Morning Lesson August 18, 2021, Transcription
Annulling Before the Upper One - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #19
1.Rav’s Introduction: To annul before the upper one is our daily work. The upper one, relative to us, is the group where we acquire the first shape of annulment coming out of ourselves and annulling towards the other towards that which is outside of us. Outside of us is only the Creator as Baal HaSulam writes and Rabash writes to us, that a person who feels he exists by himself, this is specifically how you should do the work of coming closer to the Creator. But to do this work he needs to do it towards the society he’s in. Therefore, all of our work is in this way to the extent that we connect to the friends and all of us together with our common efforts, annul ourselves towards the Creator and in this way we come to our second nature, to in order to bestow. We begin to feel ourselves in this quality of bestowal that is opposite to our nature, and in this way, we begin to feel a different reality. Instead of feeling it in the forces of reception, we will feel it in the forces of bestowal and the difference between the two is precisely the difference between this world and the upper world. The difference between the degree, the effort, the state of the creature, of the degree in the state and the effort of the Creator.
In order to cross this boundary, this border, to go from the state of the created being to the state of the Creator, we need a society and we need to do different exercises in it, which themselves can do nothing. What can they do? But we need to perform these exercises that invite the reforming light. We are like little children when we play with something and we don't know why or how but if we do it, we awaken the upper force and it shines on us, it clothes in us, educates us, develops us, and we begin to be smarter, wiser, understand more, more mature. It is all through the games if we place a person in the forest without a society and without different means by which he can grow more refined and complex, he will remain as an animal unless he comes to a human society and begins to incorporate in the relationship between us a special relationship. Then by that we know that this is what influences him and he will improve. That's why it is extremely important to us in what environment a person that receives his education who corrects and improves him and brings him to the form of Adam, the form of man. According to those who work on him we can say what will be of him, what form of man will be a result of that. Therefore, the environment is very important, annulment to the environment, from the side of the person and only in this way can he be certain something will come out of it. He could be perhaps a great scientist or do other things but in order to develop towards recognizing the world, the general nature of the upper nature, he can do that only if he is being developed by a human system. Because from the still, vegetative, and animate, man is in the highest position of the ladder of evolution.
The important thing for us is to develop the man, in man, and each one in this way needs to take care of himself and ask if he is truly developing the human in him. Human, Adam from ‘Adam’ I will resemble the Creator. This is how he needs to be towards his environment just like the Creator he is good and he does good, very simple. So we have to make the efforts to be good who does good towards our environment and then it is certain that by that we will resemble the Creator more and we will come closer to him according to the equivalence of form, we begin to feel his qualities and we will understand his actions because we will be exactly in the same actions, desires, thoughts as him and we will understand one another. This is the entire method of approaching the Creator by man and the revelation of the Creator by man is the purpose of creation. We are meant to educate himself and develop himself and raise himself to such a state where he will truly be like the Creator. The name of the Creator will be upon you.
As it is written this is the purpose of our development, the correct form of development we need to obtain. We will continue to learn about it, we just need to know that this work can only take place in the environment, in cleaving to the environment, drawing forces from it and changing it so it will become this exhilarating force, helpful force to subjugate oneself to the society. in these mutual work between each one of us and society as each of us wishes to annul to the society he begins to feel that the society is not just a collection of people but it's a group, it's a force, designed for us and organized for us from above in the Creator himself is arranging the society towards each and every one. Our entire participation in the society is about the study of how to come closer to the Creator. and all the laws and qualities and discernments that we acquire. All of it is called Torah. How to resemble the Creator, this method is called Torah.
Meaning we realize, we actualize and implement everything in the connection between us and in the tendency for the Creator to be in the connection between us and for Him to guide us. We will constantly yearn for His image, meaning the form and force of love and bestowal will always dwell between us and buy that each one from the 10 ascents, descents, connects, disconnects from others, we find ourselves in such mutual movements between us all of us. More and more each time we discover the Creator dwells between us specifically through the ascents and descents, mutual ups and downs between us and relative to Him. This is our work and we are already in it. We just need to give it all of our attention. I think that we will begin to feel just how much each and every action of ours leaves an impression and we can connect between us, between us and the Creator, and we will discover with Him a tight connection, a constant connection, which is the purpose of creation.
