Morning Lesson Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.

Morning Lesson November 16, 2020

Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”, #18

1. Rav’s Introduction:

Yes, our work is primarily focused on exertion in faith above reason. The Creator created the will to receive and we exist in this will to receive as created beings. This is how we can exist having a different desire than the Creator but along with that we need to reach a state where we are like the Creator. This is called that we have to rise to faith above reason. Reason is working and feeling and accepting reality within reason, within our desire, in a desire that is opposite to the Creator and all of our work, since we want to reach the same state as the Creator adhesion with Him getting to know the true reality not being in a false reality, inside reason but rather reaching the true eternal work. It is called feeling in faith above reason. And indeed, we exist in that Eternal world however we cannot feel it as it says, “they have eyes but see not they have ears but hear not”. Because reason our ego is hiding the truth from us as sometimes we discover even in our world that I'm beginning to see something, to understand something, to discover something; but earlier, I didn't discover, I couldn’t see it, I couldn't hear it, so did it not exist in reality, whatever I'm now discovering? It did exist in reality, however I did not have the Kelim, the tools, the ability to see it, to hear it. And it's the same with us. There is no other state besides that single state, the only complete reality. However, we are seemingly as blind, we don't have the emotion, the correct emotion and mind with which to see the true state. But rather we are living inside of ourselves inside of our ego and it confuses us and it portrays to us our world our present world therefore it is called an imaginary world. This is how it is revealed to our ego and from that imagination we must exit. To exit it means to rise from the degree of reason to the degree of faith above reason. Not to see according to my ego, according to my will to receive, that is not what I need, but rather according to the will to bestow which I build above the will to receive. Therefore in order for the created being to exist at all, for him to have a reality, a personality the Creator created a will receive incompletely, rather we rise above it and the more than we rise above it is considered that we begin to feel the true world in which we exist. It is here right here, however I gradually need to discover it through the force of faith. Through my identification with the Creator through the force of bestowal. This is our work. We will continue with the text and bit by bit we will get into it indeed this work is something we have to do more and more and it ends only in Gmar Tikkun at the end of correction until we finally rise above all of the will to receive invert it to be in order to bestow. That is we use the will to receive but first now we have to rise to the degree of Bina the degree of faith above reason and later we will also tie them, the degree of Bina to the degree of Malchut together, and we then are on even higher levels receiving in order to bestow. That will come in time and we continue.

Excerpt #18 Reader (05:11 - 06:34)

2. R. We received from the Creator a gift. It is a gift our egoistic will to receive that disconnects us from spirituality so that we would be able to build our senses for spirituality in a way that is healthy, with awareness, in a state where I know what I am doing I know what I am attaining then, and what I get what I receive what I feel. Therefore the work is above the desire. I received an egoistic desire, I need to rise above it. As though I don't have this egoistic desire and keep the Creator’s desire. Instead of reception, bestowal; instead of rejection, connection. All of the qualities that I have within reason, I have to replace them with the qualities of faith.  That is, to replace the qualities of reception with the qualities of bestowal. Of course, we don't do it with respect to the whole of reality, the still vegetative animate and speaking, but only towards the friends, towards the group, towards that small circle in which I am, for now. Later on, we will see how it expands to the whole of reality, how I can discover the whole of reality as existing in it. We will later discover, to the extent that we, ourselves, elevate ourselves above reason how much all of us, in general, the whole of humanity is also keeping the qualities of bestowal, but unaware. They do not understand it, they do not feel it, therefore it's not considered or it's considered that they're not doing it. But actually yes, they are doing it, however in a way that it is not considered according to their view. So, what we have to do is to try, even though we have no emotion and no mind in bestowal and in connection, we need to try, nevertheless to make efforts towards that, because those are spiritual qualities that come from the spiritual world and we want to resemble the spiritual world even though we exist in the corporeal world and then according to, the more we're able to depict to ourselves the forces of bestowal the qualities of bestowal, acts of bestowal. This is considered to be in faith. Then accordingly, the more we will try to make efforts in that, above our own egoistic desire, we will awaken, by that, those spiritual states. This is called the Reforming Light, it will influence us and will promote us in such a way that indeed we will be able to perform such actions. And then we will be able to feel the difference between the corporeal world and the spiritual world is only in our attitude, in our relation. It's not that we travel somewhere in space or we go to some different reality, a different space a different dimension or some other place, but rather our attitude to the present reality is what turns this present reality into a spiritual reality.

