Morning Lesson December 23, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors
Excerpts from the sources: "I Dwell Among My Own People", #9
1. Rav’s Introduction:
Yes, this is a very important point which we will be speaking about now. It is actually the perception of reality, our perception of reality the more materialistic one by which the world develops through its evolution. According to science according to what people think this is what we were taught in the 20th century, that everything was created from the atoms and they developed more and more, this is our matter, our materialism and our perception, this is how we were born and developed. Actually if we will go to an inner observation, Histaklut Pnimi, Part 1 of TES it says there that with one thought this whole reality was created and emanated and it works, it is the essence of the action, it is the hoped for reward and it is the essence of the efforts, the exertion meaning everything was created immediately from the Creator’s desire. He is whole He has no parts, no divisions and He has no cause and effect, rather it is all revealed towards us. From His perception from His image from His reality which is entirely whole and it was never settled or increasing or becoming established or developing through pieces and parts, all of this we are speaking only with respect to the created being. Why am I giving you such an introduction? In order for you to understand that this is how we should relate to reality, that everything exists there is nothing from here to the end of correction and also beforehand also before and after all of these points that still do not exist.
Rather everything exists in the whole of reality, it is whole and in the whole of reality and its wholeness that is the Creator Himself. He just wants the created being to discover Him through some process that pertains to them. According to how much they are capable of and how much they want, they will go through the path of their development. It is called the inner, the spiritual development or inner development but actually what we discover is, as it says and you shall eat the bread of old. Therefore, we need to change our perception. Those who are still in a materialistic perception that everything is developing, it is highly desirable for us to depict it as we always envision to ourselves. Again, the system of Adam Harishon, that only it exists and everything that exists and that we need to discover already exists in it, inside of the system of Adam HaRishon. It was all broken and it was hidden and it becomes revealed through pieces, that is all with respect to us, to the person who attains it but it's not that it truly happens this way outside of the person. Outside of the person we have the light of Ein Sof and it exists in a complete and constant manner. Again, I recommend to you to look at Histaklut Pnimit in Part 1 of TES and there he explains these things to us in a very clear, simple, and direct way. Even though, until we start to learn the simplicity, that takes time. It turns out that as a result of this picture what does it mean towards us?
Towards us, with respect to us, the difference between feeling myself as the part and feeling the whole, is the difference between feeling myself as though I exist which is entirely an imaginary form and feeling that the upper force, the Creator exists. He includes everything and therefore everything is called that is what the Creator is called or the system of Adam when we already reach the perception of the Creator is revelation then we are called Adam because by that we would become similar to the upper force. Or at least when we are called Adam, or human beings, these are the parts that want to discover the complete form so that they will be called Adam. The general system in which the Creator is and He becomes revealed within it and this is how we should depict the whole of reality. It turns out as a result that if we don't look at ourselves as a system that is inside of this Adam then we're not connected to spirituality and we have no connection to Godliness. That is depicting to ourselves or depicting ourselves all the time in the general system that we exist in. Something that is round that is enclosed and it exists already and besides that nothing else exists this actually is the beginning of our correct development.
The difference between the corporeal and the spiritual is this perception of reality. Either we perceive this reality as one that is developing or that it is becoming revealed, there is a great difference here. If it is developing it means that it is not perfect, it is not complete and it is developing gradually through evolution or it is becoming revealed to us and we call it evolution also but it is an evolution of the revelation of the complete, constant, reality that was immediately created according to the Creator’s will. As we just read, in one thought this whole reality was created and emanated and it works and it is the essence of the action and it is the reward and the hoped for the reward of the essence for the exertion, meaning it includes everything inside it. Everything. This reality exists already and we just discover it in relation to us. To the extent that we put in the effort to discover it, that is through our equivalence of form, as much as we can discover this true and existing reality. Therefore the difference between our perception, our egoistic perception from the true perception is in the way that we accept reality or perceive reality. Either we see reality as developing and this is how we feel it and it's in the, on the path of Beito, in its time, a path of suffering that the perception of reality develops in us and we discover it gradually this way and then it seems to us that what we are discovering did not exist before and with respect to us it did not exist before. Now it is becoming revealed as we say, no, we need to perceive it in a different way. That we want to be those who determine our spiritual advancement and therefore, I need to say that everything depends on me and on my exertion, my correct efforts and therefore I take this revelation, seemingly this development and it is my inner development and also I as if do not develop, only discover inside of me these forces, these vessels by which I can discover reality that exists already and that is how I advance.
