Morning Lesson August 5, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: We should try to depict to ourselves how we are connected among us in our desire, our inclination and our tendency above the desire and above our disposition. Forcefully, even though we have no desire, we should try to get closer to the goal. That the goal is pulling us, connecting us and the Creator who is one for all of us, unites us all and connects us. In this way we become a drop. the minute we achieve such a connection among us where we are like a drop of sperm, meaning our desires, intentions, goals are more or less the same, as much as we can and then some. There must be an effort. That effort is the prayer. Then the Creator glues this drop, with His love, to Himself. This is called ‘the drop of the sperm being attached to the wall of the womb.’ It is when the desires from Malchut come to Bina and try to cling to the outer crust, the outer membrane of Bina. Of Course afterwards there will be more operations. But the first contact, as we read, is the miraculous and very important act called ‘creating a form within a form’. A form of the will to receive is included in the desire to bestow, which is the Creator.
Let's try to picture ourselves all together wanting to adhere to the upper force which is one. Therefore we must be as one. As it is written ‘one receives one.’ In this way we will try to be incorporated in Him so that His heart will rejoice in us. This is what is ahead of us. The point of annulment, the point of connection and the point of adhesion with the Creator. Those three stops we have to go through. Then we will become an embryo. All of the external conditions are in our favor. All of the inner conditions are in favor of each and every one, but above it we have to yearn for the connection among us and with the Creator. Although some are more successful in this and some are less successful, here is our effort. A habit becomes second nature. The more that we want to see ourselves together and in the Creator, the more that it will happen. In this we are certain to immediately bring Him contentment.
2. S. (4:25) Yesterday you spoke about how we need to think of a question from the 10, and the question came out. The question is that we all have separate souls so how can we bring these separate souls into one?
R. We were once one soul that was called Adam HaRishon, meaning the beginning of the soul. That one soul was divided into a myriad of pieces. A great many pieces. In the Wisdom of Kabbalah it is called 600,000 pieces, particular individual souls. And other pieces and sparks, etc. When we try to return to being as one man with one heart, we awaken the general inclusive light that was in that one soul; which was received in that one big desire that existed opposite from the light, corresponding to the light.
So we seemingly want to return to the state where the desire and the light were as one and the light filled the desire and arranged it properly in order to fill it up more and more. Because that desire broke into pieces, the light suddenly appeared in the desire as opposite to the desire. Then the desire broke into pieces, into individual souls and parts of souls which drifted apart according to the level of in-equivalence of form between them, between the lights and the desires.
Now that we want to forcefully bring them back, we can't do this ourselves. Whatever closeness we can do with one another, it won't help us for correction. It might help for a prayer because we will understand how incapable we are. In the end, everything depends on the prayer, on asking the Creator, the upper light, to arrange it and build it for us. He broke the vessel and He will fix the vessel. This is called ‘a King who puts to death and brings to life and brings forth salvation.’ So when He puts to death, we also have to come to that. Meaning, to see that what He did in us, is really put us to death. Separation from each other leads us into spiritual death and this is where we are now.
The connection among us, brings us to life, a King who puts to death and brings to life.’ This reviving has to be a salvation, so that we don't just come to connect and to feel good. Rather that we want the Creator to be revealed in us which wasn't so prior to the breaking of the vessel. Because now we are looking for, in the connection between us, and the power of the connection, and in the manner of the connection between us, will be the Creator. We attain Him. So the whole process that we're going through with the breaking of the vessel and its correction, and to the end of the correction, is that we are only asking and awakening the Creator to be revealed in the created beings in His true power. So that with the help of the created being, according to our efforts, we bring Him and make Him become revealed, which previously He was not revealed.
Adam and Eve, meaning the desire to receive and the desire to bestow, when they were in the soul prior to the breaking, they were a very small light, very small light. They didn't have a collision between the vessels. They had no tight connection above rejection. They didn't have the conditions by which to reveal the power of the light, the power of the Creator. This is why there was the breaking. Where, through connecting above the hatred, between the will to receive and the will to bestow, we achieve such connection that the darkness shines as light. Then we discover that same manifestation of the Creator that existed prior to the breaking, 600 times stronger. It is from near zero of upper light to complete NRNHY. This is our entire work. This is why we should try very hard to discover our real situation and how we can turn it into a corrected state.
