Morning Lesson September 8, 2023

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

Part 1:

Rabash. Article No. 31, (1990). What “There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted” Means in the Work

Reading Article. (00:38) “It is written in The Zohar,..”

1. S. (46:42) If I want the friend to enjoy, does it matter if I am doing something physical or praying for him, but the aim for him is to be well. Can I feel this pleasure that he has received, then it turns out there is a friend who is enjoying, and there is me who feels it, then the Giver is revealed, the Giver of the pleasure; the Creator. What actually appears here is the correct relation between the Creator, and the friend and me? How much deeper can we get into this work?

R. As much as you want.

S. Here we need to build this matter that it is either bestowal or reception, even the four phases of direct light we can see these relations?

R. Yes.

2. S. (48:14) He writes here, when we are doing Hesed we speak from the giver, meaning the lower one and in this he is making an effort above reason that he is giving and doesn't know who he is giving to. How do we know we are bestowing and giving Hesed, mercy to the Creator?

R. It is impossible to know because if you would know you will start making an act of reception out of it, therefore it is made this way. It is giving in concealment.

S. (49:06) I know Rabash made a big effort to explain things to us here, but I did not understand to see it as a gift and to appreciate it and see it above reason and give thanks on that. What is all this division here?

R. That all need to become revealed gradually towards each and every person according to how they advance. Therefore, you might need to read that article a few more times until it becomes clearer and not that it becomes clearer intellectually but it becomes clear through the reforming Light.

S. What is the reward for working the path?

R. Working with Him, is that a person even makes an effort and if he doesn't reach the goal in any case that effort is registered on him. Accordingly, he adds more efforts until it becomes revealed.

3. S. (51:00) When Rabash explains counting Israel how do the Kabbalists explain the Creator here?

R. I don't understand.

S. In the article he explains to us and I felt that seemingly the reason the Creator counts Israel and he explains why he counts Israel. Now what are the reasons to cause the greater acts this way or another, so what is the god and benevolent?

R. The good and benevolent; The Good That Does Good.

S. By what means can a person appreciate what the Creator gives him?

R. It’s the vessels that we reveal.

S. If a friend gives a gift and if a person has a sensation behind the gift there is no clean intention, maybe power or respect, control and then out of this he looks down at the gift, so what causes the sensation of looking down on what the friend gives?

R. A judge judges according to his own flaws and he needs to seek why he thinks that way.

S. He understands that all the flaws he sees are in himself but how does he change this, this looking down and actually appreciating what the friend gives?

R. Through the prayer, we cannot open the whole Torah here.

4. S. (54:02) In the name of the article, too, there is the matter of the blessing that they are in a counting of the blessing, and he says there is a counting before and a blessing after, so what I wanted to understand: what is this blessing that as I understand is man's desire to bestow? That he wants to not worry about himself, and to worry about the friends but to perform acts of bestowal? Then he is speaking about the matter of the blessing, it's a type of mercy, that after you perform an action and you see that you truly want to bestow, what is this can, you explain? I want to bestow and the actions I can perform finishing and I want to scrutinize if I truly want to bestow and not for myself?

R. What do you add?

S. That's what I'm asking, can you explain? He writes here that this is called the aspect of a blessing meaning giving in the mouth. Being that after the act, there is nothing more for him to add, that he makes the effort and he gets to give a blessing in the mouth which shows that what he gives is with the entire heart and this is called light of Hassadim. What is this action if you can explain to us? That he adds after that he wants to add the blessing in the mouth?

R. That is what he's capable of doing not in action but with his mouth.

S. It comes out of the importance that we have built in the Ten? That we build a common vessel between us to give contentment to the Creator, to want the purpose of creation to reveal there?

R. All in all, yes.

S. It gives us some power to continue and hold on to the intention to bestow?

R. Yes.

5. S. (56:53) The moment that one is privileged to receive an intention to bestow it seems then that he needs to count the good things and the gifts that he receives, he even says such. The question is: if he is in such a high state where do we see the fear here below of this heaven, does it have room in such a state?

R. Fear is always there as an infrastructure, it depends what fear but it is as an infrastructure in one's work.

S. But he feels so confident so it doesn't seem suitable that we start talking about fear here, how does this work?

R. It is certain that only in what he can sometimes count and no more than that.

S. Meaning the fear is in the background at the back like a foundation that accompanies him?

R. Yes.

6. S. (58:03) It is written, thus the order is on a blessing and from that we know that the Torah is called a gift which is left line. What order do we want to receive the secrets of the Torah in, is the right line sufficient to reach the secrets of Torah?

R. No. We need it in the left line and also the blessing and then you reach the secrets of the Torah.

S. But it's mainly in the right line or the left line?

R. Both of them.

7. S. (59:59) It's written that they would be able to receive this delight and pleasure that this desire is called a desire to bestow. That this desire to attain it goes slowly because the lower one has no ability to go against the desire of the upper One, what the Creator created, the desire to receive for oneself. What is this slowly, gradually that we attain the desire and the lower one receives this desire to bestow from the upper One? What is this gradually?

R. Gradually.

S. Okay, I got that gradually but, how is it connected to the passing on let's say, technically, all the elements that he has to swallow these elements?

R. He receives according to the correct order that needs to act from above that descent upon him gradually, that is called gradually.

S. Then he gives like heartbeats until each one, it arranges in the lower one, he gives a second one, He doesn't do it in one shot but this entire foundation of information?

