Morning Lesson February 15, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 3:
Everything is Obtained by the Power of Prayer - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #6
1 R. (0:15) I don't know what I can really add but this is everything. If we succeed in prayer we will succeed. Our whole path is by reaching when and how we will reach the final correction and if we're not successful, so the path becomes longer, more tiresome, more difficult. It all depends on the force of our prayer. That is what is written. So let's maybe somehow get excited by what the Kabbalists are writing about the prayer, about the state we need to reach and get an impression from, it is worth it. This is the main thing. Here you don't need an intellect, just a feeling that can be equal to all.
Reading Excerpt # 6 (1:16)
2. S. (3:48) What is the fulfillment exactly?
R. The fulfillment is the revelation of godliness in a person.
S. And it's expressed in what? Does it change, can I grasp it? How do I prepare myself, what am I expecting?
R. There are a few actions here. As a result of the right closeness to the Creator, that we are asking for equivalence of form, that is called coming close to the Creator. That we want to be more bestowing, more connecting, and so on. Those are the actions of closeness to the Creator. So if we, do it in such a way, and according to that, we awaken the upper light upon us, that shines on us and performs those corrections upon us, then we become as vessels worthy of fulfillment and the upper light can fill us and by this, we feel that the Creator is revealed in us.
S. Am I supposed to look for the filling inside the request, inside the prayer itself?
R. Usually not, prayer is a plea to the Creator. There is also kind of a fulfillment, that I am feeling what I am raising towards the Creator. That is a fulfillment called reflected light, that in it, I already get the fulfillment that I am expecting to receive from the Creator as the direct light.
S. Meaning the plea to the Creator, it is not enough? I also need to expect or wait for some kind of a response, a filling?
R. My turning to the Creator isn’t the end of my action. I want to give the Creator an opportunity to correct the lower ones, the created beings, and fill them. With that I give Him contentment. The fact that I am just turning to him and asking for something, if I do not attain that he is taking care of us and filling us I would not give him contentment by that. Imagine if you love someone, that the one you love relates to you nice and good but when do you really enjoy yourself? When you can give him a gift and he receives it and enjoys that gift. That is why we need to open ourselves to receiving fulfillments from the Creator in a way that it is what is important for us. That is what is important and the fulfillment we're getting from the Creator, that we are enjoying the fulfillment he's giving us because by that fulfillment, that we're getting from him, we're giving him pleasure. Because we understand that he's the good that does good, and only wants to give us, then we need to work against all of our desires in order to let him bestow upon us.
S. You know you're aware of receiving the filling?
R. And how? Of course. It is great work to receive a fulfillment from the Creator because you can receive fulfillment only on the condition that you develop vessels of bestowal, vessels of love, then you receive the fulfillment from him and by this you're giving him pleasure.
3. S. (8:16) Sometimes it happens that you pray from the bottom of your heart as much as you can, and you see that there are certain changes. It is like a dad, he calls you like a dad telling you to come here and you feel so dirty, lowly, guilty and it stops you from advancing toward him.
R. I understand you; I understand you, also that you have to overcome and still come close to the Creator. If he is someone close to you, near you, if he is your Creator, if he's the only love and the good that does good, so in the end you don't have anything to be ashamed of from Him. From the thought he created in you, in such a way till the thought that he's giving you right now, it all comes from him and all the things that you feel, and whatever is happening to you, also the things that you can overcome and also those you could not overcome, and you supposedly have shame from it, all these things. You still need to raise Him and keep bestowing to Him the ability to bestow to you. That is the biggest problem towards the Creator, not to be ashamed but to want to receive with open hands. In revelation, as if I am the most righteous, complete righteous and actually I feel myself a complete wicked. But still because I want to give him contentment, this is how I work, this is what I do. Keep going, I am reading everything you think.
S. Is it possible to ask for corrections in a good way and not in a bad way?
R. You can ask for everything, asking, you can do everything. The request is the prayer.
4. S. (11:12) What is the right way to work? On one hand we hear that the Creator answers every prayer on the other hand you just told Doody that we need to wait for the revelation. What is the right way to work with these two?
R. It is written, anything in your powers to do, do it. Come closer in all opportunities, in all forms. From morning to night throughout the whole time. That is it. You should not stop requesting, you should not stop praying, you should not stop your tendency towards the Creator but to constantly, constantly, be aimed towards him and not like what happens with us that we forget for a few hours every day.