This is why each time we will discover how far we are from each other. How much we don't want it. We are helpless, we have no desire, we are passive and heavy. That is why each time we have to reawaken ourselves and mainly we should help each other. In this way we will really see ourselves advancing more and more. We shouldn't slight this work because precisely by repeatedly wanting to draw near after we discovered the distance between us, out of the distance between us, we sort out the conditions in which the upper light will afterwards shine with its true power. So let's get into the lesson and see how we can take another step forward to connection among us. As Rabash, Baal HaSulam, and all the Kabbalists write, that it all depends on the connection between us. And out of this, we will discover the Creator in His true power because precisely by this He receives contentment.
3. S. (12:22) We all have separate souls. How can we bring these separate souls into one?
R. Because they came from one soul, we have to yearn to be as one soul. It is called ‘as one man with one heart.’ The Creator arranges the order for us. Just like we see today. Look at the diversity of our vessel. All kinds of people, all of the countries, and all of the nations. We don't decide anything. We only decide one thing: that above all of the boundaries we have to connect, to unite. This will bring us to a state of the revealing of the true power of the Creator in us. This is why there are no limitations, no laws besides one. As Rabash and Baal HaSulam write in their articles, the law of unity, the law of connection. That is it. Precisely the more differences are revealed, we unite above them. More differences are revealed, we unite above them again. Like that, each and every time, degree by degree. Is that clear? If not, keep asking.
4. S. (14:27) Why are some of us doing better, and are more successful than others on this path?
R. In order for us to help one another, to pull everyone and want to help each other - ‘they helped one another.’ This is what happens in a body. No cell is like another cell. Rather they all work together above the nature of each particular cell for the purpose of the common body, to maintain it in as correct a manner as possible. This is what we need to do. So I don't judge another person's nature. I do not criticize them. I understand that it comes to him from his nature and this is how the Creator awakened him and positioned him in front of me. What I have to do is unite with him as he is, not correct him but to correct me, in order to connect with him. Then I discover that behind this friend stands the Creator. I have to work in this way with all the friends and then I discover the Creator behind my 10.
5. S. (16:17) You said as much as we want to describe this connection between us, that habit becomes second nature and we give contentment to the Creator, how to portray the connection between us correctly?
R. The more opposite we are from one another, the more we want to connect, although we naturally reject one another and according to the desire of the upper one, we do have to unite and with those two desires, my personal desire and the desire of the Creator which I position one opposite the other. The desire of the connection is the upper one and my desire not to connect is the lower one, to the extent I try to connect the two, my desire becomes the coarseness and the Creator’s desire for us to connect becomes refinement and in that sandwich between the two layers, I began to discover Him, my soul as there is both coarseness and refinement, the resistance between them and above the resistance the connection between them and this becomes a Partzuf.
S. There's no problem with feeling the resistance from below but how to connect with his desire?
R. It is written about it “in him our heart will rejoice” as the Creator is the goal, the point of connection between us and in him we should all unite as you cannot approach a friend unless you depict to yourself that you are going to approach the Creator.
S. We have to somehow depict this in the 10?
R. That you are going to approach the power of bestowal, the common power of love that fills all of reality, the whole vessel, the whole of the common soul and this is how we approach Him until we discover Him. We discover Him to the extent of our vessels that they begin to work in the same direction as the Creator, then within our vessels we discover phenomena which we call ‘come and see’. He doesn't exist outside of our vessels but if we succeed in connecting contradictory vessels even opposite vessels but we try to connect them, this is called ‘above reason with bestowing above reception’ and with this, I create the conditions to discover the quality of bestowal, to reveal it and in this way we come to the revelation of the Creator. Only to the extent that we rise above our desire to receive into the common will to bestow and in it we reveal the Creator. Try to do this and you will see, why now in all of humanity we are going through such blows.
6. S. (20:40) It turns out that I am working with one part which is the Creator and another part which is also the Creator, when this collision between two opposite comes from the Creator?
