Morning Lesson January 29, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. You Have Made Me in Behind and Before
1. (01:48) Let us go over this bit once more. I hope it is before all of you, the text, because it is a very important article that gives us a general relation and perspective on the guidance of the Creator and the world. Rav Reads: It is written “You have made me in behind and before meaning”, what is this about “the revelation and concealment of the face of the Creator”, where once He is revealed and once, He is concealed. This is called you have made me in behind and before “because indeed His kingdom rules overall,” meaning He operates in everything, controls everything, and in Him there is no day night, changes, all the things He takes us through in order to promote us by understanding and recognizing and being open to the upper reality like Him, meaning to know Him. The upper reality is Him. “Because indeed his kingdom rules over all” His kingdom rules over everything. Kingdom meaning His control, His governance “and everything will return to its root,” meaning we in the end we'll come to a state where everything is open, clear and we are incorporated in it, on the same level and same degree that the Creator opens up to us “because there is no place vacant of Him.”
Meaning he controls everything and every situation and gradually reveals to us according to His plan, Himself. And He reveals it to us by building us more and more, opening up to us qualities that are suitable for revealing Him, for our understanding Him, “but the difference is in the present and in the future”, that this is now, and this will happen later. These are the differences. Meaning in time “because one who connects the two worlds” meaning the concealed and revealed “discovers His clothing in the present”, now, the clothing of the Creator. What does that mean? “That everything that is done is clothing for the revelation of the Shechina”, Divinity. So, everything that is created and done within us, around us is the upper light, the light of Ein Sof, infinity, but we instead of the light of Ein Sof feel some kind of concealment. This is why it is called Olam, world from the word Olama, concealment because it is concealed. So why is it in concealment? In order to reveal the Creator, the light, the plan, the governance and guidance, His qualities, His relation to us gradually. So, that by this we will not only receive it, but we will understand, feel and be like Him, on the same level.
We will grow to truly be like Him in every detail in creation. And this is why through concealment and revelation, this is why it is called you have made me in behind and before. In concealment is considered in behind and in revelation is called in before. By this the Creator creates me, forms me, He establishes us, creates us as created beings that are built and can understand and feel and connect to Him as partners. Because there is no vacant place from Him. But the difference is in the present or in the future, meaning both the present and the future exist. The difference is that for the time being we are in the present and not in the future. That we still have many qualities, vessels that we must still correct in order to bring us to the level of the future and then feel the actual reality. Because one who connects the two worlds present and future, behind and before, discovers in the present the clothing of the Creator. What does that mean? That everything that is done is a clothing of the revelation of the Shechina, Divinity. Meaning everything we have here and now that we feel, we are feeling the future. But that future is covered by clothing, dresses, attire.
That as we learn, we study this attire, we take them on ourselves, by this we grow and become more discerning, and then we discover the Creator. it is as if we take off the clothing, the concealments from Him. We dress in them and then that concealment passes, and we reveal the Creator as He is without any concealment. So, all that is done is clothing for the revelation of the Shechina, Divinity. “This is deemed the present meaning that now too he comes out in royal attire” Nothing Is concealed, it is only from the perspective of the attaining individual. “And evidently shows to everyone that the rider is not subordinate to the horse.” Meaning we are not on this inferior low-level or something, it is all attires so we may learn how to reveal the Creator correctly. But it is not like they lower us; it is like a little child. Because he still does not attain, still does not feel, do we treat him with contempt and ridicule? On the contrary we want to do everything so that he will grow and will grow smarter and smarter and feel more and understand more and we are happy when it happens to him, right? It fills us with great joy. Just understand that this is the same that the Creator feels. “But although it seemingly appears” it seems that way, “that the horse leads its rider” that it is as if we are advancing ourselves.
“The truth is that the horse is provoked to any movement”, meaning we do not awaken to make even the slightest movement in ourselves, in our qualities, in our thoughts, you name it. In corporeality and in spirituality “the horse is provoked to any movement only by the sensation of the rider’s bridle and headstall.” Meaning through those two forces, forces of advancement and forces that stop us, right and left, where the Creator rides us and governs us in every way. In this way He advances us and according to this we advance. “This is called the construction of the structure of the Shechina”, Divinity, meaning the governance of the Creator over all of us. The upper light controls the entirety of the will to receive, and it promotes that desire until it comes to revealing Him completely and this is called “face-to-face” when all of the upper light is revealed and all the desires of the created being.