That is the difference between the false egoistic individual perception and our collective perception, our spiritual perception. What else can I say. This is why if we accept the whole of reality that we exist in and it is general, it exists in its entirety and only through our effort through our connection trying to resemble the complete reality so that we will make ourselves as whole. That is we will be connected according to what we discover in which reality we exist in and by that we will see a new world. We won't say that this world, we built it or that it was born right now and it is becoming depicted to us, but rather we, by developing our desires, our qualities, by this we discover what exists between us, around us, inside of us. It all depends on our desire. As much as it shifts through its development from a personal individual desire and it becomes more and more the collective social desire, according to that we discovered that we exist in one huge social system where everything is interconnected and we, according to our efforts enter into a connection between us. In such a way we discover a system that it is entirely interconnected. There is a great difference between how we relate to reality and to the extent that we arrange ourselves in the connection between us to build vessels or tools for the perception of reality and then reality becomes revealed from concealed.
2. S. (13:03) You said that in the beginning we want to determine to find that to the extent of our efforts we receive the correct perception, so to what extent do we need to ask the Creator to reach the understanding that...
R. That takes a lot of time and it depends on the soul. There are people who are seemingly ready to ask the Creator, the upper force, these are light souls, souls that are quite common however the heavy souls, with a great will to receive, with a strong and good future ahead of them and they need to climb truly to a higher peak than the others. Those souls are great souls and heavy souls and for them it takes many years until they start to feel in general that they have some connection with the Creator. After many years they discover that, yes, in my reality I depend on the Creator because their ego is great they feel nothing more than their ego and whatever does not enter into their ego it's not clear to them. They don't accept it as existing, so it turns out that these people need many years of development until they agree that the Creator exists and I have to turn to Him. They depend on Him and it's not only in special states and incidents where they despair but also in each and everything they need to be Sefirot, or my friends, or the group, the ten, then I have no connection, no relation to the true reality and I am just thrown away from the correct observation, the correct perspective. I no longer have an inner outlook but rather an external outlook of reality and it turns out that unfortunately I am just running around for many years until I, nevertheless, through the path of suffering I reach the correct perception.
3. S. (18:52) Regarding those heavy souls, it's the first time I hear that they can't even hear that the Creator stands behind the...
R. No, no but the heavy souls they want to attain the Creator. They are very much drawn to the wisdom of Kabbalah. They cannot let go of the wisdom of Kabbalah even though they are between us and they are kind of blocked, impervious, they can't really grasp everything... entirely or correctly.
S. Another question, if you want to bring yourself closer to those heavy souls, it takes a few more years to feel dependence on the Creator of...
R. That doesn't depend on you. What are you trying to dictate for yourself the plan of correction? You should yearn for yourself each and every moment to be at the end of correction. This is what the Creator is expecting of you and as much as you will succeed or not, this is not your doing. But to be drawn to the end of the matter, that you must do, from the very beginning.
S. That is exactly the question, how to diagnose if you have a heavy soul or if you're just lazy?
R. You don't need to take that into account because you don't know. You just need to know one thing, I am making an effort so that in the very next moment I can be in complete bestowal, through the friend, to the Creator. What am I missing for that? That is all. If I'm not in this inclination, then I am in a materialistic, rational, egoistic perception of reality and in a lie.
4. S. (21:10) When you say that the whole world outside of me is corrected already and only I need to correct myself, I get blocked by a wall completely. You understand that it is all nature and I need to enter the ten in order to connect with them and there I find a barrier. Yesterday you said that we're still not on the degree of praying to the Creator to cancel the walls between us so how can I work with it? What's the right way to relate to everything you just said given the fact that we still do not know how to remove those barriers between us?
