Morning Lesson February 14, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 3:
Everything is Obtained by the Power of Prayer - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #3
Reading Excerpt #3 Twice
1. S. (01:54) In some states one really enjoys receiving in order to receive, how can we bring ourselves to ask to come out of that?
R. By the environment, read the articles and see how it is written like that. Only by the environment. The means between on the intention to receive and on the intention to bestow to work in the environment or in the society.
2. S. (02:19) The prayer is the work of the heart that’s clear. You said in part of the preface when we raise MAN that’s our prayer, so how do these two things, combine, both the prayer in the heart and also raising MAN, what we are learning in the preface?
R. Because in the raising of MAN you are also requesting of the Creator to help you beyond the intention to bestow.
S. If we talk about the situation in Ukraine, in Russia, it is a catastrophic state. You're afraid of World War three.
R. I request that you please do not confuse us.
S. Isn’t it related to it?
R. Look, you are not in your work now where you deal with all sorts of systems.
S. That's not what I'm asking, how can we pray?
R. I do not agree to talk about this during the lesson. There are times when we agree to speak about this, but we did not agree to speak about this.
3. S. (03:24) What is the great work to invert the will to receive?
R. In order to be on the intention to bestow in order that He will agree that we will bend Him more.
S. Why is it called great work?
R. It is not a great work that we want to use with the will to receive in order to bestow? How can that be? Just give me an example that someone uses his will to receive in order to bestow to somebody. It is only by love. Only by love that you love someone and this someone can be dearer to you then using your will to receive for yourself and then you can bestow to him. It is in an ordinary earthly manner and in spirituality you need upper light, the upper force that can give you the ability to relate to someone foreign, in a manner that he is dearer to you than you yourself. That you will feel him closer to yourself then you do yourself. Then you will be able to bestow to him as that is truly bestowal.
4. S. (05:11) It means that this is hard work. Is this an attempt when you try and try until you make it, and nothing happens until you reach some real nerves when you're exploding from your stomach to the Creator?
R. Yes that you need to reach exactly, that you need to reach. From this explosion in your belly and your gut.
5. S. (05:50) Our environment affects us. What should we be cautious about so that we do not aim our environment wrongly?
R. All the time to think, how to raise the friends, how to bring them closer to the Creator, and then you will be carried after them.
Reading Item 4 (06:21) Twice
6. R. (09:04) Meaning he is not requesting for himself, any payment, any reward, any gifts, raising degrees, nothing. Just want to be above reason meaning to be in bestowal only.
7. S. (09:19) A request of happiness, meaning what are you asking for from the Creator?
R. That I request of the Creator only to do bestowal without any payment for this, nothing. Just that it will be from me outwards, actions of bestowal. That for me is the payment the gift that will be the greatest reward possible.
S. That is called happiness gladness?
R. From this I am happy that I have such a desire. Why not?
S. Why not that is clear, because the body resisted.
R. I am requesting despite the opposition of the body to have force to engage only and bestowal.
S. Yesterday you gave a friend from Turkey to follow the Kabbalists’ advice with happiness, with a desire. Is there something a person should do to start coming closer to the state of agreement?
R. I think we read about this in every place. Just each one from the question that arises in him can find advice how to continue the work after the question that arises in him.
8. S. (11:05) Why do we need all of these endless entries and exits, all these ascents and descents, why not do it all at once?
R. That is exactly what is needed. You are right one hundred percent. Ask from the depths of your heart and you will have no problem, try. Let's go.
S. But again, here it happens.
R. If you will request properly all the way with all of your desire to turn it entirely all on the intention to bestow you will not have anything after that. You will immediately rise to the end of correction if you request on your whole desire. Try it and then later tell us how it worked out for you in one shot.
Reading Excerpt #5 (12:15) Twice
9. S. (14:14) When we talk about ascents and descents, are we talking about the ascents and descents of the importance of the will to bestow on our eyes?
R. Of course with respect to this we are measuring either ascents or descents. How much it is important for us to be together in an ascent or descent and it doesn't matter exactly what state we are in; the main thing is together. Because it could be that we are together and more below, and thus we are benefiting from this a lot more and giving the Creator a lot more contentment then when we are above, and then fall. The main thing for us is to be together, to unite our prayers from all the hearts into one heart truly and to turn with it to the Creator. We want that the Creator will see what is in our hearts and that they shall be as one heart and if not, then he shall help us to be as one heart. That is what we need.
10. S. (15:45) What does it mean to do everything for the sake of the Creator if we do not receive from the Creator?
R. You will turn to Him and by many pleas you will begin to feel Him. We have no other way to reveal Him rather than to be like nudniks, to pester Him more and more, that we need more and more to draw Him near to us until as it is written, it is said, that ‘I want’ and then He helps us. We need to request many, many times until this request connects between us and will direct ourselves to the Creator according to this request and then it will happen.
