Morning Lesson April 29, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: We learn the wisdom of Kabbalah, but first we have to scrutinize why, what is the reason we are learning and for what purpose, what it gives us, and to what extent is it necessary for each one and for everyone together, engage in it. And again we're going back to that same soul that the Creator created what is called the created being or Adam. The Adam system broke and its pieces are us and we have to reunite, despite the ego that has erupted between us as a result of the breaking. When that power of connection that was between us became a force of remoteness of separation, we have to engage in order to correct it and restore the connection. This is how it should work. In order to connect we have to use the light that was in the soul and departed from the soul after the breaking, it is surrounding light around those broken pieces. This is called exile, when that light which was internal became surrounding and we don't even feel that it is surrounding us, this is how remote and concealed it is. We have to awaken it and when we try to draw it so it helps us bring ourselves closer to each other, it will influence us more and in this way we will get closer and that surrounding light will become more and more of an inner light.
This should be our disposition and accordingly we should learn what actions we should take in order to awaken the surrounding light, specifically to push us back to connection and perform the connection between us, we don't know how we should be connected and in what way. The whole mechanics of this process is the light has to do it, but where is our participation in this? When we awaken it, it awakens us because in it there is a general desire to restore that one vessel that one soul that it filled, that vessel is called the soul of Adam HaRishon, it's a soul because there are five lights that fill the vessel, they are called Nefesh, Ruach,Neshama,Yechida and Haya. Nefesh Ruach Neshama are lights that shine inside the vessel, when the vessel is in qualities or a disposition towards giving, meaning bestowal outside of itself, and there are two more lights, special ones, Yechida and Haya. They shine if the vessel is with a disposition to receive in order to bestow, in a state of receiving in order to bestow which is higher, very special work. Because what was in the soul of Adam HaRishon and was overall a light of Neshama, Nefesh and Ruach. This is why we speak of this vessel as a soul. But the most important thing for us is to discover by what actions after the breaking of the vessel, in an imaginary world, even though it seems to us that this is reality, although it is a reality that only seems to appear to us in our broken state.
So how can we return to the corrected state? The corrected state means that we unite even though we went through a breaking and therefore have a different will to receive in each of us. We feel separated from each other, hateful toward each other, rejection of each other. You can see it in people, you can see it in everything when we work and learn how hateful we are towards each other, and also, how internally hateful we are towards each other and we cannot overcome it. The more that we talk about it, we have no way and no chance to achieve connection. We don't even need to understand how it should be, how it should work. Kabbalists explain to us, the Kabbalists are people who attained how to unite to a certain extent each of them so they can explain to us how we can unite by drawing that light which was in the general soul and it was ejected. It went out because of the remoteness that happened between the pieces and therefore the light that was in that one vessel which was in Adam HaRishon is outside of those broken pieces and are distant from each other and we have to work in order to see how we can bring these pieces back together. Who can make those pieces come together again, of course the light, there is nothing more but light and desire, so by the desire becoming egoistic, it departed, the desire didn't want to be connected with others so the light departed and we can do only one thing, awaken this light, the light that is outside of the vessels so it will push the vessels back.
Meaning just as we have desires that are pushing all those vessels away from one another it distances them, an egoistic desire, and we have to awaken the opposite desire, the desire to connect the altruistic force the power of giving, and in this way we can reconstruct the system of Adam HaRishon in which we will feel ourselves whole and in completeness. Then all of our operations that we should do are to awaken the reforming light, it is called the reforming light which brings us back to connection. So it will act for the surrounding light to re-enter us and fill us and be as internal light. This in short is all we need to do. The whole reason for which the wisdom of Kabbalah was intended to explain to us what actions we need to take and what we should have is a phenomenon we should attain.
2. S. (10:42) You said that the surrounding light becomes inner light as a result of our study. I want to ask, how does it happen?
R. To the extent that the broken vessels unite among them despite the rejection and hatred between them, after the breaking and even though this rejection, despite this rejection they unite among them, so the lights that illuminated in them prior to the breaking and departed through the breaking left them through their work on uniting, it returns, and it returns 620 times more powerful than before. We can say this, the light was the same light and will be the same light, but from the perspective of the vessel when the vessel works on it in order to obtain it, in order to resemble it, then the vessel becomes more feeling more sensitive better understanding more connected to the light and therefore reveals it as 620 times greater, in other words it's not as if there are changes in the light, there are changes in the vessel.
S. Where we connect and combine our vessels is the primary condition for this resembling the light or does there need to be something else for it to be able to dwell in us?
R. We need to do nothing but to connect among us, above the disturbances, the hatred above our ego. We can't erase the mutual rejection that was born as a result of the breaking of Adam HaRishon. We should all overcome it and connect above it, it is called love will cover all crimes and accordingly the light that returns will return 620 times greater than it was in the vessel of Adam HaRishon and then instead of next NRNYH that we had prior to the breaking we will receive the light of NRNYH because through our ego which we also want to join to add in the connection between us, when the light returns, it returns much greater light and we understand who we are, where the Creator is how we are adhered to Him, meaning we attained all of creation from beginning to end.
3. S. (14:09) During the preparation just now, you spoke about a question a person has to ask himself before the study, why? What for? Towards what goal? What does it give me? What is my obligation? If you can, show us an example of how you answer those questions?
R. How I answer those questions, first of all I answer it simply. There are a number of people in the world and each day there are more of them who feel that they have a drive to discover why we live, what for, the essence of life, the purpose of life, there is a need to live more than to exist, it is the development that is in our nature. If we do not answer these questions, we will still be miserable. We don't know why we exist. What is the point? Why am I alive? And it degrades the person to the level of an animal, the animal doesn't ask why it lives. A human being who develops from the moment you were born, where you were also on the level of an animal, but when you develop more and more you begin to feel that you are asking yourself why am I living, what is it for? If life is between birth and death then what is the point of it all? We fill up this time with hatred for each other, with competition, with imaginary engagements that are not for something eternal which is something to play with and then forget about our lives. Therefore we need to understand that these are the questions that the wisdom of Kabbalah talks about. Basically from this stems man's ability to answer the question about the meaning of life. From here emerges religion's, belief systems, all kinds of methods and teachings and we'll see how it happens in the general nature, but it all stems from the light that departed the general light that stems from the soul of Adam HaRishon and it shines from afar and by that it awakens in us the broken vessels, it awakens all kinds of inclinations, desires to reconnect, to return to that vessel, to reconnect the vessels and shine in them again. So in those vessels we have degrees of coarseness like circles, roots 1, 2, 3, 4 and other types or sectors in that vessel, and therefore each part, each piece, has so to speak its own teaching, its own way of being connected with the light. These methods go through correction and corruption until they become once again the wisdom of attaining the light in a uniform way which is already called in the last generation that it is revealed in the last generation. What is important is to have the right approach learning the wisdom of Kabbalah that we should come to know. What we are learning is the very introduction to studying, the study of the 10 Sefirot.
