Morning Lesson April 2, 2021
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1. Rav’s Introduction: It is written that we need to receive the Torah as the inner software of our desires and arrange all of our desires according to the Torah, according to the stories, according to these actions which the Torah preforms in us; that we need to live inside the system where we are all broken, and by us engaging in the Torah, the reforming light performs in us an action whereby it arranges us, it connects correctly all of the broken parts. It is not that each part is broken, rather, what is broken is the connections between them. This is how we need to re-establish ourselves, raise ourselves. It is called to raise Schechina from the dust. From it being entirely disintegrated, broken into small selfish desires, and we have to put them together, connect them more and more, into a single system that will be in man’s body, the Guf of Adam, similar to the Creator, where everyone is in mutual bestowal. So, everything that we will study regarding the Torah, eventually we are studying about our correct inner structure. How we have to put it together so that this single upper force will be revealed in us, that there is none else besides him, and that he is filling us, surrounding us, and this is how we then actualize the Torah correctly.
Then we will feel accordingly how this force is filling us, operating us, and how we can invite it...We are hurrying up so that He will be revealed, creating all the conditions for Him to be revealed from the side of the kli, and He will be revealed as the inner force in this kli, that is operating it as the force of the light. This is why it says that you have to write the Torah on your heart, write it on the tablet of your heart. That is, that we have to arrange everything that it says in the Torah, from the word Beresheet, the first world in the Torah, and the word Israel, the last one in the Torah. This entire process, which is written about in the Torah, we have to go through it and we have to feel this whole process, how it is going over us, and this is considered that we are arranging ourselves correctly for the Creator to clothe in us without any impediments on our side. Rather, to the contrary, we are drawing Him, arranging Him that we are becoming the correct kli, we are becoming the Schechina, divinity, in which the Creator is revealed. This is why, what the Creator did, is he created this desire, and he broke it into many parts, many pieces, after the desire, to begin with, was whole. This is called Adam HaRishon, prior to the sin.
Later on, He broke it, that desire, into many pieces, and we need to try to reconnect these pieces between us, to arrange them as our spiritual puzzle, in each one of us and between all of us, and accordingly, we will begin to see, instead of this world or above this world, the spiritual world, in which one force will dwell, the Creator, and the different pieces of reality are all mutually and completely connected. Therefore, when we read the Torah, and we will be studying it more and more, we will see how our perspective, the way we look at the geography and history of our life, and everything that we use to depict in our egoistic desires, as much as this starts to take on a new spiritual form, and instead of many people, we will see desires and the way it is two forces, the Creator and Pharaoh, and Moses in between them, and also us behind Moses, exist in this whole map, in this whole picture. All of this is what the Torah is talking about. The more we will learn, we will simply see that everything, all in all, exists in this small book. We don't need anything besides writing it on the tablet of our hearts. Meaning our desires. Then we will see how much, truly, there is nothing besides that. In order to do this practically, we need this entire process to depict it, and to realize it in a group, in the 10, between us.
If we study, whatever we are studying, it doesn't matter what it is, we have to see how these things become revealed between us, in the relations between us. We can identify them, we can see how they change, they become more organized, and all of this is according to how much we will want it to happen in us. In actuality, accordingly we will also change correctly, until we will reach Gmar Tikun, the end of correction, when the Torah, the entire upper light, clothes in the complete kli, that will be called Israel, Yashar Kel, aimed only to the Creator so that the Creator will fill up this kli. On that day, the Lord will be one and his name one. That is the kli will be complete and the light will be complete, and that way, they will connect in adhesion to each other. This is what we are studying. This is why we need to see ourselves as the group that is realizing it more and more. As it is said, I dwell among my own people.
That is, that it is in a group called a nation, people that is connected. That light becomes revealed, more and more, connecting them, bringing them closer, until they feel that they are in a single process and that one light is working on everyone, and they are coming closer to each other until it will be He and His name is one. He is the light, the Creator, and his name is the desire, the Kli, us, until we will be such that both the kli and the light will be so similar in their actions, in mutual bestowal to each other -- I am to my beloved and my beloved to me -- that the Creator will clothe into this created being that he created, completely. This is actually what I wanted to say before the lesson and let's continue with the lesson if there are no questions. Actually, there are no questions. Actually, we do have them. Okay, so we will go along with the questions. The most important thing for us, specifically where we are now, what we are studying now, to establish ourselves as correctly as possible in order to continue advancing. This is a very important point, what we are now studying. It is the transition from the corporeal world to the spiritual world. The Exodus from Egypt, as we call it. So, let us ask a few friends, and then we’ll go on.
2. S. (10:51) This point that awakens in us, it’s still an egoistic point as long as we’re connected to the 10?
R. The point that awakens in us is a point that even though it is very sensitive and it is yearning for the revelation of the Creator, we call it the point in the heart, however, it is still under the control of our egoistic desires. Therefore, we cannot yet disconnect from them. It is in captivity of our egoistic desires. It is considered that it is in Egypt, under the rule of Pharaoh. Yes?
S. (11:46) How is the quality of Moses awakened?
R. By us studying together, and arranging together what the Kabbalists are recommending to us to do accordingly, even according to our corporeal arrangement or organization, even though it is in order to receive. However, since we are beginning to work with the point in the heart, this is called the Godly part from above that exists in us, by that we awaken the reforming light a little bit and then more and more and more. It depends on how much we want to connect our points into a single point, and this is how the upper light works on us accordingly, and this is how we advance. By this, we are inviting, drawing the reforming light. Therefore, the entire struggle of Moses to promote the people of Israel to the Creator, it is all about the unity of the people, the connection of the people. Okay? Alright.
3. S. (13:09) The state of the revelation of divinity, is it the final correction or the beginning of the spiritual work?
R. The revelation of the Shechina, it begins following the exodus from Egypt and gradually through 125 degrees, until the end of correction. That is, the entire Torah can be divided into a part where we are under the rule of Pharaoh until we come out, we enter this transition where it is neither the Creator nor the Pharaoh. We are in this transition where we still feel in ourselves the rule of the will to receive. However, we already begin more and more to be drawn by our own forces in the direction of in order to bestow, to the Creator.
4. S. (14:16) You said, if I understood correctly, that our goal is to come to a state in which I am for my beloved and my beloved for me. Here we also bring Pharaoh in as something that should help us. It is not clear.
R. If it is not clear, our spiritual will to receive is not a corporeal desire where we want food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge. That is not Pharaoh. This each and everyone in the whole world has Pharaoh it’s the resistance to spirituality that appears in us, it is called Pharaoh. Specifically, this is why we need to, on one hand, fight with him, on the other hand, we need to learn how to work with him because we must not disregard any desire. The Creator created all of these desires and we just have to arrange them properly. I cannot cut off from my desires, some desires, and throw them away. It is like I will be lacking them in my system. Rather, I have to bring them, all of them, to the end of correction.