R. Correct, so what?
S. Who is me, there is no “I” here?
R. I am the one who is experiencing all of these things. It's called the king who puts to death and brings to life, brings forth salvation, of course the Creator puts everything together, who am I? I am the substance that feels all of the phenomena and the more this substance, this matter, which is the will to receive, the more opposite it is, the more I cancel this before the Creator the more I feel the contradiction from the Creator in the connection with the Creator and by this I begin to establish and depict myself.
S. So this part that is opposite from the creator also comes from the Creator?
R. Of course, yes.
S. So I bring both parts from the Creator back to the Creator?
R. Yes, exactly you have to bring it to Him on a plate, look what you did to me, connect it, fix it, just like a little kid who comes to his mother and says I can't do it. This is what you should do, this is our form.
7. S. (22:44) I said we have to continue with the efforts towards connection, what is it about this persistence even when you don't feel or see anything that makes it so important on our path?
R. The fact that we don't hear or see but yet we try; this is called going with faith above reason, according to our situation. This is why it is so important to repeat it as much as possible during the day, that we are drawn toward the same goal, connection between us and this is really what worries us. Even though we have no desire for it we awaken ourselves and compel, force ourselves to be in this desire and this is why we need to set specific times when we connect and work more and more in that direction. We should talk more about unity, connection about the embryo that we have to attain, what the form is, now this is more important than reading articles because some of the time when we meet during the day, we also have to talk about our situation to be in the impregnation. Otherwise when we read articles we don't achieve connection, we don't advance our progress in the connection.
S. Is there a difference between being stubborn like banging your head against the wall or being persistent?
R. If it is correct stubbornness it is to stubbornness and that is it.
8. S. (25:25) In our virtual world what helps us connect is when we increase our ability to
R. It is written what is ever in your power to do, do it, I can't say with words because words limit things, whatever you can do for the sake of the connection between you do it.
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9. S. (30:36) As a student of yours we are learning the concept that we are living in the concept of none else besides him so how does that relate to the state of impregnation that we are entering, how do we relate to one another?
R. “There is none else besides Him” is what we want to determine, that is, the power of love, the power of bestowing, connection, this is what we want to establish in the connection between us. But if there is “none else besides him” then this force, this governance, we want it to be above us and control us, this is exactly the entry into the impregnation.
10. S. (31:50) How is the impregnation related to Jacob and Esau?
R. They are two qualities in each of us, they awakened one at a time, one time the desire to receive and the other time the desire to bestow and of course the desire to receive is stronger and the desire to bestow only awakens through the work between us and turning to the Creator to raise the desire to bestowal more and more, to increase it is how we grow. The desire to receive also doesn't remain as it was as it also grows, if our desire to bestow that we want and desire to reveal in us if it grows than the desire to receive grows and us as well and this is how we continue with the balance between them to become, the desire to receive becomes the coarseness of the soul, of the 10 Sefirot and the desire to bestow, which is the common force, you have the force Malchut and Bina, and those two forces established for us a system in such a way that the two forces in it are in a certain balance between them. But this is a different balance, a dynamic balance where the relationship between the desire to receive in the desire to bestow constantly changes and between the two of them we constantly reveal a new reality internally and environmentally until we come to a stage where the power of bestowal fills all the power of reception and this is called the final correction.
11. S. (34:06) The desire that we have to connect and to feel together, to connect with the Creator, how can I tell if it's not coming from my inner desire to receive something because if I'm trying to poke around myself, I see that it comes from my desire to receive them out not my desire to bestow?
R. Yes, of course.
S. Is this not a sin?
R. There is no choice as there is nothing good in you, we are all coming out of the broken desire to receive there is nothing good in us and that is how we have to accept our initial state. This is called the Creator saying, I have created the evil inclination, where you finally discover that there is nothing in you besides the evil inclination, this is called being at the beginning of creation.
12.
S.
(35:11)
Why
does
he
write
that
when
he
enters
the
work
of
bestowing
he
is
in
the
disarmament
of
consumption?
R.
Evra,
wrath
and
judgment.
