Morning Lesson July 30, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot. #15
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Reading Item 15 (00:05) thrice
1. R. (09:21) If a person feels ashamed, it means he has a deficiency in the way that he knows it, if he's not ashamed he doesn't have a deficiency and he's not aware of it, for that reason he cannot correct it either. Meaning we need to reach a state where we are ashamed of having the will to receive in us and that same will to receive, the egoistic will to receive, we have to be ashamed of it. Meaning shame doesn't just come to a person but only under the condition that he has something to correct, the Creator that wants to invite man for correction he starts awakening a desire to correct that shame.
2. S. (10:28) I want to know if the sexual desires of a personal are egoistic?
R. We're not taking them into account, we are speaking about the desires that usually belong between a man and the others, between people and the Creator. Also those desires food, sex, family, it is desires the built on to the lowest degree in the person and then after food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge, that is already humane desires and not body desires. All those six desires, food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge, we don't really work with those because it is still desires that don't belong to spirituality.
We try to overcome them towards desires that are in order to bestow, that we want to determine between us desires of bestowal and then from between us in the ten to the Creator. These desires food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge, it was belonging to all people and if we are speaking about them obviously we can associate that we also have something to be ashamed of, to be proud of, but it is not really part of the correction of man because food, so what? So somebody needs two kilos, and somebody eats half a kilo, so whoever is half a kilo is more spiritual? In spirituality it is something else, the more I receive, I am greater and here the less I receive I am greater. So it is things that they don't really, there is no way to determine anything about the degree of man through them.
S. But afterwards as we develop in our spiritual correction we do then start working with these desires, placing an intention to bestow on top of them?
R. Obviously, but it's not according to the amount a person eats, you can determine the spiritual degree, that is it. There are a lot of people that are on a diet so they're all sacred? Or not all of them? You see.
3. S. (14:09) How to reach the state of being ashamed of the will to receive when the Creator gave it to me, the shame is something for I did but I did not do anything? I can hate the will to receive but not being ashamed?
R. I am ashamed not of the will to receive that awakens in me, there is nothing to be ashamed of on that, it is written, go to the artist who has made me. Meaning if you have complaints towards me so check maybe it's not me but the Creator who made me. Man is given opportunities to manage his will to receive and then according to that then we can and according to that we can decide if it is part of his body or his correction.
4. S. (15:39) He writes in the beginning above the revelation and concealment of the portions. How does this really help this formula for the filing of the deficiency?
R. We will learn it, here you can really according to what he mentions here in half a line to scrutinize it.
5. S. (16:13) He writes that men and Adam and his wife as inner Kelim and were in sanctity and then the outer vessel was added to them so for us because our root is wholeness and bestowal or it's not it?
R. It is too early to talk about this, it is still too early.
6. S. (16:50) Does the outer vessel always arrive after the inner vessel?
R. Yes.
7. S. (17:07) What does it mean to receive the surrounding light that he lacks?
R. If some additional part of the light remains on the outside, that I can't receive because I don't have enough intention to bestow, so I have to increase my intention to bestow and receive by an extra coupling by striking, the light that still remains on the outside, cause the surrounding light awakens me, evokes me to receive that in order to bestow.
S. We can do this work?
R. Yes, we will learn, here what you are asking, he didn't want to scrutinize it here he just mentioned it by the way because it's all connected, it is not what we're learning from it.
S. When we read together and draw the light as we say, does that mean we are drawing the surrounding light?
R. We're drawing the lights towards us, not surrounding lights, what surrounding lights that we have. We draw the light as much as we can, as much as it comes to us, but it is still not surrounding because we still do not have internal light. We have to connect between us and then it will be in us a certain inner illumination and then against that we will have the surroundings that illuminate.
8. S. (18:57) He says a strong sentence here, the one who does not feel his illness avoids medication, that is what is happening today, it's hard to reach people because they don't feel ill there is no shame, look what is happening in the world?
R. Correct, that's what we need to explain, what is education? That you explain to the person that there is supposedly something for him to add to his discernment and then he can absorb it from his mind, from mind gradually comes to his feelings and then understands he is lacking in something and then he feels the deficiency and through the deficiency he can draw these things inside him and by that advance, that we use it every day.
S. So this means that today, what is happening with people in the world there is no shame in anything?
R. Because they have no education and even with children, we educate them in the way that we awaken, we awaken in them, first of all, in their minds and then in the heart deficiencies.
S. So that's a whole problem, how do you start this education in the world, what?
R. I'm trying to educate you.
S. Then what?
R. Then I see as much as it's a lost cause?
S. So you are despaired of us completely?
R. Yes.
9. S. (21:00) What is a state of shame in our world, the Creator puts these states in front of you, states of shame even for just existing, that you're ashamed of something and sometimes you're ashamed of something that is in your corporeal life, your work, it's just an empty place you are willing to just be swallowed by the ground and I don't understand where these states comes from, what is it, where do they come from, is it good or bad?
