Morning Lesson November 08, 2021, Transcription

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Baal HaSulam - Shamati 53. The Matter of Limitation

1. Rav’s Introduction: The matter of limitation is to limit the state one is in and not want Gadlut, greatness, meaning a person who is in a certain state whatever it is. He needs to reach a decision that he doesn't want anything more than what he has. What the Creator is giving him now he settles for it and he doesn't even feel like he is settling. It is rather completely sufficient and he is willing to remain in that for eternity. Look at the correction of the vessels that we undergo. Instead, one wants to remain in one's present state forever, and this is called eternal adhesion. That he doesn't want anything besides that, nothing more and nothing less, nothing else. Whatever he's getting from the Creator and he's certain he's getting it from the Creator, none else besides Him, so he's willing to remain in that he wants to remain in that and that nothing else will change. The Creator changes something, then he will take on the change, and this is called eternal adhesion. Regardless of the measure of greatness that one has, it doesn't matter at all. Like he says, even if he has the smallest Katnut if it shines forever, meaning a person is willing to remain in that forever it is considered having been imparted eternal adhesion. Look at how easily and quickly we can touch adhesion. That what the Creator gives you, you want to accept it wholeheartedly and not want to change anything and just flow with what the Creator is giving you. However, one who wants more greatness, it is considered luxury. Even if one is in the smallest state, if it shines forever meaning if he doesn't want to change it, he agrees to stay with that forever, that means he has been imparted eternal adhesion however one who wants more greatness it is called luxury. From here we can also understand what restriction means. What is a constant state, how we come out of it to more adhesion and more adhesion. Meaning if the Creator now in the present state gives us less not more less and we settle for that as well and say we don't want anything more and we truly don't, we just want to have some contact with the Creator. Not for me to have contact with the Creator but in order to bring more contentment to the Creator. The less He gives me and the more I am happy about it, as long as I'm doing what's good for Him, that puts me in more adhesion and that's how we come closer to restriction. To the point that in the present state I am going to receive nothing and be happy and live above the restriction. This is the meaning of, any sorrow will be surplus, meaning that sadness comes to a person because he wants luxuries. This is what it means that to the extent that we long for luxuries, meaning more than we receive. That brings us sorrow, so check yourselves if you feel your state as lowly and low spirited, that's an indication that you're looking for getting more. From here we need to understand what it means that the righteous is always happy is in eternal bliss. How can we be in that state of perpetual joy that we simply don't want any more than what we receive from the Creator, just to cling to what he gives us whatever he is giving us we adhere to It whatever it is. Bigger things, smaller things doesn't matter what direction He changes us, we restrict our will to receive our criticism and we want to adhere to Him and thus we achieve eternal adhesion. Again, this is the meaning of any sorrow will be surplus meaning that sadness comes to a person because he wants luxuries. It's not just sadness, he is in a terrible mood, he is angry and cranky and we need to understand the friends who are in such states. I was in that for quite a while as well and I can understand them and just wait, help, set an example for them. How during those states were the ego demands and erupts from within you and you can't do anything about it yet, just to pray for some force to come from above, some small illumination from above that will give you the ability to settle for what you have. Not think that it is smallness to settle for what you have that you will remain like you are and not attain anything, no the attainment and comprehension comes from nullifying the ego. And then rising to a different level where we have attainment and understanding and spirituality in eternity. This is what it says, any sorrow will be surplus meaning that sadness comes to a person because he wants luxuries. This is what it means that when Israel came to receive the Torah, Moses led them to the bottom of the mountain as it's written, and they stood at the bottom of the mountain. Mountain means, thoughts, Moses led them to the end of the thought and the understanding and the reason the lowest degree there is. Meaning complete and total final lowliness and only then, when they agree to such a state, what does it mean to agree? To walk in it all the time without any wavering or motion meaning without ever wanting anything more. And remain in that state as if they had the greatest Gadlut and to be happy about it as if they received an entire world. This is the meaning of serve the Lord with gladness. Since during the greatness it cannot be said that he gives them work to be in gladness because during the Gadlut greatness, gladness comes by itself. Because the will to receive is glad, instead the work of gladness is given to them for the time of Katnut smallness, so then during the Katnut smallness they will have joy during the time of the Katnut smallness although they feel Katnut smallness and this is a lot of work. This is called the main part of the degree, the main content of the degree, the power of the degree, the essence of the degree to the extent that in a state of Katnut smallness one does not want to be more and to be as though he has the greatest Gadlut greatness. And that is throughout all of our degrees from here to Ein Sof by this we restrict ourselves more and more and more, the greater the will to receive the more it demands and we rise above it with the restriction and thus we attain all the degrees from here throughout all of the world's 125 degrees until the Malchut of Ein Sof where we reach a state where everything the Creator wanted to give, we restrict and we are happy and not wanting anything for ourselves. Then there's work where we can even go beyond that, that's just Katnut smallness, beyond that we can reach Gadlut greatness where we start working in order to bestow. Receiving all these pleasures but in order to bestow that however is great and very different kind of work. With the restriction, screen. Ohr Hozer surrounding light, coupling by striking and receiving in order to bestow. Here we are still talking about the state of restriction attaining the degree of Bina. What he is saying and this is called the main part of the degree, the main content of the degree, which is discerned as Katnut smallness, this discernment must be permanent and the Gadlut greatness is only an addition. Also, one should yearn for the main part and not for the additions.

2. S. (13:08) How do we limit the desire?

R. Restricting and limiting the desire, we don't need to restrict the desire. Also, you can't restrict the desire. You just have to always think that if you want to be close to the Creator, you have to be in the state where you settle for what you are getting, for what He gives you. You justify the Creator, Tzadik righteous meaning one who justifies the Creator. What I receive it all comes from the Creator and if I'm happy about my state right now, I'm already in adhesion with the Creator. It doesn't matter if it is a big or small adhesion. But I have to achieve eternal adhesion, that's the main thing. Meaning the adhesion is changing, but in each and every state that's changing, even each and every moment, I am justifying the Creator. I only want to be in adhesion with Him, only to bring Him contentment and nothing else. Then I forget about myself. Instead of thinking about myself I think about Him. When I start thinking about Him, I begin to think about how I bring contentment to Him, and then I remember, I feel, I think that this can be done through the group, the 10. Then I begin to relate this way to the 10 and through them to reach the Creator to get closer to the Creator. Thus, I already practically enter the spiritual work and that's what is now facing us. We all have to long for passing through these states, we have to shake things up and hasten these states.