5. S. (12:11) He says here that it is upon a person to give an awakening from below because that is the prayer, and the prayer is a deficiency and with no deficiency there is no fulfillment. What is that deficiency that he talks about?
R. Do you lack something or not?
S. I lack a lot. Money and what not.
R. I'm not speaking about that. I'm not asking what your stomach is lacking. I’m asking if you lack anything of a human being.
S. Certainly. To have a good life in general.
R. Oh, a good life? You are a beast, you're a donkey?
S. How can I reach a point where I have a deficiency for spirituality when I still don't have it?
R. A deficiency for spirituality is a deficiency to feel everybody because by that you fill the Creator. The Creator does not have vessels of reception, what can you give him? You have nothing to give him. You have nothing but when you fill humans, by that you're filling the Creator.
S. How can I actually come to a deficiency for a prayer? What kind of deficiency or prayer?
R. The prayer that you want to cause good to humanity, all of humanity. You want to fill all of humanity, you want to bring them to the good, the good things. If that is what you're lacking, that is called that you have the right attitude towards the Creator.
S. You can get a deficiency only through blows?
R. I didn’t say anything about blows, I said, I dwell amongst my people. That’s it. The Creator is in humanity. You need to try and cause every person in the world, all of them together, that they will feel good. By that you are going to give contentment to the Creator because the Creator has no vessels of reception. What can you give him?
S. But how did you come to that deficiency that you're talking about?
R. You have a lot of people around you. What is the problem?
S. You are talking about Rav and Bnei Baruch? That is what you are talking about?
R. First of all friends, that’s right. First of all are the friends. Afterwards more and more circles and then each and every ten around them can build such circles that we can all connect through the main circle, secondary circles and so on.
S. So you need the importance of it all the time?
R. Otherwise how are you bestowing to them? What can you give the Creator that has no vessels of reception? How can you receive it?
S. That’s my problem.
R. Only on the condition that you are working in order to bestow and receive to bestow. Who will you bestow to? You can’t bestow back to the Creator.
S. Only to the friends?
R. Only to the friends.
S. That's actually the work between us?
R. That is the work between us and all of humanity. We're coming close to the last generation.
S. So to follow what the Kabbalists tell us?
R. Yes.
6. S. (16:08) Whenever we feel a lack for correction or connection we turn to the Creator and ask for the friends to be included in this connection and correction, and there is a feeling of reception and bestowal, so the question is how to combine this contradiction and how to proceed?
R. Only scrutinies, I have nothing to advise. Even if I gave you all kinds of advice it will not help. Just connecting to the friends and from there you will feel and understand this first net that ties all of us together and in that way, we will come closer to bestowal to the Creator between us and we will see the correction. We will see it.
7. S. (17:25) If we feel no response from the Creator does it mean that our will to receive is not ready yet or are we asking incorrectly for something?
R. The fact that we don't feel answers or responses from the Creator means that we still don't have contact with Him. The contact, the connection can be as we study, only according to equivalence of form. According to the vessels that are in us and in the Creator. In the Creator there are only vessels of bestowal. Do we have any vessels of bestowal or not? If not, there is no connection with the Creator so we need to think that we will have vessels of bestowal at least in something.
8. S. (18:39) If the friends act as Sefirot and unite in order to receive the light, is it better that the friends that don't feel the desire in that moment for them not to be present? Does this counter current stand in the way of connection?
R. Yes but it is relative, relative.
9. S. (18:56) Is there an opportunity to come closer to the Creator that won't repeat itself?
R. There isn’t actually something that we miss. We still are advancing but the pace could be better.
10. S. (19:37) What should be the precise deficiency of the ten of the Kli, of all of humanity, a light that needs to come to the recognition of the Creator?
R. It will be good to humanity only when all of humanity will be included from people that want everybody else to feel good. That each and every ten will want to bestow to other tens. That by that we give contentment to the Creator. That is why it's called from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator. If we don't have the connection between us, connection with the created beings, then we cannot come to the Creator and bestow to him in anything because we do not have vessels to bestow or vessels to receive.
11. S. (20:42) How can I feel that I am filling my ten?
R. First of all I pull them into connection. Second, I'm asking and praying for them, that is it.
12. S. (21:06) What is recommended to do in order to bestow to other tens?
R. First of all pray for them and connect practically. That they will know that we want to connect them to us and to really be bestowing to them, more and more. I do not see any problem with that. Open your heart and it will all work out.