3. S. (10:41) How do we help a friend when a friend demands, is asking for help and he doesn't have strength for the work? How can we help them as a ten?

R. An example. An example only. You can read an article with him without explaining it because you will be explaining it from your knowledge to his knowledge, but read together with him.It's very simple. Sit and read with him an article, or even part of TES, from Psalms. The most important thing is to show him it is worthwhile to read these in order to draw the reforming light. That’s it. That those spiritual actions, of an order to bestow, they exist in the world, the whole world is actually a spiritual world, however it just seems to us in our will to receive, that the world is corporeal. Because we are unconscious. You take the friend and you try to be together with him and search for how  you can reach the spiritual world, what you need to draw which qualities which actions and try to do it.

S. But the work is internal, how can we get an example from internal work?

R. There’s no such an example. Only to give an awakening to the other. And the awakening of course is an external awakening. To speak less about internality so you don’t confuse each other with lack of clear knowledge but just give an awakening, a yearning, an example.

4. S. (12:48) You said all the qualities we have within reason, we have to rise above them in faith above reason. What does that mean?

R. It means the Creator who created reality created it in a spiritual way and later on from that spiritual form He made a replication a projection to a corporeal form. And we exist in the corporeal form in order to try, through connection and prayer, connection between us and a prayer to the Creator. That is, a connection between us and a connection with the Creator to rise from the corporeal level to the spiritual level so that all of these levels are only in our impression in our imagination in our perception of reality.

5. S. (13:58) He writes here in the article that the work above reason has to be an unconditional surrender. What does that mean?

R. They have to work in faith above reason, unconditionally. Meaning that I don't demand any reward and there are no conditions. Whatever the Creator gives in me every moment in my internal qualities and in the external conditions, I accept it as something that is necessary, that is correct, in order for me to want, out of that to rise to qualities of bestowal, qualities of connection to rise above my ego. That I do not demand any conditions beyond whatever I get each and every moment from the Creator.

S. But I do wish to feel the friends more, connect with them more. I demand that or you shouldn't?

R. I want to rise to the degree of faith above reason. But, from whatever you have now, with these conditions, you're not demanding from Him please give me this and that and then I'll do it. But rather, whatever you received, work with that.

S. He also said that I acquire a spiritual form and then I make a copy of it in corporeality, what does that mean?

6. S. (15:45) What is the thing that prevents us from going from one degree to the other?

R. A person himself. Nothing besides that. We get, each and every moment, each one of us every ten, and in general the whole of humanity. Each and every moment we get the most correct conditions with which to ascend from degree to degree. This is what we should believe and this is how we should accept it.

7. S. (16:23) In order to rise above reason, do you have to have a state of tastelessness and disorientation?

R. There has to be a lack of taste and lack of orientation so it will be easier for us to rise to the next degree. Later on we will have different conditions, more difficult then we will have taste and a difficulty to move from the present degree because you know it, you feel it, you have in it certain connections and then it will be more difficult. But now, for the time being, we are getting both internally personally and also collectively, generally in the world, such states from which it is the easiest to rise to the degree of faith, the degree of bestowal, the degree of connection. All of the conditions, internal and external, towards each one and for everyone together for the whole of humanity actually support the spiritual accent ascent.

8. S. (17:28) I want to ask, this unconditional surrender, does that depend on our ego that has to make room for the friends for the ten is that enough, or we have to do it towards the entire group and all of humanity?

R. Unconditional surrender depends not with respect to the group the ten or the whole world but with respect to you. You, in your perception you feel the ten and you feel a whole group, global reality, in general, everything that you feel in general the Creator is giving it to you. So that all in all, out of this world of yours, from in order to receive you will rise to bestow. That's it. These are the conditions.