3. S. (15:40) From the article I see that if a person can constantly think of the friends to turn to the Creator for them, and from this he is in gladness it means he is already in adhesion?

R. Right, of course yes if a person doesn't demand anything from the state he is in because he received it from the Creator and he develops satisfaction in that state, so he doesn't want more, more already means luxuries. And the main thing for him each time in the present state, is to develop a positive attitude to where he is at, through the group and through our whole environment organization in general through the whole world. In this way he amplifies his vessels and the Creator begins to change different conditions in that vessel for him.

4. S. (16:59) We are in a situation but we have to shake up the situation, is this not wanting Gadlut, greatness, adulthood? There's a contradiction, you said we are already in a situation but you're saying that shake it up, let's move it, it seems like we're demanding to be in Gadlut, greatness?

R. No, in each and every state I receive from the Creator I want to be happy about that state, not to want any luxury, luxury meaning to receive more from the Creator. I don't want that. I want to stay in my present state even where I have nothing, no attainment, no feeling, no nothing. But I am willing to remain in that state because I am receiving it from the Creator. Then in the same state that I am in, I begin to feel the giver, the giver of that state, the Creator. That He actually gives it to me and if I agree with everything, He is doing to me, then I am already in adhesion with Him at least as an embryo. An embryo so what, so I'm in the Creator. I feel that he governs me from one end to the other, and that's how we grow, that's the first degree, all the rest of the degrees are with our more active participation. We'll talk about that later on.

5. S. (18:46) When a person receives pleasure from his investment in the 10 is that state greatness or smallness or is it in order to receive, how did you distinguish between?

R. It could be in all directions. A person could invest in the 10 and enjoy that and that could be in order to bestow contentment to the Creator. Or he might enjoy it because investing in the group he might want to get something egoistic. The data you have here is insufficient. Before we begin the spiritual action, we have to reach delighted in Mercy, restriction, screen, reflected light, are the degree of Bina and only then begin to receive an order to bestow, we're going to learn that later on.

S. In greatness it's clear that we are getting joy but what's the joy in Katnut?

R. From being adhered to the Creator that's the joy that specifically when I am bonded with the Creator as an embryo I am inside the Creator. I just have to nullify myself and that is sufficient for me to be in adhesion so I don't demand anything beyond that no luxury nothing else what I received that's called an embryo. What I receive, that is sufficient for me and I am happy for that. This is an indication, this joyfulness that I am bonded with the upper one, I justify him, I don't want anything more just to belong to him, this is the state of spiritual conception. In the physical conception we receive that by Nature itself.

S. How do we relate to the feeling of yearning? Let's say if there's going to be a Congress and I'm already yearning for that Congress to be there to be connected with the friends. Is this also related to what's written in the article or not?

R. No, here we are talking about adhesion with the Creator. If you can also add to that the 10 that's good but even if you can't yet join the 10 to that, even just by making this calculation between you and him and you calculate that whatever you get is from the Creator whatever happens, and I want to justify that state then you are called a righteous if you truly ask and receive that strength not to demand anything more than what you are getting right now.

6. S. (22:20) In Katnut or desiring in mercy is it because he overcomes or he doesn't want more in order to bring contentment to the Creator?

R. Of course it's in order to bring contentment to the Creator and it's possible that he doesn't want more. That he received such an illumination that helps him to not want anything more and perhaps he already has complaints and some awakening of his egoistic desire but he is asking for corrections.

S. It's a state of comfort, is it comfortable to be desiring in mercy?

R. Ultimately, it's the most convenient because you feel you're inside the Creator, yes

S. So when does it begin to move until the Creator puts in him and you desire a bigger?

R. Yes, when a bigger desire comes, contemplations begin and then one has to work and move himself, to not want, not demand, despite that change not demand anything for himself only to cling to the Creator to agree what he has but with mind and heart. To the point that he doesn't want it to change. All these vessels are given to us and we need to, we can work with him, we could be in a criticism.

7. S. (24:21) It's written in the text, what can we interpret from the text when it says that Moses reached the lowest state?

R. It doesn't matter to me in what state I am in, the lowest state or the highest state, first I have to bring myself to a state where I am in adhesion with the Creator. What is that? That everything that happens to me comes from the Creator and I am clinging to him. Like an embryo in its mother's womb. I cling to him, I completely nullify myself right. We all saw this picture of how the embryo is inside the womb. So that is how we should feel. That firstly I am in that state within the Creator and that I want nothing more. Otherwise, it will be a breakage it will be an abortion. I have to reach a state where I'm nullified before the upper one. Then I can enter the womb, enter the upper one and begin to evolve there as an embryo.

This is what is facing us now, all of us and we have to help each other and consult each other on how to do it, show examples, discuss. But our whole state right now is we don't want anything besides, in the state we are in we just want to justify the upper and it doesn't matter what state I'm in. Whatever the healthcare situation, your economic situation, rich or poor or whatever it is it doesn't matter, within me I have to find connection with the Creator. Within me regardless of what happens outside of me I have to be in adhesion with him, connect with him and justify him and accept this for eternity. On my part it can stay the way it is. By this I nullify my egoistic desire. I'm willing to adhere to the Creator eternally which is already a spiritual form. I am thankful to him for that. I pass the state through the 10, I organize them and I push all of us to be part of that, and as much as we have people in the 10 between 5 and 10 people, if we can work this way within a short time, we begin to feel that we are inside the Creator. Inside the upper one then we already receive a new kind of relationship from him. He will start growing us and give us spiritual changes. As we respond to them, we will begin to grow and this is called “me for my beloved and my beloved is for me.” In this reciprocal way we begin to grow within the Creator.

