Morning Lesson November 25, 2020Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors
Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”, #36
1. Rav’s Introduction
In our progress towards spirituality, we have to nevertheless depict some pictures, portrayals, states that we are in and the state that advances us to spirituality is that we feel ourselves where our whole world is divided into two parts: the part that's close to me, that's my will to receive, my ego where I live, where I am, the way in which I'm connected to this whole world, work, family and so on. Then beyond that there's a certain boundary after which I am with my friends and the Creator. That boundary, I have to more or less describe to myself where I am and so am I with what's close to me in the me which is my will to receive and how close I am to the whole of humanity, the Creator, bestowal, love which is all beyond my ego. This boundary, I need to establish it as clearly as possible. I always have to feel the existence of this boundary. Later on it becomes a place of restriction, screen, returning light, the inside and outside part of the Partzuf, the Rosh of the Partzuf the Guf of the Partzuf. But in the meantime, just to portray reality as divided to this and that. Even though I don't yet have any sense of the reality that is above the screen, that is beyond me, that is in the degree of faith above reason, and in Bina, outside of me but still I can see two parts in reality: the upper reality which is the Creator, me in faith above reason in the form of bestowal, in love, connection and so on and the other reality where I'm connected to myself, to my will to receive, where I live, the way I'm born and that's my internal reality. All our work is how to build this portrayal in us and how we will be able to raise the importance of the upper reality more than the lower reality. How much I want to be connected to the group, to the Creator, to everything above the screen, above my boundary, above my reason and if I'm going to use what belongs to me then only for my existence or for the sake of raising it, transferring it to the upper reality and so that's how we should try to divide our perception of reality into two parts. That is essentially the picture that we should try to establish within us and from there onwards, we will advance. Let's look at that according to the excerpts.
Excerpt #36 Rabash Reader (05:00 - 06:23)
2. R. This is not yet perhaps so clear to us, this matter of, for some, above reason is there and for others, not so much. We need to try to transfer as much as we can, more of our thoughts and desires to be above the boundary, to relate them to the Creator. Through the ten we adhere to him, to the upper force, the ten is the modem, the adapter, the connector through which we can adhere to the Creator. If we are more or less organized between us then we can identify, discover who the upper force is and thus we can actually begin to get a grasp of him and better adapt ourselves to him so more thoughts, more desires and where - through connection between - us we can come closer to him.
3. S. (07:51) The ego is felt like a prison and to go beyond the ego is like coming out to freedom but for some reason it's not possible because even the ten is like a boundary. How can we go out to freedom, is it correct to depict things this way?
R. Look when it's felt as a prison, that is also perhaps a good thing but still what is missing is why do you want to go out of prison? The truth is that the same prison becomes your illuminated free world. There's no difference between corporeality and spirituality except for the rule of the will to receive or the rule at the will to bestow as it is said there's no difference between this world and the next world besides, what? The transformation of the Malchuyot. The Malchuyot are transformed meaning here the will to receive is in control and there it is the will to bestow, so the same will to receive, when it becomes the will to bestow, you discover that it is the ruler and that’s the next world already. So the difference is not what's in control but in what way it's in control, that's more accurate because look, everything's in the will to receive. Without the will to receive we can never attain what something is. What's outside of the will to receive is the upper light, it's the Creator, it's something that I never ever attain but to the extent that my will to receive is similar to the upper light then in that will to receive, I can describe his qualities and his nature that I attain all of that inside my will to receive. I never actually come out of it so the prison is not about how I am in a will to receive right now. The problem is that it's in order to receive and it needs to be in order to bestow. With this precision of being, that's what it means to be inside or outside of the prison, you'll see how you advance.
4. S. (10:30) What makes a person become persuaded that the Creator can help him?
R. This comes bit by bit through many actions, ups and downs and a person begins to see that he doesn't depend on anyone here except for the upper force. The friends, the workshops, the lessons, his personal efforts, all of those, they're just a means by which to awaken the force outside of him to help and the fact that a person begins to discover that there is foreign, upper influence that can help him. If it does then he changes and if it's not then he doesn't. That is essentially the state where a person begins to make contact with the Creator.
S. If he is so persuaded, isn't that within reason?
R. I don't know what you mean by persuaded.
S. Well he's convinced, as you said he goes through all the different states and he reaches a state where he says only the Creator can help him so where does that happen?
