Morning Lesson December 04, 2021, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences from audio
Part 1:
The Soul of Adam HaRishon - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, let's read, we are going to read and study it, and from that we will ask questions, so let’s see what it is about.
Excerpt 1 twice (00:31)
2. R. (02:43) This means that there is only the revelation of the Creator to the created beings, the desire to receive he has created and that revelation in respect to the desire to receive is called the soul. This same revelation is actually not denied to anybody, this is only according to one's desire in each and every person those who yearn to discover the revelation of the Creator, they are called Yashar El, Israel, as we see it from history that some collection of people got together from different nations, from different parts, it does not matter who and what each one was in the ancient Babylon and this is how they built this group called Israel. Those who yearn stand opposite this light that shines on them because the Creator wants to reveal himself and from the side of the Creator, there is no problem, there are no divisions or discernments, instead everything depends on each and everybody how much the person is yearning to receive the revelation of the Creator. This is why each and everybody can reach through his impression, his inspiration, a state where he feels this entire upper light that shines on him and with respect to the person it comes in portions, in parts as we learn about the spiritual Partzufim, Sephirot, Olamot, Worlds, Olam is world, is from concealment. Until the person reaches a state when his desire and attitude to the Creator reaches precisely the same attitude the Creator has to him and then the person has complete revelation. However, to the person there has to be always a complete soul that shines a complete degree of the Creator to the created beings and there are no created beings, there is only a single created being. The fact that it seems to us there are many is because we are not complete, we are not connected between us as we should be connected. But if everyone would nullify and cancel our selfish desire and connect between us in heart and soul. we would feel that we are actually a single structure, a single created being and a single light shines in us. This is what it says that the same soul exist in all the children of Israel complete in each and everybody like in Adam HaRishon as it was to begin with before the breaking the breaking of Adam into many parts since the spiritual is not divisible, in cannot be cut which is the trade of physical things. In corporeality we see that we are divided, we are far away, we are opposite, we are contradictory to each other, in spirituality it is the opposite, when we overcome the ego separating between us, we discover ourselves that we reveal that we are one. They are saying that there are 600000 souls and sparks of souls because this is how we count it, because our structure starts below Bina, ZA and Malchut. Then it becomes the number 60, it appears as the Baal HaSulam says if it was divided by the force of the body in each person, this is how we see this because our body, our will to receive, not the physical body but the spiritual body is called the Guf, the spiritual body of the Partzuf it is still corrupted. So there seems to be many parts, that there are 600000 souls, in other words first the body divides and completely denies him the radiance of the soul. Meaning that it is not capable of receiving a single light that would shine in a single vessel and by the force of the Torah and commandments, through the force of the light that shines on the person, the reforming light and the commandment, that he tries from below to this light to constantly bring forth his desire for correction, then that body is refined, cleansed. According to this refinement and it comes in stages, in degrees to the same extent, that the common soul shines on him more and more. That is, it is only in respect to the person that there is this division, there are degrees and everything is divided into states and times and lights and so on, while in truth outside of the person, if we correct ourselves, if we rise above ourselves then certainly there is nothing besides one light and one vessel.
3. S. (09:30) Since the article is called 600000 Souls, is there a difference or which of these particles goes into the category of the 600000 souls?
R. So here we have to understand that the soul is a godly apart from above – that is, you cannot say that there are souls in everybody but in those who crave for the Creator. The desire to reach, bestowing upon the Creator, identifying with him, connecting with Him which brings the person usually to the study and implementation of the wisdom of Kabbalah so this desire is called Neshama, the soul. Meaning not everybody has souls, as we are saying here, but instead those who crave to unite, who crave for the revelation of the Creator, to come close to the Creator – they do have a soul.
S. What is the measure of the 600,000 souls?
R. This number that we’re talking about – it’s not that they exists as parts and this is how it works – but rather 600000 parts in the soul in the number of degrees that we have: we have 2000 and 2000 and 2000 parts in which we attain the soul, the general light and 600000 souls, it’s when these apart connect more and more until they become one soul. That is, it is not something that is defined and this is how it exists rather it is defined but with respect to – how to say – with respect to the person who attains, that's it. So don't pay attention to these numbers, it is only according to the person's attainment.
4. S. (12:28) Only the people with a point in the heart, you referred to as Yashar El, straight to the Creator, as having a soul. This is my question: at what point, let's say, at the end of the correction – all mankind – that it will also become one soul, is it correct?
R. Yes, there is only a difference in that when we yearn, there are desires that yearn for unification with the Creator so they achieved and attain it freely – unification between them – and there are souls who feel this but they do not have the ability, that preparation by which to understand and carry out coming closer to the Creator. This is called the AHP and we are called the GE – those who crave for it and are able to reach it. And therefore, this is how we learn from Pticha, the Preface, and the wisdom of Kabbalah in general, that we need to discover that inclination and give it a direction, power and connection between us and according to that, get from above the force of the light– as much as we try to connect between us – and with that force of the light that shines on us we are able to able to progress in this way until we reach being in one soul. But, indeed, there is only one soul, one desire and one light: but it’s only with respect to people, human beings, according to the shattering in them, according to the correction in them. This is how they discover that they are either in the multiplicity in desires and small illuminations or already in a single desire and single light.
S. If we continue doing our work will mankind attach themselves to us, Bnei Baruch or Israel, Yashar El?
R. Well, this is already not related to the topic – but yes, certainly, if we will carry out what we should do then we would be closer to each other and we connect more and the light shines within us more and more. And this will also draw all the people in the world because they will accordingly feel how much – relative to us – we have a greater closeness to the Creator. So they will come to us, connect with us, and become like us in that there is nobody who is worse or better, there is only a difference between the parts. To the extent there are parts that are more drawn to closeness to the Creator or less drawn to it; but actually, eventually there is no difference between anybody and anybody. We all join into a single desire that includes all of the individual desires that have been, already, corrected through complete connection between them and by that everything is concluded.
