Morning Lesson Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.
Morning Lesson November 11, 2020
Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”, #7
1. Rav’s Introduction:
We wish to be in adhesion with the Creator, to discover the Creator, to be like the Creator. This is called to be Adam, similar to the Creator and because we are the opposite of him to begin with in order to nevertheless be different and similar so we are built of the will to receive and our work is to make the will to receive resemble the Creator’s will to bestow. In this work we carry out all kinds of works so that they can help us understand who we are, what are the Creator’s qualities and how we can clothe on ourselves, the thoughts and desires and behaviours like the upper force, then that way we work. This work is mainly called work in faith above reason because we exist in reason in the will to receive and we want to give the will to receive external forms which are forms of bestowal called faith therefore our work is in faith above reason, to clothe on the will to receive. On this puppet which is every one of us, every person, to clothe on it external behavior so that it would be a desire to bestow and then we actually become included with these two qualities, the will to receive inside and we must always make a restriction on it and have a screen and reflected light and through these corrections of restriction, screen and reflected light, we've been up to or similar to the will to bestow like the Creator we become similar we are Adam this is our work. Until we reach each and every of the discernments in the will to receive and we make such a restriction and screen, returning light meaning and action of bestowal upon us that awakens in us. The upper providence it shines on us a bit more and a bit more and a bit more each day a bit more each moment it's not about day and night truly each moment it shines on us for and more in order to give us another addition of the will to receive that would appear and us and which we would be able to add the form of bestowal which is called faith above reason. The quality of Binah that covers the quality of Malchut, love covers all crimes, love is the will to receive and they're covered by love. This whole method called Torah which is the method of the light how to use it correctly, it all speaks in such a way. Therefore we will try to advance today as well in that and see how we can implement it on us, to bring it as closer to understanding our feeling to the practice and this way we will advance. The work is very special kind of work called the work of the Lord, when we try to make of ourselves the image of the Creator, to become Adam, similar to the Creator and each shall help his friend, each helps the other because one cannot do any of this work especially, when we are in a stage of the general correction, of the general broken vessel called the soul of Adam HaRishon that is broken. We need to help each other because together we are in the same Kli and we need to be in it as cogwheels that depend on each other, that lead each other, that help in our emotions and our movements until we reach such reciprocal movements that no cogwheel will be disconnected from the others. That the complete connection between us and all the qualities all the desires all the thoughts and everything that he created in the way that the Creator created each one of us and all of those things, we would be connected to each other so that and none of us there would be any desire or thought or action or of any kind that is not connected to the others. So much so that I feel that I'm being operated by everyone and in that I have no free choice, my entire free choice is in that I want to be operated by everyone so that everyone will activate meet, whatever they need I want to be devoted to them up to soul devotion completely devoted to them and this is how it is with everyone at least in the ten. Then by that we will start to feel how between us exists this force the one unique and unified, called the Creator. We actually have built him in the connection between us, we discover him. He was hidden between us. He was in exile and we bring him, from him, from the exile, we discover him and that way we and him are already in a single state. He is the first. He established that first state. He had accompanied us throughout all of the corrections, we discover him as a result of the corrections and he is the last and all of the actions that we perform, we performed them precisely in the way that he wants to activate us, now we activate ourselves through our own will as a result of the correction. This is why it is considered that we reach keeping the commandments and the Creator's desires and the Creator's commandments or you might call them the laws of nature. As a result of that the force that exists, in it is revealed, the desire that founded it, that keeps it called the Creator himself. Let us do such exercises that are called faith above reason that we would like to crown the force of bestowal above the force of reception and for it to exist inside the connection between us. Let's read.
