Morning Lesson September 27, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Crown the King over Us - Selected Excerpts from the sources. #6
1. Rav’s Introduction (0:23): We are of the will to receive, who thinks only of itself, cares only about itself. Through this quality senses all of reality. All of reality also gets clarified in it, in the will to receive itself. If we could see reality without receiving it's in our will to receive we would have seen something completely different. The Creator is the opposite of that. He is the will to bestow. He has got no connection with reality itself. He himself is the reality. Hence, all of our work if we wish to feel the true reality is to rise above our perception, our natural perception, in which we exist the way the Creator created us.
This reality is called the evil inclination and rise above it. above this reality to an opposite reality, that is not connected at all to end your reality but to the Creator to the quality of the Creator. From the evil inclination to the good inclination from the intention to myself, to the opposite intention towards the others. The others, these are the means by which we can start to feel the true reality not the one that is closed off and revealed in our will to receive but they way it is outside of us. we will reveal ourselves, we will discover our place in the universe, in our true universe everything will then be revealed before us in the opposite way as it says'' I have seen an inverted world. That is how he will be revealed and the place will be revealed relative to us. This place is called the Creator Boreh.
why in many places instead of the Creator it says 'place' , the relationship between man and the place and so on. day by day in order to advance towards the Creator towards the revelation of the true place where we exist, day by day we might feel that we are opposite to bestow, opposite from the Creator, opposite from the place, opposite from the others, a remote,distant from one another all the way so the degree of Rabbi Shimon students who wanted to kill one another. Our will to receive grows and separates us or at the very least maKing us indifferent to one another. We have to understand that this is all according to the plan of the Creator. Therefore these are actually signs of advancement. He is greater than his friends, his inclination is greater, his evill inclination, his ego is greater. We need to overcome it and turn it into a good connection between us.
This is how we wish to advance. When I begin to see myself how my feelings I'm becoming more distant from the friends I need to be happy that the Creator has increased the will to receive in me. This is a sign that I can overcome it into the desire to bestow. Then in this way take a step forward. The Creator adds a burdening of the heart and on top of that I come closer to him, thene another burdening of the heart and another step towards the Creator. That is how we approach the purpose of creation until our entire will to receive will be revealed and on top of it above it we will come closer we will adhere we will connect to the Creator in the place of concealment there will be revelation and knowledge, "know the Lord you got and serve him".
Excerpt 6: (06:34 ) RABASH, "What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?"
2. R. ( 07:37) Of course, before that, the beginning of this scrutiny each time he feels himself distant, opposite from the King, how he has no desire for it, no inclination, no attraction, nothing. Only with the help of the group, all the supporters and the study. He understands that those things are arranged for him from above by the Creator. Each time the Creator keeps what he said, I have created the evil inclination in order to bestow a person that ability to take another step forward over coming towards the good inclination.
3. S. (08:35) What is the difference between working for a reward and working from the importance of the Creator which is also a reward?
R. The fact that I'm working for an exchange of a reward is necessary otherwise I won't be able to move it all, not in my desire and not in my thoughts, not physically that is clear. I am in the kind of matter that is entirely the will to receive. Meaning it has to receive a reward before the work, during the work, after the work, it doesn't matter how he portrays these times to himself but he must.
We're not talking about it, it's like a machine that you have and you must add fuel and it simply does not work. We're not discussing this, but we are discussing where you want to have it as fuel. What do you want the fuel to be? We say that the greatness of the Creator has to be fuel for us. Why the greatness of the Creator is the kind of fuel we prefer to have of all the other types of fuels because the greatness of the Creator we don't receive from Him. We are impressed by Him. We simply wish to be impressed by His greatness, His universality, His anything that includes in Him that all of their reality is Him and we wish to receive fuel from this.
The power from this in order to bestow to him we don't receive from Him, rather we are impressed by Him by coming closer to Him, by being in adhesion with Him whereas all the other methods of reception are all about receiving in our vessels. After we are incorporated in the greatness of the Creator to some extent, then we can begin to receive from Him in order to bestow. That will be as giving, in the form of giving, it will create in us the opposite action we seemingly receive or we actually give. We use His love for us and our love to Him. We rise above the will to receive and we begin to work in a new kind of relationship. " I to my beloved and my beloved to me".
4. S. (12:23) What is the meaning of serving the Creator or serving the King?
R. The meaning of serving the King is to perform actions, not in this world in our will to receive to continue to do His actions in order to bestow. That is the meaning of serving the King. Until then we are separate. On the one side the Creator, on the other side us and by receiving the influence of the greatness of the Creator we can begin to use our will to receive and work on our side also in order to bestow until all of the reality will be in order to bestow just like the Creator himself. That is why it is written that the Creator starts the act of creation and righteous completes it..
5. S. (13:56) What is the connection between the restriction and the screen according to the importance of the Creator?
R. What is the great connection and a great distinction? It has to do with the decision of a person not to receive for himself. This is the connection between the restriction and the screen. In the screen we have the ability to give above our will to receive not merely restricting it but also to use it in order to bestow outside of it. Meaning whatever exists outside of the will to receive should be more important to some extent, than the will to receive itself.