5. S. (16:55) Baal HaSulam writes that the soul is in each and every one, complete?
R. It is the upper light that is wide open to each and everybody however everyone discovers it in his own style. And even now, we cannot depict it. Tell me: how do I hear a certain sound and you hear the same sound – there is a difference between us, for sure, but can we truly compare and measure what the differences are, no. What is the difference in the understanding of a certain concept for you and for me, we cannot. There are such things that we are not at all capable of touching. We realize that apparently it is so, but more than that, because it depends already on the more internal vessels that are not accessible to our sensations. So how do you feel the light, how do I feel that light, with which color and power? We can measure it but nevertheless that measurement is a measurement that does not take into account the inner impression. That already pertains to the feeling and a feeling is something that we cannot measure in our vessels, in our world, but only through the wisdom of Kabbalah, there we can reach it, and then also when we reach it, we reach it through connection between us so then through incorporation between us, in the body of Adam HaRishon, there we are able to connect. and in the mutual connection where each and everybody feels inside the other, the particular Sephirot, then through the incorporation of the Sephirot with Sefirot which we build in such a way than reach a sphere, a circle, instead of some linear measurement; and, then we are able to realize, to understand what it means to be as one man in one heart. What is this concept of ‘being in one heart’? But right now, we do not even know the possibility of how to get close to it. It will come.
S. You just said that each one builds in the other internal Sephirot. What does this mean?
R. In our incorporation, in our connection, each one is incorporated in the other and this way we are in a connection between us, as it says, “go and make a living of each other.” What does it mean to “make a living off each other”? To connect with each other; and, then each one feels in his connection to the others, his particular Sephirot besides the structure that we had to begin with – the fundamental one in each and every one – we begin to make a living, meaning to connect between us and to receive and build all kinds of Sephirot, intermediate Sephirot between us, and through that we begin to see how to complete each other, to the build the right combination and out of that we get to know the Creator.
S. How can I be incorporated with the friends in my 10 in order to build an internal, personal Sefira?
R. We learn it from the Social Articles: we get close to this by implementing what Baal HaSulam and mostly Rabash explain to us – the way how we have to connect with one another. If we try to connect with each other above reason, meaning even though I reject the friend and the friend rejects me but if above this, we nevertheless do connect and take into account – not the corporeal qualities of the person but – his spiritual inclination toward the revelation of the Creator. With that disposition, if I want to connect to this and I raise it above the entire physical, corporeal differences that exist between us, that corporeal feeling, sensation, this is how we feel the system.
6. S. (22:48) It is written in the excerpt about 600000 souls, that they are one common soul. What is the difference between the feeling of this state where we feel that we are one soul and around as there are 599999 souls to a state where we are one soul?
R. To the extent that we know how to connect all our desires into a single desire so that the desires, in truth we cannot connect them, they are all impossible to connect but rather a single desire means a single intention above the desires. The desires remain as they are – each and every one according to their nature instead the connection is only above them in the intention. So, as much as we are able to connect them together, specifically because they are different desires and their intention is a single intention, so we are able by this – how should I put it – to distinguish, to discern, to study the carrier that we feel inside these desires in a very precise manner, truly in an infinite manner. Because the upper light that creates the desire, it gives this desire the ability to be both divided into 600000 souls – 600000 parts. 600000 parts is: Chesed, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod – the six Sephirot times, certainly thousands – and they all unite in Malchut. So then Malchut, out of the fact that it connect all of these 10 Sefirot through restriction and reflected light, and its inclination to the Creator, because in its reflected light it connects to the Creator, which is one, so its perception, also, even though it is a differential – how to say – this discrete perception, despite of that, she, Malchut, connects all of these impressions into a single impression and she feels the Creator as one. And she, Malchut, feels them – all of the created beings as ‘one man in one heart.’ Even though it happens – not in practice, in actuality – but above the broken desires that are far away. And specifically by the fact that there are two states: the state of division and state of connection, then by this, we can specifically reach very precise discernments in the revelation of the Creator to the created beings.
7. S. (26:45) Lately we’ve been hearing more and more about the system of Adam HaRishon, today we learned it more in-depth, on one hand. On the other hand, we see what unity, connection that is powerful is appearing among people and it is a very special quality. There are signs of a new era. I would like to ask about the Congress that we are going to have in the beginning of January. What is its role and how should we prepare ourselves correctly?
R. Look, I am not organizing the Congresses, even the unity evening, even the lesson. I do not determine what the topic will be – I do not decide on anything, it is all your work. And I just recommend that more and more people will connect to that as much as each and every one can belong to this, it will truly be his gain. So I recommend to you to be connected to this, even though this Congress will be in Russian. Its center apparently will be in Moscow as I understand it but that does not matter. We have to accept these things that, well, we still have a division in terms of languages – this comes to us from the shattering of Adam HaRishon, truly – as it is written about it in the Torah. So let us rise above this division, and let's hope that through such states, through such events, we will reach, faster, the connection between us and from that structure that we put together inside this structure, we will discover the wholeness. I have nothing else to say, in short, everything is ahead of us and it is all good.
8. S. (29:21) It is written that “the Creator breathed into the person the soul of life.” What is the difference between the person and the Creator if He breathes the soul of life in him? What separates the person from the Creator, what distinguishes between them?
R. The structure of Adam, of man, is the will to receive which the Creator created – existence out of absence, from nothing that was there before, He created a will to receive. Following that, He filled this will to receive with His light, with the will to bestow on His part; and he broke the connection between them. This connection existed out of the fact that it came from the Creator so the upper light entered into the desire, the will to bestow entered the will to receive and this sustained it out of the fact that the Creator was holding it. Once the Creator takes away His force and there is no longer connection between the will to receive and the will to bestow by the Creator, then they feel themselves –the will to receive and the will to bestow – in an opposite way and this causes them to move away, and to the same extent they become distanced from each other, and from this creation Beria is made. Beria is . . .., ‘outside of the Creator,’ and this is what we’re talking about. And our whole state is about discovering the gap between us and out of this gap between us and the Creator, we will discover how we will know this between the gap between us, between broken parts. So as much as we try to connect and become connected parts opposite the shattering, opposite the forces of rejection, opposite what we call the ego, then by this, we establish the image of the Creator. The Creator, Bo Reh, is called Come and See. As much as we connect ourselves together even though we do not want it – that’s obvious – so to that extent we give the internal force, that light that departed in the shattering of Adam HaRishon, we let it come back and shine in us again, and this is what we have to reach.