2. S. (11:48) You say the upper force, what do you mean precisely by reckoning the upper force and how do we reckon this upper force?
R. To awaken the upper force is possible by trying to connect between us and all the flaws that we see in our connection where we see we are incapable of connecting, all of us collectively are asking to correct them. All the states in which we do feel that we have reached a certain degree of connection between us, we should be grateful for this. This way we stay in the scrutiny, either positive relationships or negative relationships, we climb the ladder using both legs and when we understand that we cannot advance, we cannot ascend except when we are using both.
3. S. (13:45) I heard you say in the beginning of the lesson that to the extent we all connect to the friends and we nullify together towards the Creator we achieve a second nature, so how can I be responsible for the annulment of the friends if I don't see the action of nullification that they are doing?
R. Through the example you set for them and your prayer for them. These two, you can give them a lot of strength for them to acquire all the changes, this is the meaning of each shall help his friend.
S. But I don't see it on the outside. I can't see if it works or not?
R. You should do and that's what you have to carry out. You are doing it not in order to see those things, you're doing it in order to carry out your actions towards the friends, and that's even if you don't see any changes, you must do it because here you establish your connection with them and you are correcting the system of Adam HaRishon. If you can't see it means nothing, you're not doing it in order to see it. It's possible that you're not allowed to see it because they don't want to tarnish your relationships, so you won't be doing it in order to see it as you're asking but rather you need to try and do it without any visible result. Rather the sages have told me to do it and I am doing it
S. So this condition you presented in the beginning, you said that together we need to nullify it before the Creator. To nullify together is basically the effort I need to do without seeing, just to keep making the efforts that will lead us to nullify together?
R. I don't see a connection between the two. Together, meaning that we see it? I need to do these actions because the sages told me to do it and I can't see them for the time being because I am in order to receive, so I do it in order to come out, in order to rise above only because I wish to enter Lishma, in order to annul towards the upper one, so I'm doing it. I can't demand to see it on the spot. There is no action that is more egoistic because if I could see the results from my action then I would surely do it. This is something that is possible within someone's smaller ego but nothing more than that. In our spiritual advancement we do not demand such things because it will come directly from within the ego. I don't want to see the results from my actions. I want to keep the actions that Kabbalists are telling me about.
S. So at this point there is no meaning for the togetherness that at this point it is just the effort that I need to make?
R. Why can't we be together? We decide that we are doing certain actions and we do them together and this is how we advance.
Excerpt 19 (18:30) Twice
4. S. (22:02) We learned that a person needs to submit himself to the friends and according to what I understand from this, he says one doesn't need to lower himself. It all depends on the others who belittle him so how do we work with?
R. There's all kinds, meaning if I am in a society then, first of all, I need to try to lower myself and humiliate myself before the friends and it doesn't mean that I make myself a joke; rather, I constantly work with my will to receive as much as possible so I would try to work with it in order to bestow to them, to serve the society. If I see the friends who despise me then I am happy but it comes from the Creator. He is giving me an opportunity to accept it correctly that I am truly so I am humiliated. I am lowered, lowly, and this helps me greatly to approach the Creator. “The Creator is high and the lowly will see,” meaning as we accept our true lowliness, we are coming closer to the Creator and we are able to see Him.
5. S. (23:50) No translation
R. We can't explain it using our own words because they are all coming from within our world. There is no feeling, here, of Mochin of Hochma, of light of Hassadim, meaning we have to see it's possible to see the Creator as the light of Hochma on the condition that we are rewarded of the light of Hassadim than the light of Hochma clothed in the light of Hassadim then only then we begin to see it in this is what we are learning for.
6. S. (24:50) How is my lowliness connected to the greatness of the Creator, how do these things depend on each other?
R. The difference is in the gap that you establish between you and the Creator. The more you raise His greatness as a bestower, as a lover and how much you lower yourself because you only want to receive for yourself and you repel everyone. As much as you can understand this great gap between you but still from all those actions on yourself, you wish to come closer to the Creator, this is all our work and the gap between us this abyss, truly does appear as in abyss and we will try nevertheless to think how we can skip over it. In this way you will make it.
