Morning Lesson March 27, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Passover - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. (And a new king arose over Egypt #45)
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes when does it begin, when we begin to feel our desires that they are not in our favor but they are against us. When the person's ‘I’ begins to yearn for the goal for connection and attainment of the Creator within the connection and essentially attaining the quality of bestowal or faith above reason. It doesn't matter in what words we wrap this state, but that is what we should already begin to depict to ourselves, that this is the state we have to achieve. It has to be as a goal which we must attain and by what conditions or by what means do we attain it.
Faith above reason, bestowal, coming out of one’s ego or easier to say, coming out of one’s self, when a person transcends himself and then to the extent that he begins to somehow make these movements. What he hears from the articles, the ten, the group and to better understand what the Kabbalists are writing about, what Rabash details so much for the first time in history. He detailed man’s work in a very specific way, how he has to work in different ways in order to see how he is in the will to receive and how he can begin to somehow rise above it.
Accordingly the person begins to see that his will to receive is not that simple it is very complex and the Creator did all this purposefully from one thing and it's opposite. From the will to receive he will begin to discover what is a will to bestow. How multifaceted and special and rich and great it has to be and this is the whole world, like our world ourselves and everything around us physically, emotionally, internally, psychologically. Everything that we get, we discover all of that within our will to receive and opposite that, how we are going to discover the spiritual world in the will to bestow. How can we long towards this reality that is above us, how we establish this and maintain this, and each time keep strengthening it so that this spiritual reality will develop and we will learn what else we need to do with it.
That is the challenge, and the problem is that the moment a person begins to do some actions, for how to rise above oneself to the nature of bestowal, of love, of connection and begins to see how opposite he is to that, completely opposite, then he begins to recognize the first condition in attaining this reality. One thing and its opposite, that the more we want to reveal the quality of bestowal love and connection we are actually not discovering that quality itself. We discover ourselves and how opposite we are to bestowal and love and connection. Then we begin to recognize what force what kind of King is ruling us.
Anything that is attained from its opposite, through that we come to recognize the evil inclination. We know that if we talk to all kinds of people who have an egoistic desire they tell you, ok fine that’s us, that's nature. Of course every creation takes care of its own well being and self interest. No we're not talking about that, we are not talking about the instinctive concern that every creature has towards its own survival and its own well-being for its own good. We are talking about the force itself that resides in us and directs us that we need to attain. First we attain the evil inclination the Creator created and how it doesn’t let us emerge from it and this is called, ‘getting to know the Pharaoh.’
To the extent that we try as if to be in forms of bestowal, connections between us, what Kabbalists advise us to do, somehow engage in that. In the group with the tens, with the friends, in general towards the world, so in this way, we start to recognize in this way and we begin to recognize the two angels, the two forces of nature. One indicates the other and only this way through opposites and connections between light and darkness, giving and receiving, plus and minus, in short we can detect them and begin to study them. How we are filled from them and between them we get all our perception of reality. Ultimately we rise above both in the middle line, that both of these forces become within us forces that although we become incorporated with them, we can also be above them and by them reach their source which is the Creator.
The Creator is above the force of bestowal and the force of reception and this is what we attain from knowing these angels that govern us. In Shabbat there is this song we sing that comes to the Peace, that the angels of Peace, the good and the bad inclination both lead us to Shabbat. That Shabbat, Sabbath, includes both of these forces, both reception and bestowal and brings them to wholeness, one cannot be without the other. This is why it is called Shabbat Shalom, Sabbath of Peace because it reveals to us a state where all forces of nature complement each other because they originated in a single source.
There it doesn't even matter, plus or minus they both complement in each other and this is the state we ultimately have to achieve, it is called the final correction. To us it appears as a force of bestowal but we have to understand and always aim for that, and that we cannot discover the force of bestowal without the force of reception inside it, towards us as created beings it is the only way. Therefore when we are told a new King arose over Egypt, when do we discover the positive force? When we want to do some actions we discover the negative force that prevents us and it indicates the positive force that is missing, but we wish to discover it. We always have to direct ourselves towards two different forces and see both as existing and required to exist, and man is in between. To relate to one force as pointing to the other, one comes to point to the other and the darkness shines to light.
