ultimately myself, I justify this whole process and then I am considered righteous, over that particular action. An action that the Creator started and we finished it.
14. S. (24:46) If I feel bad I want to get rid of this bad, how do I correct it through the ten because it's my personal feeling?
R. The feelings are always personal they are yours it is always who is feeling it is you and everybody who is qualifying he is qualifying through his own flaws, but if you want to correct yourself then you have to calculate. Who did you get this feeling from? Who is opening your eyes a little bit more to reality so that you feel some revelation of the broken corrupted Kli of Adam? It is the Creator who is doing it to you so you have to respond accordingly. What are you going to do to correct this? You have to correctly organize yourself towards the whole reality and the Creator otherwise you cannot progress correctly truly but you will be like everybody else in the world that is considered the fool sitting idle consuming his own flesh.
15. S. (26:14) I suffer many physical blows, does that mean that I am a big criminal?
R. It means that the Creator loves you.
S. (26:46) So when I’m suffering from these blows, the first thing I do, this is what I have learned, I stop and start praying for the friends in the ten. I go over each of them and I don't pray for myself but I do this because I suffered this blow. Is this wrong?
R. Why are you praying for your friends? First of all you need to understand that all these blows are not blows. It is the Creator showing you what is not good in you that you have to correct. This is the first thing and we talked about it many times and you are seemingly here but you're not hearing this. So each and every thing that the person feels he is feeling it out of his own flaws. Everybody who disqualifies he disqualifies out of his own problems it is not that the Creator is giving you blows. He is revealing to you all kinds of problems which exist in your soul out of the general shattering of the system of Adam and you have to correct your part. So relate to this correctly. If you feel some sadness, pain don't say that I pray for the friends you cannot pray for the friends don't act as if you were righteous. If you feel sadness you are already wicked. Already whether you want it or not you are only crying out because you feel bad. This is happening naturally. This is how you respond instinctively. Now the question is how should you respond correctly. How to arrange things correctly. This is what we are studying.
16. S. (28:58) The suffering is revealed through the whole assistant along the way?
R. Every degree, every state until the end of correction, we discover new corruptions, sufferings, problems. Like one who is greater than his friend, his evil inclination is greater. This is why he feels the blows even in a harsher way but against it he also has the power to cope with it and to correct it. All our work is that we have to understand that if the blow is coming from the Creator since there is None Else Besides Him and he is good that does only good that the Sages tell us then we have to reach a state when in each and every state we have in life, we have to reach this out of negation of the state to justified that state that at first appears as a painful state and negative evil state and later we arrange our attitude due to whatever is happening to us. This is coming from the Creator from the good and benevolent by and from where and how can we arrange ourselves correctly turn to the Creator through the society and so on but each and every blow that we feel we have to bring a whole outlook on the suffering to justifying the state justifying whatever we feel.
S. (31:11) So suffering comes on the physical level because it is impossible to make more exertion in connection. Is there a relation between them and how to work with it if this is the problem on the physical level, should I make an effort in the connection and ask the Creator?
R. To do whatever you can on the physical level that you have to do and as Rabash had such problems and also Baal HaSulam and everybody else so arranged these things on the physical level and justify them spiritually. And don't correct seemingly one at the expense of the other, physicality over spirituality or spirituality over physicality. This is what people usually think that they can do and this is impossible to do. These are two different levels of suffering that are revealed.
17. S. (32:23) You said that when you were next to Rabash, he would point to his own body and say, “let it suffer.” And here, it says on the excerpt that the prayer should be for taking away the suffering from us?
R. That he is not turning to his body but turning to the Creator so in his appeal to the Creator what he intended for is to reach adhesion with the good and doing good so that he will feel the good and doing well in everything.
S. There seems to be a fine line, here, because everybody prays when something hurts and everybody begs to the Creator for help? What’s the difference?
R. The difference between us and other people praying is that they are praying that the Creator will takes away the pain, that He will remove the illnesses. We are praying that the Creator will give us the correct sight that whatever we feel is not correct. We are corrupted and our desires are in order to receive, this is why I will feel pain, sorrow, illness and if we can change to in order to bestow then instead of pain sorrow and illness, we will feel the opposite form of the Creator's attitude to us.
18. S. (34:21) If a friend in the 10 has a problem, let's say with money or health, he turns to the group and the group raises a prayer. Should the friend also participate in the prayer or he disconnect so that others will pray for him?
R. He should give the society whatever he can and the society should give him whatever it can. He is giving the society forces as much as he can from his situation, and the society is praying for him.
19. S. (35:13) What should we always regret once we already regret it?
R. He should regret only one thing, that he did not detect immediately that it is coming from the Creator. That it is the Creator who sends him this state and He is inviting the person to turn to Him. This actually is the entire reason why he is feeling some relation from the Creator and it is coming only from the Creator.
20. S. (36:00) Where is the good correction in attributing everything to the Creator or in justifying Him? They seem different?
R. The correction is that we attribute the blow to the Creator, and we are justifying Him. We turn to Him and this is the only thing that we want to give back whatever we receive from Him as a bad feeling, we want to bring it back to Him as a good feeling.
