Morning Lesson August 24, 2022, Transcription
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Part 1:
Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #10
1. Rav’s Introduction: There is 'None Else Besides Him’ is actually the most important topic that is clear to us that we should always be aimed towards and around that we must always revolve, and it determines for us all of our thoughts our actions that we begin and end it is all there is 'None Else Besides Him'. He has to be the first and the last and there is no other force besides Him that determines anything, and we want to be in adhesion with Him not because He's so great and He determines everything and rules everything but because He is simply everything. Therefore we want to be connected with Him because this is the truth and then in such a way we do not perform false actions and we don't confuse ourselves and others but rather we want to go along with the purpose of creation towards the revelation of there is 'None Else Besides Him'.
Excerpt #10 (01:48) Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article 1 There Is None Else Besides Him, Twice
2. S. (03:54) What is the difference between the greatest descent and exiting his authority?
R. There is a big difference there. The greatest descent is something I relate to myself to the extent I'm not able to adhere to the Creator under the condition He is now establishing for me. He is establishing conditions for me, and I feel these conditions. I accept these conditions and they come from the Creator however I'm not able to be in that situation with him even though I understand it comes from him. Also in a certain adhesion I cannot follow him because my will to receive is obstructing me and it is separating me but nevertheless there is the connection whereas if the Creator disappears from my feeling from my horizon my emotional horizon then I am simply free. There is no Creator and there is no purpose and there is no life towards something for the sake of something that is quite different.
S. What does it mean that he disappears from my emotional horizon maybe not that in my thought’s environment awakening to this?
R. This is still the illumination of the surrounding light. The thoughts there isn't just a thought in order for a thought we exist there has to be a certain influence from above. That influence is an emotional influence however it is not clear it doesn't exist in us in a way that we have a grip on this and therefore we only get the results of it which we call a thought.
S. To exit his authority, that is something a person chooses to do?
R. To live in his domain means that for now I still am connected to some extent, but I cannot keep it. I don't want to keep all kinds of such things, nevertheless I do have some connection and along with that I can determine that yes I would have liked to move away. There are such subtle things here that we still cannot talk about because we don't have enough discernment. We don't have enough discernment.
3. S. (06:48) It says here that we should not think of the force that is withholding us to walk, let's say the good ways of the Creator. We also learn that to lead it's to keep let's say, to balance let’s say, the evil inclination that we have to know it. We have to come above it, so why is it written here we shouldn't think of the force that we need to come above of?
R. Wait a minute, I didn't understand what you were saying. Please repeat it,
S. It says here they must not think that there is a force of the Sitra Achra other side that doesn't let the person do good deeds and walk the ways of the Creator. We should know actually that there is an evil inclination to be able to come above so why is it saying we should not think about this?
R. You have to accept all of these things that they emerge from the Creator to you and it's not that there is another kind of authority that there is someone else besides the Creator. There is 'None Else Besides Him' and even though they're all kinds of thoughts and desires within you that they all necessarily come from the Creator. He created you and He manipulates all these things inside of you and so you have to ascribe all those things to him and to no one else. 'There is None Else Besides Him .It means that there is no person, no angel, worlds, or forces, whatever you might' say that exists under their own control but rather only the Creator controls everything. There's only one force in the world that resides in the world and rules the world.
S. We don't throw it away, let's say your rejection, your bad thoughts we build above the evil inclination so how does this work in this case, that we always refer to?
R. Above your evil inclination you can build the Creator. The Creator you built him above your evil inclination. The Creator deliberately created within you the evil inclination and He confuses you with this evil inclination, so there you will constantly build the Creator’s control above this evil that is revealed within you so that you will discover, you will discern, that all of the desires and thoughts that are against his uniqueness, the Creator's uniqueness. It is all the Creator who is giving it to you deliberately so that you will grow stronger in there is 'None Else Besides Him'.
Rav: (10:35) Go ahead and ask these things that are very subtle and very important. Besides the Creator there is no other force in the world and whatever there is it, is only our will to receive our evil inclination that was created deliberately, on purpose by the Creator in order to seemingly beat him against the Creator so that upon this evil inclination we will rise to the Creator and have a grip on the Creator and increase our connection with Him. That we will connect with him and adhere with him and in order for us to create this adhesion for the Creator, the evil inclination operates in such a way that it is constantly awakening us, inciting us, and deflecting us, and then we necessarily are drawn to the Creator because we have no other choice it's either through blows or by us realizing it. These are the actions in the world, the evil inclination. Everything is done by the Creator in order to teach us that there is 'None Else Besides Him'.
4. S. (12:10) We have gone through the conventions and now there is a period of changes, very strange changes. What kind of friend who is not experienced take from the article that was just read?
R. I already said that the Creator is a single force that exists in the whole of reality in order to give the created beings the ability to exist. An opposite force of the Creator was created, the evil inclination which is like the Creator however it operates in the opposite form, and what for? So that the created beings will be able to exist because of the evil inclination exists. When the created beings feel themselves that they exist because the evil inclination rules within them, Then they are ready opposite the Creator, against the of the Creator. Now the question is, are they able to detect that? Those of them who have a point in the heart, the presence of the Creator in the world he is revealed in them, the Creator awakens that in them, so they begin to yearn toward connection with their source with the Creator. Those who don't have a point in the heart they do not yearn for the Creator. There is nothing you can do about it this is how they are directed and when those who do yearn for the Creator make efforts they need to bring themselves back to the feeling of the Creator. As much as possible. This is how we need to reach until we discover that from a zero we reach 'None Else Besides Him' one hundred percent that the Creator fills them up and rules them according to their effort according to their desire.