9. S. (32:38) What characterizes the person before he attains the level of Neshama?
R. That he is yearning to reach that state and therefore he is willing to perform connection in the ten
10. S. (33:00) If I understood correctly, the work on connection, the yearning for connection should be toward connecting only with the desire for spirituality that there is in the friends. Should we look only at this yearning?
R. Yes.
S. What happens when there is a strong feeling of remoteness towards all the other desires. There’s repulsion in corporeality but you appreciate only the desire for spirituality and at that point, you connect. So what about the place which was very far before and you cannot come closer?
R. None of these matters, we just want to have an internal connection around this subject that inside the connection between us, we want to discover the Creator in order to give Him contentment.
S. When we connect at the inner point, what happens to the rejections we had before – the corporeal rejection –, will it disappear or does it stay?
R. It is according to the general state, those disturbances, they can either grow or they disappear and it’s in all kinds of different forms. We have to understand that this all comes from and revealed according to the need for the general correction.
11. S. (34:28) No translation
R. It is against our will to receive, it is against our ego. There is nothing more important than overcoming the separation and certainly only in that is our work.
12. S. (34:59) What is the process of building your Sefirot in the other?
R. This incorporation comes to the extent that we try to come closer to each other, and later on we begin to discover how much truly the connection is done between us internally. We are beginning to come back to that structure of Adam HaRishon, one man, one Adam, but it is not yet. Soon.
13. S. (35:40) What are the Sephirot in the connection between us?
R. That we need to reach from all the particular Sephirot that are in each and every one to a structure of incorporation in each other, as much as possible and to the extent that we connect with one another, according to that we begin to feel what incorporation actually means. We have to attain these things and we attain these things only through actions.
14. S. (36:27) What is the difference between the soul and the sparks of the soul?
R. Well, for the time being, we have no difference however just our parts – smaller parts and even smaller parts. So that’s how he calls it.
15. S. (36:43) Did Adam HaRishon have a Guf, meaning a will to receive?
R. Adam HaRishon? Of course, it’s a will to receive. Besides the Creator, everything that exists is only the will to receive that He created.
16. S. (36:59) How do I know that I received a soul, that I have a soul?
R. According to how I feel about the Creator. The soul is a part of God above, from above, when I get this impression, this excitement from the Creator – even the smallest that comes into my connection with the friends – accordingly we do come closer to the Creator, to be incorporated with the Creator.
17. S. (37:44) What does it mean that the soul shines to the person in the 10?
R. That soul is the general light, the common light that should fill the Guf of Adam HaRishon. It is called the soul because what we have, what comes to us through Keter and Hochma comes from above, and from the middle of Bina, Zeir Anpin and Malchut are already the light that expands toward the created beings. So – how to say it – this is why we accept it in this way, through our vessels, it is called the ZAT, the seven bottom Sefirot of the spiritual Partzuf.
18. S. () What does it mean from the first excerpt that “initially the body divides and completely denies him the radiance of the soul”?
R. That our body, our will to receive in general is called ‘our Guf,’ our body, it’s opposite from the upper light therefore it doesn't let the light to spread into it because there is no equivalence between the desire and the light. But when we correct the desire with the intention to bestow according to the equivalence between the desire to bestow from the desire and from the light, the light enters the desire. Of course as we learn it is through restriction, the screen and reflected light and coupling by striking that fills the desire and then accordingly there is unity between the light and the desire.
19. S. (39:57) Is the soul the quality of bestowal?
R. The soul is the quality of bestowal that the person receives from above through his identification, his similarity with the Creator.
20. S. (40:16) In a perfect connection with the 10, can we reach the state of 600000 Souls or is that only through the connection of the entire world Kli?
R. It is enough with the 10 to start receiving it. Afterwards it is as it is written, “man's soul will teach him.” We will learn everything afterwards. From the 10 onward, we will learn through what we reveal in the 10, this is called “man's soul will teach him”.
21. S. (40:45) If in Adam HaRishon, there was both love and fear to the Creator?
R. Yes of course, but in such a way that he still did not scrutinize it, he still did not acquire it, himself.
Excerpt 2 “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot Masbirot", No. 22 twice (41:12)
22. R. (43:34) This means that in this differential, discrete way where each connects and corrects something and they connect in bigger and bigger blocks until they come to the complete common structure, at the end of the complete structure of Adam HaRishon and you can explain things in this way.
23. S. (44:05) It says here that the desire to receive was created, later on the Creator breathed into it the breath of life, it was broken and smashed, so when does it become the created being?
R. A created being means that he has his own authority, that he isn't really governed or under the control of the higher power but instead he begins to acquire independence, you can see that from that moment on it becomes a created being. Of course it is not in the state he is not in its mother's womb even afterwards when it grows after he is born, when can we say that the person in this life becomes independent, an independent individual? According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is from the age of 13, we have to learn but age 13 means, from that moment on the person seemingly becomes independent. That is if we are talking about people, if we are talking about the spiritual vessel then for the desire to receive to be able to perform a restriction on itself, at least to decide whether to receive or not to receive, from that point on we can talk about independence. Before there is no independence, it is the desire to receive and the will to receive confuses the person, throws him from side to side to educate him and make him grow and come to a state when he wants to rise above the desire to receive. This is our goal in the end to discover that we want to be above the desire to receive.
S. That is, this is the end of the created being, the end of the thought?
R. I do not know what you mean, it is the beginning of the spiritual development, it is the beginning of spiritual development when I reach the restriction. Restriction means that from here on I can develop in some independent way, to the extent I put a restriction on my desire to receive, I am already not completely governed by the Creator. The Creator gave us a desire to receive, I through my efforts acquired the ability to rise above the desire to receive and from here on, I begin my free will, my free will from the Creator from the desire to receive the Creator created and then I can begin to become similar to Him, to yearn for the desire to bestow.