7. S. (26:22) Says here it is a law that therefore people respect him he feels whole and when people despise think of himself as low so it is better to feel a whole or low with regards to the world and with regards to the Creator?
R. Both, feel himself whole in order to bestow to them, the goal the method of correction, and together with that to feel oneself as lowly despicable because who am, I what am I, the Creator gave me everything to bestow His method to everyone. He made me into this pipe, into a messenger and that's why on one hand I am proud of it, on the other hand I feel that I am not any better than others. Rather I am more special than them only because the Creator gave me this knowledge for the time being. The more I am able to connect myself, all the people of the world who would want to receive through me the method of the Creator in the fulfillment from Him, by that I can say that I have determined my state in the general system.
8. S. (27:59) Does the world despise me because I'm the will to receive and everything outside of me is only the Creator, is this a proper approach?
R. All so you can also say.
9. S. (28:29) What kind of work do I need to do to see my loneliness from the friend’s perspective?
R. To the extent you take care of them wholeheartedly, you would feel that although they are your students, you are actually lower than them. Then you'll learn from that as it's written, I have learned from all of my students.
Excerpt 20 (28:57) Twice
10. S. (30:53) Why is it not the annulment towards the friend’s heart or lack? Why does it have to nullify before his reason?
R. It is what we grasp, what we perceive you understand, it has to do with human relationship how much each one is in his personal state, ascents and descents, on their spiritual degree relative to one another more or less. It's all very dynamic so we cannot determine precisely what he is talking about, he is not talking about a specific state that you can kind of freeze and then examine but rather things are constantly moving and changing between people.
S. Possible when we read this article to myself, I need to understand it verbally, verbatim?
R. I don't think we have to poke around and look for things, deeper things in the text of course they're there and extremely deep but it's not worthwhile for us, it will confuse us. I have to take it according to how much I understand, today, that's how I read it and that's how I study it. I'm also like that and it also has to do with the state of a person. Let's say today, I am in a state that is a little hard, undefined, a little unclear because I took the Covid vaccine so I have these side effects that prevent me from concentrating, my intellect, my feelings, so I work accordingly and each and every one should do the same according to his current state and that's how we go through things. So, we should just be more realistic. Wherever we find ourselves and don't think that these things that are happening they don't have or carry a great deal of weight, they actually are very important because you are doing them from within your desire to participate with everyone. On the other hand, because the Creator is sending it to you as a specific state that is a result of the virus for example. It's actually good from such things that we wish to go through yet nevertheless remain connected to the society with which we derive a great deal of benefit later.
11. S. (34:36) It says in quote 20, that not just the action but his views should be annulled as well but we said that we don't erase the reason so nullifying the reason. What is the difference when I make an action after the friend and I remain with my reason, I don't I erase it but I nullify it?
R. I always need to measure what I had and what I have and what changed compared to the previous state. These are measurements and specifically from those measurements we later receive sparks as the lights that enter on the part, from those lights we begin to feel a great contribution towards attaining the next degree, the next attainment.
12. S. (35:44) I feel like I have a dilemma with regards to the rule we said the tactic of acting is very important in the 10 as opposed to the idea of changing your own views, so why not play with annulment without touching the thought?
R. It is not enough, we have to go through different states according to society. Only in this way we begin to feel who we are, what we are, and in this way not to tie ourselves to certain states and remain only there. No, we have to be extremely flexible, and also don't be afraid of the senses and confusions, specifically from these things we come to new degrees of revelation and awareness.
Excerpt 21 (37:13) Twice
13. R. (41:00) Friends you need to understand there are no coincidences and nothing happens for no reason and reality. There is no such thing there are no coincidences, the fact that each and every one feels certain fogginess in his senses, in his brain, it's because the Creator wants us to feel this way and through this burdening, this heaviness, we would we should nevertheless yearn to come to him, to approach Him, to concentrate our thought on Him. When even when we don't have any sense of awakening there is fatigue, there is confusion, confusion in our senses, in our thoughts and all kinds of things for various reasons. There are no coincidences, it is not just happening, rather for each and everyone it is calculated. The degree of the burdening of the heart, each one needs to experience and then each one needs to catch himself and hold himself and say this is my work now I have to now to be responsible for all of our world Kli. As much as I can awaken myself by that I cause the awakening of the general vessel. I awakened another 3,000 people with this effort. Therefore I cannot afford to enter the slumber and get disconnected and the same for the Creator who is giving us this work intentionally since there are no coincidences in my life and if I feel this confusion, this connection is fogging.
