Morning Lesson May 20, Transcription
1.
Rav’s
Introduction:
To
justify
the
Creator
that
is
our
topic
it
is
not
so
simple
we're
constantly
in
complaints
from
the
fact
that
we're
opposite
the
Creator.
The
Creator
is
one
unique,
unified
and
as
much
as
we
can
make
ourselves
into
that
concept
of
one,
we
can
then
feel
Him,
understand
Him
and
justify
Him
and
because
we
each
time,
come
from
the
state
of
separation,
where
we
won't
be
able
to
feel
that
concept
of
unity
because
we
always
need
to
see
the
light
from
darkness.
Only
by
comparing
two
opposites,
you
can
feel
the
reality
of
the
one
and
of
the
other.
The
light
and
the
darkness,
we
cannot
see
dark
inside
darkness
and
light
inside
light
rather
we
need
to
see
one
against
the
other.
That's
why
to
justify
the
Creator
is
something
we
can
do
only
on
the
condition
that
we
connect
as
much
as
we
reveal
the
concept
of
connection,
the
connection
between
us,
accordingly
we
can
justify
what
the
Creator
did
in
creation
since
creation
means
Bar,
Beria,
outside
of
Him.
He
created
the
whole
world
in
the
form
of
separation,
distance,
shattering,
Klipot
and
Sitra
Achra
and
so
on
and
it's
all
to
give
us
an
opportunity
to
connect
the
opposites.
Although
they
are
opposite
in
the
connection
of
love
between
them,
through
that
we
can
understand
the
absence
of
connection
which
is
the
Creator
and
that's
how
we
attain
Him.
Therefore the Creator who is one unique and unified force, that there is none else besides Him, all of these ideas we attain in working on separation and that's why our world is also finding itself in the process where things become things that are opposite, opposites in general become more and more highlighted reveal to each and every person who develops the more developed or he discovers the opposite qualities that he has. Such thoughts that he can't even agree with himself let alone with others it is difficult for him to understand them, to feel their connection to him, so on and so forth. In the process of development here is specifically designed to help us find the difference between our thoughts and desires and actions in everything we have between one another, especially in the degree of man. Above all of that we need connection between us. Love covers all transgressions for every contradiction between us we have to bring ourselves to connection and it in the gap between the states, where we are instead of in a shattered state, a state of contradictions and oppositions between these two systems. The broken system and the corrected system, when we correct it as much as possible and we are between these two systems we can then understand and feel and acquire the intellect and the feeling that this is where we reveal the essence of the Creator specifically in the difference between two systems we managed to connect them and see the benefit from everything the Creator had prepared for us.
Therefore, to justify the Creator the way we see the title of all these excerpts we are reading today, it's possible to justify the Creator only when we combine these opposites and we don't erase the opposition. Rather way more scrutinize the depth of the scrutinize the depth of the opposition between them and when we connect them above from both of them so in our vessels they will appear as things that are more and more opposite above. We, that in the action of faith above reason, and then everything we've learned actually and this way we compile the common area that is created by us by our request where things that are opposite actually do connect. If we don't make those actions, if we don't discover that we are on able to do it and we won't ask the Creator to do it, that you makes peace above, will make peace on us Shalom, from the word Ha Shlemah, wholeness, the complete whole connection we will never know what it is godliness since this degree resides above the opposition in the opposition contradiction remains, we don't need to break it or to burn these Klipot these opposing forces. There is a Klipot of the left and of the right and each and everything that is contradictory to connection and a higher degree above the two of them in faith above reason. Only then we can understand the need for creation that the Creator created it specifically in this way. We are all parts of creation, are in opposition to one another and when we discover in this world in each and every place to such an extent that people are not able to live with one another, we have to teach each and every one how to be correctly connected with one another in order to reach certain level of closeness otherwise everything crumbles. These are the times, the signs of the last generation.
2. S. (09:13) What does it mean that we connect the contradictions and what does it mean in them we discover the essence of the Creator?