S. What happens when we do half the work, can we attribute everything to Him but in the meantime, there is this turmoil?
R. So then let us read the excerpts and you’ll see what he writes. That the blows or the prayer, these are all corrections but the prayer feels a lot more than the blow.
21. S. (37:11) We are in a dangerous state in life as the Creator positions us. Then we try to understand how to relate to this correctly. Many times we cannot find the answer, we are in an ocean of questions and you don't know how to respond. So what is the right way to relate to these things, how can we relate to them correctly?
R. The right way to relate is to repeat every lesson a few times, I have nothing else to tell you. I am giving you in those lessons a complete order of how to fit into the complete spiritual vision and reach adhesion with the only upper operating force, I have nothing else to tell you. If you are not fitting into this then the question is: how much are you really digesting the lessons? Again, how much are you digesting those lessons? This is why I am saying repeat the lessons at least one or two more times every day. And each time, I read all the excerpts as well whatever is clearer or less clear, whatever brings up some questions. Try to do some work of research with the lessons. I would show you my books when I started studying, let’s say the first 10 years. How much there was all kinds of marking, writing -- we didn't have computers in those times so we could only type letters in offices -- this was from 1980 to 1990, so what we had were the books. So we were scribbling in them, and each and every book, I had 5 copies of it. Every year I would buy a new such book, whatever we had, and once again I started to write down and scribble all over it. You have to work with the material, you need to truly work with it. I think that it is good to do it not even on a computer but on a printed copy. But also on the computer where you can add things. We have to work more with the text, those passages that we’re going through.
22. S. (40:40) Does justifying the Creator mean that we are directing ourselves?
R. By justifying the Creator we are aiming ourselves directly to the purpose of creation, to the purpose of correction, to the end of correction.
23. S. (41:26) When there are small blows, I feel some anger towards the friends. Can I turn this into something huge without waiting for something huge to come? That is, turn the small suffering into a great suffering?
R. This depends on the importance you give to the appreciation of the group and not more than that. If you would feel that same attitude, let’s say, towards your baby or towards the group. There is a difference. The baby is small, you are very much concerned, he’s very close to you, and the group, they are grown up people. So everything depends on the importance. Wherever you increase your importance in your connection -- is it with the group or is it with the baby? Here, this is what it’s all about. Therefore, there is no difference between a small blow or a great blow, everything depends on you. We learn that if a person says over a very small deed that it is a great and important deed, then this is how it is also up above. This is how it is accepted and how they relate to it.
24. S. (43:19) How can we distinguish between corporeal troubles and the blows that are directed to heal us?
R. About this it says, “Whom the Creator loves, He reproaches.” Meaning that whom the Creator loves, He gives them blows but it refers to people don’t just feel the blows but they can also bring those blows so as to get closer to the Creator so that each and every blow is not a blow but the Creator is showing the person that he still needs to correct his connection to the Creator.
25. S. (44:17) Often when people ask questions you say that we have to direct them to the Creator. How can we hear the Creator so that we don't go crazy, as if I’m talking to myself? How to hear the answer from the Creator?
R. You get an immediate response from the Creator, the question is: the next time when you get something from the Creator, you attribute it to His response.
S. So it doesn't happen in the feeling or in the thoughts, in my relation to the 10, how to understand His response?
R. However you can decipher it in your thoughts. Everything is clarified in the thought.
26. S. (45:25) When I listen to these words that were said in the lesson, the question comes from my heart. How can we justify all the violence that is happen in homes, towards children in the world? How can a child find the right attitude towards the Creator?
R. We are not talking about the children at all. We are talking about ourselves. We were given special treatment from the Creator who brought us into the society, as he writes in the article of The Freedom and in The Social Writings, the Creator brings the person to the good fate, puts his hand on the good fate, tells him to take this. These are the only people that we are talking about and what is happening in the world, or even in families, that does not relate to us, to our spiritual work. We need to make contact with the Creator according to the laws we learn and as a result it will influence the external people and the outside world as well.
27. S. (46:53) It is truly a joy to be connected to all of you. This is the first time that our 10 is asking a question. We are very happy to share with you this step. The question is when some state is presented that causes suffering, then instead of feeling hate and rejection I should feel gratitude to the Creator. How can I know which correction it is showing me, and the second question is, is the correction seeing the root of the corruption?
R. The correction is, first of all you have to return to a state where, whatever you feel in each moment it comes to you only from None Else Besides Him. And to reconnect to this source from which we received everything, it is possible only when you turn to the 10 and together you turn to the Creator. It turns out that you can always be connected to the Creator. He gives you this through the center of the 10 and you turn to the Creator and respond to Him by connecting to the friends and then you turn to the Creator from there. But in the beginning, we don't even really need to be connected together and turn to Him this way. We turn to Him more like babies, like newborn babies, that are still not connected to the general society. There is a connection, of course, but a baby and the general society, humanity, what connection is that? He is connected only through his mother, this is what's important, so we’re not really required to be connected to each other and then the Creator, but bit by bit we have to understand that everything we receive, even if you don't feel it, we get it through the center of the 10. And everything we want to turn to the Creator, even if we are not doing it yet correctly, we still turn to the Creator through the center of the 10. This is how it turns out. Even if you don't understand and don't know yet and if we are not organized properly yet. This is called, “the Creator will finish the work for me”.