5. S. (15:41) How to not lose the Creator in the corporeal disturbances?
R. What does it matter if it's corporeal, material world or another world, it exists all the time in the field that the Creator controls. As much as possible we want to belong to the field to that influence of the Creator, so we advance toward him more and more close to him.
S. Can we say that corporeality is part of spirituality?
R. That's right.
6. S. (16:34) My question is how not to always see the Creator through all the unpleasant states?
R. Try to depict to yourself that you are constantly under the control of the Creator and to go in that more and more and more until you discover that indeed it is so.
7. S. (17:27) If we recognize “There is None Else Besides Him" if we acknowledge only his thought that what is thriving us is our option to accept that with joy and gratitude and ask him to give the sensation to our ten or our friends?
R. Yes.
8. S. (18:07) It is written in text that if one finds himself in the worst state from which there cannot be a greater decline, He should not leave his domain. How can we hold ourselves in his domain in such great descents?
R. It doesn't matter which thoughts and desires you have for or against spirituality or corporeality for or against the Creator it all nevertheless comes from him 'There is None Else Besides Him' and you have to hold on to that and continue.
9. S. (19:02) What's the significance of relating to the Creator correctly with what he …?
R. Repeat please.
S. What does it mean?
R. It means that it is required of you. The responses are either correct or incorrect. They also come from the Creator's response. It is required that you will scrutinize between them. That you will distinguish between them all of which response you would like to identify, that is our work is primarily the work of a scrutiny of sorting.
10. S. (20:40) On a regular basis we use this line that 'There is None Else Besides Him’ both in talking with friends or writing to friends, dealing with different problems we write it in abbreviation. How to really get into this feeling that there is None Else Besides Him both in corporeality and our reality to be always in the sensation of there is None Else Besides Him. What am I really supposed to be feeling and in different occurrences that is happening I'm still feeling that there is None Else Besides Him. What is this?
R. The feeling I can't pass it on to. I can only say that you need to try to feel that's even what year reply where you answer and what you're scrutinizing. That's what the Creator is arranging for you, and he is inside of you.
S. How not to descend into behaving automatically, like in the regular world. When something bad happens and only then remember the Creator, how not to be so reactive?
R. I think the Creator himself will make it sure that you think about him all the time. This is the right direction, and it won't become a habit. In the end it will be hard work.
11. S. (22:49) How to avoid that his won't be some personal world of a person than the Creator answer actually realize this work? With the rest?
R. If you work with the ten in order to detect that everything that you feel comes from the Creator through the ten to you then you, in order to end yourself to the Creator that there is None Else Besides Him, you have to be connected with the ten. Also with the time and here it starts to be a problem. I can be constantly directed to a single source who is the Creator but to be there directed to him through the ten. I'm simply not capable of that, I am not capable of that. I don't have so many senses, so many qualities, so many emotions that I can relate to all the ten friends or nine friends, and through them to the Creator how to do that? Here it starts to be an even bigger problem if we nevertheless try to unite ourselves in such a way then for sure we discovered the Creator in the connection between us in the true reality. It is actually much more realistic than the world we exist in right now.
12. S. (24:58) Maybe to complete the friend’s question about the Creator and the will to receive, there is still, vegetative, animate, speaking, why do all the thoughts have to be about the Creator? How to see all the others in the correct attitude as None Else Besides Him?
R. We should ascribe everything to the Creator.
S. All our sensations towards the Creator we obtained through the environment so what should be towards our environment?
R. It is only through incorporation, Hitkalelut, the environment is like a device that captures all of the influences that come from the Creator and in this way it brings to you that impression.
S. They were saying devote all your thoughts to None Else Besides Him, so what thoughts to devote to our environment?
R. I don't dedicate any thoughts to the environment, they are like me, we all need to be aimed towards None Else Besides Him, how can we do that together? By talking about Arvut between us that we need to be connected in order to discover the Creator as the one force that exists above us.
13. S. (26:50) To relate everything that comes from the Creator seems like intellectual work, the Creator does everything is just, how to understand why the Creator did all of this, what He wants to show me?
R. He wants only one thing, that you will connect with the friends and through the friends you will be directed towards Him. This is your inner work, besides that there is more external work, that you through your friends, together with them are disseminating the name of the Creator in the world. These are actually the two kinds of works that we are supposed to do and by that for sure you cover the Creator's desire from the created beings.
14. S. (27:54) If the Creator awakens every state, has both a reaction and the scrutiny of the reaction, so what is men's work role here?
R. To tie these two things together.
15. S. (28:14) Why always when we talk about the Oneness of the Creator we talk about the overcoming, that's overcoming of ego, what is the relation between Oneness of the Creator and overcoming?
R. There is None Else Besides Him, he's good who is doing good, we have to overcome our nature in order to accept Him in such a way.
16. S. (28:43) We've read, the person has to make a good effort to walk on the path, to be adhered to the Creator, meaning all these thoughts will be about him. They asked, it seems we have control of our thoughts and actions, but we learn also that everything comes from the Creator?
R. We were given control over our thoughts and actions in order to reach a state that we established before us a single force that exists in the whole reality and there is None Else Besides Him.
17. S. (29:26) The Creator is the force of bestowal and in order to attain him we need to attain the opposite quality from Him, so there is None Else Besides Him, unite both to him?
R. This is what the Creator says, I created the evil inclination. He created all the doubts and questions he awakens in us by himself in order to discover his uniqueness.
