Morning Lesson January 25, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #38
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we are again and again as he writes that the opening for those who knock for repentance. We reach a state where we begin to feel that the power of faith, to the power of bestowal of our devotion is what determines our attitude to the friends and the Creator from each and every one towards the friends and the Creator. In this tendency in this bestowing of faith, we will feel that the approach is not just a bit different than what we had before, but the change in the attitude from drawing to myself in my egoistic vessel or wanting to tend to everyone in my altruistic vessel that provides me with a different observation a different perspective of the world on all of the reality. I can feel myself and all of the reality and friends and everyone else in a completely different way. That we all belong to a single vessel to a single connected connection and in this way, we advance towards being together with the Creator as well. All of us, all together and we are together with the Creator and this state of the final correction is right in front of us. We just need to make some more efforts back and forth as we go in and out, getting closer between us as much as we can, each of us and all of us together. That is called 'knocking for repentance'. So that ultimately, we come to a state where a connection between us and the Creator becomes constant. For now let us continue. In every excerpt, every word of the Kabbalists, everything we have between us, in the connection between us, let us begin to identify the tendency to connect between us and the Creator. Go ahead.
Excerpt 38: Rabash. Article 12 (1985), “Jacob Dwelled in the Land Where His Father Had Lived” twice (03:30)
2. R. (08:22) That from this day this moment onwards he can be in the struggle even though he continues to struggle with the evil inclination, but he already has the power to be able to defeat it and in each and every state to ask, to demand, and do so that the good inclination will triumph.
3. S. (09:00) What is the stage where a person feels, where it says that it is talking about him?
R. I did not understand the question.
S. He talks about a state in which a person has many afflictions. What is that stage? What is the characteristic of that state?
R. That he is facing what is called accepting the burden of the kingdom of heaven.
S. It takes a long time before a person starts to feel that stage?
R. Right, the main thing is the first degree. It is the most difficult, most important and the thing is the person has to do scrutiny here even though he does not know he is doing that with regards to many states at the root of his soul. For each and every state he basically needs to overcome. Even if he does not always understand what he needs to overcome, because his work is in darkness and lacks consciousness, he still advances. Most importantly, to give greater importance to the group, the connection, the ten, everything that belongs to advancing towards the Creator. Also, he imagines to himself that he is, how should I put it, envisioning yourself that you are in a state where you are already under the control of the Creator. Then how would you behave?
That is very important, because from this you begin to understand what your true state is right now, and what is the gap between the states and based on that gap you can already assemble your prayer. The states themselves, even though a person does not know exactly when these states will happen to the person and sooner or later everyone will go through it. Those who have a greater will to receive will receive it later on. Those who have not so great a will receive, will receive it earlier, and that is how it will move forward. We are already arranged in a way that we have a great society. The Creator takes care of us through that society so that each and everyone has a chance, not just a chance, but it is certain that each and every one who is now in the society through the right alignment between him, the group, and the Creator, he can draw a powerful light that's reforms him, that will bring him success quite fast, within years, not life cycles, years, to the entrance of Lishma, in order to bestow, the sensation of the Creator, and rising above reason above one's ego. There are many terms to that state.
4. S. (12:40) It is written here: 'do all that you can do’ but there is always that feeling that you do not manage to do everything? So you are investing all your efforts?
R. That happens to you deliberately to give you room for prayer, otherwise why would you need the Creator? if you would be able to do it? Then you would just be doing some work like any other work in this world, where you have everything in front of you and you have to understand it, feel it, do it, make an effort, and it is yours. In the spiritual world, in spiritual work, that is not how it works. Rather, you have to try as much as you can to work on your relation to the friends and the Creator and come closer to them, and read the materials and source materials, and after all that, you see that you do not succeed, and you have room to turn to the Creator.
