Morning Lesson February 20, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to The Book of Zohar. #66
1.Rav’s Introduction: We should think carefully to try to understand and to feel that all we feel as deficiency, emptiness, concerns, everything we feel at all is the result of the shattered vessel that happened before us, the vessel of Adam HaRishon. Only through increasing the connection between us can we correct all the states that we are going through, they do not have any other way for these states to calm down to become corrected but only through being drawn to connection between us further and further, more internal connection, deeper and deeper that we do not let go, that we understand and feel that everything that seems to us as negative, as empty and raising concern or pain whatever it is all of it is because we cannot configure the connection between as in some new form further and further. So let's think about this as the only thing that we are missing and let's continue.
Reading Item 66 (02:04)
2. R. (02:22) Rav reads: This is what we are learning from the structure of the worlds, the Partzufim and Sefirot, that is internality and externality, the internality is more connected to the upper light more prepared for connection in it and externality is the opposite. It works as coarseness that is opposite to the connection with the upper light, to the higher Partzuf, therefore there is a connection between them which can be opposite, typically opposite. Our whole work is to bring those, that the internality and externality to the same level of connection that each supports the other. So he says that bear in mind that in everything there is internality and externality. In the world in general Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the internality of the world, and the seventy nations are the externality of the world. We are learning that we are not talking about people, about human beings, we are not treating these forces left, right and middle Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as things that exist and appear in the world in physical form, but these are forces through which the Creator governs us, designs us, and makes us closer to the complete connection and complete correction between everybody.
From above down there is such a cascading where these three lines right, left and middle are first Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and it is the internal part governs the world and what does it govern, what does it correct and connect. This is what is called the seventy nations of the world, why seventy because we have the Keter, Hochma, Bina which is the first three Sefirot called GAR and then seven Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, Malchut that is the 7 x 10, the seventy nations of the world. They are called the externality, opposite to those first three Sefirot which are the internality, also there is internality within Israel themselves. Meaning inside Keter, Hochma, Bina, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who are the complete servants of the Creator that belong and are drawn to the Creator and their whole work is to belong to mutual bestowal and connection between them and the upper force. Then there is the externality, those who are not devoting themselves to the world of the Creator.
Meaning they cannot relate themselves and they belong to connection with everybody and connection with the Creator and this is within Israel and among the nations of the world, so we are talking about the GAR and now we are talking about the ZAT, in each and every degree among the nations of the world there is also internality as well which is the righteous of the nations of the world as they are called. Where does this stem from because in ZAT, Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet and these Sefirot or parts of ZAT of the Partzuf they are like Keter, Hochma, Bina but they are already working inside the desire. The desire begins from below the Sefira of Daat, from Hesed, so Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet is GAR of ZAT, so it is similar to Keter, Hochma, Bina and then there is he says in the nations of the world also which entirely belong to the ZAT, which is the degree of the world or humanity and there is also internality of the world and the externality.
The internality is called the righteous of the nations of the world, righteous, Hassid, relates to the connection with Bina which is the quality of Hesed where it comes from and then there is externality which is the crass and the harmful among them. This is where there is the true desire to receive because it is far from the Keter and accordingly they have an increased ego and then he continues. Additionally, among the servants of the Creator, among the children of Israel, there is internality being those rewarded with a comprehension of the soul of the internality of the Torah and its secrets and the externality merely observing the practical parts of the Torah. Meaning there are those who want to reveal the Creator and to come from connection between them to the connection with the Creator and do this mutual work with the Creator, mutual feeling, and mutual actions, they are called the internality. Typically, let's say, our group is completely longing for that and there are those who belong to the externality, those who merely observe the practical part of the Torah.
Meaning there are such practical commandments, actions that people are drawn towards that they think that through those external actions they can attain the goal of creation which is connection between people and between people and the Creator now let's say we do not know what connection between people and the Creator is. In terms of connection between people we see that of those practical methods, so to speak, whatever religion, belief systems humanity has been through and is existing in, there is nothing in them that can bring actual correction. Meaning the connection of the vessel of Adam HaRishon which is the final ultimate goal, and nobody is pulled to that, there is no such goal in them, there is nobody drawn to those goals in those faith and belief systems that consider themselves spiritual. Then he continues writing, also there is internality in every person from Israel, meaning those who are drawn straight to the Creator, the Israel within, those who are drawn to how the program works and how we belong to it, how we can change this reality, how it works and how it governs us.
This is the internality of the souls, and the externality are those who merely observe the practical part of the Torah, meaning they need some practical action with their hands and legs, some songs, whatever external expression they can do. In that they do not feel that they are drawn to something beyond, so it is not like people who are guilty of something, they are just built to be either drawn to this or to that or somewhere in between. Also in every person from Israel, meaning a person who has the passion to reach spirituality, to connect with the Creator, to connect the vessel of Adam HaRishon there is internality in that person which is the Israel within. Israel meaning Yashar El, directly to the Creator, that he's aiming at connecting to the Creator which is the point in the heart. This is how we call this desire, the point in the heart like the central point in all of the desires, the heart referring to all of the person's desires and this central desire is the point in the heart, which is craving to attain the Creator, to connect with him.
Then there is the externality of the desires which are called the nations of the world within the person that is the body itself, meaning desires that are not drawn to attain the Creator, to attach to the Creator. They are regarded as proselytes, meaning that they help the heart the inner desire to attain the Creator and connect to the Creator because by attaining, by attaching to the internality they become like proselytes from among the nations of the world. Meaning forces that work to bring all of man in its entirety to connection and attachment with the Creator those who came and attached to the whole of Israel. There is a division here based on the levels of desires, they are all as a single desire before the breaking of Adam HaRishon, it was like a sphere representing something whole and when it broke then there are also divisions and degrees inside the desires as each and every desire is no longer supported by the other desires, incorporating with each other reciprocally. This is no longer a spherical and whole but now they are all each and every one in themselves that is why they are now in an order from top-down and from within, from the center of these degrees, these five degrees there is also inside and outside, inside out and that creates sort of a tree form of all the souls after the shattering. Even though there is a connection between them it is a connection that comes naturally from above, the Creator holds them that way until they correct themselves and then above their nature they begin to connect and once again they attain this spherical, whole shape.