S. That is exactly the question, how is the desire that is revealed, the disturbances, some forces against, how to immediately move them to the state of love to the Creator?
R. In the group. Take these desires, and it does not matter which desires, to shift them to in order to bestow its contentment to the group, and through it, to the Creator, for the benefit of the group and later for the benefit of the Creator. Only in such a way from the love of people, to the love of the Creator. That is it. We simply need to work on this more and more. Most important is to remind each other about it among the friends, and then you will see that specifically through the incorporation that you will perform in this, you will get closer. You will get closer between you and accordingly, as much as the distance between you will be shorter, tighter, accordingly you will get closer to the Creator. You will start to feel that it is the same distance.
S. Meaning we put against Pharaoh and against our connection?
R. Let's say so. Later on we will see that it is actually not in opposition, but it’s actually in favor of us. All of these forces are working for us, not against us and even Pharaoh, he is just showing us where else we have lack of corrections between us.
5. S. (17:31) I come for knowledge or numerology, how can we use all these things?
R. “It is all coming from the upper force and there is nothing coming from anywhere else” is there is none else besides Him. But we need to sort all these things that are felt in our mind and heart. We have to sort it out... what is important and in which form these things are important for me in order to progress towards the goal. The goal is to connect with the desires of the friends and with the Creator who will be revealed among us. This is a very simple very concrete form, and I simply need to depict it this way before me; and then constantly remind myself that my desires keep changing. I change under the influence of all kinds of forces. This is all the system of Adam HaRishon, but it is confused. The system, for the time being, is chaos. It is revealed to me in such a form that it keeps changing like this world and only in order for me to renew each and every moment inside of me the correct inclination towards adherence to the Creator in greater and greater intensity. As much as I try to compose this system and put it together more and more, I see that this is the Creator that breaks this picture each time waking up in me new desires and new thoughts. And that I am even in opposition or I forget the friends. I forget the 10 and I have to bring you these things again and again, and we have to read the writing that they are studying and that we have been through already. We have to go back again and again, and read them again, and we keep progressing the know how to keep going until we truly make ourselves into a vessel for the reception of the upper light. So the vessel then becomes the vessel of the Torah, and the light will become the light of the Torah.
6. S. (20:44) You said that the first point, Beresheet, is the beginning of the Torah and the last one is Israel, so what is the middle point?
R. The middle point is the exodus from Egypt.
7. S. (21:14) You opened the lesson by saying the Torah is a program which we have to install inside of us on this path. The question is how to install this when we are busy battling everyday against the ego; what are the criteria we have to use in this war?
R. First of all, we need to depict to ourselves, without any relation to what seemingly the Torah is, what is the process through which we go? Without even relating it to ourselves, because we are in a broken state for the time being. And after we depict it this way, pretty much correctly, and the process we have to go through, as though it does not actually pertain to us right now, but in general, what is the Torah? What is our world and how we have to discover it and that the Creator who becomes revealed in such a way inside the general kli since there is nothing more than the broken desire in which we exist. Like the stars in the heavens, in the sky, it is all the broken will to receive and we have to assemble them together into a single body not physically but that there would be a connection among all them, correct connection. This is our work to depict this in this way. So this is what needs to happen and this is what we are studying each and every day. In the morning lesson, we study together how to assemble the kli into a single integral system. This is precisely what the Creator is demanding from us and we, therefore, need to depict to ourselves that we belong to this system. We’re connected to this system, indeed, even where we are, we are in this complete system because the entire shattering is only in respect to us to our sensation perception only. There is no more, therefore, this is what we have to detect and identify especially now when we study Passover, the shattering, how to come out of this process that we want to escape from the forces of mutual rejection between us. Instead of this, reach the revelation of the Creator which is the force of connection between us instead of rejection. Because this rejecting force between us which is the Pharaoh and the force of connection will be the Creator and this is how we need to depict this process for ourselves.
8. S. (25:05) You said that we will see people as desires, so how can we bring so many people into the final correction?
R. I don't worry about that. I don't want to hear about the final correction so much, because we don't even understand what we have to correct now, even more so the end of correction, how can we relate to the end of correction when everything will be corrected, when all the desires will succeed in detecting the state where even though everybody is in opposition nevertheless they are connected to each other, each being connected, each being individually corrected by the reforming light and then they come closer, connecting, even though inside each one is opposite to the others, however each one is making himself externally by his participation similar to the others. How? When I take the lack of the friend and I connect to each to feel him and he wants to feel me, and everybody wants to feel everybody without caring for themselves, this way we build from ourselves the corrected perfect system. So think only about this. Do not get into mechanical questions but think more about how we can be more connected to build this system.
9. S. (26:57) You said that the animalistic desire has nothing to do with spirituality, yet we see that some of these desires like problems in the family, access to the internet, etc., these do influence spirituality, so where are the spiritual desires in the 10?
R. You will see that the spiritual desires are only those that are aimed at connection. They are called spiritual desires and all the others are corporeality depicted, awakened in us only to show how much we are not yet in spirituality, in an inclination toward spirituality.
10. S. (28:32) Pharaoh does not let us connect yet at the same time he’s important for our work. How do we relate to the ‘help against’ connection, here?
R. This all depends on a single force which is the Creator, ‘there is none else besides Him’, so the way we establish ourselves correctly towards the Creator that depends on the success of our work with the anti - Creator, Pharaoh. But we must not forget that, all in all, it is the Creator who is establishing us correctly in order to reach spirituality, and the Pharaoh is help made against him. So that without this discernment of the Pharaoh, we could not advance and the more we advance, we will discover that ‘one who is greater than his friend his inclination is also greater.’ We will see that, more and more, the Pharaoh grows as we learn from the story of Egypt. Only our persistence in understanding the story in the relations between us, that we will actualize it, only this will help us to go through all these states. Eventually we emerge to exit Egypt, to rise above the ego with faith above reason, and continue with the intention to bestow.
11. S. (30:39) What does it mean that we have to work with the Pharaoh if, eventually, we have to run away from him?
R. We don't run away from Pharaoh, we only want to run away from his dominion, his rule. But all of the egoistic desires, we had we do not run away from them, we just correct our attitude to them. If we do not take from Pharaoh’s egoistic desires, we have no possibility to get to know the Creator and to get to know the spiritual world. All in all, what we attain, we attain it in the vessels of reception, as much as they are capable of being established with the intention to bestow. This is why we have nowhere to run from the Pharaoh. We just change his vessels to be in order to bestow that is, according to the story, we seemingly exit Egypt but we take all our vessels we acquired in Egypt. These are the same vessels, the same desires which we gradually correct in the exodus from Egypt, and later through the whole path -- the 40 years in the desert and even in enter the land of Israel --when we elevate these vessels which we took from Pharaoh up to the degree of Bina, it this is considered that we have reached the border of the land of Israel. Later we enter and start to use these vessels to receive in order to bestow and this is how we continue. That is, without Pharaoh and his vessels who are the foundation of our nature, we are all inside built from the vessels of reception, of the will to receive without which we cannot progress to spirituality. Therefore the Creator's invention is that “I created the evil inclination, I created the Torah as a spice because the light in it reforms” the evil inclination into the good inclination” and then you can attain me, the spiritual state.
