Morning Lesson January 29, 2024

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Part 1:

Rabash. Article No. 7, 1990. What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work?

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1. Rav intro: (36:34) How are you doing? Okay? A little? We heard from that time, a time of prayer and the time of gratitude. Okay.

2. S. (37:05) A person has recognition of evil he realizes that as he writes here, he's wicked, and then the first action that he needs to do is prayer as I understand it. Then then there's a certain change when he shifts to the right, how when this wicked he made a prayer what suddenly causes it to shift to the right?

R. The prayer.

S. The very fact that a person prays already brings him closer to?

R. It corrects him, it corrects him brings him closer.

S. In order for a person to shift after the prayer to the right line he should also receive a certain response to the Creator or the very fact that he prays is enough?

R. It depends on the degree of left and right that he's in. What degree of Aviut coarseness he has to show to the Creator from his current state. 

S. In the place where we are, the moment the person discovers that he's in the state of bad, he's wicked, doesn't want to connect to friends, everything we understand, and he prays. Do we have any reason to delay after the prayer and go to gratitude or after the prayer do we need to immediately shift toward a prayer?

R. There is reason to delay, typically when we are ready to pray we already think that this is it now according to my words, the Creator picks me up and throws me from one end of the world to the other or vice versa it doesn't matter, from end to end. Meaning, I'm now sitting in ascent, changes, it doesn't always work this way, but a person needs to go again and again into a prayer. He has to feel that he has an opportunity to incorporate in the friends and this is called "in the Creator "this is what it means and then to reach change, several times like that.

S. I just want to finish with great gratitude for the Congress that we had in the last two days and say that these words that you said the fall on a true place must more now following this Congress, thank you.

R. Nice, thank you. 

3. S. (40:24) He writes that at the end of the article, 'this is the why one should always establish the praise of the Creator, which is called right, and then pray, regarded as “left,” and then he returns to the right. He says that prayer is onto the left at the end of the article, what does that mean?

R. He feels himself on the left.

S. What does it mean 'one should always pray to the Creator? How does one erase the praise of the Creator?

R. The praise of the Creator is something he arranges what is revealed to him. The Creator is on the right in bestowal, in connection, then he looks at himself and if he sees that relative to the Creator he's in the left.

4. S. (41:34) It says that during an ascent he's on two lines, the left and the right but during a descent he's considered as dead which means that there's no connection between the left and the descent, spirituality is built all on ascent?

R. Connection is called right and to divide means the left, the action of the left.

S. He says that only during the ascent is considered as working on two lines, so the left also can be attributed to the ascent, can be used for the ascent.

R. If he corrects the will to receive that rises on to him then it means that he's working on the left.

S. But actually our work is to reach the state where we work on two lines right ? All the time in a direction of the goal?

R. Yes

5. S. (42:58) He describes here that on the one hand for the right he should give thanks and on the left he should make a prayer, then he continues and says that in regarding the wholeness there's another manner and he describes the state where the revelation of evil is revelation from above, so he's happy and rejoices that the Creator is tending to him and taking care of him and showing him his true state and from that he receives wholeness. So it's not necessarily during the revelation of bad that he feels that he is in the state of the left rejects that he's far away?

R. It's not that, okay go on.

S. He says that it follows that now the state where he says that the Creator has rejected him from Kedusha because he feels the bad, on the contrary, this makes him feel that the Creator is bringing him closer. This is called the right brings closer. So the very fact that he feels that recognition of evil and he acknowledges that this is actually, he actually means nearing bringing closer?

R. It's a place of work and that a person sees that he's approaching through the revelation of evil the Creator is bringing him closer.. He cannot tolerate the evil he's drawn to cover the left using the right.

S. When is the recognition of evil considered that he's being pushed away? When is it considered the recognition of evil bring some closer?

R. Now is the time to come closer. If the Creator did not show him the evil in what way can a person come closer or what will he cover? 

S. Yes, but here he describes that the very fact that he's shown that the evil is considered that he is being brought closer.

R. Yes

S. Even before he..

R. Recognition of evil.

S. But by the recognition itself he already feels that he is being brought closer.

R. Yes.

S. What about blessed and that he's blessed and he's in wholeness?

R. Yes, but it's still not corrected. The Creator still does this. All of it.

S. There is a state where in they revealed the evil to him and he feels that he is still far away, and he has to pray and there's also a state where they're showing the evil and he's grateful and he feels that he is near but in both of them, they show him the evil. One time he responds with prayer and another that he responds with gratitude so what are these two states?

R. By showing a person that he's in the bad, the evil side he's happy because he has a place of work and the other state where he has the evil but what is he happy?

S. He's praying.

R. He's in prayer, he can pray.

S. But then he's lacking wholeness.

R. But he's in prayer, he's happy because he has what to pray for.

S. If we take it a bit closer to our issue of a permanent, how can a person feel that he's disconnected, far away, he's condemning, he's criticizing etc. the friends, the Creator and the goal and everything. How can he be in a state where he's happy and rejoicing and say that?