18. S. (29:54) There's None Else Besides Him that's the truth despite why we can't feel it yet but this, that I don't feel it, yet it doesn't annul that this is the truth?
R. It doesn't annul it, but you need to take it into account and to determine each and everything in your life this rule there is None Else Besides Him.
19. S. (30:25) Is it the condition that there is None Else Besides Him which holds us all in one idea, if so, how do we associate our actions with friends and how should we approach them?
R. You should relate to the friends as follows: as much as you are different and you exist in all kinds of forms and disputes, disagreements in terms of your perception, scrutiny, each, and everything. It shows you how much you're not yet established correctly in order to grasp that there is None Else Besides Him. As much as you try to connect and you do connect between you then you will be more and more directed towards None Else Besides Him, that is the measure of the corruption that is revealed inside the ten, which is the measure of corruption or mistake in your perception of there is None Else Besides Him. Is this clear?
20. S. (31:48) If a person feels that he is trying to incorporate and connect with them with the ten as much as he can, he is taking part in dissemination, he's been in translations, whatever he can. But at the end of the day a person feels stuck, stuck at some place or not advancing as fast as he imagined so what is the solution?
R. The solution is to connect with the friends, this will bring you to connection with the Creator. The thing is we cannot be connected with the Creator. We don't know what it is, how it is, how to have a grip on it, as much as we connect between us we establish qualities, discernments that are correct towards becoming incorporated in the Creator, connection with the Creator. We by that build vessels which we can hold him, it is not just that we need to love each other but in order to reach the Creator we have to be connected between us.
S. I don't know, I really feel tired, I have no hope, what to do?
R. Continue. Continue. That's it, you're very successful and very wise, you will succeed for sure, with a bit more patience.
21. S. (33:59) I have the sensation that a few years ago, there is None Else Besides Him seemed much more emotional and now it is more intellectual somehow and now I have the sensation that the Creator, he is the good who does good, that is more important. To always somehow realize the internal work of the first part that the true work that he is the good that does good, how can we connect both?
R. I don't think it is possible, there is None Else Besides Him. That is the condition, he exists and he manages everything, only him and good who is doing good is also a condition that emerges from his uniqueness. He created the created beings in order to delight them, in order to bring them to his degree. It cannot be that there is a bad force in the world but rather every bad force that exists in the world, exists only in order for us to get to know the good force, this bad force emerges from the good force only to measure required for us to get to know the good and come close to it and adhere to it. This is why we exist with two forces, the good inclination and the bad inclination and we have to scrutinize our home life in between two of them and eventually return to the good force.
22. S. (36:18) Question regarding Arvut; if the Creator is corrupting my vision, my sight in guaranteeing the ten so what is and what are we requesting, and can even friends be in Arvut towards me? If the evil inclination is corrupting the way I see the ten…
R. Arvut is that same force in which you discover your connection with the friends and later on between the friends to the Creator, Arvut is the vessel which says how connected you are, how much you're capable of annulling your evil inclination and your ego and are able to be connected for the purpose of obtaining the goal.
S. But the evil inclination, the Creator is always corrupting, I don't see that we are connected?
R. He's not corrupting, or spoiling, rather he breaks it for you in order for you to reach a higher degree. Only for that purpose, try to see Arvut already in that and then you will discover that everything that is done in order to develop us and make us stronger.
S. I can see that the friends are in Arvut towards me, or I will never see that?
R. The difference or what?
S. The friends are in Arvut towards me, is it something I can see?
R. You need to see how they operate towards each other, yes.
23. S. (38:40) What is the correct work in the None Else Besides Him will help make the right choices in the future, for example to come to the Congress?
R. How you guys are turning this around, of course this helps because if we are together, connected together, understanding that we need to support one another and then spending the main part of our work is the Arvut between us then how can it be that I will reach the convention and the friends won’t or the opposite we need to be in guarantee with one another, towards one another in this world building a vessel. A Convention or Congress is a unique assembly of ours by this way of building a vessel towards the Creator we're coming closer to him. How can I be? I won't carry them, and they won't carry me, we need to support each other in the mutual manner to be in the Congress and build our own vessel there.
S. Another question, what is the way of the Kabbalists to relate to everything that has to do with corporeality?
R. To make the effort to see in corporeality, in all of corporeality, a means to reach spirituality.
24. S. (40:24) What does it mean that all the thoughts come from the Creator?
R. All the thoughts, all the desires, everything is only from the Creator, that is it, in each and every moment he renews the act of Bereshit, it is also from this that he awakens us in thoughts and desires each and every moment. We need to accept them that they come from the Creator and upon them we need to reach a state, reach a state that we can come closer to him, all will be arranged according to coming near.
25. S. (41:40) The Creator plays with us, often there is a thought about giving up on the path if we're not succeeding, connecting, what can we do?
R. What do we need to do? Just to strengthen ourselves, there is nothing more we have to do, just to strengthen ourselves in connection between us and from between us to the connection with the Creator that he forms us, puts in us all thoughts, all sorts of thoughts and desires for and against but in sum total, we will get closer to him.
26. S. (42:26) Ascribing each and everything to the Creator is that man's work above reason. Is it always like that or will it shift to work within reason at a certain stage?