Excerpt 8 Shamati 19 Baal HaSulam Reader (8:47 - 12:50)
2. WSQ: How do I not forget about the fact that the will to receive that awakens in me constantly, it is the Creator who is awakening it as he admits it, He says, “I've created the evil inclination” and therefore whatever awakens in me, it's from the Creator. My whole will to receive, all the evil in me that pushes me to all kinds of things, draws me to all kinds of actions, is in my life, confuses my mind, makes me weaker in each and every good thing and pulls me to each and every bad thing this is why it is called the evil inclination. Evil means outside of the purpose of life, the purpose of a creation, what I need to achieve. I was born in order to reach a certain result and each and every one has his own inner program according to the will to receive that is in him. Which form does he need to reach, because from his final corrected form I was in it as a part of Adam HaRishon prior to the sin and I fell through the will to receive, I disconnected from my place in the system of Adam HaRishon and now I am unconscious. I don't even know what I'm doing exactly right now, so I need to wake up. This is called we were as dreamers so to awaken to recover and to find my place to get to know my place in the general system of Adam HaRishon you know precisely what is it that I need to do there. How I should be in connected with the entire system and when I think about it, the will to receive comes and it constantly draws me and it hinders me from entering this work taking my place in the system of Adam HaRishon, reaching what we call the root of my soul so what do I do? When the Creator comes and he says I created the evil inclination. I am the one who is hindering you don't you worry there is nobody else there is none else besides Him. It is me who is hindering you from reaching this point, your true work, your true place in this eternal general system of the Soul. Why? Why do I hinder you? So that you will need my help. Why? Why? Without that I can't do it. I don't see you in my whole life. I try to do everything by myself in the spiritual work that is impossible. Why? Because in the spiritual work when I connect with the Creator, I precisely receive spiritual forces, I start to see where indeed I need to act. I start to get to know my work with others on the spiritual level and then suddenly I discover that there is a different world just like I let’s say, come to a new workplace with many people that I don't know any one of them and I don't know what they do there, this is how I start to enter a new system of the next world. Olam Haba in Hebrew means the world that is coming. Here, we need to try to discover ourselves and to start to come in to become perfected, to fit into the system. It's an internal system, a complete system. Our world exists solely for us to overcome these disturbances in order to enter that state, that world, to rise from Malchut to Binah from faith to above reason. Rav reads again: This is why he says the following: one must not be angry when he has work with a will to receive, when it obstructs him in the work of connecting with others, connecting with the Creator, seeing things correctly. One would certainly be more satisfied if the will to receive were absent from the body, if one was outside the will to receive. Meaning that it would not bring its questions to a person obstructing him in the work of observing Torah and Mitzvah. Observing Torah and Mitzvot means through light, called the reforming light called the Torah to keep actions of bestowal which are called Mitzvot, commandments. However one should believe that the obstructions I was able to receive in the work by himself he doesn't want that it also comes to him from above from the Creator. What is given the force to discover the will to receive from above, he starts to get to know it more and more because there is room to work precisely when the will to receive awakens in a person. What work? For one to have close contact with the Creator specifically if with the will to receive that obstruct one is drawn to discover that the force that is working on him, who is working on me how can I overcome against the will to receive and come into contact with him and then one has close contact with the Creator specifically on top of the hindrance, the disturbance. For the Creator to help him turn the will to receive in a person so it will be in order to bestow. So that we would be able to get hold of the Creator and be in a mutual connection with him and one must believe that from this extends contentment to the Creator. That he wants to get hold of him and he tries and he cannot and he searches for how to do it and he turns to the Creator with the group through the friends until he reaches a certain hold of the Creator. Just like a baby gets hold of the mother, to be constantly connected with her, called my friend from he's praying to him to the Creator to draw him near in the matter of adhesion meaning that he wants to be adhered to the Creator. He realizes to get a hold of the Creator, gripping the Creator is only possible on the condition that he will be similar to him. As much as the Creator yearns for the person, so that person should yearn for the Creator and that tendency, this adhesion is called equivalence of form. “I to my beloved and my beloved to me.” This is what it is called discerned as the annulment of the will to receive for oneself so that it will be in order to bestow. Bestowal to the Creator through the group, the friends. This is how I establish my will to bestow and the Creator says about this, if we overcome the fact that he's giving us all kinds of barriers, of problems, of confusions, says my sons have defeated me. That is he said I gave you the will to receive and you asked me to give you a will to bestow instead so we need to be in a struggle in a fight with this force of nature called the Creator so that everything that we see goes against the connection between us and with the Creator. We have to overcome it until we feel that the Creator says, as Kabbalists are revealing, to that he says my sons have defeated me. He then understands that all of the forces of rejection that he creates within us that he shows in us from on the side of nature, on the side of everyone and that there's none else besides Him he is doing it, He is doing it only in order for us to grow and to overcome and whatever he's showing us these forces of concealment, forces of rejection, these forces are not more than whatever we can overcome. Do not say that these forces are great. They are precisely according to our ability to overcome them and to discover the Creator and bestow to him in spite of these forces of rejection. Rather the problem is that we need to connect between us to gather all of these forces of mutual bestowal together and then we can bestow to him in such a manner and such intensity that we will feel who was the one who was hindering us and he was obstructing us in order to grow, to overcome the rejections, be grown-ups in equivalence like him. The most important thing is to understand between us that even now right now at the moment that we exist, also what is hindering us is that we are not performing, meeting all of the conditions all of the elements that the Creator is establishing for us. If we would gather all of these things correctly ourselves, our forces, our thoughts, altogether then for sure even right now we would discover that the Creator was the one who was hindering us and now he is revealed and together with us in the connection between us. How do we reach that? In practice right here, right now? Let's talk about this, what do we have in we have everything, the knowledge, the guidelines, the disturbances, it all exists. However we need to organize all of these elements that we have in us so go ahead a workshop, how do we organize them in such a way that indeed we can bestow to the Creator to the extent that he in return will be revealed through our attitude towards him? He has an attitude from him toward us and we only need to organize our attitude, our relation from us to him and to the extent that we can even to some extent resemble his relation to us, already we are in the revelation of the Creator to us. So, go ahead. A workshop.