More important than the will to receive itself and then when we can arrange the importance in this way the importance of the Creator above our own importance, man's importance, then we can already begin to give Him give Him what? We have nothing to give but only to receive in order to give Him pleasure. That is our giving. Meaning we give Him our intention. Our action continues to be only reception. We cannot actually give, we're not a generator we always receive but when I receive in order to bestow like the guests and the host who does it for the sake of the host he seemingly gives Him and that is what we have to come to.
6. S. (16:11) This principle that I received greatness of the Creator and from that I begin to build an intention to bestow is it suitable for when I begin to feel love towards the friends I build the intention to bestow in a similar way?
R. Yes ,also towards the friends and each and everything outside your will to receive that's how you're building these relationships. Ultimately this world should also be in receiving in order to bestow that is the meaning of …
S. So this means.. okay is clear.
R. Eventually, we don't know it has to come down even to lower degrees from man to the animate, vegetative as it's written the wolf lived with the lamb. The entire matter of this world will also receive the intention to bestow as a result of our work. This will exist in them according to their natural level.
7. S. (17:57) I heard that He's first and He is last. What does it mean that the Creator begins and the righteous conclude?
R. That's the correct question. The Creator is first and the Creator is last because He arranged the entire plan of creation from beginning to the end and we have to accept it, gradually daily when we don't want to we want to, we go for different states for and against it and by that which transfer as he writes on the great thieves all the servants of the King but he divided his fortune into single coins. He gave each one a coin that it's not worthwhile to steal from one another so they carry those coins from one to another until they transfer the entire fortune of the King.
That's what happens to us. Each day we just covered ourselves in, in order to receive to some extent we want nothing, then later we awaken and we want something and we do it again and so on and so forth. Those states when we enter spirituality we'll see how many accents and descendants will have and thousands of states as we read about it through the Baal Shem who had 400 ascents and descents in a matter of minutes, 5 minutes before the prayer. That's what we need to understand that this is our work to take from one place to another, our will to receive so it will be a little bit in order to bestow, a bit more in order to bestow and then a penny and a penny are added to a great fortune and eventually we will finish our great works.
S. What does it mean that the righteous complete it is the final correction of the world?
R. He who is on this path and he gets to the end of the path is called the righteous because the last states in the corrections are the most difficult because the correction is revealed in the person from lightest to heaviest. In general the first generations worked and made corrections but specifically us, those who are born today and we need to receive from us the will to receive will be greater in them. He who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater but we will them. We will support one another. We are always like that in all generations of humanity we support the next generation. They take from us what they need and then they keep going.
8. S. (22:11) What does it mean to know the greatness of the King because it says and the end that one has to make it in his heart but then says to know the greatness of the King. What does it mean?
R. I need to know the greatness of the King in order to work in order to bestow. Just like the guest and the host and to try and pass as much as I can pass it on correctly to the next generation to my friends and they do the same to me and that is how we advance. We have no more reach to help except to tell one another, publie to one another the greatness of the King. That's why the beginning of the year, Rosh HaShana, the beginning of our work is when we begin to awaken and to respect and to raise ourselves above our heads the greatness of the Creator the greatness of the King. This is the beginning of the true spiritual work that is why it's called Rosh HaShana, the beginning of the year.
9. S. (23:34) Can we accelerate the process? Is it in our hands or is it all in His time?
R. No, no, no we could certainly accelerate this process. Through our work by connecting between us, as much as we can give one another our impressions and are included together in the group with our impression, our inspiration then accordingly we are impressed from one another. In this general impression towards the Creator we are all working in it already. This is extremely helpful for us in our advancements and helps us move fast.
10. S. ( 24:45) The Creator himself is the reality. Why in order to correct our perception of reality is it sufficient to correct the Kli with its five parts filled with 10 Sefirot of love?
R.This is in effect the structure through which the Creator is revealed to us.
11. S. (25:24) How can we discuss the greatness of the King with someone who does not want to hear about it? How do we spread his greatness to the world?
R. Those who don't want to hear we don't speak to them God forbid. We should not do it rather when you're speaking in general terms that can interest a few people and those people will come closer to us and then we'll speak to them more personally. Let's put it this way and so on and so forth. One has to learn how to disseminate and for each one to disseminate and publicize whatever they feel like publicizing but that he's only going to bring harm to Bnei Baruch and his Ten and see himself. Be careful not to do anything without their permission. As usual turn to our address boardworldkli@gmail.com turn to this address in whatever language you need and they will take care of you and tell you what to don and so forth but don't go by yourselves into the world with the most beautiful and purest ideas from each and everyone's heart. It can bring great harm.
12. S. (27:12) How from the work of connection and love of friends do we come to the crown of the King over us?
R. When we take care of love of friends meaning work more and more on having the purpose of my life getting clarified and revealed only in my connection my society let's sat in my Ten, from that I come to a state where I begin to see that I don't have anything else to do but to overcome and come closer to them to overcome and come closer to them is my work.
Eternally, in the heart and my soul and then if I will truly reveal, disclose my heart to them, I feel together with them how much I can include them in my heart. I will reveal the Creator because my friends are the vessels and if I am ready to contain them, to store them, inside my heart then by that I am building in me the place you could say the Ten, you could say the structure. the Partzuf where the Creator is revealed . I won't reveal Him any other way. Of course this place has coarseness because we have all kinds of quarrels, conflicts, and separations. The Creator arranges everything. Also the closeness of the hearts and then through all those states, it's called the beatings of the heart either come close to another or move apart come closer move apart and through the beatings of the heart.