R. We must bring all the parts of creation to the opposing parts of connection to connection and we must connect with the Creator. We must see in everything good and bad, meaning first to discover the contradiction between all the parts in creation and when we discover it, we then need to discover also that we cannot connect them. Those opposite things, it's not going to work out. Maybe only that we are in an imaginary world as we call it, then we can imagine to ourselves that these two things these two parts of creation can be together and this is of course a lie, it is false but it is revealed eventually and that's how it is today, that we discovered that we are unable to live with one another, we can't be in friendship with one another, we can't be close to one another. Only reluctantly and we subconsciously make a calculation in our egoistic desire that I have to behave with them in a certain way or I won't have any room in the current state. So you will make concessions but it's not like we complement one another, it's not like we are happy about the revelation of our contradictions. We don't know how to correctly use the fact that we are opposed and that's why our work was cut out for us to scrutinize each and every part of the Creation that we can identify.
We can identify because we see a part that is opposite to something to some extent and in this way more and more each passing day, we discover ourselves immersed in this broken world. Although out of habit we don't pay attention to it but we should scrutinize how our entire reality is one, where no one part supports the other part, it doesn't want the other part to exist in a way that He wants to exist and in this way we come to a state of revelation of the separation. From that we need to pull ourselves together and pick ourselves up so without, reluctantly will start first by coercion and then by desire and later we will discover the necessity and the worthiness of these broken vessels and that we do need to come closer to the correct combination of them. Only from the correct combination, we return all of creation to good connection so all of these parts would not get dispersed, all the people in all the galaxies. Rather we will see that specifically the correct connection provides the connection, provides the place for each one literally inside the other and it this way we come to the correction of all of creation.
3. S. (14:00) Why did the Creator give us darkness before?
R. It is because specifically from this darkness we will discover the need for connection, the need for the corrected state and we will discover the corrected state can come only by uniting the contradictions. Meaning that the ego is the will to receive dwells between us and it prevents us from getting connected and we need to find the method for combining two opposites and then in connection above the contradiction, above the opposition, we find wisdom where to opposing things, when they connect, we then begin to understand in the connection between them the upper attainment, upper feeling in the Creator Himself this is called come and see, we were two opposites connect between them and it all it's all a result of our work.
4. S. (15:49) In the beginning you said that we have complaints. What complaints do we have?
R. If you have no complaints, I also don't have any complaints.
5. S. (16:19) You said in the beginning we can only justify the Creator under the condition that we connect. We also learn that to be able to connect we need to adhere to the Creator so how does this work it looks like we have two contradictory visions here out of this work, what is first?
R. From love of the created being to love of the Creator that is the path, you discover the need for connection between us since otherwise we are going against the essence of life, still, vegetative, and animate. They develop according to one egoistic law that is working between them and therefore if we connect ourselves like them on the level of the speaking, inside of us, in our desires, in our thoughts we would be in the spiritual degree. We can't do it because specifically in this degree, the speaking degree, unlike in the still, vegetative and animate, the evil inclination works the ego and it doesn't let us connect. So here we need to understand why the Creator did this. What does He want from us? He wants us to take its strength and connect using its strength called faith above reason, where I connect with the other, not because of some egoistic profit rather I wish to connect with the other above my will to receive in order to discover in it the essence of bestowal. Not out of reception but the essence of who bestowal itself, that's the essence of the Creator, quality of the Creator.
6. S. (18:55) Now it is clear why we need to focus on the contradiction. Why do we need justification if it is not enough from the two parameters?
R. Justification means after I do all of it and I discover the result from all of the actions of the opposite forces that connect me and I come to a state where I discovered the result of connecting the opposites and by that I justified the Creator and I am called a righteous.
7. S. (19:45) When two contradictory things connect as you explained, the third thing, the result of it are the two things in there or is it something a third thing, that is completely different?
R. It's a completely different thing. It is called a soul, something, a divine part from above that is totally different. It is either one or the other.
S. Does anything of those two remain?
R. It's something above us that exists according to the laws of the Creator.
8. S. (20:44) What do I do if the more I connect with the friends, the more important they become to me the less I can justify the Creator and what He does for them.
R. Why?
S. Because he hurts from the friends that I love things that I care about. Maybe in the past I didn't care that much so I could say yeah there's none else besides Him and He's good that does good and now I care about them and it annoys me I'm mad at Him?