11. S. (16:56) It says in the end of this excerpt that therefore he asks the Creator to help him win the war against the evil inclination since he understands his lowliness. I do not feel I am low, so is this the condition to a prayer to address the Creator?
R. You can bestow to the friends?
S. I can set an example, and I try.
R. You make an effort to give them an example to the friends, how much you want to bestow to them?
S. Yes.
R. Nice, continue because actually we need to reach such a request that there is nothing worse than ourselves. That we reveal just how much we are not capable of bestowing and thus we return to the Creator.
S. Meaning we are supposed to remember that we are low even though we don't feel it?
R. No this will not help this game is not worth anything. We need to perform actions of bestowal and to see that we are not capable and then we turn to the Creator and request correction. In this seemingly, as if it is not very good, it is a lie, it is false.
S. In the lesson yesterday you said that when you are asking you should examine what you are asking for, because maybe you don’t know what you are asking for, like a pin to scratch your eye?
R. In this there is no question or answer. They are not infinite, rather we need to continue until there will be an end.
12. S. (19:10) Let’s say a friend feels that he is low like a bottomless pit and that he would better be off dead than alive many times, but still it does not create a sufficient request. It does not give you the strength, so what is next?
R. What is the question? Continue, continue, do more and more and check yourself, your direction. Is it accurately directed towards the goal? Are you turning to the Creator? Are you connected to the friends, are you along with them reaching some request? All of these things need scrutinies and need to be checked more and more to put all of these things together and then it will happen.
13. S. (20:20) I want to be precise here. I am performing actions of bestowal in the group and then at a certain moment I discover here that there is a corruption and I start asking, so tell us please what exactly should I ask at this moment? Should I ask for Him to correct me or to ask something about the connection? How exactly to turn to Him?
R. According to what the heart reveals. I cannot tell you my friend, rather only according to what your heart directs you.
S. Well the heart is stuck in the wall, incapable. Of course I am praying to correct it in me, but I wanted to know if this is correct?
R. That too needs to be scrutinized how much you are requesting of the Creator to correct you. That will correct not you, rather your incorporation in the friends. The prayer needs to be a prayer of the many, prayer for the many, for the ten.
14. S. (21:47) How to ask for help from the Creator without giving him advice?
R. Also that it's not so bad for talking about what we think that needs to be, but it needs to be in such a manner that also in this we are annulling our ego. That despite that this is what I want such and such, but I request of the Creator to annul for me the qualities the desires of mine that we will request correctly.
S. Should a person know that he really bestows in order to be in happiness?
R. A person needs to know that he is truly bestowing, yes. Not in order to be in joy even though I am requesting and not receiving any answer. Also from this, that I have a connection with the Creator and that I am requesting, I already need to be in joy. Thus it cannot be that we have such moments that we are not in joy. That is already a shell, a will to receive, that from it we run away.
15. S. (23:28) For the heart to be open to a prayer, what should we ask of the Creator to help the friends to open my heart?
R. Request of the Creator to open the hearts of the friends.
Thank you to the women for your participation. I'm inspired by your questions, and we see that there is great work amongst the women. It is very important for all of us.
16. S. (24:44) We ask this question, but the women of Kiev have an address to you:
Dear Rav, the situation is very tense and complicated in Ukraine. We are on the verge of war. We are asking you to help us, all of us together with the world Kli and to help us build one prayer to the Creator.
R. We can turn to the Creator everyone together, and request from everyone together. It does not matter to what part of humanity each of us belong to. That the Creator instead of making war between us, which is surely also Him doing that, that he shall make between us connection and peace and correction by connection and not correction by war. Because everything that is revealed is all corrections and thus it is written that it is all corrections. And so there we need to be in good corrections. A good Mercy is what it is called, that is what we pray for, Hassidim. It is not so understood in our prayer that we are requesting for good Mercy because Mercy is already good, right? No, Mercy is everything from above, it is Mercy, and the worst things are also Mercy. We want these corrections that will show us also that will appear to us as good Hassidim and that is what we are requesting. That we shall all in this Hassidim feel truth, the truth. Not who is more just or less just, righter, and who just wants to feel more pride of the other and wants to subjugate the other, no. We want only the truth and truth is called that the Creator shall dwell between us, among us. That we shall be connected and full of the revelation of the Creator to the created beings.
S. Tell us please, except for prayer can we do something regarding dissemination or only prayer?
R. Just a correct good prayer together and that you can advertise. Once again, it needs to be checked that it will not cause harm. If you want to write something like this then please first of all send it to: boardworldkli@gmail.com. Do not advertise such things on your own. You will maybe not be able to put things together on your own correctly and people will think that we want to confuse them or that we are just causing harm to the world, so this is how it needs to be.
17. S. (28:21) It is written in the excerpt, that you should not give advice to the Creator how He should help him, but he should annul himself. Usually I'm asking for something specific, so what is this about?
R. It is spoken about this, that you only want to subjugate yourself and not each time ask questions at the end of the lesson.