It's all because the Creator is giving me those things personally so I would awaken and put everything and give everything I can as much as possible. My brain and my heart to be connected with everyone, to participate with everyone and push everyone as if everything only depends on me. In truth, everything only depends on that person. So please, we have an opportunity each time to take another step towards mutual annulment, towards one another, towards connection with one another, incorporation towards the Creator. All of us together pray to him to demand and we must do this each and every moment and check how much we are coming closer to correctly realizing this action. So specifically, you when we feel ourselves in this fog, we feel helpless, weak, we cannot concentrate our attention, it does not matter. On the contrary this is what is the help the Creator is sending us.
14. S. (44:57) What is the meaning of Mochin of Hochma?
R. Mochin of Hochma is the light of Hochma that clothes the vessels of in order to bestow and it already ties together all the parts of the vessel to a single action. and it does that action. Let's say for our point, let's say this. Mochin of Hochma is the whole revelation of the Creator to the created being in the corrected vessels that are in order to bestow, that's what's called Mochin of Hochma.
15. S. (45:58) What you just described, what is the best way to participate in the morning lesson in that state.
R. To think about how to become closer to the friends, to bring about connections between them. Specifically, when I receive the disconnection, the weakness, look at them, look at their shape today, they are all asleep, they are all kind of detached. Each one is separated from the others and from the goal of the lesson and I feel that I am in that state also and their state influences me as well but how can I recover and awaken and rise and bring them some infusion so they begin to live this state and revive it correctly. Because these states specifically are as the light excels from darkness, the advantage of the light from within the darkness. The more darkness, confusion, weakness, helplessness is greater, the more they are felt, as a result of that specifically when I attain the light, I attain it in different forms that are correct, truthful, and high. This is what's important to me, this is what I need to learn. Here I begin to see what is faith above reason. That I can always erect myself from the worst possible states, from the lowliest states. and these states specifically are what builds me. All of my vessels are broken and the more they awaken, and I try to revive them and direct them to connection and accordingly I correct my soul.
S. Can I say that during the lesson everything you said now is in the thought and after the lesson I truly have to do it because now I can't do anything that you said, I can only think about it?
R. You can do it all, don't think you can't do this or you can't do that. Everything you try to do, do it all. take an example from a baby even though he can't, he is incapable, that's what we know, as grown-ups we know that but the baby disagrees. The baby does its own thing and we can't stand in its way and so it thinks it can do it all and it's good, it's the right approach to life, otherwise you don't develop. The world is owned by the audacious, those who say yes I can and of course without harming others in a positive way but the world belongs to the audacious. Those who have chutzpah towards the heavens is very respected. The Creator created obstacles and I disagree with him and I want to rise above them. It is written a lot about that.
16. S. (50:17) Where's the advantage of light when you are in the state of darkness?
R. I want inside the darkness, I want to discover that it is light, that it is the posterior of the light. Meaning if I change myself from face to back or back to face then I will see instead of darkness, I will see light, I will understand it is the Creator doing it to me deliberately in order to educate me, in order to advance me. There is no other action on his part, it is only to push me forward towards the goal.
S. How in the state of fogginess, using this lack of concentration you could work for the friends, how?
R. But I have no choice, I reach a state where I am with them together and that's why we are in the material, physical world. So there is an initial connection made between us and that connection happens in some accord with all of the spiritual connections except it is in a physical form and so I make some connections with them, called negotiations or transactions, this is how I gradually elevate from corporeal to spiritual degree. You haven't seen but when I was present, when I was more than once with Rabash, when we would sit in a single room or in separate rooms when we would go to Tiberias once a week or Mount Meron or other kind of remote places and I would see how he wakes up how he awakens and recovers and how difficult it was and also during the day how sometimes he felt himself this way, that way not physically but internally that it is difficult to aim yourself to always be aimed at bestowal, at the Creator on his degrees. I remember once that our whole group that I was part of, we came to him to Tiberias to that place where we used to be in him and I, and I came into the room there was this kind of abandoned place, he was in, and he sit on the bed looking old and powerless barely lifting his head towards me and saying who told you to come here.