4. S. (19:08) What is the relationship between the one and the many, is it a state that happens between Israel and Moses, Israel in the nations of the world, the one in the 10? What is the relationship between the one and the many?
R. There was one body one desire and through the influence of the light when it is filled, that desire began to feel that it consisted of many desires that are individual, contradictory, hostile to each other to such an extent they moved apart from each other in a blast, according to the desire that overcame the frail or weak, that filled it and the desire grew greater than the light. According to the desire that appeared, it wants to dominate those pieces of the one desire, that is those pieces moved away from one another. Basically it's a dynamic system, to the extent that they hate each other they move away to the extent that they see benefit in connecting, they come closer. In that state of moving away, when the opposite of hatred between them was revealed, that act is called breaking or the sin of Adam HaRishon. It is not really a sin, it's not a system that has any free choice, so you can't attribute it to any negative operation. It is just how it operated but as a result of its operation, the parts departed according to the level of the difference between them, the disparity between them and this is where they are in this remoteness. That's all I can say, if I understand that question correctly.
5. S. (22:29) I want to ask about the approach, the attitude. You said in the beginning that eventually we turn to the Creator to the light that can connect us, correct us and put together the points of the broken vessel but this is great work, this appeal. Only when we try over many years to connect and you fail, can you eventually reach such a request. So what is the approach according to which every person needs to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, does everyone need to reach an appeal to the Creator or should there be a different approach for each person?
R. We're only beginning the general correction, before they weren't corrections. You can say before, they were individual specific souls, in each and every generation who were called Kabbalists, great, Kabbalists. We know them by names, there were not many out of billions who went through the level of light in this world, those desires that yearn for connection, for attainment of the Creator for the intention to bestow. It is written that I saw those, who are few, the ascended ones, and they are few. Today it should be a lot more and we don't understand how it should happen but we're also not that far from corrections because it is not a quantitative manner, it's a qualitative manner, just like in spirituality and therefore the more we unite among us and try to use it right among us, as much as we unite among us, it is enough. Because we don't understand what operations, what little we awaken in the general structure of the souls. It is like when a baby is born, what does it have only 2, 3 kilograms of flesh that doesn't understand anything and only screams. But the whole world moves around it and works to make that little baby live and exist and this is what we are doing. We don't understand the mechanism that we operate with all the nonsense we do, but by just belonging to correction a little bit with every little thought that we have even if it is corrupted and spoiled, but already emerged from the level of this world of the animal when we don't think only about our flesh but a little higher source of life, why we are alive even egotistically, but we are thinking some way about the essence of life. By that we activate high spiritual forces and they operate already through all of creation. Therefore our work is very important and is basically what operates the whole system so we are significantly promoting the whole of the broken vessel Adam HaRishon. You can even put it this way, all the generations before ours with all of the Kabbalist were Godly. Those great Kabbalists who engaged in it with huge forces, who put into it everything that was possible, they were only a preparation for us to perform corrections. And we too, whenever we perform corrections, whenever we succeed, following us will come another generation that will do its own correction on top of ours and that's how it works as much as needed, but each generation should do these corrections and we hope according to what Kabbalists promise, we are already in the final stages of the general correction. We don't know how much has been accumulated in the vessel of Adam HaRishon, how many corrections are still needed but they are saying that this is now the final stage.
6. S. (27:55) What kind of a qualitative change takes place in the vessel and how can it begin to suddenly receive the light that is 620 times bigger?
R. When we unite those heavy vessels, those egoistic vessels that operate in the tens that we connect, without any, so to speak prior preparation from nature we all seemingly coincidentally come to connect with one another mechanically, just as we can now see in our world vessel. So this small disposition to awaken the light to connect us and relate to us as one vessel, this is a very important and powerful disposition. It is just like that new born baby who compels the entire world to work for it, so are we by just wanting a little bit to exist in the spiritual way even if it is removed from spirituality, we are not working in order to bestow, we are not above reason but still the disposition towards it awakens great surrounding lights, just like Baal HaSulam explains to us in the introduction to the study of the 10 Sefirot Item 155. By this we awaken the upper lights that surround us and they operate on us and they do the work, this is called the Creator will finish for me. I only need to demand, ask as much as I can to cry out to scream, more cleverly influence, as much as possible to try more and more, to see, show him, how much I want to be like him, it is called being closer to be more similar, to be more in it. So in this way we will become closer, it's all ahead of us. Let’s start reading these excerpts studying the wisdom of Kabbalah according to our plan, it should be the final stage before beginning to learn the study of the Ten Sefirot.
Excerpt 1 (31:16 - 31:37)
7. R. Every person knows what he is writing, Baal HaSulam doesn't write words just like every person.
Reader continues (31:48-31:59)
R. In other words there is a certain power a Secular in the wisdom of Kabbalah, a certain specific quality that is very important for us people who exist here in this world and that quality that we can receive by learning the wisdom of Kabbalah is called Segula.
Reader continues (32:25-32:39)
R. In other words all the main results of learning correctly is to awaken the light, the same light that was in the vessel when it was one and departed from the vessel when the egoistic will to receive appeared, when the hatred the remoteness the mutual rejection, and accordingly the light departed from the vessel and it surrounds it. So now we have to perform all those operations to reawaken the surrounding light so it influences and helps us reconnect and then to the extent that we connect, it re-enters the vessel and fills it, and this is called the revelation of the Creator to the created being in this world. We attain the Creator in this way to the extent that the light enters the vessel so we feel that we are discovering the Creator, approaching Him or He approaches us and then that vessel that was in the soul of Adam HaRishon prior to the breaking, it turns to it and becomes surrounding, it returns as being inner light.
8. S. (34:02) The light that filled us all, about Adam HaRishon we awaken now in the 10 but the 10 is only a small part and Adam HaRishon is the entire soul. How do we awaken the small part of the big light?