8. S. (28:48) I'd like to make a precision, in a state where you feel that the 10 can go up to Jerusalem but the friends have all kinds of urgent business, in that state should we also be thankful to the Creator?

R. We need to receive the attitude from the Creator as perfect. That he perfectly, infinitely is exactly suitable for our state and the Creator takes into account each and every one and everyone together because it is the upper light that is in constant and complete rest and relates to each and every detail. Not to each and every person but to each and every piece of data within the person. Internally, biologically, psychologically, spiritually, whatever it is. Including family, relationships, work relationships, whatever it is. Because the upper light that designs this state does it to the very last detail in utter accuracy and we just have to respond on our part. Our spirituality has to be in satisfaction and adhesion with the friends and the Creator or at least if we can't arrange it with the friends yet, in a complete manner, then with the Creator and after that you'll feel that you have to add the friends to it. In order to have such power and intensity in your response to the Creator.

9. S. (30:56) Being content with little when the Creator gives or takes from you but when he gives you some pleasure, some opportunities and confuses you, how do you make a restriction in that state?

R. What the Creator gives you is the most correct state so that you will only want to be in a state of restriction. Meaning not to want more but only want adhesion that's it. From adhesion we begin to move in spirituality and it's in a different way than what you think about right now, that I feel more and get more and receive more. No, it's not on the same axis. Our entire work is to be adhered to the state we are in and not demand anything more. That is called justifying the Creator for what he is doing. So first be righteous and then you'll see the next degrees and in such a direction you haven't thought about.

10. S. (32:25) Who is this Moses who leads us to the bottom of the mountain? Is it a force within me or an external force?

R. Well, Moses is a force that exists within us. The name Moshe implies its work, it's pulling a person from corporeality to spirituality that's why it's called Moshe ad it's a force that is comprised of both the will to receive and the will to bestow. As we read about it in the Torah, that after he was born, he was sent to the Nile and then Batia the daughter of Pharaoh educated him and brought him up, meaning Moses is composed of both states of reception and bestowal. Katnut and Gadlut and all the various forms meaning it is a complete vessel and a big vessel and therefore he can understand and attract us, pull us out of all of the states towards the Creator.

11. S. (34:20) It is written in the article that during the Gadlut the joy comes by itself but I heard from you that the will to receive is happy about it?

R. No, even in the state of Holiness, Gadlut, the light of Hochma that spreads in the vessel brings joy the vessel is filled. That's why in adulthood we don't need to work on the joy, whereas in Katnut our work is to come to a state where we don't demand anything yet. We are in gladness because we justify the Creator, we agree with the Creator, I spoke to you a few days ago about how we need to change our direction not for myself but for the Creator and to constantly try to be that way towards him towards him right and that's our work. If we go for it then we will soon succeed.

12. S. (35:49) Looks like the state of Katnut contradicts the ability to raise a prayer, because if you settle for everything you got how can you raise up a prayer?

R. That's true the little one can't really ask if he's satisfied with what it has and it's happy with what it has but a little one is also concerned about the future. He wants to be satisfied, to be desired in Mercy and a grown up, just like we care for the children, we raise them, we rear them, we buy them toys, we feed them, with all kinds of foods, we do all kinds of exercises on them so they will grow. Leave it to the Creator he knows how to rear us. The main thing for us, especially now, is to be in satisfaction. Whatever I'm getting, whatever the Creator is doing is for the best in every single state, I want only to send him my gratitude. To relate to him well to justify him.

13. S. (37:16) I heard that we also need to be in criticism in the 10, like half an hour a day or something?

R. It's still not for us because we are not 23 and 1/2 hours a day in adhesion.

S. So what do you do in states where there are friends who constantly create disputes to the point that the friends are even leaving a meeting?

R. You need to give them an example and speak among them who agree that you want to be connected. Because in the connection between you, only in the connection between you, can you discover the Creator and you're in a group in order to discover him and we cannot change nature's laws which the Creator gave us. We have no choice but to bow our heads and do what is written. Because these are laws, we can't do anything with them. You cannot jump above them. So, if you don't want to, let them leave, but we have no choice. We are smarter, we understand that if it's a law of nature that I have to become integrated into it. Just like we have natural laws in our world in our situation and we only learn how to use them correctly in order to gain and not lose. The same goes for spirituality. We have an opportunity to use the supernatural forces, higher than nature. So, we can use them in order to succeed as well and to gain and not lose and it's only through connection between us. So out of the connection between us we want to bring contentment to the Creator and in this way, we receive from him the powers to grow until we become like him. Like him, you understand, this is what is ahead of us. It's a waste if we lose it.

S. During the greatness you said the light spreads in the vessel how can we receive this Gadlut in minimum time?

R. Only through annulment.

S. Self annulment towards the friends?

R. Annulment before the friends, and annulment with everyone with the friends before the Creator by this you allow him to take care of you.

14. S. (40:20) It's understood how to do individual work here but how to do it in the ten you said you'll feel the limitation in the 10, I don't understand what to do with the 10?

R. You talk about how you want to annul before the Creator. Our first work is annulment or call it restriction. When we don't want anything besides in a state where we are receiving and we are certainly receiving it from the Creator. In that state we want only one thing, to receive what we are receiving from the Creator openly. To talk about it, and open ourselves up and enjoy this situation of receiving from him because it certainly came from him and there's no one who is cruel in the King's house but only the Creator controls everything and be in this way that's it. This is called being on the way towards restriction. Afterwards we'll see what the Creator does with us. How he arranges us, our first work is to restrict ourselves and the Creator in that same area, in that same desire. Where we canceled our will to receive, there he begins to fill us with himself and in this way time after time we restrict our will to receive and to that extent, we enter spirituality. We enter the zone of the Creator. Afterwards we'll learn how to do it practically. Until we cross the barrier until we are born and grow. All those periods are ahead of us

S. But this is personal work, how do we do it together, how do we help each other?

R. To nullify just as in this world you're in connection with the friends and you want to do some work together spiritual, physical, it doesn't matter, like do the same here, the most important is to strengthen one another and together pray to the Creator. From your prayer to the Creator, you will see how much power, how many, how much power are you getting and in what state he descends to you. What are the states that you are going through.