R. This happens to him in his feeling already where, in all of his despair and different states, that's what he sees but still it's only for now. Afterwards, he once again falls into other changing states. There is no state in spirituality that exists forever. Spirituality is not somewhere outside of us but what's inside of us when we come closer and closer, it always changes in order to allow us an opportunity to renew our connection with the Creator.
5. S. (12:52) When you ask of the Creator to help you to unite with a friend so it doesn't immediately help but later on you see that the help does, so there's some different dependency here? How does it work?
R. That is correct, my connection with the friends depends on the Aviut with the ten so I don't immediately feel that I get aid from above and then right away I'm in a different state with them. It can be also after a while because this is how we advance. This is the general Aviut of the ten at, on the inside, even if my friends don't feel it when I pray to the Creator, to being more in connection with them and I pray for them and ask and more and more, they change on the inside but they themselves don't feel it or they do and they don't feel where it's coming from, because of who, it's happening even in this way. So these states are demanding more time, awareness, sensation and that's how they permeate us.
S. The feeling is that the Creator doesn't want the person to see that the Creator is helping him directly?
R. That too needs to be clarified through the group and even not through the group by the Creator but from him feeling an inclination towards the group more than yesterday let's say and by that he discovers that he has this inclination, this tendency towards the group more than yesterday and that certainly comes from the Creator. Later he understands that. First, you understand, he discovers the state and later he discovers the reason for that state.
6. S. (15:22) We went through an entire sequence of lessons that explained to us that spiritual progress is possible only in the state of faith above reason. We're reading an excerpt that speaks about imagining our next spiritual state is possible within reason so how is it possible to find the balance in these two approaches within reason and faith above reason?
R. I am in a state of reason meaning in my senses, in my mind, in my desire. Now my desire is comprised of intellect and emotion, mind and heart and in it, I live in it, I feel reality. What I feel is called this world in it I feel exists, it's the whole space, all those bodies in space, the planets, the stars, planet Earth as well, all of humanity on the face of the planet and so on. All of it exists in my perception, in my experience, besides that, as we've discussed before today, I have to imagine the boundary of that perception and then there is a different perception. A perception that is not called the force of reception where I draw into myself but rather a force of bestowal where I as if push out of myself an opposite world in that opposite world, imagine what does an opposite world mean? Instead of hate, there's love. Instead of reception there is giving. Instead of attraction, there's rejection. We live not by what's good for me but rather by what's good for others and for that I'm doing everything I'm doing. I am as if in a suit and in that suit, it's like a diver's suit. What do you call that? Like a scuba diving suit so let's say in that suit or, what I got there is mine, like an astronaut in space, they too have a space suit so whatever is in my suit is mine, that is my world and what is outside of that suit, outside of that scuba diving suit, that is a different world out there, a world I don't know, a world that, the way I am right now, I mustn't be there. However what I do is if I receive the mind and emotion. which is all I have, that's all we have, the mind and the emotions. If I begin to accept in my mind and heart the conditions that are there then I can live there, then there's no problem, this is what we need to acquire together. We are within our minds, within our feelings, we have no more, that's what the Creator created, but we can change the usage not for my own benefit, but for the benefit of others and by that I neutralize my “I” and then I don't need this special suit. I don't need this clothing, this shield around me and if I don't use that but only for the benefit of others or outside of me, then I don't need to isolate myself from them. They don't harm me. On the contrary, I can use whatever is outside of the special suit for the benefit of everyone. We need to further and further depict to ourselves in all kinds of ways what we have within our reason, within our current mind and heart, that are in order to receive and what exists above reason. What exists in them in order to bestow and so this way we will gradually get closer and closer to that state so that we can transition from within reason to above reason, from this corporeal world to the spiritual world.
7. S. (21:53) If all the friends in the ten each day, the will to receive overcomes them, how can we as a ten go towards bestowal? Should we detect the deficiency of each friend or should it be for the general, collective correction of the group?
R. For the general correction of the group, for the general connection of the group and don't try to pick into each and everyone at all, we don't have the mind, the understanding of how to judge each one, just run away from that for whatever the Creator shows us we have to connect to each other in order to bestow to each other and the Creator. Don't go into what kind of desires I have, what kind of thoughts I have, this and that you won't get out of that and you'll only get confused. What's important for us is connection and with this tendency for connection whatever you've got, you just need to connect and from being concerned about connection as it's called love covers all crimes, that's the only thing we need to do, cover it with love, cover it with connection and when we start doing that then we start understanding all the details of the connection and how to work with them, that's the only way.
8. S. (23:29) What does it mean the boundary, what precisely is the boundary?
R. The boundary is the place that later becomes the Tzimtzum, Masach, Ohr Chozer, it's the boundary between in order to receive to in order to bestow.