R. But the light that was in that small part which is now called are the 10, that light can shine on us more and more, it can help us, that light can help us reconnect into one vessel, the special thing about our connection is that we will be 10 egoists, this wasn't prior to the breaking so when those 10 egos unite in the process, of the connection between them, they experience all kinds of operations which are called burdening of the heart, additions of ego more and more, that is done on them specifically through the light that shines on them from without from outside which awakens in them more rejection more hatred more remoteness, but to the extent that they can get closer to each other. It turns out that we work to unite the lights, the light works to push away the light, which is the way the Creator operates on us, as if to push us away from each other but in such a way, to such an extent that we will still use it in order to connect. It pushes us away and we want to connect once more and these are the ascents and descents we feel between us and in this way we begin to control more and more those two states, the ascents and descents and then we know gradually how to become partners with the Creator. This light is the Creator and our desires that we awaken are also results from the light but they are results from the breaking, that the light inflicted in us and by this, we begin to use the light that connects us correctly, the light that connects and our ego witch pushes us away and through the right work between those two states, the right disposition will be two states. Do not be afraid of the remoteness from the ego, the despair and all those things we feel, we want to unite again and we understand that it is the process and we have to go above it, not to fall. While the light departs and seemingly moves away, and not to be overjoyed when the light shines and brings us a sensation of elation. We have to go above reason above the vessels, above the lights that we draw by these two reins, the right line and the left line and then this way we bring ourselves, while we are in the middle, we bring ourselves to correction and this correction is when we, with all of our desire want to be adhered to the Creator with all the bad and all the good until all of the good and all of the bad work as one. This is the goal, the purpose of the correction, as it is written, you will be as God - knowing good and evil.
9. S. (38:16) Baal HaSulam writes here, although they do not understand what they are learning through the yearning and their great desire to understand what they are learning, they awake upon themselves the light. What is that strong desire and yearning to understand the material by which we awaken the light?
R. The light that shines which is surrounding light awakens in us various kinds of desires, inclinations. We, through this light through the changes in it, are in all kinds of states, feeling from the potion of life to the potion of death, as it is called. This is how we advance, all in all, our work is through the light. It is very similar to tending to a baby or a little child. Until they grow we can add to them less and less, they themselves begin to do it, they do the things. There comes a time when they reject it and say we want to do it ourselves, don't interfere and so on. This is how we grow and our whole disposition should be towards becoming independent and by this we will give joy and contentment to the Creator.
10. S. (40:15) What does it mean, ‘every person?’
R. Every person who receives an awakening through the surrounding light. In other words the wisdom of Kabbalah is intended for every single desire in the broken vessel that has awakened for connection, for correction this is called a person. There are degrees of a human person, Adam, Man, Israel that is already where you are directed, directly towards the Creator. There are many names for that will to receive that exists in the human species. Every person means someone whose desire is, but it says every person from Israel meaning, every item in the will to receive that still has somehow awakened towards the revelation of the Creator they are called Yashar Kel straight to the Creator Israel and every desire that awakens in this way, has the necessity to engage
In the wisdom of Kabbalah which talks about the correction.
11. S. (41:53) Every person will have to study Kabbalah. I would like to know what will come between us when we are learning this great text of the Kabbalists what happens between us.
R. Between us through the correct study of the wisdom of study Kabbalah, for learning means we're studying ourselves. It is a practical learning when we are studying ourselves and by this we become like the matter on which the light operates. It is not something, like an external topic that we are learning like geography or history, rather we are learning how to change by awakening the surrounding lights, or called the upper light or the Creator, the Creator BoReh come and see. So all in all, we have to awaken the light that is in the vessel of Adam HaRishon that departed in it. And we, through those operations, can draw it back on us so that the light will push us to each other and connect us and to the extent of our connection it will come inside and be as inner light. This is called the revelation of the Creator to the created being.
12. S. (44:01) What is the action of the surrounding light that works on our desire?
R. The surrounding light awakens us to try to perform some operations so we will unite among us and then this surrounding light will enter us and will be as inner light.
13. S. (45:03) Does it mean the necessity to engage in learning the wisdom of Kabbalah comes to every person, the surrounding light that brings him to ask about the purpose of life?
R. Yes.
14. S. (45:33) What you explained a moment ago is that the process of expansion and contraction and in between is the revelation of the Creator?
R. I don't know, we didn't learn about it.
15. S. (46:04) When the desire is revealed, should we make this desire awaken in more people?
R. As much as we can work on the other vessels of Adam HaRishon to awaken them, the desire to correct, by that we are correcting ourselves and the act of the dissemination should be clear to us as the action of utmost importance. Because if I awaken the other vessels to connect between them and to turn the surrounding light into inner light, meaning to bring them to the revelation of the Creator to the created being, then by that I am helping myself since the system is one system and if I will cause one part of the system to try and bring the Creator closer to them the surrounding light to the inner light, by that I am correcting my soul many times more. That's why it is written, I grew wiser of all my students. What wisdom comes from this education, meaning a part of the vessel, by teaching others from all my students, it is certain that he causes that they too will draw the light from externally surrounding light, to inner light and this all goes to the person who awakens them. As we learned about Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma in Baal HaSulam’s article.
16. S. (48:06) Continuing on that question, to what extent does it help teach the wisdom of Kabbalah when you have students. How does that influence the ten that there are lectures in the ten?
R. Teaching is very important because it awakens us more and more to know, how we can connect to the material. It awakens us to influence others on different levels, to bestow to them, it is very important. There is danger of course, a person can become prideful and suddenly see himself as a great one, as special. I remember that I asked Rabash about it and I told him after teaching this group that came to us to study, after going home, I felt myself as more important. As if I am a more important person who was walking here, I had this feeling. He was very happy about it. First of all the will to receive is growing, second that I identify it in this way and third that I have what to work on it, even in such a thing it shouldn't stop us, as long as we ensure that each of us remains in the ten, all of those things will balance themselves out. The more each and every friend can come out of the ten, build another group, another ten, by that we expand our vessels and then even through those small lights, the sum total of the lights will be a great light. There will be greater revelation of the Creator to the Created beings, since why did he shatter the vessels? Specifically by assembling them we will be able to incorporate with him more and more.
17. S. (50:44) Before us there were many groups of Kabbalists and some big groups. What is the difference in the teaching method in the groups before us and the teaching method now?
R. I don't think there was a difference in the goal, all the Kabbalists and I went through some of them, there is no difference between them, their goal is one in the same, the revelation of the Creator to the created beings in this world. The difference is there are different types of souls just like different kinds of people that you see. There is Shoresh Aleph Bet Gimel Dalet, four different types of people, sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic. It's not only in the coarseness but from different levels of coarseness you have different spiritual qualities. That's why you have many people who engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah and each one understands nevertheless, in a slightly different way and approaches the Creator in a slightly different way and discovers him in a slightly different way and that's the way it needs to be. We need only to be patient, help one another, our incorporation with one another is the solution, to the revelation of the Creator in the right intensity.
