Morning Lesson August 30, 2021, Transcription
Part 1:
Lowliness and Subjugation - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #11
1. Rav’s Introduction: But first I think that before we read the sources, I think that today I would like for us to have a little workshop, a summary of what we have been through. We started to practically enter the impregnation, the very first spiritual degree, and therefore each and every time we need to explain to ourselves better and better what spirituality really means. What should it do to us, how should we feel it and approach it? How we can check, measure and build within us those feelings because the entire world is a feeling. We are a will to receive and what happens inside of the will to receive is called a feeling, a sensation. So how do we feel this world, how will we feel the spiritual world, how will we distinguish between the two worlds, and how will we be able to feel that we are rising and ascending in the spiritual world relative to our world? All of these things we need to locate them, to check them, to measure them, and to live in them, as it says, “you shall see your world in your life”, you need to obtain the spiritual world while you are still alive in this world. This is what we have ahead of us. What did we come to the wisdom of Kabbalah for? In order to know the truth, where we are truly living and that we want to discover the spiritual world. The Creator deliberately created two forms of nature, to receive and to bestow, in order for man to be able to always live as a beast that belongs to the will to receive and it's not just our body, it is our desire, our inner desire, that we are always in the will to receive and this is called a beast. The other part that we can develop from us, for which we also have a drop of semen, a seed, but you can say it is entirely passive. We have to develop from it the Adam in us, who resembles the Creator in that we will rise above our beastly nature, the nature of in order to receive, and build from what is inside of it the opposite nature, the image of the Creator. This is why it is called Adam.
Here there is a question: how do we do it? The entire construction of the Adam within us, relative or opposite to the beast in us, the construction of the spiritual form opposite to the corporeal form, this is our work. Actually, this is called the work of the Creator, the work of the Lord. The Creator does it but He does it only according to our efforts. As much as we will want it and the desire to build the Adam, the human in us, the image of Adam, the form of Adam is manifested in that we ask of Him then, He bestows to this desire, He makes it so. So, this is actually our work, that is everything that we build out of ourselves as the Creator's desire, as the image of the Creator, that is spiritual and everything that we do not touch in order to change it to the degree of the Creator it is called corporeal.
So, we have truly a great difference between Adam and the beast, between spirituality and corporeality, that is to rise above this world is to rise above all of our desires that exist in us to begin with, these are all the egoistic desires and to rise above them to create upon them the opposite form, truly opposite. This is called to build out of myself Adam, human, one who resembles the Creator, a spiritual form. And therefore, to begin with, it says about us, they all seemed like beasts. That the still, vegetative and animate this is what develops from those three degrees, that develop from the will to receive and the fourth degree, the form of speaking, the human the form of Adam. It can develop only according to how that beast, man who is as a beast, when a desire to know the Creator awakens in him, to get to know Him, to yearn for Him, and then he learns in what way this is possible. Then that person learns that it can be only according to his rising above his desire to something that is opposite and even though he doesn't agree with it because it is against its nature, however these two desires operate within him. And through the struggle between the two of them, he nevertheless puts in efforts in the study, in the group, and how to emerge each and every time from his beast to the human in him, from his will to receive, to in order to bestow. This is how he builds out of himself the image of Adam, the image of the Creator. To rise above this world, this is called to rise above oneself.
Certainly, to begin with we are all as beasts. Because we exist in the animate level, in the level of how to receive and even if we are all the smartest, the wisest and we are special in all kinds of qualities with music and painting and writing and what not, it doesn't matter, it all belongs to the animal level within the person. However, spirituality is only if he builds within himself some kind of form of bestowal, this is the only difference between man in the Creator. The more the person takes upon himself the more he takes it upon himself the Adam and he looks through the Adam in himself and he looks outside and he sees the world, he sees humanity he sees life and then he sees an opposite world because he sees it through the quality of bestowal and connection and love and not through the previous quality which is reception and rejection and hatred. This is why we need to sort in this way that everything that exists within me that does not resemble the Creator, this is the animate level. and everything that resembles the Creator is called the degree of Adam, and this is why I as much as I change, I correct and I replace my egoistic desires with bestowal, which is called faith above reason, that I place the qualities of bestowal, Bina, above reason, above reception by that as much as this entire degree of bestowal is above the degree of reception this is considered that I am building a human, an Adam out of myself, I grow within myself as Adam.
