Morning Lesson Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.
Morning Lesson November 17, 2020
Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”, #21
51. R. First of all I'm looking at the screen, why don't you show it, all of our groups of friends, New York 1, New York 2, USA Northeast, California, New York 3, New York 4, Florida, USA Midwest, Queens, KabU 2, Toronto 1, Toronto 2, where have they been they have always been here we simply were not able to see them due to technical difficulties which thanks to the friends are now resolved. Now I see that all of North America is here with us, let's hope that it stays this way.
Excerpt 21 Reader (01:02 - 03:10)
52. R. So, the most important thing is for us to be in joy in whatever situation we are in. Because we have an opportunity to do something for the Creator, then it is called a Mitzva, a good deed, a commandment. And the more difficult the situation is and doesn't feel in our vessels like a good situation, nice, the better it is. It is better because I am not drawn to react through egoistic forces but against my ego and then the act is truly called an act of Mitzva, a commandment, from the word to command, it’s an imperative coming from the Creator, to go towards Him and above my ego. Despite my ego. The joy of Mitzva means I am happy that I have something that I can do against my will to receive. Not in big things, in something small every time increasingly more towards connection, not toward anything else. Connection in the lesson, this is all I need and these are the two means that I need to have in order to advance towards the Creator. If I did both each day, I did my bit for the day, the day wasn't wasted, it didn't go by in vain. This is how I should accept life. Then you will see that you're getting benefit from life and a special result from life, truly. We must always remember that revealing the Creator comes from a state called dust. It is written, “because from dust you are and to dust you will return”. We keep falling into a state of dust where we don't care and we don't want to and there's no point to it, just leave me, etc. All these things... we fall, we fall there's nothing you can do; we have no power no desire no inclination, nothing. And from that dust we have to help each other, can't rise by ourselves. So precisely when others give me an example, and awaken me, then, this rising from the dust will be the correct rising, not with my ego. If I look at a friend and the friend helps me and then I help the friend and the others it is not done by my ego, it is done by working in society. So here you have the forces of connection at work and that is how we advance. So try to work only in this way, to do our activities only in this way. And then they will be spiritual activities.
53. S. (06:56) In all the study of the work above reason there are always two layers, what my will to receive feels and above it I need to have a higher degree?
R. Yes.
S. And as you explain a person is sometimes in the state of the dust with no forces and the only way to grasp anything higher than what he feels in his desire is through the ten?
R. It's not sometimes, I can never find in me the strength to advance, it seems to me that I am being confused, the will to receive confuses me, it says try you can do it and in our world it is accepted that I will do it. In spirituality it is not, only through the powers of the group. They help each other, only by this can we rise otherwise it is not an ascent, it is a lie.
S. So it turns out that these two layers, the lower one the lowly one, is me. The higher is only the friends, only the ten?
R. Yes correct, and only through them can I rise that's how we are, like mountain climbers.
54. S. (08:24) How can we?
R. Look at what Rabash writes in his articles about the group. I cancel myself before the ten I try to feel myself as the least among them and as a result I get from them the strength and the powers. Then, with the powers I receive from them, I see how I can give to them. It’s an opposing action. Look what is happening here: when I submit myself before the group, I get the upper force through the group. When I submit myself the upper force influences me I get an awakening. First of all the upper force goes through the group so I am already included in them as the lowest among them. Then, afterwards I want to bestow upon them so I rise above myself and give to them with the power that I received through them. In other words, now through the Creator I give to them. So, first I received from them as Malchut and now, I give to them as Keter. And this is how we work like a piston: Malchut and Keter, Keter and Malchut.
55. S. (10:03) Sometimes I come to the lesson in such a state that I'm completely indifferent but when the lesson starts and I wake up so much that I forget about that indifference and I am included in the friends. Can I say this is the force of the ten?
R. It is the Creator operating on you through the ten.
56. S. (10:36) You said and Rabash speaks about it in the articles: to subdue to lower yourself before the friends. Can you recommend exercises we can do in the ten in seeing ourselves small?
R. Try to look at the ten and see behind the friends what they are doing and to try and see and what they're doing how much they want to bestow upon the ten, how much they are giving me the right example. Try it and you will see how it happens. And after it happens, or after you try to do this, whether it is successful or not, then you will know that it is the Creator working on you. Say, you found friends who are working correctly, the Creator gave you an example. You didn't find the friends who are doing the right things, that too is the Creator’s doing to you, working on you. So draw your conclusions from this and try to change.
57. S. (12:01) You said that we one time we work above reason and that the friends are above me and they are great and I get the forces to rise through them, and then the friends go down below me and I bestow to them?