Excerpt 2 (52:46 - 53:51)
18A. R. Meaning anyone who yearns and longs for the Creator does it matter who or where just like in ancient Babylon where people from all of the nations of the world that were concentrated there came to Abraham so each and every one who has them yearning for the Creator .
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18B. R. meaning we are the heaviest souls, we weren't able to be corrected earlier throughout the entire process. These souls belong to the degree of Adam, phase 4 of our coarseness the worst kind and that's why we conclude all of the corrections because it says you can see a complete obligation. Utter necessity from anyone from Israel, anyone who feels he has a desire, a connection, a question about the purpose of a person in this world, whomever he may be. Doesn't matter who or what, does not matter. He must engage in the internality of the Torah and its secrets and without it the intention of creation will not be completed in man meaning only we completed it. All those other generations for who came from the shattering of Adam. This is the reason why we reincarnate generation to generation to our current generation which is the residue of all the souls. Meaning all the heaviest things that could not be revealed earlier and be corrected, they are corrected now. That's why it is called the last generation. The worst states such heavy coarseness in that vessel of Adam HaRishon. Upon which the intention of creation has not been completed meaning to connect them and reach identification with the Creator as they did not attain, didn’t reach the purity to attain in past generations the secrets of Torah. Meaning using the lights that existed in the past generations they could not attain the corrections because from generation to generation the light shines more and the vessel is worse it can awaken towards corrections.
19. S. (56:19) Why must it be necessary and not voluntary?
R. If it was according to the desire we would remain in the will to receive only rather your question is good and it is right there is an awakening here from the desire that is seeking fulfillment, and immediately he has limitations. Meaning you seek fulfillment after the shattering and you have to adapt yourself to that fulfillment so that you can receive it not according to your desire but according to your intention. How will you use this fulfillment? by that a person raises himself from the degree from still vegetative animate to the degree of Adam, (resemble the Creator) he inverts himself and works in bestowal like the Creator and not on the degrees of still vegetative inanimate where they develop in them only the will to receive by itself.
S. It's just that necessity speaks about coercion
R. Of course coercion, where don’t you see creation in the form of coercion. Did someone ask you if you wish to be born or not, and to what form? No. Do you have free choice? We will learn how later how to get to it but for the time being, even what you're doing now is coercion. You are sitting here in the lesson because you want it? It’s an illusion you are lying to yourself that you want it, that you're coming here. They are playing with you, the lights, the forces they just arranged you in this way.
S. When does the necessity end and the participation begin?
R. When you yourself will be able to manage yourself correctly this is called choice, and for the time being you have no choice. That's how it should be in this world with the way we function. We need to function in the form of absolute laws as they should be until we understand and we arrange these vessels from within us by ourselves. When I agree with what's happening in the world, in reality, in society and I can work consciously with awareness and with the right desire in society. This is called the first by coercion and then by desire.
S. So if there's no choice right now, there is still the matter of people staying, people who leave, it looks like they choose. So where is the necessity from above here?
R. We can't see it, we are in concealment. It wasn't given to you to see rather listen to what Kabbalist are saying and try to understand to what extent and just how much you are a puppet controlled by the forces of nature and where is the place of your free choice? Try to be Adam, a man, one who resembles the Creator in what was given to you.
S. So in the end the necessity is that I am obligating myself?
R. You don't understand what is happening, Concealment works in such a way that you confuse yourself 10 times. Even when you seemingly decide, you don't understand that you have no say in the matter. How can it be that a baby who's under the rule of the forces of nature that he will have any choice in anything? No, wait for divine intellect and feeling to come not the beastly kind for the time being, you are like a beast who is managed by the forces of nature and only the concealment of the Creator, of the light, of his intention, of his goal is giving you the illusion to think that you aren't doing anything.
20. S. (01:01:32) We rise according to the intention not the desire, right? So what intention do we need so we can reach the first spiritual degree?
R. To bestow to one another, to turn our inclination from receiving constantly to bestowing, when I wish to lose myself in the connection with the friends to come out of myself.
S. We are trying to do it all the time in the 10 but in developing this intention how does it happen as a result of what?
R. The correct realization in using the desire is only when we try to ask the Creator the upper light, to advance to come close to him, there is nothing other than that. It's very simple just to do it. Something we need to do gradually, meticulously, consistently, persistently but the formula itself is simple.
21. S. (01:03:06) On one hand we admit that the situation in the world is critical. People's egoism is great, on the other hand you said yesterday concerning the correction, that it might take 20, 40, and 60 years so it troubles me. Sometimes I have doubts that I will live to 40 to receive that correction that will come, say in 20 years.
R. You don't have to worry about it because if you truly wish to work in order to bestow you already now begin to rise above this concern. What will it be to you when you're already in spiritual reality? Try to do it now, that you wish to connect with the friends to such a degree that to be with them, you would be in them. Then it doesn't matter where you are and in what world, in what state, whether you're alive or dead, you exist or you don't. You have to reach a state where you become spiritual. Then you wouldn't have this problem with years, 40 years or 60 years, it's much easier and closer. Rather we are speaking about those numbers in order to demonstrate to a person how much his calculations are incorrect but there is no time in spirituality.
22. S. (01:05:25) If we are only like puppets for now, then what is the awakening from below?
R. Even from puppets there is an awakening from below and the Creator is highly sensitive to it. He awakens in us desires and we need in return to awaken our attention. Let's say you are touching a baby and he begins to cry. Now the question is, in this baby there is also the possibility nevertheless through your contact with him, he has an opportunity to connect with you in return. How does he bestow to you in return, that's what we need to do. Each moment we receive treatment from the Creator, and as much as we react and respond to his treatment, his treatment meaning, that's the intention I relate to, not what I received but from whom I am receiving it, what I am getting from them, what could be the desired response from me and that could start now, we don't need to wait for something to happen.