Otherwise, we just call it that, another word is that we are in faith above reason meaning the force of bestowal is above the force of reception. This is how I make an Adam out of myself and of course to do this by yourself is very hard and what you can do is only through the environment with the help of the environment. Otherwise, we would simply remain as Adam HaRishon and we would be building it only opposite the Creator but apparently, we don't quite understand it that apparently, we are not capable of doing it just opposite the Creator. Therefore, the Creator broke our vessel into many, many parts so that with such parts in each and every one of them and in the connection between these parts, meaning between us, when we gather into groups. By that as it says each shall help his friend, we are able to enter spiritual discernments. Here we need to constantly be concerned about how we actually use the only means, especially when we are at the time of the final corrections, the end of correction, the last generation as Kabbalist write about it. So certainly, we need not to know you are in by ourselves to reach that because that will just prolong the path for us and it will confuse us and nevertheless it will bring us eventually to the necessity for the group and the help of the friends and therefore, I would like to ask a question.
WSQ: How to come in closer to the group and distancing from the group through such actions preparations upon us which of course the Creator does, how does he build within us the recognition of reception and bestowal so we will know precisely what it is we are doing and where we exist because an ordinary person in this world doesn't quite distinguish between reception and bestowal, he just lives according to the discernment of what is good for him. We, instead of just being according to this software of it's good for me or it's bad for me, we want to reach a state where I will discern what is it to receive and what is it to bestow and feel that receiving is bad because it is not the Creator’s quality but rather is the opposite of him and to bestow is good and by this, I make Adam out of myself. I grow so as to become similar to the Creator. How do we through are nearing and distancing from the group, build discernments within us, the recognition of bestowal and reception. so that we ourselves can also do such exercises. By that and usually, of course the Creator does it, so how we come to the recognition of reception and bestowal reception is the quality of the beast or man and beast is the quality of the Creator the spiritual quality?
2. (20:49) R. WSQ. How can I measure my connection with the Creator according to my connection with the group? How can I distinguish between my states of connection with the group more and more in what? According to that somehow to depict to myself, since I am still under concealment that I am coming closer and closer to the Creator?
3. S. (25:31) Why were we given this world and how can we get closer to the friends through practical actions?
R. We were given this world what we feel in order for us to be able to distinguish between this world and spirituality. imagine to yourself that you would only exist in spirituality. Then you wouldn't be able to distinguish anything. That is just like people who are living in this world they are living inside of their desire and that is it, they don't have the recognition of the good or recognition of bad. In between their actions in between bestowal and reception because everything can be measured only with respect to the force of reception, without the force of reception, everyone would exist in a single nature and then there is no difference. Or no discernment of where we exist, we don't yet understand these discernments and how important they are. This is why the Creator, first of all, when he wanted to build, to create and to establish the created being, first of all as it says the end result is in the initial thought. He created something that is opposite to where man should be brought to at the end and the opposite is our world with the will to receive. The more we grow, the more we discover within us not just desires to receive but desires to receive in order to receive and as we will climb higher, we will discover worlds of Klipot, shells that stand opposite to the worlds of Kedusha, Holiness. So more and more each, every time we will understand how much only through something and its opposite, we are capable of attaining discernments and living and understanding and advancing and feeling, truly perceiving this whole creation. This is how it is.
S. Recently we have been trying to direct ourselves towards giving and bestowing, what can we do in order to always be giving in our world in our physical life through our effort? How can I guarantee that I'll always be in bestowal?
R. I don't know what it is that you are doing with this world and to what extent you should be doing these actions. I don't quite understand them. We need to constantly be aimed spiritually, right, that is in the spiritual world in the spiritual advancement through the group and to the Creator that is all and whatever pertains to this world we need to function in it to the extent that we have to and not more. Like a beast that uses his environment in order to exist, this is how we should use our environment in order to exist. Imagine to yourself if humanity would exist in such a way we would have no eruptions from nature, we would have no problem in general in our existence we would simply be living in an ordinary manner. Whatever each one needs, he would get it and not more than that. People would be concerned with having no less and no more and this is what we need in this world so forget about this world and through this world we can reach something no, it's not going to help, it's not going to work, this world exists in order for us to exist in it as a beast, that's it. All of our energy and everything else we have we should have only invested it in entering the spiritual reality. Look at a cat, let's say, it eats and it sleeps. So, this is how we need to be incorporated in corporeality, eat, sleep as much as we need in order to sustain our body and all of the other hours to invest them in entering the spiritual world.