24. S. (47:49) You said we should not worry about the numbers, like 600,000. Did you mean to say that it is insignificant for us due to our lack of attainment, or it is really not important?
R. We need to learn the numbers. They are all connected to the spiritual system, they have no basis in our world here. All the years, degrees, minutes, hours, all the degrees we should only learn them in the spiritual system to the extent that we rise from the will to receive to the will to bestow. There, we will be able to give the right characteristics to all those numbers. For now, we can’t because we haven't started attaining connection among us and attain spirituality in order to feel something in it. So to give it degrees or numbers, we can’t, we don’t have the basis for it.
25. S. (49:56) What is the relationship between generations and Partzufim [faces]?
R. No connection. Partzufim are what we design, what we receive in the will to receive with the intention to bestow. Generations, we are not talking about this world. Generations are what we create in the Partzufim that come one by one, one after the other, as we build our degrees of corrections.
26. S. (50:54) In the article he speaks about the wheel of transformation of form in many bodies. What does that mean?
R. That the will to receive divided into many particular desires, and each one can exist and correct itself, and help the others exist and correct themselves. Then, this mutual help, where each one corrects himself in connecting to the others, and not that all of us at once which was the case in the beginning when the will to receive was one, now that it is divided, we can do the work in many parts individually, personally. In this way, we don't get stuck in the big egoistic will to receive but in small egoistic desires, and we can correct them one at a time.
27. S. (52:23) How is the connection between the parts of the soul and their progeny, how is that done?
R. I could not hear it.
S. How is the connection done between the different parts of the soul and the progeny of Adam
HaRishon?
R. Afterwards, all the progeny of Adam HaRishon which are particular pieces of his soul, all those generations come together, unite together in each generation and come once again into one Partzuf.
28. S. (53:52) What does it mean progeny? What happens in states that we don’t manage to correct?
R. Every single state is called a generation. Every form of connection, a different connection, an increased connection that brings us closer to the end of correction is also a generation. This is how we call these things. All the states that come toward the general correction are called ‘generations or progenies.’
S. What happens with states that we don’t manage to correct?
R. You will have to correct them in a different way, after a blow, after all kinds of other things. But you can’t neglect things and leave them uncorrected - the correction has to be complete. No one will correct besides that desire that needs to be corrected, because it is the flaw that is in him.
29. S. (55:05) The restriction of the desire?
R. Yes.
30. S. (55:16) He opens the article with the words ‘’because of the sin of the Tree of Knowledge.’’ How do we feel the sin in the daily life of each one of us, or in general in the ten?
R. Just feel it, that you are not connected to the friends and therefore, there is no upper light between you that can connect you together and give you the feeling of the soul.
S. How do we correct this sin?
R. Try to connect with the friends into one desire, one intention, one direction, one goal. There is no other way.
31. S. (56:27) What is the ‘Sweat of Life?’ Why does Baal HaSulam use this concept?
R. The ‘Sweat of Life’ is a very tiny fraction, tiny illumination from the real upper light. This is why it is called that way.
32. S. (56:49) How did it happen that Adam HaRishon started to change its form when there is no change in the Creator?
R. For this we need to learn about ‘the Sin of the Tree of Knowledge.’ Adam HaRishon failed that he could add in his adhesion to the Creator, to the adhesion that he received from birth, because he was born, it is called ‘circumcised,’ without the evil inclination that was revealed in him later. Therefore, he did not, he could not add something, if he did not have a bad desire. So he was looking how could he adhere to the Creator even more, and he discovered that this is what he was missing. This is called ‘pulling on his foreskin.,’ Because of it, he could not resist it. It was planned, so he could not resist it. Once the great light was revealed - the great pleasure, above that screen that he was born with, that is what happened. By this, he fell from his degree and lost connection with all his parts which the upper light connected. This is how it continues until now. We are here and this feeling of this world, which is also spirituality but it is broken, an opposite spirituality. We have to carry out this path for connection among us until we come to feel the power of Adam.
33. S. (59:02) Why is it easier to correct many small egoistic desires than one great egoistic desire?
R. It is yours to correct small desires. They are small in both quantity and quality so you can overcome them, as opposed to big desires. It is obvious, even from our life. This is why the correction, from the perspective of the Creator, who is that He created the big will to receive and correspondingly a big light, and He broke the will to receive through the light. There is a correspondence between the will to receive and the light, there is congruence between them. Then, you can now perform small corrections through small connections.
34. S (01:00:02) Should we correct only the desires that do not enable us to connect in the ten and how can we distinguish between them and corporeal desires at the beginning of the path?
R. Corporeal desires aren't that important to us. We need to pay attention only to the connections between us in the ten and that is it. In other words we needn't work on limiting our desire to receive, to eat less, to drink less, breathe less, not allow ourselves all kinds of things, no. We need only yearn to desire to be closer to each other. This is really our big commandment, our main commandment.
35. S. (01:01:12) What does it mean that at the end of the excerpt where it says that the light of life which was packed or bundled in the nostrils of Adam HaRishon and has expanded into a long chain revolving on the wheel of transformation of form in many bodies, body after body, until the necessary end of correction. What does this mean?
R. That is what he says, I have nothing more to say, it's a big will to receive and just imagine it this way. Simple. In order to bring it to the intention to bestow you break it into small pieces so we have a small egoistic desire, and then you correct each and every part from in order to receive to in order to bestow that also is not simple as we feel it. Each of us is one of those pieces that has to correct itself of the aim to receive into in order to bestow. In all of our thoughts and desires and actions. Still it is possible as opposed to what would be if we were in one desire.
Excerpt 3 (01:02:44 - 01:05:17)
36. R. After the sin of Adam HaRishon when they will to receive was one with one night, it broke into small pieces and then we, meaning each of us is a part of that desire that broke and in each of us there is a little bit of light that remains from the shattering and through our actions in connection between us in the ten we have to try to come closer to each other. Of course this isn't physical closeness, but internal as much as we can, as much as we can ask the Creator and then by this, we draw on ourselves the reforming light and our plea to the Creator to bring us closer to each other is called raising MAN and by receiving from above the reforming light, it builds the screen between us, connection between us. Then we begin to discover in this connection the upper light which gives us the feeling. What feeling does it give us? That we want to be connected together on top of the coarseness and in this way, we reveal the upper force in us.