Reading Shamati 61 (50:34 - 51:16)
28. S. (51:31) What should the 10 ask for a friend who has problems with their livelihood and health?
R. Only that the Creator will tend to him treat him thanks to the 10 and promote him. Everything that we reveal along the way, we reveal it in order to advance to the purpose of creation and the only response we need to that is to ask for advancement and as a result of the advancement these things should disappear, because we clear our Kli our vessel and the vessel becomes more advanced and becomes more correct.
29. S. (52:29) So the punishment is that the person feels sorrow that comes from the Creator is about the disconnection?
R. We need to keep reading the excerpts because I see that everything I hear now is drifting from the topic.
Excerpt 9 (53:00 - 54:21) Twice
30. R. In other words we don't need to ask the Creator to take away the suffering from us but rather to bring us closer to Him to take us closer to Him in equivalence of form, and then this prayer when we ask will help our correction and the general correction of the group and reality much more than what we go through with the punishment. Some people like to suffer and they think that by suffering they make the world corrected. They put themselves in trouble in all kinds of things. There is this masochism, when they think that by this they are saving the world and making the world better. It is a lie, by this they only increase the ego. Only the evil inclination is happy about this when a person does this. Instead we have to yearn for the good, to feel good, to justify from the bottom of our hearts with all of our vessels we have to justify the Creator as the good who does only good, and in that way advance.
31. S. (55:47) How should we justify the Creator?
R. We ask Him to correct our vessel so over all the problems and troubles he reveals we will discover Him as the good who does good.
32.S. (57:21) A few months ago we were told that if you get a blow or bad thoughts or things that you couldn't deal with, the thing to do was to get out of yourself, stop thinking about yourself and go to the 10. Now it feels like the opposite, to stay with yourself, scrutinize, can you clarify please?
R. Do what you think you can do, if you can disconnect from yourself and enter the 10 and incorporate yourself in the 10 or you wherever you are, in the place you are in, you ask to relate to the Creator nicely as the good that does good and try to justify Him. Look what he writes your read number 9 again "when one price did the Creator, it is as though he is asking the Creator to take away from him the correction, how can a person ask the Creator to take away the correction from him because the correction it's for man's favor but the prayer when a person asks the Creator to help him, connects him to the Creator and this is a greater correction than the corrections that a person receives through feeling the punishment “Okay?
Excerpt 10 (58:32 - 59:05)
33. R. Rav Read: If the Creator gives a person a place to work the righteous are very happy that the Creator reviews deficiencies, faults. This is why they said first to the count of iniquity" it is as if they bless for the problems that the Creator shines within with his light and the person sees that he has them. It is joyous for them because they have a place to work, a place to pray because they feel the faults and the blemishes. They feel these flaws because the Creator showered them more of his life and a person feels that he has these flaws, this dirt, these stains. In other words, now they have become needy of the Creator because they see the flaws and can now come into close contact with the Creator. It turns out that the problems in suffering that the Creator awakens in a person, a righteous, a person who wants to justify the Creator loves them, those problems and troubles. It is called "kissing the stick" because in this way you turn to the Creator and he doesn't accept, it doesn't relate to these blows as suffering, as afflictions but not as suffering but as a token of a special relation. You know, there is this, boys behave this way at school with girls. You know that if you like a specific girl then you pinch her or you go grab her by the hair or something. So where does this come from? Because this is how we want to get their attention as if through all kinds of unpleasant things, it is a flirt and what is a flirt? How do you connect? How do you achieve connection? In every connection, you have a collision, a friction as a result so out of this Baal HaSulam explains that you continue until you come to such a connection that these connections become the fire of love and they bring joy and development and the birth of a new Partzuf. We need to understand that when the Creator awakens us, because we are part Malchut and He is the man and we are the women. He awakens us in this way so we will pay attention to Him and relate to Him to be ready for His bestowal.
34. S. (01:03.06) How can we connect the states correctly between corporeality and spirituality?
R. We don't need to. We should take examples from corporeality as we sometimes do and not more but the connection between the two worlds we cannot establish for now, don't do it otherwise it will only confuse us.
35. S. (01:03:41) Joy from the sorrow, from the hurtful place, is this a personal one but the prayer is already of the whole ten?
R. The sorrow can also be impersonal but what I get I usually get that I awaken from within me into the 10 to the Creator. In other words, there are troubles that each of us receives even though they are felt as personal troubles. We want to turn them into an asset that we receive through society, the upper light for them and in that way we promote everyone.
S. How does this transition occur?
R. This transition is because we are in a 10 which is a Partzuf and if in the environment a deficiency is revealed that deficiency has to be felt in the whole 10 through our work, through our efforts and then we turn out of that deficiency to the Creator either a person alone or we can work on it as a 10 and then accordingly we receive from above and intensification of the reforming light the light of Correction.