Excerpt 3 (01:07:50 - 01:08:40)
23. R. Children are us, who are starting to learn it is a concept like that so it says to the whole wisdom of Kabbalah speaks of the wisdom of the Creator to the created beings and this is the foundation of the wisdom of Kabbalah, naturally when there is none more successful teaching for its task. This is what we have to engage in and in it we discover all of reality. We solve all of the problems of our existence, the purpose of our existence meaning there is nothing else for a person in this world to do except for this wisdom. Engaging in this wisdom and that's what the Kabbalists aim for to arrange it so it is suitable for studying and said they study in it until the time of concealment. Then it was a grey to conceal it for a certain time not forever, there was a time when this wisdom of Kabbalah was concealed because in order to let the generations develop, and we see that up to this generation the wisdom of Kabbalah was in some form of concealment you can say although but the ARI and Baal Shem Tov worked as far back as 500 years to open it up and it is written about in all the introductions by the ARI how much we have to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah and reveal it. Nevertheless we see that Baal HaSulam was the one who actually, he was the one who actually opened up the wisdom for us and revealed its purpose and why it's obligated for every person to engage in it there for concealment was for a certain time and not forever. As it is written in the Zohar the wisdom is destined to be revealed at the end of days, meaning we have come to the last generation, so we are now in a state where we can and we must it is our obligation to reveal the wisdom of Kabbalah to everyone. So it will be clear to everyone that this wisdom exists for each and every person. Except now we have gone with a pandemic through the first blow, the plague, we haven't gone through it yet, it is still ahead of us but we are going through this global blow that all of humanity suffered. It is a blow unlike anything else we have suffered before and it awakens in us a certain direction for all of humanity, a certain inclination. We can't see it quite yet but soon it will be revealed 6 months from now, 12 months, 24 months it's not leaving us so quickly, we are going to remain with this virus and other viruses for a while. What will be here is that humanity will say, will feel after this entire blow just how much it does not want to return to how things were before that blow. Those rich people, managers, big business owners, they want everything to return to life as it was before but humanity will not want it to return to it simply will not. On the contrary we will get used to sitting more quietly, we will have simpler needs, everything a person needs to exist, all the necessities and beyond that we will want to know the purpose of our lives. We will come to a time where the wisdom of Kabbalah maybe we won't call it the wisdom of Kabbalah but maybe the wisdom of the correction of the world and the purpose of our lives will be desirable by each and every person.
24. S. (01:14:02) until the end of concealment, meaning that until we reveal the concealment?
R. No, it's not until the end of concealment, this continues until the end of correction.
25. S. (01:14:28) Absence of free choice puts me in the place of the observer, relaxing me, putting me to sleep. How should I relate to the fact that I don't have any freedom of choice?
R. We don't have free choice in anything in our lives except for one thing, to constantly be aimed to the connection with the Creator through the connection between us, to return to a state as before the shattering is the obligation.
Excerpt 4 (01: 15:20 - 01:16:28)
26. R. What we need to do is to arrange our lives in such a way that each and every moment will be aimed at, will be working towards raising the greatness of the Creator between us even more. This of course happens through our connection in the ten, a person cannot do it by himself, but by talking about it and connecting it works very quickly.
27. S. (01:17:02) What was the reason that allowed the wisdom of Kabbalah which was concealed to be revealed?
R. The revelation means the Kabbalist who came before us arranged the lights that could come and approach our broken vessels and arrange for us books, a study plan, a curriculum of sorts and through these spiritual and corporeal preparations we are able to begin our approach towards the Creator.
28. S. (01:18:03) Why does the wisdom attract us even if we don't want it? Where does it come from?
R. Wisdom of Kabbalah explains to a person each and everything that exists in creation there is no other wisdom, another learning system that explains to you what is the upper force. How does it work on you, how do you change by it, how can you influence it in return, how can you come during the lifetime to the opening of your eyes meaning when you discover the true reality that you are in. You are in it now as well, but you can't feel it or see it and when you discover these forces everything opens up. The wisdom that explains everything to you of course it is the most important because by this wisdom you rise above the boundary between life and death, between this world and the upper world, fate and coincidence. Everything in your life you can arrange and discover but it is on the condition that you acquire the qualities of the upper world. Then everything becomes clear to you and revealed whereas if you are still reading the books of Kabbalah, but from your egoistic vessels you can't see what is written there because you're reading but inside you need to imagine what you are reading and the way you imagine them is egoistic, meaning it is opposite to what is written there. That is what throws people off and this is why we need to help one another so that together as quickly as possible to break into in order to bestow, into spirituality and then we will learn about the upper reality, the true upper reality.
Excerpt 5 (01: 21:03 - 01:21:52)
29. R. In the process of development of humanity in this world we have gone through several stages come out we had stage Adam which was before 5570 years ago up to Abraham, then to Rashbi, from Rashbi to the ARI, about 500 years ago, next to the ARI the Baal Shem Tov the one who founded the attitude and approach to the wisdom of the study of Kabbalah in the work. From Baal Shem Tov to Baal HaSulam and Rabash this is how we need to see the process. We spoke about it several times and we wrote about it in the newspaper, the stages of the development of the wisdom in the world.
30. S. (01:23:42) In excerpt 4 from Baal HaSulam he writes even when they engage in corporeal things they can also be for holiness, how can we implement this during the day?
R. Through the intention we can add to each and every state, if I wish to use each and every moment as beneficial to my spiritual advancement, that I have to add my intention to each and everything, why am I doing this, what is the benefit I wish to derive from what I'm doing currently. You can do this is over each and everything except if I am harming the environment, still, vegetative and animate, humans, if I harm them I cannot add a spiritual intention to them but if I'm not harming them but if I am actually benefiting them then certainly I am adding the intention to bestow and each action of that nature brings me closer to correction.
S. How not to cause harm if I have a business?
R. If I work in business and 2000 years ago there were many Kabbalists who were businessmen, wealthy people it doesn't matter, if their intention is to benefit creation, business does not interfere with that. Doing business doesn't mean that you wish to harm people, it can be essential. Why not.
31. S. (01:26:09) How does it help a person to depict the greatness the sages felt of the Creator?
R. How do they feel the greatness of the Creator? The way we should feel it and I hope we will feel it soon.
32. S. (01:26:39) Why when we come to the wisdom of Kabbalah it is as if I lose the desire for the religion that I grew up in, even though we know religion is a culture but it seems I can completely disconnect and I don't need it anymore how does this happen?
R. We shouldn't confuse religion and the wisdom of Kabbalah, the wisdom of Kabbalah is a science and religion is a belief that people have, something that seemingly exists or not, it is their business and we have nothing to do with any religion. There are hundreds of faith and belief systems in the world, we belong to the science, except the science we engage in is a special kind of science where we have to open up this force concealed in nature and from there we discover all of the concealed nature that opens up more. Even in traditional science working with things that are beyond our knowledge that are gradually becoming revealed to us. The wisdom of Kabbalah deals with the same things working with the general force that includes all of reality in it. But there is no connection between the wisdom of Kabbalah and the religions, if you wish you can be religious any kind of denomination and it has nothing to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah.
33. S. (01:29:04) In every article we read he calls it to engage in the business of the wisdom, when does it mean that we started engaging in the wisdom?
R. When you begin to work in it means you are working, work meaning by doing it, by using these ideas I wish to reach a certain level of success this means that I engage in it, to work in it.
34. S. (01: 29:42) He says that in the first, you need all seven wisdoms and mortifications as without that you wouldn't reveal the Creator, also more external teaching, so why don't we need this anymore?