Conception
is
already
being
in
a
transition
and
that
each
time
he
is
in
the
desire
to
receive,
the
desire
to
bestow
and
all
kinds
of
forms
in
between
them,
and
he
constantly
wants
to
choose
above
the
desire
to
receive
that
is
in
him.
So
that
the
desire
to
bestowal
governs
him.
This
is
called
impregnation
and
embryo
that
is
already
alive
and
already
a
process
such
as
the
drop
of
sperm
that
is
being
nourished
by
the
uterus,
then
it
is
called
an
embryo,
impregnation.
S. What is it when he goes to an environment with people with the work of self-love versus an environment where people engage in acts of bestowing what does it mean to walk past through a new environment?
R. In our states we understand what this is but spiritual states is that one is fed by the force of reception and another time by the force of bestowing, in us it is also connected to external conditions where we are either in a group or without the influence of a group or in the lesson or outside the lesson. By this we have to grow we have to be in all of these states to absorb the will to receive, to be impressed by the world we must not isolate ourselves but we also must work on it so the remoteness will be at the basis for us to get closer I'm on ourselves to rise above the distance between and this is how we grow with two legs.
13. S. (37:29) Choosing the environment is our freedom of choice but it seems it is compulsory from the self-love to bestowing, this back and forth of choosing the right environment can we remain in the good environment or do we need?
R. It appears to us that we make all the choices on the other hand, when we look at our lives we see that we may know actual choices but someone will aim us this way or that way through various events and encounters but in truth there are no coincidences in the world as everything is predetermined and this is how it should be. Our choice is not in who or how but rather how each time above the disturbances I will determine the true goal more precisely each time. If there is in a person other than they will to receive if there is a point of the desire to bestow which is a point from the final goal, called ‘a Divine part from above’, the point in the heart, if he has that then this person approaches that goal by being pulled and then it is up to the person how much he can increase, amplify the illumination, the influence of the point on him. This is where our free choice is as we choose nothing. Only to amplify the amount of its good influence over us.
14. S. (40:04) What is the correct request to maintain within the 10, the two forces of Jacob and Esau?
R. The correct advice to maintain the two forces, to walk on both feet, Jacob and Esau, right and left, is to constantly desire for the right and then according to how much we succeed on the right it will grow and give us the egoistic foundation for the next degree. Where we see as a result that we have to increase the right, meaning in working on the right we are causing the left to grow and this is how we walk. We start from the left as the Creator said “I created the evil inclination” and our foundation is evil inclination that is how we can work and advance.
15. S. (41:36) Can you explain how to draw the parallels between our work and this world? Can you explain it correctly, what is the general impression, it’s not clear how to make a parallel to our work?
R. I can't explain for now, how the situation in the world, the general situation between the countries, the influence of nature, the climate, pandemic and how it will influence our spiritual work. Of course they influence it and we react to it and we get additional motivation to connect and to desire the spiritual solution, to come as quickly as possible. Because if it comes through the forces of nature it will be terrible because of the negative forces and because of the time that they will take, because the forces of nature work on the inanimate degree. And until they act on us and work through the vegetative and animate degrees, on our speaking degree, it will take a long time and we will suffer through it by ourselves, in our families, in our countries. We need to try and immediately, we are capable of doing it and others are not. We need to immediately understand to digest these changes in nature and although they come as changes from the inanimate degree, from the lowest degree, we have to respond to them on our level this upper level, meaning our connection in our correction, although the gap between them is huge, and if we are explaining to people that through the connection between us, we can correct these harmful elements everywhere the fires, floods, this bacteria and other things. People do not understand because there is a gap between the two. We're not saying that we influence them in the same way that they will want to influence us, it's logical that they can see in each and every one, but we are saying, ‘no’, they attack us through fires and floods and we will overcome them in the connection between us. What is the connection between the two? Humanity cannot grasp it, the degrees in this, still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, and in each degree it appears differently. And this is where we have to explain it. Why should we go and deal with fires and floods, deal with these viruses, rather let's go and take care of everything on the highest level, the point of their origin, the point where there is no connection with the upper force. If we could correct the connection on that level, all the degrees below it will calm down, they will disappear, there will be no problems, no tensions, nothing will be revealed there. If nevertheless we won’t be able to convince humanity, all these harmful things will come out and we will suffer greatly from the collisions between them and each and every desire, and the scientists too are seeing what is coming out of humanity that they will suffer heavily, truly. We can stop this, we can go through it on a higher level, but in the corrected way it appears before us. Imagine if we would not discover radio waves, how could we connect between us to a higher level? We keep coming and going up the degrees in technology and the different areas so we correct what was there before, in a different essence, a new essence, and the same is here. We shouldn't think that we are creating vaccines or fighting fires and floods that somehow this is a correction, it's not a correction, it is simply our weakness. We don't understand the level we need to wait for with this phenomenon. It is only in the degree in our lack of connection between us that determines everything because the Creator is looking at that point where there is no connection between us, and no connection between us and Him. This is the source of all of the reasons and causes of all of the negative phenomena that there is no connection there, so they come and appear before us in all of their manifestations.