Excerpt 166 (33:35 - 34:16)
12. R. Of course we’re not talking about our physical body although it resists as well. But the spiritual body, our Guf means that we start to feel resistance in our desires which is our inner spiritual body. It starts to show itself how contradictory it is, to in order to bestow and by this we actually discover Pharaoh, the 7 years of hunger, his bad attitude towards Israel and in this way, we begin to fight with him. That is, our point that wants to emerge from the rule of Pharaoh which is called Moses, it is the point that we build together in the connection between us in the 10, and this is how we pull ourselves from under Pharaoh’s control -- each helping each other together -- so that we eventually come out. We start to feel how we are being torn, how we disconnect from the Pharaoh with the vessels that are our desires and thoughts.
Reader reads 166 again (35:58 - 36:11)
12A. R. That is, when does this happen? It happens approximately in the middle of the exile in Egypt. Before this, they didn’t feel the exile. Before this they felt alright, everything was nice and well. They were studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, everything was fine. We think that we’re going forward easily, nicely -- that everything is opening up before us, this world is clear and soon that world is going to be clear -- and there is no difficulty overcoming, resisting and doing something, we are opening the upper world and this is it.
Reader continues in excerpt 166 (37:00 - 37:10)
12B. R. Suddenly it becomes difficult for us to think about spirituality, advance towards spirituality, that it is against our nature with the faith above reason, with bestowal above reception, ‘above’ means we need to prefer bestowal above reception.
Reader continues (37:36 - 37:42)
12C. R. When I try to turn to my desires to receive and perform with them some act of bestowal, this is called ‘I come to Pharaoh to speak in your name.’
Reader concludes (37:58 - 38:02)
12D. R. So through our body, with all of its disturbances, impediments we detect that it is Pharaoh and actually, we are very much connected to it and cannot run away from it. How much do we have to go through all kinds of events until we decide that the must run away from it, that there is no choice, in the darkness at night so it won't know -- we do not know how -- but we have to run away like thieves. We take all the vessels and we run away.
13. S. (38:59) When we pray as much as possible, now it’s increasing and increasing. And the lack is big and we want to connect to escape from the Egypt with our ego. So really the light comes and creates these states. So it is like you showed these people what the best medicine is, Rabash writes that it doesn't matter how it happens, just don't let go of Him. What do you recommend, what is the best medicine to deal with this? Some friends are dealing with it this way, others, in other ways -- what is the best recommendation to deal with this?
R. Only the connection. There is no other remedy, only the connection. With connection, first of all, even corporeally we support each other and we grow stronger. But here we also have a spiritual outcome because we’re drawing the reforming light. As much as we overcome above the rejection, the repulsion, accordingly, we draw the reforming light, the spiritual light and accordingly, it influences us.
S. This is the exact problem. When you show these people who are connected to corporeality it’s more in the connection between us -- this is the problem. This is where we need to put the push and focus. Where should we concentrate, where should we press?
R. We do not know what correction is, we need to see what distancing is. The more we distance, the more we cool off, don't pay attention to the connection between us. We can tolerate for the time being our state. It’s not so bad that we aren’t so much in a single heart yet, the most important is the feeling. It is not that we have more meetings or more discussions, this actually may be too much. With Baal HaSulam, it was not like this, the way we do it. It all depends on how much we pay attention throughout the day which form and how much we are in an inclination to connection. And even if we do not discover such an inclination, I do think about it, this is the most important.
S. So it should concern us as to why we are not constantly as ‘one man in one heart,’ not feeling that sensation that we are one?
R. Yes
14. S. (42:22) We learn that we don't eradicate anything but we build on top of the resistance the yearning for bestowal. Can you make it sharper, why do we want to run away from Pharaoh? In the end, he is destroyed in the sea, so why does he need to be eradicated?
R. We want to build forms of connection between us, mutually, so that it is all in order to bestow between us and upon the earlier connections. The earlier connections will exist and each time will be revealed as corporeal connections -- just like in the outside, human society -- and we need to try to build between us, connections that are in order to bestow, in order to support each other, in mutual responsibility and accordingly. We will advance.
15. S. (44:09) What changes in our reality, in the perception of our lives when we understand that the whole direction of life has to change from reception to bestowal?
R. Importance, importance of the connection between us in order to make room for the Creator to be revealed as by this we bring Him contentment. So much so that He is revealed and we feel His joy from our actions. This is called ‘the revelation from our action and in order to bestow.’
S. How do we turn the weakness that the people of Israel feel from knowing that they have to invert their nature to a positive force, to joy from this knowledge?
R. This all depends on the illumination of the upper light on us which we need to establish in the correct way and then there is no problem. Just don't let go of our efforts to stabilize everything in the right way. And as much as each does so -- establishes and stabilizes the system in his eyes and his feelings in the right way -- by this he also helps others.
16. S. (45:51) The resistance of the body, it is clear but what it is not clear is Moses's question when he asks, “why have you done harm to these people?”
R. What do you mean, Moses wants to advance them towards connection, towards the force of the Creator to be revealed between them. Now he sees that they are actually getting further away from the revelation of the Creator. Prior to this, they thought they were closer but now they see that they are even more distant.
S. This force called Moses? Does he feel it, know it?
R. I understand what you want to say, we will learn this. Moses have several different manners in such a way, like here, he presents to us what the people feel. This is called ‘the eyes of the people.’ What they see is how he appears. Altogether the address from the people to the Creator is Moses and from the other side as well, the appeal of the Creator towards the will to receive is also called Moses. Moses is like a transitional system between the people and the Creator.
17. S. (47:34) How can we discover that the deficiency of the friends…
R. Please fix your devices, make sure you have a microphone which can work in a better way. Each has to care for this. Turn to us here, to the people who can tell you what to do. But in such a way that you are disregarding the connection between us in a corporeal way, nothing good can come from this.
18. S. (49:16) is the revelation of the truth, is it always the revelation of the evil, distancing from the Creator or maybe also by getting closer?
R. This happens through both of them, once we are closer other times we are more distant, but the main thing is the distance between us, we have to measure more precisely the similarity of form between us and the Creator, this is called the spiritual distance between us.