3. S. (15:20) Those who have a point in the heart they can come to connection and those without cannot?
R. First of all the point in the heart wakes up or it can wake up in each and every moment, in each and every desire. The point in the heart wakes up in the interior of each and every desire in order to connect it to the other desires and through them to the Creator. Therefore you can say that the point in the heart exists in everybody, he writes that also, the only question is how hidden it is, how covered it is and even covered by shells, Klipot, which do not allow man’s desires to feel so easily that inner force of nature the Creator and long to him. Each and everybody have their own time and a process the person has to go through but still as it is written, nothing will be cast out of him, everything goes back to it's a root and everybody will achieve the final correction. Each and every one with whatever desires appear in him and all the desires which is also absorbed from all of the other souls, each and everybody will reveal that he is bonded with the Creator as it existed in the system of Adam HaRishon before the shattering, before the sin and 620 times more than that.
Meaning that until he achieves the complete NRNHY because this is really that goal that we have to attain this is what the shattering was for. The shattering was in order for each and every part to become completely Incorporated with each and every other part and then when we correct ourselves, everybody will attain everything and there will be no difference between big and small, high, or low. There is not going to be any other shape than round, everybody will have a complete level, and everybody becomes equal, this is the goal of creation. Through the shattering, through the scrutinies to bring each and every soul into the state it feels in wholeness, in complete wholeness not as if or something partial, something that everyone wants to settle for, no, not in some dormant way. Each and everybody discover everything, everybody discovers themselves in a complete form that through that everybody discovers the general force that connects everyone raises everybody and there is no difference between each and everybody. Even though there was a difference in the correction process when you had this group and that group and these parts and those parts in the soul of Adam HaRishon, some seemingly pure or some coarse but when we start to complement each other they reach a state where nobody can exist without the others. Then they begin to discover they are all important, they are all equal, they are all necessary and by this during the correction we reveal how everything is in a single wholeness.
4. S. (19:55) What kind of work can be ascribed to the internal part?
R. The innermost work in the ten that all of us can try to feel a deficiency of aiming ourselves to the revelation of the Creator, and we come through the connection between us. This is our internal work, how through connection between us we can achieve connection with the Creator. The Creator is the totality, it is the whole, it is the sum total of all the efforts and actions we are doing as we want to achieve that concept of oneness, one in every sense.
5. S. (21:05) Can we say that the externality is the desire to receive just for his own sake?
R. The externality is all the way to receive in order to receive and even more, it also includes the system of Klipot, it includes the whole system. That those systems also we have to include within us and correct them because the connection between us must include all the desires, everything that is outside of the Creator so we can connect all these desires and shape them in a way that the Creator becomes fully revealed in. This is how we come to his revelation in reality, and this is our work building a system that is completely to the very last detail, reveals the Creator and it actually also finds what is the essence of the Creator, what is the Creator. Because there is no Creator without the created being, clearly there is no created being without the Creator, that is something we understand from the beginning but there is also no Creator with other created being. There is some upper force, some upper cause, a root cause that everything that happens emanates from, but the Creator refers to us revealing our root within us. That is why the complete work is in each and every moment of our existence to long for describing the Creator as within us, at least inside the ten and that then also the ten we have to describe as a sort of a sphere, whole structure.
6. S. (23:34) Sometimes we relate to the vessels outside as the quality of the Creator as Sefirot, sometimes as souls, what is the difference when it is this way or that way?
R. It depends on how we relate to it, if you relate with emotionally then it is desires, it is different phases or in a more technical way it is in the Sefirot or in a sense of more general connection and then the Partzufim and the worlds, it all depends on the technical scrutiny let's say until the come to it emotionally.
S. What about the souls?
R. The souls, they are already engaged in correcting the souls, connecting our desires. If I connect my desire with someone else's desire to a certain extent that means that I am already building the soul. No individual has a soul is what we assemble from at least two foreign desires at least two so there is no soul in anybody. We have to assemble it; we have to compose it and do that further and further until we come to a single soul that is called the soul of Adam HaRishon and the Creator fulfills this.
7. S. (25:55) You said that no individual has a soul but sometimes we are speaking about that there are so called heavy souls, can you explain this because it seems that it is a contradiction?
R. There is no soul in any individual, the Creator created a desire, this desire went through a preparation, connection, breaking and this way we are now in this broken state of the desires. These desires wish to take on a better state, meaning an egoistic fulfillment, they are drawn to fulfillment and all of the desires, all of them in total want to preserve themselves. This is where we begin, this is well life begins until we discover in this life through the efficiencies, through the generations through different states of throughout the thousands of years these souls or desires they develop and then reincarnate until they connect even through forms of this world where they connect and disconnect. By the various activities between them, these interactions between them, they begin to incorporate into each other they start to integrate even though they do not wish to.
You see, look at humanity, how they are in this process of connecting and waging war and people are getting married and divorcing through these activities which are very external, very external actions, still it brings them to a state where they begin to rise in their awareness and understanding of their connection. However then accordingly the Creator can shine greater and greater lights on them and then these pieces of desire begin to better understand how to connect or how to control each other. This is how humanity develops on the level of this world for now but there are some desires, and this began just recently about five thousand years ago, since Babylon or Adam HaRishon before Babylon. So let's say about one thousand years before Babylon, where the souls begin to discover this question of who we are, what are we for, why do we exist, something that is higher than the animal level, than the beastly level. Then they begin to evolve accordingly, and this development comes to us from Adam HaRishon through people who were with them at the time, who are considered his descendants, his students that he started to share with them what he thinks and what he thought.