4. S. (31:12) Overcoming through the friends in the 10 brings me discernments regarding my connection with the Creator, regarding my relationship with him, so does it become something personal with the Creator?
R. It becomes something very personal, actually this is personal, nothing else in life, not in this life and not in the spiritual life but only the connection that you achieved through the connection with the friends, the connection with the Creator. To the extent that this connection is built gradually that it disappears then it's built again and again it manages to disappear but this is actually your true connection with the Creator. If not for that, you have no connection with the Creator, you can imagine or fantasize anything you want but these are just fantasies.
S. So why does this seem so far? Why does this send me so far from their door?
R. So you will feel each and every time you will feel that to what extent you are not inside.
5. S. (32:51) In the beginning you said that we can do exercises of getting closer and farther in the 10. What exercises are there?
R. That's not for us yet, we are not in it and not yet so that we can play with our relations. We need to hear and only for one thing. as much as possible to adhere to the group and that's the first exercise and the second exercise is as much as I detect myself that I belong to the group or I belong to myself. There are two states, my adhesion with the group to the extent that I truly disappear there, as Rabash writes about the zeros and the ones, or that I exist outside of the group. All in all, there are only two states, either adhesion with the group or disconnection and I need to constantly detect one of these two states, where I am always and to live it. Of course, according to that I need to correct myself so that I will constantly be corrected connected to the group. as little as possible to get confused.
6. S. (34:34) Can we advance in spirituality without participating in workshops?
R. Workshops, these are like short exercises but without incorporating in the group we cannot exist because we actually build the entire broken vessel of Adam HaRishon which was broken deliberately by the Creator. That vessel we have to bring it to the form of the group or more correctly the 10 or more correctly a Partzuf, or more correctly a single soul. Everyone should be incorporated in that and later on even the still, and vegetative, and animate. They also become incorporated in that structure of the one soul that the Creator created to begin with.
7. S. (35:53) During the workshop I suddenly felt a huge distance between me and my 10. I can’t feel them, I can’t clothe in them. What should I do in order to build a connection with them?
R. Try to scrutinize how with all of your force and is quickly as possible as though you're truly drowning in the sea, or in a river and the current is pulling you I don't know where so how you would like to go back to them to catch them by the legs, by the hand, like a baby who grabs onto them to the mother so that you cannot move away from her pull him away. This is how you need to hold on to them. Try to get back to them, and apparently this is given to you so you will adhere to them even more. So, you forgot, you disregarded the connection that you had with the group that it is all towards advancement
8. S. (37:18) Why is it that when I want to connect with the friends, I don't feel the good feeling of unity?
R. You need to make more efforts, more and more effort. It takes a while, sometimes a long time, months until you feel that you want to be in contact with them. It doesn't come by just making efforts because according to your efforts the reforming light influences you and then you'll begin to feel that suddenly the group is becoming, becomes something closer, that you needed, that you seemingly can't breathe without it. Breathing spiritual air and feeling spiritual feelings is possible only to the extent that you are connected to them. It will come and you will see how these things are necessary. that you cannot do it otherwise it is impossible. Let's hope that we come to it quickly and all of us.
9. S. (39:10) When you're connected to friends and we are all together, what does it mean according to the workshop that we are nearing or distancing to the same extent to the Creator?
R. Well, that is difficult already to detect it to the extent that you get farther or closer to the group you get further or closer to the Creator. It is difficult because we cannot detect these things. We still don't even understand what it means to be connected or disconnected, much less being in such subtle changes, closer or a little less close to the group and accordingly through the group to the Creator. The Creator is already a result of me nearing the group. In other words, let's say in the group I am kind of turning the knob and then I hurry more or less from a radio, let's say for example. So, there is a difference between turning a knob, meaning making changes in the vessel and getting a result out of it. This is already hearing the sound for example from the speaker. There is a big difference. We can still not use it in this way but it will come. let's go gradually according to the degrees.