19. S. (50:04) He writes here about the complaints of Moses to the Creator there is a confusion with Pharaoh what does it mean?
R. This is what he says, that since I came to talk to the Pharaoh on your behalf, as Moses tells the Creator, I am telling them and the Pharaoh about you and the Pharaoh makes it even worse for the people. This situation becomes much worse, why, so Rabash explains to us that since they began to understand more about what it means in order to give, only for the sake of the Creator, this is called “talk in your name” in the name of the force of bestowal towards the force of reception. So they felt that it became worse for them that they are more distant from what they had before since Moses started to talk to our natural fundamental nature, and Moses explain to them that they have to work only in order to give, only for the sake of the Creator, and that they all need to be in such states between them, in such a relationship between, them in order to give to each other. From that general connection between them to give to the Creator as well, so they started to understand that this is hard work and it is not like how they thought before, that this world opens up then the next one and then they are above the boundaries of life and death, it is true but for that we need to go through that boundary, and that is only through building the vessel in the person as the person does not have vessels of bestowal.
Therefore when Moses comes and tell them about what needs to be done to reach the quality of the Creator, to arise to Him, to adhere to Him they started to feel how opposite they are to the qualities of the Creator, this is what it means that they became worse, it is not worse in truth but they became better because now they could understand that the Creator is only bestowal and they are not. Actually in the understanding in the examination, in their progress towards the Creator it was better, but in their feelings they felt worse seemingly becoming more distant from Him, this is why Moses questions what happened to the people when I talked in your name to the people. This is why we need to understand that the whole burdening of the heart we go through, each going through in his state, so the whole burdening it is also sign of progress and there is nothing we can do about it. Together we need to know and understand it only in such a way can we progress when we first become worse and with that being impatient in a greater demand, being more explosive, but specifically in this way we can enter into Lishma.
S. There is a feeling that these complaints are scrutinies against the Creator and the Pharaoh.
R. It is the same thing, you cannot come closer to the Creator if you're not coming closer to Pharaoh acquiring a vessel from him. Pharaoh is a must for those who want the spiritual vessels to be revealed and according to the revelation of those vessels we come closer to the Creator. The very first correction of Pharaoh that he lets us leave Egypt, by that he already reveals himself as the Creator’s servant, as an angel of the Creator, as he helps the Creator because he is doing something that if we wanted to understand what the king of Egypt does, seemingly that he is the evil inclination as if he was a person. This is very hard work we wouldn't be capable of doing that, as he gives that vessel that connects him with the Creator, as through this vessel, through Yashar-El we get a light from above which fulfills him. Then he gives all the forces and then he released them, of course he receives blows but he nevertheless says to Israel go and even after the blows he understands there is no choice, he has to release them, and that his calculation is not a calculation that is altruistic or loving, it is a very precise, sharp, intellectual decision, calculation and he lets them exit as it is written that the king of Egypt opens the door for them and releases them, for all of them to leave Egypt whoever wants to leave, and shuts the door behind them, does not let them return, we will learn these things and what happens here.
S. When you are in such a confusion then Pharaoh shows you unclear situations in your life, when you have to reach such a degree where we suffer enough and we just want to escape towards bestowal, do we have to reach such a confusion?
R. We don't need to think about the sufferings and the blows, completely don't, we don't need to imagine that the path as a path filled with suffering, no, instead only the scrutinies in the connection between us, as much as we connect then we are closer to the Creator and the more we are a distant from each other. Then Pharaoh is revealed more in us, and in such a systemic way in the connections between us we have to continue to work.
S. What does it mean that he lets us leave Egypt, that he released us, is this out of the blows?
R. This means that our desire to receive feels that it can rise above the intention to receive towards the intention to bestow, we just started this transition so you will see when we learn it more.
20. S. (58:31) I depict this picture in a more elaborate manner, how does my knowledge pass to the friends?
R. That is because we are all connected together and each of us is one part of a system called the soul, therefore we help one another this way. If I think about others and make efforts in order to connect to them then by that I also help them that my efforts will flow in them helping to push us to connect.
21. S. (59:51) How can we just cover the deficiency of the friends and how to work with it to realize the principle of each shall help his friend?
R. That is the essence of our work, how can we implement this? First of all I need to see the friends meaning to justify each and every friend that he is doing 100% of his efforts and what doesn't seem to be so doesn't seem as though because I am an egoist and I don't want to see it. When I then depict to myself that all of the members of the 10 are in such efforts, connections and support and each of course is not whole but he is overcoming what he is and therefore adds to the 10 not just his small forces but his small force which multiplied by the disturbances that he receives and his overcoming those disturbances each adds to the 10 a great force. Just like it is written in the letter that I am ashamed of my petty thoughts against my friends and how I am in such a connection with them in the 10 as they truly appear to me as whole and great. We need to depict this constantly and to feel this in our hearts all the time. The great friends that are all working and connecting between them. and they are chasing after all of the connections that they attain and I also want to enter into that connection between them as a small one and most unsuccessful and despicable one and I want to be as successful as possible and nullifying myself with them.
22. S. (01:03:03) What is the spiritual root of the phenomena?
R. Spiritual root of what?
S. That we only learn through the blows, through the plagues?
R. That is because we are made of an opposite matter than the Creator and if we wouldn't be opposite we wouldn't be able to feel, understand, learn to come close or distance from him. Therefore it turns out that what is happening here is that we can only learn from being close or distant to the Creator and those measurements in us need to be felt and more or less all different ways. This is why there is no choice as we need to advance on my path according to feeling. The wisdom of Kabbalah is the wisdom of feeling where there is a feeling and above it there is a wisdom, how I feel and what I feel, from where and how to change the feeling. This is called, I have an intellect and feeling. I through the intellect need to come to the perfect feeling.
23. S. (01:05:13) I understand to truly serve the Creator I need to feel him but what I feel is Pharaoh, so how do I reach this feeling a little bit?
R. The fact that you think that you have business with Pharaoh is how it seems to you as it is the same Creator that is teaching you in such a way, in an opposite manner so that you will feel more of what the difference is in being either in order to receive or in order to bestow, connected or disconnected. This is why you seemingly have here two controls, both the Creator and the Pharaoh but in truth it is one that controls a superior upper one that teaches you in such a way how you need to build yourself to resemble the Creator. It is like we see with the little child how we are not satisfied, how we are seemingly annoyed and angry with him as it might not exactly be this way but it is worthwhile for us to show him this so he will understand better. This is why the Pharaoh is a help against, the same egoistic will to receive that is called help against him, opposite the Creator but under complete control of the Creator. This is why Creator says come to Pharaoh because I have hardened his heart, he is already ready, I do what I need to and you will come to him and incorporate in him, he will scare and pressure you and to the extent you will watch to get rid of Pharaoh. You will discover that you need to be connected to me and to the extent you are connected to me then you come out of the control of Pharaoh and then Pharaoh doesn't seem to you as a force of evil but rather that he brought you closer to him. This becomes the force of good that way, this is your work and how we need to understand the work of Pharaoh. There is no choice as we also are using our attitude towards the little children both in bad and good as we play this, our love is love, but a child is not allowed to be shown that you love him above all boundaries, as unlimited love. Furthermore says one who spares the rod hates his son. One who holds back the twitch or the pressures, the beatings is considered one who hates him. Because the will to receive in children doesn't understand any other way as they need to see their boundaries.