R. There was a part that will go within reason, actually most of our work needs to be above reason.
27. S. (42:55) What happens to the stony heart in the scrutiny of None Else Besides Him?
R. The stony heart in the issue of None Else Besides Him, turns to be the golden heart, pure heart, corrected.
28. S. (43:20) Adhering to the Creator is this actuary the connection of the correction between us, being in one heart?
R. Of course. Within our mutual heart is the Creator.
29. S. (43:38) How when justifying the Creator not to fall into indifference?
R. How not to fall into apathy? It depends on how much I am connected to the group in awakening from one or two, aal somehow. Or that I have care and concern for one or two, or a few, but there are dynamics, changes in the connection between us. If I'm not in the ten and I'm just changing within me, then the changes are very slow and not sufficient that I will transition to spirituality.
30. S. (44;40) How to avoid the principle of None Else Besides Him, serving in the ten is a way to justify any breaking of the rules and having lack of effort to connect?
R. If each one leaves to himself at once to adhere to the ten then in this he enters there is None Else Besides Him.
31. S. (45:26) Should I feel the love of the friends towards me or the way they relate to me is not important to me?
R. No, it's important to me to feel that they all love me and then I will see how much I am corrupting with my ego and their attitude towards me, they truly love me.
32. S. (45:58) Is it possible that when we feel the gap between light and darkness that person must remain in the state of cessation or lack of awareness and consciousness until this space will shift, will change?
R. That is not desirable, it is not desirable to be in lack of consciousness, we need to make an effort to reach as fast as possible from lack of consciousness to consciousness, to awareness but the lack there could be but it's not desirable.
Excerpt #11 (46:41) Introduction to the Book of Zohar "Two Points" Item 121
33. S. (48:43) More than the connection in the ten during the lesson beyond that, what are the other Mitzvot that the Kabbalists do during the day in order to always remain connected to there is None Else Besides Him?
R. That is the minimum that we need to do and as much as we can, expand the connection between us in the ten and afterwards between the tens but this connection will be directed to adhesion with the Creator because why do we want to connect to it? That is the main part of our work.
34. S. (50:15) We now read; he says that there is a special quality in every contradiction revealing a special degree. What is that special quality?
R. Special connection with the Creator, that the Creator is revealed. That is it. That the Creator is revealed by these contradictions, these contradictions are intentionally directed such and then the Creator is revealed more and more and more in all the manners. These contradictions are actually the opposite from the revelation of the Creator and then when they fall, they precisely reveal the qualities, that in them the Creator is revealed.
35. S. (51:23) From the moment that we carry out nearing an effort to truly come near, it awakens rejection and I want to get back to that distance that I had before, how can None Else Besides Him help in such states that it will truly bring us closer to the revelation of the Creator?
R. If each one of your returns to their place then you are really entering not an old place you are answering a shell, if I advance to connection and afterwards I return to what was before, before the connection, then I am not really returning to the state I was before. I am returning to a shell, it is written about this in a very clear manner, make an effort not to go back, not to return and so make the effort to advance as much as possible in the connection between you.
36. S. (52:46) What is the meaning of None Else Besides Him? I feel like the main thing is it gives you a peace of mind not too much when you feel good and not despair when you feel bad, is that correct?
R. Did not understand.
S. It seems to me that the main thing we can get from that is a piece of mind, balance, when you are not in euphoria when you feel good, not too much despair when we feel bad. Is that a correct way to say that?
R. No, we need to reveal there is None Else Besides Him in all our qualities, minds, and hearts, in all our qualities we need to feel that we operate out of there is None Else Besides Him. He activates us, that is one thing, the second thing is to reveal nonetheless, then what we receive from Him He activates us. We have an ability to react on it, to react to it and then we built out of our reaction, responses to the Creator, he's copy, he's copy, ‘me to my beloved and my beloved to me’ as the reflected light and the direct light and then it turns out that I begin to relate to the Creator and build myself just as he is None Else Besides Him, I too relate to him that there is None Else Besides Him and in such we build the Creator and its opposite. That's what is written ‘you have made me’.
S. This awareness doesn’t give us peace of mind?
R. First of all we will reach it and then we will talk about it. I will just say this, the righteous have no peace, not in this world and not in the next world.
37. S. (55:21) It is difficult for the ego to accept initially that There is None Else Besides Him and we work with the friends in the environment and a feeling comes to your mind and heart that There is None Else Besides Him and it's worthwhile to work on that then you reach the recognition that you have to perform a certain action to be responsible for the friends in the Ten but if we don't have the feeling of how to implement the Arvut then I guess we didn't make the right scrutiny and there is None Else Besides Him?
R. Still not but we continue, we continue, and the Creator corrects us all the time we don't even feel how he corrects us manipulates our mind and heart and each one. Then slowly and gradually we begin to understand more and feel more, to do different things. We are not even aware of it until it becomes conscious for us.
38. S. (56:42) It is written that the Creator is your shadow as an exercise, can I do something like that, that I take the Creator to every place, even most corporeal actions, so that he actually perceives me, I'm always with him, should I do something like that?
R. Try if you want, try, I don't think it is possible already and you will be able to do it correctly but try.
39. S. (57:24) What does the correct connection between the person in the Creator look like?
R. ‘"Me to my beloved and my beloved to me"’ this is how it is.
40. S. (57:42) I have a question about the prayer when we enter special states this dialogue, when I'm during the day especially when I'm not with the friends or in the lesson I must say I often feel bad without having any corporeal reason for it. More and more I realize that it is actually the Creator is trying to contact me through feeling bad and asking me the question where I am? As soon as I realize that this is happening I see what causes my lowliness and this is the truth, and this gives me vitality like what you said earlier to bring back to the good feeling of the Creator. Here's my question, it is not hard or natural in this state to give praise and gratitude to what is happening with you but how to elevate it to the next degree to the prayer of many? Because I can pray to let's say friends from Turkey I can pray intellectually. It's like a segment that is missing in the heart. How can I make it because I feel very in love with my friends but how can I in this situation ask truly of them how can I make it a prayer for them?