S. What does it even mean that I am nearing or distancing to the friends? Dialing the knob?
R. The extent to which I discover I belong to them, the extent to which I discover according to my vessel that I understand that I have to be together with them, within them, that without them it is not spirituality. That being incorporated with them is called entering spirituality. According to the vessels, and how according to that I can work towards the Creator to bring Him contentment. First of all, if I'm incorporated in the 10, then accordingly I bring contentment to the Creator because I am performing operations towards restoring the construction and reconstructing the broken vessel, to correct the broken vessel of Adam HaRishon. So, the more I try harder and harder to build the 10 more and more correctly, more solidified, by this I come to a state where I get closer to the Creator. I please Him, for sure. With other things it may still be hard to tell if I am, if I'm not and to what extent but in building the group in connecting the group If I come to a state that I feel within me, I feel, it's about feeling, so feeling among us more and more according to this I can measure my steps toward spirituality.
10. S. (43:34) The more I detect in the group I see it as one as more connected, to that extent I have more possibility to get connected with the Creator? The more I identify the group as more connected as one mass so I have a greater possibility to detect the Creator within me or inside of it?
R. Yes, of course inside the group we build the vessel, discernments which afterwards become emotional discernments and from emotional disturbance they become spiritual discernments, ten Sefirot. In them we constantly feel each and every one in a different way. Each one plays a different role and the Creator arranges it for us and us as we feel each other in this way we accordingly direct ourselves to the Creator and then we feel the operation of the Creator towards us and our operation in Him and in there is really the connection between us and the spiritual world. This is how in the 10 Sefirot that we build, the vessel that we build, this is how we reveal that instrument by which we reveal the Creator. In the end, it is the 10. It's the 10 Sefirot and nothing else and outside of the 10 Sefirot, we feel nothing. There is surrounding light, there are all kinds of phenomena that we can seemingly feel. There are all kinds of layers in the vessel. We will learn them. Baal HaSulam explains it in the 'Gatehouse of Intentions', in his book, that we have additional vessels beside the 10 Sefirot more external but in the end, what we need to discover is the connection between us and from within the connection between us would begin to feel more external qualities which we also bring inside later. It's all in the 10 Sefirot meaning so far everything is revealed in the 10. The whole world gradually it connects to it into one structure
S. At some time I need to identify myself inside of that, also or am I working all the time as just opposite me or should I also identify myself that I'm also inside of this mass?
R. Yes, to the extent that you come out of yourself and you want to be incorporated in the group. and really dilute yourself there, dissolve there and merge there. To that extent you will get closer to adhesion with the Creator. Well, there are other words and we will find them later.
11. S. (47:35) If I feel a lot of resistance to participating and yet I do, is that actually a sign that I'm doing the work or am I just fooling myself?
R. Yes, if you feel difficulty, rejection from connection with the friends, it is a sign that you too are in the process. Perhaps it only means that you are not that far from connection with them but you are actually having a big egoistic desire, meaning a good infrastructure, to in the future achieve great revelations in spirituality. Of course, rejection from connection is no sign that you need to quit the work. Perhaps all your friends will seem connected, adhered to one another, speaking about sublime spiritual things while you don’t understand. Don't give up on mercy, see these are only signs of a high soul although for the time being you have nothing to be proud of and in general there's nothing to be proud of but just continue along the way connect to them as a little one and you will succeed.
12. S. (49:37) What benefits can we get or how should we correctly look towards the 10, to look at the 10 at the time of the workshop because sometimes it is very hard. You are trying to aim that the friends want to connect, they want to play and connect but when each one adds from himself, it turns out that seemingly we don't even hear one another. It is just that each one said whatever he said and that's it.