There is no good without bad, there is no light without the darkness and darkness without light. If we are seemingly in the middle line, then we will better understand the process we go through, everything that unfolds, and it unfolds in order to reveal something opposite. If we observe it in such a way, we develop the middle line within us where there is no good and no bad but everything is only aimed at revealing the upper force out of both. Let’s read and from there we will surely have questions, it is a very special and broad and deep topic, this is the foundation of Kabbalah. How do we discover the forces of reception and bestowal and combine them and exist between them, because it is clear to us that from even the initial particle of matter, it already contains both plus and minus, this is what we see throughout all of nature.
Can there be anything that exists outside of the two opposites of nature? No, there is no such thing, because we created beings, are only formed from both. We cannot be made out of the will to bestow because that is the Creator himself, this is how he appears to us. We cannot be just from the force of reception because that is the opposite to the Creator, so it already exists in reality. But when we are included in both, and the laws of cohabitation, communication and consideration and connection and concern, mutual concern between these two forces, and how they intertwine. That is our whole Wisdom, our whole attainment, how we connect these two forces, this is where all our wisdom comes from.
Our whole life is built from two opposites on all levels in sounds and musical notes and colors and our mind and our emotion, everything. Whenever we talk about the new King that arose in Egypt we need to immediately understand and find the place where each works opposite the other, and we are in-between and we want to include both of them. Only in that way will we advance in the right incorporation between the two forces and then we will not fall into one or the other but establish ourselves in the form of Adam from the word Domeh, similar to the Creator. He exists between these two forces and we embrace these two forces and see reality in between, that is how we will advance.
We will not answer questions, I’m sorry. We will read a little bit and then we will have a more and better direction to scrutinize.
Reader continues. (16:11) “And a new King rose over Egypt.”
R. Meaning a person who begins to reveal himself, where he is, what system of forces, so he discovers that he’s in a bad force and a good force, both reception and bestowal, attraction and rejection. Between these two forces we actually have all of reality, on the levels of still, vegatative animate and speaking.
Excerpt 45 (16:45) Twice
2. S. (19:22) It says and it keeps repeating, that the exile and the enslavement is clear but the exile he says, that we are exiled from somewhere. The person has to reveal where is he exiled from? What does it mean, exile from where?
R. That’s when a person doesn’t attain and feel like he was in that. Like you are saying, he has a feeling that he is not in one force but in the other, so he can already say from one opposite the other, that this belongs to me and the other doesn’t, but it’s a beginning. Like he says here at the beginning of the exile, what does he discover? That the other force rules him which was not there before or was, but it wasn't so revealed. I did not know that I was immersed in the control of the will to receive and it is in my nature and it directs me and it navigates me, always towards my self benefit.
Perhaps I am not interested in my self benefit but I discover that I think about it this way, I begin to look at myself a little bit like a psychologist from aside, and this is why I discover a new rulership arises in me, there is a new quality and this quality demands me to think this way, to do this way, in a certain way that I did not understand before, attain it before. I did not know how much I belong to the egoistic force that I keep and always thinking about myself, this and this and that. It’s a new governance. It’s very interesting when a person begins to discover how he is forcefully being turned into all kinds of forms of self benefit.
3. S. (22:08) On the one hand he writes a new King arose and on the other hand he did not know Joseph in his heart. What are these two forces that on the one hand Pharaoh, the other hand Pharaoh and between them the development takes place?
R. We will have to clarify that. We begin to discover a new force that operates us, we perhaps are unaware of it that it begins to appear more. We begin to be really conscious that this is our nature, that it unfolds to us and works in us in such a way and manipulates us. In short we discover the Pharaoh in a way that we want to somewhat rise above it, when we want to be in more connection and bestowal and we discover that we can’t. How much we reject it and how one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater than himself. You can see this in some people, who some of them easily go to others, hug them, are friendly to others, and in others the will to receive is greater and they cannot do these actions of connection.