2. S. (11:56) How behind this concealment do we discover Shechina behind all of these forms?
R. You need to behave exactly as it is written that you are facing the Creator and between you and the Creator is the ten, or maybe even all of humanity, the whole of reality, the whole world, because it is clear to us that it is only an imagination. This is why it is called the world from the word concealment. Olam, world, from the word concealment, Olama. We have to make every effort to perform all of the actions, make all our states so that they are in order to reveal the truth. That besides the upper force there is none else besides Him and this is why we arrange ourselves, organize ourselves, in all of our corporeal and spiritual actions, it does not matter how you divide them. So it is as if we are already now under the complete governance of the Creator. This is basically the direction. So the concealment does not separate us. I do not want to accept the concealment. I now despite the concealment want to be as adhered to the Creator as possible in revelation.
3. S. (13:40) In what way do I hinder or distract the work of the Creator if it says that He is before me and behind me and inside me and outside of me and there is none else besides Him?
R. It is a good question but there is free choice which is not written here. Here it says that the Creator controls us in every way, 100%. If that is the case then there is no reality to a person and we are on the degrees of still, vegetative and animate. But those people, those pieces of the soul of Adam HaRishon, those pieces of the will to receive in this system of Adam HaRishon in its entirety which are in special states, they have a desire to know the Creator. Without it they have no life. For what is there to live? I do not want to be just a beast. Therefore when they fall many times into the degree of a beast and do not want to come out of it and then they return to some work of man, to be similar to the Creator, in this way we are basically developing. So we have work, although everything comes from above. But to reveal that everything comes from above with our free choice it exists only in us and those who are attracted toward truly revealing the Creator. We need to reveal the Creator in our inclination, in our tendency to equalize with Him, to be with Him in mutual connection. “I to my beloved and my beloved to me”. And then towards these people the Creator works in behind and before. Making me behind and before in concealment and revelation. By this He teaches us, educates us, rears us.
4. S. (16:20) The concealment we are talking about here, is it the fact that for me the Creator's quality is concealed?
R. I did not understand the question.
S. Asking whether the concealment is towards me?
R. The concealment is certainly towards the person. It is towards the person, towards each and every one personally. There is also general concealment like upon all the people of the world, but we will talk about that later, that is where we might get confused. Concealment is towards each and every person and we in our development need to conceal our ego, rise above it, and then discover, reveal the Creator. Then from concealment to revelation.
4. S. (17:33) I wanted to clarify in a person's spiritual path, is the concealment considered the revelation of the left line, and correspondingly the revelation of the Creator is the closest to the right line?
R. We will see that in the future. I do not want to immediately go into all the details because that can confuse a lot of people. I understand you, that you want to know, but ahead of me except for you are a few thousand people, and I want everyone to advance.
5. S. (18:17) What connects between the concealed and the hidden of the Creator?
R. The source as both for the revealed and the concealed, the source is one which places us that way. Just like you play with the child you want to hide this and reveal that, and you play with him this way and by that you want to raise up his awareness so that through all those actions and states he will get to know. So what connects between concealment and revelation is their source, the one source, the Creator, His desire, His plan, that is it.
6. S. (19:06) The fact that more and more people are born in the world, does that mean that the shattering process still continues?
R. No, the shattering already took place, there are no more but what we are revealing is the essence of the shattering more more, because to that extent that we are advancing. Meaning according to our ascent on the ladder of degrees, meaning in our corrections, we discover where else we need to perform corrections in order to connect or correct the shattering. That is a simple, mechanical way of how you can say it.
7. S. (19:55) He says you have made me in behind and before meaning both in behind and before. If you can clarify that?
R. Certainly. The concealment operates no less correctly for the development of a person than the revelation. Before every disclosure there has to be a concealment. Just like in our world, like in science, and therefore this is how we need to advance. Therefore the importance in concealment is no less important than the revelation, as we have concealment before, can we get to revelation.
S. It is clear that it is the only way. A friend is asking how do you manage to connect the world in the present and future?
R. The more I work on the concealment, the more I relate to it correctly, that the Creator is bringing me this concealment and the concealment is to my benefit, meaning I need to assemble, connect myself, my tools, my vessels in a way that I will see this concealment from within and upon this concealment reach the revelation. It is like a scientist. A real scientist takes all the things that he does not understand that he is studying and does not know what is going on there, and with all of that he wants to come to a solution, as the solution will include within it all those forms of concealment that he discovered prior to that. Then the solution will be correct. If he does not solve all the problems of the concealment, then more than likely his solution is not whole.