S. We need to?

R. It's not for now. In the meantime, accept what we are saying. I'm not going to detail all the work in the group for you now, try to see what you can do, you will not go wrong. It's very good that you're yearning for it and asking but you already have everything in your hands. I can't, I don't have time to detail all those things and also each group has its own different states, I'm speaking generally.

15. S. (44:07) When I pray for the friends, can I ask them to receive the greatness and that keeps me in adhesion with the Creator?

R. Yes, yes, we even say less than that. That we, all of us now in the group, each one and afterwards everyone together in the group, we want to be in a state where whatever we receive, we are happy. We don't want more, we are following this article, yes, about the limitation, what is the limitation, we are limiting ourselves and don't want anything other than in the current state to be connected among us and think about connection with the Creator as much as possible. Even if we don't feel that we are connected to the Creator but we want to be in this and settle for it, that's the meaning of limitation with that afterwards becomes restriction and all of spirituality is above the restriction afterwards we'll talk about it.

16. S. (45:39) Is it possible that we will notice that we are revealing the Creator through the friends, what will be the indication?

R. The truth is as we are now learning, the limitation is the first degree. Afterwards, comes connection and love. It's because we are egoists and we have to create some certain restrictions or you can, you might call it some zone or state, where we don't go with our ego. In that area where we build that is neutralized from our ego that our ego is cancelled there we come to love. Therefore, in each and every Partzuf we always say that there is a restriction then a screen then the reflected light and then the coupling by striking the connection. In the connection, in the connection we already do the calculation.

17. S. (47:55) What to do once you're able to relate a state to the Creator but not to agree with it being the best possible state?

R. We have to work on it every moment in life. I have to be satisfied with what I have because first of all it is called righteous if you justify the Creator and beyond it, we are building degrees of bestowing to the extent that we can bestow we begin to attain the Creator, spirituality, eternity. It can all happen only on condition that we don't want anything for ourselves otherwise it is not considered eternity and it is not spirituality.

S. Is it possible to say that as long as we don't reach that state where we agree with everything then there is nothing to ask of the Creator not for a correction or more connections as long as we agree with what we have?

R. Yes that's true, first of all we have to be satisfied as he writes that I want to remain even in the state that I'm in, I want to remain in that forever. That's the first condition, it's not the end of the way but it's the first condition but it's about me, I for me demand nothing other than to exist. In what way do I exist? Like a drop of sperm in the womb that there's nothing there but a record, a Reshimot. In this way I agree to exist, everything else is outside of me. The more I come out of this which I restricted all the way and the more that I open it now and I want the friends to bestow upon the Creator this is called the development of the embryo out of the drop of sperm.

18. S. (50:26) The feeling is that if I limit the will to receive, I limit my own existence?

R. So what?

S. I don't know, I just don't.

R. I want you to finally start asking to the point and not to just convey your feelings

S. No translation.

R. Sit and study, you only want to ask, you think that you learned by this. You'll learn by learning to think that's it. In this way you won't advance

19. S. (51:27) When a person nullifies and makes actions in the 10 to bring contentment and achieve the smallest adhesion then the will to receive comes and robs him of his actions, how to deal with and get rid of that lust?

R. You don't get rid of it, you pull out the theft from it and add it to yourself, to yourself means your own spirituality, it's actually very nice, very good. But I'm not sure that this happened so quickly. For now, we won't feel that the will to receive wants to steal it from us. These are already special actions of Pharaoh. Wait soon then we'll talk about it.

20. S. (52:23) How to not fall to egoistic thoughts and be in adhesion with the Creator?

R. Keep directing yourselves to who I want to bestow to. Where do I want to reach, who do I want to turn to, so first of all it's to the Creator there's none else besides him, you have nothing else to turn to. So, if you want to advance your next moment in life correctly you have to be constantly directed towards him and with all kinds of disturbances come, wait they don't come right away, so when they come then together with them you just try to still maintain that same direction that way, you'll grow stronger you'll pray more you'll feel that you need the group to strengthen you and position you correctly. Then when you discover that you have to move towards the Creator, say in a boat in a stormy sea, all kinds of disturbances will come to strengthen you, the connection between you, you'll have mutual responsibility between you. That's how we will advance.

21. S. (53:55) It sounds like there's something very rewarding here for the ego here. If I don't have fulfillment in the present state and if I agree with the present state that could be potential for fulfillment so I would ask, how can you make sure that you do this work in a really clean way and not just because you can't get satisfied in the present state?

R. Beautiful question and truly this state is between the will to receive and some intention to bestow, that's why you're asking correctly. Advance in this and you will find an answer.

22. S. (54:40) Says that sadness comes to a person when he longs for luxuries, what are luxuries really?

R. When he asks for more than he has.

S. But I feel if I don't cling to the friends enough, I get sad and I feel bad, is that luxuries?

R. No, with respect to connection with the friends there are no boundaries on that. Beside adhesion with the friends and adhesion with the Creator there's everything else is luxuries.

S. Only to engage in connection with the friends, everything else I do is called luxuries?

R. It's not like you have to throw it all away but on top of everything you receive you have to determine your relation to the current state, that more than that you're not demanding, it's enough for you to achieve adhesion with the Creator through the group. Try and see if you see that you need something more then you will start praying. How are you praying? By realizing that you needed a few more forces, conditions, information to be in greater adhesion. By this you will develop MAN. MAN means I'm asking for this this and that because I need them in order to achieve greater adhesion, the next degree.