R. No he's happy and joyous after he's the action of correction, here you're simply explaining to us the state.

S. This means that I can't be in a state where he's happy and rejoicing when they revealed to him that he's far away?

R. Yes, but it's following that simply a joyous state rather the state of he completed, meaning whole.

S. He completed it and of course he's happy but here he describes a state and just the fact that the recognition of evil in itself is the fact that he was shown that he was far away he was already in a state where this recognition of evil is a revelation from above.

R. Yes of course it's a revelation from above.

S. How to be in the state where he's shown the evil that far away he's already in wholeness and in joy?

R. He's still not in wholeness because when he is on top of the revelation of evil he draws the power from above and he arranges himself and then he can be happy as a result of arranging the connection between the two lines.

S. How to, how can one not stay as a fool? What does it depend on?

R. Using his own powers what he went through.

S. Is this a personal overcoming?

R. Yes.

S. Yesterday we talked about a person who cannot deliver him from imprisonment only the friend can elevate his friend.

R. Yes.

S. Is it within his own power or the power of the friends?

R. Yes.

S. What do you mean yes? Which one?

R. You decide?

6. S. (49:30) How do we shift from the personal state of left and right where each one can recognize in himself some form through the state of left and right of the Ten?

R. Left and right of the Ten, well let’s ask the audience, the friends. How do you identify the state where left or right? I don't think today is the right time. People are either falling asleep or looking at me with empty eyes.

S. Ok I will continue. Why am I asking? Because in the Congress we talked about this resonance this fact that we need, the friend also talked about it, we awaken each other. etc. so clearly states come from above any all of us receive it because on the right and suddenly we see a friend comes and his face is in the ground or maybe it's the other way around he's down and the friend comes with a lot of enthusiasm and he awakens you so, do we shift our life from okay, I received a certain state great to ok to look at what is happening in the Ten that's great. How do we shift our attention to this?

R. To shift? I didn't understand I'm also a little groggy, sleepy.

S. Should I give up or continue?

R. He should give up as far as I am concerned. Come guys ask one another, I couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep because I'm so tired. This Congress was very difficult, very heavy. I went through it but after it was over I felt I was drained to zero.

7. S. (52:40) If we're talking about it already what makes Rav feel drained exhausted or not exhausted?

R. Physical state first of all, truly physical state. Out of the result of all the stress and the pressure although I'm not stressed myself but personally but for some reason in the action was finished I wasn't able to do anything, not with my brain not with my heart, not physically nothing. I'm waiting for it to pass.

S. There's always like this following Congresses, where sometimes that…?

R. But not to the extent, not to that extent, this Congress is way more powerful.

S. The fact that Rav is drained is that a good sign or is it a bad sign for the students?

R. It's good, oh for the students? Let's wait and see. I think it's good. I think it's good for everyone.

S. It's a sign we did work or it's a sign that we will negligent or?

R. Sure it's a sign that it was work by everyone who was present and when working it was good.

8. S. (54:26) I wish to talk about the work again. I felt like friends who are not with us they feel like they expect them to be but suddenly the Congress many friends woke up and pushed us in the way that is not happening on a regular basis. We were shocked that these friends suddenly woke up as if the Creator gave them powers and said wait, wait there is a Congress. I will give you this power and he'll give it to everyone else and we felt that this Congress gave us this overdrive. I also barely slept for maybe an hour. I felt an over surge of energy, I couldn't sleep, I'm grateful for the Congress is very special and also when you were doing our duties, you see friends doing their duties and also making this effort to have a deep intention to be in connection with the friends. We couldn't always sit in the same table there was a tremendous inner effort to be in this connection together we were having roles and duties in the Ten, we have felt this inner effort so thank you everyone.

R. Okay.

9. S. (55:56) Truly towards the end of the Congress I felt like we were working with totally different vessels. Our vessels changed and at the end of the lesson maybe before, continuing to the next day there's was this heaviness because something very big is opening up and coming. The question is, how do we welcome the arrival of the new vessels? What's the correct technical order of the work? For example, in the lesson in order to accept the vessels that are now being revealed and are coming to us. I'm asking should we do some reading? How to do it technically? What's the correct way of working in order to proceed with the new light that is coming in the form of these vessels?

R. I think that the most important is to connect with other friends and together to already except the help or bestowal may be a better way to say it, the external bestowal from other Tens but nevertheless this way or that way.

S. The fact that it's moving by itself it's clear. We sit here and we know that it's going to pass but we also want to be participating where we participate correctly in this process?

R. Yes.

10. S. (57:51) What did you feel so special in this Congress that you didn't feel in past congresses?

R. I felt much more power in the connection, in shifting from one state to another that is the people, the audience that was in the Congress was an audience that studies that undergoes changes. This is how they went through it. This is the main thing I felt.

S. What do you mean by saying it was heavy?

R. Well it was heavy. Heavy doesn't mean bad it's not that it was bad but rather heavy. It's like a donkey or a person that doesn't matter how you say it , that carries a bag to lower a sack of gold coins on the one hand he carries it for itself on the other hand, in between it is hard, it's heavy.

S. From here on?

R. From here on, well it depends on how much you would be able to be flexible in all of these states and see which state awakens you and which one doesn't, etc.

S. Can you expand this flexibility?

R. No, it's better if we speak from what we are going through. It would be better this way.