S. Can we say that if we do not work for the revelation but for the privilege of being a worker of the Creator and serving the friends and creation, does that mean putting on the concealment over us?
R. We robe ourselves with concealment and from that we come to revelation. That is as the left and right, it is like degrees, like steps. It is a must to be incorporated by both.
S. Within the revelation we already need to create the concealment or not?
R. We never do concealment, we only go towards revelation. The revelation we discover, we want to do this revelation in concealment. It is a very special thing where we do revelation through restriction, the screen, and the reflected light. Then in our reflected light, in our rejection, not inside the will to receive but in that which we raise the will receive in reflected light, then by that we build the Kli for the revelation of the Creator. Therefore we are not receiving in the will to receive the actual revelation but rather in the desire to receive which is included with the rejection, the reflected light and by us building a place, as we call it the place for the Divinity where we reveal the Creator. Otherwise it will be like a Keter, between the plus and minus, between the light and the desire. And if we place between us and the Creator the restriction meaning an insulation of sorts, the screen, the force of resistance, the reflected light, the correct form of connecting with the light, then the light appears within our reflected light where we connect. That is the connection of a created being with the creator.
S. It is not clear why he writes the one who merits connecting the worlds discovers in the present the clothing of the Creator.
R. Yes, for him this is the present. If he merits discovering both worlds, the front and behind, the concealed and revealed in relation, then for him his revelation is in concealment. That is why it is called you made me from before and from behind. Both the concealment is not revealed first and also the Revelation is not revealed first. Both are revealed and support one another. This is what we have in spiritual revelation.
S. What is the difference between the present and the future if in the present he already makes the restriction, screen and reflected light?
R. That both connect together, that the Kli adds its power to the light 620 times.
S. I do not understand the difference, because if there is restriction, screen and reflected light then what changes in the future state?
R. Then you have the coupling and striking, the Zivug de Hakaa and the reception of the light. the direct light inside of the reflected light in order to bestow. Then you have a power of connection of the relations of the Creator and the creative being together, which is called the disclosure of love. It is still ahead of us I think, as much as I remember the article.
8. S. (25:52) In the ten there was a question. Why wasn't the past mentioned in the article? The present and future yes, but not the past?
R. What was included in the present will also be revealed more in what will be.
S. The attainment that the Creator rules over or all that everything comes from the purpose of creation does that manifest in the behavior and actions of this world?
R. In this world in our behavior here nothing is revealed. This beastly world that we are in, in our five senses, we are like animals, like beasts, we are truly like beasts. We have nothing special above animals, a little more intellect or feeling by which we spoil and destroy the world.
S. Why does the Kabbalist who perceives the purpose of creation, why does he even need to do actions in his hands and legs?
R. In truth that is a question, and it is not really understood. I understand you, it is not clear, but the problem is that we do not yet disconnect from our corporeal desire. Therefore, we have to also observe these spiritual discernments. That is only as we have yet to disconnect from the corporeal world. For the dead it is free, both in corporeality and in spirituality.
9. S. (27:49) How to combine this work where we see everything is under His rule and the work of being in bestowal?
R. We will talk about that. There is no point in asking such general questions from the beginning of the article.
10. S. (28:10) What is the meaning of everything returns to its root?
R. That everything needs to reach its corrected state that was defined in advance. That everything as they say is prepared for the meal, for the complete adhesion.
11. S. (28:43) Do I need to go with the concealment or overcome it?
R. We need to love the concealment. To love the concealment as it helps me rise above the concealment and to reach Dvekut, adhesion with their friends and the Creator. In spiritual Dvekut in place of corporeal Dvekut. The concealment raises us from one degree to another and if I look with my corporeal eyes, it is certain that I see corporeality. Here I need to understand that this form of the world, which is called concealment from the world, Olam from the word Olama, concealment. For then I need to rise to connection between us to a state that we will truly begin to connect between us forms of connection that are such that will give us a new connection. We will not be able to compare it with our corporeal connection but rather spiritual, where we are all in bestowal, all in connection, all above our corporeal senses. No one looks at the face of the other, at the physical attributes of another because that is corporeality, which is bestiality. We can see the extent that is limited and wrong, mistaken. Here we need to build a new spiritual relation between us such that certainly this spiritual form will dwell amongst us. Depict to ourselves not that we are looking at the face of one another because the face you know, what was there 20 years ago when you knew each other, and today, and what will be 20 years from now, and after we lose our corporeal forms. We need to relate to one another according to the desire to receive and the point in the heart that is inside the desire to receive that is in each of us, to the essence of each and everyone. because the essence of each and every one is what the Creator gives to us, this attraction towards Him, it is worthwhile to connect with that between us and not to look at anything but that. Not in the external form, not corrupted qualities that we have for the time being, but rather only to one thing: I love in each and every friend the Godly part in him, that is it and the beast it remains, corrects like this, like that. It does not matter how it behaves, but the main thing is that spiritual point in him.