R. The way is simple. I need to see the Creator behind each friend that He is standing behind him and that if I wished to reach the Creator first of all I have to reach the friend. I have to attach myself to him with one heart between us and there I will discover the Creator. That is all. The way is very simple, very clear, it is right here before us however my ego is constantly deflecting me from this direction and it doesn't let me finish my effort, my exertion.
5. S. (22:50) We were always taught not to be afraid, don't ask, this is the law in this prison which is the most corporeal version of reality. Why does fear allow us to ask things?
R. You cannot turn to the Creator because you don't have the feeling that He exists and there is a reason why it says that the Creator is behind the friends, the friends. From love of people to the love of the Creator. You cannot attain the Creator as such, a reality which is a force if you don't know where this force can be revealed. The Creator needs to be revealed in some matter and this matter, that is the ten. If you would start to put the ten together out of your friends then you will give the Creator a place where He is revealed. This is what is important. That place is called the ten or the temple, Malchut. It doesn't matter there are many names for it but you needed a place where the Creator can be revealed. This is why... well, think about it... how can you build a place where the Creator will be revealed? This is why it says that all in all what we are learning is how to build a place, the Creator is called a place because He is revealed according to the qualities of the place, the qualities of the friends. When I connect them together and then all in all the connection between them gives me the character of that place. This is why I call the Creator according to that same form, according to that same intensity by which I am able to connect to friends together. This is how it is because He is revealed in them YKVK, this is the revelation of the upper light that has no name inside of the desires that we connect between us in mutual bestowal to each other. Take it slowly.
S. I am asking, there is no such function as asking in life, there is fear that paralyzes me and I will never ask for anything of anyone. I know in my life that it's not good to ask for things, so what can I do with it, if to begin with that I have this barrier?
R. This is very good in our material world but that cannot be in spirituality. In spirituality you have to bring the friends closer to you and bring the Creator closer to you so much so that they will exist inside, inside of your heart inside of your desires and then you ask and there is no shame in that, there is no problem but should to the contrary you do it you during it in order to bestow to Him. The fact that you wanted to ask or didn't want to ask in your ordinary life so in your hard life you were taught that asking will not help you and even to the contrary it might make others see you as lower, inferior but in the group, it is different. When I ask for a connection with the other so that they will help me and I will help them, we are going towards a different goal of giving contentment to the Creator, coming closer to him so I'm not asking for myself. My whole inclination, from the beginning, to the end, is for him. It is built in such a way that if you check it from beginning to end you see that there is nothing here that is giving you some kind of egoistic, bad connection. Don't you worry about it, examine it very well and you will see how much the system is an ideal system. Truly.
6. S. (28:03) You speak about big souls that came to our system and maybe they're with us in the Lesson and if a friend didn't come to the lesson, does it mean he has a big soul?
R. No. One thing is entirely unrelated to the other. We are talking about people who are yearning for the purpose of creation and how they might be more confused, it might take a lot of time however they're drawn to it and they're constantly in it, they're not letting go, they're not leaving the group. If they leave the group, then they disconnect themselves from the process so that is unrelated to being a high soul. It's either that they don't want it or more correctly that the Creator doesn't want them.
7. S. (29:08) (29:08) Reality was created with a single thought. So how can we discover that thought in the ten?
R. We discover, we should discover, we should accept that the whole reality was created at once. From the Creator’s will and the Creator has no plan. Sometimes we say so because we're speaking in words of people but the Creator has no plan. According to the Creator, we as he writes here with one thought, this entire reality was created and it itself is the entire perfection, it is the sought after reward. Everything already exists so where are we? We're simply not suitable for this reality, it's like a baby who was born and he's in our world but he doesn't feel it. He doesn't feel it. He really doesn't so bit by bit he needs to develop so he feels where he is, this we discover the spiritual world that we exist in it, but we don't feel it. The entire wisdom of Kabbalah is about how to receive this reality in which we exist. This is why it is called the wisdom of Kabbalah. That's it so let's try to help each other because the more we are all connected to each other the more we support each other this way we accelerate our development in order to discover where we are, however we are in the world of Ein Sof in a reality where the beginning and the end is the same reality.