37. S. (01:07:42) What does it mean that there were sparks of reflected light after the sin of the tree of knowledge, does this refer to the connection with the Creator?
R. Of course, that same light that we had and that was in Adam HaRishon on the level of bestowing and connection, but natural that came to him from birth. All that was left was only residue, the records and we need to raise these records and use them correctly.
38. S. (01:08:37) How do I feel my friends point in the heart to connect between them?
R. Try to show them how much you have this disposition toward them and afterward you will see that you do identify and detect that they have the same disposition toward you. But you start with yourself.
39. S. (01:09:31) My question is about excerpts one and three, about the quotes from the book of Genesis, it says: and he breathed into his nostrils the solar breath of life and so he uses the word nostrils in plural and the second one in Panim u Masbirot, he wrote he breathed into his nostrils the eternal breath of life and it says nose in singular form instead of plural?
R. It is of no importance, drop your philosophical research as it will not help you. It depends on how he looks at the structure as one structure or by the breaking into many pieces and many yearns to return to the one according to his yearning it is regarded as one or according to what is happening in practice which is still broken. You don't need to delve into that, just think about the essence of the matter and the Kabbalists write correctly.
S. I was wondering if it was important.
R. Good luck.
40. S. (01:11:19) Bestowal, the influence of the mutual dependency between us, does this grow as we get closer to the correction of the soul?
R. Of course
S. Is this considered Independence?
R. No independence we will learn what that is, I can’t explain independence is in one word. Independence from whom or what.
41. S. (01:11:54) How do we accelerate the system of Adam HaRishon to prevent all kinds of disasters or nuclear Wars etc.?
R. Only through connection, just as you learn what we learn. We can't keep ourselves from going into great suffering as Baal HaSulam writes about it that there might even be a third or even fourth world war and it all depends upon us. Now humanity is before a very complicated situation. Our advancements and progress is a negative progress. We are not drawn to come closer to connect among us and by wanting to raise our standard of living to satisfy our egoistic vessels we are growing even farther from each other. Look what is happening with the countries, with Nations and so we have a problem here. That we are opposite from where we should be heading. This is why we are reaching this crisis, or how should I put it, where we, instead of performing corrections and getting closer to each other, we are moving away from each other, apart. Our development economically and technological development is pushing us apart and away from each other and this is why we are approaching a very big crisis. It will not be immediate, at once but bit by bit we will start descending and declining from the state that we are in into far worse situations. It is not the fault of one specific person, it is everyone. The fact that they are developing egotistically. So this is how we will find ourselves, that we have to perform corrections but through the path of suffering. Yes, I guess this is what might happen, or if we come closer to each other, we have a huge power, those who study the wisdom of Kabbalah. If we bring ourselves closer to each other, by this we can prevent many disasters all over the world. All the crises are ahead of us. We might be able to turn these crises into a sense but if not, then that is what is ahead of us and ahead of us meaning ahead of the entire world, the entire world. We cannot turn anything into good, look at what is happening with technological developments, or anything.
42. S. (01:16:13) We studied before that on our behalf the effort is annulment and that is our main action and we get a screen from the Creator for that action, if with the friends we speak about the importance of annulment all day and we asked the Creator for forces, we include in our friends and against the rejection we hold on and keep asking for it. At what stage will we understand that we have a screen?
R. When you can rise above your egos to connect, that’s it. To be in connection, at the center of the group will be more important than any other state.
S. But it constantly rejects us?
R. Well of course you will feel that you are going further and accordingly opposite that you want to increase the connection between you, of course, what are you complaining about that you have disturbances? How will you advance without disturbances?
S. I guess I'm trying to understand what the difference is between this work and having a screen?
R. You don't have a screen, how do you have a screen? A screen means a force to overcome the forces of resistance. People discover that they reject each other, hate each other and can't stand each other, by their own nature and on the other hand they overcome these tendencies to drive apart from each other and they connect. That is the work and that means they acquire a screen. A force to overcome the force of resistance. The force of connection above that of resistance that dwells upon them and that is the Masach.
S. In what way is it separated because nobody wants to do this work and being rejected but the fact that we are remaining together isn't considered?
R. No that is still is not considered an actual screen, you don't yet discover such forces of resistance, rejection that you hold on to each other together consciously, you don't pray to the Creator to give you the force of connection above the force of rejection, you don't hold on to each other by the teeth to not let go, you don't yet discover the forces of hatred and rejection and mutual criticism that exists between each and everyone in the group so that on top of that you can begin to discover the force of connection which can only appear above that of rejection. The force of connection will help you to discover the Creator.
43. S. (01:20:11) How much is it necessary to pray for the whole world if there cannot be a connection before connection between us?
R. That is based on what you feel that you lack. We lack understanding of how far apart we are and how much we have to get closer and what we are even lacking, all of those things put them into the prayer, what is it that you are lacking in order to achieve the first state of connection where you discover that you are together emotionally and discovering the Creator in the connection between you.
44. S. (01:21:18) If we reach a certain level of connection in the ten in the world Kli, is this enough to stop the crisis and change the unpleasant future that is expected for humanity?
R. I can't say that you will be able to do it right away but going into spirituality was such a great group like Bnei Baruch that will certainly drastically change the State of Affairs in the world, our state for certain and in the world as well.
45. S. (01:22:10) What is preventing us from connecting and coming closer to one another?
R. The ego between you, especially among the women. On the other hand, I actually think that women will be more successful than men.
46. S. (01:22:31) Is bringing life to the vessel as it says in the text, in the ten, does this happen thanks to these sparks of holiness from the previous step we were in or are there always new sparks of holiness?