R. You asked Him that they will be good for them?
S. Yes, in our common prayers, we do it.
R. Not common prayers, I'm asking you.
S. Yes.
R. You see that the Creator changes His attitude towards them.
S. Yes, it turns out that in my feeling, I become more and more wicked. I condemn the Creator more and more.
R. But when you ask Him, does it change His ways towards the friends?
S. This I don't know. I can't see the connection between my request and in fixing it now.
R. So how can you be righteous?
S. I'm becoming more and more with it, that's what's happening.
R. It's probably necessary as well in order to discover one phenomenon we have to exist in the opposite phenomenon. Soon we're going to read the excerpt and you will understand more.
9. S. (22:38) Does the Creator treat one equally and give them differently or treat them different?
R. Of course each and every created being has his own will to receive, has his own root in the system of Adam HaRishon and accordingly he needs to discover the Creator's attitude towards him personally.
10. S. (23:20) You said before that we have to scrutinize the depth of the contradictions and not cancel it, if the state of the shattering is revealed in the 10 and we managed to cover it and we couldn't cover it with love. Should we pray to the Creator to scrutinize what happened, why did this happen?
R. Scrutinize it by ourselves and pray to the Creator to correct it because if we scrutinize we are incapable of correcting it ourselves, by that we understand that the shattering is really designed to help uncover a need for the Creator. That we need Him and then by needing Him when I have to have Him, I turn to Him and that's the correct result of the feeling of the separation. All the way to divisions and conflicts and what for? So that we will feel that we need the Creator so you make peace with this and He will make peace between us.
11. S. (24:58) The making of creation as we know in the millions of years as Baal HaSulam writes, how does it testify that the third force was not active at that time?
R. The Creator deliberately arranged such things that would appear as contradictory so you would have to bring the connected force between good and bad, left and right and various states of separation that appeared in creation on various levels, so we would be rewarded with the force of the Creator. This appears specifically as the one who connects two opposites. We will see how much hate is in our world and it will become more and more apparent that all the connections with the people formed in the beginning of our time. Let's say in the 20th century all of it is blowing up and is moving apart and hatred appears in their place and all those revelations will be so substantial we will understand that it is not by our own strength, not through various connections that we make the effort and we arrange them. We will have to explain to everyone that there is only one force, one upper force and that prevents us from connecting to determining the good states in humanity, in every family and in a person himself and between people. It doesn't matter all levels, all ages all countries everything will blow up and we'll have a revelation of the shattering more and more because we need to discover that only through the upper force can we hope to bring connection between everyone and this connection has to be on the level of faith above reason. Meaning love covers all transgressions where we don't know how to do it because it is illogical, not according to our intellect and feelings but on a higher level and here will learn with you the wisdom of Kabbalah and how this connection can be upheld. Meaning that we will be those people who will be able to explain both to themselves and to others, in what way closeness, connection, peace, systems in general when we will wish for them to exist or humanity will crumble and fall apart. Then everyone will be as animals who are running away from the battlefield. We need to obtain it by ourselves and explain it to everyone. We will learn about our role. First we need to feel it ourselves. What kind of role do we have and then we will scrutinize our role relative to all of humanity.
12. S. (29:22) I feel what you're talking about, that physical correction is required and therefore I begin to think of myself and that interferes with my work in the 10. How can I overcome this feeling that without some personal correction, I'm lost? Instead I think of the friends and not myself.
R. My advice to you is to continue and keep that the Creator accompanies your inner action throughout everything and you will see that everything will fall into place. Don't look for different tricks, don't look for special, strange ways of doing things. You have to go with everyone, like everyone from stage to stage as much as possible to try and read all the verses until their will penetrates you deeper and deeper and you'll start working in you and in this way you'll succeed.
13. S. (31:13) How can we blast the walls between us in order to finally remove the barriers in the group and in all the groups?
R. Only through the effort into connection. What you are asking is if you don't know the answer.
S. The situation is growing worse, day-to-day it looks like the walls are growing tough.
R. In order for us to see that, there is no other way. We have to look for the ways in which we connect and the way is simple. We have to make physical effort, we have to make internal mental effort until we come to the spiritual state. The spiritual state means no I don't want it, I try and I ask for the forces of connection and I'm always only in this position.
14. S. (32:27) When I justified the friend, how does it help the friends advance when I justify them?
R. We are in one system and each one who corrects himself is also correcting his incorporation with all the other souls with everyone. The souls that already corrected themselves and those that have not corrected themselves and it's hard for us to understand it because it is an integral picture, global picture. That is hard for us to understand how it exists between the worlds, how it exists but this is our state, the incorporation of the souls, that's why we have to continue. We have to continue with our incorporation and think about what I'm doing in my 10 years. Although we don't understand it yet, we haven't discovered it yet but we were influencing all the other 10's and all of humanity in fact.