People who come to Kabbalah with some serious evil inclination, after the corrections they will become in the good inclination, so they begin to discover how much they cannot do these things. There are such great desires that they do not even understand how it’s possible and then there is even more than that, that they don’t hear about connection to others. To somehow assist each other, they cannot even hear that. To receive an order and fulfill it, yes, but an inclination of the heart towards connection is just impossible. I don't even think in that direction, I can’t move towards that direction, such people and even more, I don't even want to go into these aspects.
These people come to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and they become great Kabbalists, one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater than himself. Do not be afraid that we cannot connect, that we reject these forms of connection. It’s an indication that we have a profound great soul and we have to learn how to work with it. Small desires like the still, vegetative and animate, we can’t or ordinary people who should also belong to the animate level, we can’t do that either. We have a greater will to receive, we haven’t chosen it, it is a gift from above and in the meantime it looks like a bad gift, but by using it correctly we achieve godliness.
4. S. (25:58) Why is the Creator showing us this enslavement, the quality of reception and it is revealed in such a complex way and multi-layered way?
R. This is nature, what can you do? We learn that from the world of Ein Sof, all the worlds cascaded one degree after the other until this world and here, the will to receive appears to us in the smallest thinnest layer. From that we begin to organize it on higher and higher levels in the will to receive. It opens up more and we see that we can’t cope with the other and we even want to kill the other and then we go to very high degrees to the extent that we attain the will to bestow and the will to connect. Accordingly, we will discover a desire to disconnect, and this is called one who is greater than his friend on the right line, his inclination on the left line is greater than himself, and this is how we keep climbing on the ladder. Don’t be afraid and don’t be overwhelmed that any moment I can discover myself as more egoistic and further away than I was before from the friends, from the group, this is our path. We only have to do actions of connection and prayer.
S. We see our egoism is developing, so where is the right line ?
R. This is what you have to develop in the group. If you do not develop the right line in the group then you will not receive the left line, you will not get an increase on the left line. You are now given recognition of your ego only to balance it with the good force that you require from the group, from connection with the friends. From there you absorb the upper force, the good force and this is how you advance. You detect bad discernments between the friends and you have to complete them with good discernments with the friends. Then you keep rising and rising, left and right, left and right and on the way you’ll see what you attained from both this and that, that’s the work. Between these two disernments, after a few times you begin to reveal the Creator as the source of a both, both the rejecting and the connecting force. This is already the Wisdom of Kabbalah in practice.
5. S. (29:28) It is like Pharaoh and the Creator are fighting each other and we are stuck in between. What is our function between the Creator and Pharaoh and why do we have to suffer between the two?
R. They are our own inner forces, both the Creator and Pharaoh. They are forces of nature and we are included with both and they do not exist outside of the person they only exist within the person, inside each and everyone. We have to study them, and to the extent that we can juxtapose them, one against each other, we get to understand the middle line and the middle line is essentially the attainment of the upper force, their source, the source of both forces. We’ll learn, in the meantime we have to detect these forces, left and right and make room for both this and that, and not really prioritize one over the other. Of course we want the right to cover the left, but cover and not cancel. Love covers all crimes and that is how we will advance.
6. S. (31:13) What does it mean that they did not attain him more than they can detect him in the heart?
R. To the extent that we can feel and detect the good forces and bad forces, to that extent we can advance, that's it. As much as I can soften my heart with the forces of reception and bestowal, what is the main thing that I am doing? I am connecting with the group and from connecting in the group I can then begin to work with both left and right, and not be afraid that I am falling from one and lose the other. What is important for us to maintain both always and as much as it is possible to get both of them together, so that I advance in between them; and so to me left and right are just rungs of the ladder that I use to rise above.
7. S. (32:44) The new king that does not know Joseph, so there is seemingly an old king who did know him and there was like a fall from a degree here, can you explain this?
R. We will learn this soon. Of course as we learn a new state we begin to gradually understand how that state is different from the other; what is the force that was in me in the previous state and what is the new force that is now in me in the present state. New King Melech, new Malchut, new form of Malchut.
S. It looked like I used to be in a higher state but now it is a low state and I'm in between this, is my vessel seemingly?