R. How do you love them if you don't want to ask for them? Of course love is lacking. Yes. Here in everything you just said love is missing. We need to feel them that you building one system, one vessel, ten Sefirot, you're all in ten Sefirot sometimes hears that the Creator needs to be revealed in you if he will connect there will be a spiritual vessel the Creator will be revealed in them and you already answers for spirituality and if you don't connect then there is no vessel the Creator will not be revealed, so what love do you say that you have?
41. S. (01:00:02) I'd like to go back to the excerpt we read, what does it mean that the darkness suddenly becomes light? What is this point? How can we even reach it to turn the darkness suddenly to it all becomes light, what does he mean by that?
R. Have you ever solved any problems in math or at least in school right you learned right?
S. I've tried but I wasn't so successful.
R. What do I want to say here is specifically when we feel darkness in a lack of solution and then later we reach a solution then we feel the light we understand why I didn't feel and what I was engaged in before and why I couldn't solve the problem and so on and so on, meaning the exertion which is tied to the solution its actually the vessel for that same light that the solution brings.
S. Darkness usually means troubles that I feel pressed, bad suddenly according to what he says, all these troubles disappear, and the troubles become gifts, what is this? Suddenly the trouble becomes a gift, how can it be?
R. The trouble turns into a gift.
S. How do you reach it? How does it happen?
R. It occurs out of this that we make an effort to solve the problem more and more and then when we reach it and solve it we see that there is no problem here rather only my attitude towards that same problem which was the problem, now I see that before me there is no problem just a solution which is completely illuminating.
S. That point you talked about, my attitude. What does it mean my attitude is a solution?
R. Nothing changed, nothing has changed in reality besides your attitude.
S. Then what? Then the troubles become gifts?
R. Yes, yes.
S. What does it mean?
R. In our corporeal world we think that we need to change things and move materials around, chairs, tables, clouds, it doesn't matter what, but everything moves right, in motion, and in spirituality, no we don't need that so much, that needs to be the relation between things that needs to move. Let everything be in stability, just that the attitude between them will change and that's the motion, it's a more internal motion compared to the external emotion of this world.
S. My attitude means annulment towards the friends relating differently to them?
R. Correct and thus less external actions and more internal heartfelt qualities towards one another.
S. Then seemingly my reality changes.
R. Of course specifically in this you will feel that’s what’s changing reality.
S. Beautiful thank you.
R. Look, look it's the first time he got something from me!
42. S. (01:04:28) How to combine our work in the then with there’s none else besides Him when with the sentence, if I'm not for myself who is for me?
R. That's what we need to determine in the ten there is none else besides Him that's we're talking about Keter that from Him we receive everything into our let's say ten Sefirot the Ten and if there is none else besides me I need to say by myself on my private reaction towards all the friends, towards those ten Sefirot, towards the Creator, towards Keter, that actually is all our work to unite everything, and what are we doing, we’re not changing anything just by this we're giving importance to the Sefirot to the Haverim the friends, each one for himself, out of this we are forming the ten each time in a different manner and then we reveal each time the different manner of the attitude of the Creator towards us. It's actually quite similar to electronics that seems to be there nothing changes just that there is a difference in plus, minus, the relations but ultimately this is what changes the entire block, let's say microelectronics stuff that manipulates everything in connection between them, yes, and sum total what we’re playing with is the attitude of the Creator between us by how much we are relating towards Him each one and all of us together. I don't have enough words here, maybe you could help me. By this we’ll reach a state that there is a connection between us and what is forming between us more and more and more that's called Creator because there is no Creator outside the created beings only within the created beings. We will talk more about this; it's very interesting things, but the main thing is to begin to reveal it in the connection between us.
43. S. (01:07:39) Can we interpret the relevant excerpt of love overcoming sadness? Is love overcoming sadness a victory or a stepping stone?
R. Love which is…can you repeat?
S. The friends are asking, wherever we can understand the excerpt, he is talking about a state where love overcomes the sadness and if so when love overcomes the sadness is that a victory for us or is it just another stepping stone?
R. It’s surely both winning and also until the next step but of course until the end of correction love covers all crimes and there will be no sadness and only joy until both in corporeality and spirituality.
44. S. (01:08:56) We have been on the path for quite some time, why are there still states when it's difficult for us to see that the Creator is the address the source of all the contradictions?
R. We still don't have such vessels what do you want you’re still not connected the whole problem is not in each and every one of you, not in each one, the main thing is the connection between us that every minus and plus that is between us all the bad and good things that there is an each one that they will reach this mutual completion with the friends, that's called Arvut. Why do we need Arvut, what for, because there is in each one negative and positive things and we can complete one another by connection between us and then it turns out that none of us are righteous we’re all wicked but connect us all together nicely correctly with different poles, the opposites, one with another in a correct manner and you'll begin to see that these pluses and minuses that they precisely connect together through all sorts of systems all sorts of types of systems, you'll suddenly see how it all works correctly, nicely.
S. You mean it's how we complete each other?
R. Yes, yes, yes, that's the intention, to complete one another.
S. The effort towards that is enough or we actually have to do it?
R. No the Creator will complete the work I just need to begin it even though I don’t understand so much just that I want it to happen, the Creator will complete the work.
45. S. (01:11:00) If I cover all the contradictions that I see in the friend with love to which Hochma or wisdom do I reach? What does it give me? If I cover all of the contradictions that I see in the friend that I see there is none else besides Him behind him. What does it give me, what attainments does it give me?