This stage we do not really understand it, because it does not exist in our world, and that is the main thing that we are missing in the prayer. If we were to do the first half of the work, meaning, us organizing together and studying and praying and then reaching the prayer to the Creator. Since we cannot make the effort on our own to achieve connection and revelation, if we would come right after that to a prayer, or even more, we would ask the Creator to begin with, to participate with us in each and every detail of our work. Then we would come to that faster but there is none as wise as the experienced one and we still need to do all the actions and learn why they do not work, and then it is called that the children of Israel sigh from the work and their cry rises up to God from the work and in such a way we can realize it. We achieve the revelation of the Creator that connects us, that arranges us and then we gather the experience. We become more connected between us, more demanding from him and that is how we move forward by the Creator's light.
5. S. (15:50) He says here that a person needs to look at this and to see what is to blame is the evil inclination. He feels this very strongly, the evil, how do you get to that feeling because I see that I am living with it for dozens of years, and I could probably live with it for tens more. How do you get to the feeling that there is something sitting on your throat and chokes you?
R. It comes. I understand you, that it happens very slowly but that is due to lack of connection between us. It appears mostly through lack of connection with the friends, because that is where the place for the revelation of the Creator needs to be built. Try to pay attention to that. You can do it.
6. S. (16:55) It is written in excerpt number 38 “the righteous sees much afflictions.” What are the things that a righteous see?
R. That he cannot justify the Creator. That he cannot justify the Creator. This is, many are the afflictions of the righteous. So if he cannot justify the Creator and he complains to the Creator, he asks, then the Creator delivers him out of them all, meaning he gives him help.
7. S. (17:40) It is written “the evil inclination in his body.” What is the body that does not enable the person to believe in the Creator?
R. The evil inclination, that is the force, we do not have any other force. I have created the evil inclination; I created the spice of Torah for it. That is what the Creator says and that is what we need to use.
8. S. (18:08) From the excerpt “And then comes the time of salvation, the salvation that the Creator delivers him from the evil inclination to the extent that from this day forth, the evil inclination will surrender before him and will not be able to incite him into any transgression.” The question, when does this happen, that the evil inclination surrenders completely, in a complete way?
R. We do not know how to say that in advance. This is called the Creator’s salvation is as the blink of an eye. Meaning, that salvation that a person begins to see where he is and where to go next, that happens absent-mindedly. This is also called, The Coming of the Messiah; he just comes and that is it. Now, do not think that after that there is no more work to do, there is work, but in a different style. That, although it is revealed, on top of the revealed, we will have to do more actions, which are, how to put it, to hide the Creator, so now we are basically working to reveal the Creator but when he is revealed, we will have to conceal him, this is called working with the screens. Making the restriction, screen and reflective light and working towards the Creator above all that. When we get there, we will learn what to do. That is not going to be a problem, our problem is right now, to go through this entrance to spiritual work. This is the most difficult and misunderstood degree and exhausting stage.
9. S. (20:25) So how not to listen to my evil inclination and to always remember that faith in the Creator is above reason?
R. We cannot cope with the evil inclination. We can only be connected, and as a result, we can succeed. Only through the connection between us. No one has the strength. Certainly as individuals we all lose, we should not even begin, we need to connect and then attack the evil inclination and succeed. There is no problem in doing that, the only problem is connection.
Excerpt #39 (21:23)
10. R. (23:32) This is what we learned from the Partzuf, that we have Rosh, Toch, Sof. The screen is standing at the Peh of Rosh and reflects the light, and then comes in contact with the light, in mutual contact. The rejection becomes, connection afterwards and we also know it from how it happens in our world and that is how we need to learn with regards to spirituality.
Excerpt #39 (24:08)
11. R. (26:18) So something really interesting happens here. As much as we do not understand and we do not try to understand because it is clear to us that it is above us, you cannot understand it, but if we accepted it by faith above reason; Meaning, that I am going to build new vessels, not what I already have, new vessels, for what seemingly becomes revealed but I cannot digest it, and these vessels, I want them to be above my mind, above my emotion, in a new way. Then these vessels truly form within me and through them I begin to recognize the new degree that I am facing. This is how it works, and by that, comes the additional abundance and new scrutiny. It is difficult to explain this in our words, and in our mind, because these things happen to a person in new vessels.