R. Yes of course. How can I give to them if I am not the greatest? Everyone should be both the greatest and the smallest. And that way you have an engine, and in this engine you have ten pistons, just imagine what kind of engine it is, the motion of it, with everyone working in order to fill up our tank. With air, it is like a compressor, so we fill it completely and then when we come to a state that is called quota, the Creator is revealed inside of it.
S. So this is how we work according to states that we are going through supposedly?
R. Yes but you have to see every state correctly.
S. What does it mean correctly?
R. Correctly. In both, in the ascent and in the descent. As Rav Zusha, or Baal Shem Tov said that he had 200 up-s and down-s in five minutes. Do you understand?
58. S. (13:53) What is the importance in feeling the taste in the concealment?
R. We can't feel any taste if it is not in concealment, only out of concealment. This is why the wisdom of Kabbalah is called the wisdom of the hidden, because what we reveal, we reveal out of the concealment, why? Because the advantage of the light is from within the darkness. If you have no concealment you cannot have a revelation, no revealing. Do you understand? It has to be this way because we are built, created out of two forces, the force of reception and the force of bestowal. To the extent that we turn our reception into a force of bestowal we discover the Creator according to equivalence of form. Think about these words. You will see what is in them.
59. S. (15:05) The example you gave, that I am included in the friends like Malchut in Keter, what is that same force that I get from this integration?
R. One-time you are immersed in the group and you absorb from them their desires and next time you lift it up to the Creator and you get from there, for this assent, this is called MAN when you're asking for everyone, you get from their energy and with this energy you come down to them you give it to them, so to speak. You again absorb from them new desires, you raise it up again and again where you keep going up and down and up and down MAN-MAD, MAN-MAD
This is how the piston works. Each and every one of us.
S. What does it mean that I raise the mutual desire?
R. You raise it up to the Creator.
S. What does it mean that I bring it back down?
R. You bring them MAD once you receive it from the Creator for everyone you give it to them and to each one in the group.
S. In what is it expressed? Is it something emotional?
R. When you share their pain and their desire and you want to lift them to the Creator to bring them closer to the Creator, you get from the Creator a gift at that time, a gift, powers, feelings, revelations and you give it to them. You are working like a conduit in both directions.
S. Meaning the same upper point is where I need to make some summary of my desires?
R. You want to leave all of the friends, the whole group to the Creator.
S. That is the second stage of the request?
R. It's just words in a few minutes it won't matter you'll forget the words and it will disappear. Work, and bit by bit, you know... What the mind doesn't do, time does. And gradually, you'll get more discernments and then we'll talk.
60. S. (17:42) Why is it written that the Creator punishes the bodies if the body is what reaches the unification the gathering? The expression that the Creator hates the bodies?
R. The Creator hates the bodies means that the Creator hates meaning, He is opposite from the will to receive for oneself. But if the will to receive is corrected to work in order to bestow, then that will to receive unites with the Creator and the Creator is revealed in that will to receive according to the equivalence of form. And then it turns out that the will to receive wasn't created opposite from the Creator for no reason, it rather brings out its oppositeness in order to reveal the Creator 620 times more. So, you understand what happens. The Creator created the will to receive and the will to receive, when it works on itself in order to invert itself to be similar to the Creator, excites the Creator reveals the Creator to all of creation, 620 times.
61. S. (19:09) When I raise a request to the Creator that my friends will be with me in the lesson every morning, does that mean that I'm raising their deficiency even though they don’t have it?
R. Yes, you need to do that with your ten and in truth with all of humanity, with all of humanity. Think about that also. When you want to include in your plea to the Creator in your correction you want to include all of humanity, also then you will truly be fulfilling and realizing yourself completely. We have to think about that too. The time for this is coming very quickly.
62. S. (20:08) The feeling of the lack of livelihood or greatness of the goal in the ten, how can you connect all of that?
R. It is very simple. Lack of vitality is because I am measuring everything with my ego. And the greatness of the goal, the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of the group, I measure this with my desire to bestow, my yearning to rise. To rise. I have two points, one is connected to this world, the egoistic one and the other is connected to the point in the heart, to the Creator. This is why I always have two states that are opposite and I have to try to work in both.
Excerpt #22 Reader (21:22 - 23:08)
63. S. (23:10) You feel the Hissaron of the ten, pray to the Creator and then you get, you give MAD to the ten. What is giving MAD to the ten?
R. That the awakening you got from the Creator, you add it to the awakening of the group to pass it to their friends, you don't give them exactly the knowledge because it is corrupted as it went through you. But the Gadlut it is the light that you get from above, the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of spirituality, eternality. that we have the business with the eternal world that aren't all the discernment of this world that come and change and disappear. It is something that is worth infinite, Ein Sof, in the light of Ein Sof. In the form which is above time space and motion this is what we need to pass to the friends. This is what is in the MAD, the divine part from above. In short, that’s it. What are we passing through, what are we receiving from above? A bit of the Creator and passing it to the friends. It is something wonderful. Look how we can really...such gifts we have to bring to society.