R. In this you’re connecting the whole system in a complete manner and then the entire system is clear you understand all of creation how it's connected how it operates how it influences one another from the very beginning to the end of creation and everything that happens between all the parts, meaning you have the wisdom of the world it's called, in you in your system. It's very nice to see it's written about this, the righteous sit and enjoy from the Shechina, that despite all the positive and negative things the oppositeness, they all connect and complete one another and there is nothing unnecessary, nothing bad rather all in complete completion.
46. S. (01:13:34) What is the difference between a bad state that a person feels when they enter under the Creator's control and the bad states that a person feels that they’re not under His control?
R. It's just a matter of correction, a time of correction that we need to connect nonetheless and be ready for connection.
47. S. (01:14:11) Practically how do we invert the many contradictions, two gates for the attainment of the reason of the Lord?
R. This is what we learn: our contradiction turns into a gate that I go above the contradiction above reason that I say on everything there is none else besides Him the good that does good.
48. S. (01:14:38) If the Creator is good and doing good then the evil that humanity is living inside of it who makes this evil this bad?
R. It's not evil we make it with our corrupt vessels if our vessels will be corrected we wouldn't see any evil.
49. S. (01:15:00) How can we maintain our control even in the worse possible state which there cannot even be a worse descent?
R. The bad that we feel we feel our own qualities, our own qualities therefore as much as I'm impressed by this negativity that it's bad but it's also good because as a result I have greater willingness to get rid of this bad I just need to know that all of the bad stems from my will to receive from my ego, let us uproot it, not us obviously the upper light the Creator and everything will work itself out.
50. S. (01:16:01) How can this mutual completion work if I have to try to only see not only the deficiencies in the friends but how do I know how to complete them?
R. You have to ask for it if you can feel it even if you don't know but the minute you come to a state where he appears to you as righteous instead of evil then I think everything is going to be right.
51. S. (01:16:31) You talked about the inner change and inner relations, but I see a bunch of outer problems and corruptions and all these controls, how do I control this external bad?
R. If we make these inner changes in us inside our vessels meaning in the relationships between us, not in each and every one, each and every one doesn't need to correct anything inside himself we need to correct only in the connection between us, the relationship between us, the attitude between us, that's it. Who is called the righteous, one who loves the other and one who connects with the other and so on and so forth, not someone who sits and torments himself that’s a fool, that’s what we need, the moment we correct the connection between us everything changes, the world, the war, us, everything changes we just need to correct the connection between and the connection between us is corrected only through the reforming light not that we do it, we say that you have to correct yourself you have to understand that you need to correct your attitude to others you need to understand that in your attitude to others you are unable to correct because the Creator corrupted it for you from the beginning, on that He says I've created the evil inclination so what to do, turn to Him, He corrupted it He will correct it, this is called the work of the Creator. What about us? We just learn from that what needs to be and we accept the gap between the desired state and the present state, that’s our profit.
52. S. (01:18:32) Is the Creator the only force that manipulates everything, there is no one else besides him. Could we intentionally play back with the Creator like children or like Abraham did? Could we play with the Creator with joy and happiness?
R. Yes, yes.
Excerpt #12 (01:19:24) “The Matter of Preventions and Delays - All the preventions…” (twice)
53. S. (01:21:38) It talks about many preventions. Is there maybe one great prevention that is stopping us, holding us?
R. It's actually one prevention we are opposite from the Creator He is entirely the will to bestow, and we are entirely made of the will to receive that's it, then we're talking about connection, understanding, relating how can that be since one is opposite to the other in every respect so there can be no connection between us. If we're trying to approach the Creator then we awaken this manner, just to the extent to which there is no connection between us and what can we do, so as much as we or rather the more we approach the Creator we’ll feel greater opposition in our nature relative to the Creator and the more we want to approach Him, to understand Him, to feel Him, to connect with Him, we’ll feel how He is opposite from us, hated, and so on and so forth. We will always have between us conundrums, disturbances, rejections and so on and so forth. What do we do about it? We ask the Creator to help us skip over this chasm, it's truly a chasm how do we do it, we’ll see.
Excerpt #12 (01:26:58) “All the preventions and delays that appear before our eyes…”
R. Of course we need to feel all those things for and against relative to the Creator, how much we approach Him how much we move farther away where we are exactly we need to, we need to arrange all those states between us establish them, that's the most important thing then we'll be able to ask or make efforts by ourselves perhaps for how to approach the Creator, that’s our work in effect we have nothing else to do, everything that is happening to us stems from that. So when he says all the preventions and delays it's all in order to awaken us so we would want to approach Him, and only when we begin to approach Him we begin to feel greater and greater distance between us and the Creator in certain qualities, certain thoughts, certain actions, just how opposite we are. The more we approach Him the more distant we feel ourselves from Him that's what I'm trying to say, it's like when you were speaking to a great expert talking about a true expert, and when you speak to a small expert a small expert doesn't see big problems he doesn't understand much but the big great expert he's got lots of knowledge and even more than that he understands just how much he doesn't understand, and we are like that the more we approach the Creator the more we feel that we are distant from Him, moving farther away from Him specifically this feeling that we are opposite, distant, it brings us closer in the end. He says only when a person begins to approach does he begin to feel the distance between us and any prevention one overcomes brings the way closer for that person, meaning there's nothing here that's going the opposite so people who are on their last step before the end of correction or in general, let’s say before the end of correction, they feel that they have a long path ahead and will they make it, can they take that last step, that change that has to happen in them, that is how they feel. So we need to hold on only between us and measure only between us our nearing and to pull the Creator to help us approach Him and that's how we will make it, that’s soon.