23. S. (56:25) It says here in Katnut, there's a work of discovering joyfulness when you don't have it naturally, what is that work?

R. If you have no joy in the state that you're in, it is a sign you're not in spirituality but on the contrary you are turning to this world, to physicality. A sign of being in the right direction even if not in spirituality yet but in the right direction is that you are glad and happy you are doing everything that is that you're told to do, and not demanding anything in return for it, only one thing to have a thought about bringing contentment to the Creator wherever you are.

S. Joyfulness is an indicator?

R. Joy is a result of good deeds, yes.

24. S. (57:37) Can we use an example with the world of Katnut of Nekudim where the upper use vessels for bestowal and that lower one can feel the upper one and that feeling of the upper one is that state that we can stay in eternity?

R. That's a little more advanced from where we are but basically the direction of your thought is correct.

25. S. (58:14) Is it correct in this state of progress that we work with the prayer to typically be in a prayer?

R. Yes, this is already good, excellent, keep going this way.

26. S. (58:36) When Moses led them to the end of the thought, what was that state?

R. That they checked and saw that they don't want anything other than to be adhered and no luxuries whatsoever other than to be adhered to the Creator, to remain an embryo even as the smallest dot. Beyond that I am not asking, I'm not demanding, why? What I want to stay behind, no. Because all the other degrees are from the upper one. The upper one, develops me and I just have to annul myself and by this I am allowing the Creator to nurture me, to raise me correctly. To tend to me and then the embryo doesn't interfere with the work of the upper one on it but only be in the upper. Whatever the Creator does it's for the best and the sign of the good progress, correct progress is joy, gladness. That's what we need to work on. Not to get into we and be sad, this is called the fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh. Not vex the ego and work with it but rather try to change direction. Not for me but for the Creator and that's it. Forcefully try to think in this way and you'll see that is possible. Otherwise, we will remain as beast on the level as beast.

27. S. (01:00:50) Justifying the Creator is also justifying the Sitra Achra?

R. Justifying the Creator justifying the other side, I don't understand.

S. Justified in the Creator means to justify the other side, is the same thing?

R. No, just because from the Creator we get the forces and the spiritual elevation, faith above reason but from the other side we get disturbances, so on top of disturbances as we advance to the Creator. It is called help made against him, it's opposite from the Creator as if holding us away from the Creator. Disrupting us from connecting to the Creator but we develop powers to grow closer that's why it's called a help made against them. In this way we advance and truly come into mutual work. Between us and the Creator. You'll see it will soon happen to many people and also to many women.

28. S. (01:02:09) In our world a person develops when he wants greatness, why is it opposite in spirituality?

R. Because in this world we already exist, we exist as animals, small animals. When we grow up, we raise the human in us beyond the animal in our minds and hearts in the way we communicate with one another. But it's not spirituality, in spirituality we are operated and we operate completely different forces. Not those of this world forces of bestowing, forces of love, forces of connection which are all those forces are above our egos. This is why this is what we're looking for. How to rise above the force is the disturbing forces, egoistic forces and connect in a manner of connection between us. We don't need our own intellect for this, all we need for this is help from above. and the less intellect we have the better. Meaning, we need to worry about having the right feeling. Afterwards we should help this feeling with a little bit of intellect so we can direct our feelings more correctly and only according to the recommendations of the Kabbalists and we learn in the lesson every day what we need to add in order to advance correctly quickly and not go wrong.

29. S. (01:04:17) How is it possible to justify and be happy in a state where you internally feel the despair and emptiness and crisis with regards to the ten and everything else?

R. This feeling can happen in a person, it can control a person for many years. Baal HaSulam writes that it may even take ten or twenty or even thirty years. Although in our times it's a lot quicker but still it can stay in people for years until they eventually receive the understanding and the feeling from a higher degree through an illumination from above which builds in us some impression, some feeling, some relation to the degree above us. Then we are willing to bow our heads and let go of ourselves and think mainly about the Creator. This is what I started talking about approximately two weeks ago, maybe even a week ago. That we have to change the direction of our thoughts. Not think of myself but in the direction of the Creator. By what can I help him, how can I bestow upon him. In this way when we turn ourselves in this way towards the Creator and constantly think about him in every single movement, every thought, every action, I want to please him by this. I want to give him pleasure. So, if we arrange ourselves in this way, in a short time you will feel how effective it is and how instrumental it is for all your thoughts, all your feelings, and how through those efforts you begin to think about bringing contentment to the Creator. How by this we actually begin to change ourselves because with our efforts to think about how, that it will be good for him, by this week draw a great light which tends to us, it nurtures us.

30. S. (01:07:12) How can the group help me stop wanting luxuries?

R. It is written that envy, lust, and honor bring a person out from the world, out from our world into the upper world, envy, lust and honor. You among yourselves, talk about how you can help each other in the group. To develop and be lost and honor so that people will want to rise above their ego and think in the direction of the friends, the direction of the Creator. Otherwise, we will remain beasts.

31. S. (01:08:16) How is it possible to say that greatness is not our work but the Creator's work like MAD?

R. From where do we have our work at all, that we can achieve something by ourselves? Anything we come to is through an additional illumination from above from the light of Ein Sof. Then we receive this illumination, and advance. But if we receive no illumination, we will have no chance of changing our situation. All the changes in us are done only by the upper light which changes and moves us and we, the will to receive, can truly be if the upper light doesn't show us better states, we can remain within ourselves as we are now and therefore, we have no chance of advancing without increasing influence of the upper light on us.

32. S. (01:09:08) If I don't want Gadlut greatness in my state, how do I work to receive what the Creator ultimately wants to give?

R. Whatever the Creator gives we receive but for me we are talking about the desire in a person, the person does not want Gadlut greatness but wants to stay in the state he is in this is called, neither praised or condemned and then in that state when you don't want anything more or less but you're satisfied with what you are receiving. Because you're receiving it from the Creator, I'm willing to remain in that state.

33. S. (01:10:37) After we made the scrutiny for me and for the Creator, what is the scrutiny of thought for the benefit of myself or others?