We have a book which is attributed to his writing, and this is how things developed until Babylon for about a thousand years and this is how things moved into Babylon and from Babylon, we know more about what has happened there. Where they wanted to build the tower up to Heaven so to speak, the Babylonian tower and people already lived a part of their history in a good union, a good connection with each other. Then the greater desire to receive appeared and they started to hate each other, to compete and then the whole matter of Babylon was broken besides the group of Abraham who understood that what came from Adam HaRishon and from Abraham, that it is worthwhile to work to connection because everybody is in a breaking and only the connection can be a good outcome from where we are. They rose as such a group and then we learn how that group moved to the land of Canaan from Babylon and from them to Canaan to Egypt and then from the land of Egypt they came back to Canaan, which is already called the land of Israel, which is Yashar El, directly to the Creator.
Then because they already understood that they have to be aiming at the upper force and attached to the upper force and they better understood how because they received an addition of egoistic desire to receive, and it was clear to them when they have to work on and what should be their achievement. This way they achieved such a connection between them and the connection between them did not hold for a long time and then the shattering was made in them as well not in the same degree as it happened in Adam HaRishon but through other conflicts and problems, they had so they dispersed. When they dispersed, they fell into a point where from the same Babylon came Nebuchadnezzar with its soldiers came to them, which were forces of the desire to receive which took them into captivity. Then they were kept as captives for many years in Babylon until they emerged out of there and lived for a few more years together and as much as they tried to hold onto a desire to bestow between them, they could not, and it continued for about five hundred years more.
In short, the whole thousand years since the Exodus from Egypt they were in such a war of how to connect between them and they could not until they completely dispersed in what is called the ruin of the second temple which is about two thousand years ago, and this is it. From then they have lost the method of connection, but the book of Zohar became revealed after this ruin and then since then that group that originally called itself Israel, Yashar El, directly to the Creator, no longer exists. All of its pieces were scattered around the world, and they exist in different states and places we can't even describe because this is a big story to get into, but everything is now, this is all scattered through reality. Now we are already in a time when this whole method arises and it begins to wake up, it begins to spread and it is telling everybody, because everybody came to such a mingling between them that everybody is now able to be connected to the idea of the correction of humanity, to bring humanity to a new format, to such a new shape of the same Adam.
That we all belong to the single desire where each complement each other, to a single desire and then the Creator becomes revealed as the single force within them. This already has to do with the truthful perception of reality and not the kind of reality we all feel in a single, detached desire. This is what we are facing, this is what we need to do, connecting our desires, helping each other becoming incorporated and then the upper light will influence us accordingly and then we will become as one man in one heart, and this is how we come to, in our desire, come to a single shared reality and we call that the spiritual reality. Before that attainment is where we stand now, this is what we are facing and let's hope that the way I know and I understand we are at the entrance to spiritual attainment so our desires will begin merging, connecting and in that shared desires we will discover further and further the upper reality, the Creator and this is the goal of our time, what makes it special and this is what the Sages write about so let's try to do that.
7. S. (37:53) It is not speaking of people so who are the nations of the world in this writing?
R. What we call it is confusing because it is difficult to disconnect from what exists in the physical life compared to what exists in spiritual reality so it is a lack of clarity, confusion and then we have to get used to the definitions and so we can see this correctly.
8. S. (38:58) You always tell us that we are not sufficiently connected, that we cannot understand spirituality. I am always confused because I am trying to do everything you tell us, all the Kabbalists explain to us, but I always feel that I am not connected, that I cannot reach spirituality so this is perception, how does it happen I can understand this?
R. The spiritual perception comes to us by connecting our desires, our desires can be connected through the intentions when we aim ourselves, when we aim each and every desire, each and every friend at the Creator to mutual bestowal, mutual connection. Then eventually our desires unite and connect then that desire, which is now going through ever-growing connection, we begin to attain spiritual states. Spirituality is what appears in different desires, different opposing desires that repel each other by their nature and we form a connection, bridge above the repulsion, the rejection and then in the gap between the desire to receive that wants to reject us from each other. When we succeed in coming closer to each other, above in the gap between the two qualities we start to feel that upper world and the upper force, only this way. The repulsion between is like the coarseness of the degree and the tendency of the connection that develops despite it is the refinement of the degree and between them we feel the spiritual reality.
9. S. (41:49) In every person there is the quality of Israel and the quality of the nations of the world, so how to detect them correctly and work with them correctly, I'm exaggerating a bit, how can we not work with them?
R. You cannot have one without the other, you have to work on the connection between us and all the forces that interfere with the connection. This is expressed through a simple action of how connected we can get above all the forces that interfere with the connection, this is it, this is the meaning of yearning for the Creator.
10. S. (42:55) You said a few moments ago that we need to bring the internality and externality to support each other, so how can we bring them to support each other?
R. Each shall help his friend as Rabash writes in his articles. It is a shame that we do not have time to read them, but here and there everybody needs to go through his articles and see what he is writing to us. Through mutual support, the mutual examples we give and that this way when work this way we can connect each inside his ten and begin to scrutinize how much mutual support can help with the internal closeness of the heart.
11. S. (44:06) Today after almost two years of the pandemic, we, the inner part of Israel connects virtually every day. We could not imagine this happening before, what is the next stage of connection, how can we achieve this today without external pressure?
R. We have to see this pandemic as the supporting force and necessary force that has to work on us and open up for us additional opportunities, new possibilities in connection and how distance is not important anymore and the physical closeness is not the deciding factor. We need to determine a transition from the physical world to the spiritual world, so we have to see in everything we go through, we have to see the stages of development to that, this is how I see it.
