Afternoon Lesson October 15, 2023, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Shamati, 51. “If You Encounter This Villain”
Reading Shamati 51: (00:05) “If you encounter this villain” [Twice]
1. S. (01:40) Who is this villain?
R. The villain is the human, a person's ego. If he brings you trouble, if you feel that the desire to receive is awakening inside of you then grab him to the seminary, to the place where you can demand from him, demand the correction. You can demand correction for him and if not and if you are not able to do that then remind him of the day of his death. He is leading you to death. In other words, let him remind him that the work has to be in a place where he doesn't exist, so this is what a person has to tell his desire to receive.
S. He will listen?
R. You tell him a couple of times and if not then go to the Creator and tell it to the Creator. When you have a hater who wants to grab you, drag you to the sideline.
2. S. (03:58) In this conversation where the person, this villain, where does the Creator come into it, meaning you speak directly to him or nonetheless return to help from the Creator?
R. Exactly where a person allows the Creator to enter, this is where He enters.
3. S. (04:29) When do we complain to the Creator about the ego, about the desire to receive?
R. You just complain. You’ve never complained, what’s the problem here?
S. To cry or just ask for advice?
R. Where it is possible, if you blame your ego and it doesn't allow you to approach the Creator so complain to the Creator and tell Him that there's this, how do you say, such an evil force that doesn't let you come closer to Him.
4. S. (05:34) This villain that we reveal within ourselves gradually and we understand the desire to receive for ourselves basically kills us. It doesn't give light or life in this recognition, this understanding. Is it individual for each one or we nonetheless can help each other and push each other towards that?
R. You all will understand that you basically have the same thing. Start asking the Creator to let you free from ego and you will see how similar you are.
5. S. (06:30) What is this condition, if not then remind him of his day of death?
R. That he doesn't agree with the ego, you remind him of death that we are all mortal, and he will be the first thing to die inside of all of us.
6. S. (06:56) If a person does not expect a reward in the corporeal world what is the fuel that motivates him in the work? Is it the friends?
R. The friends, desire to bring contentment upon the Creator, yes.
S. That's a difficult state, yeah?
R. Yes, it's not easy, it's a high state.
S. It's also joyous, right?
R. Yes.
7. S. (07:39) How can a person draw the light when he has no strength left against the evil inclination?
R. Let him grab a couple of more friends along and then together with everyone ask the Creator for help, for strength.
8. S. (08:29) What does it mean that he causes harm? How can our ego do so?
R. Well, the fact that he's pushing you into states basically like obscene states, lowly states; that's his job.
S. I need to ask the Creator for Him to change us?
R. Yes, for the Creator to change us. Against the ego we are powerless, only the Creator.
9. S. (09:23) What to do if the villain is not harming, how do we find them?
R. Because you love him, you love your ego, that's why it is happening this way.
10. S. (09:53) Is it correct to say that we are in the state of the expansion of our vessel to receive?
R. Certainly, of course, otherwise how can we grow?
S. Can you give us, because we understand that we need to connect and it is a process of correction, can you give a certain direction on how to fill this void? We understand it is done with the mood of the Creator’s greatness but normally after a congress we speak specifically about unconditional surrender or trying to justify Him. We went through a congress of opening our hearts. Is there within our connection, like a specific Reshimo, that we need to address to have the right contact, to have the right prayer with the Creator?
R. Only in unity between us and this will save us from all the trouble.
S. I hear you, Rav. It's like a feeling that the Creator is descending to our world, and we are crushed in it, but perhaps this is our prayer, right? How to find this common language to contact him?
R. Continue and you will see that everything will be good, everything will fall into place and everything will be alright.
11. S. (12:27) It's not clear, what does it mean to complain about the ego, what needs to be the right intention for the nullification of the ego?
R. The right intention is nullifying the ego, there is nothing to add.
12. S. (12:56) In the article it is talking about the work that one does outside one's body. How do we reach that?
R. How do we reach that? Outside of our body means not for ourselves, not for our own sake. This is all our work in order to bestow, alright.
13. S. (13:59) In this inner dialogue at a minute are there certain parameters that I am turning to the Creator now or now I am turning to the ego? How do I discern it?
R. If you go to the friends first and address them and then you imagine yourself together with them praying to the Creator, then you are definitely directed towards the Creator and after a couple of such exercises, let's say, yes, you will feel that that is the way it is.
S. Also, when I feel that the ego does not let me do that action what does it mean that I remind him of the day of his death? How do we do it?
R. Well when you are conversing.
S. Inner dialogue?
R. Yes, when you are conversing with your ego you tell him you are going to die soon anyway.
S. Well, it's felt that there is a certain lightening that things become lighter, and it stops pressuring you and you can go toward meetings and connect with the ten, but I'm concerned about it that it's like it gets extinguished and something new and something is tripping me up, a new thing?
R. Don't worry, don't worry, it's all just Creator playing with you. The main thing is to be directed towards Him.
14. S. (16:26) The Kelim of bestowal are built with connection in every form of connection, Is that in every form of connection?