S. But there's a desire the friend in the ten has a lack. We connect those things together, where does the thought in which everything was created begin?
R. That you want to discover the complete Creator between you, the force of bestowal, the force of love so that He will dwell among you. This is actually the thought of creation that you will discover yourselves as connected as one man and one heart and one body in one desire and one thought, it is all one. We discover it upon all of the different kinds of obstacles in order to attain this thought because we cannot as we said many times we cannot discover darkness without light, or light without darkness. So we must, accordingly, discover the resistance, the conflict, the collision between us and they remain in the Achoraim, posterior of each spiritual state and this is how we discover the light, spirituality, connection, love until we discover the Creator. To the extent that you are discovering states that are anti Creator to that extent, you discover Him. The states the forces that are anti Creator are called Klipot, shells this is why it is impossible to discover the Creator without discovering the Klipot or how can we discover love without hate? That is the ego must be revealed in its true form so that it will stand against the Creator as the other side, as a copy, as a posterior.
S. Let's say there are disturbances that don't allow us to connect with the friends, Klipot like you say but ultimately they start to connect and peace and love and connection between us but you said that the Creator is something else in addition to that...
R. Yes for the time being it is just His revelation in an earthly manner, as we call it. Inside of the desire but not above the desire, not in faith above reason, not in the middle line. We have more and more that we need to climb towards the correct connection between us.
8. S. (33:55) In building this place for His revelation, to what extent is the path of suffering mandatory in this development and how do we mitigate it?
R. We need to keep everything that Kabbalists tell us. To the extent that we are capable of it, gradually it opens up to us, more and more. I also speak each and every day about all kinds of discernments that we have to discover ahead of us and to try to keep them between us, this is how we will advance. We have a path, a track, a plan and we are going accordingly. We have conditions that never existed in humanity. We already exist in an era where the entire Kli that the Creator had created is now in motion towards the correction, motion towards connection and this is why we just have to keep it, to try each and every day, to see these things in a way that between us we're getting into action, entering this common action.
9. S. (35:35) If the reality that we sense with our senses is an illusion if reality is the existence of the Creator, the quality of bestowal and only in reality we can find a connection between bestowal and actual reality or is there anything we share outside of the ten?
R. I see that you have a computer right? You look into the camera and you can see us through the screen. Can you replace, you can replace that picture on the screen and see other pictures there, right, it all depends on how you manipulate your vessels of perception. It's the same with us. We can be in all kinds of different states all the way from here to the end of correction, all of the states have come down upon us from above downwards and then accordingly we have to climb up on them. That is all of our work. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how we can climb on the ladder of degrees.
10. S. (37:15) We learned that the Creator stands behind each friend. When we act towards the friends, does it mean that we're acting towards the Creator? So where is our fear of the Lord?
R. But I'm acting towards the friend, that I wish to love him but I'm still not capable of it according to my qualities but I do act in a good way. I'm acting for my benefit and also for his benefit in approaching the Creator, coming closer to Him, the way that I act towards the friend I'm also acting towards the Creator. Because there is none else besides Him. I simply see the Creator who is before me in all kinds of different manners, let's say ten friends, so I see before me 9 friends and I want to relate to them with love, with giving, with connection. I, as Malchut and relating to my first 9 in such a way when I'm drawn to them and through them to the Creator, that the Creator exists behind them, the Creator is behind each and every friend, in such a way I am drawn to the ten. I adhere or attach my Malchut to the first nine and in such a way I seemingly raise my prayer, my Ohr Hozer, reflected light through the first nine and this is how I can relate to the Creator. My friends are not instead of the Creator. They simply present to me certain conditions through which I can relate to the Creator.
11. S. (39:34) We speak about virtual connection. What needs to be done so that the spiritual connection between us and the Creator would be endless?