I told him I didn't come alone but the friends thought it's a good idea to come and visit you here when you are on your own. He said who told you all to come. He was in a state that he just, he couldn't see anything, he couldn't hear, nothing. I came out of the room where all the friends were waiting for me, we sat on the staircase there in the backyard and we lit up a cigarette and we were silent. After maybe a second cigarette he called me, “Michael”, because he saw we were not leaving, but we were in complete submission, meaning if we need to go we will go, if we can stay, we will stay. Just, it all depends on how he feels, what he wants. Then he said come here and I came to him and he said maybe we will go to Mount Meron is where the Rashbi was buried who wrote the Book of Zohar. So we got organized quickly and we went and it was something very unique.
What I want to say is, there are different states people go through and it is the unique thing about the wisdom of Kabbalah, that it puts the person together with everything in him from the corporeal world into the spiritual world. Of course, I can't tell you about everything around this that happened but what I want to say is there are states that are truly not simple, that people go through but in each and every state is measured in such a way that either a person can get out of it or he is sent messengers. He was in a very deep state, deep down in his scrutinies. I've seen such states many times in different ways and I've learned a lot from that. We will talk about it more at some point. What I want to say is in each and every state when a person is given he is showing another layer of the broken vessels and essentially they are shown so that he raises them towards correction. Meaning that he relates them to connection with the friends and between them and the Creator, that is basically the correction. So let's take all that we have today and try to raise this way, to try to rise that way, try to do this exercise like our topic annulling before the upper one, that's what we need, that only there we correct ourselves.
17. S. (58:56) How should each one of us, how can each one of us be such a pillar like Rabash? Do you have a recommendation to do this, do that in order to be that or is this something that is impossible?
R. No, no, no, each one can be as Moses, it is written. Each one can be as Moses because in an integral system there is no upper one and lower one only in this chain of scrutinies when we correct ourselves, then just like with generations of people when you have mothers and fathers and children and grandchildren and so on but in the chain itself the whole chain itself makes everyone equal it is completely round, it is a sphere. We have nothing to do besides carry out with the Kabbalists advise us. They also wrote it for themselves and they also wrote it for us and we have then carry it out and we teach the next generation and they will have to follow it and that's how it works. So we will do what is up to us and certainly I can promise all of you, everyone will achieve corrections and the final correction but the question is to what extent in each and every moment of my life today I want to do these actions in order to bestow, above reason. Not for myself, that's all. I see in you that you are advancing very well. You, I actually know for decades now and truly there's reasons to be happy.
S. I am in such a state just like the student that you told us about who called you yesterday. I didn't dare write to you but I too and as they say I am going through states.
R. Why do you think it's not a good thing? Why do you think it's not a good thing? On the contrary.
S. I am ashamed, I'm ashamed that I cursed it.
R. Well that is, first of all, perhaps you are not able to behave differently meaning that it comes from the Creator and it is possible that you are shown an example of who you are and what you are and how you need to take care of yourselves and grow stronger. But it is part of the path. Whatever is on the path there's nothing you can do, we are indeed advancing well on the path and what is important is patience, perseverance, because whatever we do it is the Creator. The Creator does it, we respond to it sometimes better and work more completely or less, that too is almost entirely the Creator. We basically need to try to do what is up to us which is connection and somewhat of longing to him as much as we can and see what he does. Because what he does is called the work of the Creator. We just need to be at maximum submission and in fact there is no more than perseverance and we'll go through all of these things. Of course each one has their own kind of heaviness but I am certain that each and every one here is worthy of achieving the final correction.
18. S. (1:04:31) Advantage of light from darkness, can you say that the light never changes, so it light was in the first state and that's how it remained but because of our perception because darkness appears as greater and greater the light the NRNHY that we attained it is because the darkness becomes greater and we see this light as stronger?
R. Yes
19. S. (1:05:19) It's about your teacher. Did he go to isolate himself because he knew he was going to fall at that moment?