R. Because we have reached greater lights that stand above us and this is why we can by awakening these lights advance to reveal the Creator, to correct ourselves in a way that we will discover the Creator within us. Revelation is always within the vessel, our vessels today may be corrected much more than before because we can awaken greater lights.
S. Today we don't need mortifications?
R. Physical modifications of course not.
S. Emotional or internal?
R. These are usual things, mortifications means a person limits himself, that he doesn't eat, he doesn't drink, that he should only eat a loaf of bread and drink water and sleep on the floor.
35. S. (01:31:15) Every generation's development brings an upgrade of the method?
R. Yes.
S. What did we bring?
R. According to the coarseness that is being revealed according to the wisdom of Kabbalah we learn about ourselves, we correct ourselves and we serve our vessels for the general correction of the world. We are specifically in the state where our work is practical. We bring our vessels and we serve them to all of the souls, we present them to all of the souls and make them come to us and connect through us like the Galgata vEnayim and AHP to receive the lights and to enjoy the revelation of the Creator to them to a certain extent through us.
S. I understand what is our status and development
R. Our status is to make Galgata v Enayim out of ourselves towards all of the other souls that have not been corrupted and that is AHP.
S. Let's say Abraham, Rashbi, Baal Shem Tov, Baal HaSulam, Rabash, they developed a method in a certain way, what can we add to this?
R. Only practice with the right usage, once we have all of these and Rabash includes them all there is nothing to add except for the practical work and out of the practical work as much as we can explain correctly, concretely to all of humanity how it may join that correction.
S. So only by the example we will do between us this is what we are giving the world?
R. I don't think we should actually be an example that much only partially because the thing is we are Galgata vEnayim and the whole world is AHP end the work in Galgata v Enayim is opposite of the AHP. This is why it's not a real direct example for them but they will learn how to relate to us and we will learn how to awaken more and to relate to them, connect to end these two parts of the vessels which is Galgata vEnayim and AHP will help each other we will get the deficiencies from them and raise them upwards, we will get the light from there and return it back down.
S. So humanity doesn't have anything to learn or take an example from it only depends upon us?
R. We will teach them, yes.
S. What do we need to teach?
R. How to be the correct AHP, how to connect to us and receive through us the lights at reforms as well as they have to be corrected, it's only their correction is not I'm doing internal, independent as we're using and yearning to do, only by themselves to us we will talk about it.
Excerpt 6 (01:35:06 - 01:35:37)
36. R. This means that they will get through us the light that reforms and this is what is going to connect them. The Creator wants us to know His nature and His relation to all of humanity and we'll explain to all of those who cannot be in a direct link with Him like we are, that He doesn't awaken them to discover Him. Rather He awakens them by passing viruses to them at all kinds of things like that, this certainly also comes from there is Nothing Else Besides Him and then we have to teach them that when they connect to us they will get through us the light that reforms and this is what is going to connect them. Then they offer force will be revealed, why and where they are going and how they will attain the eternal life.
37. S. (01:36:48) What is the best way to attract the surrounding light to the ten?
R. Drawing the light to the vessel is possible either by us connecting between ourselves, turning to the Creator with a prayer directly or we connect between us and we learn the wisdom of Kabbalah by that we also connect to the Creator and are asking of Him. Meaning either in the connection between us and turning to the Creator or in the connection between us and study and then turning to the Creator, but both, these to help attain the light that reforms and this is how we reach the revelation of the Creator. This is basically our whole goal and there is nothing else.
38. S. (01:38:04) In what vessels do we build the passion for spiritual work?
R. Vessels of bestowal but at least in egoistic vessels that want to connect between them.
39. S. (01:38:31) We are teaching humanity and from there we are absorbing the deficiencies and doing our work but we are teaching and explaining, but we don't give them an example?
R. No, we can't be an example for humanity they can't be like us, they simply have to be as AHP, as receivers from us through all kinds of external forms, history, geography, the wisdom of society, sociology all kinds of things that we give them an explanation but it is aimed from above coming to us from the upper force, from the Creator. Then we explain to them providence, the general guidance and then in order to connect to that general guidance they have to be connected to us. By these explanations we connect them to us, that is it. From them reaching from us the bestowal, when we pass it on to them through us, so they also have the connected to wireless but it is a passive where the AHP connects to Galgata vEnayim and they can't do any more than that because it is the coarseness of the vessels that determines it that way. So when they connect to us like that they get everything possible, the truth is the great lights are revealed in the higher vessels but it is on the account and condition or thanks to the lower, coarser vessels.
S. We know that advancement is to example, that education is through example, the small one develops by example, copying and advancing and here we are just saying knowledge, explanation in passing it to them, but where is the personal example that they absorb into like us?
R. You never passed to the lower what you do, you educate a child according to his ways according to what he needs as much as he needs to be corrected you may advise him to advance or to behave. This is what you pass on to him not what you want.
40. S. (01:41:58) How can we get another burst through in our studies?
R. You have everything except maybe to do, go to the system by you connecting between you and the Creator. We have to imagine to ourselves that there aren't any differences between the way we're connected and how we are connected to the Creator, it is the same, everything should be as one body.
41. S. (01:42:54) We are trying to build a framework in the ten, will this be an example?
R. We don't need that, we don't need mortifications we just need to light that reforms.
42. S. (01:43:27) In number 5 that before attaining we had to learn all of the seven external wisdoms, does this mean that whoever came to the wisdom of Kabbalah was a scientist?
R. They were in their states, we don't have to go into that, they are and then we are in us, it's a different correction of the vessels, we have to understand that each and every generation has his people. Meaning if I belong to a certain layer of the soul of Adam, in that layer, in that connection I have to correct myself and then to go as little as possible to different things. I can't understand people who lived a thousand years ago or Kabbalists that lived two or three thousand years ago. I can't understand them, they are different vessels. We can't even in this world understand how my neighbors look at reality, my children I can't even understand. How can I understand the Kabbalist two who lived a few thousand years ago as they don't even have any historical or human development? They were from the general soul of Adam, these vessels were different, a different layer that is why I don't dare understand them. There's a verse about it, every generation has its demands.
42A. S. (01:45:36) In except 4 it is written while studying we need to depict how the stages felt the greatness of the Creator so I hear this and we have to depict the greatness of the Creator to the same extent the sages felt?
R. Yes, it is something that we can yearn for, that we want to reach such a state, they discovered the upper light in the corrected vessels and I want to reach the revelation of the upper light in my vessels. So for that I want to understand and to see you everything that happens, everything, but clothing in their vessels I cannot.