S. On the next degree of coarseness does the process repeat itself or is it more clarified?
R. The process continues until the end of correction but in bigger and bigger ways, but it repeats itself.
Excerpt 11 (01:05:53 - 01:06:52)
36. R. This is beautiful and clear to us especially when a person finds that he is not really satisfied in the Creator's world but that he understands he is still under the guidance of providence and even though he is not happy with this guidance, he is still does not disconnect him from the Creator but meaning the suffering that he feels still don't disconnect him from the Creator but to be thankful for this affliction, he might be unable to, it is less than the highest degree when he turns the affliction, it is called turning his enemy into his friend.
Reader continues: “Although he does not order any condemned words....”
R. What is important is what we feel in the heart in terms of words we are all righteous.
“Has the title wicked for when he feels some pain....”
R. Even inside he doesn't order anything from his mouth or even behaves like a righteous great person in adhesion with the Creator perhaps it all depends upon the feeling in the heart.
“As it is written it is expressed in the feeling itself....”
R. Outside of a person, meaning who is righteous and who is wicked no one knows.
“Even if he utters a blessing it is akin to flattery…”
R. Meaning he deceives himself and he deceives others.
“Like a landlord who is beating his servants while the servant....”
R. Yes because you can't feel something inside and externally behave otherwise, in the end what is important is for the person to try to work more on the internal correction.
Reading Continues...
R. Even though he initially receives them in the opposite way but he inverts himself, corrects himself and constantly tries to justify the Creator from within
“He is in constant pleasure and for this reason....”
R. It's not enough that the Creator created a good world for him, He constantly gives you bad opportunities so that the person will correct them and bless the Creator more and more each time.
“He certainly does not need to explicitly utter the words....”
R. We cannot feel that a person is righteous or wicked. According to the person it is not something that is evident that's visible. This is why the wisdom of Kabbalah is called the wisdom of the hidden because it just hidden from others and even the person himself.
“This is why he is called righteous because he justifies creation feeling it....”
R. But this he, himself knows, if he knows. Sometimes there are such states, that he is righteous and doesn't know he is righteous because he cannot reveal the results of his efforts sufficiently.
37. S. (01:11:35) If I experienced a situation, let's say a health issue does this mean that the Creator is contacting me and that I have to hold on to this connection raising a prayer for correction through the 10?
R. There are internal spiritual states and these we bring to the examination as changes of our connection in the society, meaning in the 10. There are states that are revealed in us as states in the family, at work, health, health wise, etc. Corporeal states, material \ones from the level of this world to them we have to relate differently. Meaning the doctor was given permission to heal. We should try to correct as much as we can on the corporeal level and in that way advance. Meaning we should distinguish between the spiritual and corporeal world as much as we can. I would go with Rabash to the doctor about once a week, an eye doctor, an ear nose or mouth, skin doctor, a skin doctor, all kinds of things, especially since he was an elderly person, He was over 80. Today there are many more people like that but in those days there were few. All of the treatments that the doctor gave him, he did them. He followed the doctor's orders. Do you think that you can get better advice from a better doctor? No problem. You can do that but in the end you get the recipe, the prescription, from the doctor and with this prescription you treat yourself, He did it meticulously.
38. S. (01:14:45) It is said that the friends’ corporeality is my spirituality but why should we ask for the friend to come out of this prison if this is the means through which he can come closer to the Creator?
R. We already spoke exactly about that in except number 9, that the blows or the prayer both are corrections but the prayer corrects more.
39. S. (01:15:43) What did you mean by recommending to your students to separate corporeality and spirituality as much as possible?
R. That we still need to understand there are spiritual problems which are a person and his 10 and the Creator and the correction of the world and there are corporeal problems. They too belong to it but on a different level. We need to nonetheless see what to tend to more, what to tend to less. We are still not in a situation that everything that comes to us is corporeal or spiritual it is all corrections. We still can't be all of those things with the same approach. I see according to the questions that you ask, so I am saying to distinguish between the two. What I have to do in the 10 there is no argument about that this comes first and whatever is revealed as we feel it at home, at work, in the world in general that's is another level.
40. S. (01:17:08) It might be that all of the suffering occurs only because we cannot unite in the 10?
R. In the end all of our corrections of each and every one stem from a flaw that exists in each one's personal Kli vessel but to the extent that he is not organized in the 10 because you need to understand when we are connected together in Adam HaRishon we had no problems, we were collected and there was no problem between us. Once we separated through the breaking of the Kli, of the vessel, from this we get all of the problems and therefore we are trying to restore our connection with all kinds of connections so as to bring ourselves back to the corrected state. Therefore, we do all kinds of connections and other 10s do it and in that way we approach the general correction.
41. S. (01:18:40) Regarding separating in the 10 between corporeality and spirituality, we recently have had many cases in our society, that friends are having all kinds of disturbances, friends are sick, their children are sick, there are problems in the family, and many other problems. So on a regular basis we have a prayer that includes them. The question is, should the daily prayer of the 10 focus on them at all?