S. But how do we create this boundary?
R. We begin to feel that from making an effort to be above reason and then we gradually more and more reveal that, that gap between the vessels in order to receive and the vessels that are in order to bestow. We have to always try to see that, where is that outer reality, the outer reality doesn't exist. It's rather what I begin to establish within myself where there is a certain part of me that begins to work in order to bestow, to work in order to connect through the group and with everyone. The group becomes the first nine Sefirot and the “I” becomes the Malchut that's simply restrict myself not to use my “I” to use myself, only to use the first nine Sefirot to integrate with the friends to be along with them and in our collective tendency, we aim towards the Creator so that he appears in us.
S. When you started your explanation, in the beginning of the lesson, you said we should try to divide reality into two. What is this division? The upper reality?
R. What kind of, we don't yet see reality divided into two, yet as if it's divided into two, above reason, the world of bestowal and within reason, the world of reception.
S. Okay, so where's the boundary?
R. Between them, the boundary is if I establish myself, position myself so that until here is my will to receive and beyond this point is my will to bestow which is not that it's the same will to receive that now works with the intention to bestow.
S. So when we try to depict the upper reality what eventually, how do we obtain it, is that our inclination towards it or do we truly, will our existence be in that?
R. We not we build, not that we enter it, we rather build the upper world, it doesn't exist standing ready for us now, it's ready for us to make it but we build it in our will to receive by working with our Tzimtzum, Masach, Ohr Chozer and with our Ohr Chozer we build the upper world and the more we have reflected light and different degrees and different manners, then we can further portray to ourselves what the upper world is, but before that none of it exists. It all exists in our will to receive that works in order to receive or in order to bestow. Beyond that, there is our upper source which we can't even say a word about because it doesn't exist in our desires or intentions. What does exist in our desires or intentions as what we discover and call HaVaYaH. YKVK. That is what appears in our desires and intentions that's the Creator that's called, come and see, so everything exists within the person who attains.
S. So what is this act of building the upper world? What did, precisely, do we build? How do we build the upper world?
R. We build our desires that are in mutual qualities of bestowal and that's what we call a soul.
9. S. (27:58) Is all we have to do is discover a different world within us?
R. Yes, everything is within us and Baal HaSulam writes that as well, that everything is within the person, everything exists within the person and a person is called a small world and besides us, besides the will to receive we discover everything, we can't discover anything more and we're not able to. Everything is within the desire and so we discover reality only in two different forms: the form of in order to receive and in order to bestow. The Creator created this against that bringing these two parts together Closer to each other, from that we begin to understand godliness, the upper force that is above both, but we discover it only in the will to receive. This is why we can give it names and definitions and qualities because we discover it only in our own will to receive.
10. S. (29:41) You talked about the astronaut but who is inside of the suit, the space suit so on the outside... so should we depict ourselves as having other senses beyond the ordinary ones that we have?
R. Sure, sure we have the senses they're just dormant, we have to discover them and in them we will discover the upper reality. The astronaut sees what is beyond his space suit, however we just need to acquire the intention to bestow and then what's outside that space suit will not harm us because we also want to use it in order to bestow. The spiritual world that's outside of us, the moment we will know that we relate to it in order to bestow, then we cannot be harmed. We are above our will to receive and therefore we can be, to that extent, we can be, in that same space, in that same will to bestow and that same kind, in that same external environment. That's how it is.
11. S. (31:48) What is this limitation, this boundary? Is this a desire to rise above reason?
R. Our will to receive in order to receive is very limited. It only works to provide something for ourselves, and not to feel the others and so it cannot be greater than fulfilling itself only. If we see that, how much, how long we exist and ultimately we die and how much can we absorb in our lives? In our lives we only take care of maintaining the levels of still, vegetative, animate, in us and we can barely fulfill the speaking degree, the human degree. It also doesn't exist in our nature, it only exists when it is within us, so that's our life. It's just to give us a preparation, a condition from which we can emerge out of the animate degree and achieve a human degree.
12. S. (33:25) You said at the beginning that we need to sort our thoughts and aim most of them towards the Creator and towards the ten, it sounds kind of complicated, how can we do it simply? Let's say choose just one sensation and throughout the whole day to be inside of it or to just try to do it, aim this sensation to the ten?