15. S. (33:59) One only seeks a reward in the work, is the aim here to justify the Creator or is it to integrate with the 10?
R. Integrate in the 10. It is the main thing and it is the main vessel from which we connect to the Creator, in which we discover the Creator.
16. S. (34:43) In your answer to someone you said the hatred and shattering is revealed all over the world and that humanity will have no choice but to ask but you realize that only with the higher force we will be able to connect things. My question is it really that humanity will feel that the solution is not within man’s hands but elsewhere but is it only people with points in the heart who will have this recognition?
R. I didn't get it, again.
S. We see that now hatred and helplessness is being revealed and that there is no solution to the shattering that's being revealed among people in the world.
R. There is no solution that can only come from above.
S. Will humanity also come to realize there is such a thing?
R. No, humanity will only come to the recognition that it all depends on Israel and everyone, the whole world, will feel it as real and a great deal of anti-Semitism, a great hatred to Jews wherever they are and each one and everywhere. They will develop a reason for why they hate the Jews. They won't know why but the reason is that because Jews are that central part of humanity that must reach connection and then around them others will connect. That's why the world's pressure on us, those who engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah, those who have that tendency, that inclination, that pressure will grow more and more. In general people who speak about connection, about the inclination according to the root of their soul, they will feel a great deal of pressure from humanity. The remaining parts of humanity through the development of the force of unity of Creator who is coming closer to humanity, the humanity that is under the influence of the upper force, all of humanity will feel itself more stressed. Then all people will want to move away from here and we will see the world seemingly falling apart, since each one will feel how far he is from the other, the more distance he is, the better he feels so keep away keep your distance as we say. We need the other way around actually since correction can only happen through our connection. We understand how it has to be connections in spite of all the forces of separation, how can we connect between us by revealing the Creator more by demanding him to form connection between us, he who makes peace makes above between us and then only in this way if we were compared to the rest of the world then we will succeed in being in the center of reality and around us to connect all of humanity. We will see it, we will see it very clearly in Israel, where all parts of the people that are not connected to the wisdom of the Kabbalah, as they move farther apart from one another and they blow up into smaller pieces and are also foreign to one another. We see it especially among the religious segment of the people of Israel and also political parties, each person is integrated of several characters inside of him that are also in opposition to one another. Meaning I have several opinions, several thoughts that I disagree with seemingly like that and the only way we who are in the process of applying the wisdom of Kabbalah and know how to accept one another, how to feel one another, and that's how we exist as an example to humanity. Humanity ought to be connected in order to discover the one unique and unified force, the force of the Creator between us.
17. S. (40:28) It is still difficult to understand how it's possible to determine that the operations of the Creator are bad, so what does it mean to recognize the bad?
R. If I take into consideration that the upper force does all the actions in our world then I can't say that He's fine, He's good, He is just. If I accept Him as existing, then with the same breath I have to say that if He exists, if He is in control, then He is doing badly. If the world is in His control, it is not right, it is not fine, it is not okay, I would do it much better, it was my ego. So here we also have the other side of it. If I was in my ego I would probably think differently and so on and so forth, keep following that red and you will see.
18. S. (41:50) Can we say these contrasts and reason and combination of the two is reality? Contrast and the combination of the two is reality, combination of the contrast?
R. Yes, certainly we create reality. Our realities are shapeless, formless, the shape of reality builds or is built by our desire, according to how corrected or corrupted it is and this is all against the backdrop of the upper light, this is reality, meaning I use my ego to the reality against the backdrop of the white light.
19. S. (43:19) What should be our correct attitude to the revelation of disparity between us and the Creator?
R. It should be in such a way that we won't be able to tolerate this disparity of form and we would work to reach equivalence.
20. S. (44:04) What is it exactly, the common ground you mentioned before the common area?
R. What common area?
S. You said that. What is the common ground we are creating?
R. Between us and the Creator I'm not sure what we were talking about. You have a question or a part of a question and you're in it but I'm in all the questions and I go deep into every question.