R. Yes of course, we also see it in our general prayers, for the righteous, for those and those.... and for the world and the whole collective and for us, we come last. We are asking for corrections, we turn to the Creator.
S. What should we pray for that the blow will pass away or that the person will respond correctly?
R. Not that the blow will pass away but that we will connect above the blow, we want to kiss the blow, and above the blow to connect so that the blow it's coarseness that's been revealed now will be corrected and on top of it we will build our higher spiritual state.
S. What about the blow itself. Let's say an illness, should the prayer also be that the friend will be healthy, to pray for his healing?
R. It is all corrections, where's the excerpt,
S. Except number one is about this.
R. Let's go back to this. It's all corrections
R. Rav reads Excerpt 1 again : All the illnesses I placed in Egypt I will not place on you before I am the Lord your healer, our stages asked if I did not place the illness what is the need for the healer, in turn we should interpret that if I am the healer why should I place on you the illness if I have to heal the illness what do I gain from this it must be for a punishment and if I must heal the illness what kind of punishment is it, it is as though I work for nothing, for this reason I will not place illness upon you says the Creator and what you think is illness you are wrong about it …. Rather all of the states that you feel if you attribute them to me says the Creator they are all corrections by which you will approach me in adhesion. In other words, it all depends upon our relation to every single blow.
S. Besides describing the illness to the Creator, should we ask for health?
R. That depends on a person's level. For now, yes, ask for help, peace, unity, whatever you want in the end, turning to the Creator if it is correct, it summons the connection between us and all of the flaws enter it as corrected coarseness. This is how we build the spiritual Partzuf.
42. S. (01:22:28) I wanted to know if the feeling of suffering and pain is this still an expression of the ego?
R. Yes. This is correct.
43. S. (01:23:04) Briefly, going to the doctor, isn't this an attempt to turn what the Creator did seemingly inverted? Doesn't it bother the Creator if I go to the doctor?
R. No, a person should go to the doctor, a certified doctor, an important grade doctor in medicine, not to all kinds of alternative medicine, holistic medicine. What is acceptable in the general medicine world conventional medicine and get medicine from him, get a prescription from him and take the medicine. This is what he needs to do.
S. The topic of the doctor, you give us an example but every time we get the blow in our corporeality to a certain extent we need to try to resolve this, if you have an economical problem, you go to the bank, take a loan. If you have a health problem, you go to the doctor. If I have a problem with my spouse, I need to resolve that. So the question is when I try to resolve these blows that the Creator gave me isn't it by this am I not seemingly trying to invert and undo what the Creator did?
R. No, What does he write about it? In short, we have to do everything we have to do in corporeality and at the same time pray to the Creator with all of our faith in confidence that everything is in the hands of the Creator. It is from the letter "when a person goes out to the market. It's 17 or 18 by Baal HaSulam where they go to the market. So we need to do both and do it with certainty that both are important, a person should accept this because it's still not in complete faith.
44. S. (01:26:18) What is a correction through prayer?
R. It is when in addition to what we have to do in corporeality we have to position ourselves correctly toward the Creator with a plea to Him so that all of those negative things that are revealed because I am corrupted because all who fault in their own fault, when I correct myself within, I will see that around me there is only the Shechina, divinity, it dresses in reality everyone is serving the Creator, everyone is a complete righteous. Therefore along with trying to be in corporeal corrections I also have to pray to the Creator and ask him for spiritual corrections.
45. S. (01:27:34) Baal HaSulam wrote in the excerpt that when a person says something it is one thing but what is most important is what is in his heart so I wanted to scrutinize to which degree did Baal HaSulam write this because as long as I have been studying, I haven't discovered, I'm saying what I am saying its clear but in the heart it is clear. So I would like to scrutinize for which degree did Baal HaSulam write it? For what kind of a person was this written? We read it and it and seemingly it was written for a person of a higher degree? For a person who has to be truly in spirituality then his mouth and his heart are equal.
R. This comes at each level to a certain extent, try to be each time in the situation we're at least to some extent. In a situation where your heart and your mouth are equal.
46. S. (01:28:57) Why is it that when we speak about suffering and pain all of the friends see only the fear that comes out of their own ego but they can't see the Creator?
R. It is for lack of connection in the 10 because you're not connected in the 10.
47. S. (01:29:28) If we connect on a daily basis, with the 10 and raise a prayer, why do we keep getting blows? Is there a way to avoid these blows?
R. If you are connected in the 10, each time more and more and you search how to connect more each time if you reveal it's called, ‘I Awaken the dawn and the dawn doesn't awaken me"' and then you will never feel the blows. You will see that your desire is what determines. It's like a little child taking a grown-up, pulling him, to follow him to something that the little boy wants the grown-up to help him with, it all depends on the connection in the 10.
Letter 16 by Baal HaSulam is read
48. R. Yes you can see these things in many places. This should be our attitude.
49. S. (01:31:30) Today, in preparation for the lesson we had a workshop question. What can you help us with? How to be concerned in the 10 that with all the questions we can turn straight to the Creator?