Either come closer to one another or move apart. We come closer or move apart and through these beatings, the more that we have them, ascend the descents, accordingly we begin to count them to feel them to feel them. Through these actions we begin to feel that the Creator is present. We feel Him between us. He is there, truly between my two hands, He is there. Until we begin to feel that it's not us who is doing these ups and downs and all those things but He has done it. He is doing it to us all and then we begin to work with Him in mutuality and in tandem.
S. As it is called one will always back the good inclination over the bad inclination?
R Yes that is where we start from until we feel the Creator is present between us and to the extent that we come closer, we feel him more. We move away,we feel Him less and in this way we see Him my beloved is like a dear and with you more and more that's how it is revealed to us. What I'm trying to say here is that it all depends on the work between us. Despair each and every day with start from this or after some breaks during the day we start from seeing that we are completely not connected to one another and we begin anew. This is always like that we always start again anew. We work in this way, where each time they stop. Later all these stops, all these brakes, join the integral connection and we reach the spiritual sensation which is unbroken smooth.
13. S. (32:44 ) I wanted to ask about the question of disconnect. When the disconnect happens I personally maybe it's an egoistic question but I am afraid that I won't be able to overcome it. What is the method to overcome this?
R. The method to overcome is to come closer to the friends,come close to the friends using all means possible. It doesn't matter how, buy them a good bottle of wine, in Italy it is available and sit down and drink this wine. One bottle for everyone is enough to get closer, talk and renew the connection between you and with the Creator.
14. S. (34:07) You said that the Creator burdens the heart. How can we understand that, what is the action involved in this?
R. The heart is to desire and all the desires the Creator is holding them in the palm of his hands. He is playing with them until he can bring some to the end of correction. He created them in the evil inclination with the intention to receive and slowly through all kinds of actions that He awakens between them, He plays with them until they reach the intention to bestow. That is the end of correction. In this process,we need to take from Him these reins of these actions and lead ourselves, by ourselves to the end of correction. This is like the child that we bring a toy to or a game. We want him to gradually learn the game and then for him to control and manage the game. That is how we need to see our work in creation. That's why those who manage to take these actions correctly are called servants of the Creator. They receive from the Creator the work and they work in his place and to that extent they feel him and understand Him, they are adhered to Him.
S. In this work of the Creator this is a different question. How can it be measured? How can we do such work that cannot be measured?
R. It can be, according to the coarseness of the screen, the reflected light. We can measure it very accurately. We can measure our work very accurately.
15. S. (36:51) In our Ten there is a new baby from one other friend that was born. We care for this baby beyond whether we go to sleep or rest. We care for this baby and in the Ten we have actions that we do from different directions. What does it mean emotionally that we have a baby in the Ten?
R. You have to emphasize. to highlight your common intention which is the result of the sum total of the individual intentions into this common intention to bestow contentment to the Creator. You constantly care to ensure that this intention will grow. Even as we learn from the students of Ramhal who arranged between them this duty where they wouldn't all sleep at the same time so they would stay up to be constantly in prayer for 24 hours. We should also be the same around the newborn, so what? We have to watch him twenty-four hours a day so what? Many people even now in the world although it's night time for them. They are awake because they have to care for the new generation for the baby that is growing for them. We are the same.
S. For us in the Ten what is that newborn baby?
R. I said it, it is the intention to bestow from between us to the Creator. This is our baby. We constantly think that we care about this intention, constantly think of the Creator and how to give Him contentment and by what we are doing it and how to always be in the growing connection between us. This is our work.
16. S. (39:53) How to feel the Creator's your partner and not as your enemy who is trying to throw you off the path so forcefully that you can't overcome?
R. You have to first grasp the purpose of life, the purpose of creation, what do you wish to come to? If you can depict it to yourself somehow but more or less correctly for the time being, then you now have to understand why the Creator is giving what he is giving you and why is He disturbing you in such a way. It has to be perhaps He wishes to hasten your development towards the purpose of creation and then you see He's doing it all out of love and not I would have hate.
S. Do we have to feel Him as our partner?
R. We have to see Him as very close to us. As close as we can feel ourselves to the Creator the easier it will be for us to go through these stages.
17. S. (41:28) Is it possible to know what the restriction is and not really know the work of the screen yet?
R. You scrutinize these discernments, these definitions, through our entire path. What is the restriction, what is the screen, what is direct light,, reflected light, coupling of striking, surrounding lights, inner lights. All of these discernments around the Partzuf. Meaning around the soul, we scrutinize according to how we scrutinize and feel the and learn the structure of our soul because those are all in their internal ingredients, external components that are added around it and stabilize it, arrange ir, establish it.
18. S. (42:50) We wish to reveal the greatness of the Creator but He is in concealment. We suffer because we can't reveal him. We revealed him a little bit and then He hids again. It doesn't seem like a serious thing. Is the Creator playing with us or is He serious?
R. The Creator is very serious. He hides in order for us to change. It's not like we are playing hide and seek each time but rather we have to change by that. We have to advance and we will see that His concealment is in order to give us an opportunity to grow a little bit more and a little bit more and in such a way He teases us and then we have to grow. There is no other way to grow but specifically by the concealment of the Creator because his concealment points to the direction towards which we should grow.