R. Yes.
8. S. (33:41) Is the force of bestowal from the previous degree, which is Joseph, able to help the person in the current degree?
R. Of course everything we learn we have to see how we change our perception, our progress, our relation to the group.
S. He writes that they were made to forget Joseph, why?
R. If they didn’t, wouldn’t forget Joseph we wouldn’t attain the upper degree as well because Joseph is what accumulates all the data that you have in the present state. To rise to the next state, first you have to grip hold of a greater will to receive. And Joseph who connects everything and brings everything together disappears to some extent and then we can rise. The negative forces seemingly and the positive forces they have to work intermittently, this and that, left and right. And seemingly one overpowers the other but it is actually making room for the other.
9. S. (35:10) It is written in the end that “slavery started because otherwise the righteous would certainly protect them and the exile or enslavery would not be depicted to them at all”. Who is the righteous and why would they not go into enslavery or exile?
R. Joseph, the righteous, is the quality that connects everything together both right and left, and thus justifies both right and left, and therefore is called righteous.
R. What I am asking is this, when you review all these excerpts, try in a sentence or maybe two sentences if you can, to summarize what do I take as a conclusion to realize in practice.
Reading 46 (36:21 - 38:13) twice
10. S. (38:18) What’s going on here: we look at reality that is in front of us, still, vegetative, animate, speaking, the whole universe, we have to say that all of it, this whole creation is not a good inclination or an evil inclination, it is all just a desire to exist that works in each and every element of reality in a predetermined way. And this force determines that it has to take care of itself and it is not called the evil inclination or good inclination, it is just a nature's force, it is neither good or evil. It is the same in the person who is born as we see in this world that we call human to a certain kind of animal. And we don’t treat that as something that’s human, it is a some kind of an animal. When do we begin to relate to a creature as human, Adam?
Only according to how he discovers that he has an existence of itself opposite to the others. And it is not considered his ego, his evil inclination. So we do not count a human from the moment the person is born out of his animal mother, as an animal out of his mother and we count the years of age but we are talking about the degrees of development of the human. We are born in the form of an animal and we do not take it into account, we only take into account how we developed in the well to receive which is aimed at the attainment of the Creator. If there is such a desire to receive that is aimed at attaining the Creator, which is called the point in the heart, and we can say that in that created being, there is a foundation for the development of the human in him.
This is why it is said that “man and animal will be saved by the Creator”. There are people who don’t have a point in the heart and there are people who do. Meaning, the desire to attain the Creator, to reach Him, to connect with Him, to attain Him. So that desire, once again it is a desire, it is not the piece of flesh, this desire is what we called Adam, human, in that it wants to grow and resemble the Creator. So this desire as it grows, it does not understand that it has to resemble the Creator and how and who is the Creator? It is simply developing, it is developing by itself, by the higher force of nature, not the corporeal flesh but the upper force of nature that works within it to develop it. Then bit by within its development, it comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah because here it can attain the forces that are needed for its directed development.
This is why in one of the days of his life, or in times, or states more accurately, he comes to a state where he reveals in some way this opportunity to develop, like what happened to everyone of us and this is where development starts. This development can be long: a few months or years or even decades, I am not even mentioning that it can also be life-cycles and that’s because in our time, the time becomes more condensed, let's say. And so that person than advances by the group as he learns and if he is not disregarding these opportunities and he listens then he goes forward; and if he disregards and cannot get connected to others which also indicates the magnitude of the soul, how big is his evil inclination, that he cannot see himself surrendering and connecting to others in order to attain the goal, he does not hear the others, doesn’t hear what the Kabbalists write in their books.
He read those books but he does not hear it internally, the heart does not respond and the mind cannot process the data he is reading; that we have to be connected together and bring together the broken pieces of the desire, the broken pieces of the mind, bring them together, he cannot hear it, the person does not. It may takes a long time until he does make some actions, even if he does not really add his own power and effort but it influences him, the surrounding light works.
