Morning Lesson August 17, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
To Welcome the Bad as Much as the Good - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #4
1. Rav’s Introduction: We learned that our whole advancement is, as we call it, on both legs right, left, left, right, good and bad, and we always start from the left, the deficiencies, because we are all born from that, this is where we come from, from the sin of Adam HaRishon, from the revelation of evil, the revelation of our ego, through which we feel all kinds of manners of distancing between us and the Creator. This shows us all of our flaws in the relations between us and nature. The still, vegetative and animate and we with ourselves and with others and here in the relations between us and the others, we’re scrutinizing for the time being, the degree of the speaking between us. From that we learn how we can come closer to the Creator, to feel him, to understand him, and to rise above the animate degree to the true speaking degree, and this is why our whole advancement is in that they reveal the darkness to us and then night, darkness and light, and this is how it is also written in the Zohar and many other places and we also learned this from TES, that the coarseness is revealed and upon this coarseness we have to attain restriction, screen and reflected light and then we reach a certain identification with the Creator and this is how it is each and every time, because we are the created beings and we always come from the side of negation, from the bad side, seemingly bad side, if we realize that we need to advance towards the Creator, then every bad and every evil that is revealed, we accept it as good, as a good sign, and this is how we advance. We need to look at our situations, our states, and of course we are under the control of the Creator and there is none else besides Him, in a way that he reveals to us all kinds of states that are negative and unpleasant, dangerous even, and we need to try to accept them correctly, first of all that they come from there is none else besides Him. Second, that it is all to help us in our advancement and that it is always such that as much as we are able to suffer it, it is aimed against our ego. If this is how we discern everything that comes to us, then we see that the Creator is always giving us an opportunity to advance in a way that is unpleasant to our ego. In a way with the direction with which we can actually advance towards him the Creator and connect with Him and approach Him and then our whole life actually takes on a good characteristic, a good color. In above this it is written, those whom the Creator loves, He admonishes. That the Creator puts us into suffering and all kinds of unpleasant states, all those people that he wishes to advance and in that we need to see his love, otherwise we will not advance towards him. This is how we should interpret our life. Let's start with excerpt number 3.
Excerpt #3 (04:58) “There are two ways in the corporeal…”
2. R. (05:14) That is, before we rise to the spiritual degree where we can say about the Creator that he is good and doing good, that we when we are going towards him above reason, even though this is how we feel or think, we can rise above that, but before we have such an ability, he says there are two ways here, one:
Continues: (05:40) “One: all that the Creator does he does for the best...”
3. R. (06:17) Meaning that he has to be in the bad state, the egoistic state, he has to think about himself and he doesn't want to receive anything that is unpleasant, but afterwards, eventually he can check and measure a way how much this bad, when it is revealed, can push him to the good direction and this good is built of the bad. This is how a person can then advance more and more toward the Creator, until the bad becomes good. That's one and two:
Continues: (07:01) “Two: that too is for the best...”
4. R. (07:30) This means that a person entered a bad feeling, and his search is what for and why and how to run away from it, and what to do, until he sees that there is no bad here, but rather the bad that is revealed to him now is in order for him to try rise above it. To accept it as good until the bad transforms into good and until anyone who causes him the bad will also be in his eyes as angels, who are bringing him this bad state in order for him to turn it into good, and they are actually the ones who are helping him rise to a higher degree where he discovers the Creator as good above all the bad and he discovers the bad states as good, and there is nothing bad in the world, only good. And then he sees that the Creator is good and doing good only, and by this he concludes this degree. It turns out:
Continues: (08:39) “It turns out that all of man’s progress…”
6. R. (08:56) That if he doesn't feel suffering he would not go forward, he would not advance towards the Creator above the reason, which he now received, and this unpleasantness that he now feels, shame, helplessness, lack of understanding and confusion and all of that pushes him to advance, and this is why these states that he now discovers are actually good states. And only thanks to them, thanks to the suffering that are now revealed, he is going forward. And he welcomes the bad even more than he welcomes the good, because through the bad feeling in each and every degree, he is compelled to rise above to a higher degree, through the bad that he feels, he has no choice, he must reach blessing for the bad as for the good. Through the bad that is revealed to him, he can go above reason, so that even though this is how I feel, however I accept it that it all comes from there is none else besides Him and so it is all to my benefit.