R. New sparks of holiness. Each time it's a new state with all of its details.
47. S. (01:22:57) The sin of Adam HaRishon, the corrected one, is it desire that becomes one mutual desire?
R. When we connect to all of these desires, we certainly connect different desires and what brings them together is the intention to the Creator, that each one is willing to be connected with the others in order to direct himself to the Creator because without connection to others I can't direct myself to adhesion with the Creator. So I connect with everyone else and by connection with them I direct myself to connection with the Creator.
48. S. (01:23:43) Is all of our life raising the Reshimot, records? How do we not forget it in order to not fall into the corporeal world?
R. One will help his friend and we have to remind each other that our whole work is to raise deficiencies for connection between us to reach a state where the Creator can be revealed within us.
49. S. (01:24:10) How can the ten receive the screen, can we describe it emotionally?
R. When the goal will be important to you more than all kinds of other calculations between you.
Excerpt 4 “What Is the Degree One Should Achieve in Order Not to Have to Reincarnate?"
(01:24:43 - 01:27:39) Twice
Song (01:27:30 - 01:30:31)
50. R. (01:30:34) He tells us very simply. Rav reads & comments ‘’For example, a king wanted to send a large number of gold coins to his son overseas, but all of his countrymen were thieves,’’ then, he spread it to parts. Then, by bringing all of these parts together, after they are sent to his son, then his son receives the whole package from his father. Same with us, we receive the light of Ein Sof [Infinity] from the Creator. The world of Ein Sof [Infinity] we can't hold on to that in order to bestow, we can't receive it in order to bestow. The Creator shatters His light and His Kli [vessels] to little pieces and spreads them through everyone, each and every one, until each and every one corrects themselves. By that, we can reach a state where each one receives his part in order to bestow, to connect with everyone else, and once again, we go back to the single Kli that is in order to bestow. That is how we achieve the final correction. So our whole work, between the beginning of creation and the end of creation, is where we are separated from each other. Bit by bit, we discover how separated we are in a more and more accurate way, and we connect accordingly in a more intense way until we achieve the final correction. That is what we got now.
51. S. (01:32:48) Can you explain many souls and divisions into lights?
R. All in all, we don’t have more than light and Kli [vessels]. In the division between these lights and vessels we find all the divisions that you see in this world, to hours and days, and people, and seasons of the year - whatever you can think of. All of those things come from the integration of this and this, and that Sefirot, and that builds all the discernments that we have within us. What we need to do with all these discernments is rise above them, connect above them, and connect to the Creator who is one. Then, from the different desires we all want to create a single desire that is connected to its source - a single Creator. That is it. Everything that is in between, that is awakening in us, days, nights, different discernments, it will all disappear. It will take on a different shape in spirituality.
52. S. (01:34:29) Why should I not want to steal that penny that I am carrying? Because our job is to increase the importance of spirituality, why won’t I want to make it bigger and then steal it?
R. You will not want to steal because it is not worthwhile for you, because of what others will think of you. If there is a million dollars in front of you, you will take it and you won't think that much. But if it is just one dollar, you will think whether you are going to do this or not. The same with each and every one of us. The level, where I decide to steal versus not to steal, is called the level of the Masach [screen].
S. My friends are saying how important it is and it's worth stealing.
R. What is worth stealing?
S. But I believe that it is great, and I want to receive it.
R. Where do you have the opportunity to steal what you are talking about?
S. My point in the heart. If it becomes important, spirituality becomes important. Then, I feel the love and I start engaging in spirituality in order to receive it, so that is stealing it.
R. Yes. When you start to engage in corporeality instead of spirituality it is like you are stealing, then what?
S. So there is a danger here?
R. There is no danger, because, to begin with, you are in a state of Klipot [shells]. To begin with, this is where you are.
S. Okay let’s hope.
R. We are all in the ‘sweat of the shells,’ meaning it is the littlest degree of the will to receive.
53. S. (01:36:50) How do we know that spiritual discernments are not an illusion of my imagination?
R. If it is spirituality, it is between the friends and the group when you try to achieve connection between you in order to rise above each and every one's personal desire. Think about it.
Excerpt 5 “Man's Actions and Tactics" (01:37:26) Twice
54. S. (01:39:30) From what we read, it is felt that the corrections are splatted into parts according to our qualities? Then they come gradually according to our ability to work in the ten? Then, there are points of connection, that even thinking about them brings criticism in the ten and the Rav comes in. Can we say that if we don't speak about it, we are actually stealing advancement?
R. I can't answer you with this. There are many details here and I can't get into that. It has to do with the scrutiny that is inside the group, and who knows what is standing behind your words and how you will later use them in the ten. Therefore, I am sorry, but I don’t have an answer to that. The main thing is that you need to gather, you need to scrutinize these things together and not stop in the middle, and not stay separated after the scrutiny, but to reach a state where all the scrutinies end at unity among you. That is it. Not that one will feel right and the other won’t, and so on. The main thing is to reach connection.
S. In general, can we say that these rejections are essential to build a screen?
R. Masach [screen] means that I rise above my will to receive in order to connect with everyone, and the same with each and everyone. Then, from our efforts we are building a single screen, and then the upper light can sit in the place of the screen.
S. So we can say that if we are already doing it and bringing the criticism, my goal should be annulment in the ten?
R. Yes, that is correct. You can look at it like that for now, even though there are many questions about that.
55. S. (01:42:14) What is that treasure that each one of us got that we shouldn't steal?
R. His part in the general Kli [vessel].
S. Why is the division making it possible that we won't steal?
R. Because it is not worthwhile for you to steal, it is not worthwhile. Let's say you go to some city and I'm asking you, I am giving you $10 and I am asking you to give it to my friend, and when you go to him and give him the $10, you are going to meet him and see what you can do together with him, and you will be friends about it, and so on. So it is not worthwhile in your calculation for $10 to ruin the relationship with me and with that friend, and to perhaps cut yourself off of some positive continuation there. That is what happens. Each one is given exactly the amount of light, in each and every moment in his life, that he can cope with and receive it in order to bestow, meaning to be connected to the purpose of creation in such a way that it is the only thing you are aimed at. That is for each and every one, the Creator doesn't want to fail anyone. If He does that, it is only for the purpose of education and correction.