12. S. (27:35) Perhaps you have just answered but I cannot grasp it in my mind and my heart at once. I am very triggered about this article, because it says, “when he is unable to sustain the Masach,” how can a person do anything here? Because I feel like I cannot do anything, to sustain anything here. You put in all your powers, but it is not enough.
R. Let us read again.
Excerpt 39: RABASH, Article No. 2 The Striking of Thoughts upon Man (28:17)
R. (28:39) This is written in the study of TES and the writings of the Ari.
Reader continues: (28:49) “we can interpret that the striking…”
R. (29:06) Meaning he cannot clarify it, he does not know what is going on here, he is perplexed.
Reader continues: (29:13) “and all of this is because he has…”
R. (29:28) So whatever happens I do not veer off the path, I am not going back, I am willing to keep going forward even in a way that I do not know.
Reader continues: (29:40) “and this is considered mind…”
R. (30:09) Through his lack he awakens the upper degree, and from there comes additional lights and scrutinies.
Reader continues: (30:23) “this means that even though he…”
R. (30:50) He does not cancel the concealment. Only begins to look anew at his own state.
Reader continues: (30:56) “this causes joy above and then…”
13. S. (31:30) What is that screen, the Masach, that a person has upon which these different thoughts beat, faith above reason, attempt, concealment, what are all those?
R. We will clarify that after we clarify other things. Let us first reach a state where we go to a direct solution, and we will leave that question to the end.
14. S. (32:14) If I pray for the friends, how can I be saved from the Creator?
R. To be saved? With regards to the Creator? to be saved by the Creator, to defeat the Creator?
S. He is relating to the previous verse “and he shall save us from all,” the Creator.
R. So it is not with regards to the Creator, it is with regards to all the troubles, problems, hurdles on the path that the Creator puts before us. Ok so the question is what?
S. If I pray for the friends, how can I be saved?
R. It says one who prays for the friends, is awarded first. If you replace your desire with their desire, you raise yourself to a higher degree. That is how we rise from one degree to the next. What is the difference between the degrees? In the present degree I feel my desire, if I want to rise to a higher degree, I have to connect with the desire of the ten. When I connect with them, then what causes that is all kinds of actions by the lights that reforms, by the light that makes the action itself, and then I have realized the degree. Once I have completed this degree, I begin to receive a higher illumination and I do the same thing towards that and that is what I do between the states again and again. I feel on my own, and then there is a state where I need to feel that I am inside the group, and the more I make those attempts from myself to the group, from myself to the group, which is how I keep raising myself. This is called spiritual ascent, that what seems to me before as the group, becomes my desire, my feeling, my goals, and that is how I rise from one state to the next. From one's degree to the next, that is what I have, this is the ascent.
15. S. (35:35) What exactly is the role of the screen in faith above reason? Is it because each time the degree of coarseness is purified, we get faith above reason?
R. The role of the Masach, screen, is a Kli. The more the screen works on my desires to receive, connecting all my desires with the desires of the friends, which is what the Masach, the screen, is built from.
16. S. (36:26) Here in the excerpt it is written that the beating of the upper light, he says that this beating is the thoughts that beat in the state of a person. What are they beating? In the state of faith above reason?
R. Well, perhaps already yes but maybe not. In our connection between us, where each one is influenced by the environment and through these beatings between us new vessels are formed. This is how it happens.
S. Here according to the excerpt it turns out that these thoughts are lights, so what we need to strengthen that state of faith above reason?