19. S. (44:14) If the processes that we go through in our work are internal stages for us, what are the other desires of the other nations?
R. The same thing, there is no problem here bit by bit we join them as well. More and more they begin to join us and get closer to us. All of our desires gradually become inner desires that participate and the revelation of the upper light.
20. S. (45:16) Can we reach a higher degree of the greatness of acquiring the greatness and importance of the Creator in our heart?
R. Only according to the exercises the Creator gives.
21. S. (45:39) The revelation we're talking about about hearing or seeing?
R. Both, this and that. Whatever is needed when that is needed doesn't matter. What is important is that we want to get closer.
22. S. (46:01) How can we eventually reach the Creator without seeing his greatness?
R. No, we can't work, we're not going to have any fuel if you don't recognize the Creator greatness each time more and more.
23. S.( 46:22) If the person wants to work and keep Torah and Mitzvot without any rewards is it not already a reward to keep Torah and Mitzvot?
R. Correct. hundred percent.
24. S. (46:46) How can we bring the outside world closer? Can we do it by teaching the benefits of unity or do we have to give them Kabbalah?
R. Not sure what to tell you, it's so dynamic,changing from time to time, person to person. The main thing we need to explain to them is about the benefit as opposed to our ordinary life. How Kabbalah reveals to us the inner essence of the world.
25. S. (48:15) What is the thing that is the most holding us back from attaining the greatness of the Creator?
R. That we don't attain the greatness of friends. That is what is hindering us attaining the greatness of the Creator.
Excerpt # 7 (49:28) “If a person pays attention to the importance of the King, he will have complete satisfaction in being given the Torah and Mitzvot to observe as much as he can. Even if, for example, he has the privilege of speaking with a great King with whom not anyone is permitted to come and speak. Rather, it requires much persuasion among the King’s confidants to let him speak a few words with the King. How elated that person would be when he sees that many people are not permitted to approach the King, or are even told that the King is here in town and there are people who can speak with the King.
He sees that there are people in the world who do not know that there is a King in the world, and only a very small group of people in the world were given the thought and desire to believe that there is a King in the world. Even those who were informed about the King do not know that it is possible to speak with Him. But that person was given knowledge from above that he can come in and speak with the King, meaning that he can believe.”
26. R. (51:33) Meaning that we need to depict to ourselves what a great privilege we have and how unique we are in that we were given knowledge and the right attitude and the initial feeling at the beginning of the path towards revelation of the Creator. We should appreciate it and really respect it and by raising that higher, this opportunity then we will have truly moved closer to the Creator.
27. S. (53:03) It sounds like from the reading it says, rather it requires much persuasion among the King's confidants to let them speak a few words with the King. Who are these confidants?
R. Those who are closer in their qualities to the King, they're called the confidants according to the equivalence of form; the closer they are the more they can understand Him or speak to Him, of course it's not ordinary speech but it’s about the equivalence of qualities.
S. Are these perhaps the friends in the ten, in this Society?
R. Yes yes, these could be friends. That they have more proximity to the King and they feel Him and you don't yet.
S. So this work with the friends, this is what persuades the Creator to allow us to speak with Him through the good word that we do the ten, this would let us talk with Him?
R. Yes, because by the work in the ten you are included with the qualities of the friends. And the more you make room for the friends within you by that you become closer to the Creator. If you integrate with the friends with everything they have you will really begin to reveal the Creator.
28. S. (55:00) What does it mean to speak to the King and how can we be certain that we are speaking to Him and not my ego to some other imaginary thing?
R. To speak to the Creator means that the person is in a unique degree of closeness to the Creator and he begins to feel not to hear, he’s not hearing in his ears, it is a different level; the degree of Bina that is called hearing and thus he becomes closer to the Creator and begins to understand, or to hear on that level on that channel called hearing the desire of the Creator towards Him. That is what happens, meaning he rose from the degree of Malchut to the degree of Bina.
29. S. (56:18) Most of the time we're talking to Pharaoh, how to correctly use Pharaoh to hear the voice of the King?
R. You should transform the Pharaoh to the Creator, that’s it. It all depends on who you want to have control over you, the will to receive or the will to bestow. If you want the group to be more in control over you than yourself this will be the rulership of the Creator; and if otherwise it will be the rulership of Pharaoh.
30. S. (57:011) It says a person will pay attention to the importance of the King. How can we make it so that the importance of the King will sting our heart?
R. Start advertising Him among you, start discussing Him between you, find such quotes that will mention the greatness of the Creator and “that one should help his friends” that you should all rise in the greatness of the Creator more and more and thereby you get closer to Him.
31. S. (57:57) According to these excerpts only a small minority come to the knowledge of speaking to the King and the heart is filled with pride, how do you overcome this pride since the pride rejects the King?
R. We first have to reach a state where we have connection, that we have pride and then we will deal with it. If you have reached it already then I recommend you, according to your ability right now to incorporate with your group; to incorporate with your group to the point that everyone is at the same level of connection with the Creator as yours.
32. S. (59:00) We learn that this spiritual path begins from the awakening of the point in the heart. On the other hand, in our world there are such professions: artists, musicians, actors who are seemingly more refined compared to other people. Do they have the initial advantage?