R. It is all clarified in the thought, when I begin to think from where I am receiving the awakening, the intellect, the feeling through the friends or directly from the Creator. Out of this I awaken and organize myself to be correctly in this society toward the Creator as everything is clarified in the thought.

34. S. (01:11:36) In the state of smallness do I not demand more from the Creator or do I demand from myself?

R. In the state of Katnut smallness I don't demand anything of the Creator except for the forces that I want to hold in this state to be there and no more. It is not luxury, if in this state I am in Katnut smallness I need to strengthen myself, I can ask the Creator to give me such forces that in any state I will be adhered to Him, that is what I am asking for.

35. S. (01:12:29) How to be in Katnut smallness and adulthood at the same time is that possible?

R. No that is impossible also in Gadlut adulthood we can't be, that means that we can work with the lights in order to bestow which means first, we need to establish ourselves in the state of restriction then in the states of Katnut smallness and then we come to the state of Gadlut greatness from where we can bestow to others.

Reader continues Shamati 53 again (01:13:45)

36. S. (01:14:42) How can I be happy with the situation that I am in, how can I pretend to be happy when I'm not satisfied with the Creator, what can I hold onto to rise above my condition?

R. I am not content with the Creator because my ego is not content with what it gets in its life however on the other hand if I suppose, annul my ego that I don't want to feel what it requires of me what it demands, I want to be adhered to the Creator, to what He gives and even though He gives me things that are unpleasant and unclear, however I accept it on myself as an embryo developing in the womb. He too is receiving a new life that he didn't have before and also, he seemingly does not want this new state however nature obligates him to agree and accept and to develop, that is in corporeality. In spirituality we need to be like an embryo, to connect between ourselves and to the Creator as much as we can in our thoughts and desires and to agree to all of the development. If we establish ourselves this way, go ahead, we are starting to develop until we start to feel the force that develops us, we start feeling the womb which is the spiritual world, the upper world when we start feeling we’re in it and this is how we start developing. Throughout nine months of pregnancy, nine spiritual months. A month is from the word Chidush, something new. There are nine Sefirot until you reach the tenth Sefirot and you are born. That’s the development, so this is what is before us, so you understand we can’t run away from this, let’s do this work and we’ll shift to the feeling of the spiritual world. You don't lose this world, you don’t lose your families or your profession, or your workplace, your health, your money, nothing. You want to add something, it is an eternal life, recognition of what is going on in the whole of reality in the whole of the universe. You have this desire but to develop it from a small desire is like a point to develop a big desire where you can feel the spiritual world, the upper force, that’s what we need to aid the help. By that we need to be partners with the Creator and our partnership is, we don’t disturb His work on us, this is considered to restrict ourselves as it is written in article 53 in Shamati, The Matter of Limitation, that I limit myself and the Creator and can do whatever He wants with me. The more we advance we will have to do this, handing out ourselves, this is called soul devotion for Him to do whatever He wants. And believe me it's not difficult, all you need is to understand the principle of how to enter from the corporeal world and also to the spiritual world.

37. S. (01:19:29) We say that I don't need to request more for myself or for the friend?

R. We need to ask only for the force of limitation, that we want to limit ourselves and to be in the state we are happy with whatever we feel in our life that is first of all. It doesn't mean that I agree with anything that I am in my corporeal life, it has nothing to do with my corporeal life, all that it obligates me is respect to the group and the Creator, that I want to be connected to the group and the Creator, that my desire should be more towards that. Whatever I get back I should say that this is what I deserve and this is the best for me, that I stayed content and I thank the Creator for everything.

38. S. (01:20:57) What do we do with this surplus of desire that remains?

R. What surplus?

S. I want more and more but what I receive I am content but I have more desire?

R. What more desire?

S. Everything that you say we can develop the desire to receive great things but what we receive from the Creator is a very limited portion?

R. This is exactly what you need in order to advance to spirituality, you don't need anything else.

S. What do you do with the rest of the desire that developed, what do we do with it?

R. This is what we call them, the matter of limitation, you limit yourself and say I don't need more than that, I don't want to need more than that. I want but I don't demand, I ask and I demand for compensation, for some correction to come from above and it will help me to settle for a little.

S. How does the 10 helps in this?

R. At least set an example for each other, I see that the friends come to the lesson and how they want to bestow to others and as much as a person helps others, he helps himself in the most beneficial way and then the Creator takes it into account in the most powerful way back to this person and this is how we advance. Certainly, between what we want and what we have there is a difference and we are going to have to work above and don't limit the desires that have awakened in me but along with that I work with these desires in the right way.

S. In the time with the 10 that gives me an example or that I see that the friends are bestowing to one another do I forget about the desires or what happens to them?

R. If I develop love to my friends, through that sooner or later I am going to feel love to the Creator, this is why reaching love of the friends is the main thing, that’s the first step in the spiritual advancement. All I need to see you later, is how much the love to my friends is the same love to the Creator. It is only that I haven't yet been rewarded with seeing, with feeling Him, this is why the Creator gave us this exercise of being connected to the friends as if they exist, as if this is how they behave. I should see in them figures, that with respect to them I have to establish myself every time in a more correct way until I can feel that behind these friends there is the Creator.

39. S. (01:24:29) What is this state that a person can’t get to the lessons all the time but he falls asleep, what’s happening?