S. You said from the depth of the contradiction we connected in faith above reason, that's how we put together the common space, the common area. What is that common area we put together?
R. Our common area is our common relation to the Creator that is above our ego which is mutually given to us from the Creator which is called our common soul.
21. S. (45:17) How can we generate in the 10 a common language, a unified language despite our contradictions, for example a friend says he is praying and there are many interpretations, one understands it one way and another thinks that he needs to write a sentence down, this produces a prayer, how do we work with it correctly?
R. Only through connection. Here I don't choose with my intellect what relation there should be, I only take the path of connection even though it is opposite from me and the more opposite it is the more contradictory it is to me in my eyes, the truer it is.
22. S. (46:15) We speak of contradictions and I think about how the Creator created this reality as existence from absence, how to relate to this correctly?
R. Did you think about what we talked about or were you thinking about existence from absence?
S. Existence from absence.
R. I'm asking you to think along with us.
23. S. (46:54) How to justify the Creator with all the assaults both inside the 10 and on the outside that always pushes us away from the path, it seems like the Creator doesn't want us and rejects us and He leaves us outside.
R. He is seemingly rejecting us and does not want us so that we will approach Him and ask Him to demand and cry out to have connection with Him. It is like flirting between a boy and a girl where the girl seemingly pretends like she doesn't want the guy but by this she wants the guy to show her more interest in connecting with her. This is called a flirt. Where there is some revealing of an untrue state which covers the true state where the Creator wants connection with us but in order to have connection with us, He shows Himself as if He doesn't want the connection. And this is how we should understand and although it seems to us, our life seems to us as forces of rejection from the Creator towards us, we nevertheless need to overcome it and approach Him. There is a lot written about it, you will also find it in the Zohar and Baal HaSulam.
S. How do we overcome this?
R. We overcome through the 10. In the 10 we should try. Why are we in the 10 and not alone? Because if you were alone and you would discover that the Creator relates to you individually then you would not be able to analyze it correctly because in the 10 we are in different states each time. Then, all in all we can come to a state where we can be in states that contradict how it seems to us. I am giving partial answers to your questions. You have to think harder about the questions and you will find that in my answers there is enough material to understand the question.
Excerpt 1 (50:46-52:40) twice
24. R. A righteous person is a person who corrected himself to the level where he doesn't see the world in a broken way but that all the parts of creation are connected together and complement one another and this is why he feels and understands and discovers Him. It is clear to him in all of creation is one vessel, one desire, that perceives it’s filling from the one Creator and in this he justifies creation. He can't justify creation before he reveals the one vessel and one light in it, so it justifies the Creator through the action through being incorporated in such an operation that reveals to him all of creation as one, that is clear right?
25. S. (53:36) Please tell us after different actions the Creator’s showing a person, that there's none else besides him and He is good that does good to everyone, how to correctly use it in the work in the 10?
R. If you come to that state, you will see what happens. If you come to a state where you discover the one vessel in yourselves, truly connected together and the upper force, the power of bestowal and love, through this force you begin to see all of reality, meaning the upper reality, you begin to see the world in bestowal and everyone is in mutual bestowal and all the created beings are corrected and you look at the whole world and instead of it you see that everyone hates the other and instead you will see that everyone loves the other. And this is what you will see, this is called I will see an opposite world because he who faults, faults in his own faults and if you correct yourself you see a corrected world, you will start discovering it moreover, good luck.
26. S. (55:07) You said that a righteous who is just, corrects himself to such an extent that he doesn't see the world as broken and then you added that the righteous constantly justifies his attitude towards all of the created beings, I didn't understand it, they seem to contradict?
R. Let's talk about situations that we understand. To talk about the degree of the righteous is not for us yet, we haven't even started to understand what this state is. So discussing the differences between them that's incorrect. What are you philosophizing?
S. In that case, I'll ask differently. In our current state, without seeing the world as corrected it leaves me the need to justify the Creator and His attitude to the world, or try to see the world as much as possible in a corrected state although it's not in the corrected state?
R. You cannot see more than you see. Therefore even though you would like to discover the corrected world, you still see it corrupted according to your vessels, don’t move away from it, don’t exit, emerge from this reality. I’ll speak about the corrected world that should be, but don’t confuse yourself in which picture to be in. You cannot behave now according to the corrected world the way you can picture it to yourself and you cannot picture it correctly, you don't have the vessels or the qualities for it and therefore we should all try to go over all of these states in the group from bad to good and good into bad through our different connections in the 10. But in the world, relate to the world as it is, otherwise you will be confused and you’ll make mistakes.