7. S. (10:31) He writes here, it is interesting that the Creator shines into these troubles so that they are inverted?
R. It is called that the darkness shall shine as light, we cannot advance if darkness is not revealed in our state, that is our initial state to begin with, we are made of the will to receive, and when we want to rise above ourselves, then here it is important, why do I want to rise above the bad state, either in order for it to be good for me, so that I will feel good, so I will be respected, or I want to be in the good because I want to bless the Creator, I want to justify his providence, why did he do this to me, in order to raise me to a degree where I then discover the Creator is good.
S. What is it that we bless the Creator in that we can rise above this calculation of always just having good?
R. Rising above my state means that I accept the state as good, I accept the Creator as good, the actions over me from all directions, it doesn't matter from where, they are all good actions, they come in order to push me up, forward, closer to the Creator. This is why I see in that, only a good and beautiful action from above, and otherwise I wouldn't rise to a higher degree.
S. The question is, in order to bless the Creator properly from the heart it has to be a different calculation not just feel good or bad?
R. A person who wishes to advance, he begins to feel how much the environment is operating on him, the world, his relatives, his friends, anyone who touches him, and then he sees through all of these actions how the Creator is pushing him forward.
8. S. (13:20) Only when there are troubles, and we feel it as joy, then we know the degree is completed?
R. Yes.
9. S. (13:45) Basically it’s like Vlad’s question because it's not exactly clear, where is the strength to bless, to thank for everything that happens to you in life and your relative’s life?
R. You should check where you are and which direction you are advancing, through which incidences and forces, why should you advance, and when you make all of these calculations and there are many others that I cannot now focus on and ask those, when you see where you are then you ascribe it to there is none else besides Him. If it is, there is none else besides Him in every action from the beginning to the end, in all the details and the tiny details of all the actions that go over you, then you need to see in that a force that promotes you towards the goal. If you don't see that, that too is good, but you must see that you do not see it. Then you need to search, how can you justify providence because nevertheless, in each and every moment, you are only under the control of the Creator and in no other form, and so how can you justify Him in each and every state, so that not even for a moment you disconnect from that state that you are in, and every moment you justify the Creator for whatever you are in.
S. I hear you and the truth is I understand I don't have such a scrutiny in me, I can agree that yes it comes from the Creator, I agree there is truly none else besides Him, and that is it. But this point where you begin, where is the strength really?
R. Don’t worry about it, it will come, you will advance along the path and you will get additional unpleasant states, and then they will teach you, from above, the study will come and they will teach you how you need to behave, how to overcome all of these unpleasant states, and how in all of them you should see that there is none else besides Him and he is good that is doing good and by pressuring you from all kinds of directions, he is pressuring you only so that you will come closer to the purpose of creation more and more and more. It will come.
S. I want to advance by consciousness?
R. This is why we are studying these articles, especially those by Rabash, so that you will read each and every article a few times and then go over them also, this is why we take these excerpts especially, so that I will explain these excerpts to you even more, so that you will know how to use them each and every day.
10. S. (17:58) When there are disturbances and it is difficult to advance, if you look at your friends for whom it's even more difficult but they put in such efforts, even if they come once a week for the lesson, you feel greatness from the friends, is that a way that can take you out of this feeling of how bad you are and just pray for the friends?
R. Very true you are right this is something that is very special and a very strong means.
11. S. (18:51) I wanted to ask, if you could clarify, I heard many times that you said about Rabash, about his suffering, that inner perception that Rabash would say, let It suffer, if you can explain that state, that neutral state, that zero state, where you can recognize the process that you are going through, in that state?
R. I cannot explain this to you, all of us will have to go through this, each one to his own extent, according to the root of his soul, but each one should know, that we will yet have to rise above all the corporeal pleasures and even above all the spiritual pleasures in order to attach ourselves to the Creator completely.