R. There are all kinds of phenomena among friends, some come and go to sleep, some come and don't understand or don't even hear, some can't stand the lesson. It depends on the nature of a person's soul, that if a person comes even if he's sleeping but he always comes to the lesson, nonetheless this is the way he absorbs the material. We had this friend at Rabash, his name was Opher, and he was very strong and he worked very hard at construction and built houses and he used to come to the lesson on time even before time, sit down, let's say it was 15 minutes before 3:00 am, he was already sitting in his place, on the side, it was not on the table in the center of the room, we had some chairs around. He would sit usually in the corner and he would fall asleep even before we started the lesson or immediately after the beginning until the end of the lesson he would sleep constantly. In the beginning we tried to wake him up and Rabash would say, let him be, he will advance with everyone. Because that is his nature, he never learned in life, in school he was probably this way, he wasn't a simple person, he was the manager of a construction group. He had the brains for that and no more, this is why Rabash said that and that's why we let him be and I can tell you that in the more than 10 years that I looked at him he was along with everyone with everything. He didn't miss anything, he was with us, he didn't speak or ask but it seems to me he did absorb and understand the things. This is why it is written, it is not the wise who learns, there are different kinds of ways to absorb this material, don't put pressure on the friends, the main thing is that each one takes part according to his ability to take part. One person may be more and one in the world as different.

40. S. (01:28:20) If I am in joy from my state, that means I'm thinking about myself instead of thinking about the friends?

R. If I am happy for my state of having nothing to do with the Creator and the society then I am happy with myself egotistically, that I am feeling good.

41. S. (01:29:08) What do we do with the surplus desire, you said to be in a state that I want but I don't demand can you scrutinize the difference between the two?

R. Want, is when I want and demand is when I already turned to an external force of the group or the Creator and demand that they will help me and fill my desire.

42. S. (01:29:48) You said we need to request a correction in order to be satisfied with little but you see that we have the desire for surplus what do we do with it?

R. We don't have to ask the Creator to take away the desire, all the more so this is what the Creator added, even the most egoistic desire is nonetheless a desire, the material, the matter of creation which is why we don't demand for Him to take it away, never. The greatest desires, the worst desires, when you want to kill each other, when you want to rob a bank, it doesn't matter what, these desires all you need to do is overcome them and build the importance which is greater than the desire for spirituality.

S. How do we build the greater importance all the time so the desire for the friends will be greater all the time?

R. Turn to your group and you will see as they will tell you such things that immediately the value of the group will be greater than all of your personal desires.

S. If they have the same problem?

R. Then together you turn to the Creator, that's great, together you pray what could be better? Meaning the Creator organized for you a place to turn to Him.

43. S. (01:31:44) Can you please expand a bit, what is the same state that Moses brought them to the end of the thought and there's no lower degree?

R. That is something that I can't explain because we don't have any feeling that corresponds to that. It’s when Moses led them to the end of the understanding and the intellect where there is no degree less than that, that to such a degree they lost everything and they agree not to receive anything in the future as it is written, only 10 when they agreed to such a state, to walk in it without any wavering or emotion, or doubts, and remain in that state as if they had the Gadlut greatness and to be happy about it. That they have nothing and they won't have anything but they don't need, all they need is the point of adhesion and nothing else and it's not that through this point that I get something from the Creator, only to be somewhat belonging to Him just like a drop of semen in the womb and to be happy about it. This is the meaning of, serve the Lord with gladness since during the Gadlut greatness it cannot be said that it gives them work to be in gladness because during the Gadlut greatness gladness comes from the state itself. Instead, the work of gladness is given to them for the time of Katnut smallness, so that they will have joy although they feel Katnut smallness. Even though they feel the Katnut smallness even as a point that they don't have anything else but this point is the point of connection with the Creator already. This is a lot of work, this is called the main part of the degree meaning this is the beginning of the spiritual degree. Each and every true spiritual degree starts from annulling ourselves completely and only in one point we belong to the upper one and we settle for that. We don't want anything besides that because all the rest of the degrees will be with more and more concession to the upper one because we grow differently, in minus we grow all the time above our desire, above our ego.

S. Is it possible to say that at the same point where the logic of this world ends and the logic of the upper world begins?

R. Yes, it is true and this is the main part of the degree which is discerned as Katnut smallness. This discernment must be permanent but Gadlut greatness which is only an addition also what should desire for the main part not for the additions.

44. S. (01:35:04) Sometimes it seems from one day to another I can feel like I have even less, that something has been taken away is this, that I try not to understand and stay in total gratitude?

R. Whatever we get in each moment and every day is forces to develop, forces of development that change our internal states. The more we participate and take part in our 10, the more we can enhance and accelerate our spiritual advancement even though in the meantime we don't feel any connection between the spiritual development and the connection in the group, that’s the way it is. That is why what we should do is listen to what the Kabbalists advised to us and what they want or recommend that we will do and you will see that we will succeed. This article is a very important article and why is the main part limitation and then love, because we are egoistic. First, we should limit our will to receive in order to receive, too restrict it and then we can build and establish inside us the right connection to others, to other parts of Adam Rishon that are inside each and every friend. It is the same with the Partzuf, in the beginning we should perform the first restriction and then we can make changes regarding how much we can give and according to this calculation we then open our vessels of reception and we start receiving because our reception will be like giving. All we do is we pass it through us to others. Whatever we get from above and this way we reach all the highest degrees until Ein Sof and actually what is left for us is only the initial points, the drop, that seed and all the rest all of Ein Sof is outside of us. With this form of bestowal, we are like the Creator.

45. S. (01:39:13) What do we need to do with the ego so it will agree to absolutely annul itself?

R. What we should say to the ego is one thing, shut up, meaning I don't want to take into account what you are telling me, there's nothing to argue here, there is a verse that says to blunt his teeth, it is restriction and above that we build our spiritual world.

S. In many places he writes that it is temporary that you can't hold it for a long time?

R. Other times will come and we will correct them as well, each and every time that is what we should do.

46. S. (01:40:25) How does a person feel joy and Katnut smallness as if he has Gadlut greatness?

R. We are not learning that yet.

47. S. (01:40:51) What actions do we make an effort to do or not to hamper the development of the 10?
R. Take part with them as much as you can to connect and be with them and whatever they decide to do, you do like a child, like a smaller one, like a child in a cart or whatever, that they tie my hands and I am willing to be with them in whatever state. All the time you can annul yourself before the group and then for certain you will discover that how I am annulling to the Creator, as annulling to the group is the most correct form of action to annul to the Creator. It is simply great help that we have. Whenever we start hearing this, we are amazed at what the Creator has prepared for us but this truly takes time, for me also it was this way as it takes time to hear it and to understand and digest this acid we have, which is the ten.