24. S. (01:08:58) By adding disturbances each one has more strength and force to the 10 but the Creator gives the disturbances, so what is our work?
R. Our work is locating each and every moment that what we receive comes from the Creator as there is none else besides him and accordingly to connect through all of the disturbances to him and establish none of us besides him in the connection between us in the conditions that he discloses.
25. S. (01:09:51) How come there is no equivalence to form between Pharaoh and Moses. Pharaoh is a king but Moses is just a point, until there is a king in Israel takes a lot of time?
R. In the people of Israel there doesn't need to be a king all together as we will learn when we get to it that it is actually even a great mistake that the people of Israel enthrone a king upon themselves other than the Creator for there to be as well. It is a nice question but too early for it.
26. S. (01:10:51) What is the role of the righteous among us in the work?
R. A righteous is one who justifies the Creator and every given state no matter what so this is what we learn as much as each of the states is a state that is obliged according to conditions that he aims us with only towards the end of correction. The person that wants to reveal in every single moment what is happening to him places him with his face towards the end of correction in the shortest and best way is called a righteous because he justifies the Creator for arranging the system that way. He learns every given moment that it is impossible to build creation, for something to exist other than the Creator in any other way. Just like we need to be created this way and specifically we need to go through the whole process of resembling the Creator, adapting ourselves to him, these are called the righteous as they justify the actions of the Creator.
27. S. (01:12:38) You spoke about the transition between the mind and the emotion as we come from the mind to the emotion, can we understand better how this transition happens?
R. We are learning this all the time. I don't think there is a need to now stand and begin to learn the system of the mind and the feeling. We talked about this all the time as these are two vessels that we are in, at first it was only a desire that feels itself as more filled with pleasures and later it felt itself as less lacking in pleasures meaning there is a deficiency already. Then he begins to learn and feel in what way he can complete his deficiency, meaning to receive filling as a result of this attempt, the experience of where to receive the filling and to come closer to the feeling it becomes also an intellectual system and then the more blows that he's received, are missing, he becomes wiser. This is why it is written there is no one wiser than one with experience as he feels he is missing something and where will he get it from? From the searches, we can see in our world as well, if we give everything to the children nothing will come out of them. We spoke about this yesterday that one who holds back the twitch hates his child, that we are not allowed to forgive the children for everything but we have to also give them a little bit of morals so we know this is how they get rewarded in this is how they get punished that they can build a system where they can build and think and understand and arranged in a proper way towards it. This is why the system of the feeling and the system of the intellect in us and we don't need anything more than that.
28. S. (01:15:48) If we look at our work it turns out that on the one hand what delivers me, what raises me is to work in the 10, the study, the teacher and on the other hand there is complete dissatisfaction.
R. That is good.
S. The question is out of these two parallel states where should we run away to and from where?
R. I understand you, you are an actor by your profession. This is why you ask in such a way. It is nice and good. We need to build a system in which we will see better how we locate the corporeal and spiritual world in us and this is how old that we will advance. What would you want there to be, what are you missing in your perception of reality in order to advance towards the purpose of life?
S. As a result of our study from our activity what I lack is only one thing, the prayer to force this self to pray out of the heart is truly impossible. I forget about it.
R. Through envy, the will to receive can tolerate anything except for the fact that it is being pushed to being less than others, the will to receive can't stand that as he must find something for himself to be special. I am not like this one or that one, they are all smart and special and I also have something special and unique and I hold on to that. Because if I can't find in me such a thing then I am cancelled out and I could go die. I can't justify my existence. The main thing for us in each and every one of us is whether he feels or understands are not as there has to be a point of justification for his existence. Where I justify myself why I exist otherwise I erased myself and my death would be better than my life. Our ego doesn't let us have a possibility of existing which is why we need to use this. It could be another way also although we may not know exactly, we need to try and understand our nature and to use it.
Only through the ego does it help us, the increasing of the ego helps us when we advance. Where the ego operates like the left line and gives me time for the increasing disclosure of pride. I must build myself, where am I, what will be. There are such thoughts in a person that from today and tomorrow that I am going to die, what remains, who am I, all kinds of such thoughts until they come to the world of truth and it will be clarified better. That is why I think that there are many things that we need to live with and I hear many questions you are asking and I can't answer them. It's not that I don't know as I have been through it, but it is prohibited to answer them as you have to have it brew within him, like with little children if a child doesn't go through those years of 5 6 7 or 8, all of those ages if he doesn't go through them how can he grow up? You can't skip. The wisdom of life needs to be learned and it's time and certainly we want to add, we want to enrich the quality of his feeling. But nevertheless he also has to be a child, a youth, a young man and then an adult and so on. This is why I am happy that day after day we are advancing in this way that I can hear according to the questions, according to your attitude at this point, how we are becoming more understanding, more serious and more patient to everything that is occurring with us. It is a good sign of correct advancement.
29. S. (01:22:44) If Moses is a righteous how come he has complaints against the Creator, he should justify him all the time?
R. He doesn't have questions about himself. He is the degree of Bina rather he is passing to the Creator the questions of the people. The moment I began to connect to the people in your name meaning to connect to people with you through me, these people have had it worse and they feel worse, they are turning to me and I don't know what to answer them. This is what Moses is asking. The Creator says that is because this is how it needs to be revealed to the extent in which it will obligate them to connect more. This is how they will advance as each time they will advance and come closer to me it will be worse for them. The moment upon this worse feeling which is called the revelation of evil if they connect between them they will attain the good. This good is not going to be a good beastly feeling but rather it will be the recognition of the Creator, spiritual awareness.
S. Doesn't Moses know the answer by himself?
R. Moses is the force of Bina. He is the conduit for the connection between Keter and Malchut therefore he has none of the discernments that the people have. Only within the people with Malchut and has a connection to Keter through Moses. Then he builds within him the complete system. Moses is the loyal shepherd and the connection between Malchut and Keter. This is how we learn it for the time being. I don't want to get further into it and the other philosifications, more than what we are doing here with it now.