17. S. (40:43) What is to agree to go on the way, on the path of the Creator?
R. That I accept without any preconditions on my part all that happens, and I want to see myself agreeing with the states I am going through. Everything. There is just one thing I demand in each and every state. That is to be in agreement. So I only want one thing, correcting my will to receive, which always criticizes all the states I am going through, and I want this criticism to continue, but I am with the Creator in everything that I am going through, despite the criticism from the evil inclination which was deliberately designed by the Creator to criticize what I have, to always bring up doubts and disappointments. Meaning both, in the mind and in the heart, it puts me against what I am going through, and I only want one thing to happen, that all of these things will go through me and happen, as much as needed, the more the better.
I understand I need it in order to achieve complete agreement with the Creator, and that is what I need to do in each and every state, and after everything, to be in complete agreement with the Creator. That there is None Else Besides Him, that is from where everything comes to me, and I agree with what He sends to me. Meaning that my will to receive undergoes such corrections, that above the will to receive, I am going towards adhesion with the Creator. In contrast to myself and in an adhesion with the Creator and that is how we move to faith above reason. Okay?
18. S. (43:17) How will I know that I am on the path of the Creator? How can I check myself about it?
R. If you are connected with the friends and you are going with them to agree with the leadership of the Creator, so together you want to embrace the Creator's leadership with open hearts, as much as you can. Of course it is always a matter of degrees, meaning there is a certain level each time, but you understand it and you are going for it and that means that you are advancing on the path towards the Creator. Our whole work is in faith above reason, our whole work is to replace our vessels of reception with vessels of bestowal. So we build the vessels of bestowal on top of the vessels of reception, everything is built on top of the will to receive.
19. S. (44:44) Are we going to build Masach as a ten or individually?
R. Basically it ends up being a shared screen of the ten, a common screen. On the other hand there is also an individual screen. So, it is like the Partzuf that is built from ten parts, and each and every part needs to overcome its individual will to receive, to connect with the others, and then there is incorporation of each part with the other parts across all the ten parts of the Partzuf. As a result, each one requires its own incorporation because I cannot come out of my will to receive. Each one is in his own, but we are incorporated in such a way that as a result of the incorporation; we each have our individual will to receive and also incorporation with the others, and that provides us with the purity and coarseness in the Partzuf, with which we can reveal the Creator. Through coarseness we have the attraction force, let say in the Partzuf and by the Zakut we have the rejection force; and by the two we can identify the action of the Creator. That is how we build His image within us.
20. S. (46:42) The screen, the Masach, relative to the upper one where a person supports it. Is it between me and the friends, is it between the ten or the general Kli, where it is felt?
R. We build the screen together in our ten in order to depict the Creator, we build the connection. The screen is the connecting force between us and the Creator. It is built upon coarseness, attraction, and rejection; and these two forces need to be weighed against each other.
21. S. (47:50) In the text that says, “overcome and sustain it,” what is sustained it, in the text?
R. That I do not go down from it, I remain in the same form of overcoming and then I keep moving on and advancing.
22. S. (48:22) It is written here many times about scrutinies. How do we do that scrutiny, is it a personal scrutiny, is it scrutiny in the ten? Are we telling each other what is right and what is wrong, how do we even decide in the end on the scrutiny if you could explain?
R. The scrutiny actually happens in a simple way. It is called “faith above reason.” We have to prefer the force of bestowal over the force of reception, the force of connection over the force of separation, the force of the group over man's individual force, in the minds and hearts. That is how we build what is called “faith above reason,” the quality of Bina on top of the quality of Malchut. These things come as a result of efforts and the person begins to feel that it comes and goes, it comes and goes until it settles in him; and he begins to acquire the state, he begins to understand it, hold it, and work with it.
S. Is it my personal scrutiny between me and myself or inside the ten? How do we do such a scrutiny where we put also this attraction force and the rejective force, one next to the other?
R. At first, we need to do it as if it is my personal thing, but later we see that we cannot do this in the personal way, in the complete way as we lack this actual connection between us. Because the power of Bina does not exist in each individual, it exists above us. When we want to connect between us, we build that force of Bina, and that is why Bina is referred to as the “upper world” or the “next world.”