9. S. (18:51) The Creator keeps arranging for us new conditions and new reason. How should we respond to those conditions He is arranging?

R. Constantly try to rise to the quality of bestowal and connection.

Excerpt #19 Reader (19:17 - 20:06)

10. R. WSQ. Here, there's a question. When we feel that each time we have new conditions, the burdening of the heart, the desire, confusions, how do we build a system between us, in order to awaken the friend so that the friends will awaken me to spiritual work? I constantly feel that I'm confused, my head is spinning when I wake up in the morning or in the middle of the day and I don't have a good mood, I can't see which way to turn. What I should do in order to somehow arrange myself more healthily more clearly. How do we hold the state in the ten in the group, such that I will constantly feel support from the ten because then, for sure this is how it is arranged, and for sure I will reach the right intentions the right directions the right labor the right prayer and I will elevate myself from the present state, the broken dark state, to a good state? How do we, nevertheless help one another, so as to constantly be in an ascent even to wait for disruptions, let me have more disruptions, so that I will be able to rise above them. This is considered that I awaken the dawn and the dawn does not awaken me. I want to be given more work, more difficulties, more problems, more questions, so that through the support from the group I receive a force from the Creator and I'll be able to rise more and even more. So that I will demand it, so I will be that old man who is searching for something he may have lost…Maybe I have some other desires that I need to raise them also to the degree of Bina. How do we organize these things in the group? In practice, so that today none of us will feel that he is in some lowly state?

11. R. WSQ. As much as I feel that my integration in everyone, when I come out with my emotion in my heart out to everyone, as much as this helps me to already start to ascend above my ego above my reason, to start to feel in it qualities of bestowal qualities of faith. As much as coming out from the person to the ten, already starts to build the degree of Bina. How do we do it in practice so that I come out of myself to the ten and in practice together with them I build through my integration with them the degree of Bina, my main degree of faith, degree of bestowal As much as my integration in the ten gives me the entrance to that feeling called the upper world? 

12. R. WSQ. How can I ask from my ten or even all of the worldwide Bnei Baruch that they will help me, that they will deliver me out of my ego, out of my will to receive? They can do it, to shift me from Malchut to Bina from receiving to bestowal? They have the power to do that, so how can I ask of them that they will truly want it and they will perform this action of bringing me out of myself, so that I will be above myself, in the absence, in the quality of bestowal into the group, so that I will be included in them, so I will dissolve in them. How can I ask of them, in what way can I buy them, bring them gifts, tell me what to do because if they will want to do it, they will do it, they will simply bring me out of my ego. So how do I turn to them?

13. R. WSQ. How can I give back, how can I pay for this act of salvation that the ten will perform on me or even the world Kli. They are willing let's say to do this, they’re truly a salvation service for me. However, how can I pay back for them?

14. S. (35:23) Is the ten doing something in practice a practical change, or is by coming out to them change happens?

R. Both. If I annul towards the ten together, it is an action on my behalf but it has to be in action on behalf of the entire ten, on each and every friend they're turning to the Creator praying to the Creator.

S. What is there in the action of the ten?

R. A prayer. A prayer of the many. If one person prays it's not.... it's only through integration. If everyone, together prays if they ask as much as each one can, then all together this is what has influence, this leaves an impression.

Excerpt #19 again Reader (36:29 - 38:29)

15. R. WSQ. Usually this is how we feel it but what if we feel differently I have all the abundance, I'm completely full I'm not concerned about anything in this world the friends are relating nicely to me, the whole world is relating nicely to me I have everything that I have need at home and at work everything. It's simply Heaven. I don't need anything, I don't want anything, how do I work above reason then? It’s a question. Well maybe you won't have such examples but let's say that you do. I don't feel any lack I have everything like, I don't need anything, so how do I nevertheless rise above myself? 