12. S. (32:27) So we need to ask the Creator to remove the concealment?
R. No, not to remove the concealment, God forbid. He also will not remove it. He will simply lower us to corporeality and that is it. Rather we need to ask from Him that specifically through the concealment that we will be able to connect to the friends in a correct manner, to their point in the heart. Not even to the heart of the friend because his heart is his desire to receive, but the point in his heart is called the Godly part from above. That is what I want to connect to.
13. S. (33:21) What is the practical effort a person should do in order to move from concealment to Revelation?
R. I think that the main thing that we need to do is to simply try to connect our points in the heart. Upon all of our hearts connect our points in the hearts and in them make room for the Creator to be revealed and to dwell.
14. S. (34:20) How do I know at what point I am in concealment? How is it felt in the ten?
R. Again it is the point in the heart. I cannot say more than that.
S. Where is the concealment? What is the concealment in the ten, how does it manifest?
R. The concealment in the ten is where I do not see the connection between the friends and the Creator, and this is done on purpose. That is called that the Creator is concealed towards me. If I relate to them like points in the heart, that there is an awakening on behalf of the Creator in them, I relate to them correctly and advance.
15. S. (35:27) So you said “to only look at the spiritual qualities and not the corporeal but how to treat a friend who was impatient and sometimes even hateful openly?
R. That is not important. It is not important how a person relates to even the group and how he talks, or she talks. We need to understand that it is the Creator that is revealing him or showing him to us this way and we need to try to tolerate him or her and to understand that we need to connect with the friend and help him rise above it in all kinds of ways, and that is where our spiritual work comes. We received this from the Creator, and we try to rise to a higher degree above this, to understand that this is to our benefit.
16. S. (36:35) Is the revelation something that happens above reason?
R. Revelation takes place above reason, of course. In faith above reason, in the force of bestowal which we stabilize above the force of reception that is where it takes place according to equivalence of form, the revelation of the Creator and the Creator being.
17. S. (37:05) When the points in the hearts of their friends come together, does that create the embryo that is in adhesion with a Creator?
R. Yes, then we will feel the extent in which in the connection between us something new takes place: the essence between us is called the Ibur, or embryo. Thank you very much, I am truly impressed by the women, with the questions from the women.
Reader continues: “But a person who has not yet come to…” twice (37:45 - 41:25)
18. R. (40:56) So in a situation like that.
Reader continues: “however it is not apparent in the present but in the future…”
19. R. (41:27) Meaning, what does he actually want to tell us? What he wants to tell us is that even in states which appear to us that we are cascading, behaving, advancing, being operated incorrectly, also in that, actually the Creator is the Operator. Do not think that you somehow came out of His control and that you are then deciding to go under the control of the Creator; you are always under His complete control. But the difference is: for His will or not for His will, also seemingly. Here we need to see throughout our spiritual advancement what this is speaking about. When are we coming closer, when are we distancing the will of the Creator and what is happening with us in each and every state that we go through? I will read it again.
Rav reads again (42:42)
But a person who was yet to come to dedicate all of his movements to the Creator alone; where he has not yet adhered to the Creator, heart, and soul, that he has in him that has been disclosed in him. This is called that “that the horse does not equalize in its movements to the rider’s bridle and headstall. Meaning that the horse is not listening to the actions and desires of this rider but rather to the opposite, it happens to him like that, and he crowns the handmaid on the mistress. Meaning that once the person operates according to his desire to receive not according to his desire to bestow, of Divinity, of the Shechina, of the Creator, so do not think that it is so. This is discerned Achor, the behind, meaning that it is not that you are distancing from the Creator or that you are leaving Him but rather it just appears to you like you now are in the opposite of Him, that is called a ‘matter of behind.’ That is, you should not think that you are drawing away from Kedusha. For that which comes into your mind shall not be at all. Thus said the Lord, surely with a mighty hand for the outcasts shall not be cast out from Him. This means that the Creator controls everything, even behind all of the concealments and all of our behaviors since Him, He also cascades or rolls all these things upon us and the whole wheel turns to come to Kedusha, to its root. Therefore, even though it seems that the horse, meaning the creature, is leading the rider that something depends – that which depends on the horse, on the creature, on his way to the end of correction, his despicable will seemingly. In truth it is not so but rather the rider leads the horse to his destination. However it is not apparent in the present where we are all under the control of one control, the Creator alone. In the future it will be revealed where we always would do everything in adherence to the Creator, in adhesion to Him and we could not do anything outside of His will, and understand it turns out that this way is also contact, is also connection, but it is not revealed and therefore it is called ‘posterior to posterior’, or back-to-back. Meaning not according to the will of the one who dresses or the will of the dresser. Not in the desire of the Creator and not in the desire of the created being because we are also connected to the Creator in all the worst possible states that are distant and opposite that appear, that are imaginable to us, but the difference is that altogether, not by us being or not being connected. Certainly, everyone is in Him and adhered to Him. The difference is that we do not discover it, and therefore to us, it is called back-to-back. We need to also, upon this piece, do questions and answers.