23. S. (51:00) This kind of screen, is it a product of the mind not wanting to except to receive good feelings, meaning it is rejected mentally or is it not a result of the mind?
R. No. The screen is a result of man's overcoming over his will to receive, both in knowing and feeling.
24. S. (51:48) I am alive, and my friends are alive thinking that we have to work on the screen, here all of a sudden, he says that it already exists, so I am confused. What is correct here?
R. Read a few times and then maybe you will find it between you.
25. S. (51:47) What does it mean to agree to go in the path of the Creator where you said all that I want is to receive all the Creator sends and the will to receive continue to do scrutiny, but I accept everything that the Creator gives, and I just asked to receive it. So my question is, all our life, every day a person is having states that he has to decide something and go against something that life is giving him. Let us say what we decide in the ten, what each friend goes through in his life. It is demanded of a person to actually go against what is brought to him not to agree with what he has been giving, so here I do not understand your answer maybe. Can you explain that?
R. I also do not know how to explain. You see how difficult it is for all the Kabbalists to explain the spiritual in words and language that is corporeal. That is the whole issue with the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is why it is called “the wisdom of the concealed” or “the hidden wisdom,” so there is nothing you can do here. The whole council, the advice is to do all of these different forms of connection between you, advance against the desire; do all kinds of actions against the desire and then you will find where you are in the desire, against the desire, and in between those states you will begin to feel what is faith above reason. And every time it will evade you and you want to get it again and you will start searching for it from nothing, time and again, that is the work. Until all of those things will happen to you, will be and you, constantly but also the constant form is not so constant; you will see that it keeps going up and down to all the way to very high degrees, this is called “a thousand times the righteous will fall in rise,” when he rises, he rises from literally zero; it’s a completely new degree.
S. Is it speaking all about relationships and connections or all together about life in general?
R. I do not know what you mean about life in general, family, humanity?
S. Look at you, you're the teacher for all the years that I’m here in front of you, I see that every day you start and you are battling with all of life, you don't agree with anything, not to this not that, and there is not a moment of rest, you're demanding of yourself and also the whole world Kli things for our advancements, and I am thinking is this called to agree or to disagree? Where is the agreement? Where is the disagreement? Where is the effort in that case? Maybe I am not grasping that matter correctly.
R. The exertion is “to start everyday anew,” as it says; and to accept the burning of the heart as important, as a gift, and thank the Creator for that and not demand anything more than that; not success or reward of some sort, but only that the Creator will renew the will to receive for me in each and every day and give me opportunity to cope with it; all the way to make connection with the Creator. That is it.
26. S. (56:44) It is like they are two concepts here that are felt as opposites, maybe you can arrange them. One is agreement with all that comes, and the other is resistance and overcoming. When we are in the line of agreement and in the line of disagreement?
R. We need to connect them. We do not need to be in either this or that; we ultimately need to bring them together. I want to connect with all the disturbances and be above them. See, this is the state that we want to achieve.
S. So what do I agree with?
R. With everything I receive.
S. What do I resist?
R. I resist, to remain in that, I want to reach a state that I justify the Creator, which is first. Justifying the Creator for what I receive from Him in each moment, and even the lowest most ignoble states I agree with it, in heart and soul and I do not demand anything more. Do not demand anything more. I received it. Yes. from the Creator for certain. Now is it good or bad? it cannot be bad, it is good, but I do not really understand or feel that it is good. But it is good, and now I need to correct myself so that in the present state I feel that I am corrected and good.
S. Is that agreement?
R. Yes, but that's an agreement that I made by force after making efforts.
S. So, inside the agreement: there is overcoming and resistance?
R. Yes.
S. What am I overcoming and what am I resisting?
R. Myself. That I feel this state as bad and I feel bad and need to reach the opposite state, this is called “the darkness shines as light,” It means that I am justifying the Creator for each and every state that he gives me.