12. S. (20:24) We always want to put the goodness on ourselves but every time we see that, we cannot do it, the ego sees this gap and then there's a lot of repelling, how is it possible to feel the goodness on us, at every moment?
R. By scrutinizing what is good for me, if I realize that good means bestowal and giving, being close to the Creator, and this becomes clarified through the nearness to the friends, the nearness to the group and the ten, towards our whole correction, then I try even though it is against my egoistic desire, I nevertheless try to somehow come closer to it and somehow reach it, if I look at my life, I also see that actually all of the states that seemed to me as unpleasant, however they somehow also direct me towards coming closer to the group and to the purpose of creation. Because everything is working against my ego and in that I see the Creator’s help in my advancement towards the goal.
13. S. (22:45) Is it possible to justify the Creator even if you feel bad in your egoistic vessels and you still don't have spiritual vessels?
R. I didn't understand, again.
S. Is it possible to justify the Creator when you feel bad in your egoistic vessels?
R. Yes you can justify Him.
S. You still don't have spiritual vessels?
R. I don't know what these vessels are, I know that I can be in a bad state, that I can be in a bad state, and along with that I can justify the Creator, who created me in such a way, and He is taking me through this bad so that I will disconnect from the bad and connect to the good. Then I will bless the Creator for the bad that he is awakening in me, because by that he is pulling me out of my ego and bringing me eventually to the good.
S. The first thing from that point of zero to start that, what's the first thing?
R. That there is none else besides Him, and He is pulling me from the bad.
14. S. (24:14) You said that we need to relate to the Creator each and every detail, all of the details that appear, what is that, in each and every moment?
R. What are you saying, of course there is none else besides Him and the Creator makes and creates and does everything, and so each and every detail in matter and in spirit, it all comes from Him and He clarifies, He leads and He pulls his whole creation towards Him, and so there is nothing which is outside of Him, we must not even for a tiny moment ascribe any action not to the Creator, but rather of course it all emerges from Him and you have no enemies, you have no people who want to love you or hate you, the Creator manipulates everyone. And He is doing, He is manipulating all of them in order to bring you closer to Him.
15. S. (25:42) Is it good and effective for the ten when a friend points to weaknesses or unpleasant states that appear in the ten or in friends? Or always just show greatness?
R. I didn't understand you, when a friend is pointing at others?
S. When a friend points to weaknesses he sees in the friends.
R. No, only sometimes we can speak in the presence of these friends, in order to help all of us to advance a little bit, but indeed each one should only show the others a high spirit, and the righteousness of the goal and the inclination towards the path.
S. Many times you tell us to scrutinize, to scrutinize things, now scrutinizing things in the ten, are there guidelines by which we should do this scrutiny?
R. You have all of Rabash’s articles and I have nothing to add to it, everything is written there, if you have any questions, then organize these questions and we will try to answer them according to a list.
16. S. (27:15) Which one gives more contentment to the Creator, longing, or fulfillment?
R. Certainly when we yearn to the Creator in order to bring ourselves closer to Him, not to bring Him closer to us, but to bring ourselves closer to Him, in order to give him contentment, in order to fill him with our questions, with our gratitude, then by that we are actually fill the Creator's vessel. In as much as we want to receive from Him, specifically from Him, it's like a baby when he receives from the mother, how much by that he actually fills the mother.
S. So the question is that I don't want to pull the Creator into reason, but I myself should go above reason by being in gratitude inside concealment?
R. Yes of course this is true, you said it correctly. This is the state from which we give contentment.
17. S. (29:18) When bad appears to the person and a person recognizes that he comes from the Creator, from none else besides Him, the good that does good, so immediately he says to himself that he doesn't want anything for himself, only to bestow to the Creator, to be closer to Him, so where is the component of the ten here? Should he say, don't help me with my problems, I'll manage, just allow me to bestow to my friends and whatever happens to me I'll manage, what is the approach?
R. No one should not determine it like this, that the Creator should not help him in this and that, one should ask and raise a request, a MAN, a deficiency, that he wants to be able to support the friends. The friends towards him are the first nine in his Partzuf and this is why he is asking for that, that he will be given forces to support the others. And specifically when the Creator gives the burden of the heart and all of these unpleasant things to the person, and the person is able to rise above that and explain to the others and support them and support the others towards the goal this is the best work, the best work.