27. S. (57:36) What does it mean to be in the Creator's world?
R. One who is in the Creator's world means that he has already achieved such corrections that he is in the power of the good who does good and then he understands the Creator the way the Creator is.
28. S. (58:12) This degree of the righteous depends on each one in the group and the work we're doing together or the whole world gets to the degree of the righteous?
R. Each and every person connects to each and every group and when they connect all the groups together, this is how it works towards all of the corrections.
29. S. (58:59) Why do we see in the world things that are in opposition that are broken when we are inside the ego?
R. It is not why we see it, it’s how we see it in our egoistic desire which cannot stand anything that is against it that doesn't want it nor tolerate something that it discovers that is opposite from it or that is not like it. It is natural, it is the nature of the ego, the nature of the ego is called I will rule, I will be king, I am the king. So that's how all the egoistic forms are revealed to us, women, men, children, in all kinds of ways.
30. S. (01:00:12) When the Creator is concealed and we wish to overcome the bad in the 10, how do we use the prayer and faith above reason, in what order?
R. This is something that we studied over years. I can't answer you with one answer now. The question is appropriate but for the answer you will learn for a while and start putting the answer together yourself.
31. S. (01:00:57) Am I able to justify the Creator before I see the Creator's bestowal. How can I justify Him?
R. I can justify the Creator in advance but with what, how can I justify Him? Intellectually I can say the Creator is right although I see that nothing is right here. It’s a big problem here, that even if I am killed now and I understand that everything that is being done is done only by the Creator, I still cannot justify it. How can I justify it? Only on condition that I rise above the operation itself to the source of the operation. It is faith above reason. We still don't know what it is. Gradually we will come to reveal this quality. It is the degree of Bina, it is above the degree of Malchut.
Excerpt 2 (01:02:25-01:03:58)
32. R. Meaning we have to try to examine ourselves. Are we really enjoying every situation in our lives or not? If there are situations where we do not enjoy it, it is a sign that we are still not in the Creator's world, but rather the Creator’s world is being built by qualities thoughts and desires that are corrupted of ours. and therefore feeling ourselves existing in a world that is completely good infinite completely dude good and good doing good in every direction to everyone we cannot and it is all because we in our qualities with our qualities we spoil the relation of the Creator to all of created beings.
33. S. (01:05:07) We heard more than once that where the Creator strikes he heels and we need to kiss the stick and here it says that it is hypocrisy?
R. It depends how you relate to it either you understand that you're feeling bad and you're trying to correct your bad feelings and turn it into a good feeling by correcting your qualities in order to see and everything that only good or you're not trying to correct your qualities and you are saying that it's good but you feel bad and then you're lying.
34. S. (01:06:02) The way I see the picture, there are friends whose entire intention is for connection. There is a Creator who sends disturbances and then is I who rejects the connection where should the correction be?
R. The correction should be first of all within me. Where it is clear to me that I am in a false world or world of falsehood on the other hand, I saw in the Creator’s world and I want to equalize these two worlds to one another. This is what I want to happen. That's what I should try to do, how much I bring myself closer and externally and internally. Externally it is up to me so I tried to be similar to the good force as if I'm in the good world, the world of bestowal and love on the one hand. On the other hand I want to receive from above the power to determine my relation to others and to the Creator, so that it will really be so. So all of my bones will say and this is called equalizing the desired with the existing.
35. S. (01:08:18) So the difference between falsehood and high spirits is the intention that I want to awaken the friends?
R. For the time being you can put it this way.
36. S. (01:08:51) What is my fuel for advancement if I don't feel any sadness or resistance or any disturbances? What would push me to advance forward?
R. The point in the heart pushes us to go forward and we bring ourselves back to the place in Adam HaRishon in a corrected way, the point in the heart wants to return to the system of Adam HaRishon in a corrected form.
37. S. (01:09:49) We scrutinized it yesterday. Why is it that when a righteous justifies the Creator and receives all the good from him. He feels it, he doesn't need to talk about it he feels it but it says he shouldn't speak about it if we don't understand it correctly?