Then he connects a bit more and more to the others especially through blows. When he sees that he does not advance like the others in all kinds of events that take place here, he begins to hear more and more and be sorry about his nature. Then he begins to surrender a bit more and more and until he comes to the point when he is ready, when he’s willing that the Creator will work on him and do whatever He wants out of him, what the upper one wants and not what the person wants, this is how we advance. There are many kinds of people among us and one influences the other and this is how we connect to the ten and into a Partzuf.
11. S. (45:48) I listen to you, and what I see in myself that I am too open to socialize with friends, to connect even though I remember that in the first meeting with my friends, I was embracing them and the singing together and dancing, and it was so natural, so much from the heart it was like I have known them for a hundred years, not like someone I met newly. But on the other hand there is a great anger that is revealed, extreme anger that is revealed as a result of the work. And to do I work on this while I have another condition and then I have this extreme anger?
R. When you came to the group then, like any new person in the group, you were willing to do anything to become apart, to not be thrown away. So your will to receive did not jump, you submitted yourself to the others, you surrendered just so they would accept you. You agreed to everything that was there and you were willing to serve and help everybody, just like in any new environment we go to. But after a few times when you are already there, and you know the place and the people somewhat, then your will to receive starts to show itself and wants to control.
Then you begin to discover in each and every person all kinds of states, negative inclinations, and you start to criticize them and so on and then you do not really want to connect to them but you connect to them two lines and that is where the problem begins. It is not a problem, in fact, it is an opportunity to inspect and correct the connection. When separation appears then you can correct it to connection. In each and every place of distance that appears you can make a connection; and so if you understand what needs to be done then you do it. That can be in your workplace even or whatever, for us it works more internal and so you have to connect it to the Creator and ask from Him the forces of bestowal by which you overcome the distance. It is recommended to grow the connection with that Creator on top of the separation between you and the friends that the Creator, Himself, is revealing to you.
The fact that He reveals to you a negative attitude to the friends, this is called “I have created the evil inclination”, specifically that. It does not mean that you were born with an evil inclination, and now what He's doing to you, that you feel rejection towards the friends, this is called “I have created the evil inclination”. Now you have to demand connection here and not to look for anything else just ask the Creator and make corrections. Concretely, right now, you have all the data for spiritual progress. The Creator gives you all kinds of frauds with the friends, they could be out in the open or not and only you feeling it. You have to turn to Him and ask Him, that He will connect so that in your heart, you feel as if all those friends are included with you and that could be from the second or third day in the group.
S. I agree with buy but I also this extreme anger comes from a deep insecurity because I want to feel a closeness, I want to feel that I am loved, and I want to feel that I am loved by the Creator, that He is surrounding me, embracing me. But when I can not find this security, when I can not find this closeness then this extreme anger comes inside of me?
R. This is okay, this is fine that you feel that way but to balance this out, you can do that only on the condition that the Creator works with you. You have to ask the Creator to be a partner, that He will make connection between you, so it is you, the group and the Creator as always the middle line between that includes both of you. So don't forget that you and the group can become connected only by the force of the Creator.
S. Also, for two days, we have extreme heaviness in the ten, yesterday and today, and today I am gabei and I do not know how to awaken the friends. During the day what can we do, we feel such a heaviness that we cannot even stay in the lesson.
R. First of all recognize that this heavy feeling comes from the Creator, None Else besides Him, and it’s foolish to think that it is one of the friends or a few friends are guilty, they are not guilty of anything. It’s an ascent in the will to receive the left line that is collective so we feel that we are not as close as before. We can turn to the Creator to bring us to connection again but it will be on a higher-level, already, until the Creator also appears in the connection, not right now, but after a few times it will happen.
12. S. (53:08) Following the previous question, our incorporation in the ten, we build it above the shattering, how should we feel the shattering inside the ten as one man?
R. We have to pray to the Creator to help us to be as much as possible in a single desire, we call this “the single heart” and in the desire we feel ourselves connected, and there we hope for revealing the Creator, that's it. I am deliberately saying short sentences so you do not try to add all kinds of things to this, just follow it the way it is.
13. S. (53:14) Only a small part of humanity comes from the point in the heart, those that can make corrections, so why do we need all the rest?