R. First of all the fact that they are talking about connection and you don't feel either connection or an inclination towards it, means nothing. What you need is to nevertheless be as much as you can in subjugation towards them. That too is usually impossible because you don't feel any importance in this, no need what do I get out of it? So, what's written about it is very simple: what the mind doesn't do, time does. What the mind doesn't do, time does. We simply need to keep going and keep going and just being present among them. As passively as possible that is even better because you will gradually absorb from them what they are saying. So, it turns out that what they are saying, which doesn't seem to you and doesn't appeal to you and you don't want it, but if you sit there and you listen as if you would at least, like to intellectually understand, not understand, not be like them but intellectually understand what's happening, you absorb this message and it brings you to a very high and correct level. Therefore, annulling yourself before the society it doesn't mean which society even as with the example of Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma who announced himself before his tiny disciples, by this he said you couldn't leave him because he needed them in order to rise and not only, they needed him in order to ascend.
13. S. (52:35) I'm inspired by the fact that each time I listen, I get great pleasure and with such pleasure we always listen to their strong words, look at their clean hands, their shining eyes, and that clear memory that you received from nature and I would like to say that today we marked 20 years for the existence of the Queen's group because it's virtual and wanted to ask: virtually when we unite, each one being in his space, his place is it good? Every time that I listen to your lessons is truly a pleasure. What is it about here that each time I am yearning for the lesson I don't want to be late for the lesson and it's in order to enjoy, there is no feeling that . . ..
R. I'm very happy about it. I remember your group and I'm very happy that we have had this connection for over 20 years and that we are still connected. Thank you thank you and good luck.
14. S. (54:47) How can we add the Creator to the connection between us?
R. When you build the connection among you will need the Creator because without the Creator, the connection does not exist, if there is a connection it will be a corporeal connection and you will feel that it is not spiritual. It's spiritual only on the condition that it exists in the presence of the Creator, that the Creator is the connection. Therefore, if you are working on the connection, you will come to a state where without the Creator you cannot achieve connection and then you will need Him and you will turn to Him, it will come.
15. S. (55:47) How do I check that I am in the right balance between concern for this world and concern for the 10?
R. If you are concerned with this world through the 10 then you are in the right situation, right position or disposition.
16. S. (56:15) It is felt that there is a need for changing the strength of the work in the 10, these worlds become immersed to dilute yourself in the group, become absorbed there. How do I know the result of this work? What will change from yesterday? We're sitting in the lesson from yesterday, we have a daily task, we have two zoom meetings, I look at it all. What will change from these things so that what you're saying will actually happen, what you gave us today, some certain challenge, some mission, I feel fear that I am not even touching what you are saying, what is wrong?
R. If you want during the day to be incorporated in the morning lesson in a way that you absorb it, you suck it, just like you suck something in your mouth and then you take it out what you should not swallow. Then after you took out everything that you could from the morning lesson after that you swallow everything you could take out from the morning lesson, if you do that that is enough. You can add to it maybe.
S. How does my attitude towards our friends change to incorporate, to become immersed in them, to become a zero in the lesson. In the lesson I work with myself, with whatever discernment I have but I look at it and the day went by and my attitude to the great group didn't change, each one is preoccupied with his life or whatever he has to do?
R. But from the morning lesson you nevertheless extract the necessity to incorporate in the society more than you did before the morning lesson and every morning lesson we still have this daily portion of necessity to connect to the society, every lesson if you receive it and swallow it and absorb it and digest it then you are already in a new and stronger connection with the ten. Try to realize these words and then ask.
17. S (59:29) What is the matter called the glue between us?
R. It is built through the influence of the reforming light contrary to our desire. We want to be connected and we feel if we can or can't, if we suddenly feel that we want to connect in the group. Is it correct or incorrect? Is it good or not good that my will to receive which is me suddenly feels like I want to connect with them and we talked about the greatness of the connection and how much do I want it? Is it not an egoistic desire? Do I want and I ask the Creator ‘please give me the ability to connect to friends? How is that desire different from any other desire that is in me? Why specifically the desire to connect, why specifically with it can I turn to the Creator and demand if He will grant it and if it comes within me as my own discernment, where is there really above reason here against my will, with resistance are we asking of ourselves to want to connect? Can such a thing be? If I want to connect it's like wanting to gain something through it as a means for some physical benefit, meaning egoistic. How can we discern if these are real spiritual desires or are they still connected to my will to receive? This is what we need to think about. I leave it to you; you will think about it and we will talk.