R. This is everyone's problem. We have to make an effort to portray to ourselves a different reality to what we feel now, it's a collective reality and inclusive reality all of us together that is the how the integral reality is built. It's just that the opposite of it, my ego, detaches me from that reality, everyone's connected, everyone's corrected, all elements of nature are working together as a single mechanism, a single system, vastly interconnected, completely connected to each other. Only I feel myself detached from them and that's why I think of them this way and that's why I judge them this way. So the more I relate to everyone as connected and I am detached from this connection and I describe myself as one judges through his own flaws, as it says this is how it will become easier for me to understand the state of the whole of creation and I'll see that Divinity dwells in everyone, connects everyone and it's the revelation of the Creator. That's how he appears. We have to try, we have to make all sorts of efforts to portray this state where everyone's connected, everyone's corrected, only I need to make the correction over myself to see everyone else correctly.
13. S. (36:10) What do we unite in the ten in order to reach the Creator's perception of reality?
R. We want to feel in the ten how, whatever appears to my eyes as broken, together and ask the Creator that is the upper light to truly connect us as one and that's what I need to keep thinking that I'm doing, and try to do it.
14. S. (37:12) I simply exist in some observation point and there is this issue that I don't allow myself to receive pleasure or be happy. It happens to me in all kinds of actions in the ten ordering of dissemination so the question is, should I take all of these states through my feeling?
R. It's the big ego that you're activating and the more you're refraining from receiving, enjoying, you're going to feel yourself as righteous but it's going to be completely false. You need to be happy and to enjoy the opportunity to connect and replace the pleasure of from receiving to a pleasure from giving but without pleasure you can't live, you must not enter this bitterness where you are the fool that sits in his own lap and eats his own flesh and it’ll give you no strength to do things in life. On the contrary, you need to develop as many connections as you can with the friends, connections of love, these bonds, instead of sitting and crying about your egoistic existence. Forget about the ego, don't take care of it, the more you try to ruin it, the more it grows, it enjoys it. Instead only think of the form of bestowal and love, that's the only way that you can achieve correction.
15. S. (39:19) Our ten meets every day. We read excerpts from the sources, do workshops but you said now that we need to depict a better state, the corrected state. We can imagine connection and each one of us can talk about it and then we can ask if the Creator and each time our meeting should be devoted to this specifically. This is how I see it. Is this approach correct or should we change something?
R. Consult with your friends and decide, I think that's true, I think that first you need to do it through discussion in the ten, through consulting, you need to decide on everything together.
16. S. (40:50) To imagine the unity of our ten, what does it mean to imagine the unity of the ten in the emotion? Are these two different places: imagination in the mind, imagination in the heart, two different kinds of work?
R. When you receive the desire of each and every friend and you feel that you are all different in that, yet complementing each other, that's what needs to happen, both the feeling of a difference as well as the feeling of completion specifically thanks to the difference. By that, you begin to feel that you are putting together, composing the ten, composing the soul.
17. S. (42:00) When we say let's imagine the spiritual state, that will later enable us to work in each one?
R. Yes, of course it is so.
18. S. (42:25) Are we living in multiple realities and what are these?
R. That's philosophy. Beware of asking these things.
Excerpt #37 Rabash (42:47 - 47:34) reads twice
19. R. We start to understand that the evil inclination also helps him to reach the good. He knows how to use both of these forms, both of these desires. It's a bit long and this is why it is difficult for us to digest it.
20. S. (47:59) Can you say it turns out that in the will to receive I have no ability to find the point of in order to bestow, it doesn't exist there. How can you disconnect from that will to receive even for a moment in terms of the detachment, this is jump out of it, of the will to receive?
R. So, you want to be a double egoist I want to also have the will to bestow below me so I can manage it, that will never work out for you. The Creator will not give you such a possibility ever. How can you find a point by which you bestow, it doesn't exist in you, you just have an environment, read again the article about The Freedom, about the environment and you'll see what it says there. You certainly would not be able to find a point of bestowal within you ever, however if you are included in the environment, there, through your subjugation towards them, when you will stop feeling that you are greater than them and that you understand more than them, but rather to the contrary that you are lesser than everyone, you're weaker than everyone, then by that you will find in them such a point through which you will be able to come closer to the Creator.
S. But it's not a volitional action. The Creator forces me.
R. According to your desire, only your ego works. What does it mean, yours? Who are you? It's your ego who is now determining for you each and everything. How can you identify with it? Just notice the way you are talking. You are talking out of your ego, truly, without disconnecting from it even a little bit and without feeling it, feeling yourself outside of it. No, you are constantly talking from within the ego so how can you discuss things correctly, judge things correctly?