R. There is none, none, don't continue, there's nothing special about them besides the fact that they sometimes make us feel good. But no more than that. All of these musicians have no relationship to spirituality.
33. S. (01:00:03) What does my personal work end and our work in the ten begins?
R. When you connect with the ten your with the ten, and if not then you are in your personal work; as opposed to work with the ten is very very insignificant.
34. S. (01:00:33) How should we reveal the true reality within our ten in order to advance in our work? Will there be a shortcoming here? Because everytime we think we attained it then something breaks?
R. The fact that we achieve something and we see there's more to achieve that is good but we have to understand what we attain only through overcoming, in our connection between us.
35. S. (01:01:30) Does talking to the Creator means bestowal?
R. Yes, of course.
36. S. (01:01:47) To speak to the Creator is that an invitation for a personal interview in order to ask for connection and bestowal?
R. There are many aspects in this; you receive from Him, you speak of Him, you ask from Him, and so forth, there are many different facets here.
37. S. (01:02:30) In the work on the greatness of the friends: Is it something we have to do internally or try also external actions, doing actions on the friends and praising them before the other friends?
R. Correct, correct.
S. Will the greatness of the Creator be as much of the greatness of the friends at least?
R. The greatness of the Creator cannot be more than the greatness of their friends.
38. S. (01:03:07) Even before we speak to the King or believe in the King, there is a knowledge of the existence of the king and he says even that is given to a few people, and there are many religions and many methods that seemingly speak about the one force that controls reality, what is the difference between what the Rabash speaks here and millions in the world who believe that there is one ruler?
R. The difference is that we can make mutual contact, emotional contact, intellectual contact with Him and get closer to Him everyday and in a monitored manner.
Reading Item # 8 twice (01:04:04) “The life that a person wants to have contact with the Creator, whether in prayer, when he asks Him to give him something, or when he thanks the Creator for what He has given him, in the end, at that time he is speaking to the Creator. The connection of speaking to the Creator brings him life, if he appreciates the fact that he is conversing with the Creator and he extends life because at that time he lacks nothing. That is, if a person can pay attention and picture to himself that if he could speak to a flesh and blood King, which everyone reveres, it is inherent in nature that a person can give everything he has in order to speak with the King. That person, if he can strengthen his faith that he is speaking to the King of Kings, who does not speak with just anyone.”
39. S. (01:07:16) When the heart opens up and you manage to speak with the Creator it gives life, it is like water in the middle of the desert you are getting a glass of water then it ends and until the next time i speak to the Creator a long time passes, how can we do it so we will live in it and speak to the Creator constantly?
R. If you are in the states where you each time renew the connection with the Creator then you are always in contact with Him. The Creator does not stop anything. He's always working towards everyone and open towards everyone. It all depends on the person, how much the person starts this contact and then keeps this contact.
40. S. (01:08:24) During this monologue, not even, a dialogue, you always think that you are speaking with a Creator, are you truly in contact with Him? How to move aside these doubts, what to do with them?
R. Go deeper into connection this means that you are not fully drawn to connection with the Creator, increase the connection, amplify it and then you will see that you are in connection with Him; and you even hear back through this connection how He speaks to you. This is called “me for my beloved and my beloved for me”.
S. And it will happen through the ten or directly?
R. No, the connection will be direct. But building the connection, stabilizing yourself that is through the ten; after you have built connection with the ten towards the Creator then it's your personal connection.
S. The connection with the ten can be partial or has to be a complete connection with all the friends?
R. This we can't exactly say how you can measure if it is a partial or complete connection with the ten you can't measure that, just try as much as you can.
Reading Item # 9 twice (01:10:29) “The King’s glory is that everyone recognizes the importance of the King and everyone wants to serve Him with their hearts and souls. It is beautiful to see how they are all standing and praising the King, how He cares about the well-being of all the people in the country. This is the meaning of “It is forbidden to come into the King’s gate wearing sackcloth,” which is a dirty garment.
Rather, when coming into the King’s gate, one should be dressed with clothes that befit sitting at the King’s gate. Otherwise, when he is sitting wearing sackcloth, it is a sign that he is not happy with the King, but is rather sitting and mourning what he is missing in life and has no peace of mind. It follows that he sits and mourns, and he is in contempt of the King for the King not having mercy on him and not satisfying his wish.”
41. S. (01:13:18) What does she mean when he says that we have to have matching garments?
R. That when we will be close to the Creator, and how much we respect the King, accordingly, we should clothe. Meaning to show ourselves; to clothe ourselves in thoughts and our intentions to the extent that we respect the Creator.
S. This is the condition that we have to renew when he says to us that we have to speak to the Creator? What is the meaning of this condition that we have to see Him in all of reality and is that enough, or do we always need to renew our connection with Him?
R. Both, to renew the connection and to speak to Him. To achieve connection with the Creator you have to have equivalence of form to the extent that you appreciate Him you have to bring yourself forward. Meaning in restriction, screen and reflected light; with the desire to bestow, with devote your soul, that is how you come before the King.
42. S. (01:15:00) We want to serve the Creator but on the other hand the Creator seems like playing a game with us, why is He making those actions to us every moment?