R. It has to be above the restriction that you will perform above your entire ego that is becoming revealed and the screen and reflected light and then you will create the spiritual Partzuf and from the spiritual Partzuf you will already capture, you will already print within this Partzuf your whole relation to the Creator as reflected light and the Creator's relation to you as direct light and then the direct light and the reflected light will clothe in one another and by this you will determine your degree, your state. You have reached through an embrace with the friend so that the Creator is revealed between them as Inner Light. Let us hope that we will reach it.
12. S. (40:50) You mentioned that we live within a closed system, within the desire. That's the materialization of the method, now in order to continue to the different dimension, to feel the Creator outside of the will to receive, that's a parallel system, so how did we move between these systems? It's like a transition to a new world.
R. It is a transition to a new world, that is true, from self love to the love of people and inside the love of people to the love of the Creator. These are two systems, entirely different. In our system it is a false system which is built only in order for us to distinguish the advantage of light over darkness, this is why we exist in a system that truly does not exist, the egoistic system. The Creator created it, I have created the evil inclination, so that only out of it we can discover the opposite, but there is no more of the darkness but only in order to discover the light. So let's continue and discover it.
S. How do we shift that form of work, what we know in the corporeal world doesn't work there, doesn't apply, so how do we transition these thoughts, these energies, how do we shift to a new heartfelt connection in the new system?
R. You're passing everything through energy, through thoughts and desires, even now. It just seems to us that we communicate with all kinds of corporeal relations between us but it is all spirituality. However, this spirituality is hidden behind the corporeality. So that we will not think that we are already in spirituality. We need to discover it by ourselves.
13. S. (43:17) If everything comes from the Creator, is there an incorrect perception of reality?
R. No there is always the correct perception of reality however the question is, is this the desirable one or not the desirable one? This is the difference now, I'm on the perception of reality which the Creator actually creates within me, makes within me however I disagree with that state. Does this come from the Creator, yes of course, because there is none else besides Him but I disagree with it, I want the true reality. My relation with the Creator should be such that I will reveal the Creator's true attitude towards me. Kabbalists who have already gone through this path, they tell us that the Creator's attitude to you is an attitude of love. You will discover it and then you will feel the truth.
14. S. (44:37) With respect to the perception of reality, we heard that the only correct approach is to look through the ten. Now our life is full of all kinds of incidents in reality. Can you explain, what does it mean to look at reality through the ten?
R. Only through the friends only in a way and which I'm connected to them. That's how I relate to my spiritual inner life, my upper life. If I don't see through the ten, the connection of the ten that I see an external world which is egoistic and false. Now if I look through the ten I'm at least aiming towards the Creator, I am oriented towards the Creator because the Creator stands behind this whole ten. Then Israel, the Torah and the Creator are one. Meaning that I'm Israel and the Torah, the means by which this is revealed to me, are aligned and that's how I reach my implementation.
S. When I work inside of the ten this is clear but can you make the work more precise family, work?
R. I don't want to get into that I'm tired of all these things you have your family, your work, fine you do that, I don't want to talk about it anymore
S. I'm trying to understand the correct approach, how do I look at the whole of reality through the eyes of the ten? Can you make the work more precise?
R. I work in the ten and that's my spiritual work. Besides that I also have various works I need to do in this world as this world determines and I have no choice, I have to do the work the world demands I do and no more than that.
S. How do I also ascribe this to my spiritual development in my work in the ten?
R. If you do it, for lack of choice, meaning that you must do it in order to go on existing in the world because this is also something you received from the Creator that you must do then you do it, but you don't search for the Creator behind those people you work with. Over there because you will get confused there. Later it will come but for now, no. For now you have to work to do your work and everything that you do the same way as everyone. What do you add? That this to you receive from the Creator in order to be like that like everyone else but other than that you have a group and in the group you have to invest yourself in spirituality with the Creator and also you have a family with which you live in such a way where it's called half of this world and half of the spiritual world, it's in the middle depending on the extent from which you received support from there but the mainstay of your work is in the ten and that's it we're done with that.