S. I meant according to what we read. It turns out that I myself come to this prayer, to the Creator but you always say that we need to come to annulment in the ten.
R. Well how can you turn to the Creator if you're not connecting to some extent or at least have some inclination towards the society? The Creator is giving you all kinds of illuminations from above so that you would feel that you are lost, that you cannot get out of your ego and then you begin to see that you have no chance of connecting with the Creator and this is the only force that can help you and you are not yet certain of it but at least you hear that it is what it is written so you have no choice but to connect with the Creator. That he created within you the evil inclination, he will build within you the ability to rise above it and reach the good inclination so how will you do that? Only through the ten. Otherwise you have no contact with the Creator.
S. Can I examine this annulment?
R. What do you mean, examine that, you have to do it. You have to check within your ego again, how do you check your actions if it is all inside of your ego? So then, what are you checking? You simply have to do it as you were told and then try to disconnect from the thoughts and desires in which you exist, then it will happen, this is called faith above reason. We have been talking about it in the recent days that I depict the world the way that I depict it and now I try to build an opposite world inside of me, an opposite relationship to it and that way I can reach what it says, “I have seen an opposite world,” that everything exists only in the form of bestowal rather than reception. Try, try it. Trust your brain less. It seems to you that you are wise, so in the framework of this world, maybe you are, but in spirituality none of it is worth anything.
S. How is it possible, you're talking about imagining the opposite world so how can you imagine, I don't know, that you’re president? You can't and or something else and here I have to be precise in my imagination of above reason.
R. Well do you realize that you cannot build the spiritual world with your mind, with your intellect but only specifically by rising above your intellect, by doing the opposite of it according to your effort or, the effort that you invest in order to build the spiritual world within you according to this effort you will get help but the effort must be to rise above reason. This is why all of our work is to achieve faith above reason, to discover the force of Bina that exists above Malchut, above our will to receive.
21. S. (54:21) The evil inclination is only within the human?
R. The evil inclination is inside each and every one and it works only against connection that Adam HaRishon was one, one Kli, one body meaning one desire and when he was divided into many parts, all of its parts started to feel one against the other, the evil inclination, the desire that is pushing each part away from the other parts, this is called the evil inclination.
22. S. (55:24) Why does the Creator inflict suffering on virtues, what are the degree of the suffering states and what will happen after the sufferings?
R. The Creator wants to show us that our ego is awakening within us all kinds of unpleasant feelings that we call suffering. If we will rise above our ego, then we won't feel suffering. We will only feel pleasures and in such a way he's teaching us. Therefore, out of lack of choice, it brings humanity, each time, greater and greater suffering and out of that humanity wants to run away from the suffering and somehow it advances towards forms that are closer to bestowal. This is what it's happening.
23. S. (56:53) You probably were asked many times but still I would like to ask again. If a person is entirely made up of the ego, how to handle himself before other people?
R. Only out of the ego just like the still, vegetative and animate but between people who are among the people who are all considered as animals there are part of them in which such a Godly part from above that awakens, the small spark of the light, not even out of the light but out of the reflected light that remains in them as a result of the shattering. We learned about it and we will learn more that it happened in the world of Nekudim, later on in the world of Atzilut, Adam HaRishon so that spark from the shattering which is a part of the reflected light that is in the captivity of the general will to receive, of man, it awakens the person and it tells him that there is such a thing called the will to bestow. There is this thing that exists outside of the will to receive. It's a different world. It's a different life. It is something that is worthwhile to achieve and even though he is inside, it is inside of the will to receive, however that's considered that one is in a state of exile, inside of the will to receive but it wants to come out of it and then the person starts to yearn, all kinds of forms of development. First develops in the direction of a better corporeal life and then all kinds of forms of culture, education, science, until after science he reaches a state where I want to know, to know the upper force. Not only this nature that exists within the will to receive but also in a nature which is above the will to receive and then those people who have an inclination to discover the upper nature, it is considered that they have a point in the heart, that inside of the general will to receive they have an inclination towards the Creator. They don't yet know it, they don't understand it but this inclination is already pushing them forward and then they reach other people with similar points in the heart and they somehow start to get organized, they think that they're doing it but it's done from above. A small illumination each time from above works on them and all of them together in order to assemble them into groups and, so that through the relationships between them they will keep conditions by which the upper force can be revealed which is the force of bestowal, the force of unity. So it's the bestowal and unity that those people with the points in the heart are capable of keeping between them, that gives the general, allows the general upper force to be revealed among them and then he is revealed as inner light inside of them. Okay? Good.