64. S. (25:34) To ask for the friends to include myself in the prayer to the Creator, is that a condition for the Creator?
R. There are a lot of things here and we will learn them soon, we will have time when we learn about the raising of the prayer, the answering of the prayer and all of that. The thing is, as much as we can, or I can include myself in receiving the light, and passing it through, to the extent that I am included in the ten. If I am included there my “I” is annulled there in the ten. And I can pass it to the entire ten, I draw the Light, but I draw it when integrating with them and then I don't harm the upper Light and I can pass it through in a way that is correct to the friends. That is why annulment towards the ten is a must, otherwise I will pass the whole message through my ego.
65. S. (27:38) What is good and bad towards the Creator?
R. Towards the Creator good and bad is either bestowing or receiving. No more. If my actions are in reception, it is bad if they are in order to bestow to the others, it is good. Not to the Creator, because I can't bestow to the Creator I can only bestow to the created beings. The Creator is not a vessel of reception He is a source of bestowal.
66. S. (28:31) When the MAN, when the MAD goes through me to the friends my ego ruins it?
R. Incorrect, if it is MAN and MAD, the true kind, it can't be that you ruin them because it comes from your integrating in the ten. Before your action, before every action or raising a deficiency or receiving from the Creator and bringing it to the ten you have to integrate in the ten and this is why you can't ruin it, not their desire, what you give to the Creator and not the light that you get from the Creator in order to pass to them. If you are included in the ten you are pure.
67. S. (29:34) What does it mean to shut your eyes and in what state should we do that?
R. Usually shutting your eyes means going in faith above reason. That's it. That is, the action of faith above reason, meaning bestowal, above the force of reception that is revealed every time. There is nothing else in our reality except for the two actions, receiving and bestowing. If I make bestowing more important than reception, so also my reception that is under the control of bestowing, it gets a form of bestowal and I work with it in order to receive in order to bestow. That’s how it is.
68. S. (30:39) Let's say in the ten, we see that there is no grasp in anything we were speaking about now, in working towards the friends...?
R. No, no, don't say there isn't. We don't have any grasp in spirituality. Let us try like children playing as if we are doing the right actions, let us perform such actions. What does it mean? Let us integrate together, let's try as much as we can, to integrate together that we want to reach one desire. Where is the center of bestowal between us? Where do we take this mutual desire? From connecting together between us. In this mutual desire we can raise that to the Creator. Just like that. What does it mean? To bestow contentment by connecting, to show the Creator how we connected for Him. That’s it. That’s what we did for You, take it, correct us, if we connected incorrectly, do something for us to succeed, we want to connect only for You, that is it. We also want even more than that, we want You to be revealed in the connection between us and enjoy it. That we want to build a home for You from our desires called the Temple Beit HaMikdash the general vessel of bestowal made from our desires.
And this is how you start, try and speak like that, to reach that.
S. Exactly what I wanted to ask.
R. Start working, so as it is written that you should not be as a foreign God, the Creator should not be distant, foreign, bring Him closer to the center of the group, connect between you and together with Him don't let Him run away.
69. S. (33:21) How does a person know that his annulment is correct?
R. When he loses it in the ten and then feels that somehow, he has a feeling of the Creator, somewhat, it comes as a kind of new perception of reality.
70. S. (33:55) You said now, that if a man is included in the ten he is pure and can't make a mistake not with the desire that you raised MAN and MAD that you pass to the friends. Are there any other criterions to understand whether you were able to integrate the Gabai, the Shatz?
R. If you are connected, then you feel you're connected because you have connection with them with the Creator, you already have something, the reaction to the right connection, you feel it because you become the conduit it passes through you. Like a conductor.
S. Sometimes it's very difficult.
R. No, I don't want to talk about it. Some want this or that... A ten means that you are all connected or at least know that you have to connect and are yearning for connection. But if somewhat this or somewhat that, it's not a ten. It is not a ten.
71. S. (35:23) What is the sign that the Creator is enjoying? How do we know that the Creator is enjoying, is that when we enjoy the connection?
R. If we feel that we are connecting more than before and we have to say that the Creator too enjoys, although perhaps the connection between us is still not strong enough for Him to be revealed in the connection.
72. R. (36:14) And again I am saying thank you very much to the groups in America who prepared such questions for us yesterday. We dedicated the whole morning lesson to their questions and let’s hope that it will help work correctly and achieve life’s purpose.
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