48. S. (01:42:34) A person who strengthens himself in annulment and he is in it all the time, what about the descents?

R. If he is adhered to the group and he cancels himself and justifies the Creator then basically all his descents he understands that they are an additional opportunity to annul himself and that is like climbing a mountain, the mountain of God. Meaning that we are climbing the mountain to the extent that we get a decent and even despite that we accept this descent as an ascent.

49. S. (01:43:39) If I restrict myself, I feel like I am restricting my existence and in the 10 we are dependent on each other and I feel that in the 10 I am holding them back, how do we go onwards to rise above this state?

R. I will explain to you again that your questions are not questions, what you simply have to do is keep learning with us by asking all the time. First of all, what you're saying is I'm suffering, my wife is suffering, maybe the whole world is suffering because of me, what should I do? What you should do is learn and hear what you should do, how can I answer you, tell me. Just hear what you are asking, you have to learn what to do. What to do is to annul yourself and it's very good that these are the pressures that you are in, however before asking you should ask yourself as I ask, is there a question here or is this just my own situation, what do you want me to answer you?

50. S. (01:45:44) You said in the beginning of the lesson that we don't need to go from turning to the Creator, what does this mean?

R. I don't know what you mean, what did you say?

S. Do not leave the Creator to always turn to Him?

R. That I always want to be in adhesion with the Creator even the smallest one, in one point to be adhered to Him.

S. How do we discern between the desire for surplus and the lack that comes from the Creator?

R. The sign that I am in the correct state is gladness, happiness, there are articles about that too.

51. S. (01:46:54) At the end of the article it is written and we need to yearn for the main thing and not for the surplus, how do we do this in action?

R. I want to be aimed at the Creator building on to Him, adhered to Him even in the smallest manner like a baby or an embryo in the womb, the main thing is to be adhered to Him, attached to Him, that should be the main thing for me and I don't want anything else. This is the meaning of the main part, not the additions.

52. S. (01:47:47) Beforehand you spoke about people who fall asleep in the lesson and I wanted to tell you about an additional problem happening to our friends during the lesson that all sorts of things are happening with their computer and it is drawing their concentration and focus from the lesson, is there anything we can do with this because I don't want to miss a moment of the lesson?

R. Write down what is happening in the lesson, like students that you need to write down and scrutinize them again. But whoever writes things down he already has to listen and even though he may make mistakes, it doesn't matter he is already adhered to the lesson, to the flow of the information. This is what I recommend doing, by me I have thick notebooks from years that I wrote things down next to Rabash. I had a habit of writing, there are those who are not used to it and they didn't learn, let's say in the university or something, in my time all students would write. Today probably with computers or all sorts of things, in my time if you didn't write things down later on you would have nothing remaining to you from the course. This is what I recommend, write down what we are scrutinizing.

53. S. (01:49:47) When a new desire and a new pain starts coming it means a certain degree of annulment has been attained?

R. Yes, in this, that we feel that the desires, the discernments and the values as the main thing is the values are exchanged, this is a sign that we are progressing.

54. S. (01:50:31) If in adhesion I don't demand anything for myself can I still demand for more for the friend?

R. Yes of course.

S. So that is demanding Gadlut greatness for the friend?

R. Sure, why not for myself I don't need to demand because I need to be in a state of adhesion, if I am in a demand, I am already not in adhesion. I am raising a deficiency. In everybody there is a gap between me and the Creator, if I am in adhesion with Him then our desires and states are seemingly equal and in such a state I can be like a drop in the womb. Then I am already in adhesion, in a point, already in it and then I can develop onwards. By what do I develop? By MAN, the drop begins to grow and grow in the womb. By this there comes all sorts of thoughts and desires that want to separate me from adhesion from the Creator and I nonetheless I’m drawn to it, I reach remaining in the Creator in adhesion with the Creator and we progress.

S. If I ask more for a friend does this bring me out of this point of adhesion?

R. A request for myself I cannot, that is a Klipa, as if the Creator doesn't give me enough or that I don't agree with what the Creator gives me. That is why I am requesting as I am not satisfied with him but if I'm asking for the others I can and so if I'm praying for the group that the Creator will awaken them then in this I am in bestowal towards the group. Look at the mechanism here, it is a very unique change, that if I am requesting for the group I am privileged first with this positive change because the Creator through me is changing the group and in this I am becoming the connector between the group and the Creator. We have an opportunity here to progress very nicely but it is on the condition that I truly feel the sorrow of the group and truly want to raise them, to lift them.

55. S. (01:54:01) Is surrendering to the Creator mean we agree with whatever He sends us or is He sending certain conditions for us to fight with?

R. I surely need to fight against the disturbances which I also received from the Creator and I need to agree with the disturbances that I received and I need to fight against them, but I need to agree that I receive it from the Creator and they are for my benefit.

56. S. (01:54:55) How does limitations settle with audacity and why didn't you ask?

R. Audacity toward the Creator is something that is very beneficial. We need to find the articles on this that would advance such audacity is called that a person reaches the state that he says, I don't deserve this and truly my demand is already too much yet I am requesting that you give me because without this I won't be connected to others and to the group and I cannot approach the changes. I understand that I am demanding it not for others but rather that in this there is progression of myself but in this I am annulled.

57. S. (01:56:15) Why do we use the womb as the spiritual world?

R. This is the first place of adhesion with the Creator this degree of ZAT of Bina, the lower part Bina is called Rechem, womb, and there is the place for pregnancy and birth and then we learn how the embryo develops in the womb which is why we have nine months of gestation, why we give birth at 7 or 9 months or even cases where they give birth in 12 months. Why the revolution of the moon is precisely one month according to pregnancy and birth, it is not our month that we have determined of 30 or 31 days but rather according to the moon. This way we all learn and it is according to nature.

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