16. R. WSQ. That is, apparently in such a state I need to check again. Is the Creator enjoying my state my development. The fact that I have that feeling and it helps me it pushes me to develop, it is truly help from above, from the Creator. But, if I get from the Creator a good state, a good feeling, then do I awaken, by myself that is the difference between good and bad in my awakening is whether am I thinking about giving contentment to the Creator out of each and every state because if I feel good I don’t think about Him. If I feel bad I only think about myself. So how do I begin to rise above what is good and bad for me to what is good and bad for the Creator? 

Excerpt #20 Reader(44:05 - 44:31)

17. R. This means that he doesn't want to rise... to faith above reason or to even get out of this state because he feels the taste of dust, but rather because he wants to give contentment to the Creator. That’s his motivation.

Excerpt #21 Reader(44:48 - 45:54)

18. R. WSQ. How can we check that our inclination to rise to above reason is not so we would simply feel good and go up to the spiritual world and be children of the next world, but rather by that we are giving contentment to the Creator, otherwise we are turning it from sanctity into a Klipa. How do we check it?

19. R. WSQ. Meaning before I'm integrated in a ten, I can't perform any spiritual actions since it will always be in my will to receive and only after integrating, incorporating in them, then I can perform spiritual actions, I can come out to faith above reason, to in order to bestow and so on and so forth. Speak about it. Meaning this is the condition, this is the way to look after me so I won't do it for my own benefit but truly for the benefit of the Creator the friends. It’s the same.

20. S. (54:15) When nevertheless do we need to think and relate to giving contentment to the Creator vs. when we have to do it for the friends?

R. Both simultaneously.

21. S. (54:32) Can I ask the following question; we had a workshop, I caught myself thinking that I, seemingly, am touching the friends, I want to connect with them, I feel them, trying to feel them through my will to receive so am I truly feeling for them in my will to receive? I want to find something related to bestowal there, a deficiency for bestowal, so I don't understand how through a totally different deficiency I'm trying to find something which is totally opposite?

R. That’s how it happens, we come from the incorrect, the opposite form to the correct form. You're on the path you will always have such discernments reception and bestowal, reception and bestowal. You can't remain in only one perception, you won't feel it, only on the condition that you have against it the other quality.

22. S. (55:47) Is it possible to say, let's say, in each situation where I don't feel the ten or the greatness of the Creator, that I'm working on it...?

R. If you don't feel it, it's not considered. It works to some extent because you're included with everyone, but it's not what we're after. We're talking about: a person is where his thoughts are.

23. S. (56:24) The prayer of the many: if there is some group of people who are together for a certain time and they cannot reach the prayer of the many, does it hinder the group?

R. We need to make all the efforts in the ten in order to connect together as much as possible according to the articles of Rabash. Read, again, the articles of Rabash. Don't run away from it.

24. S. (57:12) How do I use this method of faith above reason in relation to the friends’ questions during the lesson?

R. You are together with them in the system. Like it or not, you're going to be integrated with them, hence you should better take the questions as your questions, together with everyone and solve them and by that be integrated and incorporated.

25. S. (57:52) This ascent to above reason, it's possible only when I'm included in the friends or also when the friends should integrate with me?

R. It's not important, make efforts otherwise you will get confused and start to engage in things that may be unimportant right now. The main thing for us is to rise to connection above our ego.

26. S. (58:28) As a ten how can we work in order to raise a friend from the Malchut to Bina?

R. You need to pray for him and similarly for each one and everyone together. Then he who prays for his friend is rewarded first. That's our work. If I also want to rise, to ascend, I need to pray for the others, and as much as possible, from the bottom of my heart and this means that I'm raising myself. You can't go from one to another spiritual degree a higher one unless I'm asking for the other one. That, for me, is the same action that lifts that raises me from one degree to another. If I invest my strength in the ascending of the friends from one degree to the other, by that, I'm raising myself from one degree to another, that's how it works. Because you cannot lift yourself or raise yourself to a higher degree on the contrary you're going to go down to the Klipot, shell, because you're asking for yourself. Then your goal and your work will be different, opposing.

27. S. (01:00:16) One of the questions you gave us in the workshop was: if you don't have problems you won't be able to advance and spirituality. So my question is...