20. S. (46:50) If I understand correctly, my free choice is if I take control of my ego or ask the Creator?
R. You should ask according to the verse that we read and not what you feel like.
21. S. (47:09) In Achor, we are not actually leaving the Creator, so why does the concealment field necessarily bad?
R. That depends on you and how you receive, accept the concealment. If you can bless for the bad like you bless for the good; “and darkness shall shine as light", then moreover you are adhered to the Creator in both night and day. That is how it is written in many excerpts?
22. S. (47:55) What does it mean “not with the will of the one who dresses or the will of the dresser”?
R. That this form of concealment it is not according to the will of the person or the will of the Creator because the Creator wants to work with a person in a revealed way in a complete embrace.
23. S. (48:24) What does it mean that “what comes up in your mind should not be at all”?
R. Meaning it is not like the way you think but it will rather be like revealed in a way that the blessing of the Creator upon the created beings is never stopping, never distances, but it is only relative to the person himself in order to teach him how to be an adhesion in all sorts of states.
24. S. (48:56) If the concealment is personal why does the revelation happen in the group?
R. New concealment is personal and groupwise as well – in this way and that way – and revelation can also be through the group, that is certainly always, but later it is revealed in each and every one in a personal manner. We will see, we are still in the entrance to the Last Generation, which is why I cannot say in a certain way how these changes will take place but certainly for the good and for more revelation.
25. S. (49:46) How can it be a state of back-to-back? Isn't the Creator always facing towards the created being?
R. No, He is not revealed, He is in concealment, now He is in the posterior.
26. S. (53:16) What should we do now in order to feel that we are under the control of the Creator, or should we not demand that but just to continue to work in the concealment?
R. No we do not want concealment the Creator’s desire is to be revealed to the created being and so we need to do all the actions that can take us to connection between us and such a connection that will reveal the Creator that is our whole goal is the revelation of the Creator to the created beings in this world.
27. S. (53:53) We are talking about the past and the present and the future and we know we are not talking about time, so the future’s talking about the state of revelation and the present of.
R. Right. Present and future is what currently is the state and what will be the next state and that is the next moment, it is not really a moment let us say state.
28. S. (54:20) When the horse equalizes the movements of the bridal and the headset of the rider, is that complete equivalence of form?
R. Yes, even in such a way that a person does not feel that the Creator obligates him, rather he precedes the Creator and walks before the Creator there is also some beautiful stories in the Zohar as well, we will learn that later on.
29. S. (54:51) Can I request for the Creator to change our next state or is it all defined in advance?
R. No, our request for revelation always advances us towards correction and revelation if it is aligned with the correction.
30. S. (55:14) If the goal is to reveal the Creator, then why does the work in concealment bring more contentment to the Creator?
R. We want to reveal him and not to feel better in our vessels of reception but to reveal him meaning that I want to reveal the Creator upon me as it says the Creator's name will be upon you meaning I will become like him I'll take on his form and that is why it is called Adam from the word Dome similar to the Creator that I’ll take on his qualities and by that I will recognize him. That is the only way I can acknowledge, identify with, and recognize the Creator.
31. S. (56:09) What kind of level of connection in the ten do we have to come to in order to discover the general providence and not the personal providence?
R. I do not want to go into general and private providence now because we will get confused with that there are many aspects to this. Rather we need to reach a state where each and every one wants to participate with the group without paying attention to the external faces external appearances how they speak and how they behave because all of that belongs to the corporeal beastly world, we need to pay attention only to what the hearts of our friends is aimed at and try to connect with their hearts and in those hearts see where there is a common space between the hearts and that is where the Creator is revealed.