S. So how do we do this?
R. We do what is given to us to do, everything we can do is what we should do, otherwise we're going to go into what they wrote, start imagining, fantasizing as if we understand what they wrote. You cannot clothe in them.
Excerpt 7 (01:47:06 - 01:47:27)
43. R. Only In praise of the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah does a person awake in and rise above this world into a spiritual one to reveal the Creator.
Excerpt 8 (01:47:42 - 01:48:01)
Excerpt 9 (01:53:53 - 01:54:27)
44. R. Meaning talking and words from this world it is as if about the people, the plants, the ground, sky, all kinds of forces that we see in this world we know them from this world.
Reader continues: “the listeners understand the upper root....”
45. R. (01:55:45) This means the language of the branches is a real special language when we speak and hear and we learn, we study the appellations of this world in the words of this world we don't mean those objects or forces that we discover here in this world in our senses, our egoistic senses. But rather what we mean is to talk about the roots of these phenomena, the spiritual roots where they are in the forces in order to bestow, forces of bestowal meaning this world is the forces of reception, the spiritual world is the forces of bestowal. But there is a connection between the spiritual and the corporeal world as we speak about things in this world with the intent to the root in the upper world. This is why this language is called the language of branches, when we talk about the branches of this world we mean the root in the upper world. This is why each and everything we can talk about and interpret as interpreting it in the framework of this world, corporeal or we are using the same words that we are speaking about at the spiritual level. Only the ones who understand what it is about, understand that it is about spirituality not corporeality. Or an ordinary person hearing what Kabbalah speaks about from the outside you can't understand the spirituality, because all of the names are well known to each and every one from this world, still, vegetative animal human beings, speaking level only if we talked about the roots then we aim ourselves at spirituality.
S. It is not clear what the difference is, because it's the words of this world that depict the connections in the spiritual world. What do you attain that is different?
R. The difference is not between the worlds, the difference, between the world there is a connection of root and branch. What I want of me, using words of this world, is because in spirituality there are no words, to attain the root of these objects, these forces, actions. So I want to raise myself to the degree of the upper world and to be in it. The names are the same names, if I write to you some story you may read it and think that it is happening in the level of this world and someone who understands can interpret it as happening in the spiritual world.
S. So I feel that we do this, that we learn and we take the Exodus.
R. Yes, of course.
S. But it's only an understanding, the interpretation is the difference?
R. The interpretation you give.
S. I understand the Exodus isn't history but it's something he goes to when he connects to the ten.
R. Yes.
S. Where does it bring you closer to attainment using these expressions?
R. Because you want to be in the spiritual forces, the spiritual vessels, right, you don't want to stay in the corporeal level.
S. And that's why I was like that reforms and that draws the light that reforms?
R. Yes, you’re yearning for the roots of the corporeal branches to help you rise and draw the light that reforms.
Excerpt 9 again
46. R. (02:02:11) It seems to me it is very simple see, here is the language, in this world everything has a name, so, forces, cases, instances, phenomena, everything you can have is named. Now if we know exactly what these names belong to, what spiritual roots, I can use the same language and I'm explaining to you in the same language what is going on in the spiritual world. Not only one world even, also ABYA, I can tell you about each and every world and my story will be in words of this world.
S. So if a word in this world explains all the upper roots?
R. It doesn't describe what's there, it comes down to me what quality or what action in the spiritual world it aims towards, that it is insinuating and if I am there, if I am in the spiritual world, this word is enough for me. I feel the spiritual root immediately.
S. So these words if I look at the words that are told to me by a filter of the spiritual world I will understand what they are speaking about?
R. Yes, of course that's why it is called a language. Even the language of this world where did you take these words from, in Hebrew we learned that it stems from the qualities, from the forces that established the quality or the object. But in the rest of the languages we learned this about the languages but this is the way it is. We read the names of this world, we are in spirituality, we understand what spiritual force this name of a certain object in this world insinuates. Then we establish it exactly and give it the way it's in the color and the character. In these kinds of things that relate to emotions it's hard for people to understand each other but besides the emotions, the objects and the forces there is no problem. This is why, Kabbalist actually use it and without this world we wouldn't have a connection because this world comes as a result of all of the spiritual world and then it turns out that even though it is low, it is attained by everyone and so it is through this world that we can be connected to all of the created beings in all of the worlds. We spoke about this, it is very long.
47. S. (02:06:11) If the Creator is the only root of reality what does it mean every branch has its own root?
R. The Creator is the root to all of reality, but from Him extends forces that split into all of the creative beings in all different levels in all the worlds and He is the root, the one root that is including all.
48. S. (02:07:05) This means that in every world there is a root and a branch and if this is so how does that relate to the attainment of the created beings?
R. In every level we are on there is a higher level and that's why even the level we are on we are the ones connecting between the higher level to the lower level and to be in contact between those levels is to use the language of roots and branches.
49. S. (02:07:58) Is this a great obligation to study the wisdom of Kabbalah for women and men?
R. We will learn that separately whatever he doesn't write about let's not ask. That shouldn't concern you, you are a man, so study.
50. S. (02:09:20) Can we say that everything we do in the ten, all of the work that Rabash wrote for us is also using the language of branches?
R. No, you're not using a language of branches because you are not in two worlds in order to use the language of the branches you have to be present in two worlds, the corporeal world and the spiritual world then in order to use the language of the branches you have to be present in two worlds, the corporeal world and the spiritual world then you speak about the spiritual world in the language of the corporeal.
S. All the actions we do of giving gifts to the friends and increasing the mood don't have a spiritual root?
R. Those are actions not a language, language means I'm explaining to you about something on one degree but I'm using a language, the explanation words from a different degree. We don't have in our world such a thing, in our world you can just see the translating from one language to another, but not from one level to another.
51. S. (02:10:54) What is a spiritual phenomena?
R. A spiritual world is forces that are accumulated into one force called the Creator, the upper force and these forces are active and work on desires that are results of one desire called Adam and then activating the forces by the desires is actually all of reality. This reality in order for it to reach its correction it exists and is activated in 4 levels that are called the worlds ABYA and we in this world are the last degree which is less than all of Assiya, we are using words of this world in order to explain all the phenomena that are in the world above our world, the corporeal world. This is why we can speak about every world in an earthly corporeal language but by this we need to state in which world and in what degree we actually mean. Meaning that this story that I'm explaining in the words of this world is actually here to explain phenomena in the world of ABYA, I need them to also state on what level I mean and in this way we advance.
52. S. (02:13:16) He writes that we can't describe the language in the absolute names, not these high spiritual names but when we learn TES as a preparation we do use the language of the Sefirot and that we use the language of the upper world?