18. S. (30:53) When we talk about the suffering the Creator sends us, are we also talking about mercy?
R. We usually speak about mercy, that we see mercy in each and every state even in the most unpleasant state. It is all mercy, it is all Hassadim.
19. S. (31:46) To justify the Creator and then nullify oneself based on that does that bring me to adhesion?
R. Justifying the Creator and bringing myself closer to Him these are our actions those are our actions all in all with a single sentence that in whatever is happening to me I see the Creator, there’s None Else Besides Him and everything that is happening in order for me to bring myself closer to the Creator up to adhesion and there is no more.
20. S. (32:46) Where is the connection between the Creator that always existed before the world and people and the Creator that we build every moment in the ten? Where is the connection between the Creator that already always existed before even this world and people and the Creator that we build every moment in the ten?
R. We can't really speak about that because before the world existed there was no Creator, there is no Creator without a created being and also there is no created being without the Creator, so your question is not clear to me.
S. It seems that the Creator between us, the force of connection, is more in our imagination and the Creator that conducts all kinds of events in the world is felt as some thought and some hidden Providence and between us and the ten it’s more like as if it’s in our imagination it’s hard to feel that there is some guidance I don't see the connection.
R. You need more and more to think about this and to stay adhered, attached to the articles.
S. When we turn to the upper force to the Creator, we turn to the upper force or the force of connection between us.
R. Through the force of connection between us turn to the upper force.
21. S. (34:44) How is it possible to prevent the bad from slowing down the study? How can we prevent the bad from slowing down the pace of the study?
R. Why would it slow down the pace of the study? I don't understand these questions they’re not realistic. If I want to advance then why do I want to slow down?
S. He wants to learn fast and doesn't want the bad to prevent him from learning fast.
R. It is unclear I can’t imagine the state.
22. S. (35:37) Is there a difference between the suffering before entering the spiritual work and the suffering that a person feels when he's already in spirituality?
R. When a person is in spirituality he only has a concern about how to get contentment to the Creator more and more he’s only drawn to that, this is what he sees as his purpose in each and every action and each and every moment.
23. S. (36:05) Please help understand what does it mean to bless the Creator, it's not just gratitude, what does it mean?
R. Bless the Creator means that I receive from Him every state that He reveals to me and He always reveals bad states, this is called I’ve created the evil inclination, He has to open up for me gradually the entire broken vessel of Adam HaRishon and I have to arrange this vessel correctly and to come closer to Him and see Him as good and this all depends only on my perspective on correcting my outlook that's it that’s my work. I have nothing to change in the world, the world keeps on going as usual. I must change my attitude towards reality to see in this whole reality only the force of 'the good that does good'.
24. S. (37:12) Does the bad cause the good? How can you rise to see that the bad causes the good?
R. Above reason. The fact that I feel bad, darkness, unpleasant things, it is because I am corrupted the moment that I correct my attitude and my perspective towards things that it all comes from the good Creator then everything becomes good for me, and I don't see anything bad in the world and the world is all in good. I attained this in general only at the end of correction however nevertheless I need to come closer to this each and every time.
S. Mitzvah how to understand that?
R. I do not exactly understand what you are asking but Mitzvah means that we transform the will to receive with the intention to bestow, so instead of distance from the Creator we get closer and…
25. S. (38:17) I said to the friends about the upper force, what is the upper force? You said to the friend to ask for the upper force, what is the upper force?
R. It is that I come closer to everything that I identify with before me, and I want to see the same director that is staging the scene in each and every moment in my life.
Excerpt #4 (39:17) “When one begins to work in a manner...”
26. R. (40:12) Look how the Creator now in what He puts us through He actually reveals to each and everyone how to learn these things and for each one it’s at his level and his intensity but that is what He intends for.