15. S. (48:15) The most important thing in the whole of reality is to remember that the good instances and also the bad ones whatever they are somehow I have to keep it in the back of my head but the most important thing in life is the ten, so the question is you say you that we will discover the reality through the ten from one end to the other, how can we not see this as egoistic reception that I think of myself as a special person or I start to see things this way?
R. Don't open these things up to yourself, don't think about it you're still millions of kilometers distant from that so don't think about that, think about the actual reality that you need to work with right now.
S. Is it correct to hold the ten in all of these dramatic situations is most likely to remember that the most important thing is the ten?
R. Yes, that is correct but it's not that using the ten you want to cover, hide all them you want to be in both because you received it all from the Creator and you're not running away from any state.
16. S. (49:35) How can we form ourselves correctly towards the spiritual reality?
R. As it's written in the articles of Rabash.
17. S. (49:53) You meant in the approach where there is evolution in our world that's incorrect, that I understand you correctly, what we study is also evolution of the desire we say there is coarseness, it starts from Shoresh and this actually means evolution. So the question is, in short, is Darwin a corporeal translation of this, or should we relate to that the four phases were created at once and it was created that man always existed?
R. Reality doesn't develop by itself. It's only being revealed individually, to each and every person and also in a general way as the whole of reality in which we are. It seems to you that you're in a big human society on planet Earth within a universe and various other systems but this only seems to you that way, it appears to you in your perceptions but how it truly is, you will later discover. For now you can't even imagine it. With Darwin and everything we talked about. Listen to the lesson again and listen to what I said. I don't have the time or energy to repeat it.
18. S. (51:49) You talk about having secrets in the ten, how are we going to feel it as ten so we can help them?
R. You also said simply need to continue as before to be patient towards each and every man, each and every person in the ten so long as they don't violate the rules of the ten but if a person has a difficult character, well, that's not so bad, you still need to hold on. Each and every friend into if he is inclined towards advancement then, he is a friend of ours.
19. S. (52:48) According to our advancement the image of reality changes, illusion or imagination, is it capable of changing this picture?
R. No, completely not. All of our imagination is everything that we envision and imagine to ourselves, that will not help us. We can be assisted only through the connection between us by increasing the connection between us and the tens.
20. S. (53:37) We are trying to connect with our friends but it's far, on the material level so how can we move from the material level to the spiritual level, this effort? How to move this effort from material to spiritual?
R. The more you improve your corporeal connections between you, you come closer to the spiritual connection. The one grows within the other.
Baal HaSulam. TES Part 1P Item #8 16 Histaklut Pnimit. (54:52 -57:49)
21. R. Meaning that this thought we need to absorb, we need to enter into it so that it formats us, rebuilds us, fulfills us and we will think and we will feel only inside that thought. There's no more than the thought and that thought is called the thought of creation. A program according to which everything exists and is maintained and is connected with the whole system called Adam and that thought we attain, we want to exist according to that thought.
22. S. (58:48) What should we take into consideration in the group when we're trying to reach a connection between us? What should we prioritize in our intention?
R. The connection in the can needs to be revealed in each one individually and everyone together and it needs to provide you with a feeling of unity. That's where we discover ultimately also in Histaklut Pnminit Part 1, he explains to us that the attainment of unity is our goal and how do we obtain unity? Which is one single and unique? As the Rambam explains there, the Great Sage, he explains it saying that in order to attain the unity to feel, we need to feel that we are in complete separation between us first in opposition and that this opposition between us helps us as the advantage of light out of darkness, to attain unity and that essence of the unity is the essence of the Creator.
23. S. (01:00:30) You said that this thought that we attain in the ten, it formats us. In which way exactly?
R. It acts upon us, orienting us, arranging us, calibrating us or you can say that also, calibration yes? That's what it does to us so that we begin to think like the Creator. From the will to receive I come to the thoughts of the desires to bestow.