56. S. (01:44:22) It is written, ‘the sons follow in his ways, making Zivugim until this world is made, with seventy nations, and from within them, the seed of Israel.’’ What does it mean that they follow in his ways, what does it have to do with this world?
R. It doesn't have to do with this world. It is all about spirituality and that is what we do throughout many corrections one after the other, he talks about it like that. Our corporeality doesn't correct anything, it only brings us more and more burdening of the heart and states we need to correct. That is its job.
S. What are the 70 nations in Adam HaRishon? What is the connection between the 70 nations and the structure of Adam HaRishon?
R. It is the structure of Adam Zeir Anpin and Malchut. All together it is 70 nations, 7 times 10, that is it. That if they shatter ZON, if they are shattered, then we have to correct them by connecting them with Bina. Then, Bina corrects them and fulfills them. To the extent that ZON can connect with Bina, they go into impregnation, then suckling and then Mochin [adulthood] - three levels that ZON has to rise in order to be connected to Bina.
57. S. (01:46:10) If according to the excerpt and what you said, it is built in a way that there is no possibility or it's not worth stealing because each one has a small part. Why is all of humanity in general going…
R. Humanity doesn't belong to that. We are only talking about those who have an inclination towards the Creator. Why are you asking about humanity?
S. We can't be late in our part in the general structure, in general development, and be on the path of suffering?
R. I don't understand you.
S. There is a path of suffering and a path of Torah. According to this excerpt, there is supposedly only the path of Torah that is built in a way that each one has a small part, and it is not worth stealing it?
R. Yes, but they do.
S. Yes. So that is the question, why?
R. Why do they steal? Because we don't see that we are not gaining anything by that. We only care about what is in our hands, what happens afterwards we don't care. See what happens in the world. Humanity is not thinking about what happens tomorrow - I am just going to burn all the trees and go crazy with the carbon emissions or whatever, I don't care about anything even if there's going to be a flood next. See what happens, so what are you asking?
S. It is clear that humanity doesn't see anything, but I am asking about us only now.
R. We, too, aren't thinking about anything. If we were, then humanity would receive this influence from us, and it would change as well, we would attract them to a different route.
S. What is written in the excerpt is from above, but on our behalf we're not in this yet, we are stealing?
R. We are certainly stealing, we are not taking anything into account, of course. He is writing about the corrected state where we work to move from place to place, each one his penny, and then ultimately bring all the pennies into a great sum total.
S. He created this potential in us?
R. Of course, everything is ready for correction.
58. S. (01:49:07) In order to build a Masach [screen] we have to rise above rejections inside our connection. If my ten appears to my eyes as Klipa [shell], how can I ask the Creator to connect with them? It is like it doesn't belong to me, it doesn’t belong to my soul, and I want to unite with something outside of me, and I can't overcome this rejection and greater will to receive. I feel that the last couple days that I'm out of control, so what can I do in this state?
R. The fact that you can't take control of your will to receive that is a very good sign that you are at the border where the Creator gave you a shattered will to receive according to your state, your degree, in a good manner to your level, that is one. Two, thinking that it is your will to receive after all, where you see the friends in the group and the whole world, that too is good. He is showing you that He is doing it to you, that you criticize the whole world and everything is in your hands. So please, start correcting it, invert it so that, first of all, it comes from ‘’none else besides Him,’’ the group is not to blame in anything, and you are not to blame, but the Creator is playing this game, He is putting you in front of this broken state. Now, try to bring the state to a corrected state. Try within your heart to bring everyone together, don't criticize anyone, and bring everyone to a single Kli [vessel] where the Creator dwells. Try with all of you might to visualize that, that will be the closest to the truth.
S. Bringing everyone into one Kli, connecting all the ten, should I raise MAN or should I work on intention, annul before them?
R. Yes, of course. Anything that you won't be able to do to bring them to a complete form, to a complete Kli with a complete fulfillment, for that you need to ask the Creator to give you the ability, the opportunity, to see it that way.
59. S. (01:52:42) It feels like we have entered some barrier, some wall that we can't pass. It is like we built everything, we read the excerpts, we have friends on duty, we have a prayer, we have phone calls, we have Zoom during the day, but it is like just formal and mechanical - we are doing everything. What can we add? How can we connect internally with one another with the great souls of Baal HaSulam and Rabash? Because we incorporate them in our ten when we read the articles, but we don't feel it.
R. That is exactly what you need. You have to pray to feel Baal HaSulam, Rabash, all of the great Kabbalists, that were in connection with the Creator, that they will be as a bridge that connects between you, your ten to the Creator. More importantly, if you pray for the entire world Kli, don't think that it is something, just this little thing. It is a very important Kli, a vessel that is in contact with the Creator, even though he doesn’t feel it. We first have to connect to it, because that is what before us, between us and the Creator, that is how He created it. So let us think how to do it in order to really discover ourselves on the degree of correction. Only to pray, that is what we are left with, but the scrutiny we have to scrutinize all these topics for a prayer.
60. S. (01:55:00) no translation
R. Yes. Part of the general soul is what we get every time. It doesn't matter whether we understand or not, whether we succeed or not, our contact to the general soul corrects us already. We don't understand where we are, our state is very advanced.
61. S. (01:56:09) In a true state we see that prayer and MAN are the same. But in our state can we raise MAN, or MAN only happens after the Machsom [barrier]?
R. We also raise MAN. Each desire that goes through us rises to the Creator and is accepted there and makes changes in the whole Kli [vessel]. It is not that we are aware of it or understand it or make any calculations and so on. It even works in a way that we are not aware.
62. S. (01:57:02) That there are forthcoming crisis is clear, but specifically within the ten there are people that my friends love and people that I love. What can we do within the ten to protect them, specifically?
R. We have to show a nice, good attitude towards everybody, towards everybody. That is called killing with love. Show everybody how you are relating to them in a good way. That is it. In that way, someone that comes against you will get damage, a blow, because you are relating to him good and he is relating to you bad.