R. That you would want to direct the 10 this way to the Creator, that's it. If the 10 always thinks about the place of connection between them, they need to focus on it so much that to the point that they feel the Creator there. That the quality, Bore, come and see, appears in the center of the 10.
50. S. (01:32:30) Righteous is one who justifies the creation and feels it as it really is. What does it mean as it really is?
R. As it is truly arranged in an ideal way that there is no flaw and there is no cruelty in the palace of the King. It is all the upper light filling up all the vessels.
S. So the righteous can change perception of reality?
R. One who changes his perception of reality is called righteous that is how he justifies the Creator.
S. Ok, can we attain righteous in our 10?
R. Of course.
S. How?
R. Try to justify the friends. By that you come to the degree of a righteous.
S. So, I grab the whole 10 or someone individually?
R. No, You will be righteous if you justify the 10.
S. So towards each and every one?
R. Towards everyone together.
S. Together
R. Yes, then you will feel that it's not all of them, it's the creator himself.
S. So all as one.
R. All as one, Yes
51. S. (01:33:47) If the Creator sends me all the feelings, everything that I feel. What does it mean to be in a feeling of None Else Besides Him?
R. That you'll discover that there is no other force working in reality besides the Creator
Excerpt 11 (01:37:24 - 01:38:22)
52. R. He awakened the person through all the corruptions and corrections to the state of the adhesion because it's impossible to discover any state besides through its oppositeness, from bad to good that's the only way. Otherwise a person wouldn't even feel the state. Therefore, the Creator created the good state, the final state first, and then He had to shatter it, to break it and build all of these degrees by which a person will fall and rise and thus, as we learn in the wisdom of Kabbalah, that first there is the world of Ein Sof, then from the world of Ein Sof we begin to develop the degrees that go down and down all the way to this world and in this world with discover ourselves and how were born how we develop how we exist and so on and then bit by bit we begin to rise back up to the same degrees as we were created in the descent of all of reality and then we rise through our own efforts up to all these degrees and that's why it's called levels of attainment. Until we once again reach the state of adhesion that existed to begin with. This is called and you ate what was always there.
53. S. (01:40:07) How to increase the desire to adhere to the Creator?
R. Only by the society. We cannot make a jump by ourselves from a small desire to a great desire. The Creator sometimes awakens us this way even without being in a group but that's his awakening, it's only to stir us up to awaken us but all the corrections are about how we build the 10 and how we build the Partzuf. It is impossible to do any spiritual action unless we do it by further and further connection each time. This is the primary issue, the problem. This is where our evil inclination, our ego is activated and that’s the only thing it doesn't let us do and more than that we don't need to do.
S. When we feel a blow, usually we forget that the whole process is connected to the Creator. Should everyone prepare like a plan, an emergency state or should a 10 prepare such a plan?
R. No, we don't need so much a plan of action we receive from each lesson plan for the day and we need to repeat the lesson even several times a day from different angles and observe it realize it and study it and try between us so that it doesn't just enter each one of us but that it will enter between us, that we feel each day how through the lesson through how much we observed the lesson, perceive the lesson, by that we become more Incorporated together. That's our daily work
Excerpt 12 (01:42:54 - 01:45:31) Twice
54. R. That all the bad things that he receives are obviously from the Creator. The Creator reveals that they are mercy because the Creator wants to bring the person closer and it is impossible to do that besides by revealing the shattering that was created in the sin of Adam HaRishon, the general soul and now the when the person performs the corrections, when he accepts them correctly, the truth is that the creator performs the corrections, but a person needs to be present in that. He needs to see all the flaws and all the actions that the Creator does on him and thus He heals him. The person only needs to ask that these corrections will happen to him to his 10 as increasing connections until he finds a more and more complex and intricately connected vessel and thereby he finds the Creator who is there.
55. S. (01:46:42) Did I understand correctly that all the corporeal problems are given only for us to tighten the connection with the Creator, above reason and they don't point on a specific deficiency that we should correct, as just to justify him in each state?
R. That is correct, but just to justify you need to go through all of the corrections, even the corporeal ones in that you turn to the doctor if you have to, and the doctor doesn't have to be a Kabbalist or anything. It doesn’t matter. The doctor is given the right to heal. We still have to learn, what is the connection between a soul and our physical body? Some doctor who has nothing to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah or anything and still he can do a correction that the Creator performs his correction through a certain person. We were going to have to see the whole system and how it unfolds to all of us.
S. We say that everything comes from the Creator, if I feel inside that I just can't justify him, that I feel pain so we say that it also comes from Him, so where am I?
R. Of course, anything that you have to begin with comes from the Creator but your response to this, bit by bit starting from the response of your little beast to the response that you are making as a human it goes through changes and that's where you enter your corrections and then you become a partner, you called a partner of the Creator to the correction.