R. The great mass of all created beings is the main part of the whole vessel of Adam HaRishon and this whole Kli receives through these unique individuals, unique souls, unique desires, they receive Correction and fulfillment, typically it goes together. And that is how they received it, we need that mass. Put it like this, we also learn from life that there is this very tiny kernel in the brain like a microprocessor doing all the actions. What is its volume, I don't know, like one millimeter by one millimeter, let’s say, and the whole body is 100kg. And what is in it besides flesh even if you cut off some of it, you can still live but without the microprocessor in the brain we have no way to live. We see the same in Adam HaRishon, why did the Creator create this?
Because the point of connection with the Creator is truly just a point, there cannot be more than just this contact because it comes ultimately from the complete annulment so we do not need more than just that point that I focus all of my inclination toward reality in there and my whole annulment towards the upper and through that point, I received everything. Contact does not require more than a single point, so do not ask why we need the whole of humanity. Humanity is actually the Creator’s goal, the whole of mankind and we are like the part of God above, that point of contact. So we do not belong to mankind but rather we belong to the Creator, this is called “the nation of God '' and this is why we are this conduit, Yashar El, straight to the Creator. We have no room in mankind, we have no place there and we also do not have a place in the Creator but only in the contact between Him and them. Therefore we are called “the drop of unification”.
S. It turns out that humanity lives unconsciously, we can’t add to it?
R. Humanity awaits our work, this is why we have to hurry in our work of finding contact with the Creator and directed this connection towards the Creator and for the sake of humanity in order to raise humanity through us to connection with the Creator, and by this both the Creator and humanity will be connected and we will be as a conduit in the middle as Baal HaSulam explains to us in the article Arvut.
14. S. (58:48) The true falls will come only in spirituality?
R. Yes, all the real things happen only in spirituality.
S. Can you call the current state as a preparation for a jump?
R. Yes, possibly.
S. And we need the entire group to enter, the entire ten, to enter this state or only part of the ten?
R. Yes, it is desirable, and if someone fell, they fell, so they don't belong to that. They were there for a while and then they will leave.
15. S. (59:35) Who is Joseph in us and in the ten, why when we grow up Joseph disappears?
R. Joseph means our point of contact to the Creator, that he collects all of the influences from above and connects to us and therefore, it’s also called Joseph the righteous because any connection to him can become only in order to bestow.
16. S. (01:00:02) We discovered that the Pharaoh reveals our individual desires, we take the Creator by the hand and we go to him. What is this attitude?
R. When you will do it yourselves, you will understand it. Working with the Pharaoh can only be to the extent that we are drawn to the connection and we make the connection happen. From that we gradually learn how to work with our common will to receive.
S. I want to connect with my friends and I can't come out of my individual desires, what to do?
R. Pray, ask, take part in all actions of connection. I understand you, I understand but don't leave, don't let go. It might take more time but it will happen, you will begin to feel this as a necessity.
17. S. (01:01:38) I have a request for practical advice: I have giant friends in the ten, when I think about them I want to hold them in my heart with care and concern. And the more you try it doesn't work out, you get foreign thoughts and even the more you ask, the more it slips away and you cannot hold on to it. How to practically start with something so simple?
R. First of all, continue to live with them together in all kinds of activities together, not to miss any lesson, help the ten as much as possible in absorbing the lesson. Repeating the material again, maybe highlight some things. Everyone does it differently or on the computer maybe, add some impressions of what affected you, what influenced you. Like, to each and every excerpt you can add something of your own and then see. If the time comes, you will see later what it gives you and how you have advanced or even how you have descended from the previous state, that is good too, to see. And that is how it will happen so even though you are not exactly connected, like you say, with the ten and you already feel it as painful, that's why you're talking about it but this is good. This is good, it is already a great asset that you understand it, you feel it and even talk about it, that too is not simple. It is not simple but it takes time until the person reveals it to himself and towards everyone and advances.
18. S. (01:04:42) I heard that you said before in the end we connect through the blows. The question is what are the conditions required for building a mutual commitment in the ten so you will connect with the least amount of blows?
