Morning Lesson January 10, 2021 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for error
PART 3
The Law of Love and The System of Adam HaRishon - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #43
Excerpt 43 Reader (00:01 - 01:19)
51. R. Meaning everything depends upon as much as we understand and we don't just speak about love, connection to be good children, not to fight with each other but that we are speaking about correcting the system of Adam which has been shattered and we need to connect in souls not that we will hold hands and hug and that we will connect in our hearts. Meaning in the most internal desires and that they all contradict one another and reject one another but that we will overcome this rejection and connect ourselves by a power higher than the rejection, by the Creator Himself. In a way that our desires even though they are each one rejected from the other, they will all be connected together by a force that will control and obligate them to connect and we will want it to happen. We will ask for it to happen and then by controlling our hearts, by love with the force of the Creator, upon them we will reach correction and feel what it means to resemble the Creator according to the intensity of rejection to connection and the intensity of the connection. According to the manners of connection and rejection we need those to scrutinize the form of the Creator eventually. From the opposite form from Him and everything we will attain His form and we will attain it not like Him but from us we will attain it, from our qualities which are opposite of Him and always to the depth in any way, we will attain all of them when He dwells in us.
S. What are imaginary engagements and how do you identify them?
R. Everything that isn't for connection, we have one business bringing us to connection that the Creator will dwell in so if we aim towards that even if we make mistakes, yes and no, but we want to get to that that is the real business that we are engaging in. If we are doing anything else it is false, meaning it doesn't have any place in reality, we imagine it as if it exists, as if there is a need for it.
S. The confusion is with regard to what promotes connection because we can tell ourselves many stories?
R. It all depends on the person's intention - is his intention to reach connection with the friends and then with the whole world in order to reach connection with the Creator that the friends in the world are the Kli and connecting to the Creator is what he attains in that vessel. That is it
S. Are there degrees of importance where some engagements promote more to connection and some less?
R. Yes, but aim towards connection we are speaking about intention and to the intention comes the deed
S. Should we try to distinguish that also connection with the friends in the 10 is most important than the world Kli, should we do these distinctions?
R. Yes, we spoke about it many times but first we have to be connected between us in the 10 and then between the tens, the system of Bnei Baruch and then to go out to the whole general world. This year we will start going out of ourselves into the general world, which will also influence us and force us to be connected correctly.
52. S. (06:07) Have bestowal in the 10 is infinite so why does it seem like there are competitions on the opportunities to bestow?
R. That is so we can see our work in a more concrete way that before us we will have something that we can see that this is what we have to do now, afterwards we will already reach actions that are limitless, without any limitations.
53. S. (06:53) When you talk about love you said that love is doing what you can to satisfy the desires of the friends so if you can explain how we should focus on the most internal desires of the friends?
R. I need to see the friends as people who are yearning for connection with the Creator very much and then I have to supply them with such a form of connection with me that for sure the Creator will be revealed to them. I am concerned about them and I only want to serve them that the Creator will be revealed towards them and by this I have to see myself constantly thinking how the Creator will be revealed to them. That is the right form of the connection between us and then man will help his friend.
54. S. (08:11) An unbounded operation is when I see that the whole 10 and the whole world Kli is all me this is how I see the world, what does it mean an infinite act?
R. An infinite act means I don't limit it with my will to receive but it is entirely in order to bestow.
55. S. (08:51) In this letter Baal HaSulam writes to the students that all you have to do is connect your hearts into one heart and if you find the way to do it then the whole spiritual system will be revealed to you, the method we have to find, what is that method?
R. That we connect between us and discover what we are lacking in order to be connected and by this to give joy to the Creator, then we ask the Creator to give us such a connection that from it, from this connection we can make Him happy.
56. S. (09:46) What does it mean to test me in this, truly connect in the heart and will see that the pallet will taste, what do we have to look forward to discover this quality?