Continues Excerpt #4 (40:34) “Because when faith shines for him…”
27. R. (42:11) What can I add? There’s no more to add, if we want to ever have a spiritual ascent we have to feel that we're in a spiritual descent, otherwise it won’t happen and how our study is all in all how to make how to turn descents into ascents, that’s our study. Think and ask maybe we’ll hear this again.
Excerpt #4 (42:58) Again
28. R. (45:04) To the extent that we expect to have a greater ascent before that there has to be a great descent accordingly because from the descents the ascents are built.
29. S. (45:25) We have to determine in our states that everything is in wholeness, everything is built from left and right, and according to the quality of the connection of the ten the attainment of the scrutinies or the depth of the scrutinies are determined?
R. Yes the depth of the scrutiny depends on how much we attain the descents of the ascent and how much we recognize how the ascent needs to be through connection between us and adhesion with the Creator and to transform the descent to ascent because there are no descents or ascents it's just how we transform the descents to an ascents that's why the Creator says in the beginning, I've created the evil inclination, I made it for you in preparation so that you can take it and invert it and build your spirituality and thus resemble Me every sense because He made a replica out of Himself in through that replica we come from darkness to light so then we exist both as created beings and also at the state of the Creator.
30. S. (47:10) Is faith bestowal and is faith a mechanism for connection with the Creator?
R. Yes, it’s a mechanism to connect to the Creator.
31. S. (47:34) During the work by force by coercion there’s this rule that a Mitzvah gives us a…?
R. The Creator each time reveals to us where we are far from Him so that we invert that meaning, come closer to Him.
32. S. (48:36) If I begin to understand what is the source of the bad states that I'm going through from here on, how do I come out of the suffering it causes?
R. The suffering depends on how you accept reality, if you accept reality in adhesion with a Creator the suffering becomes pleasure.
33. S. (49:24) What is this action of blessing on the bad? What am I doing then when I am blessing the bad?
R. The fact the Creator gives me a descent in different ways and states, in darkness, and lack of hope, hopelessness, and all kinds of things I see that as an opportunity to come closer to Him and ask and demand and correction from Him so that I will be connected to all of the means that now appear as pushing me away from the Creator and so that’s how I’ll be closer to Him.
34. S. (50:18) If a Mitzvah induces a Mitzvah this means that the thoughts that lead me to a descent are also a Mitzvah?
R. The thoughts that lead me to a descent come from the Creator there’s 'None Else Besides Him' and on top of all of these thoughts I have to bring correction that it comes from 'None Else Besides Him' and He’s the good that does good and He just wants me to understand that all the evil that unfolds is for me to want the opposite form the good form of connection of adhesion with the friends and the Creator that’s it.
35. S. (51:18) To discover the Creator reveal the Creator what does that mean to detect this mechanism, or do we have to work with it and become an experienced user of it?
R. Right I have to always try to invert any feeling bad feeling or understanding to connection and adhesion between us and the Creator and thus I gradually come to the understanding of what is all the bad this machine this mechanism that works in such a way of darkness and light, revelation, and concealment, and thus I advance.
Excerpt #5 (52:24) “Over each act rides the singular form…”
36. R. (53:17) Meaning here we already have an addition that even though we can’t transform the bad feeling to a good feeling we have to believe that that’s how it should be that it’s for the better. Over each action there is the form of the individual a form of a single force that overrides it that only in a person's feeling this feeling that he believes comes from the Creator and even though it works badly he has to believe that this action can cause him to attain the good and that’s the work of the person so what is the work of the person? To believe that it is so, that even though he doesn’t understand it and he needs to be grateful to the Creator for it meaning that all of the actions we go through are for our own benefit.
Continues (54:40) “Our sages said one should bless for the bad as one blesses for the good…”
37. S. (55:25) No matter how much we do not understand we are constantly trying to say there is 'None Else Besides Him' but we don't always feel like it. Is it because of a lack of intention? What will be our right intention?
R. Our intention needs to be only to discover that the Creator is the good that does good None Else Beside Him the good that does good that’s it, that’s what we need to discover in each and every action.
38. S. (56:13) We want to advance in the fastest way towards the end of correction and attain the connection. How can we jump from one state to another from ascent to descent without getting stuck in the present state? What does this kind of advancement depend on?