R. Language of Sefirot is not the language of the branches, except for the names of the Sefirot the degrees of Aviut, we use words and terms of this world. We will start studying TES soon and you will see how it divides and connects.
S. So we can describe these roots in these names or can't we?
R. How can you fix them if you're not on a spiritual degree, what does it mean?
S. That is the question, what does it mean that we will read TES now, ZA, Malchut in Amrich Anpin, what are we reading?
R. We will try in a rational way to depict to ourselves what qualities and then while studying you will want to attain those qualities as he writes in the introduction TES item, 155.
53. S. (02:15:10) We always talk about the Creator, we turn to the Creator and talk about the Creator as if we are speaking about some figure that has Intelligence, a desire and this necessarily causes me and awakens in me some childish impressions as if we are Idol worshipping. So every time I hear about the Creator I should remind myself that we are talking about this eternal system or maybe I shouldn't put my attention to it?
R. It is good if we depict the Creator as a force, that in it encompasses all of the others, everything except that force in that force anyways, the Creator is that one force the quality is only to bestow. It includes everything in it.
54. S. (02:16:45) How can we feel the inside branches in our world, how can we give strength and good listening to understand that?
R. We will learn TES and we will try.
Excerpt 10 (02:17:19 - 02:18:14)
55. R. Spiritual attainment has to work in our senses in our inner feelings the most inner feelings, this is called attainment and everything less than that, less than attainment doesn't happen in our senses but in our mind this is why he says this is understanding, knowledge, it is intellectual this is why there are wise people, could be, that understand, meaning those who work with their brains and there are kabbalists, the ones who attained in their feelings, this is why it is written it's not the wise who learn. The wisdom of Kabbalah is learned by reaching inner qualities, inner forces of giving and bestowal that we reach such qualities, that in them spiritual actions take place and from the spiritual actions we can attain the essence of the Creator. In this way it is clarified within us that's why there is attainment and understanding, it is two levels. Understanding could be in all wisdoms, wise people. However attainment is what we attain in a corrected senses.
56. S. (02:20:03) Can we say that a Kabbalist can't be in attainment unless in the final corrections?
R. Why? Not, there are partial attainments, the worlds of Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira and Assiya, all 125 degrees of attainment.
S. Don't the concepts change the moment he rose from the world of Assiya to the world of Yetzira. Don't the terms change?
R. Do you read more exalted terms but the terms don't change?
Excerpt 11 (02:20:41 - 02:22:45) Twice
56. R. We need here some guidance that will explain to us from what we have in the corporeal world towards the spiritual world, the connection between root and branch. This is what he writes. If they get an interpretation from a genuine sage, who makes himself available to explain it in a spoken language which is necessarily like translating from one language to another.
57. S. (02:23:40) Does the branch have a meaning of itself or only shows the path to the route?
R. The branch has no meaning except for to point at the root.
S. In order to get some knowledge about the branch from the root what should a person do?
R. He has to rise from branch to root, you can't understand anything from the branch on its own, you can see all kinds of phenomena, but you don't know why they're there or what they're for, you constantly have to try and raise yourself to the root.
58. S. (02:24:19) Is the 10 the passageway from the branch to the root? And if it is, how does this mechanism work?
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S. So the transition can only happen through the 10?
R. Yes, because what you have as 10 in the lower degree it becomes one in the higher degree. You reach a higher degree, what seemed to you as one. Again, split into 10, and again you have to connect it into one, that is how it is every time. This is how we attain the resolution, the persistency between every spiritual term, from one degree to the next. Specifically by connecting 10 into one, you attain the essence of one in a higher degree.
59. S. (02:25:36) Is it because of my default that I see friends who have been on this path for a long time but still have not progressed?
R. I don't understand them, I don't understand my future or their future, my destiny and their destiny, I see friends that are seemingly stuck but I don't know what is happening in their soul and as much as a person should lag on the path. There are people that very quickly reach some kind of revelation, but it is an external personal kind of revelation, but people that are in their souls that are special and exalted, so they have a long studying timeframe and each drop adds to the other drop into a great sum. But After a while they receive the greatest things. The heavy souls, difficult souls to correct are the most exalted souls just as we learn in this world, even in the historical process the more that we advance, the more science and wisdom and the more vessels, the more language for it.
Excerpt 12 (02:27:30 - 02:28:42) Twice
60. S. (02:28:44) Why were so many books written if we don't understand them, wouldn't one book be enough?
R. No book was written for no reason, if it comes from people in attainment and many books were written. Really each and every book worked for that generation usually except for the Zohar, the books of ARI, Baal HaSulam and Rabash, except for that the other books were more suitable for the generation they came out in. But those books, the Zohar, books of ARI, Baal HaSulam and Rabash they are above time, they are timeless.
61. S. (02:30:08) It is not clear what is new, when we read the books we see the difference but what is new about the attainments when there is a difference between...? (Cut off by Rav)
R. You're asking about this? What can you understand? What can you say even in a spiritual discernment what is the difference between the Baal Shem Tov and the ARI, Rabbi Shimon and Rabash. How can you discern between them? How can you say one is higher or lower? Who are you to think that you know anything? You can say they are different styles, but what are the styles we don't understand anything yet, so how can you ask about it?
S. He says that all of those that wanted others to enjoy they gave names for each and every attainment. Everyone attains the same thing, so what different names did they give?
R. It is a different style, just like in our world we have a lot of words to express things, but in spirituality its less, in spirituality the language is more limited and still in their depictions as it is written like the books of Hasidim where you have many stories from Rabbi Nachman stories and so on, that they were unique, where they supposedly tell fables and stories but there is a lot of attainment and inner knowledge. We will learn it all. I'm glad that we plowed through all of this insight and we advanced in such a way. We will keep going tomorrow. For now we will end the lesson and you can read it and use all of these excerpts and also read ahead or behind, it doesn't matter. The main thing is that we scrutinize them deeper because it is very important for the correct approach in the wisdom of Kabbalah because the problem is for one who doesn't understand correctly how the Kabbalist write, then he reads a nice book which is true and correct but he understands it incorrectly, we need to aim ourselves, to calibrate ourselves to that style of what the Kabbalist means.
S. So today we are going to read the excerpts. How should we calibrate ourselves in the 10 towards tomorrow’s morning lesson, what should we do as we read?
R. Be Inspired as much as the Kabbalists gave us this approach, as much as they were concerned that we will understand this correctly and get the key to the upper world, to the revelation of the Creator in order give him contentment and what exactly is the language as much as you can depict what the language of branches is, that even though we are in this world we can depict, describe the upper language and in this way to get an impression from all of these things and tomorrow we will keep going.