S. How to make this scrutiny more precise?
R. This is what I don't want to talk about, I just touched it a little bit and I'm leaving it to you so you will start poking in it, we will have more words and more discernments.
18. S. (01:02:32) You said before to the friend from Tel Aviv for that in the connection in the 10, we feel that each friend actually plays a role and it can change, for example is role with respect to me can change, so that role that is changed is replaced is that the Sefira of the friend that becomes changed and replaced?
R. No, I don't want to touch these philosophies. It needs to be revealed clearly out of my own desire and then I'll be able to work with it. and all those speculations, yes no-- what will it give you? What do you know about the Sefirot for now?
S. What is this role that becomes changed or replaced?
R. What changes?
S. You said the role of the friend becomes changed.
R. I don't remember what context I said it.
S. When we make connection, each time a new friend can be revealed to me a different role
R. Yes, it's an order for me to also see myself connected to them according to what they need. When I serve them, I connect to them each time according to what they need. For me my connection is my support.
19. S. (01:04:11) To what extent does each one in this work depend on the mutual work in the ten or is that mostly personal work towards the 10?
R. If it doesn't come from the 10 mutually it is not quite spirituality, it is still perhaps pre spiritual states.
20. S. (01:04:06) You said the rejection from connection should not cause us to quit the work, how to cope with shame revealed?
R. Each one must reveal his will to receive in the fullest with all its coarseness, meaning with all of its rejection to connection with the whole vessel of Adam HaRishon because by that he actually becomes incorporated into the vessel of Adam HaRishon and comes to realize his soul. So, we have no way to make things easier on ourselves and the wisdom of Kabbalah doesn't make anything easier on us, they'd only explain to us in what way we can be incorporated and how we can use the reforming light, which we draw, and that is it. There are no tricks here, no secrets, for connection nothing, we only need to make efforts and out of these efforts we have to come the efforts will lead us into actions. These are actions and physical connection, emotional connection and in prayer. In the end everything is achieved through the power of the prayer, this is how we have to advance.
S. My question was more about well, clearly you realize that this is the way but the shame and fear distance you and how is it possible to cope with it?
R. I can't tell you we have to try and to find for ourselves even within the wisdom of Kabbalah, some kind of a duty, a job. I wrote books, I gave lectures, all kinds of things of that sort of dissemination duties. I'm sure this is what helped more than my efforts because according to my efforts, I'm weak and lazy and junk, trash. But because of the activities I did to organize to connect as much as possible and in my character, I had nothing to do with that. In my character I am very far from people. You can ask people who are in Bnei Baruch at the center, here with me, and they will tell you my character is very bad. But again, even with all this, I tried to engage in all kinds of operations and games around it, and that kept me going and progressing. I knew that if I didn't do something around the learning I couldn't just stick to learning. If I feel repelled from the group, I will do something and engage something around the group. I'll give lectures or 10 is something. But not quit. I still, I shifted myself to different operations, maybe not so internal but I was still kind of in the loop.
21. S. (01:09:25) Is sitting here without any feeling or understanding in the workshop considered effort?
R. Of course it's considered effort. You're sitting here and you're telling yourself I don't understand it and you're constantly worried about yourself. Stop thinking about yourself and you'll be in spirituality. I guarantee you. So, whatever you are given, you are giving big help to feel that you don't belong, that you don't understand, that you are not anything. What you need to do is just drop all those worries. So, if I don't understand, I don’t understand; if I don’t feel, I don’t feel. The bottom line is I am at least doing something. I just want to be given something to do and I will do it for the sake of spirituality, do something for the sake of humanity. Why are you constantly worried about not feeling or not understanding?
S. How can I write articles for dissemination?
R. So you can’t write articles? Don't.
S. How can you do it if you don't feel anything? How can you do it correctly without attainment?
R. Did you hear what I just said? Don’t write. Quit writing. Do something you can and if you can't do anything, sit and don't do anything.
S. He knows how to sing.
R. He can sing? Sing.
22. S. (01:11:23) You said we need to get to know the will to receive to the fullest in order to truly correct it. At least for me it is so dark, it is bleak, it is violent, it is ugly. It is the worst so how can you find the hope to even correct it?