R. We have to understand that what’s up to us is only to be drawn forward towards connection between us and connection with the Creator, that’s basically what lies ahead of us and what happens on the way should appear as coming from the root of our soul. So there is nothing to choose here we just need to push forward and all the disturbances that have to appear on the way are in order for us to connect between us more and more and as much as possible, but there is no choice here we can’t bypass what’s ahead of us we can’t jump over that we just have to go from one connection to the next connection as much as we can and whatever disturbances arise they are in order for us to create a more advanced connection above them until we come to the final connection of the final correction, so we think that we have the ability to choose better states worst states, no whatever happens has to happen and we just need to know that ahead of us there is connection between us and the Creator that’s it.
39. S. (58:30) I have a question about excerpt number four, we learned that from the descents we rise to the ascents, so the question is should we feel all the descents on the corporeal level, or should it all be just internal?
R. I didn’t understand what corporeal degree is and inner. We need to feel the ups and downs from within that it disconnects us from the friends, disconnects the Creator from all of us, that we start seeing in this world forces of separation of connection it depends on each and every one's level but in each and every moment we have to try to see the world as found in complete connection and the Creator dwells in it and if we don’t see such thing then it means we still have what to correct.
S. If I may add, I heard from the friends that congresses end, and we have problems at work or at home and they say I have a decent so they’re thinking that these are problems in corporeality not in spirituality.
R. There is no corporeality, externality, and spirituality, it’s all with respect to the person and a person has to try to sort out and organize all those things in a way that he is as close as possible to the friends and to the Creator.
Excerpt #6 (01:00:58) “We perceive man by two discernments, by knowledge…”
40. S. (01:05:10) It says here, he has complaints as though he feels the opposite, that the situation is always worse, and we have others who are at a higher degree than he is. The question is why is it bad to see others on a higher degree than he has?
R. He is hurt he feels that he’s hurt from that that everyone else is stronger, more successful, more close to the Creator and so forth.
41. S. (01:05:54) What should I do if I do not manage to bless as for the bad as for the good? From where this ability come from to bless all the bad beyond just feeling suffering?
R. If you relate everything to the Creator that it all comes to you from Him that He orchestrates all your inner states and all your outer states, and you depend only on Him so be locked on this principle that there’s None Else Besides Him and then see what to do next.
42. S. (01:07:23) Who are the spies?
R. It’s all kinds of thoughts and qualities in the person that try to manipulate him in all different directions.
43. S. (01:07:47) About the previous excerpt, what does it mean that over every act there rides a single form of doing good?
R. Anything we feel in each and every moment we feel it in order to unify it with the Creator this means that over all the states we feel lies the form of unity because it comes to us from the Creator.
44. S. (01:08:34) In order to, along to understand with the intellect why the Creator gave me that bad state, should I? Or simply be in the state of faith of above reason and say that the Creator is good?
R. We have to sort these things out both in our mind and in our emotion and also learn how to go above the mind and emotion.
Excerpt #7 (01:09:14) Twice “When a person is poor, deficient…”
45. R. (01:11:16) Meaning of first of all to reach a truth that we have nothing of spirituality not in our mind, not in our heart, and we don't’ see the truth, and we ourselves can't advance even just a little step forward toward the goal.
Continues (01:11:35) “One who has no deficiency no vessel…”
46. R. (01:11:44) Meaning that we have to be sorry to feel sorrow that I don't’ have spirituality that I am incapable and then from that we can develop.
Continues (01:11:58) “Therefore has a deficiency of…”
47. S. (01:13:17) Reaching the right suffering, is this an accumulative process from the bodily pains or oneself or can the prayers bring us closer to the right kind of suffering?