S… (question not translated)
R. We need to try and be connected as much as possible in internal connection between us and if a physical connection helps then all the more, so we will do that. I expect us to be able to do a big congress with all the friends from the world to come to us, we will do that as we had it before. Nevertheless it will give us a certain boost to connection, to development, nevertheless we are still in the physical world but together with that, we have to develop more and more the connection between us, the virtual connections and also the spiritual connections. We would have such a tendency between us, we wish to be connected like a mother to the baby, a mother to her child, to have such an internal disposition from one to the other that I should not lose the connection with the other because by that I lose connection with the Creator. Only through the connections between us, we connect to him, we cannot raise a request to him, and we pray to the Creator asking anything from him but only on the condition that we do that all through the friends at least in the ten. This is how we have to see our state.
S. The degree you described, the relation of a mother to the child can we reach this without external pressure?
R. Yes and no.
12. S. (47:47) When I look through the human beings and their desires, I feel that even behind most terrible desires there is a desire for bestowal. I mean that it feels that all human beings are actually craving and yearning for bestowal, but they do not know that they are craving for bestowal. They are all doing selfish actions that are caused from the craving for bestowal. Is this true or is this only a thing that appears in my reality?
R. This is the true, it is true and later it will be revealed. You already feel this, and this is very good. It is true that everybody bestows one another, not that they want to bestow. Everyone is in mutual bestowal to one another, but it is concealed from us. We see external corruption although in truth this is the true form of correction and connection. Everybody is in mutual bestowal. Even those who are performing seemingly the worst possible actions, most vicious.
S. We spoke about can we bring them closer to the Creator but sometimes it seems that everybody is already there so what is my action?
R. You need to reveal it in practice with your entire desire. All of your senses. You have to see, you have to reveal that the world is already in a state of correction, that everyone is only doing spiritual work, everyone is connected and this corruption that we had is only to confuse us so we would scrutinize the state better and come to it in a clearer, more tangible way.
S. Is it possible to say that I am living for bestowal even though I do not know it? My reference point is myself, and through myself I can make assumptions for all human beings?
R. You are right. Everything is correct. You are thinking correctly but you have to discover this in practice not only in thought but in your senses and soon you will see it. Very nice.
13. S. (51:30) We know that in any case we will all achieve the correction and the completion of the goal of creation, so the question is, what is the logic of hastening the path with the method? Just to save suffering and pain?
R. This is a very nice and beautiful and correct question, a bit philosophical but it is correct, it is okay. Many people are asking this if the end of correction is already present in reality and there, we all exist and are in our corrected form. What is the point of this world and the suffering we feel and why do we need to run away from this suffering? Why do we need to come to act of bestowal? Why do we need this method of speeding up the time? These things which are standing there in eternal, final eternity. If these things are there, what is the benefit of going through all these forms hastily with fear, rushing through it with effort, why do we need all this work? The thing is that through this work that we put in, we expand our vessels. We expand our vessels and by this we can show how much we respect and honor the quality of bestowal, the form of bestowal. You cannot come to this unless you exert, unless you put in the effort in the state that we are given because by that you are acquiring additional feeling towards what you have to reveal according to the root of your soul. Hence, it is not like everything is already prepared and you are already there, and you can just wait and if you wait and you do nothing then you come to it in one hundred years and if you put in the effort in it you come to it in ten years. No, it is not exactly like that. There are great additions. Creation is not simply to confuse us and to occupy us with stuff. The upper force is a whole, it is complete. We need our efforts in order to do these things. We need our efforts in or there for discovering the level of correction, the level of attainment, the level of connection, between us and the Creator. The Creator is 620 times greater. It's a number but it is much more than 620 times greater. Without our effort you cannot come to the upper attainment. Our effort is a necessary component that exists in the shattering of the vessel of the shattering of Adam HaRishon. Hence, it won't do us any good to sit idly by and to wait. It is not going to work out. You are only going to invite more suffering on you and that will wake you up
14. S. (55:49) What separates us from animals, which makes us human is the effort we are doing all the time to advance?
R. Yes, Man, Adam, is considered above the animate degree by making an effort against his corporeal desire. By this he wants to rise above the animate degree and be in the speaking degree.
15. S. (56:35) So we can say that the man adds something to creation? That man adds something to the thought of creation.
R. We add not to the thought of creation, we add to our state all of the spiritual degrees only through our efforts. Look what Kabbalists write to us everywhere. You wish to erase all the effort, all the exhaustion, the labor and it’s impossible. On the contrary they write very clearly that without exertion we cannot attain anything spiritual because exertion is that vessel, it’s those desires, those efforts, those forces that you need to arrange and in which you will attain spirituality.
16. S. (57:35) If a small part of the ten let’s say two to three members feel that there is a connection in the ten and the rest of the members don’t feel that connection, what is the state of that ten?
R. The state of the ten is whatever you reveal. For the time being you cannot feel it and that’s why you are not allowed to reveal it. Whatever you feel from this you have to continue. See what Kabbalists write about the group, about the ten and work from that. The important thing is to see the Creator through the ten, how to assemble the image of the Creator through the ten. Imagine that there is a screen before you just like in a movie theater, or an empty canvas before a painter and they paint on it. Accordingly you need to paint the Creator through the connections in the group. That’s exactly what is happening. How can we connect ourselves this to that, this to that in such a way that we paint, we arrange, we clarify the Creator each time more and more? We render Him more clearly before us by connecting between us more and more. To the extent in our feelings, in our efforts we wish to arrange this force of mutual bestowal and leave it before us like that. This is what we add to, day in, day out and by this we arrange, we stabilize, clarify, and render the Creator. As it is written, “you have made me”.
17. S. (01:00:04) Why does he write that the bodies of Israel are like proselytes? In a different place he writes there is no difference between the bodies of those who have a point in the heart and those who don't.