R. Together, all the blows come from us not being sufficiently together, that is the source of all the troubles, that if we were able to connect as we are required to according to our state then there will be no blows and we will all rise smoothly, nicely. Now the blows we suffer is because we cannot overcome some hurdle in front of us and then it is like a donkey who receives a strike in order to move forward.
S. There are friends that are ready more for commitment towards one another and those for less, how to bridge this gap?
R. You don’t bridge, each and every one has his nature, what can you do? What is important is that we go together, each supports as much as he can. Some people work more emotionally, some more intellectually, and some more physically and this is how we advance. So you cannot demand the same kind of participation from everyone.
19. S. (01:06:18) In the excerpt it says, “the evil inclination comes to a man as soon as he is born”. Is he talking about spiritual birth?
R. Of course, of course spiritual birth, what corporeal birth? In the corporeal birth, an animal is born, a beast; and spiritual birth can happen even after thirty or forty years, you understand? It does not belong to the age whatsoever or our time or anything.
Excerpt # 47 (01:07:12 - 01:07:44)
20. R. (01:07:45) Meaning the Creator, each time renews our ego, our will to receive and day after day we discovered that we move away from the friends, that we don't want to connect with them, that we forget what we had before, we don't care about what we have learned before, and yesterday it seems I was better and nicer and today I am more distant, that is correct. That is a sign of progress, that the will to receive is growing, this means “a new King arose”, each and every day and this is how it is until the final correction, we just learn how can we use it correctly, not delete, not kill, not nothing. How can we use it correctly in order to rise up the ladder because each and every rung on the ladder is this new King that arises again and again, more and more. And we have to rise above Him, that is how we rise to the purpose of the creation.
Excerpt # 48 (01:09:10 -01:09:45)
21. R. (01:09:49) Yes, specifically by the new king that arose we have no other choice but working against it. We step over it and rise on the ladder of bestowal, more bestowal, more connection, more and more, and that is by revealing the will to receive between us in a more and more cruel way, it forces us to rise all the way to the Creator. That is why it's called “help made against thee”, the more we find it against connection, against mutual bestowal, we connect, influence each other, help with each other, and thus we ascend. We can’t say about it, that it is not an angel, it is actually very helpful and it is the main thing that raises us to the degree of the Creator. It is said in the Torah that when Israel came to Egypt, Jacob blessed Pharaoh. Jacob, which is the middle line between Keter, Hochma, Bina, the middle line in GAR. It blessed Pharaoh because specifically by that blessed work, correct work with the will to receive that appears and this is the matter of Pharaoh in Egypt, by that we those who aimed straight to the Creator can reach the gold.
22. S. (01:11:42) How can we connect around the quality of Joseph in order to connect more strongly between us, maybe a new covenant to renew it?
R. Just like what Rabash writes, I don't have more to add. Read his articles, take some special excerpts from his articles, put them in front of you and try to mention them to each other. You will see how only the work on Joseph, we have that until the final correction, it’s the connection of all first nine Sefirot so as to enter Malchut. This is called “the point of Joseph” that he collects all of the qualities of bestowal and by canceling the egoistic connection between them, they all connect together and willing are and ready to influence bestowal to Malchut, that is their conclusion, their summary.
S. How important is it, every once in a while, to renew the covenants between us?
R. Not to renew but to constantly keep it.
23. S. (01:13:27) When asked about the connection between the forces: left, right and the middle. Will we ever be able to understand the connection between the middle line?
R. At some point you will understand, in the meantime there’s no point asking, just study together with us. When questions pop up in you, see if they are in the same flow with everyone.
Excerpt #48 (01:14:14 - 01:15:20)
24. R. (01:15:22) Okay, this is from the Zohar, it’s a bit of a different language but still.
25. S. (01:15:30) In what is “the wealth of the new King summarized”?
R. Each and every king controls in that he can fill you, that you feel that he is the upper one and he can fill you. According to the desire that is revealed in the lower one, the King shows that he has what to give if you belong to him. The King asks only for annulment. Just as we see in our world, to the extent that you can annul yourself before the King and annulling yourself means that all your desires, thoughts, capabilities, qualities, characteristics, skills, you can place them in service of the King, to that extent you belong to Him, and accordingly He can fill you. This is the work.