R. I can't say anything in his place but let's say so. He didn't want to show us that there are such states like what he was in but even though I did see him in other incidents in such states but it's very seldom. Typically it wasn't possible to see on him almost anything that he went through. Now, it is not that he was unchanging. But there is his inner world and the outer world and the outer world is a spiritual world as well, but with respect to the students and everyone and then there is where he is where he is connected to the Creator. That's his inner world and it cannot be seen.
S. About the exercise you said we should have today to raise everything to the upper one, what does it mean to raise everything to the upper one?
R. I don't know, ask the friends.
20. S. (1:07:05) Maybe I didn't understand, maybe we spoke about it before, but what does it mean to be independent without any help from the outside?
R. I don't know what you're talking about. What does it relate to?
S. It says here ‘for them to be able to be independent without any help from the outside’?
R. What text are you taking it from? How can you just take it and ask about it? I don't know exactly what you're talking about?
S. The beginning of excerpt number 21 it says ‘if several individuals come together with the force that it is worthwhile to abandon self-love but without the sufficient power and importance of bestow to become independent without outside help these individuals annul before one another, etc.’ So, what is that help from the outside?
R. If they have no sufficient power and importance of bestowal to become independent without outside help. Meaning that they cannot be in bestowal with their own strength.
21. S. (1:08:26) I heard when you said that we need to behave according to the state that we see before us now. In addition to the burdening of the heart, I see other things in the 10. For example, a friend in the ten who appears to be harming the 10. How do I need to work with it, do I need to annul before him?
R. No. If you all see that there is a very clear example of someone in the ten who is a disturbance in the ten, really ruining the 10, then you need to discuss among yourselves and decide what to do about it. In what way to talk to him and to show this to him. Maybe to take care of some problem that makes him this way. You have to think about it. You have to get to a conclusion
S. If it's only I who sees it. Do I need to annul to him? Do I need to continue to annul before him?
R. To nullify is always good. Except for one thing, if he is saying and attracting people from the ten to come out of it and dismantle the ten. That's the only thing.
22. S. (1:10:18) What is the feeling that you receive after the annulment because it's a good feeling. Who does this feeling belong to? It could be from me or from the Creator. How to maintain the correct annulment?
R. This needs to be put in the right place so that it's clear to us that the more I nullify myself towards, then together with the friends I am ready to nullify myself and ourselves towards the Creator. This has to be very very clear. To be in this direction, beginning from self-annulment and recognition of evil, that I don't know what to do. Like Rabash writes about putting the zero before the one and the one before the zero and so on. Then I come to a state where I nullify myself towards the ten and then, along with the ten, I push them and advance them to nullify before the Creator. Then we have an arrow of ‘Israel, the light and the Creator are one’ as we say. That's how we advance. Try to do this and see how much it shines on you, how much it stabilizes you, and calibrates you in a stable way, from here to the final correction.
23. S. (1:11:56) How can we understand the individual states of darkness we get in the 10?
R. From lack of connection, from lack of love among you. This is where you can scrutinize what is your attitude to the Creator, the purpose of creation and the upper light. Let's say we measure electricity or some other phenomena in physics or something. We don't measure that. We measure something in a device. How do we measure the Creator, that He is closer or farther, that He takes different shapes or relationships with us. How do we find these things? We are connected amongst us and we build a device like that where we measure Him. Both in terms of intensity which is according to the intensity of our connection and also the character of His relationship to us, which is through the relationships between us. Meaning that between us we build a device where we can measure the Creator, the light, the relationship of the upper one to us. That is possible only by our quality of connection and disconnection between everyone that they will connect and move apart and be in different states. By that we will discover Him. But the principle is the same principle. Just as we measure some phenomena in nature, the same way we measure the Creator. Then we say the light of Hochma appears and Hassadim, this phenomenon or that phenomena. We never discover the light itself.