27. S. (59:32) How do we build a Masach and there is a feeling like inside the ten it is good, I miss my friends all the time, participating in the lessons all the time, and when I am in the world without the ten it is not good for me. How is that, is that ok this kind of work?
R. Yes, just continue and do not escape and do not run away. Otherwise your questions are questions of a complete beginner.
28. S. (01:00:25) We talk now about overcoming, about the fact that we need in every state to bring everything to the upper providence where the Creator is sending us these states. It turns out that it is possible to do this faster and really come to a place of providence of the Creator of His governance I just need to take it into my hands but sometimes it takes a long time to get there and for a long time I am under the influence of my egoistic point of view. What does it depend upon and how can we hasten this process? Sometimes I am even ashamed, my partners remind me about it, I myself cannot remember that He is doing it all?
R. Our whole problem, our whole problem is that we want to solve these things on our own, instead of together. Each one on his own with the Creator. But it needs to be the group with the Creator and that is why we do not succeed. That is why we fail. Try to follow what is written and you will see that it works; and works well. The whole failure is that we do not hear this rule of doing it together; of doing these actions together and not on our own.
29. S. (01:02:08) Not sure exactly how to ask this question correctly. This Masach that is described, is it that we built it or is it that it is already built, and we are building in our vessel the means to utilize it?
R. We build the Masach through our efforts and the light that performs. The Masach is the result of both.
S. Why is it that I get the feeling when hearing different sages' writings that what they are trying to describe to us is the feelings or sensations, but no language can truly relate that?
R. I do not understand your question, I do not understand.
30. S. (01:03:37) It is written that the scrutiny of the importance of the Creator is through the screen which is called “attempts,” so how through the attempt will we make such a scrutiny?
R. That is according to how much you want to attain something, and you cannot; this teaches you how to treat the upper one, how to relate to the upper one.
31. S. (01:04:48) In this effort together, where you said that we have to do together: Can we invite the friends to do a certain exercise together when we have try to hold on to the state, even though I feel within me that not all the friends can be together and maybe some will feel that they're being pressured or something, doing something strange, but maybe we can do some kind of an exercise together in order to hold ourselves together connected during the day or even during the lesson?
R. Yes, you should try.
32. S. (01:05:45) What is the difference between the different screens: the one that is attempted and the one that is sustained, are the two different screens? we build one screen and then we replace it, or we build the screen and then we strengthen it?
R. Yes, yes, yes. There are many kinds of screens, and we can learn about them, but we have not yet achieved them, so this is in TES part four. That is where it discusses different kinds of screens, actually not all of them, there are many more, but it gives an example of several types of screens, yes. Now what does it mean? Just like you have desires, different desires in shape, quantity, size, and character, similarly do you have screens.
33. S. (01:07:10) You said that going in the path of the Creator is to be with an open-heart. What is to be in an open heart in the ten and how do we do that?
R. That our desires and thoughts and intentions are together, and we have no difference between us but to unify them. That means being in an open heart: everything that belongs to spirituality in each and every one we want to bring these desires, these intentions, tendencies together, passions, all that we have we want to bring together in order to direct that to the Creator.
S. That is the actual scrutiny through which we ask most prayers?
R. Yes, which is the result of the right prayer.
34. S. (01:08:25) How does the scrutiny add light or joy?
R. Specifically through the scrutiny we intensify the Kli and then we intensify the light and joy and so on.
35. S. (01:08:47) How should we agree with all the Creator sends us when we see this reality does not exist but hurts? How should we agree with all the Creator sends us while we feel that reality is hurtful on one hand and on the other hand does not exist?
R. What does it mean painful, it does not exist. I do not understand. If it is painful, then it exists, it is just not clear what causes the pain. How does it invite pain in me, how do I respond to that, that is the work, but the beginning of the connection is there. It is like, say when we search above reason, for what are we searching? We are searching for our contact with the Creator. He is on the level of Bina we are on the level of Malchut, how can we connect to him in heart and mind? That is it, we only have two channels. Most importantly is the emotion, the mind should help us move from one emotion to the next, from one to the next, that is done by the mind. So we have to search because the Creator is called The Hiding God. How do we find him, how do we attract him to us or raise ourselves to us? That is the problem.