R. You mustn't talk about it because of this, he spoils others and himself. He should work inside, the right work is when a person does it within, if he says it with others it should only be with what he can help them and not with what he feels but with what he can help them.
38. S. (01:11:00) You always tell us that to work is to give an example to the friends in the 10. How does a righteous friend give an example to the 10?
R. Like everyone else, each one should set a good example and try to give a good example. In the 10. You may get good examples from them. In the end it influences me. I might resist it at first because I don't want to be righteous. It takes a lot of energy, effort and thoughts but from this we learn in other words. Examples from friends are the best teaching and the best means for my advancement. If I see that the friends are doing this to each other then I will advance for sure.
39. S. (01:12:17) Why is there a quality in us that always corrupts the good?
R. It's not in us. It is the Creator who does it.
S. Why does he do it?
R. In order for us to feel how different we are from him and to discover the gap between him and us and we will want to correct this gap so we will come to his state.
40. S. (01:12:54) A righteous like Rabbi Akiva truly felt the feeling of good and delight when they killed him and combed his flesh or he announced and declared it because he knew it would benefit him?
R. He rose above his corporeal level and was incorporated in his spiritual level, this is why he said it, not as a lie but he sincerely was blessed from the Creator. But these things are not for us. You take this into your own life. How are you above your own troubles that you find you can never attribute them to the Creator because there is Nothing Else Besides Him and also to the Creator as the one who is good and does good.
Excerpt 3 (01:14:36 - 01:15:51)
41. R. The clean and righteous do not kill, the law that the created being cannot receive openly something bad from the Creator because it is a blemish, it is a flaw in the glory of the Creator for He have create him as an evil doer because this is unbecoming of the complete operator. When one feels bad in life, in something in a denial of the Creator's guidance lies upon him to that same extent, concealment of the guidance of the Creator and the superior operator is concealed from him, the Creator is concealed to that extent. This is the greatest punishment in the world that a person can suffer, there is no greater punishment than this.
42. S (01:16:45) He writes that the one who exerts not to leave their faith in the Creator even though he tastes the evil in providence has a reward. What is this reward?
R. First of all, besides exerting not to depart from faith in the Creator he also comes to reveal the faith in the Creator on top of the bad force that he exerted to turn it into the good force. With what? By changing his relation form in order to receive to in order to bestow upon creation so he feels the Creator operating towards creation not the bad forces but with good forces, he who faults, faults in his own faults, if he changes and corrects himself then he sees the world, the Creator is doing good instead of doing bad.
S. If I try to make such an effort even when I see something bad I begin to feel inside of me and understand that the Creator did not actually do bad in this time.
R. You don't understand, you feel that is what it's about. Stop waiting for you to understand it with your intellect, you will understand it with your intellect only if you first feel, the feeling comes first.
43. S. (01:18:26) We sometimes feel bad in creation, in reality how to correctly use the feeling of this bad, how to turn it into fuel in the right direction?
R. Through the friends. Through learning you have to end all kinds of ways and means to turn the bad force that it seems to you, although it's not bad but good, that comes from none else besides him and only in order to do good to you. Try to constantly change your attitude and you will see how to the extent that you change your attitude to the Creator, the picture of reality changes.
S. We see this as an invitation from the Creator?
R. Yes, of course you should see everything as an invitation from the Creator.
44. S. (01:19:42) It's not clear at all, the law that the creature cannot receive disclosed evil from the Creator?
R. It is a law that concealment works in the place where there is no equivalence of qualities between the Creator and the created being, to the extent of the concealment of disparity of qualities there is concealment.
S. Which force are we talking about?
R. That you don't see the right relation to the Creator and also you can't see the bad relation, there is concealment that is if the Creator does not exist.
45. S. (01:21:00) If the Creator strikes the friends with harsh corporeal laws, how does the ten justify him, maybe a person received these blows because....?
R. Of course it comes from the Creator, when a person understands this or not, on the other hand we need to try to first of all reinforce the friend, strengthen the friend with face that it is all coming from the Creator on the condition that he responds to it correctly. Meaning first of all he relates to the Creator as the one who gave it to him and He gave it to him in order to elevate him to a higher level to strengthen the person first of all in rising to a higher level so that out of this he will see these things as coming to him as a punishment, not as a punishment but as a correction so that he would develop the necessity for a higher level and in this way he is not only not running away from the punishment by the troubles but rather that he ascends into rising to a higher and greater feeling of the Creator. To turn the bad into good.