R. We need to bestow to the host all the same pleasures that he wants to bestow to us that we receive them in love, connect through them, we work with them we work with our ego in a correct way only to give Him contentment and then we can taste all of his attitude towards us as delicious things, the sweetest things. we taste them with our pallet meaning in our mouth, Peh, where we receive and feel all of the sweet things that come to us from Him.
57. S. (11:04) How to achieve the common intention in the 10 practically?
R. Practically we have to connect among us so that each of the friends in the 10 will see how connected we are and how much we want to bestow upon each other how much we want to help each other and in this way we also later come to the Creator from the love of people to the love of the Creator.
58. S. (12:09) How do I change my desire to reveal the Creator that it will be for the benefit of the friends and not for my own benefit?
R. If it is for your benefit you won't discover it, you can't discover the Creator for yourself, it is impossible, it is only to the extent of your bestowal to the friends and to the extent that you want to bestow upon them you discover the Creator and then the revelation of the Creator should also be in bestowing upon the friends, through them it returns to the Creator, in this you are only using the power of rejection. This is what you have and this is your joy and you are transferring the force of the Creator, the relation of the Creator, that love you are transferring and conveying it to others. From this you derive all of the pleasure.
59. S. (13:29) We have terms like bestowal, connection, equivalence of form, what are the roots for all of this?
R. Only from the friends can you take all of the principals in your connection, with the friends you can take all of the principles in order to connect to the Creator correctly.
60. S. (14:20) What is true love and spirituality, what are the temptations?
R. Dedication, devotion when you are willing to give everything for others that is all you need, you have your will to receive from the Creator and you have to use it only to bestow.
61. S. (14:58) Can you explain that a bit more, Baal HaSulam says that you will be clear from love to connect in a true way, what does it mean that love will cover all crimes?
R. That you have no crimes to such an extent that love covers them, you understand that all the crimes you had we're only in order to now scrutinize the love and there were no crimes, they didn't exist and there's no room for them, their only role was to reveal the love on top of them because you can't reveal the love without the crimes.
S. What are the crimes he is speaking about?
R. Hatred, rejection.
S. Is there a connection by coupling by striking, Zivug de Hakaa, to all of this?
R. Yes, striking and then coupling.
S. What kind?
R. Striking first hatred rejection and then the coupling.
S. What is the striking?
R. The restriction the screen the reflected light.
S. We can do that?
R. You do it specifically in a group.
S. How do I do it in a group?
R. Get closer to them and try.
62. S. (16:27) What are the foundations to have the law of love in the 10?
R. It is what Rabash writes, everything begins from the basics that he wrote for us the connection of people in a 10 and then out of this we come to a higher implementation.
63. S. (17:19) When we were meeting physically it was easy to buy friends to give them a drink to help them to prepare a meal, what can be a substitute for that when we are virtual?
R. I help them in every way to attain the Creator, the force of bestowal and love. I give them examples, everything that I can in corporeality and spirituality, so we can reveal the field for the revelation of the Creator between us, they can't do it without me and I can't do it without them and this is how we build the network of connection.
64. S. (18:11) Mine is yours and yours is yours in the 10 from lo Lishma we reached for Lishma?
R. This is philosophizing I don't want to speak this way, of course it is but I don't want to speak this way as a wise guy, mine is mine and yours is yours check it in the article Rabash we just need to establish a connection between us that the power of bestowal will be in it and that is it. These additional intellectual and wittiness, first of all he must do it as he's told.
Excerpt 44 Reader (19:04 - 21:24) reads twice
65. R. This is on the condition that he is connected to them if he regards himself as inferior to them and more and more inferior by that he multiplies his level and they are increased.
S. How do you disclose love of friends in your heart?
R. Through actions or even if you have none and you don't want to but you do what you can to bestow to the friends and out of that he increases the love in his heart and the important thing about it is to persist, persistence is most important.
S. It's not just a speech, what are the actions?
R. The words are included in this also but the main thing is what influences the most is without words, just do it in silence and then when people see it, it really paralyzes them.