26. S. (01:16:49) About excerpt 48, what does it mean that “he rose up by himself”?
R. He has with what to fill our vessels of reception.
27. S. (01:17:10) About excerpt 46, what does it mean “13 years”?
R. “13 years” are qualities we will learn which should be corrected in our will to receive so that our will to receive will be able to take upon itself the form of bestowal, the form of the Creator. This is called “13 qualities”, we receive it from the world of Atzilut.
28. S. (01:17:50) What is the difference between “the new King” and “the old foolish king”?
R. The “old and foolish king” is the will to receive and the new, smart, young King, when it is born, is the power of bestowal that awakens in a person and grows in him by connecting in the group into one force, The Creator gives only the power from above but the form of this “new king” is revealed through annulment of the friends in one opposite the other.
29. S. (01:18:43) It's not clear. According to excerpt 46, it says that “a new King rose that did not know Joseph” what does this mean?
R. Yes, the new king that came does not know Joseph because it is the will to receive that begins to grow towards the spiritual correction, and what they had before was its connection in the previous stage, compared to which it's called corporeal state.
30. S. (01:19:19) How to combine the forces of reception and bestowal and work on the middle line?
R. Forces of reception and bestowal we have to combine because by this, we have one goal which is adhesion with the Creator and in adhesion with the Creator, I have to receive from Him because He is the force of bestowal and I am the force of reception to the extent that I can direct my reception to be in order to bestow. So my intention is in order to bestow, He joins my will to receive and then my vessel becomes reception in order to bestow, and to that extent the Creator can fill my vessel and in this way I bring Him contentment.
31. S. (01:2021) What does it mean to be above two forces in the middle line and how can we do it practically in our ten?
R. Both forces of reception and bestowal, we are all made of these two forces, we have nothing more. We have to aim them for connection with the Creator and when the middle line comes out of that, it comes from above. When we begin to obtain the Creator as the source of these two forces. Then it is called that these two forces become the middle line.
32. S. (01:21:03) I feel that the middle line for me, sorry, that the left line for me is much stronger than the right. Most of the time I’m criticizing everyone one and a lot of times negative envy takes over, and slandering. Does this harm me and how should I relate to this?
R. It is not right, it is not left, it is simply your ego so we cannot talk about it as “lines”. Lines means that I restrict my will to receive and above them, I begin to build a balanced relation to the Creator from both from the left and from the right when both are under my control.
33. S. (01:21:54) Sometimes, I feel that the criticism toward the group is stronger than me and I have to share with someone in order to keep going and not get stuck in the state. Can I share this with my husband going on the path with me?
R. Yes, between spouses there can be such states where they speak completely honestly about what exists in each one in the spiritual work. Yes this is possible, not always, usually no, don't, but basically it can be done.
34. S. (01:22:50) Is it right to scrutinize and justify the Creator, sorry, if it's right to bless and justify the Creator and it’s a condition for the right prayer no matter how great the Rav is, the shattering we reveal?
R. Each and every turn or plea to the Creator has to begin with thanking the Creator for existing in my eyes, in my feelings, in my intellect, in my awareness, perhaps even in my feeling, so I thank Him for that and I want to annul myself before Him; and only after that do I come to check, criticize to what extent I can annul myself and adhere to Him.
35. S. (01:24:06) You said that a couple can share the criticism between them? It cannot lower them?
R. Criticism? No, not criticism, maybe I misunderstood. I understood that they can reveal their hearts toward each other in the spiritual work. I said that if both of them are related to spiritual work then they can connect in all their feelings in the heart.
S. There is no room for some sense of criticism towards the group or the Rav. They cannot bring that before one another?
R. No, we can talk about it but then we are like two friends. A spouse means, or your partner, means that we are together and we can talk about our spiritual work together, it's a different degree, it is higher. And then we, as we work toward the Creator, we work from both, for both of us. I would not recommend getting entangled in this, it's still not for us, we will work on it.