46. S. (01:23:46) In the ten we are also a little confused with this text, it is as if he is telling us to feel sadness and pain is incorrect, what do we do? Because in this generation the experiences are difficult, are we permitted to ask the Creator why, can we raise such a prayer to seek understanding?
R. We are in the system and that system rolls toward the end of correction and what is revealed in our generation is what is suitable for our generation to correct itself. All of the corrections are only for connection between us and from connection between us to connection with the Creator. So you can turn to the Creator and cry out and ask, this is good, but the correction still remains between you and the friends and then to the extent that you and the friends connect into one you can turn to the Creator. This is the way that it works.
47. S. (01:24:50) We typically wait to act until we can justify the action emotionally just like we wait for the point to feel responsible. We need to teach humanity that we don't act until something, is it good to wait for things to be ready or before?
R. Act before is always good, don't be reckless or rash but when you decide together.
S. Where do we take the strings and the reins of the responsibility for the world to feel that we are responsible?
R. On one hand it's because you have no choice but on the other hand it's because it is set in the ten.
48. S. (01:25:58) I change my attitude to resemble the qualities of the Creator by doing so will I feel my feelings change?
R. When you feel it you will, why are you asking about these things? Of course everything changes in every situation.
S. Because I heard you say we had to feel it first.
R. Okay we will have to scrutinize it. I don't really understand you and you me.
Excerpt 4 (01:27:00 - 01:28:49) Twice
49. R. In other words it doesn't matter if he sees otherwise than what should be he accepts it as something that depends upon his own vessels this is why he goes above his vessels and advances in this way meaning from what does a person usually advance? From the opposite form from the corrupted forms because he has to go above them and in this way he rises. We prefer for the time states that are pleasant, good, but in truth, the true worker of the Creator is one who is always wanting to advance, he actually looks for difficulties, for unpleasant feelings that he can rise above.
50. S. (01:29:39) We become people that listen and overcome in the ten, this approach do we take this to our corporeal life as well?
R. No, what is in the ten is only in the ten, we do not take it out.
51. S. (01:30:20) Is it custom to think when you say to justify the Creator usually we are speaking about something bad or bad feelings but here he's speaking to justify for the good what is that?
R. How is it possible that I'm receiving, why is he giving me this? I don't want that as well, then it turns out I relate to the bad and the good in the same way. I want to be righteous, a righteous is when I am in between, not bad nor good, everything depends how much I directly face-to-face relate to the Creator. This is how I establish myself with respect to Him.
Excerpt 5 (01:31:31 - 01:34:03) twice
52. R. If I try according to as much as I can, I am always complete, beautiful, corrected in the eyes of the upper one just like we relate to a small child. What is he doing, he doesn't know how to do it or what to do whether this way or that way, he's not doing this correct or that correct, but as much as he can and is capable. We love it, and relate to him in a nice and good way. In our eyes he is great because we take into account the degrees of the development, how old he is we take into account how old is 2 months 6 months a year, accordingly we look at him and justify him. This is why in the eyes of the Creator if we try according to our degree we are righteous.
53. S. (01:35:08) When you feel the opposite, problems and suffering you overcome in faith above reason as it is written you connect with the friends in love and you supposedly stop feeling that state does this mean I'm justifying Him?
R. Yes.
S. In general?
R. If you see your state comes to you from the Creator if you accept this in order to overcome it so that upon it you will connect to the Creator as a good that does good that's it you don't need any more than that.
S. We, in the correction we're doing, do we include the coarseness at some point?
R. Yes but now the coarseness is still concealed within us, certainly everything that is revealed is revealed upon the coarseness but we don't see this course no standing between us and the Creator, disturbing us. It is not that much to such an extent. But soon it will be.
54. S. (01:36:44) Yesterday you said a sentence that really got to me. I hope this is connected. Can you explain what does it mean to attain a state of spirituality, a spiritual degree?
R. Attaining a spiritual degree means that I attained that I don't exist inside myself but rather that I exist in the connection with the friends, in them and to that extent I am connected to the Creator and I am in Him. This means to feel the spiritual state.