We always discover phenomena of the light from the light in our vessels. Meaning that our vessels are impressed by something and the reason for it is called light. Without establishing the group to be connected, to be properly directed towards attaining the Creator, sensing and measuring the Creator, without it we don’t begin to recognize Him. What is the wisdom of Kabbalah? It is receiving the revelation of the Creator within us. Feeling and measuring Him and aiming ourselves all of the time, calibrating ourselves all of the time, to perceive the Creator in us with more intensity, clarity, subtlety, and precision. This is how we advance. We do that on behalf of the vessels. We receive a phenomena in the vessels and we call this the upper light and we call it the Creator, Boreh. What is Boreh? It is ‘come and see.’ If you achieve this perception correctly then you see. But you don't grasp Him, rather the phenomena of being similar to Him in you, you measure and feel this phenomena. Just like any kind of device you use in our world, electric devices or any kind this is how it is. Because all of these phenomena are of the upper light also, and this is why they have the same shape of measurement and perception.
24. S. (1:17:38) If the vessel is the connection between us, what is this prayer in the connection?
R. The form of connection, the changes between the connection, the desire to be connected in a certain form, either a greater or other form, the type of connection, by intensity and according to qualities, according to the essence of connection. There are many things here and all of this is from the side of the vessel. And we are only talking about the vessel. Because according to this vessel we perceive the light. The light is abstract, it fills all of reality. All our work is only how to form the vessels, how to stabilize it. To understand how we do this, what light we then perceive in it, and the connection between the changes in the vessel and the changes in the light that is perceived in the vessel according to the equivalence of form. That is all of our work, there is no more than that.
S. You Also spoke about drawing the light that reforms at the beginning of the lesson. I understand that the vessel may establish the light inside it, but what draws the light that reforms, that brings this vessel to function properly?
R. The Creator operates and we are in the same upper light which all the time maintains and stabilizes us. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to exist at all. Our entire existence is only imagination, that the Creator builds a desire to receive that gives us life, it awakens us, pushing us forward, that we will begin to somehow awaken from our slumber and begin to operate and reach such sensations of deficiency and a desire to yearn for Him.
S. So the extent of connection between us that doesn't feel Him as a small amount of connection, when we increase the desire, then we can feel Him inside?
R. Of course but always the light is first, it is all from this side of the upper light first and then we will make it from our part and do something. It says I am always the first, that is how it is written from the side of the Creator.
S. What is from our side, how do we promote this, you said we want to bestow contentment to the Creator no matter what happens, how do we awaken without these states coming to us, so that we will not be late, we will be early?
R. For this you have a society, you have no opportunity to bestow to the Creator except through the society. To awaken Him and to truly change the entire program that He has towards you. As much as you will be more ready in the society to perform actions that bring you to the goal, in this you are awakening Him. This is called ‘who is Israel, those who desire to be direct to the Creator,’ that it is upon them that they are shortening the times. They are praying and demanding even in the form of, ‘the sons have won me over.’ Demanding to advance all of us forward, all together. You need to show that for this you have a foundation, that you have friends and a group and that you want all together to do, you have forces and care.
S. Acting won't help here as we know the vessel and the connection is small but we still want to hasten the time and increase the vessel? Does this work with the Creator?
R. Yes, we need to do all the actions that can awaken the Creator. That is all our work.
25. S. (1:22:40) You said that the outer world for Rabash is also the spiritual world, I separate from the spiritual work when I work in the outer world, how do I get to the state of Rabash?
R. That you are in external work but you are thinking of why am I doing this and truly this work that I am not interested in but I am doing it because the Creator commanded you to do so. He created the world this way so that you must be also in such work. As Kabbalists usually worked in all sorts of work. Baal HaSulam worked all sorts of things and Rabash worked in paving roadways and as a tailor. Days back then are not like today. Different times. He was also a clerk. Later on he had students in more modern times and they were accountants and people were more educated. It doesn't matter what work you are doing, but you know you are doing it because you must be in corporeal work and in this you are performing part of your correction in this world. We need to also look in this world and its entirety, that all the people in this world also because they are under pressure and suffering in relations between them. The general ego is truly playing with them, confusing them. All of this is also spiritual work that they are doing despite the fact it is without their knowledge or awareness, but they are in it. This is how we need to continue, this is how it is desirable to nevertheless continue in our corporeal work. Rabash would say that if you have money and you don't need to work then you can work without money, with no salary, but you still need to work at least part of the day, at least four hours, maybe not eight, but you still need to work.