R. Stop thinking about yourself and then it will get easier. The world will then seem very easy and beautiful if you take your own ego out from this picture that you see and feel. Just drop it. Just say that my basic premise is that I am a complete zero, I seemingly don't exist. You'll see how immediately it makes the world a beautiful world. You don't ask anything of others or of yourself. Just drop all of your exaggerated demands of yourself and then after you come to this you will see how you can position yourself in a new way. Position yourself and then you will see.
23. S. (01:13:03) What is the right intention, Hissaron, to ask for connection? I have to connect but why?
R. Within the feelings of connections between us we discover the Creator.
S. We want to give contentment to Him by connection?
R. Forget about the contentment. If you seek contentment, you will never approach the Creator because you have no inclination, no disposition to bring Him contentment. Keep it simple. When I have connection between me and the friends, there I detect the Creator. Not to bring Him contentment, just to detect Him there. Just depict some benefit in your will to receive that you are getting for it otherwise you won't be able to enter. You’re building a barrier for yourself. First you want to have the egoistic inclination for it and afterwards you will deal with correcting the desire. But first you need to have the desire.
24. S. (01:14:52) Sometimes I come to some activity of the ten with a desire, with a lot of taste. Sometimes it is like I am dead, without any taste. How do I make sure that I am bestowing to the friends in a good way and influencing them in a good way above all these sensations?
R. Effort. Make an effort to bestow to the friends above all of these sensations and don't forget about them. You need to do just like we do in this world. First of all, enter the group into a connection with the friends without high demands, even on the intention to receive that it would be good for you. But in the meantime, first enter the connection. You want to be rewarded. Work with the will to receive you have. Don't lie to yourself that you want something very high. We are not playing in fantasies, that by this you understand that by the society you can reach some treasure.
Then you can continue onwards. You enter into those same connections. Using them correctly, that they will receive you and you will receive them. To accept each other. We can't reveal that same treasure if we don't connect between us. We have some huge barrels full of gold, like something very important, and together you can open ten locks on the barrel. You know there are safes where you need two keys that you need to put in at the same time and each one turns them in a certain way and then the safe opens up. We need to approach opening the door to the spiritual world in this way. Each one needs to enter their key and together we need in the connection between us, in agreement between us, to turn the key of each one in their place. This entrance to spirituality will then open up and then we will reveal that there is the Creator and He says, ‘where have you been? I have been waiting for you for so long. you are finally here.’
25. S. (01:18:35) What is the lock that we have here that we need to open?
R. Towards what?
S. Towards love, towards giving?
R. You want to open up the door, right?
S. Why is it so difficult? We are working on this, we're yearning for this, and asking for it all the time.
R. So you will understand that this is above everything and anything else. That it is dearer to you than everything else, that there is nothing in the world that can be above it. There cannot be anything including you, your life, all of your corporeality, and your spirituality that you depict to yourself. You let go of everything, this world and the next world. You have no goal but only to open up the lock because this is called that you can do everything for the sake of the creator.
S. That is the key to my heart? What is the key to the heart of the friends?
R. The same thing. They all do the same thing. They need to do it together and this is called Arvut, mutual guarantee. You can open up the safe, the barrier, the door to the true world, only in mutual guarantee.
S. I am split into two efforts: one to open the lock that is in me and to help the friends open their lock?
R. Yes. You need to worry about the connection between you to such an extent that together all of you as one man in one heart are opening the locks, in synchronicity between each one at the same time.
S. But what is that? It is clear that everyone helps each other.
R. Each one loves their friend because in this we are turning into one heart. It truly opens up. We don't need to open up anything. Just to open up our hearts and this in itself will open.
26. S. (01:21:25) How can we transfer the feeling of the force we receive each time we read the source materials together or when we are in an action together? How do we transfer this force to the friends?
R. Talk with them together and they will see how impressed you are. They learn from you and this is how each will help his friend. Rabash writes about this.
27. S. (01:22:12) Immediately after I try to awaken my friends in the 10, I feel that I am filled with my ego and I don't know what to do with it.
R. Why do you think that's not okay?
S. Because I don't want to keep it for myself; I want to give everything I do to the ten.
R. This is what you receive now as an addition of ego. The payment for your correct action is a gift from the Creator, that the Creator raises your ego even more.