R. In order to awaken us to play with Him; just as we do with little kids.
43. S. (01:15:31) Conversation with a Creator is something very moving, very emotional. We see that all the great sages Moses Abraham came to the King and received orders from there, we see that they did not ask for things from Him but specifically for Commandments and orders. How to hear them correctly and keep these orders?
R. Our whole work is to be incorporated with the group and through that, through that mutual incorporation, to get closer to the Creator and by that will hear from Him what we have to do.
44. S. (01:16:35) The last few excerpts talks about this connection this discussion with the Creator is like a private conversation but we always learned that the Creator does not see me privately on a personal level He only sees the ten. How can we get accustomed to this thought that I'm talking to the Creator that He's with me only when I'm in the ten I constantly want to separate when you talk about this personally and also some excerpts talks about that.
R. Even though you are incorporated it’s you that is incorporated in the ten and you’re speaking to the Creator from the ten, that's why you’re not erased but rather that you are talking with Him, you’re in contact with Him, but in order to connect to Him you need a way to communicate, the communicator, and that the group the ten.
45. S. (01:17:50) Pure clothings is where I’m happy from the opportunity that I have to speak with the king on my request is already something less important?
R. I cannot say both are important.
46. S. (01:18:22) Can we make a parallel between the Creator and the ten and what does it mean to be in a clothing that is unworthy in the ten?
R. The screen of the ten is not sufficient sufficiently clean adorned in order to be with the connection with the Creator, that's a concerned to be clothed in a sack, there is a clothing but it's not worthy, it’s not sufficient, it’s not right for the meeting between the two, and we here we don't see one more part of this sentence, look what he says, let’s start from the beginning, excerpt number nine, “The king’s glories that everyone recognizes the importance of the king and everyone wants to serve Him with their hearts and soul. It is beautiful to see how they are all standing and praising the king.”
Pay attention now, “how he cares about the well-being of all the people in the country.” When all of us start discovering how much the Creator is the good that does good for us and that this is the way, when we value Him this way this is the meaning of it is forbidden to come to the king’s gate wearing sackcloth which is a dirty garment, but rather he has to come clean completely only to bestow to all the people of his country.
“Rather when coming into the king's gate one should be dressed with clothes that befits sitting at the king’s gate because it is a gate for the king to enter Him, otherwise when he is sitting wearing sackcloth it is a sign that he's not happy with the king but is rather there sitting and morning what he’s missing in life.” He's concerned about himself and has no peace of mind meaning he's not calm because of himself and you cannot say that the king's gate this way because you enter the king's gate to join the king's concern about all the people of the country.
It follows “that he sits and mourns and he's in contempt of the king and the king,” for the king not having mercy on him and not satisfying his wish, meaning he's thinking about himself he's unworthy of entering the king's palace. He can sit at the king’s gate until he leaves it or maybe he comes again someday until he’s worthy of entering the king's gate, and the truth is he's not being checked in the king's gate, that are no examinations there, sometimes they write there are guards there but the truth is there are no guards in spirituality there are not guards. If you want to bestow, come, but no one wants.
47. S. (01:22:48) Can we talk to the Creator through dreams?
R. No
48. S. (01:22:02) This state in which I come with a clothing that is not suitable to stand before the king whining and I shall disregard, but together with that I make a decision that I'm not satisfied with myself. Why? Because I'm not connected enough to the friends, the goal is not important enough for me, for all kinds of reasons. It seems to me like there are things here that don’t work out how to bring them closer?
R. The main thing is to incorporate yourself with your friends, by that you correct all these questions, all these flaws, incorporate with them and together you can enter, the gate is open for a group, enter. Sitting by the gate that you can do alone, entering the gate is only if you are organized as a group.
49. S. (01:24:19) The screen of the ten is not pure enough refined enough in order to talk to the Creator. Is it my screen that is not clean enough?
R. You can’t have one without the other. You’re incorporated in the group, want it or not, you’re in a group if you’re dirty the whole group suffers.
S. I understood, so the screen of the ten is not clean enough? What does it mean it's not clean enough?
R. It is not entirely in order to bestow.
50. S. (01:25:12) In what way is my recognition expressed of the importance of the king to the ten for connection?
R. In the extent that you want to attach yourself to the ten.
51. S. (01:25:27) You said that we need to glorify the intention. The pure clothing comes from the intention to receive in order to receive, but how do we come to the adorning of the intention?
R. By wanting to bestow, each one to all the friends and from ove of others you reach the love of the Creator, out of that you start bestowing to the Creator. We want to bestow to the friends out of that we start feeling and understanding some how to locate how to bestow to the Creator.
S. So that means to integration, the more you integrate into the society?
R. Yes.
52. S. (01:26:16) Even if it’s really difficult when I feel shattered, I’m very far from spirituality, how should I do so that I can direct my friends to the Creator?
R. To the extent that you can you should add because each one in the group has to give everything he can in order to push the whole group to the Creator.
53. S. (01:27:07) The clothing is the glory and fear from the king or a state of joy when we are before the king?
R. The clothing is a wholeness that we attain according to our degree to be suitable for the Creator.
54. S. (01:27:54) How do we exactly discover that we are filled with the greatness of the Creator, that it’s not some delusion as far as the greatness of the Creator. How not to be mistaken and differentiate between what’s true and what’s not?