63. S. (01:58:30) After the unity event I heard we are in a new stage of connections around the world. Now you answered a friend to pray for the whole world Kli and that was more important, so what is this new direction?
R. We can advance in a way that we couldn't before by the general influence of the world BB and it is worth using it because it is really a great force and we shouldn't miss out on it. Let's use this Kli vessel to advance, meaning I want to establish the general International Group before me.
S. How does that happen in the ten?
R. That each ten will think how they are in this big vessel of the world BB and by this we feel ourselves trapped by all our friends around the world. It really helps as we are all advancing through the surrounding light each and every one in each and every ten and all of the tens together. So let us use this more.
Excerpt 6 Baal HaSulam, "From My Flesh I Shall See God” (02:00:08)
64. R. (02:00:45) Each and every one attends the soul of Adam HaRishon completely.
Excerpt 7 - Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 4 (02:05:53)
65. R. (02:01:10) That is all we need to do to take all of the shattered desires, thoughts and anything that we are aiming toward anything and connect everything to one thing. That in the connection between us we connect to the Creator because it all comes from him to begin with and it is all shattered.
Reader continues Excerpt 7 Baal HaSulam, (02:01:34)
Excerpt 8: "These Are the Generations of Isaac" Item 3 (02:02:26) Twice
66. S. (02:03:53) It talks about seventy nations of the world and the seed of Israel but if only Israel builds the system of Adam, why do you need the nations of the world?
R. The seat of Israel means Yashar -El straight to the creator, you see how many we do have here, women and from all countries and all kinds see, everybody are descendants of Adam HaRishon. Meaning the same desire that had a yearning for the Creator. Then it turns out, all in all, that is what we need. To connect ourselves that there will be a bigger stronger desire and then we will discover our connection in the system of Adam HaRishon and the creator that created it, the system, and in this way we can succeed.
67. S. (2:05:06) What do our actions add to the soul of man so that it is similar to the soul of Adam HaRishon?
R. That is something very important. We are adding the problems, deficiencies, failures, questions, all disturbances that we have to the connection with the Creator. Then through overcoming all of these difficulties we increase the connection between us and the Creator 620 times more between us and the Creator compared to what was in Adam HaRishon. We say he was in the Garden of Eden and supposedly was speaking to the Creator that he had a direct connection with the higher force. We advance even more from the degree of Bina where Adam was to the degree of Keter because Adam HaRishon as it was written he was born circumcised. Meaning he didn't have the big desire to receive. That is why when he goes through these corrections that he pulled the Olam, meaning he got the bigger desire to receive and then he has the evil inclination and then he corrects the evil inclination, then he reaches from connecting to the Creator on the Bina to connect to the Creator on the degree of Keter. That is actually the same result that is desired that Is unique that we attain. We have to return to the system of Adam with all the conditions that we have and then we will be 620 times greater than what he was. He doesn't have the vessels of reception because Adam HaRishon was born circumcised as he was on the degree of Bina and we come with all of our ego, all of our will to receive to that degree of connection with the Creator. That is why we get 620 times more. 620 times more connections with the Creator and greater. We attain all reality many times more instead of the light of Nefesh or Neshama and also not entirely, we reach the lights of NRNHY. This is all thanks to the shattering.
68. S. (02:08:22 Is this the difference between the created being as it was created and how it connects after the shattering?
R. I don't understand, the created being before the shattering is not a created being because he is not disconnected from the Creator. That is how it is and the created being after the shattering has an evil inclination and is worthy of correction, worthy of connection.
69. S. (02:09:00) After the center of the tree of knowledge they created being himself wanted to bestow to the Creator?
R. Maybe we will learn about it but it is not simple, no. After the sin man desires to be in the state that he has but from his new vessels which is his shattered will to receive and that is why his tendency to fill himself in the same as that he had before is already not a sacred tendency but a Klipa and that is why he falls.
70. S. (02:10:06) It says that one Adam was born from the couplings, the children were born. What is a coupling about?
R. With his will to receive, the part that remains from the desire to bestow and then he gives birth to new desire. We can't get into this as I need to really draw and show where it is and it would be a mess. For now we need to just accept it the way it is.
71. S. (02:10:24) As a result of the lesson, what is the desired state we should yearn for in the ten?
R. I think that we need to understand our path more. That we need to connect between us more, that we need to toss all kinds of thoughts and desires off of ourselves that don't belong to the goal and that we will really reach a state that we are connected and connected to the Creator. First of all, I'm really happy that there are questions from the women and the questions from the women are not less strong than the men’s oh, they are even more turned around in the way. Good for the women. I'm not saying it to awaken you but it is really true. What we do want is to connect to more and show us an example of how to connect. The women are used to working against their ego in a way that also, home, family, everywhere that they are able to take on themselves control upon them to work against their desire and it is an obligation they just do. The men don't go through giving birth and taking care of children, that is why they are like children. I talked about this a lot but it is like that what can you do? That is why men need to correct themselves more because they get the ego in a natural way from nature and with the women, they have the force to overcome such desires that can connect above the ego to begin with they have an overcoming above it. That is why all of the corrections and commitments are mainly on men and not on women. So let's do this, we have all the 8 quotes before us from our lesson, the soul of Adam HaRishon, let's discuss between us.
72. S. (02:14:36) About excerpt number 8, it says corresponding to every organ there is a creation in the world, what does that mean and what does he want to explain to us here?
R. All creation is divided into many parts and details. In the corporeal world we also see a copy of all of the details in the spiritual world. Even though world Olam comes from the word for concealment. Even though there are concealments, there are all kinds of connections that resemble spiritual connections.
S. If there is some kind of creature in the ocean, then we will not achieve connection until we reach the desires of that creature?
R. You are included in all desires of all those in reality, you are included in them because of the shattering, everyone is included with everyone and this is why if you correct what is in you, yourself by this you are correct in the whole world. The individual and the general equal.
S. This means in all levels of development, for all four levels?
R. yes.
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WSQ: What can we see as a result of what we just went through in this present lesson? What can we say about the soul of Adam, how each of us can correct the soul that we are the result of the shattering, what did we attain by being shattered and what do we attain by being connected?