Excerpt 45 Reader (22:40 - 23:00)
66. R. Try to put together such a prayer where you are asking the Creator to fill the 10 very close to your heart, to the heart of each of you who is praying and that you will understand them and feel them that they will be like the closest people to you in the world because it is really so. All of those friends each of them carries within him a part of your soul of the most precious and eternal thing of yours. So, try to seemingly speak to the Creator on their behalf that you are really actually praying for your own soul, but not about yourself, you have to cancel yourself. Normally we do the opposite, we ask for ourselves and the others are not important to us, we have to annul ourselves and ask about others, others altogether because they are the parts of our soul of each of us.
67. S. (24:23) Sometimes in the corporeal life there are experiences that a person will be able to give his life for somebody that he loves. What does it mean in spirituality?
R. It depends on the importance, you gave an example from corporeality so the same goes here it is a question of importance and the importance is what you need to scrutinize and increase as much as possible then you will see through connection with the friends with internal desire of each and every friend that you will attain desires that all together make up your soul, your eternal part in which you discover the Creator. Then you will want connection with them and ask for them just like you say you have in your corporeal life.
68. S. (25:32) When a friend in the 10 understands the friend with his egoistic mind does this mean that he raises himself upon a different friend because it was through the mind and if a friend feels someone else is that the right intention?
R. Yes, we need to try to feel the friends in this way that they are in our hearts and our minds and we are only together with them because they are parts that are included in each of us and only in this way do we unite in order to discover the soul.
69. S. (26:40) With our nature it is very easy to undervalue the friends. How do we ensure that we always see the friends as great?
R. This is our work we will never see the friends as great of our own volition without any preparation maybe the Creator will awaken it in us but it's only for us to continue so we can begin to function correctly and to reveal them correctly as they are parts of our soul, they are parts of the vessel of Adam HaRishon that seems and appear to us this way, we need to work on it as there is no way around it. All of your questions come from absence of dealing with connection, facing the connection.
70. S. (28:02) A few minutes ago you gave us a prayer and it kind of slipped away.
R. You have friends and besides if I say something why aren't you writing it down? You will have to watch the lesson again and ask the friends and that way come to that same state because it is a state it's not like I said a few words, you have to return to that same state and there is where the inner force is.
71. S. (28:51) How can I awaken the yearning and deficiency in the friend's heart for love?
R. Try with all of your might, take the Creator as a partner to work on the friends, to awaken them and then it will happen we have to work in practice to do these operations in practice, to move and to do not just to speak.
72. S. (29:40) When I do something from love I am always in happiness, should I bring myself to happiness when I do something for the friends so they will feel my love?
R. Yes, you can. It is called awakening love in the heart and then you awaken joy it even though you initially don't have it.
Excerpt 46 Reader (30:13 - 31:47)
73. R. We have to try to implement this so what he wrote each of us will experience and by this we make room for the Creator to be revealed so he also can be as our friend, Chibur, connection this is where the Chaver, friend comes from.
74. S. (32:14) When a friend discloses the love in his heart towards his friends should this be obvious that a friend is doing this or is this only if I feel like close connection with the friends?
R. No, it should be revealed ideally, you don't have to and maybe not in every situation you can but basically it is what Rabash writes about it also. If you want to relate to a friend well and you already understand basically that this is the way you are supposed to behave to each other then you have to show your relation to him as it increases love. You should talk about and you should reveal it, to show it.
75. S. (33:23) The concern Rabash writes about seems like the final correction. On the other hand it feels like the beginning of the path, how to understand and feel this?
R. It doesn't matter if it's the beginning or the end of the way I have to do it because I am doing this in order to bring contentment to the Creator so even if I am in the beginning of the correction or the end of the correction, I am not thinking about myself, I am thinking about how by this I please the Creator.