3. WSQ: (30:57) If we will truly succeed in a connection between us, and we will establish between us that quality of mutual bestowal like what we read is the Creator how will we feel him, how will we discover him? How will he be revealed in us? We establish the quality of bestowal between us, let's make it tangible. We are in a circle between us in the ten and we establish the mutual quality of bestowal. There is some connection, there is some force, some inner feeling between us how we are together in reciprocity, in connection, certain connection between us, how then do we discover in this connection the Creator? What does it mean that according to the equivalence of form? How is this revealed? It is revealed in the emotion, how will we discover him, what should we expect?
4. WSQ: (36:25) Our attitude to the Creator, when we position him above our will to receive, from our connection to him is called Ohr Chozer, reflected light and we need to establish it correctly. If we establish it correctly on top of the restriction, that we don't want each one to think about himself but only about the connection between us, implementing this force of connection towards the Creator. The Creator gave us an opportunity to start to bestow to each other until we reach mutual bestowal in the ten and out of this ten, with mutual bestowal we can reach bestowing to the Creator. So then, if this bestowal, this reflected light, that we want to establish towards the Creator, if it is correct, we discover in it the Creator's attitude towards us called Ohr Yashar, direct light. Then we start to discover each other to connect with each other so that the direct light dresses in the reflected light and we already start to be partners with the Creator. That way we start to develop the relationships, the relations between us and that system of relations between us in the ten and with the Creator is called a Partzuf or the Neshama, the soul. So we need to connect between us in such a way that the essence of the connection between us will be directed towards the Creator and it will be such that the Creator will be able to also be revealed in it. That is we establish out of ourselves, out of the connection between us such a state that is like the Creator, so that we can imagine him this way. This is called you have made Me, that is to the extent that we build between us such a system that is called BoReh, Creator, to that extent the Creator truly is revealed in it in such a system of relations between us. This is actually the purpose of the existence of the ten, so let us once again talk about it briefly and determine that this is what we are engaging in all the time. Go ahead please. How do we establish between us a connection so that from this connection return to the Creator and the Creator dresses in the connection between us? Already here, now, during the study and also after we separate following the lesson, he created this whole world only in order for us to be able to connect in such a way and discover him to reach adhesion with him and each and every state. So, go ahead please. How did we do it from starting now and throughout the entire day?
5. S. (42:28) How to justify the Creator but not agree with the state he's giving?
R. There's no such thing as agreeing with the Creator but not agreeing with the situation. Where does the situation come from? The situation is coming from the Creator so this is considered that you are not agreeing with him.
S. But if I justify the situation that gives me some agreement with not exerting?
R. How come, you're accepting the situation in order to exert in it, you are agreeing that the Creator is now giving you the best state for work.
6. S. (43:15) In order to do everything as you said here and now according to that order, how to build that connection between the connection between us and bestowal to Him?
R. to begin with you need to build that is the connection between you should be so that each one is relating to the other as he intends to relate to the Creator and then out of that that system of connections that you established between you is called a system of bestowal in the ten and then it gives you a force of bestowal to the Creator. The Creator is the inclusive one, the sum total of all of these bestowals between the friends.
S. Does it mean what do we expect in our connection?
R. You have nothing to wait for. We never have anything to wait for. It says that the Lord has created to do if we do that we discover. Because the Creator simply exists everywhere this hidden force, the general force of bestowal and he is revealed with a certain extent of bestowal, according to our extent of bestowal. That is all. We don't need to wait for any action from him, any action. He exists with his full force bestowing all the way to the end of correction truly in the whole of reality. We just have to establish between us reflected light, that is mutual bestowal between us in order to discover him more and more a general force of bestowal of nature called the Creator.