R. He is talking about desires.
Rav reading item 66: (01:00:32)
“Bear in mind that in everything there is internality and externality. In the world in general Israel…” meaning those who came from that idea of the three lines, come from the upper light called right, left and middle which are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they’re considered the internality of the world. The seventy nations are regarded as the externality of the world. In truth in everything we have internality and externality. There’s internality within Israel themselves, this is what he’s going to say. “There is internality which are the complete servants of the Creator and there is externality, those who do not devote themselves to the work of the Creator”. We see it. We can see it and it has nothing to do with whatever land you belong to, corporeal Israel or corporeal nations of the world, no, completely not. “And among the nations of the world there is internality as well, which are the righteous of the nations of the world…” that are drawn to internality “...and there is externality which are the crass and the harmful among them.
Additionally among the servants of the Creator among the children of Israel there is internality being rewarded with the comprehension of the soul of the internality of the Torah and its secrets”. They come to attainment. “And externality who merely observe the practical part of the Torah”. They perform these external Mitzvot, commandments and they think they’re paying something in this way. “Also there is internality in every person from Israel which is the Israel within, which is the point in the heart and externality…” which is the inclinations of the world within him, the body itself. “But even the nations of the world within him are regarded as proselytes since by adhering to the internality they become like proselytes from among the nations of the world who came and adhered to the whole of Israel”. We see there is a pyramid here, a structure that goes from above all the way down.
18. S. (01:03:10) So those proselytes, why is the body of Israel called proselytes?
R. Because it's the will to receive, the body is the will to receive. It's not speaking about the corporeal body. In the corporeal body there is no difference between people. It’s the will to receive. The will to receive called Yashar El, Israel comes to a state where the upper light can clothe in it and the will to receive that does not yearn to resemble the Creator, the light doesn’t enter it. What is the question?
S. Okay that is clear. Who are the righteous of the nations of the world?
R. The righteous of the nations of the world are those desires to receive. We're only talking about the desires. We’re not talking about people whatsoever. As he writes, black, white, red, yellow, it does not matter whom, they all must come to spiritual work. So the righteous of the nations of the world are those desires that are already with an inclination towards Hassadim, towards bestowal. If the will to receive that is still in order to receive already has a certain inclination to rise above itself then those inclinations are called the righteous of the nations of the world.
S. There is the matter of understanding if it is possible even, who are these desires opposite their branches as people in this world? Let's say a person in the world Kli should know or even ask himself who am I in this whole pyramid?
R. No, we include everyone inside of us, but we speak of those levels, those degrees everyone has to go through. It has nothing to do with the externality of a person and who he is. Take someone from Malaysia I don't know, South Africa, South America, whatever you want. He would nevertheless need to go through all those states. Except this is describing the order of the states. There are those who get through it quicker, those who get through it slower, and it depends on the history that he went through and his spiritual inclinations in the past.
S. So do I have anything to do with it practically? Can they even detect such a thing?
R. No. The wisdom of Kabbalah is waiting for everyone; the means, the actions, you need to carry it out as it is written. There is no difference between one and the other. Each one receives it according to his level, his ability and that’s how he does it. Specifically those who feel greater resistance, greater difficulty it’s a sign that they have high souls. It's the reverse of what we think about in this world. If a person is spiritual, is airy then he's more spiritual. No, no. It's the heaviness on the path that affords a person a higher spiritual degree.
19. S. (01:07:27) If our goal is to achieve wholeness in the ten, how do we connect and unify all our intentions and goals when certain friends are in the state of internality and others are in a state of externality?
R. We complete one another, we complement one another. This is what Baal HaSulam explains to us in the article the Arvut and Matan Torah, the giving of Torah. We have to read it again, perhaps, what's written there. Hence, we don't collect ourselves into groups although it seems like that sometimes but rather from above, they assemble us, they assemble those desires we present to the ten. Then we need to try and work this way. In each and every ten to try and bring ourselves to the state of a circle or a sphere if you want to talk about it this way.
20. S. (01:08:54) If each soul has it's time for development, why do external desires always overpower inner desires?
R. We do not understand exactly what is going on. We simply need to try in each and every case to toss out the egoistic garments and connect as much as possible in the hearts between one another.
21. S. (01:09:26) How to build the right relation between inner and outer desires? How do we find them in us?
R. When the inner desires mean the yearning for the revelation of the Creator will always be greater and dominate all the other desires.
22. S. (01:09:57) If everything is so deterministic can the most external part become the most internal, and if so, how can we influence it?
R. We don't need to make such scrutiny here at least for the time being. Rather through the connection between us as much as possible we will see how we ourselves are the circle, a round circle.
23. S. (01:10:38) What does it mean then to increase internality over the externality in our state?
R. The purpose of creation will determine everything we do in every instance.
24. S. (01:10:52) How to feel that bestowal is as good as reception? How to feel that bestowal is good, that the quality of bestowal is good?
R. I do not get it. The quality of bestowal is good because it's the quality of the Creator. If we wish to somehow establish it between us then whatever may be by that we are moving closer to the Creator, and it’s good.
Rav Reading Item 67 (01:12:10)
R. “When a person from Israel enhances and dignifies his internality, meaning he yearns for the Creator as directly as possible as forcefully as possible. “...which is the Israel in him over the externality, which are the nations of the world in him…” when he yearns for all kinds of other corporeal goals, “...then he dedicates the majority of his efforts to enhance and exalt his internality…” meaning yearning for the Creator “…to benefit his soul and gives little efforts the mirror necessity to sustain the nations of the world in him meaning the bodily needs…” So if we exist in this way where whatever belongs to the needs of the body, we give it to Him because this is necessary but all the rest of our efforts, our powers we put them only towards attainment of the force of bestowal, the force of connection. “As it is written, make your Torah permanent and the work temporary…” Meaning the main thing is the work in connection to reveal the Creator and bestow to Him. “...by doing so he makes the children of Israel soar upward in the internality and externality of the world…”
Meaning those who are yearning for the Creator they soar upward in their internality and the nations of the world, those who think only in the corporeality of the world which is the externality in general we make them “...recognize and acknowledge the value of the children of Israel”. Meaning if we work in such a way that the main thing for us is in the connection between us, to attain the Creator in order to bestow contentment to Him, then this will also be felt among the nations of the world, in everyone and all of humanity. It means that the externality of the world will recognize and acknowledge the value of the children of Israel according to how much those who yearn for the Creator are important, not special. “And if God forbid it is to the contrary and an individual from Israel enhances and appreciates his externality which is the nations of the world in him more than the quality of Israel in him, and he himself meaning internality which is the Israel in you plunges down. With these actions he causes the externality of the world in general, the nations of the world to soar ever higher, overcome Israel, degrade them to the ground…” In other words the wisdom of Kabbalah and anyone who engages in it is degraded by all the people in the world. “And the children of Israel, the internality of the world will plunge deep down”.