32. S. (57:19) It is written that one who merits to connect both worlds discover in the present the clothing, that it is all the clothing for the dressing of the divinity. How to feel closer to the Creator in order to discover that the Creator is in every place?
R. This is something we have to do between us to see how between us, we can move to such states that we feel the common reality as present, as the present that exists will continue in the text and he is talking about it there.
33. S. (57:59) It is not clear why if a person did not get to devote all his movements and he thinks that he is distancing, why is it considered that he is in the posterior towards the Creator? He is still trying to attribute everything, all the movements to him.
R. You're right, it is correct you are correct. You probably misunderstood him. It is all about man’s inclination, his tendency. If in every state, he wishes to disclose the face then he is advancing correctly.
34. S. (58:41) In a state of back-to-back if it is not in the will of the dresser of the dresser where's there even connection here?
R. Say it again?
S. It is written that in the states of back-to-back it is still…
R. Not according to the will of the dresser or the one who dresses.
S. Since the Creator does not want it and it is not according to the desire of the Creator or the desire of the created being then where nevertheless is there connection?
R. The connection is still there, and it is called back-to-back. You cannot come out of your connection with the Creator, you cannot ever. The disconnection is only what we say with regards to what the created being feels but not what is actually happening. It is like a child that came out of his mother's womb and now he exists outside of the womb outside of her body so is he connected or disconnected? Of course he still is connected to her, same thing here even though there is no inner connection the way it was before it is still there. In spirituality it is all unrelated, it is only with respect to the created being it is never with respect to the Creator.
S. When am I the rider and when am I the horse?
R. That is according to your imagination what you imagine only. The Creator is always working on you and that is why this article is called "You Have Made Me and Behind and Before", and the revelation and concealment is what you're imagine that you’re below or above, that you're riding the horse or the horse is riding you it doesn’t matter but just know that you are always the operated the created being only.
S. How do we actually connect between the present and the future?
R. By initially agreeing with all the conditions set by the Creator.
35. S. (01:01:12) What is the state of the revelation of the Creator for us?
R. The revelation of the Creator to us means that in our connection in a way that is suitable for the last generation we're connecting to each other in such a way that the Creator can appear between us, and even though there are some partial personal revelations for each and every individual we are longing for the revelation of the Creator in the created being, that created being is called the connection between the friends that’s what is important to us.
36. S. (01:02:14) The article is amazing, and I have a question. He is first and He is last, the Creator holds our hearts, now we need to combine between the intellect and the feeling. Other than doing the work, how can we advance the ten in the direction of the Creator according to the article?
R. Only to connect between us and make the connection between us in a way that is suitable to the Creator in other words treat the friends as though you are the Creator, you want unlimited bestowal and love that is it.
S. What do I need to give preference to the mind or the feeling in this work of connection and coming closer to the Creator?
R. By the mind to come to emotion.
37. S. (01:03:38) You said that in every state we need to try to discover the face, the anterior. How in every relation in your life to discover the anterior part in every state?
R. I don't think it's a problem we just need to slightly rise above all those states where you feel the world's attitude to you and see that all of it is just the Creator relating to you but be cautious in relating to them like you're relating to the Creator, know you have to treat them normally as things are accustomed in this world. On the spiritual level you have to try to relate to them to their internality as the Creator because there is None Else Besides Him and do not be confused between these two states.
S. Relative to the world that is clear.
R. Do some exercises and you will see that it is possible. You need to do a lot of exercises and you will see that it is doable and by that you will begin to learn, you will begin to learn your correct attitude to reality that behind all of the reality the Creator there’s None Else Besides Him and how do you relate to None Else Besides Him? If I relate to this way, to people openly I will be thought of as unhealthy, psychologically, like mentally ill, so I only talk about my inner behavior here how do I perceive reality, that is it. That is in the meantime later on we will talk about it.
38. S. (01:06:08) It is regarding the horse and the rider. What is the work of restricting this imagination in order to place it under the correct influence in the ten?