R. Both prayers and deeds but mostly what the Creator brings down on us when we begin to see all the disturbances, seemingly disturbances that direct us and we have to see through these disturbances that it’s what directs me on the road, it’s like I’m driving on the road and I want to continue straight but I can't there is now a turn and then it goes up and then it goes down and all kinds of twists and turns and it’s not me choosing it where to go it’s just the road itself guides me in this manner and that’s what I need to do, we need to go along with the road and then I also need to learn from the road, which is the Creator guiding me, how I learn what to do on the road and in each and every moment to relate myself to None Else Besides Him the good that does good, that whatever happens, whatever happens, even if death is upon you it doesn’t matter I have to relate it link it to the Creator only, because a person doesn’t know how the Creator instills all kinds of desires in Him and then afterwards as if after some years demands a trial for it and so forth, these things are obtuse to us, not apparent to us but we have to see reality that way, it’s a complete reality.
48. S. (01:15:26) We see that we continue to grow towards high states and low states with the friends and with the group, the low states are much heavier than the high states, how can a person continue to rise higher if it seems like the low states become more difficult, will it ever be easier?
R. We have to see our states that’s how we have to go because that’s the Creator the higher Providence that puts these states in front of us and we didn’t choose where to be born, and by whom, and with what qualities and characteristics and so on, none of that, we don’t choose and determine any of that on our own. All we can do in our life is determine somewhat of a change within us by a better connection with the group and the Creator and then we accept our path in a more pleasant way more understandable way, in a way that leads us to corrections but in truth there's not that much for a person to determine besides demanding each and every moment a correction for what a appears in him as a deviation from adhesion with the Creator. If I feel in a certain moment in life that I am not bonded with a Creator through the group then I must pray, or I can pray beforehand that it does not happen to me but other than that there is really not so much to be looking towards.
49. S. (01:17:36) You said that if a person doesn’t feel suffering he doesn’t advance. So what is the path of Torah relative to the path of suffering?
R. The path of Torah and the path of suffering has to be one path which is the path of the land where I combine all of my sufferings with the Creator through the group and then I will welcome at the bad or bless the bad as I bless a good and I will advance both through the negative for and through the positive force toward the Creator. In technology we have a………. and we slice from it a rectifier and then we slice a half of it and use it or sometimes the other half or sometimes both halves through a Wilson Bridge, we rectify the voltage but that’s what we need to do whatever comes from the Creator as plus and as minus it’s all for the best because all enters the end of correction and there’s no problem where I feel it either good or bad rather I wish to receive the Creator’s Providence as good because when I receive it as good I approach the Creator, I enter this process together with Him and in this way we reach adhesion both from the good side and from the bad side.
50. S. (01:19:37) Is it correct to say that during the time of suffering we can bless the Creator for being good that does good only from the knowledge of the purpose of creation?
R. Yes but again I am telling you the Creator creates light, forms light and creates the darkness both for the good and for the bad He works on us on both sides so we have no other choice but to relate everything to Him and cleave to Him both from the good side and from the bad side and then it turns out that I adhere to Him fully, He gives us now, especially now, all kinds of exercises they’re still not so great, not so essential exercises and all of the Kabbalists have gone through such similar exercises and more and above that we have to be adhered between us and to the Creator that’s what we need to demand.
51. S. (01:20:59) How to justify the Creator without taking into account the future reward?
R. First of all we need to take into consideration the reward, why not? It depends on what kind of reward, if the reward for me is that I rise above my vessels of reception and I work with the vessel of bestowal and I work with everyone and I wish to see all of humanity connected in one vessel then why wouldn’t I want such reward? We don’t need to yearn for suffering, it’s impossible, rather we need to turn all of these sufferings to the good and advance in this way.
52. S. (01:21:00) How to take advantage of the sublimity that we have in my feelings with my ten and to adhere them as well to the feeling of the Creator?
R. Again.
S. How should we correctly take account of the good feeling that I have towards the benefit of the ten, how should I adhere them to the Creator as well?
R. First of all tell them that the Creator is the good who does good, that’s how it is written about it, Kabbalists write about it in a way that they attain Him, and if we correct ourselves we will also attain Him. There’s nothing unreal about it so we have to advance in this way. Maybe I didn't understand the question, well keep going.
53. S. (01:23:13) In excerpt four it’s written, while this matter of faith in the Creator illuminates to him he’s in an ascent meaning when he understands that it’s worthwhile to work only for the benefit of the Creator and later he has a descent that comes. The question is whether the feeling of good or bad is identical to the feeling of ascent and descent before one attains faith?