S. (48:44) So it turns out that everything in the news that talks about some problem indicates to Bnei Baruch one thing, lack of connection in my 10 and we can get a general impression from it and connect more?
R. When I would spend time with Rabash throughout the day, other than lessons I would turn on the radio at his command on the hour, the news in Israel. Today I don't tune into the news, back then Rabash would listen to news flashes 1 or 2 minutes on the hour, I would turn it on for him and he would listen to it for a minute and I would feel it and we would turn it off. This is what he needed, on the hour unless he was asleep or in the lesson, every hour we would not forget at all times. Twelve years I spent next to him, that’s how it was that he wouldn't forget, he wouldn’t miss out. If it’s a more serious event, during a war or something like that, it happens here often, even during the lesson he would come out of his room and listen to the news that was for him. We don't connect ourselves to the news because we are constantly in it already and for us, these blows come to us every day more and more. We have to understand that Bnei Baruch, only you understand what is going on, only you and the connection between you, can correct reality. Therefore you have to accept it seriously and try as much as possible to see in your day to day, if we are correcting something or not. Does the world really turn toward the good because this is on us to do.
16. S. (51:29) The state of the form of bestowal seems to me like there is always a different address besides the 10. How do I relate to this to turn to the state of impregnation, what should be the form?
R. If you are adhered to the 10 you glue yourself to it with your desires and your thoughts, meaning that you are coming to conception.
17. S. (52:15) What does it mean that humanity lacks connection with the upper force, what does he want from this mass?
R. He wants from this mass to be glued to Him, and “everyone shall know Me from the littlest to the greatest, and my house shall be a House of prayer for all Nations.’ That is why the Creator is a Creator for everyone. People will have a higher desire in this pyramid, some in a lower desire, each one will help his friend and this is how we need to see ourselves in our common work until we all come to a circle. The Creator desires the last human who is nevertheless a human, he desires Him as much as He desires the purest person and there is no difference before Him, everyone is equal to Him so we need to disseminate the wisdom of connection which is the wisdom of Kabbalah throughout the world among everyone as much as possible.
S. What does He want from that last one specifically?
R. Connected like the first one.
18. S. (53:58) In daily work, should we try to understand what state I’m in, if I am in impregnation or not, or should I just keep going without looking into it?
R. No, if you don't have a goal, a purpose it is not the right work and then you are without direction.
S. How to scrutinize this?
R. In the group, where is the group aimed at and am I together with them.
S. Can we scrutinize through the state of humanity the state that Bnei Baruch is in, in relation to the upper force?
R. It's clear to us where we are, we are in a state that precedes impregnation.
19. S. (55:22) By our efforts to connect, are we trying to reveal the point in the heart in the friends?
R. In my desire for connection I also awaken them that is for certain.
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20. R. (59:05) That is how we go from our corporeal state to our spiritual state. We begin to feel ourselves belonging, to a small degree to the upper one, more and more until we are included completely. This is where we go from ‘Lo Lishma’ to Lishma. Inside Lo Lishma we grow through all of the spiritual degrees. How can a person see this? As much as his will to receive directs him or he yearns to think about the greatness of the Creator in his eyes, or that he yearns to do good to his own state just as he is right now. He distinguishes, discerns between these states and advances. Doing this with the friends is much simpler and that’s why the Creator gave us these discernments in this world as well, since if I worry about them more than I worry about myself, by that, I am beginning to learn how to be adhered to the Creator in place of my corporeal desires. And in this way we move between one world and another.