In other words we in our engagement and yearning for mutual bestowal between us and for the Creator, by this we correct the world, the whole world. By leaving this work of the connection between us, to bring the Creator to shine within us and be within us, by this we spoil the world. It depends only on to what extent we engage in connection and enjoin the Creator to be among us, to be in the vessel that we built for Him. There is nothing here that can influence what is happening. Only we, through our yearning for connection and in the connection to draw the Creator to be in the connection, or if we slight it and by this, we determine for all the people of Israel and for all of humanity the situation, from the best to the worst.
25. S. (01:17:21) On one hand it is written that we shouldn't depict the image of the Creator. On the other hand sometimes you say build an image, so what does it mean?
R. The upper force that influences us and is revealed in us, that exists in us to the extent that we can adapt ourselves to it, make ourselves similar to it. The Creator gives us a choice, to want it to be among us or not. This is our whole work. All of humanity, meaning all the desires after the breaking, they are all mixed up and in all kinds of states. They have to gradually organize themselves. It's gradually organized through the upper light that influences us from above. Then these desires begin to organize gradually through the thousands of years of history until they come to a state where they still have to build themselves in such a way that those who yearn for the Creator more will be closer to the Creator, and those who don’t yearn will be farther away. In this way, we will organize this pyramid and draw the upper force to influence us more and make of us the right form, and the right form is a sphere. The structure of Adam HaRishon, the circular form.
26. S. (01:19:14) Are internality and externality expressed in their relations between us in the ten?
R. In the ten there is no internality and externality. In the ten we want to be as one man with one heart, at one point of desire where we all connect ten points into one point. Which yearns entirely for the Creator, all of it. That's it. Internality and externality, you can talk about it only if we’re building a system. Between us we're building only one system, connection. It is called one receives one where we are as one and then we can discover the Creator as the one.
27. S. (01:20:21) Why is the system organized in such a way? A cruel way. Cruel. That there is something determining. He says here there is a small group of the internality of the internality.
R. They are the results of all the connections that exist in this entire system. Meaning there are such people who are seemingly above everyone else in the pyramid and if they yearn for the Creator everyone is happy, and if not, everyone is unhappy. But they are a result of the whole pyramid. There is no one here who calls the shots. The whole pyramid determines where each person's place is.
S. He says the individual person enhances his externality; he determines all of reality. So it is a complete lack of justice.
R. No, no, no, it's not injustice because these souls which are called Yashar El, straight to the Creator, Israel, came through the great work which the upper light did on them, and they were organized according to this pyramid. Look at all our friends all over the world. They are at the top of the pyramid, and they are representatives of all the nations of the world. This is the right form of the last generation, and now we are facing the Creator. So in the connection between us we determine what happens with all of humanity. We are that group, the pioneers, the pioneers that are facing the Creator and demanding connection with Him, clear, mutual, and increasing. When you look at this world you see that this world is built in a wrong way too, like a pyramid.
At least with spirituality, which is not now but in corrections, when we get the corrections then we will see everything as a sphere, as a circle. But now of course you can say who am I compared to those great Kabbalists why these attainments? But they were in attainment because they could work on themselves. No one is stopping you to be on this level too, the desires are yours, by all means. The more you work on the desires you have today the greater desires you will receive, and you will have to work on them even more. This is how you will advance. No one has anything that interferes with achieving complete adhesion with the Creator. No one is suffering from any interference. Take anyone from Asia, Africa, Europe, wherever you want. No one has any privilege, any prerogatives over another, no one.
S. He says specifically that only those who have a point in the heart. They are the ones determining how the system is going to be?
R. But look how their lives are more difficult because of that, and how they are more responsible. It is not like they suddenly received this ascent; they had a rich uncle that pushed them up to the top of the ladder, there is no such thing.
S. How can you agree to such a determination that I am responsible for the suffering of the world?
R. We still can't understand it but that's what each one determines. We still don’t see the real spiritual form. We can't understand this state, this contradiction between how it is possible that there's so many people in the world and I am responsible for the whole world. We can’t. My head, my heart still doesn’t have those systems of connection by which I can say that I am responsible for everyone and without taking on the responsibility for myself. Every person in the world also has the same level of responsibility and independence. We can’t, the system is not in us yet. We have to rise above reason and then we will feel how the forces of Bina give each of us that same power, that same ability to work. One does not influence the other, that is the main thing. That no one influences the other in a way that it causes him, that it denies him a place for work.
S. I don't understand how the two go together.
R. I agree with you, this is what is not clear. You will have to rise a little higher from your own mind. We have these things in quantum physics, in mathematics and all kinds of advanced sciences. There are things that common sense doesn’t perceive, but we have to take into consideration that they exist.
S. So if I specifically look at the world and how it's suffering, and I just do one plus one according to what he writes here, and I say I am responsible for it?
R. I am responsible for all of reality, and everything depends only on me and although it contradicts the general, integral, reality, and we are all equal or we are all responsible, it does not matter, I still have to accept it as a fact. But I will come to a state, the same as this writer and then I will write the same thing. There is nothing you can do, it all depends on how the desires are arranged, in what way.