24. S. (01:00:32) How can I overcome the feeling of: I didn't advance even a step forward after the morning lesson?
R. It depends on how you check your advancement, you see it depends on how. The question is as follows: isn't it the Creator who’s awakening within you this question that I didn't advance? Imagine to yourself that everything that is inside of you, everything that is awakening in you each and every moment comes from the Creator. So that either you will agree with whatever he's doing with you or you will not agree with what he's doing with you and that way you will advance. Try to respond in such a way for each and every moment that something awakens within you, a desire awakens within you, a thought awakens within you, that is all coming from within the Creator. He is always talking within you, he's always working, however you are not ascribing it to him. This is why he is hiding. Try more and more to talk to him each and every moment through the friends, with the friends or even by yourself but it's preferable to do it through the ten. That is a lot more powerful.
25. S. (01:02:13) What is that place called between us?
R. It is a place that we don't yet feel it is the Creator, He is between us. If we will feel that we have between us a will to receive, this space which is pushing us away from each other that is the opposite form of the Creator, rejection, lack of desire for connection. Try to invert these relations to connection, to an inclination to each other, to love and then you will discover there that hidden force called BoReh, Creator, come and see. This is why he's called come and see, since out of those same egoistic rejections that exist between you, you need to prepare for him a place for revelation which is called Divinity or a field blessed by the Lord. Go ahead. Everything is in your hands. He is constantly awakening these conditions in you.
26. S. (01:03:37) It sounds as though our egos crave positive or negative attention like a child. Is this so?
R. Sure. What is the ego? It's just the desire to enjoy, totally. It just wants to enjoy. That's it.
27. S. (01:04:11) In the article that says do whatever you're able to do. What does that sentence mean?
R. That everything that brings you to connection with others and through them with the Creator, do it in all possible manners, whatever is possible for you.
28. S. (01:04:45) We are connecting in the ten, allowing the Creator to appear between us. Everything we discover in this is the Creator's world, there's nothing besides that he's the whole of reality to us right?
R. Of course, there is nothing besides that. The place that we discover between us, the world we discover is that place of the worlds where the Creator, where it is revealed and where the Creator is concealed and the revelation of the Creator happens there, it's between us, between us. Everything is inside of that soul of Adam haRishon, besides the soul there is nothing. Well there is some general light that we do not discover. It is outside of our vessels. We discover it a little bit as surrounding light, a general surrounding light we will talk more about that.
29. S. (01:05:59) If we build the Creator between us where do all the forces come from?
R. From Him. You build his image, his revelation towards you and your senses but he exists outside of your senses and he arranges and sustains everything.
30. S. (01:06:25) During the day, how can a person be in a perception of reality of the Creator and bestowal when everything around and pushes him to egoistic reception?
R. Well, if the group exists and they influence each other and constantly awaken each person to be connected with all of the friends no matter what he's doing, during his work, when he is at home in each and everything, then he can constantly depict in the group the presence of the Creator, that he wants to live with that all the time, the presence of the group and the presence of the Creator, he wants them to constantly feel that they're with him. He doesn't need to depict it as faces, bodies, but rather as emotions, as inclinations.
31. S. (01:07:31) You explained before that the efforts, that is what brings us to the perception of reality outside of ourselves. Why are the efforts so important?
R. The efforts, that is our exertion, if we will not invest a sufficient amount of effort, we won't be able to feel the spiritual world and the Creator because this specifically is the vessel. Our efforts, that's the building of the vessel, the building of the desire, the building of the intention, the reflected light in which the upper world, the Creator is revealed. This is why without efforts nothing will happen just like you're making efforts to fulfill your ego, similarly against it you should have, you should make efforts to bestow to others and to the Creator because otherwise, without efforts you'll have no desire. The effort is really the desire so if you don't have a desire to achieve something you can't also feel something, therefore to the extent that we learn to discover the Creator through our efforts, towards that, we develop a vessel we discover a vessel for the revelation of the Creator, out of the same efforts to Creator becomes revealed. Without effort where will he be revealed? The effort comes from the desire. If there is no desire then we cannot see him, anything, not the will to receive nor the will to bestow.
32. S. (01:09:27) Can you please give a definition who's a friend in the ten?
R. A friend in the ten is one who's making efforts like me to reach the revelation of the Creator where it is clear that it won't be in him or in me, but in the connection between us we build that desire and reach the Creator through that mutual inclination between us can be revealed, by that we built the Creator. You have made me.
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