30. S. (01:26:04) Is it possible to understand the morning lesson and excerpts through the heart?
R. The heart is under your control not under my control, which is up to you. The heart of a person is in the 10, one spiritual heart. As much as this one opens himself to the 10 and then from the 10 we will be able to receive from within his heart, within his personal feeling that will also be the general feeling of the 10 and in that way they will feel together feeling the spiritual degree.
31. S. (01:27:11) When will we achieve a state where we will be able to listen and picture these states as the Kabbalists teachers not to get the blows?
R. You are depicting to yourself things that are not realistic and you have your own philosophy. The more you hear what they write and go according to what they write it will be better for you and you will attain faster these corrections. Otherwise you'll come out of here confused.
32. S. (01:28:24) He was thinking about how a person needs to feel the greatness of the friends and not to believe what his eyes show him. It seems that there are huge obstacles standing before a group?
R. That is the difference between seeing things individually or as a group.
S. How do you overcome such an obstacle?
R. Prayer and annulment again annulment to reach the prayer and prayer to reach annulment, I annul oneself towards the group.
S. When a person invests efforts it seems that it becomes even more difficult to see the greatness of the friends as something happens it should have been that one was aided so the Creator would help want to see the greatness of the friends but it seems as if ...
R. This happens for one to raise one's will to receive higher up investing himself into the incorporation there it is always that way as a result of the good work we feel the descent.
33. S. (01:30:02) You are speaking about how envy can help us advance on our path. How can we help a friend that is taking it differently in order to justify his Pharaoh?
R. You talk amongst yourselves together with him about why he is wrong and make that point very clear to everyone and then through your connection you can influence him in this way.
34. S. (01:30:48) You said our purpose is connecting each other through our feelings. I have a deficiency in feeling, how do we define this in the 10 so we establish the connection?
R. This is typically for great souls that have a great will to receive, a great coarseness and it is difficult for them to get emotional as opposed to lighter souls that easily quickly go to an emotion and they feel closer to spirituality. Both these and those will have to work according to what they are given by the root of their souls so it doesn't matter what a person is given, what it goes to he just has to keep going. In truth today we are at such an historical point. If we can call it history, where the coarsest souls are being developed towards the final correction and this makes our work a lot more difficult than previous generations. Baal HaSulam writes about this as well that in previous generations we would invest much less efforts than today and already have achieved the opening of our eyes in the Torah as it is called to see the upper system in the process. Today this is not the case however we have to still keep going.
35. S. (01:32:57) If the more we advance the rejection grows and the coarseness grows how can we prevent ourselves as seeing this path as pain?
R. The connection between us when we draw more like that reforms and understand if we want to rise that there is no other choice we have to also transcend our ego, to rise above it and it is possible only through mutual aid where we build a mutual desire then comes the upper light, the light that reforms and elevates us. I am repeating the same words, aren't you seeing this, what you're asking and what I'm answering, we have discussed this dozens of times.
36. S. (01:33:58) What do you do when the ego won't let you envy the friends?
R. It is a problem, it is pride it is not that the ego doesn't let you, pride doesn't let you because subconsciously a person feels it will bring him suffering and so why suffer. You need to work on that, you have to look at the others after all and through envy absorb the necessity to integrate with the friends and be less than them but ultimately it comes bit by bit by the light that reforms, it will arrive. It can take years, it depends upon the level of coarseness.
S. You were speaking about Pharaoh releasing the nation and not the door? Why does Pharaoh regret what he did and start chasing them?
R. It's not fair, we learned that it's the mixed multitude that is chasing them, this is what is written in the article of the matter of environment, that one who chases Israel, those who chase Israel when they exit Egypt are those who belong to Israel but then they don't want to enter spirituality. They settle for their corporeal actions that which is called the commandments which are taught from youth and they actually become the big enemies of Israel, those who actually want to exit directly to the Creator and they create a problem for Israel.
S. How do you justify a friend who stopped coming to the morning lessons because of the burden?
R. Those who are not with us we have to understand they are not with us. We can't just close our eyes about that we have to do some actions of saving them as much as possible. If not then let them go, what can you do? As Baal HaSulam writes that many have fallen and many will keep falling along the path but some will arrive and enter the King's Palace. Others will come afterward with other conditions and every generation it will be more difficult, the entrance to spirituality is different, more difficult. But what can you do as we have to follow what they tell us.
S. What does it mean to run away at night?
R. That I don't even see what is before me but I still want to run from in order to receive at any cost. I don't see any payments, any light ahead of me but the main thing for me is to just escape in order to receive.
Excerpt 253 (01:38:11 - 01:38:49)
37. R. But they do what the Creator demands, all of the Mitzvot, all of the external things but in order to receive, in order to be better off in this world than the next world. It’s in the way they interpret this world and the next world.
Reader continues: The keeping Mitzvot from them as from the outside ....” (01:39:07 - 01:39:26)
38. R. They managed to do that a lot better than those who yearn for adhesion with the Creator.
Reader continues: “for that reason they are called those who fear the Creator...” (01:39:36 - 01:40:03)
39. R. Think about it, don't need to scrutinize It, Whatever each one understands is fine we will continue to float onwards.
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40. S. (01:46:38) There is a question about the except of 167. In the middle I’ll read it, they didn't have the forces to work because it was clear for them what they're working for. What was clear for them in that stage before they went into Lishma?
R. That they are working for themselves but it wasn't clear to them that it’s for themselves. They thought it was in order to bestow, that it was spirituality.
S. Even though they were the Creator's workers?
R. Right they're still considered workers of the Creator. There are workers of the Creator and workers of Pharaoh and there are also fearers of the Creator and workers of Pharaoh.
41. S. (01:47:54) It's not clear what work they did to awaken this quality called Moses and yet they didn't agree with it?
R. Moses appears before they even begin to recognize their true state. Without Moses they can't recognize it
S. But let’s say working in the 10, what does it mean that Moses was revealed but it's still hard for the 10 to accept what Moses is telling them?
R. It's still not organized. When Moses comes to the people. The people are not yet organized and when does he organize the people? It's after the Exodus when Jethro comes.
S. The quality of Moses is revealed in the work of connection, some kind of connection. So they're doing the work, something is starting to weave in there that the quality can be revealed. R. Right.
S. So why is there resistance for it? They were working for it to be revealed.
R. Yes but what becomes revealed is completely not what they thought of. They were not aware that they will be demanded to work in order to bestow which is above receiving anything, above getting a reward. A person has strength to work. There is no problem if I see before me a good reward, a good prize then I will work for it.
S. Let's say I'm working, I see the reward. How does that quality in order to bestow come? How does it even come because I'm only working in order to receive? How does this recognition come that I need to bestow?
R. It influences you because you have a point in the heart not everyone. Only those who have a point in the heart and then when you draw the light that reforms it influences that point.