36. S. (01:10:28) Is the building of the screen apart, or in the ten?
R. No, if we want to talk about this spiritually, ultimately it needs to be in the ten, but at least try to do it on your own and then we will see that we have to connect.
37. S. (01:10:52) Can we justify the Creator in the greatest blows, or is it only in faith about reason?
R. No, we need to justify the Creator in everything we are going through. How do we go through it? It does not matter. I have to be adhered to Him in every state, regardless of how I feel, because whether I feel it in the good inclination, the bad inclination, the level of my correction or corruption, what is important for me to always be in adhesion, to be above reason.
38. S. (01:11:44) Where is the personal work of a person, in overcoming, in faith above reason? How does that connect with the work towards the friends?
R. When we start working in spirituality, above reason, in somewhat rising above what we feel, we begin to see that truly rising above our ego, we do not have any other means but being connected with the friends and then I see the friends as a means, as a lever, and also as the goal, the Kli where I receive the result, the outcome.
S. Am I connected with the friends only above reason?
R. Yes, in truth, of course, within reason I cannot come out of myself.
S. So what I am trying to understand is where is the personal overcoming connected with, how can I know that I am actually in overcoming and together with the friends in that? That I am not doing this alone?
R. To the extent that you are trying to be in bestowal, you discover the mistakes or the fine-tuning you need to do, and then you see how you can do it.
39. S. (01:13:44) What does it mean to cancel or not cancel the screen, or to sustain or not keep the Masach?
R. This Masach connects between us, and between us, to the Creator. The screen is a force of resistance to our ego, so that above the mutual rejection between us, we build connections between us and from the connections between us, we build connections with the Creator. This is how it works.
40. S. (1:14:27) What process does a person go through to agree that everything came from the Creator? Is that a gradual process?
R. It is a gradual process and in each and every state we have the same thing. Disagreement, our stubbornness, this clash and so on, until we agree, and then we make a request to connect, to scrutinize, and gratitude.
41. S. (1:15:00) How does a Kabbalist always know what the path of the Creator is? What protects us from mistakes with all these scrutinies?
R. Exactly what you said yourself. The Kabbalist scrutinizes those things. From all kinds of thoughts and scrutinies that he discovery, and he, does it? No. He cannot tell, he is always in new degrees, perplexed, it is always, for him everything is doubtful. But to rise above the doubt, means to rise in faith above reason, it is not within his reason, it is not the wise who learns but only the one who can rise above his will to receive, to Bina.
42. S. (01:15:58) What does it mean that the attempts are concealment? What should I conceal upon my experience?
R. Experience awakens me to continue above reason, to connect above the rejection, to accept the group's opinion above my own. In this way to try and come to a spiritual outcome as it is written “I dwell among my people.”
43. S. (01:16:50) What is the right attitude, for the fulfillment, so it will clothe in the force of bestowal, but still leave us space for faith?
R. The correct attitude to the fulfillment should be that I accept this fulfillment in the force of bestowal, so I can bestow contentment to the Creator, to delight the Creator in that. The result of the fulfillment is that I do not fill myself, but I fill my desire to delight the Creator. This is the source of my pleasure. This is the correct pleasure, spiritually.
44. S. (01:17:55) What part of above reason depends on a person, and what part on the Creator?
R. A person needs to accept everything that is revealed to him, in him, and his group, to know how to arrange those things, to participate with his vessels, and this way, to see where lies the true advancement which needs to be above reason, above his will to receive, inside the connection with everyone and so on and so forth; meaning, try to detect it as clearly as possible, I'm talking about those first steps by which we are trying to enter into faith above reason
45. S. (01:19:20) Are my friends, my screen?
R. No, my friends are not my screen. We are not even talking about friends in general but certain discernments that we receive from the society.