Excerpt #9 Baal HaSulam I Dwell Within My Own People (01:01:19 - 01:03:12)
24. R. This means that we are all of us in a finalized connection that's how it was created but it's revealed to us only by way of corruption so that we want to discover ourselves as interconnected, interdependent helping each other working in a single system which is completely ideal and integral so that we want to be that. Then from the darkness we discover the light as we say. Then that's how the system is revealed in that way with our agreement according to our agreement according to our desire and inclination to its correction and the correction is only in us. We don't need to correct anything anywhere except for our perception.
25. S. (01:04:22) This article has a certain meaning in the corporeal life but in spiritual life when we want to give to the ten what does it mean that the machine is malfunctioning and the entire system doesn't work? How come you understand this in the ten?
R. You can see your ten is it corrected or correct? It's still corrupted and you need to try to arrange it such that it becomes corrected. The Kabbalists give us all sorts of examples, advice, rules according to which we need to correct the connection between us, and then we reach a state where we are in contact with the Creator here. We ask of Him to make corrections on us and we see if these corrections are realized in us or not, is He connecting us together or not and so by wanting to establish these relations between us and the corrupt system that we actually begin to enter into contact with the Creator. As I turned to Him and I ask, do this and do that brings us closer to each other and so on. We are in increasing connection, contact with the Creator and that's what's important and it's not about the extent to which we can, I put together but rather it's about the extent to which we need the Creator and connect to Him. That is actually the whole issue. Then we come to a state where we seemingly correct the connection between us but in actuality we discover that the Creator exists, that he is the force that determines everything and everything depends on Him and we need to ask Him for everything. And me, that also is not me but what He dictates towards me, and also my attitude towards the friends and the friend’s attitude towards me, it's not me and them, it's all of it the Creator answer see that only the Creator exists in the whole of reality and there is none else besides Him.
26. S. (01:07:01) How much darkness is needed in order to be consistently permanently in the connection with the Creator?
R. There needs to be total darkness so that we can set a total light, complete light above it.
27. S. (01:07:36) When you talked about rejection, what does it mean to depict this picture? So when you spoke about imagination, do you ask for the friend about how to imagine it?
R. I don't remember what it's about anymore, nevermind, let them go over it again and think about it but all of you in Russia have bad connections today. We can't hear anything you are asking, are saying, we can't hear you properly, what's going on there I don't know.
Excerpt #10 Baal HaSulam. Reader (01:08:48 - 01:10:07)
28. R. We are coming closer to that, let's say you see what this virus that the whole world now suffers from the whole world sees how all of the factories are in decline, collapsing, the connections between nations, the supply lines and everything. It's not known what will happen. Later when we calculate and see what we lost we will see that we lost everything. What's happening with us? We will reach a state where let's say somewhere we will discover there's a source, the source of the pandemic and the whole world depends on that place because some disease, some virus can spread from that source and then we will discover something else elsewhere and then something else elsewhere until we discover that we are all interconnected and we have no choice but to accept the fact that we are all a single system. We will need to make a connection between all systems of healthcare & supply all over the world and be concerned for the whole world together. Because so long as there is someone in the world who is sick who is suffering, I cannot be confident that I will be fine and I'm saying this egotistically not with respect to the Creator, this is what humanity will discover. We will receive more of the recognition of evil in the connection between us and that is now increasing more and more and we have no choice but to understand that only through a good connection between us, we will discover a good safe life and if not for that good connection, and we will cannot be certain of what will happen tomorrow.
29. S. (01:12:25) Wanted to ask about what you said earlier when you said that we should always ask of the Creator of, I always want to ask of the Creator but this reality keeps diverting me and I am trying to ask and then I forget.
R. The Creator did that deliberately so this reality would hide Him from you so you will need to discover Him through reality. Yes, so what is the question, what to do? You need to discover Him, in all, that He establishes reality and reality doesn't hide Him, rather it reveals Him. How? Try to reveal the Creator inside of this reality as the one who is manipulating it, all of reality. It is the Creator manipulating it, it is not that He hides behind it and you need to find Him. No you need to see Him as the power that moves the whole of reality. That is how you get through the recognition of evil to the Creator. That is why He created reality this way.
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