R. No, I asked the other way around. Can we advance in spirituality as a result of all the abundance.

S. Let's say that there is wholeness and the Creator's testing us and giving us a good feeling, so then we cannot advance to spirituality if I just feel wholeness?

R. You can. You can, that's why I asked. Because my tendency towards spirituality is not because I don't have problems but because I wish to give contentment to the Creator. So it's possible that I have no lacks whatsoever but I need to produce that deficiency. Am I giving contentment to the Creator or not? For me this will be the catalyst, the reason for me to advance

S. So I'll awaken the dawn, it could be out of the fact that I feel good, wholeness, nevertheless I yearn for it?

R. Exactly. Only in this way. We awaken the dawn and the dawn does not awaken us. Whether all the good and delight.

28. S. (01:01:49) Before the lesson we asked to think about the friends who are ill and we say their names, but if I don't remember the faces of these friends, how can I think about them when I don't even know them?

R. It doesn't matter if you know them or not, you recognize their faces or not and if you remember their names or not. Starting tomorrow we're not going to mention the names, it's enough. We have sick people among us, we need to think that we want to bring them health and we want everyone to be organized and not lack anything. That we will start to work in lacking to bring contentment to the Creator, not that we are lacking health or money or some other problems at work, we don't want to think about it. We won't feel any problem in this world, the problem is how do we perform these actions of ours towards the Creator? How to work from all this abundance?

29. S. (01:03:18) We talked in the workshop about deciding to give contentment to the Creator? Replacing it by getting contentment to the friends and we do that?

R. If my work in the ten I incorporate myself in the friends I want to be with them to support them, by that, I engage in preparation for giving contentment to the Creator. If I’ll be able to portray, after my work in the ten that I'm working with the ten wholistically this would mean that I'm working for the Creator. There's no light without a vessel there’s no creator without a created being. This created being, the soul, the soul is the ten. If I can imagine all my friends as a ten where I work for everyone I wish to support everyone, this means I'm giving contentment to the Creator. Don't disconnect the concept of the Creator from the ten. It does not exist.

30. S. (01:04:42) How do I not fall into this imaginary reality in the work with the ten?

R. I can't explain it, you do it out of experience. Work, read what Rabash is saying as much as possible enter the ten and this will give you more discernments in order to protect yourself along the way.

31. S. (01:05:14) We have to renew faith above reason each day, how do we do it?

R. If each and every moment you wish to be in faith above reason, the force of bestowal and connection above the will to receive, above your personal calculations, then you're yearning for it. What do you mean every day, each and every moment.

S. We need to know that we are in it all the time with the friends, with the Creator?

32. S. (01:05:56) I'm scrutinizing in my mind, in my emotion, when it rises, when it ascends, where is it then where is the emotion and the mind that I will have in my scrutinization?

R. Inside the friends. Inside the friends. Spirituality we attain in the connection between us.

33. S. (01:06:30) You might not like my question but I'd like to ask it because we have a scrutiny in the ten. Some of the friends in the ten think that a certain friend is drilling a hole in the boat and a certain part of the ten think that he is actually helping the advancement of the ten. I would like to ask for your view about the situation?
R. I don't have an answer, keep arguing. And all of us, we will observe and see what comes out of it. We have no questions about your questions, keep going the way you want it, you're all very smart and you're the smartest.

34. S. (01:07:29) When the state of darkness comes, usually the person wants to automatically pray that this state will disappear and he will feel good and he falls into an incorrect state. How to pray correctly and ask correctly from that state? 

R. I cannot tell you, it’s so personal for each and every one. Each person should align himself according to what we're reading, let's say these excerpts, it's called the Work In Faith Above Reason. Let him re-read all these excerpts several times. By that you will get additional directions. That's it.

35. S. (01:08:45) You said that until I enter the ten I cannot perform spiritual actions and once I do enter it I dissolve into the friends I can feel flavors there which the Creator fills in order to bestow to Him more contentment...