S. What does it mean to attain Lo Lishma?
R. Lo Lishma, not for Her sake, means that even though I am yearning for bestowal and connection, I am still in the desires and thoughts of reception for myself but I know what I am trying to get to and I know how I can get there, except I am still in this process where I wish to come to a state where I won't be thinking of myself, I have no worries about myself, but only from the friends to the Creator.
S. Are we now in the state of Lo Lishma and we have to come to Lishma?
R. Typically all of our friends are working in Lo Lishma. This is a respectful and good state but we need to yearn to go farther. If we let go of our efforts to reach Lishma, we don’t advance; and we even lose our Lo Lishma.
21. S. (01:02:42) You taught us that one who corrects, corrects the world as well and one who corrupts, corrupts the world as well. So what we correct is our individual perception of reality. How do we come to a point where we influence all of humanity so they obtain this other perception? Can we influence it?
R. We don't need to worry about the correction of each and every person in humanity. We need to disseminate the general knowledge of how the world is made, what it is made of, how it is moving toward its goal, why do we suffer, why do we go through such blows, and what should we do?
The general message is to explain how to be closer to one another and connect above all the differences. It is not like we are bringing them to correction for them to correct themselves the way that we do it, God forbid. They have no point in the heart. No desire to bestow is revealed to feel that they belong to the purpose of creation. We don't even have that intention because those souls are not part of that process of correction, rather they can only associate themselves with us. We are drawn toward correction and toward the goal this is why we are called Galgalta veEynaim according to the general calculation.
Rav drawing This is the Creator and we have to reach Him. Underneath the Creator there is a place called Galgalta veEynaim and below it is the AHP. Galgalta veEynaim belongs to the degree of Bina and the AHP belongs to the degree of Malchut. That is how we correct it. You cannot correct the degree of Malchut. According to the degree of Bina, Galgalta veEynaim, is capable of bringing it into contact with the Creator. The difference between them is that the degree of Bina longs for the Creator and the degree Malchut longs only for itself. Our work is to explain to them that we are capable of succeeding on the condition that we connect these two, for them to try to be in connection with the Galgalta ve VeEynaim, to connect to us. That is how we will reach the correction. It will happen this way as it is already decided from above that it needs to happen this way.
S. Will that prevent pain for humanity?
R. Yes, the moment we yearn even more for the Creator and the nations of the world, meaning all of humanity, more or less, understands they are in a very narrow state. Rav drawing Narrow means lack of Hassadim, meaning lack of Bina, Hassadim is the force of Bina.
They understand that what is required of them is only to participate with us, as much as they are capable of and to learn about the process of creation, and to a small extent, disseminate, like children in school. This is enough. We carry them and with them we come to give contentment to the Creator. Rav drawing because the Creator, the lights, are in them, in the AHP. This is where the coarseness is; the greatest desires are here. The force of Bina is to connect with the Creator, so our job is to connect all of humanity, these billions who are a small part of the soul, to tie them to the Creator. He specifically enjoys these parts coming to Him and connecting to Him. This is our work and this is why we do the work of the Creator, we serve the Creator, and to connect all of humanity to the Creator.
S. The view of the Creator will cover the Earth?
R. Yes.
22. S. (01:15:17) Do we enter Ibur after correcting all of our desires or do our desires continue after we enter Ibur?
R. We don't correct anything before we enter conception. The corrections begin by canceling ourselves before the upper one. I annul myself in various ways to the upper one and I am in a state where I am ready and willing for the upper one to do whatever He wants. This is the meaning of attaching myself as an embryo, as a drop in the womb. The upper one does whatever He wants with me. I restrict my desire and I hand myself to the hands of the upper one. This is considered that I have become an embryo.
23. S. (01:16:35) According to what we were speaking about the Galgalta veEynaim and AHP in the pyramid, will everyone enjoy bestowing to the Creator?