S. When each one thinks only about the friends and not himself, how does that reflected light clothe in us? Does it allow us to think about him, is it a lack, is it a thought?
R. I don't get into these philosophies, it only confuses me about thoughts, desire, other actions. In all of this I simply want to think only about bestowal to the friends and as much as I'm capable of, from that I built together with them, not just me right now, but together with them a common attitude between us called the Creator. We make him.
7. S. (46:35) You said that to aim our essence to the Creator. What do you mean, our essence?
R. I don't know how it was translated to them. Our essence means bestowal to the Creator that's what we need to establish. That's it.
8. S. (47:10) If I agree with the situation and I agree with the Creator that he is controlling me, is this a corrected degree or....?
R. We can never rest, I don't even know, what do you need to rest from? Why? If you're in bestowal it gives you pleasure. To rest instead of get pleasure, you want to go to troubles for that?
9. S. (47:50) Is self annulment of each friend is this the first restriction that is necessary to build a Partzuf?
R. Yes.
10. S. (48:08) Is there a constant degree of suffering and equal degree of suffering in each degree?
R. Yes, each degree has its own coarseness.
11. S. (48:49) Regarding the last question you had in the workshop, why do we need the external world? What is its role in our work? We have enough work in the ten.
R. This external world gives us a demonstration of our inner structure. It's a copy, if you could say that, it's a copy of our inner structure. If I saw how I'm built inside including all of reality then I'd understand that this whole world is inside of me, that it's my structure. That's how I integrate the inanimate, vegetative, animate, speaking, it's my will to receive. My will to receive now shows it to me externally, it's a projection outside of myself so that I would be better able to get to know myself. If it remained within, I would never reach this study, this research now that I research and study and examine myself and then I relate to each and every element of the still, vegetative, animate and speaking in this world as parts of my body, my soul, that's how I relate to them. What I see outside of me that's a projection of replication, a demonstration of what's inside of me. That's why it's written love thy friend as thyself ultimately. As in that way you correct your attitude. It helps you correct your inner vessel, which is as if it is shown to you as if it's outside of you.
12. S. (51:11) What do we focus on when we bestow to the friends in the ten? It looks like we have many thoughts, making this Partzuf. What do we mainly focus on there?
R. The essence of my attitude towards the friends is such that through it I create my attitude towards the Creator. That's all. When I look at the friend and build by relation to him, by that I mean to build relations with the Creator.
13. S. (51:59) In this lesson you described in a very simple way that my attitude towards the friend equals my attitude towards the Creator. Then do you said, that this is our general common attitude towards the Creator we actually build it together so it's not clear what is this together? Where does together come from?
R. Personally on the personal level, I relate to each and every friend in order to achieve an inner connection with him so that through these interconnections I can build a network through which to relate to the Creator for the ten. If I build, it's in the ten, if I build a proper attitude to the ten to each and every member and to all of them together, then through that I can turn to the Creator. Otherwise I won't be able to turn to him. To express my regard for him, my attitude in connection and also to understand his connection to me, because if I build a ten then inside the ten the laws of the upper nature begin to become revealed, the laws of mutual bestowal of the Creator. If I didn't build up a certain form of soul, then I cannot discover the Creator who is the general form of bestowal. That's how I regard my connection in the ten and with the Creator.
14. S. (54:09) It turns out that I need to build relations with each one of the friends of the ten. It is parts that will help me reach adhesion with the Creator and I'm the one who's building the connection between us? Where is the together here? Which format should I look at the friends work with the friends?
R. Did you read Rabash articles? Did you or didn't you?
S. Yes, each day we do it in the ten.
R. So isn’t it written there you need to have some kind of relationships between man and his friend, between the person and his 10 and then from the 10 to the Creator, what do I have to explain everything again and again? You need to work on this everyday all of you, don't ask me this read it again.
15. S. (55:18) About the topic of building the Creator in the ten, our parts within the soul of Adam HaRishon are the qualities when the person reaches the qualities and attributes are those the same qualities and attributes that are combined in the soul of Adam HaRishon? This is what he has to correct in the ten?
R. Of course from where do we get all of our thoughts and desires? Where? Only because it existed in Adam HaRishon and then he was shattered and we need to correct them, fix them, put them back together properly. From that we begin to understand how the system of the soul is built, how it needs to function, how each and every part influences the others, how they work together. It's only by us fixing what's broken, you have no other way of coming to know the system of Adam HaRishon and being in it.