R. You can scrutinize these only with the friends. Only with the friends in the ten can we correctly begin to relate to the Creator. The ten in its entirety is the form of the Creator, not any other way. It will never be any other way. That's how He made us, created us, broke us, confused us, rearranged us in such a way that we can keep going, we can reveal Him, detect Him. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to understand Him to locate and detect Him for ourselves. Otherwise you simply can't, you need a certain matter that will require the form of the Creator since the Creator is concealed from our feeling. What kind of form what kind of matter can we have that can be suitable for starting to perceive the Creator but the connection between us. Where we annul ourselves and connect together using His concealed force and then this form that we are constructing between us gives us a feeling, an understanding, a hold on this concept called Creator.

S. This is clear the question is because it says there that he should believe that the Creator is enjoying this work. So in our connections I'd like to discover that He is indeed enjoying it?

R. If you're giving contentment to the friends the entire group and it's truly a form that's devoid of you but it’s all of them, then it turns out that you're doing it for the Creator. That's how it is. After all we need instruments by which we can aim ourselves at this concealed concept called Creator.

S. And there is some more internal connection there with that force that exists between us or it's all...?

R. When I have no other desire but to truly bestow, we'll find all these new things and not with your questions and desires although for the time being, they are correct. They are just.

36. S. (01:12:16) Before I perform a spiritual action in the ten, we have to think about whether with this action we give contentment to the Creator. How do we perform this calculation?

R. The Creator is the sum total inclusive if you bestow to the ten in order to bestow contentment to the Creator you doing everything correctly. You won’t receive more than you can ask as much as you want. I'm happy that you're asking such questions but you're not hearing the answer. Do everything for the ten, period. Because He is in the ten. If we say, we don’t want a ten we want to see him, that you cannot have. This will not work out for you. Until you depict the ten entirely in you incorporated in them completely, only then the concept of the Creator will become clear. But even that is inside the ten. I dwell among my people.

37. S. (01:13:42) There was a question in the workshop: how can I ask of the ten or the whole world Kli of Bnei Baruch so that they will deliver me from the will to receive. So how can you do it?

R. Turn to them. You have a ten, you are talking several times a day, ask: each one should ask the ten.

S. And how to ask of all of Bnei Baruch?

R. It doesn't matter, do it like that and then you can use the same plea to turn to the entire global Bnei Baruch since you can’t turn to Bnei Baruch unless you are incorporated in the ten. You can't, only the ten can raise this plea. This is according to the order, structure between you. 

38. S. (01:14:51) We read Rabash's articles in the ten each day and Rabash writes everywhere that this dissolving into friends it’s necessary so my question is, can I check somehow whether I dissolve in the friends or not? Are we all equal?

R. Imagine yourself like a mother towards her kids: she's completely incorporated what they're feeling, their lives, their illnesses, what they need and so on and so forth, their goals. And see to what extent you are incorporated in them or not. 

39. S. (01:15:46) What are spiritual actions?

R. In order to bestow to the other is called a spiritual action. Without any calculation for myself.

40. S. (01:16:24) To integrate in this concept called the ten, I need to depict the qualities that the ten has or it is enough to perform actions of restriction, screen, reflected light?

R. If you can perform a restriction screen and reflected light you don't need anything else.

41. S. (01:16:51) Does the Creator give us corporeal problems only when I fail to integrate in the friends from a state which is all good and if I were successful it would not happen?

R. No, no. We don't know why we are getting specifically these problems or others and when. It is not our calculation, it is a calculation from a higher degree and all of those actions they wish to raise as higher.

42. S. (01:17:27) Is it a correct form to always greet the ten with a smile?

R. That is typically how we come in order to bring about a sense of upliftment, confidence and so on but it doesn't mean that I always do it artificially and by that I confuse everyone. No, the attitude to the ten has to be very practical, on-point. The main thing is the connection between us. We should understand and feel how much we understand one another, how much we are working as one man in one heart.

43. S. (01:18:21) Can we say that the friend who doesn't invest in the ten, the ten would not be able to hold him?

R. It's hard to say.

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