R. Yes, every action, any action of bestowal is building the Kelim de Panin, vessels of the anterior, with the help of which we will inside, we eventually receive the revelation of the Creator.
S. Even if we always have the inclination to have it is correct?
R. Yes, yes even though there is still evil inclination inside, yes.
15. S. (17:49) If you encounter this villain, draw him to the seminary. Is the seminary, is that my ten? If so, how do I take him there?
R. Connect with the ten, unite with your ten, and you and together with them rise to the Creator.
16. S. (18:24) In the morning lesson you said that in our inner wars towards connection in the ten, we lack a certain consistency. What do we need to do to have it on the path this consistency in our inner work?
R. Connect even more between you, between yourselves.
17. S. (19:07) What example in the ten is most effective to see that we need to hate the ego? What example can we show the friends?
R. You constantly think about the Creator.
S. How to show it?
R. Only speak about it, let it be the only thing you talk about.
S. Can we clarify a certain moment? Israel and the nations of the world these are the corrections of the seminaries?
R. Let's put it this way for now. Israel is only this quality inside of a person that is directed, that is aimed towards the Creator, that has reached adhesion with the Creator.
18. S. (20:21) We are always talking about unity. It is very important, and we are always saying that this unity first of all needs to happen in the ten. Question: the situation in the ten, I am in a ten, before the daily lesson we discuss things and get ready for the lesson, and then during the lesson, I go on to a different ten because my ten is not always present during the lesson, let's say we're there, faces or maybe there's no opportunity to ask a question which is why I was sitting in a different ten and then later on when I meet with my ten, in my ten a few of my friends tell us that they don't feel me. If you say that they are indifferent to where I am whether I am in my ten or in a different ten, I'd say that I do feel my ten. Question: is my attitude, is it correct and spiritual?
R. You can go on.
S. Meaning, I can do as I said it?
R. Yes.
19. S. (21:59) When the Creator awakens us in his personal way through the ten or in Bnei Baruch or awakens us through Israel to the world. Can we say that the difference is that he is awakening us through the world or Israel then the prayers need to be more general ones? We need to try between us and Bnei Baruch and in the tens to search for a more general connection between us to create this connection between us?
R. Yes.
20. S. (22:47) Can there be a situation where we will create a wrong Masach? How do we turn it into a spiritual Masach?
R. Basically, eventually we are not able to be mistaken, we have a multitude of tens, and we are all interconnected and the Creator is affecting us, in each one separately so at the end of the day, we are all advancing, advancing.
21. S. (23:33) So to transfer to the seminary is to raise MAN?
R. Yes.
22. S. (23:47) What does it mean that we need to work outside of one's body?
R. With the intention of not for ourselves.
S. How to come out of one's body to these intentions?
R. You attach yourself more to the group and you come out of this.
23. S. (24:16) My friends are completely fulfilling me in dissemination, and I don't have any thoughts in the ego, but it can happen that it just comes through the strong desire and the friends pull me out of this is this the correct direction or am I doing something incorrectly?
R. It's correct actually it is right only friends can save you, yes.
24. S. (24:58) You said that we are equal in the appeal to the Creator to get rid of the ego, question: Can I ask the Creator to free a friend from the ego or does it need to be a personal request for the Creator to help me?
R. We can pray for the friends.
S. In the congress it was very clear that this lack of understanding between the groups and later on this turned into like the Klipa, what can we do with it?
R. Pray, nothing else, pray, and send a request to the Creator to correct it.
S. We need to pray for ourselves, or do we need to do this in a group way?
R. Of course, do a group prayer, it will certainly help.
25. S. (26:06) By me telling my ego that soon it will die and because of that and then this work to the Creator it's not egoistic? It's as if it is better with the Creator and something going that seems always egoistic. How to come out of it?
R. Same answer: with the help of the group.
S. It's not clear the ego does not allow us to work for the Creator you say okay, soon you will die and there it's better to work there, let's work there. Where to get this strength or this change so that my work for the Creator will be out of love and not that I'm running away from the ego or I'm afraid of dying or nothing remaining?
R. Don't worry, gradually, it will all fall into place so if not now then later, but the question is very good, it is very good that you take care about exiting the ego precisely, this is good.
26. S. (27:33) How do I not fall into the manipulations of the ego because it is very strong but resist it and turn to the domination of Israel in us?
R. Ask for the connection with the friends.
27. S. (28:11) The ego wants to always live in this body, meaning it wants to live forever in the body and would be scared of death.
R. No, no it will die when we want to get rid of it.
S. Once that dies and then there's no more?
R. No more.
28. S. (28:41) We are really in need of your help. In our group, we really feel this war. Instead of concentrating on our common work in the ten a few of us are engaging in the state of Israel, sharing news from Israel, and talking about soldiers who died in our chat. We are in need of your help. How do we concentrate on this common goal, how to come out of the state?
R. My dear, I'm ready to help you with everything, in everything. I hope that we will overcome our common ego and rise to the Creator. I hug you all, be healthy, be good.