R. Everything comes from the Creator, man has to organize himself in the connection with all created beings in such a way that he will fulfill himself in the balanced manner with them. The Creator relates to him through all created beings and shakes them up for his personal correction compared to all of the other created beings. So obviously we are constantly going through changes of state, internal, external and through them we need to reach a state where we are in constant contact with the Creator in contact with the Creator I don't need to show it to anyone or to speak about with anyone, but I am constantly in contact with the Creator and I am trying to feel in my life as much as he is directing me, holding me, escorting me and advance in that way.
S. I have, let's say, always some unpleasant state in me towards people, is that a shame coming from my correction?
R. If you connect to the Creator more and you can do it even more between the friends and the Creator, you will feel that you have no shame towards strangers.
10. S. (23:41) Adam felt shame to be egoist or to have a desire to be like the Creator?
R. No, he has to feel shame by being egoist.
11. S. (24:13) Seems everything I'm doing in life in order not to feel shame, it seems like the main motivation for the will to receive, can you explain that?
R. You are correct, you're saying it right, the shame is the main thing that is what we are learning in this sentence, in item 15, is that these created beings, Adam and Eve, they were not ashamed because they were lacking vessels. Then they went through this sin, they wanted to receive more and then they felt an additional will to receive where they felt the shame and then from that feeling of shame they already started to come closer to the correction. That is something we will learn about, it is still ahead of us, don't worry it will not escape us, all the correction is after the feeling of the deficiency.
S. Let's say we have expectation that the Creator will give us an Audi but we realize that he wants to give us 10 Lamborghinis, more than we accepted to receive even when we can imagine, as result of this we receive a shame and from shame the difference of the form we want to develop an intention to close that gap, to close that shame, so can we say that shame also directs us to be in bestowal?
R. Of course, of course that shame is aiming us, shame is a very great force, it's a force that only people have and as much as a person greater the shame is higher, greater, intense. Animals don't feel shame, small children don't feel shame. As much as we grow so gradually there is more shame, many actions in our life we do in order not to be ashamed, also in relationships between us, in society, all kinds of things. We really try to reach space, that we will not be ashamed, or I don't care, I can go naked, I can steal, I can do all kinds of things and those. That is all called normal, accepted in society, that is what we're doing in our corrupted society but maybe it is not the truth. We're not advancing towards the truth, we're not discovering the true world, we conceal the corrections from us more and more because we say more and more it's the truth. I steal, everybody steals, I do these things, everybody does it and by that we determine for ourselves a form of laws that completely has nothing to do with the spiritual laws. That is why we can't reach the feeling of truth, a deficiency for the truth. What to really add for ourselves in order to reach the correction, well we will talk about this more.
12. S. (28:37) Shame something unpleasant?
R. No, shame shows us what we still need to correct, not that it's unpleasant and not, nice that is nonsense. I don't care. I don't care if it's not nice, but if shame shows me what I need to correct in order to enter spirituality it's not that it's not nice or not pleasant, it is much more.
S. This is how our work, it is clear, but education is effective for the ego?
R. Yes because by education we can perform a lot of corrections, that they go through us in a way that's smoother, smoother. I bring my child, I put him in some classroom where everybody behaves according to certain rules, and he looks at the others and because of his shame that he doesn't want to be different from them. so he learns from them and becomes like them. If they are good children, he's going to learn good behavior. You see how much shame helps us and as much as education helps us. Let's hope that at one point we will build such systems and our children and people all together, will go through the systems and from the shame inside the person they will learn how to behave correctly.
13. S. (30:48) Question about the recent time, it feels like the lesson is the entire lifetime and now we also have a lesson in the noon time and there's going to be more additions. We have entered some new stage, can you maybe tell us about, so we know what we're entering as the world Kli?
R. Look, we're constantly advancing. I also feel that pressure from our friends around the world and from the world and from myself and from above, from the Creator, from Baal HaSulam, from Rabash. I feel all these things and I don't feel myself pleasant. I am constantly moving from this pressure, and I want to advance us more. That's why we now organized for ourselves another lesson during the day from noon to one according to our clock, for everyone. But we will learn for now the letters of Baal HaSulam afterwards, something else we will choose something short every time because it will be a lesson on its own without passing it from one day to the next, that is what I think for now. To organize it in a way that every lesson will be on its own and from 12 to 1 Israel time we saw it is convenient for many people during the day, convenient as much as you can and that is it. So I think it would really help us advance, it will speed up our absorption of our materials. It will connect us together more. I am sure that it will be a cause for more connection between us. I recommend it to everybody, and I am expecting to see you all in the lesson.
Rav: I think that by this we can end today's lesson, we're finished, we stopped in item 16 in the Introduction to Panim Meirot UMasbirot and let's hope we will keep going in the next lesson. So what else do we have?
14. S. How do you summarize the lesson?
R. This lesson was very diverse in an inner whirlwind, very special and it will bring good scrutiny that is what I think, this is what I see, but really that everyone is in inner actions. That's what I see and that is good, the main thing is to keep going patiently, persistently and in connection inner hug between us.