R. The correct work is what we always study. I would love to give you a more specific answer but according to this question I cannot. Our correct work is that we connect together virtually as close as possible to each other in finding such a relationship between us, doesn’t matter that there is thousands of miles separating us that doesn’t matter that’s not important we build such relationship between us where the Creator can be revealed and one can be in Africa the other in South America another in North America in Europe, Australia or anywhere, we connect and in our network the Creator can be revealed. That is what we try to build, and we will see afterwards how our relationships become aimed and tuned in such a way that the Upper one calibrates this relationship directs, this relationship shapes this relationship in a way that we begin to understand what it wants from us. If we treat and pay attention to our relationship a bit more with our heart and soul, then we begin to feel what that connection gives us in return and the Creator speaks to us this way. We want to connect between us a bit more like that or a bit more like that and as a result we discover such responses and that’s our dialogue with the Creator, he is present in the connection between us and when we relate to him this way, we try to rediscover him and that’s called the revelation of the Creator to the created being.
39. S. (01:09:19) How can friends in the ten cause a friend to feel that everything comes from the Creator if they themselves do not feel that?
R. Does not matter. If everyone wants to incorporate with each other and achieve a state where they have to reveal the Creator between them and there is no other place for the revelation of the Creator he's not somewhere behind the stars or in the books or in some other place he is in the created beings and by revealing the connection between us that is compatible to his nature we reveal him and that is a scientific approach, this is the approach that we find in every phenomenon in nature that if we find some attitude between us that is compatible to the Creator then we reveal the Creator, that’s where he’s hidden. This is how it has to do with every technology that we do that we work with in our world, it is the law of equivalence of form that our connection has to be similar to his nature and to the extent that it is he will be revealed.
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40. S. (01:12:01) It is called in the goodwill of the dresser and of the dressed. Why is it called the dresser and the dressed and what are the royal attires in spirituality?
R. The garments, the clothing is like reflected light. By that we want to match these desires with those desires, meaning it does not matter what desires we have. If I want to use my desire so as to do good to you and you want to use your desire, a totally different desire to do good to me, then in terms of our clothing, our reflected light we can connect between us. You like sour and I like sweet, and we want to do good to each other, to bring pleasure to each other. So I prepare the sour thing you like, and you prepare for me the sweet thing I like. By that we equalize with each other because we cannot equalize with the Creator. He is complete bestowal; we are complete receivers. But if we want to use our will to receive so as to bring Him contentment, just like He wants in his will to bestow to bring us contentment, then in this mutual bestowal we connect. Then there is a connection between us.
S. You can discover His attitude towards us only to the extent in which we aim our attitude toward Him?
R. Sure, only in reflected light. Good. That is a correct statement. Yes, only to the extent that I can bestow to the Creator I can reveal the Creator's bestowal upon me.
41. S. (01:14:08) If the Creator is concealed permanently before the created being, can we also say that the created being is concealed from the Creator?
R. The created being is never hidden from the Creator because all of the true beginnings, foundations of the created being, they all emerge from, emanate from the Creator. Except that in the Creator they are in an attitude of bestowal and love and when they settle in the created being then the Creator transforms them deliberately to the opposite form. This is in order to allow the created being to achieve independence, and through the attitude of faith above reason to address the Creator in return, in response. So, even though it comes from the good source, the Creator stays that good source, but the created being is turned upside down, and then by Tzimtzum, Masach, Ohr Hozer he also transforms himself again to be similar to the Creator, and that brings them into adhesion.
S. What is that one directional concealment where He sees us, but we do not see Him? What causes it, why is this partition one way?
R. It is a concealment that the Creator did deliberately. So we can use it in a way that we can overcome the concealment and that it will be our correction.
S. What is the most important action of a person to try to remove the concealment?
R. To justify the Creator, which is first. Before all the actions, before each and every action to justify the Creator.
42. S. (01:16:28) I am getting confused with all this material but what is the critical point, the most important point that we need to knock on? There are many things, we are going in all kinds of directions. What is the most important point to work on in the ten in order to reveal Him?
R. The most important point is to achieve connection between us. That in being inclined to connect between us we will receive the right education from above. The Creator will organize us into a spiritual Kli.
S. Yesterday as a ten we started out good and all of a sudden there was hatred.
R. Very good, very well. That is a sign that you have done good work.
S. Exactly, and then we found out we are really doing work because to talk nice and caress each one that could continue for another 10 years. But all of a sudden, this kind of hatred here yesterday, all the friends did not understand what kind of hatred was created between us. And then we started to talk, and we started to talk about love, and we really felt that there was a change taking place here. The question is how can you come to that hatred that you are talking about all the time? Maybe only then you can advance. You said if you sat here for ten years and did not do anything nothing will happen, because there is no work between you. Is this important or should we skip over this? This is my problem.