54. S. (01:31:38) I have a question from the ten regarding none else besides Him, this concept. How do we use it in corporeality if you can at all?
R. No we don’t use it in corporeality only relative to the group and the group relative to the Creator only in this direction.
S. Even when there’s these extreme states where you feel in corporeality?
R. There’s no corporeality for us there’s, only with the connection with the Creator from whom all corporeal changes stem.
55. S. (01:32:26) It seems like with all the work and everything that we're doing we still don't see a change. There seems like there needs to be something extreme in order for that change to happen, what needs to happen?
R. I'm very happy that you are stirring these things up. It's good that you're impatient that you wish to obtain everything quickly, but together with that you should aim everything to changes in you. Because spiritual advancement is not about leaving where you are and coming to a different place on the planet, the change in you depends on the correction of your desire, of your attitude to others. You cannot check exactly your desire, what is happening to me, where is this device that tells me more or less I have greater desire for everyone, I have connection to everyone I have to see it relative to the other. When I hit the road to reach the goal I have to check how much I connect to others and through that I connect to the Creator and with that the connection of the friends I come to the connection with the Creator. Am I advancing towards that, am I taking these steps in that direction? It's good that you are burning but I want you to warm up the correct things, okay?
56. S. (01:35:13) There is so much livelihood ,so much joy I feel like I just want to share it with everybody, on the other hand there's this thought that there are friends that are not in that state. How can I ask so I don't harm them?
R. The Creator gives us each and one of us different states and we have no choice, and we have to advance with them, accept them as things that belong to the path. From the smallest problems to the biggest problems whatever it may be it doesn't matter everything should be brought under one calculation. You have to reveal all those things along the way. You understand how it connects or you don't, it doesn't matter. Take them all as one package and advance with it.
57. S. (01:36:23) The will to receive is like a closed chapter, it hides the Creator from us. How do we create the need that we need to get out of it? How do we create the lack of the Creator?
R. For that we were given a point in the heart, this is a gift from above. Whoever the Creator gives this point in the heart, this attraction for Him, that is a gift. We need to try and develop it with its help, the point in the heart we reach the Creator. With my gift I am ready to do everything that's in me for Him. The Creator doesn't need anything, you have nothing in you that you can give Him and make Him happy, only one thing, he wishes to enjoy the created beings. If you try throughout your life to bestow good to other created beings this is called love of others, then by that you bestow good to the Creator.
58. S. (01:38:05) The Creator is huge and There Is None Else Besides Him, and we still haven’t reached the state that He does Good. My question that awakens in me now, maybe it's not the right question but why would He even create us? He is perfect, He is whole so why would he even create this creature? That's something I don't understand, that's what awakens in my heart?
R. His purpose is to do Good to His created beings, that gives Him pleasure. That is how Kabbalists discovered it and tell us, simple. He wishes to enjoy from us, in what, by giving us pleasure. If you will reach a state where you can receive gifts from Him you will give Him contentment like a guest and a host. In order to receive the gift from Him you need to be close to Him, you need to receive from Him, you need to know how to receive in order to bestow. So try.
59. S. (01:39:44) Do we need some kind of thought awaken within us, what the purpose of creation is besides in order to do good to His creatures?
R. It’s not the purpose. Why should there be another purpose, tell me.
S. Because that is what he is dealing with all the hours of the day. He is doing that, we are not the ones engaging in it, He is.
R. He's got one problem, He depends on us. He wants to give us something called the above reason, the force of bestowal, giving, love of others, absolute love and we don't want to receive this quality, so he's got a problem. Gradually He corrects us so that we would agree to accept this quality in place of our egoistic quality. Our entire nature is egoistic, and we need to turn it into bestowal, this is the gift that the Creator wishes to give us. For the time being we don't agree to accept it, we agree to suffer from the beginning of our lives to the end of our lives again and again but not that we want to change our nature. Then the host is perplexed, what should He do with those created beings that He created as they don't wish to receive from Him all the best that He prepared for us, all the abundance. Do you have any advice for Him? Go ahead, turn to Him, and give Him advice.
S. Is it enough that this goal of His is wanting to do good to His creatures, is this the same for all these efforts and troubles that are coming?
R. Everything is calculated.
60. S. (01:42:30) These prevention's, how do I feel them, are they coming from friends, through the Creator?
R. I can receive them in all forms, from all sides but of course they come only from the Creator. Everything we receive, everything that we feel that is coming to us even from within, it's all from There is None Else Besides Him. We are within the upper force, and He is doing all kinds of actions to us in our internality and our externality, and we need to try to discover His actions on us and determine that He Is Good That Does Good and try to cleave to those actions in our heart and soul even if they go against our egoistic desire. We want to above the egoistic desire, to adhere to the One who is working on us, the Creator.
61. (01:44:04) What do we attain by being swallowed up and dissolved in the friends?
R. We attain a sense of feeling for the other which is called the feeling of the Creator, and then we are with Him face-to-face in connection and love, in mutual bestowal.
62. S. (01:44:53) Who's the “I” in the sentence None Else Besides Him?
R. ‘I to my beloved and my beloved to me’ meaning I relative to the Creator has to be from the bottom of my heart and He needs to relate to me this way and He does relate to me this way and there's a complete contact between me and Him. This is the meaning of ‘I to my beloved and my beloved to me’ my beloved is the Creator.