S. There is light that reforms in Egypt?
R. How else will they advance and realize that they have to run from there?
S. That's what isn't clear
R. What does the Creator tell Moses? Come to Pharaoh because I have burdened his heart, he is there in Egypt as well of course. I'm not sure how you envision Egypt. All the forces that appear become revealed in Egypt, outside of Egypt is just a grader light that reforms but it's also there in Egypt to an extent. You came up with the question according to the text?
S. The Question was taken from Excerpt 167, that it was clear to them what the fuel was.
R. Because they run at the previous fuel and that's why they went into the state of the children of Israel sighed from the work because they have to work for the sake of the Creator and then it becomes worse as they can’t, they don't want and it will be better if they didn't even enter to the work of Lishma the work of bestowal. When they were in the state of Lo Lishma not knowing it was Lo Lishma it was good, this is what the mixed multitude were claiming, this is what two of our friends that recently left were complaining about. They said guys come on don't you see let’s do this you know what we need to do and then we are rewarded with everything, and they don’t understand that we are not looking for these results that they are getting because after every physical action they do they get another plus, and then they just want to get more and more and more and that's their conclusion of their lives but for us its insufficient because we have a point in the heart that works in within us and that's why we go in separate ways it's like it has been said with regards to Abraham if you go left I will go right and if you go right I will go left and it’s in each and every level it’s the same scrutiny.
42. S. (01:53:12) This message that Moses brought to the people of Israel was an invitation to ascend to a higher spiritual degree. How can you compare to what Baal HaSulam said to the public of Poland?
R. You shouldn't think about anything besides what we are learning, what we are studying, it will confuse you.
43. S. (01:54:00) What's the ultimate incentive to come out of Egypt? What is bad in Egypt? Everything is great. Why would I want to go out?
R. Except for the work of Lishma, Egypt is great. However today we start seeing that all of humanity after we've climbed that hill where everything seemed that it will be better and everything will be good and even a few countries who were still not few who are still not fully developed to that point not everyone is like America. Let's say, you see that in all nations in all cultures there's a beginning of a decline and you can see already that it's not going to get better. We see the tendency that the 7 years of hunger have begun in all of humanity and we can see the process accordingly but the process is going to happen like it says in the Torah. You see that now there is a vaccine and people want to travel overseas, you can talk about that as part of your job where you work with the people you work with but we understand it's not going to get better.
S. How do you know it's going to be better?
R. If things are going to be better it's because later they're going to be worse meaning the light excels from the darkness.
S. So you think it's going to get worse? Will it be worse later?
R. If something will be better after that it will be twice as worse.
S. So we have to make sure it won't be good?
R. Why don't you relate to this as you should be, looking at the process that we are in, we're in the system and there are laws about how this system is activated. How it operates and certainly states will be worse just like we are going through the Exodus from Egypt. All of humanity needs to feel that they're being pushed into a different state and they're going to discover that there is no choice.
S. And you see that we're going towards correction?
R. For sure, but it's up to us if we are going to advance correctly then we will go through all these stages quickly because everything is already set for a correction.
S. What does it mean? That it depends on us, Bnei Baruch?
R. First and foremost Bnei Baruch
44. S. (01:57:33) You said that friends that were with us for years on the path, were very burning for a while, connected. You said they didn’t have a point in the heart, the question is what does it mean maybe this friend doesn't have a point or maybe I don't have one?
R. No, it was felt in them. They didn't have satisfaction. It felt like there was something but it wasn't fulfilling. They didn't have the same Kli, the same vessel and after many years they recognized that this vessel for them is in a different place so they went away and why did they feel like this because we have all advanced because we started studying on a new level and then they felt that this is totally wrong for them.
S. Now we’re going to a new stage. What should each and every friend do to make sure that he's adhering to the friends to the environment?
R. I don't think that we are looking into new stages, we are approaching the Exodus from Egypt. We're going to gradually get into that, some more some less, but we're all learning about that and to the extent that each and every one would be able to install this inner system within himself so that it fits what's written in the Torah then we will exit. I don't foresee inner states ahead of us that are dangerous. We just have to work on the connection and that's it, all the rest will appear accordingly but of course there will be some who don't continue with us and fall from the wagon because they don't wish to give the sufficient amount of effort to fill the quota.
S. So it only depends on that? If a friend is giving the exertion or at least he is ready to give it?
R. Yes, he is ready. Everything is ready for us to reach the final correction, all of us will reach the final correction and even those who don't have the initial inclination to it they will be ready because the final correction is already there we’re all in it as Baal HaSulam writes.
45. S. (02:00:42) When we bump into Pharaoh, that force that won't let us bestow to the Creator all kinds of disturbances can we come up out of such a private state in Egypt just to jump out and that's it? Or do we have to wait for some accumulation?
R. This is both general and personal with respect to each and every one when I do my work in the 10 and when I do my individual work and I can connect myself to the 10 like Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma, there are such examples many such examples where if I am connecting to them then I exit my Egypt and even though they are little they are small and they're still incapable and they don't have a Kli yet it doesn't matter. I, according to my degree and my effort, do so.
S. When we go into Egypt I connect to them even more?
R. Yes I connect to them even more.
46. S. (02:02:06) Question from the 10. What's the difference between work of the Creator and working for the sake of heavens?
R. No difference. It’s just to fulfill the will of the creator and come to adhesion with him because that's the most perfect state. The Creator has no other desire than seeing us there which is the ultimate perfect degree.
47. S. (02:03:19) Why is it written that not only that they didn't advance, they became worse. That the evil took even more place from them?
R. Because we draw the light that reforms and it shines and then they see how much worse they are and what they need to recognize is that it’s a result from the good and correct work actually and now they need to go and to connect even more between them even though the ego is greater and from that connection to draw closer to the Creator and demand from him a spiritual ascent above all the burdening of the heart they received and then they do this action. From the Creator comes the burdening of the heart. They feel that they are further from each other, further from spirituality and then they nevertheless above that state they connect and they cry to the Creator to give them the force of connection and then from the force of the connecting the Creator brings them, they begin to build the new degree, they have a new level of coarseness and now they demand the light that reform and greater upper light comes over greater Aviut, coarseness and they feel that they rise to a higher degree than they had before and then each time they reach to higher and higher degrees this is the process of spiritual ascent greater coarseness, greater cry, greater reception of the light that reforms and building a new degree then they enter that degree, recognize it, discover everything that has to do with that degree. When they completely realize this degree in all NRNHY KHB ZN then they go forward. That's how it works each time and one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater than himself meaning that's how we keep advancing.
48. S. (02:06:16) I heard that the ego has to feel himself in some way in order to justify its life. How can we relate to that in the work? Should we keep that justification? How to work with it? How to melt that in the 10?