Excerpt 13 (01:49:03 - 01:49:57)
56. R. Meaning we have to begin with happiness but this is the matter of the group and how great is the group or the world group, to give us that confidence that everything that happens, happens from the Creator and it certainly for the better and the Creator gives us an understanding of how we need to relate correctly to each and every state and correct it of course with His force but with our plea on our part and that's how we advance. Meaning, we don't have so much to do here besides asking the Creator to correct what He awakens in us. We altogether just connect ourselves to the Creator on top of the disease meaning on top of the recognition of the evil, more and more. We connect with each other and with the Creator by that and we go through the degrees of connection between us and the degrees of adhesion with the Creator, Is that clear? That's our work. All-in-all if a person aims to that and he knows that this is what he is facing, there is nothing else. He's already in the right direction and he's going to be a complete righteous which means that all the disturbances the Creator awakens can justify creation.
57. S. (01:51:40) My 10 is asking, when exactly do we understand that when we are in the 10?
R. When you build the 10 practices between you. It doesn't come to you from above. Look at what's written in the article " The Freedom' about free choice. The Creator takes a person’s hand and puts it on the good faith and says take it and the rest depends on the person, otherwise we won't have free choice. We won't have the ability to increase our degree 620 times more. We're like an embryo in a womb, like a drop of sperm in the womb and this embryo that grows and then detaches from the womb and grows outside the Creator until we reach the level of the Creator. We have to go through this entire process and all of it happens in the connection with the group. The Creator gives us various disturbances and by this disturbances, we discover ourselves more connected to each other and that's how we grow and these disturbances that appear they are different in quality and in quantity and in different angles and aspects and we want to connect above the disturbances it's like a baby that's already is born outside of the mother starts growing and growing making all of these corrections. That's it. We just have to be more and more connected. All the corrections are all about connection.
58. S. (01:54:05) According to what I understand, all the evil in me is just my attitude towards my friend?
R. Yes.
S. What is the connection between corporeal blows to the evil between me and the friends? What kind of connection is it?
R. Corporal blows you feel through your beast and corruptions between the friends you need to feel in your soul but you don't sense it yet, that's why you don't pay attention to that.
S. So the correction I do on corporeal blows when I justify them is that that corrects my evil towards the friends?
R. Yes.
S. How can I locate that evil myself without getting the blows?
R. Without suffering blows, it depends on how you treat those signs of awakening the Creator sends you. If you are connected to the friends, connected to the material that you study, then you need to accept everything that's happening to you in the right way, in the correct way, because the Creator also works according to what we study in the lessons. If you monitor certain things that happened to you in life, you'll be amazed to see how what's happening to you in life and what you are studying the lessons suddenly connect. There is such a connotation between them in a way as though the upper providence awakens you to repeat the morning lesson.
S. If I fall to corporeal blows that means I have fallen behind, right?
R. Yes.
59. S. (01:56:16) What does it mean that corruption hasn't been revealed?
R. Corruptions in the system of the soul coming from the shattering of Adam HaRishon that still doesn't appear in us because we are still not capable of working on them yet.
60. S. (1:56:38) Does the Kabbalist feel the response of his beast too, right?
R. Of course.
S. And it could be that you can’t justify the Creator there, it suffers?
R. It suffers. Interesting that this suffering too, you have to go through it and you need to try and go through it by adhesion and that depends on what state you are in.
S. So what's your advice to help us connect from the suffering from this beastly human degree?
R. Whatever doctors can do they should do and what they can’t that is what you leave for the Creator because He wants this to be corrected through suffering because you still can't correct it spiritually like we read now either by blows or by prayer. So how it ends up for the person, but Baal HaSulam himself said that the suffering that a person goes through before death should not be waived, there is a great correction in them too. We will learn that I'm not hiding anything. We just have to be ready to accept these things correctly and not to just shut our eyes like little kids and say we don't want to see it.
S. So before the next excerpt what is this action he is explaining here, that you put your eyes on them and they become a pile of bones?
R. Because everything depends on a person's attitude to the problems that arise. If he understands that it comes from the Creator in order to awaken a true prayer within a person and they then turn into a pile of bones
S. So if the disturbances don’t turn into a pile of bones you didn't correct it?
R. Then there was no correction, he didn't make a correction.
Excerpt 14 (01:59:03 - 02:01:50) Twice
60. S. (02:02:03) In this generation we have a lot of people, including some of us students who deal with trauma and hurt from the past. It could be a thing that happened in our upbringing at home or in the world. Would you say that we are getting blows from childhood? Do you advise us, as students, to visit a psychologist, psychiatrist to address our blows in childhood we can't comprehend?
R. I can't recommend anything to you here because I don't go specifically into your personal problems, it's not my job and a person needs to, according to how we understand, he needs to weigh what his problem is about, whether going to the doctor. so that go into the framework of the doctor has the right to heal or whatever case it is, also treat it the way the wisdom of Kabbalah recommends. One doesn’t cancel the other, there is this and there is that separately. There is the level of the beast, our body with all its phenomena and there is the soul and all the forces in it and we need to correct both. Because we depend on both for the meantime in our reality. We have a body and we have a soul, so treat the body with the doctor, treat the soul with the Creator, that’s it. Because the Creator Himself says the doctor has the right to heal meaning he delegated the authority to the doctor to take care of your body and in that authority lies his force, the Creator's force. But he gave that to the doctor and so the authorized doctor, doesn't matter who is, he could be African, American, Australian or South American, it doesn't matter who it is, if it is a doctor that's been generally relied upon by ordinary people then you can go and be treated by him, that's how we understand from the wisdom of Kabbalah. Now with regards to what the medicine can treat, you're not supposed to go and pray, you could do that but not instead of going to the doctor to get treatment.