63. S. (01:45:44) This Creator, he reacts internally and externally, and he wants me to feel this, and this is our reaction for what he sends us? This is our work?
R. This is our work to reach connection with the Creator through all the friends, all the means that he gave us. There's no other problem, there's no other goal than to connect with the Creator.
64. S. (01:46:32) What he writes in this passage is that only when a person begins to approach, that's when he starts to feel the distance between us, so this feeling of the sensation of distance, this makes me feel helpless, weakness like a child who depends on his parents. What's the right attitude here?
R. To open the heart, to try and open the heart through the friends together with them and then to feel how in this heart you feel the presence of the Creator with you. That is what I recommend, propose that you do. Open the hearts to one another and in this common feeling try to feel that the Creator is already there.
65. S. (01:47:47) How does the Creator prove us?
R. He rebukes us and questions and failures and whatever you want but he will not receive it, why? Because I want to teach you what you should want correctly, what we should come closer to. That's the meaning of rebuking, who is he is rebuking, the one that He loves, the one that He wants to bring closer to Him.
S. Whoever wants to come to Him then he rebukes them?
R. Yes.
S. Can we say that the complete connection in the Ten can only be towards outside let's say like towards another Ten?
R. It's a problem relative to another ten and also externally it's incorrect completely. We need to develop the connection between us in the Ten because then we will have a system ten Sefirot in which we can discover the Creator. Direct light reflected light in the light and so on and so forth.
S. Towards what are we measuring ourselves? We have no reference. Whether or not we're connected or not?
R. You want to check yourself relative to someone who's outside of us on the street?
S. No, towards another ten?
R. Also, it will confuse you completely, you have no real scale by which to measure it or a real index, it's really not so simple.
S. When we say that we're connected as a ten to the Creator so then we're connecting towards something that is outside of us?
R. Why outside of you? He's inside of you, the Creator is inside. You need to connect in order to reveal Him.
S. Yes but if we're trying to make some barrier between us and the Creator so we can feel Him?
R. You don't need a barrier to feel Him, you need a common feeling between you and Him. Just like He gives, you also need to be in giving. This giving you can only produce between the friends. If you begin to invest in the connection between you, you will come to a state where suddenly you will see the Creator is revealed in you. You have been there before, but you had no contact between you. The moment you reach the minimal connection between you, the Creator is revealed in it.
S. At what point does this connection exist between us and the Creator, when does my work between me and the Ten becomes between the Ten and the Creator?
R. This is hard to define because you have no vessels for it, no way to measure it in you. In coarseness one let’s say, in root coarseness everything is very vague. But in coarseness level one you need to feel that if someone here in the connection between you, He exists and He fills the space between you.
S. To that extent we all need to feel the same that we are all in the same state?
R. Not necessarily, no and you also cannot compare which each one is feeling because each one comes from a different quality like in the ten Sefirot.
66. S. (01:52:50) Why is it more difficult for me to recognize the Creator behind whoever is in front of me opposed was ever in front of me as opposed to these states that I have in life?
R. It's likely there's not enough effort on your part and that's how it is.
67. S. (01:53:46) When I go through a descent how can I prevent this bad feeling because I wasn't able to connect with my friends?
R. You don't need to think of good feelings or bad feelings, the important thing is to work. Work towards connection with the friends and then all these feelings will pass away from you and be replaced by the good correct feelings, don't be immersed in your feelings both the good and the bad. The important thing is to do something towards the next degree of connection.
68. S. (01:54:39) What are the roots of concealment?
R. The root of contradictions is the difference in nature between the Creator and the created beings.
69. S. (01:54:47) What does it mean between us in the Ten if the Creator is revealed between us in attitude between all people?
R. The Creator is revealed in the attitude to each person, and we reveal between us a kind of attitude that corresponds to the Creator. Everything keeps rolling until we begin to establish are qualities and to understand what is each and every one made up we begin to approach spiritual discernment.
70. S. (01:55:32) Is darkness something that we would want to have as opposed to love pains?
R. Also correct but not that we need to yearn for it. We need to yearn for the light, we need to yearn for connection, for love and what appears in the middle we need to accept it because of the advantage of light from darkness so we have to go through that as well.
71. S. (01:56:04) Is 'None Else Beside Him' a personal clarification or does everyone in a ten have this?
R. It's both personal and group scrutiny, the scrutiny of 'None Else Beside Him' none has none else besides him.
72. S. (01:56:25) How can I understand what I need to correct by myself and what I shouldn't correct by myself, if everything comes from the Creator?
R. Everything comes from the Creator, but I need to reveal my willingness to accept him through all the created beings. As much as I can accept the connection with all the created beings and I wish to be in love with all the created beings, in this way I am closer to the Creator.
73. S. (01:57:09) If the more we advance I feel further from the Creator, maybe there's also a sense that we feel closer to him?
R. Typically we need to work according to our feelings, as close as we can feel to the Creator.
74. S. (01:57:41) When does the created being agree to receive the nature of the Creator?
R. He has to agree to it and each and every moment to accept the Creator's nature on himself.
75. S. (01:58:01) The dissemination team here and we're working many hours constantly throughout the week, but we aren't coming to these external results according to the I. What's the spiritual importance of the dissemination? Is it really about dissemination or is it more for the public?
R. According to your evaluation you invest too much time compared to the reaction that you're getting, then it's worthwhile to consult with our friends here in the center. We are also disseminating and deciding if it is worthwhile or not. There are different times and different conditions for dissemination. It's possible that for the time being you can diminish, decrease, and slow down on these efforts. I don't know . You can check with them.
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