R. Everyone will be the same. Ultimately all the vessels mix and we will complement each other. There is only a difference during the corrections between one and the other, but there will be no difference between one and the other at the end of the corrections because there was a shattering and the will to receive controls. There's a difference between these and those. To the extent that the more the desire to receive is annulled and disappears in the actions of bestowal it turns out that the relations between everyone is only in compliment. Meaning that the lower that they are, they are actually going to be higher. So everything becomes like a sphere with no difference between one and another. We have to attain this shape. There will be no tranquility, no peace, no calmness in the world because these forces discover how opposite they are and the sensitivity of the relations between us increases more and more. It forces us to connect. We call this ‘love covers all crimes’. We will discover more crimes and we will have to discover the connection between us which is called ‘love’. If it won't be in a good way, it will be through the torments.
24. S. (01:19:23) What are the first changes that will be in the world if we go into spirituality?
R. The more we go into a spiritual state, the state of connection, this state will also start to affect others. They will start feeling how opposite they are to these qualities and accordingly more collisions will appear in the world with bigger and higher problems. We don't have to be afraid of them, it is natural. This is the way the degree advances. We just have to keep on going. We will talk about it later. I don't like talking about the future because it gives you an opportunity to go wild with your fantasies which are all wrong. I recommend that you do not think about the future except for the final goal that we have to reach, which is the connection between everyone and these stages on the way there You will never discover or understand the stages in the real way.
25. S. (01:21:06) What is the relationship between free will and Ibur?
R. You have free choice in each and every state. This is why we are between these two forces, the will to receive and the will to bestow. When these two forces act upon us we have to choose if we want to be adhered to the Creator, the force of bestowal, even with our forces of reception. Annul or even associate them with the forces of bestowal.
26. S. (01:22:00) If one is considered to be working in Lo Lishma does it mean that person has already gone through Ibur state?
R. No. Ibur means that we move on to Lishma.
27. S. (01:22:23) When he says that he is suffering, is he suffering for himself or because he can't bestow to the Creator?
R. He feels himself as being in a state that he must ascribe himself completely to the Creator and still is incapable of being in it with all of his heart and soul. That is where all of his torments come from.
28. S. (01:23:33) What physical connection is needed from us to make the interconnection between Galgalta veEynaim and the AHP?
R. Nothing. You should give what you have. If there isn't a physical connection, no; or if there is, yes. Maybe it will become virtual with all the heart and soul.
S. What framework does this need to happen?
R. We need to spread out more and more. ‘The multitude of people is the King's glory’. The more groups and forces that we have, even if they are the smallest, later they will become the biggest.
29. S. (01:24:44) Can we count the conditions for conception?
R. We have the conditions of the Ibur in many places by Baal HaSulam and Rabash. Go over them if you can. We will learn this on the way. ‘The main thing is that what we learn, we practice on ourselves. When we yearn for connection from within us and from us to the Creator, we learn what conditions He places on us and how we should respond.
30. S. (01:25:31) In the last excerpt we read it was written that his intention is to annul to the true reality. What is the true reality?
R. We should annul ourselves because this is basically the true reality. The true reality is that besides the Creator, besides the upper force, nothing acts and we have to annul ourselves to this state.
31. S. (01:26:27) Is the feeling of shame a precondition to reach conception?
R. The feeling of the group must be in man's feeling on the way to Ibur because to the extent that he is adhered to the group he is adhered to the Creator. That's how he feels. He annuls to the group, the Creator which is the general force which exists in the group, and this is how he enters the conception.
S. About the feeling of shame?
R. The feeling of shame depends on what state he is in.
S. Is it not a condition for conception?
R. The feeling of shame should accompany us from time to time. In each and every state we discover the nothingness, the ‘zeroness’ of our forces, but the revelation of shame is not a condition for the Ibur.
32. S. (01:27:57) Do I have to cancel myself completely in their reality outside of the 10 in order to enter the state of Ibur, conception, impregnation?
R. Reality outside of the 10? No. Not at all. I should behave like any other person and show myself like everyone else, not show myself as less or more. However in the 10 I must observe what our articles say and that's how I and I unite with them.
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