26. S. (1:26:08) When we get a new gift and our eyes sparkle and it's very important, how important is this feeling to renew this towards the ten even though we are going through different states?
R. At least, it doesn't matter in what form that you reach the morning lesson, but gradually over the course of the lesson you must get out of your slumber, renew your heart and your mind in connection with the friends. You see them on the screens and you hear what they are saying. In this way you incorporate with them and out of the incorporation with their desires and feeling their hearts, what they are yearning for. This is how you renew and refresh every day.
27. S. (1:27:44) Is there a force [poor translation]
R. Just to incorporate in everyone I have no more to add.
28. S. (01:28:13) What is the ultimate action to awaken the Creator in us?
R. Demand for the Creator to be revealed and accompany us because we have done everything possible in order to connect and be as a group and we want Him to accompany our group forward. Yes. That every square now that we see on the screen, that it shall be that same group, that same unit that the Creator takes them, and passes them on from degree to degree, from step to step.
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29. R. (01:31:18) That is actually the first passage from the first article that Rabash wrote us. I remember when he did it, we were in the park on a trip with him, and that is where he wrote it. It wasn't so clear and understood really, to bestow first to man and then bestow to the Creator. And to the extent that you make an effort to succeed to bestow to man and then you advance to the Creator, to get close to the Creator, these are things that are not entirely connecting in our hearts. With the Creator that’s clear, I am ready to hear about that. He’s great, he’s the upper one. But towards the friends? What’s in the friends? That is very hard from what we are used to; all looking down on one another. Keep your distance between us. And to the extent that we hear of revelation of these records, Reshimot, from the shattering out of despair revealed such that they push us, one to another. That I can't get close to them, I can't look at them and I don't care about them. I feel like he’s in my way to the Creator, all sorts of such sensations and phenomena. Thus, there is great work here, big work here until we reach Love thy neighbor as thyself. What can we do?
Only in this way can we correct our vessel for revelation of the Creator because the Creator can be revealed to us only from within the vessel, only according to that mechanism, the system that’s called the society. As much as all these squares, this society and this fear, as much as all of these parts that are opposite each other, that they are in a manner that is entirely shattered and that along with this they are ready, each and every one from their part to connect with the others, through the friends to everyone and thus everyone to everyone until it receives this form of a ball, of a sphere, and there the Creator is revealed. Incorporated with the force of repulsion, rejection and the force of connection and from both these forces in our senses we’ll begin to feel the reality. It is something very...it sounds simple, but to execute it, to implement it, it’s the most difficult and complicated thing.
30. S. (01:34:54) Each friend has different layers to correct so how is it possible that we can synchronize to achieve the final correction?
R. We don't know how to do that because for this we need to, ahead of time, to understand and to feel and to control the system itself of Adam HaRishon. But rather this the Creator does. He brings us private states one to another and to another, and we don't understand these connections. Thus, each and every moment that we are going through we don't understand the connections, between each and every moment between state to state and later on it connects and makes sense. All of this entire system is under the control of the upper light which emerged and this light that is around the system, which is surrounding light, it presses upon the system. It awakens all the layers in the system to connect in all sorts of forms until all of these parts reach the whole connection.
It is not in our hands. Only in higher degrees do we begin to become a bit more familiar in this work, this systematic work in the correction of the system of Adam HaRishon. And then we are called partners of the Creator and already begin to be in work, which is more in an awareness, understanding, to more incorporate in His program. But it is not yet in our vessels which entirely are not yet ready to work out between you, to connect between you. In the connections between you, you begin to understand the forms of connection, the direction of the connections. Slowly it will happen, it is very interesting. The pleasure that we receive from this vessel, which is entirely broken and shattered, begins to work in all kinds of forms in completion. It is written that there is no greater pleasure than the solving of the doubts. All these opposite parts and there's no connection between them, they are so distant from one another, you suddenly see how they complete one another and how from this completion comes wholeness. We’ll reach that.
31. S. (01:39:09) You spoke about making an infusion for the friends, to the friends. How do we accumulate the light in me so I can turn this to an infusion for the friends?
R. Think about the importance of the action that you need to perform and from this gradually it will become clear to you how to perform it.