S. That should give me what, forces? It should make me depressed.
R. No. It should just show you that there are such states where even though we can't accept them in our linear intellect, in our common-sense straightforward mind, there are such states that you have to accept, even though you don't understand, you don't feel them. There is mathematics where two plus two is four and there’s different mathematics where it's not like that. So let's see an opposite world, another world and then you will see how a sphere becomes a surface area, and on the surface, you have measurements that are in-depth actually. In all kinds of things, even in our world we have these things. In spirituality, there in faith above reason you're not on the level of Malchut where you measure. You measure in the quality of bestowal, in equality of Bina and there the measurements are entirely different. We will talk about it bit by bit, but it's good that we’ve begun to talk about it. I am ready.
28. S. (01:29:02) What does it mean to pray for the ten to acquire the sphere?
R. That everyone is equal although everyone is different, we accept them all as equal, we want to see everyone only as equal and the Creator arranges this equality between us and he fills this sphere, he fills it up the spaces between us, he fills, he complements the spaces. That where we still cannot be connected among us, but the Creator fills us by giving us the power of bestowal adding the power of bestowal between us which we cannot add.
S. When we learn I need to pray for the friends to be rewarded first, meaning I lower myself and try to help them advance, that is already in equality?
R. This is called working on the level of Bina and that too is not complete or equal because we still cannot disconnect from the level of Malchut but the right combination, which is in Malchut, and Bina is entertainment of Keter.
29. S. (01:30:53) How can Israel unite with nations of the world in spirituality?
R. By the nations of the world those who are not, meaning those who are not yearning for the revelation of the Creator, understanding that revealing the Creator is available for everyone and everyone can attain him. This is the most noble, important, sublime state and therefore they will connect to all those on the level of Israel, meaning those who yearn and even already attained the Creator and all those who cannot attain directly will connect to those who are already in their propensity, in their disposition, they are already leaning toward that degree. In this way everyone will connect those to those, to those, life in the pyramid afterwards will be so connected among them that they will understand that they have to connect in the common desire in mutual support and so that the great desire in the lower levels they will join the higher levels. Then this way mutually by helping one another until we all find ourselves being in the spherical system.
30. S. (01:32:52) Does the authority of externality, domination of externality delay the correction?
R. The governance, control of externality does not postpone correction, everything depends not only on externality. on the external ones but actually on those who can yearn for the Creator and do not yearn as much as they can. They are the ones who have to come to states where with their heart and soul they can connect among them and with the Creator and then the whole world will feel it.
31. S. (01:33:52) What does it mean that we have to be representatives of the nations?
R. We have to present humanity, all of humanity to the Creator, to pray for all of the humanity which cannot, and we are not doing them a favor, by this we're only doing our duty. This is how we have to work and therefore to the extent that the nations of the world still don't appreciate the wisdom of Kabbalah and those that engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah, it all depends on us. We must approach the Creator and pull them afterwards internally, we don't have to do it physically or by advertising, no, but to the extent that we approach the Creator in order to bring Him specifically those lower vessels which cannot reach the Creator by themselves. By this we will be doing our sublime, noble vocation, our calling. We have to feel this is why we exist, we have this obligation to starting to pull after us all the people in the world internally, even not by advertising but internally to raise prayers, pleas to the Creator to take care of them through us and then we will elevate them as the AHP that joins the Galgalta Eynaim and in this way we will all become one sphere, the corrected soul of Adam HaRishon.
32. S. (01:36:10) If I try to summarize what we read now, can I say simply that everything in the world is included of internality and externality, even the smallest thing? And whoever has a recognition and understanding about it, and he prefers his internality over the externality, that the internality is his connection with the higher layer, so he becomes a conduit of the upper light and if the opposite he becomes a stop to the light?
R. He's not blocking the light, he carries with him the coarseness, without his coarseness the higher souls can’t attain the light as well and everything you have to have coarseness and refinement. If the nations of the world carry within them great coarseness, then those who are in Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator yearning for the Creator that cannot arise or grab the Creator, they cannot pull out of him the light because they do not have the coarseness, they don't have the deficiency. Only through the right combination for the coarseness and refinement it is possible to perform complete actions. This is what we have in every system even in this world and systems of technological systems you have to have both. Okay?
33. S. (01:37:59) All levels and layers that Baal HaSulam writes about there are also an individual ten, let's say our ten?
R. To some extent yes, but there we have to work on a circle because it's the minimal circle that has to be established and from it onwards, we will think about how to connect, how to connect these spheres, that of each ten into one.
S. How should we work in order to feel the sphere in the ten?
R. What Baal HaSulam and Rabash write about all of us being as one being as equal all of us having to help each other that is it.
S. Where are the rest of the spheres, the rest of the tens or the general circle of humanity where does that come in?
R. We have to build the first circle, when it is clear to us that we are in the spherical form that is established and solid. From this we will feel what kind of connection we have with the Creator, the minimum connection but out of this it will be clear to us how we should grow further.
S. What is the feeling of a circle?
R. A feeling of the circle is that we are all equal, connected, dependent on one another, no one can run away, and we do not need anything other than to come from the connection between us to locate, to detect the Creator the upper force between us, the essence of connection between us in the circle brings us the sensation of the Creator. There is no Creator without the created being, the more we connect in the connection between us by this we reveal the upper force, what is the upper force? That connection which we attain is higher than us for it we work, it we feel, this is what we constantly want to nurture and develop.
34. S. (01:40:29) I want to ask; we always speak about revealing but revelation does it mean to feel that revealing means only to feel emotionally or there are more forms a revelation is expressed by?