R. There is no problem. We connect in the lesson, those who want to connect, and then twice a day if not more, making these connections between us and also here and there we read or hear or listen to the sources. So we advance and so do not say otherwise. There is progress from day-to-day and it is actually quite good, and everyone is in the general flow of it. Except that also each one can advance in his individual flow as well. That is fine.
S. We do not need to be afraid of clashes between the friends?
R. No, we do not need to be afraid, but we need to know how to use it, in a useful way for our progress.
S. What does that mean?
R. It means that even if you reach a stage where you want to kill your friends, you will plan how you are going to kill them, and yet you are also going to discover how all of this is coming to you from above, deliberately. He who sits in the heavens laughs. You want to invert all of these desires that He awakens in you to opposite desires.
S. That is the real advancement when we do that.
R. Yes. This is called I have created the evil inclination. The Creator reveals to you the evil inclination and that is how you roll forward.
43. S. (01:20:15) How to justify the Creator with words? How emotionally to do so?
R. Justifying the Creator is that everything that is happening is for the better. That is first even without criticism or anything. After the criticism when I clarify what is happening, I still justify the Creator.
44. S. (01:21:00) How to feel adhesion inside the concealment?
R. Within the concealment we need to feel the adhesion because the concealment was given for us to attain adhesion. When we will have revelation, we are not going to need to do anything anymore, no action required because the connection between us happens by itself. We see that we are connected and there is no difference between us.
45. S. (01:21:40) How do you get the force of the reflected light so that we can operate towards the friends without any conditions? Is the work in reflected light in concealment or revelation?
R. Working in reflected light can only be in concealment. I have no tendency to bestow and to connect in love, but I do it because I want to bestow contentment through the friends to the Creator and in such a way, I connect to them, and I do everything possible.
46. S. (01:22:23) What does it mean to want the revelation of the face of the Creator in the ten? What is the revelation of the Creator in the ten?
R. The attitude of all the friends towards me that all together I can connect them and try to see the Creator's attitude to me through them. This is called the revelation of the Creator. The Creator's face.
47. S. (01:22:52) It is written with the goodwill of the addressers? What does goodwill mean, the goodwill?
R. Bestowal in the correct bestowal from the Creator towards to ten and to ten to the created being and the correct address of the bestowing in the ten towards the Creator.
48. S. (01:23:23) In general, after everything we talked about during the lesson, what do we need to ask from the Creator every moment of his life?
R. The main thing is not to ask not to leave the thought that there is none else besides him and the connection to him happens through the ten, these two things. This is called, Israel the light and the Creator are one'. That me and the ten and the Creator connect together in the ten.
49. S. (01:24:04) Is lack of connection the feeling of lack of joy in the work?
R. Well, that is desirably, yes.
50. S. (01:24:21) Is concealment revealed also between couples that are on this path? How to see concealment there where there is ejection and hatred?
R. No, we are not talking about couples now. We will learn these things later.
51. S. (01:24:38) We're still virtual but we feel like we need physical connection. Where does the need come from for physical connection?
R. A need for physical connection could be good but it might be not so good. I cannot say. Our generation is more compatible with virtual connection. It will help us because also our ego is so big and diverse, complex that it is easier for us. It is more correct for us to connect virtually. It is easier for us to detach our ego from the external shapes, to peel off our ego from the external forms.
52. S. (01:25:42) During the lesson do we need to be concentrated in inner prayer and or to listen to Rav's words and concentrate on Rav’s words?
R. To listen to the words of the Rav and be inside these words.
53. S. (01:26:14) We tried to connect endlessly but we do not feel the Creator towards us?
R. Because you are not nullifying towards each other and that is why you are not becoming one body. That is why you do not feel the Creator relates to you and educates you.
54. S. (01:26:34) There is a clash in the ten and we cannot decide who is right from which side. How can we help the friends solve this?
R. No one is right. No one is right, everyone needs to be shaken up like a bunch of balls in a box. Shake everything up and restart the connection in studying the basics. The foundations of connection and not try to remember what you had before.
55. S. (01:27:18) When we read the sources in preparation for the lesson, what does it mean to do in the ten? Does it need to be a read above reason or for intellectual understanding how to relate to the sources correctly?
R. We need to relate to these sources in a way that they will settle within our reason.
56. S. (01:27:44) There is a feeling that we are truly entering the gate of living in this reality of none else besides the friends. We just need to enter the points of the hearts of the friends. How do we bridge that crust?
R. It truly is a hard crust, and we all have to, all of us, both women and men, we have to attack this boundary. Let us try to do this together and hopefully we will already be towards our next meeting this afternoon, we will have some better preparation for this.