16. S. (56:28) How to support more the quality of bestowal in the group?
R. Try it amongst yourselves and discuss it amongst yourselves. I cannot tell you. There are many means. Go and search. I have nothing to say. It's good that you have this desire.
17. S. (57:09) I understand that there is some connection and disconnection between the ten and it's related to the disturbance, how do I relate to the disturbance I get so that it will help me to rise above reason? I don't understand, how do we add together? Each one is in a different state and his demand is with different intensity and different direction?
R. Try, make an effort to ask together and if it doesn't work, then together ask the Creator to help you ask together. I have nothing more to say. All of these complaints are between yourselves and to him. I'm only telling you maybe a bit more clearly what's written in the books of Baal HaSulam and Rabash.
18. S. (58:12) How do we not get stuck in the relations of if you scratch my back I'll scratch your back thinking that this is mutual bestowal?
R. I don't understand what it means save for me and for you and...
S. We understand that people do good things for each other and they say that we are in mutual bestowal.
R. Good if that suffices, then remain in that. I'm not going to convince you that you need to do something that's written in our books. We have instruction manuals on how to achieve the revelation of the Creator in adhesion with him and if you want to settle for something that's written, maybe that you want to go this far, not more, then what can I do?
19. S. (59:10) If the reflected light is bestowal through connection in the ten, how does the inner light contribute to connection in the ten?
R. The inner light, it's as we learn about in the Partzuf, it is revealed inside the Partzuf and the person feels it. When he receives it in order to bestow, he has adhesion within the Partzuf and that actually comes and weakens him. What does it mean that it weakens him? He wants to bestow even more and in order to bestow more, he needs to let go of the quality of adhesion that he's attained. I'm talking about a man like a ten, a Partzuf because that's what you call in spirituality a person. Then in such a way he tries to achieve greater bestowal, higher bestowal. The inner light that spreads through him and to him in the group and the light that they feel is outside of them, these lights are in the Bitush, the beating of the inner light and the surrounding light as we call it and then it gives the ten feelings that it can advance even more than where they were and the state they had before.
20. S. (1:01:02) Is there a connection between the degree of connection in the ten and the quality of our dissemination?
R. No, dissemination is in this world. The unity of the ten, that's spirituality.
21. S. (1:01:22) I wanted to ask about ambivalent feelings that I have recently. The more I delve into the study materials I feel regret, remorse that my ego is egoistic that leads to disappointment on the one hand on the other hand I feel joy that I have the possibility to correct it.
R. Without the ego we would not have been able to achieve anything. You can look at the still, vegetative, and animate do you want to be like them? It's precisely because we have an additional desire which we call egoistic meaning that we want something above the still, vegetative and animate in us, thanks to our ego specifically, thanks to it we come to know the upper force.
22. S. (1:02:29) We heard a few times during the lesson that in the ten we have to gather all of our forces all of our thoughts in order to discover the Creator. How do we gather our forces? You also said we need to try to ask together. How do we do it? Does the light work on us and make it possible for us?
R. You have friends you need to discuss it with them but it is true what you said we need to gather all of our forces.
23. S. (1:03:05) We work in the ten, we create a certain connection of bestowal between us and you gave a name to this connection you said it is Ohr Chozer, reflected light. In connection what is revealed always is immediately after we create this connection some disturbances reveal, does that called direct light, that disturbance that is revealed?
R. What disturbance, disturbance in your connection?
S. Yes.
R. So it's not directed light or reflected light or anything, you're not in connection yet. If the Partzuf is not in connection, then it's still in the shattering. No upper light can be revealed in it. There's no equivalence of form between it and the light.
S. This means that once we reach the right connection that will be called reflected light between us we will discover something new they're called direct light that...
R. No, the reflected light that's not between you the reflected light is what you want to give to the Creator to bestow, it's what the Partzuf aims to bestow to the Creator that's called the reflected light. It doesn't matter. Forget about the light and we're not talking about that yet.
S. Because you called it reflected light and direct light so I'm trying to somehow connect these terms to what is happening between us in the tens, that's what I'm trying to do.
R. So it's not there yet, it's not there yet. Let's not be confused thinking that we’re in that already. You can discuss it but also with that, understand that it's not our situation. It's not the light yet, the light is bestowal. Bestowal is called light, Direct light is where we feel the Creator's bestowal upon us as we discover it. Reflected light, where we want to bestow upon the Creator through the connection between us. We don't have such an interaction between us yet between the ten and the Creator. We want to get there, but it's not there yet.
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