R. We have to try nonetheless regardless of where we are even now where we are not yet in the attainment of good who does good, we are not in the force of bestowal nevertheless we need to try and be in such states, play with it so to speak, because by that we draw the reforming light. So please as much as you feel bad I feel a negative influence from all kinds of external sources believe that it all comes from the Creator only from Him that there’s None Else Besides Him and believe that you need to aim yourselves at those negative sources as towards positive sources, this is the meaning of blessing over the bad as over the good, but this is inside this is our internal work and we need to reconcile ourselves this way, rectify ourselves toward the Creator the good who does good, that He did, He is doing and He will do all the deeds and that’s the most correct direction to accept each and every moment the Upper Providence.
54. S. (01:25:17) In excerpt four it’s written but there’s a rule that a Mitzvah drags another Mitzvah. We learned that a Mitzvah is the implementation of the will of the Creator. How should our prayer need to be in descent in exile to not reject everything the Creator gives but to observe the Mitzvah?
R. We need to try as we talked about the voltage rectifier, both the positive states and the negative states we need to straighten them, rectify them, aim them at their source the Creator and accept them all as good. The fact that we are about to discover the world as good, the world is full of light, this is because we are coming to the perception that there is no bad in the world there’s no darkness in the world rather the world is full of light, it’s full of bestowal, love and connection, and there is nothing besides that. So if we aim ourselves, if we bring ourselves closer to such a perception then we approach the corrections so the main thing for us is to identify every state the Creator as good.
55. S. (01:26:54) How not to go down to the state of the spies and how to prevent it because the impression is that they are inside me ready to attack?
R. It all depends only on the extent to which I prepare myself. If I see the Creator and every state and I don’t relate to the bad forces the evil forces can appear before me then that’s how it will be. It’s as Baal HaSulam writes, gaze your eyes at them and they will turn into a pile of bones. That’s how it will be, so it all depends on how we look at it. If we connect and they look at us in such a way that with our gaze we can cancel all of the evil all of it.
56. S. (01:28:14) All of our current study that everything comes from the Creator is for us to come closer to Him is really felt emotionally but the part connection between us is not understood, can you explain how connection between us is the stage that brings us from a bad feeling to justification and adhesion with a Creator?
R. That’s a problem we still haven’t started to connect and consequently we haven’t started feeling or considering how much the connection between us advances us, advances us quickly and correctly. The problem is that there is still no connection between us. There’s some nearing and understanding that we need to work on the connection to discover the goal in the connection between us, but the connection is still not there and attaining the goal in the connection is still not there. I hope it will happen. The Creator is going to give us more exercises, trick us for sure and they’ll probably be more difficult and more beneficial, and we'll advance in this way. I'm not overly excited about it, the important thing is to advance, is to attain during this lifetime the spiritual perception that fits the root of the soul of each one. Is there anything else?
57. S. (01:30:07) Why is the bad the center of attention of all the spiritual and internal work, what is in it?
R. There you go, how again?
S. Why is the bad the evil the center of our attention in all the spiritual and internal work, what is in it?
R. It’s correct because I created the evil inclination, that’s what the Creator is saying, this evil is at the center of creation from the point of view of all the matter and from it we come to self-awareness, to changing, to advancement, to corrections, we establish ourselves from that evil matter opposite the Creator until we arrange ourselves in such a way that this matter will be like the Creator, it will behave in connection and unity and the darkness will shine as light and through that we come to a state that we will shine the light 620 times more in all of creation.
58. S. (01:31:23) Continuing that from excerpt seven, it’s written with the fact that he has the vessel of lowness he has to also be happy and rich, should we appreciate that deficiency more than the filling and if so why?
R. We don’t need to appreciate the deficiency we need to try and be in adhesion and we shouldn’t leave the adhesion we shouldn't just be in a deficiency where a fool sitting idly by tormenting himself eating his own flesh as it says, rather we need to try to bless the bad as we bless the good and in this way we come to bless all of creation from beginning to end and by that we will take a break.