S. What do I do in such a state?
R. Work on the new ego. Also, rise above it to a connection with the friends and through the friends to the Creator which is the final goal. The final action is in the preliminary thought. We go through all these stages because we want to reach Him, to be in equivalence of form with Him in order to resemble Him in bestowal. He places all of these states before you. It's like an athlete who needs to train all the time more and more until he reaches the peak. I don't know what other examples I can give you. We hope that it will work.
28. S. (01:24:30) How do we do this work throughout the day and we don't lose the connection with the ten? Sometimes problems that we have to solve take our hearts and minds. Our fear is being concerned with all kinds of corporeal things.
R. You have to talk amongst yourselves and decide. I can’t say. You are a very specific group, the foundation of Bnei Baruch. I feel results from your workday by day in your correct operation of all sorts of systems that you maintain in this center. I’m not sure what more to tell you. Continue the work and through the work you will reveal the connection between you. Do the work for the entire world Kli and give it to the Creator with a bit more importance. According to corporeality the work itself is spiritual work. It just lacks intention.
S. You're saying we must incorporate in the ten, to dissolve and immerse ourselves in it. How do we do this during the day?
R. If you are directed to the Creator all the time it turns out that each time it doesn't matter what you're doing, you are on the correct line, the correct lane.
S. You said that we should connect everything into the Creator and we need to move it through the ten to the Creator.
R. Otherwise you can't turn to Him. It's like that safe we spoke about. You can’t turn to Him. It's called ‘a voice in the desert’. You are yelling but nobody hears it. Just from within the ten. You understand that it needs to be a structure of the egoistic desires that are capable of connecting together, to some extent, that is suitable to the upper light even Nefesh de Nefesh de Nefesh. If they have a tendency to connect then there is the light that reforms. If they connect in something already then, they have the light of Nefesh, the attainment of the Creator that is within them. That is the beginning of the Ibur, the conception, and onwards they continue to come together between them and the Creator begins to appear and them more and more as the force of liveliness in the spiritual embryo. That’s how we advance.
S. I turn to the Creator through the ten. That connection is the same action that we spoke about. I don't know how to start that action correctly. It doesn't come out for me.
R. You are very strong veterans and each one Is really doing very important work in maintaining the physical worldwide Bnei Baruch. You are the technical engine. I don't think that there is a problem here. You are in one place: you can see and speak with each other physically. Other than the hearts, everything is in your hands. You need to turn to the Creator to connect the hearts and He will connect them. Your demand is the correct demand and I very much respect it.
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29. S. (01:35:18) What is the difference between the thought of a person and the sensation of the thought?
R. All these things, the result of the thought, of the desire, of the sensation, is called man's reason.
S. It says here that there is also the thought that it is not worthwhile to work in this way.
R. It is the thought that is disconnected from the action, from the desire. A man hears and understands that he needs to do otherwise but, in the meantime, he is not capable. The question is how much this brings him to the correct action.
30. S. (01:36:26) When I don't agree with what the Creator is arranging for me and think that He needs to arrange things differently, how should we really work with this above reason and not just ignore that ‘there is none else besides Him’?
R. Close our eyes and do what everyone is doing.
30. S. (01:36:53) The remedy in the Torah can bring us from lowliness to Kedusha, but is there a remedy for being proud? Does pride reject us completely from spirituality?
R. Pride is a very good quality that helps us to reach the end of corrections. Don't degrade pride. In general, a person should not look down on anything either from the good side or the bad side. He will need all of the qualities in him in their entirety otherwise he will not reveal the Creator in the manner that he has come in order to fill his soul.
31. S. (01:38:01) Can I observe my behavior to the ten as if from the outside and to discern what is not okay in my relationship in my attitude to the Friends?
R. I don't know if this is stated precisely. I'm not familiar with what you mean. I don't think it is possible to pass on these feelings but rather to incorporate them in the ten and to be in them. I am not in it and so I cannot give you advice on it.
32. S. (01:39:07) How does a person nullify his reason, to not to get a stronger and egoistic reason?
R. I think simply to serve them as much as possible and the Creator will help.