R. According to the greatness of the Creator we discover Him. If we’re truly with respect to the Creator in discovering the greatness of the Creator he will be revealed.
55. S. (01:28:36) How to learn to see the greatness of the friends without their actions in the work in the ten. Maybe it’s my corruption?
R. We need to nonetheless in advance respect the friends at least for two things, that they showed the desire to connect in order to come closer to the Creator, that the Creator chose them in order to bring them closer together to Him, so over all these things both by the friends and the Creator we respect them, all of them, that's one thing. The other is that along with that we need to always increase the connection between us so that reaching a connection, an intensity of connection, in which we discover the Creator.
56. S. (01:29:50) How to attain the greatness of the friends that are still in a feeling about attaining the greatest of the Creator?
R. No, if we want to first attain the greatness of the Creator and then the greatness of the friends that's not the right way, it’s a sign that we’re lying to ourselves, we’re lying to ourselves, this is incorrect, it can’t be. It’s not the Creator we’re trying to attain, it’s our greatness we’re trying to attain, but rather the greatness of the Creator you can only attain it in the greatness of the ten, you can’t have any in any other way, if we’re talking about spirituality only this way.
First we discover the greatness of the ten, the greatness of the friends, and then within them to the extent that we respect the friends we come to the greatness of the Creator. You can’t have the greatness of the Creator more than the greatness of the group, you just have to understand and write this down before you “ you cannot have in this world, you will never have a bigger revelation of light than a revelation of the vessel in which the light is revealed, that’s in the language of Kabbalah, or in the language of our work you cannot have more greatness of the Creator than the recognition of the greatness of the ten.
57. S. (01:31:38) How can I assure that I'm bestowing upon the friends in the ten?
R. Bestow with all your strength as much as you can, you don't have to measure it or have a boundary, how can I? With all my force.
58. S. (01:32:01) Do we need to depict to ourselves that in all states in all the scrutinies and prayers we are actually talking with the king and he's guiding us even though the ego is involved in it?
R. Yes, ultimately we should say that the Creator accompanies us, aim us, organizes us, but still it doesn't take off the responsibility and the effort from us.
59. S. (01:32:32) When it comes to the king’s gate does it mean that that is the group for us?
R. The king’s gate is our ten when it may develop and discover the Creator within it to us.
60. S. (01:32:57) Is the request for the Creator to not being dissatisfied with Him?
R. Yes, if we’re asking we’re seemingly saying that the Creator is not okay by that but when we have some deficiency in His world the Creator but here it’s because we have to overcome our evil that's why our request is legal, it’s a right request.
61. S. (01:34:01) What inversion do I have to do in order to not disregard and disparage the king?
R. In order not to give contempt to the king and in order to ask correctly we should only …… anyone and we won't be mistaken in our request.
62. S. (01:34:32) What is the difference between knowing the difference of the Creator or in faith of the greatness of the Creator?
R. Faith of the greatness of the Creator is a force of bestowal we can activate, we can activate with the respect to Him, and recognition of the greatness of the Creator is something we get as a result, it’s like performing a restriction, screen, and reflected light, and then to receive within the reflected light the direct light and to perform a Zivug de Hakaa with Him so He can enter and clothe in the reflected light, that’s the clothing of the Creator and the created being already when the Creator fills us.
63. S. (01:35:32) In what is the Creator great?
R. In what is the Creator great? In the fact that there's nothing else besides Him and everything only exists in Him.
64. S. (01:35:46) You said at the beginning of the lesson that if I will truly disclose my heart to them I will feel together with them how much I can include them in my heart and yesterday we learned about the principle of being silent and not disclosing what is in my heart, so what does it mean to disclose my heart?
R. To disclose my heart to the Creator. I need to activate myself in a prayer and I simply discover myself in a way, how should I say it? In the most sincere, in the most real way. I have no one else to show myself to except for the Creator, all the friends, my teachers, no, only the Creator. Thank you women for these nice questions and I wish you again a happy new year, a good feeling, health in your families and to feel contentment from all of your family and mainly from you children.
65. S. (01:37:22) How can we get to know in the ten that a friend is in a state that we just read about in the excerpt, in a state of dust and what was said in the excerpt?
R. In our work we sometimes enter such states where we have lowliness, we don't have strength, we don't have hope, all kinds of things. We have to go through all these things because from the feeling of the different types of darkness accordingly we discover all different forms of light.
S. How can we help a friend in such a state? What action do we need to do in the ten to help a friend in such a state?
R. Just give an example, set an example and also don't talk about it. Sometimes, only if the situation is critical but usually just set a quiet example and sometimes you can read some excerpts that are suitable, it depends what state a friend is in. If he's deep in his problem then we really need to choose certain excerpts and talk about them. We shouldn't tell him that it is about him because then he is in a subtle situation where he may be hurt.
S. So what can I correct in me?
R. What can a friend correct in you? We are all Incorporated one in the other even though we are not aware of that but each one has a part of the whole ten, in each and everyone to such an extent, that soon we will discover that everyone, even though each one is the middle point, a central point but everything he feels and thinks comes from the ten to him and all these thoughts and emotions that come to him from the ten, he respects them, he accepts them, he connects them and all on all this is what he feels and this is what seems to him to be him because a person is a result of the environment and so to the extent that we want to be incorporated in the environment with our intention, with our effort by that we are more incorporated the ten but in addition with the force of the thought and as a result of that we come to the connection of the Partzuf, when both our emotion and our mind are connected and we become truly one Partzuf.