Excerpt 47 Reader (34:20 - 35:11)
76. S. About the previous except when I melt in the friends I disappear or I find myself in them?
R. You discover yourself being included in them in a completely different way, a new way more spiritual and closer to the Creator.
Excerpt 48 Reader (35:46 - 36:17)
Excerpt 49 Reader (36:25 - 37:36)
77. S. When Rabash and Baal HaSulam write, they write these things so sublime and exalted with such great states you can't even imagine but when we read, we read everything ... when the Kabbalists study do they excite the text or it is normal all of the time throughout the thousands of years that they just read it like this?
R. We should see in this the laws of the Upper world, these laws are laws of physics, the chemistry, whatever you want they are scientific laws and network of forces that explain to us in an emotional way how these forces connect and interact and operate on one another, they can't explain it to us in a different way about the spiritual perception of reality, the infiniteness they can't explain it to us. These things aren't even in our perception so they explain it to us in a way that is the most possible for us to describe. What can we discover between us bitter and sweet, light darkness, hatred love so, this is how they explain it as if to babies and we picture it in our ego as much as we can picture it, of course it is all a lie, everything that we picture is false but somehow gradually we get closer and begin to understand what it is about.
When we talk about it increasingly more practically then here comes the question, so we don't run away from it we pressure each other, obligate and set examples to each other of how much we have to rise above our senses above our habits, above our nature so that we will find in the end that we have no choice, we have to reveal the connection between us because this is the correction of the soul of all of creation. We exist in a system that is called a soul and that system was seemingly and deliberately broken, it's not really broken but from our perspective it is as if it is broken and we have to try to put it back together, this is why they explain it to us as bitter or sweet, darkness and light, hatred and love, these are the elementary things that we can picture from our own reality although it is not at all like that. It is a problem that we have here so that we will not fall asleep and drop it but that we will really see their explanations as necessary for us. Let us hope that it will work out this way.
78. S. (41:52) Everything that we just read is about love, men from their nature they don't have emotions and all of our summaries in meetings we usually just repeat the words from the brain that we heard what you said in a workshop but what do you think, what can you recommend? Maybe we should always speak more emotionally how we are happy to meet and not that we discuss what we understood from what you said. I don't know how to reach this love if we don't have a place for it as it's like we've run from it and we're just speaking some words of wisdom from what I heard. Even the Shatz and Gabai, they don't awaken us to speak from our feelings, so maybe you can force us to do it. Like what did you feel in the lesson? What atmosphere, why were you happy to be there?
R. You could be right to some extent but we are speaking in such a way that each one will interpret it in his heart and speaking about it openly, Kabbalists didn't really want to do it so as not to expose the desire that they have deep in their hearts. How will you speak about it, I don't know. I'm used to like you, to understand more the technical aspect of the manner when I speak about it technically, I understand it and it obligates me internally and emotionally. I am like a machine and I have to carry out these internal operations of connection or operations of love; they are the same thing. An act of hatred and an act of rejection are the same thing, an act of relinquishment, concession is a type of an act of bestowal so we can use technical words but basically, they are all speaking about our desires, how we carry out these things. All of these psychology or love Is just forces, natural forces that are in us and we operate them and there is nothing else here.
Hatred love you can replace with rejection and attraction or connection, try to build a dictionary on one side you have words of emotions and on the other side you have words of operational or activities, whatever is convenient to use this or that this is the language of the branches or language of the Kabbalists see why it says this no depends how we use it. I wish you to be able to overcome the language difficulties that we have whether we can’t speak softly or because we are in such states that we can't open our hearts to feel the hearts of our friends and I recommend for you to try to follow what Rabash writes, to speak with sentences that are written in his books that are seemingly not yours because you are using his words. In this there is already a great addition because you are taking him as a partner, Baal HaSulam is very high and complicated as his words are very sublime almost lofty and Rabash is a lot closer to us, we will conclude and let us help during the day that we will wake up more and continue tomorrow.
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