R. Everything is revealed in a feeling because besides the feeling, which is revealed in the desire, because the Creator only created the desire, besides this there is nothing. We have to organize this desire in such a way that it will be able to perceive discernments that are above the regular desire, that egoistic desire and it will work in connection with the Creator. This is called the desire Malchut connecting to Bina, the quality of bestowal and to the extent that they work together, by this we can discover in our desire the power of bestowal, the power of the Creator which we in our world cannot feel. It is called a part of God above; this is why our whole work is to come to such a connection where we can bring the influence of the power of the power of Bina the power of Keter on us and then we will understand what he talks about. This is called faith above reason. It all depends on how much we try to connect among us into a circular, spherical connection.
35. S. (01:43:20) We say that attainment of the Creator is for everyone in the world, but I see only a few people can keep up our framework, and we read the article it means that first to hold onto the Creator. So how can spirituality be suitable for everyone in the world?
R. I don't know what it will be like in the future. I see that there are many changes in the world that are happening, that are above us and are compelling us to behave differently from day-to-day. So, I'm not responsible for the shape that the world will take, but it's certain that it has to acquire a different form, different behavior, different connection between people. So, if need be, it will happen it is not a problem, we see even today how humanity is constantly changing itself through all kinds of, let's call it orders from nature that come from above. Any changes in this way, so there's no question here how humanity will do. It is very easy to manipulate humanity, we are all in the will to receive so any slight change in the will to receive, any change on the influence on the will to receive, anyone turns in a direction to receive a little more, to feel a little bit more comfortable. We are very weak and sensitive. So do not worry the upper nature has enough instruments to turn us in every direction.
36. S. (01:45:40) Baal HaSulam says that we have to prefer Israel over the nations. You are explaining that first we have to build that Israel inside us, and once I build it inside me, I have to prefer it?
R. Of course, first of all GE and afterwards add to GE the AHP on the degrees of root 1 2 3 4 etc. Yes.
S. What is about preferring because I am just building it?
R. When you start working with it you see what will happen.
37. S. (01:46:30) You said that in the ten we have to see a sphere, a circle. I don't understand how a circle gives a connection of internally and externally?
R. A sphere, or a circle talks about our structure which we aspire to maintain, and in this way, we want to be connected. This is how we want to be connected, where we are all equal.
S. How can there be equality toward something that is adhered to externality?
R. What externality? We are talking about a sphere between the ten. Where do you hear about other circles?
S. In the ten there is an internality and an externality, there are parts? There are internal and external parts?
R. It is all of our desires that pertains to advance towards the Creator and corporeal maintenance.
S. What does it mean to be in a circle towards externality, what is that relation?
R. We have no circles to the externality only in the connection between us and the Creator?
S. What do we do with externality, disregard it?
R. No, we have to maintain it in order to exist. In order to exist. Everyone has his job. He provides for his family. This has to do with this world. What is important to build is the relationships between us in the form of a circle to be in equivalence of form with the Creator as much as possible.
37. S. (01:48:47) You said a few days ago you were speaking about the state of Russia and Ukraine, and you say that if the winds of war slow down, it'll be a great correction. The question is, with our work should we relate to those essential states that are happening in the externality?
R. We just need to understand that our efforts to connect positively into a complete form we can also influence the state of peace in all the nations in the world and bring them to the complete connection and in the end to the end of correction. Nothing more than that though, but this should be a disposition, just one mutual complementation among everyone.
38. S. (01:50:00) If we can say that the internality is reflected light?
R. I'm not willing to answer this wise guy’s questions, and I advise you to avoid them.
39. S. (01:50:29) What can help us the most to develop the right feelings?
R. Helping each and one another.
40. S. (01:50:44) How do you build that pyramid of desires in the group?
R. First, we have to see everyone being connected in a circle, in one sphere and then we will begin to scrutinize which desires are closer to unity, to the Creator and which are on lower levels and helping, complementing, pushing, let's put it this way.
41. S. (01:51:25) If everything is inside, the desires, the worlds, where is it inside, how much do we imagine this?
R. Everything is inside we don't have to imagine it we just have to depict it. These states exist between us, let us work with them as if they exist in practice, let's relate to each other in practice in such a case as this connected in one circle.
42. S. (01:51:55) Is there a way to measure and know how much we need to reach that point equation?
R. We cannot measure because we do not know where one end is and the other end is, between what are we going to measure? We simply have to work on the connection between us as tightly as possible.
43. S. (01:52:30) It seems like Baal HaSulam is describing the balance between the internally and externally, what is the point of balance, how can we characterize it?
R. When we come to the three lines, we will see the point of balance. I don't think it is for us yet. We don't have any connection yet; they are already looking for a point of balance. How you can turn everything around it, this is totally not for our degree.
44. S. (01:53:14) If each person is responsible for everyone else. I mean that every person can bring the world to a correction without denying other people’s work.
R. Each one must pull, draw the whole group with love in balance to the end of correction and in this way, everyone will achieve correction.
45. S. (01:53:50) How can I see all the friends in the ten as equal if some are more dedicated and some hardly participate?
R. This is how everything seems to me, all who fault, fault in their own faults. I have to see all the friends, accept all the friends as complete, as perfect and if it seems to me like he's not, the problem is in me.
46. S. (01:54:15) What's the right relation to worrisome news in the world?
R. We have to correct ourselves and hope that it will bring a good influence on the whole world, to all humanity.
47. S. (01:54:40) You talk a lot about prayer and it's more effective than anything else. Is it a better time now to influence, through prayer rather than external dissemination?
R. I don't think one should come on account to the other one, the prayer should always be on her heart, on the change of correction for the good of the world and the external influence, meaning, dissemination that's the physical work. That's nothing to do with one another.
48. S. (01:55:21) In everything there is internality and externality, and it is in the text, is the purpose of dissemination to recruit the part that is called externality to join the part that is internally?
R. Yes, which is the action of dissemination, to awaken their AHP to join the GE.
49. S. (01:55:44) It is difficult for my ten to pray for humanity, it feels very far for them, sometimes after lessons with you it does happen but there are friends who feel that it conflicts with internal requests of the ten. What is your advice?
R. We have to give an example to everybody, that's it.