Even though every time we also separate and we connect again and again we are separated and we connect again, from all these actions, being far away, connecting, disconnecting and being in adhesion, from all these actions we are basically correcting the entire creation and then it turns out that our whole work in ascents from 1 degree to the next is exactly disconnection and connection, disconnection and connection and everything upon the degree of the ego that is revealed between us when we want to kill each other and this is how we advance. I hope that soon we are going to practically come to that, not killing each other but connecting in a way that you feel disconnection and connection are truly opposites and by that we will also feel how much we are correcting our world and to the extent that we work this way, distance, connection, distance, connection that we will perform actions that our world will start to be corrected.
We will be the internal part that is in doing these actions, disconnections and connections, disconnection and connection and then the world will get these influences and it will become more and more connected. These disconnections are something that we will feel more because we are worthy of it, we have the knowledge, we have the intellect, we have the connection, we can actually feel the forces of the separation between us and along with that we connect like the students of Rabbi Shimon. That's our work in our generation, we will come close to that, we will learn it and we will carry it out. That is what the Creator ultimately expects from us in the meantime. Later there are other degrees.
66. S. (01:44:53) The greatness of the Creator cannot be greater than the greatness of the ten. You are repeating this and we are trying to internalize this process. I understand that it's difficult to grasp the greatness of these words but my question is like this: if the system is the Creator and we, the ten, are ten qualities that connect in order to attain the system, my question is from where does this upper wisdom come into the ten that can be greater and create a greater system than the Creator?
R. Than the Creator? I didn’t understand that, that's something that I don't understand. Everything comes from the Creator, everything comes from the Creator Mr. and there's nothing to ask here. The Creator organizes everything, he's above everything and he is governing us and everything we should go through, what we understand, what is not yet revealed to us, everything comes from Him and there's no one else besides Him.
S. That's understood, my question is for us to build something that rises above the importance of the Creator…
R. On the greatness of the Creator? That I don’t understand.
S. You mentioned that there cannot be a situation in the ten where the ten is less great than the Creator.
R. No, that is incorrect, that's incorrect, incorrect, don't jump. What I said is that you cannot have a greater recognition of the Creator than you have for the ten. Hear it again, this lesson again and repeat it and you will see.
67. S. (01:47:02) You said that we add to our connection though and that this thought kind of builds in our connection the Partzuf, what thought do we need to add?
R. For our connection we have to be concerned about the intention all the time, that we build the vessel that will be suitable in each and every state to the upper force, universally, it is eternal, it is whole and it bestows to everyone. So if we come to a certain connection between us and we want to resemble the Creator between us there must be, to a certain extent, such a connection that we are in adhesion between us, a complete adhesion between us, whole.
Always imagine to yourself that we are already performing a certain part of that as a foundation of the general vessel more and more and more and this is how we will advance to build the soul, the true soul, the soul of Adam HaRishon. That's all before us, we will talk more and more because also the world is going around with that as Baal HaSulam says and we will see how much our steps and the steps that the world takes will be more adapted to each other and get close.
68. S. (01:49:32) So far we learned that the importance of the Creator, the greatness of the Creator is fuel for the created being. The question is whether the Creator also needs fuel for his work and if so what is the fuel of the Creator?
R. The fuel of the Creator is our MAN. To begin with He needs nothing from us because He has a desire to do good, to bestow, to love, that is His nature but in order to open the restriction that He performed on himself for us, to give us independence, to cultivate us and to grow us in an independent way we have to awaken Him by raissing MAN, by praying. What you are asking is if the Creator is all good and he wants to give then what did he do? He performed a restriction that grew us further away from Him He shut us from him, what's going on here?
That is because He wants us to discover deficiency to Him because without the deficiency for Him we won't feel correctly what we receive from Him. I need to ask, it is like what goes on with children, you know, that we give them a toy and if he is fed up with this toy, he throws it away so we take it and we set it aside so he won't see it and after a while, a few weeks later if you bring it out he sees it again as a new toy, that's a deficiency, that's what is important and that is we need to understand is that what we are lacking is a deficiency and this is what the Creator wants us to prepare for Him and we don't have this deficiency to receive from Him, we don’t have it. He awakens a deficiency over only one point, the point in the heart, all the rest of the deficiencies are only from the environment.
That is why we have the articles about the importance of the environment and in general the whole wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about how we establish the right, big deficiency and aimed at the Creator. So, pay attention to that and when you have an opportunity, have a workshop, maybe more than one: how do we establish our deficiency to the Creator specifically? You can do it in any state, in the middle of the day, in general or a confused state, no matter what. This question, how do we establish ourselves, how do we organize ourselves to be with the right deficiency to the Creator that is a question for every moment, that is the right question.
69. S. (01:53:26) You say that each of us is nourished from the thought of the ten, so what can we add to that, do we need to annul before that thought, how to deal with it? If it is a good thought or a less good thought?
R. My whole thought, if I'm incorporated in it, in the society and I examine it and I make an effort to go deeper into the society because the society can show itself to me just as any group so to the extent that we go into that and scrutinize our questions in a more correct way, then we can raise them to the Creator.