R. We don't want to do anything with our ego except for one thing to be above it to use it correctly because the ego is a matter of creation. We can't crush it, or stop it, or burn it. No we can't, we don't need to, it's our asset that the Creator created. I have created the evil inclination meaning that you as a point can be above it can climb that mountain of the evil inclination and by that come to me reach me that's what he is saying. We just have to learn how to do that, to use it correctly, all the desires to receive without that, how can we come closer to the Creator, how can we accept all the NRNHY of the lights. Only in our ego that is organized correctly with all the degrees of coarseness don't get confused.
S. That is what I wanted to say, the feeling that I feel unique, the best of all and the greatest of all. Is that the justification that I give to myself so how can I work on that with the friends? Do I need to nullify, do I need to at some point overcome this?
R. You need to keep that feeling of uniqueness you have, you just have to raise it to spiritual degree that I want to be special and unique very special but in spirituality, great, smart, understand, agree with the Creator, organize humanity the most you can be you don't even have to lower yourself but specifically to raise yourself to go ahead to rise in all your forces, you have big coarseness? Great, that's even better, just do it in order to bestow.
Excerpt 168 (02:10:03 - 02:11:13)
R. That's something they didn't understand specifically with that force of evil that's increasing and increasing, they have an opportunity to climb the mountain of the Creator. To invert this mountain into the mountain of the Creator. That with it, you rise to the heavens and not like before, where there was a barrier, an obstacle that is stopping them -- it's not stopping them, it’s the material you can use to rise.
49. S. (02:11:54) What was missing in the state: the prayer that they didn't feel the need to reach to the Creator?
R. They didn't know how to use this disturbance. I want to reach something and I have a mountain before me. So what should I do with it? Until they understand that you have to climb that mountain and there they have an encounter with the Creator, but the mountain itself is what's happening inside them. It's the resistance that they are discovering between them -- what to do with it -- they still don't understand that. Until, from the frustration and cries, it's already revealed in the struggles. A person enters a bit of despair, help from the society, and scrutinizes. All in all, it's simple things, it’s just because they’re happening in our will to receive and it’s felt our feelings so we are very close to our feelings, what we feel is the most important to us. That’s why ‘the path’ seems to be taking so long. Stretching out. We have a song like that, “. . . when the path goes long . . . “
50. S. (02:13:39) I don't understand why we called this “evil” because I see everything as fuel and even in our corporeal life when more things open up and if you want to learn more wisdom, you open yourself to more than what life gives you. On the other hand, there is the ten that aims you each time to see the right path. What do we call “evil,” here? What's the evil here, how does it become fuel?
R. There is still no evil, here. You’re right but they say that on the path, it could happen. That before us there could be all kinds of limitations, difficult states. So we're told where it comes from and that is ‘7 years of hunger.’ That is the burdening of the heart, the Pharaoh is revealed, our will to receive. It's not revealed that he’s pulling us ahead but that he wants to stop us and show us as much as maybe we're not organized correctly. Here we start seeing our friends that's starting to think is it for them or not -- is it too difficult for us. And “only the heroes,” as it says they're in the Zohar, they will be the only ones that still kept going and advancing. They were rewarded that the Creator opens the gates and they entered the Palace of the Lord that accepted them and organized the place for everyone to work in the King's Palace. But in between, it's the work.
Excerpt 169 (02:16:13 - 02:18:16) - Twice
R. Because he seems to them like a regular person, not spiritual not nothing. He’d explain, he’s wise, he has experience but not that he’s in spiritual attainment.
Continue Excerpt 169 (02:18:31 - 02:19:23)
R. So, it will be revealed to us in practice and we’ll read more about it, more.
Excerpt 171 (2:19:37 - 2:21:23) Twice
R. How could it even be that Moses his claims or complaints, “what am I receiving from all this work? And what are you doing with your people, what's going on? What attitude do you have towards them? You didn't save your people, so what else can you do?
Excerpt 171 continues (02:51:54 - 02:22:43)
51. S. (02:22:54) It's not clear from what we've read the people of Israel did not believe Moses. And also what does it mean that the Creator tells Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh?”
R. So what’s the question? The people of Israel don’t believe Moses, meaning even though some kind of point in the heart is revealed towards the Creator, he still can't use it correctly. That's what they claim that there is no salvation. That's what the Creator said and this is what Moses is telling the Creator, too. And you didn't save your people -- it's your nation, you gave them Your Torah, they have to come to adhesion with you and what's going on for now? It's the opposite. Meaning that the complaint of Moses was true. That from the Creator's answer, you can see that it was right what Moses. Only the Creator said “you will see what will happen to Pharaoh, that he will see what the Creator is doing to Pharaoh. And it should have been written as “he will see Moses,” but it says, “Now” which means “now you will see. “ It means that when he came to Pharaoh, previously, and harmed His people, there could not be an exodus from Egypt. Meaning everything has to be such pressure, and pain, suffering, but now there will be a place, “for with a mighty hand, he will send them and drive them out.” Meaning that now that they’re suffering I can save them out because I need these vessels of suffering.
Excerpt 172 (02:25:36 - 02:25:58)
R. The main thing is that the Creator can reveal a strong force of the bestowal and that's why He is turning them around and turning them until the nation can be incorporate and absorb all the will to receive and then in that desire to receive, the Creator can bestow the force for correction and the force of fulfillment.
52. S. (02:26:31) There is this big phase of Passover that is very special this year. There are excerpts that speak about certain periods of Israel and Moses that you clarified and interpreted for us. And you said that you prepare for each lesson, separately. So now until the end of the lesson, do we need to feel through you, through the connection with the 10 -- to try and find the portion that you prepare for the students, do we need to feel this by the end of the lesson?
R. I'll tell you what I’m doing. Except for you being in 10s and connecting, we need to read the material. The material that we are bringing here, it's a must to know it, almost by heart. It's the main thing. It goes in, it settles in your brain, in your memory, settles in your feelings. It awakens the light that reforms. It awakens that connection between you because there is some mutual material. It awakens the connection with Rabash who wrote this and through Rabash to the Creator -- through us, the Rabash and the Creator -- and in this way, we have to absorb this material and the more we read it and read. I know people who don't know Hebrew and are still trying to read in Hebrew with the translation on each and every word and in this way they feel that it affect and influences them more.
S. Like you say also we have to chew all the lesson so-to-speak during the lesson does that mean connected to the sources.
R. Correct.
53. S. (02:29:10) It seems that when Moses asked the question to the Creator, the Creator answered, “now.” If it was Israel's vessels that were formed, why is it seen that only when Moses has the vessel for the question that the Creator immediately says, “now you will see.” Shouldn’t it have been when Israel reached its state independently of Moses’ question?
R. Moses is in Israel and its part of the vessel of Israel.