61. S. (02:05:25) Excerpt 14 that we just read, Baal HaSulam writes this to us, people who study Kabbalah or for everyone?
R. This is for those who study. All of these excerpts are for us.
Excerpt 15 (02:05:57 - 02:10:03)
62. R. (02:08:16) Meaning the period or the states where we see ourselves as harmed, as corrupted as not organized, weak, dumb, criminals. It is states that we must go through and it must be revealed upon us, yes.
Continue Reading Excerpt 15
63. R. We are going to learn it from all kinds of excerpts. We also learn that the Creator gives us blows and by that He cures us, he repeats that same principle. Gradually we'll digest it, we are just learning now how we should relate to it.
Excerpt 16 (02:10:28 - 02:13:08) Twice
64. S. (02:13:11) You said in the lesson that when a person has individual problems like let’s say health care, so in corporeality he needs to go to the doctor because the doctor has the right to heal. If something is broken he needs to find an expert to fix it. But people have many problems with regards to their relationships, like men and women, women and men, building a family and family relationships, also complex problems, so on a corporeal level what's the right approach to solve these? Who is the expert in corporeality here? Are these psychologists or does this topic completely depend on Kabbalah?
R. We're only speaking about our friends and not regular people in the world that we can't recommend anything for them, they also won't accept what we will start explaining to them, it will be very unusual to them. But our friends, we have two things, first of all whatever you can take care about externally, do it. In a regular way like in our world and the rest of the things we have to take care of it in a spiritual way and it doesn't belong to one another, it's two paths the doctor has the right to heal and that's one thing and the second is to going to the group and by increasing the connection in the group, try and bring the upper light on all the friends in such a way that He will take care of all the flaws spiritual and corporeal.
65. S. (02:15:41) The person always feels his suffering much more than he feels the suffering of the friends, even if it's just a little suffering like a pain in the finger and when a person ties his suffering to the Creator well that somehow helps alleviate the front suffering?
R. You have to do everything you can.
Excerpt 18 (02:16:54 - 02:18:33) Twice
66. R. I felt that it is starting to take strength out of people so we're left with the usual that ask at the end of the lesson, let's check that they're here.
67. S. ( 02:19:02) It was said that the intention is that the Creator makes a decree meaning it takes away the pleasure of the work and there is no harsher degree than that. What does it mean that there is no greater, the degree and that?
R. Because by this the Creator doesn't let a person discern between what's close or far from him, what's good or bad that's why the degree meaning He doesn't aim us in the right direction or maybe by this decree works he does aim us, we need to see what kind of the cry works and what was cancelled.
Excerpt 19 (02:20:02 - 02:20:45)
68. R. Meaning the moment the person wants to come closer to the Creator he needs to feel relief and support in this.
69. S. (02:20:55) We heard a bigger direction about the lesson and during the day that what happens in life connects to what we study in the lesson as if the higher providence awakens you to repeat the lesson. Now in our path we have different means to repeat the morning lesson, in the meetings and dissemination. I want to put it in order because I know some friends are confused by that. What's the priority there? If a friend has limited time, what should he do - disseminate or repeat the lesson?
R. I cannot determine these things but you need this and that. I don’t know how to divide this, also in every 10 you have friends that are more available or less available, you have those that are in their work they are disseminating. There are all kinds, also they are busy in this or that, I can't say. You need to understand that the morning lesson for us has to get into our life, has to be inside the feelings between us, into our connection, and our perception, that is what the lessons have to be, they are actual spiritual lessons, that we need to build ourselves around each one and all of us together. In the connection in one 10. So whoever doesn’t feel this, doesn’t for now, but let's pray that everybody feels it.
70. S. (02:23:00) We read in Excerpt 18, a person says that he doesn't want to work for any livelihood or pleasure then the decrease is cancelled by itself. What is the fuel for a person to work in that way?
R. Greatness of the 10 and in it the greatness of the Creator that's his fuel. Envy, lust and honor takes a person out of his world into the spiritual world. It's all expressed by the influence of the environment on the person.
S. But it's already a reward: envy, lust and honor, meaning a person receives a certain energy?
R. We think we are not using this energy, we don't use the will to receive, it depends for what purpose. Are you making angels out of us? Angels are on the degree of Bina. We are not disconnecting from Malchut. We’re the created beings, that's why when they say about you that you're an angel so that's not a good thing. That's why as we see in the Zohar the righteous are full of transgressions, that's why they come to the degree of righteous.
71. S. (02:24:44) Are all the sufferings already embedded in the Reshimot and under what conditions can we accelerate the advancement of the soul?
R. Let's leave all these questions. I don't see that there is the concentration like we had before. Let's leave all these questions for later.
WSQ: For now summarize between you what you have attained today and how we need to implement these things daily please.