R. Yes, those are called steps.

8. S. (01:01:35) I have no question. I think what I would like to say now, maybe I am doing it for the first time?

R. What's the first time?

S. What I'm going to say it's the first time for me. I am simply in shock from this article. It's the first time I read it and I think that it raises us to such a high degree that there are no questions there, there is just infinite depth and height. And I want to say simply, thank you so much to whomever is organizing it, for you, for the Creator because usually we don't appreciate what we have. Only after it is taken away from us then we begin to understand how it was so important to us and absolutely, I feel, I got to give, not in how something is embedded in the text but in both, thank you very much.

R. That's right we are with you. That's how it is with Rabash's articles; usually it is also not so felt, he doesn't write with such sentences of greatness.

9. S. (01:03:15) He speaks about two lights: the light of Hochma and Hassadim, mercy. I very much want Hochma, the wisdom to understand fear to know the secrets of Torah?

R. That's what you want?

S. Well, yeah, I mean I have Hassidim, mercy. I don't understand what he's doing anything?

R. If you have the light of Hassidim then what's the problem with reaching the light of Hochma?

S. It doesn't come, the light of Hochma. I don't see anything, I don't understand anything, know anything, all the secrets from one end of reality to the other.

R. That's what you want, what for?

S. It is supposed to be the purpose of creation?

R. You want it because the Creator wants it.

S. Well, yes when will I get it finally?

R. When the Creator wants.

S. When will He want?

R. What do you care? When He will want, He will give you, that's no problem.

S. He will want He will give it to you. What do you demand from Him?

S. What are you demanding to see here? Feel, understand not with all my senses covered up and turn to bestow without anything.

R. Ask.

S. I truly am asking.

R. What do you want from me?

S. Will you have got the light of Hochma, I haven't.

R. You are envious, great, that's a good thing. Envy, lust and honor.

S. How did you get it? Why did He give you and not us?

R. I got this approach.

S. Well, really how long can we go like this? Maybe this is our..?

R. What do you mean everyone?

S. Well they keep going from L'Chaim to workshop.

R. They have what they need.

S. Maybe they are happy with what they have and I want more? I can't just be like everyone and just say L’Chaim all day, it's so big, everything is great?

R. Do you want to be in bestowal?

S. More than that?

R. What's more in bestowal?

S. To understand, to feel, to reveal.

R. That's already opposed to bestowal.

S. Isn't the light of Hochma more than bestowal?

R. If you want to receive the light of Hochma for the sake of bestowal, that's something different? Think about that. Why do you need that?

10. S. (01:06:13) I want to be practical. I heard what we read now. I more or less understood, I didn't get too deep into it but I understood that a simple conclusion that you make, how do we attain the blessing that he mentions here because he writes, what's the blessing in the work is the light of Hassidim and the person is giving. What is counting in the work is what comes in the vessels of reception. So how do we receive this blessing, finally where each one says what pains him in let's say in our work in the Tens, now before the Congress, how do I get into the Congress and truly draw this blessing in my life? How do we really attain this?

R. If you will connect together then you will attain.

S. Look, in six he writes why is there no blessing in something that is counting because something that is counted means that the light and abundance that come to the vessels of reception and blessing is the abundance that comes with the vessels of bestowal, the opposite. So if they are opposite how do I turn these opposite into something that is as a blessing between us? So when we ask what are the opposites in the Ten and to how can we turn these opposites into a blessing?

R. To incorporate with all of that in the Creator.

S. But what does that mean, to incorporate?

R. To incorporate practically, that it's important for us what we have to give to the Creator to reach Him, to pass it to Him and by that we demand of Him connection, unity, to return to the same system as it was before the shattering.

S. As it says here just to bestow and not wish to even use the vessels of reception. So we need not to ask for anything and use the vessel at all, the vessel of reception? What do I need to do practically? I come, I sit with the Ten in the Congress, we are sitting in tens and I get this desire not to get anything, just to ask zero?

R. We are coming in order to connect and incorporate in the Creator.

S. I don't know the Creator at the moment?

R. Incorporate together.

S. With the friends?

R. Yes and annul then one towards the other. How will you incorporate them?

S. We come to the Tens, let's say in a congress, and not ask anything?

R. You should ask.

S. Ask for what?

R. Incorporating in one another.

S. Towards one another just annul?

R. Yes. For you to annul you think you are erasing something- no! To annul means that I am willing to connect to the other with everything he has and everything I have because all of that we received from the Creator.

S. To forgo my desires?

R. No, why should you relinquish them?

S. If I want to connect to the friend then I need to let go of everything that I want?

R. Why is one opposite the other?

S. That's why I'm asking, why are they opposites, opposing?

R. No, if we will want to connect, if we will want to connect so nothing is in our way.

S. Actually what do I need to concede, relinquish because you know you come from outside the ten, you come, you want something, you want to attain something. What do I want to want? Many times we read verses but something is supposed to happen. What am I supposed to relinquish in the ten, what are we supposed to demand at least from myself?

R. That they help you overcome your ego and incorporate in everybody.

S. Good advice. Thank you.

11. S. (01:11:25) I would like to say in praise of the friend who asked. I am truly envious of him that he asked: How can we receive the light of Hochma and receive the light of Torah? He asked this despite that he knows that he's an individual who wants it. It takes a lot of courage, so it's an awakening for us. Even what we are learning about the matter of the dispute, it's as the scientist wrote, the more they have arguments against one another this shows their progress so it awakens us also. L’Chaim.

R. L’Chaim.

12. S. (01:12:40) One of the things out of the article that's truly impressive I want to read. Explain to me exactly what this means here: The purpose of creation is to do good to His created beings and if they do not know and do not feel the delight and pleasure of what benefit is it? This is why this light is called Hochma, wisdom and seeing and is named light of Panim, face, interior, it demands wisdom illuminates his face. So if he receives this, what he received, he can count what he has. The light of Hochma we're getting the connection, in our account, how can I appreciate what we got? Usually I see through the friend, right? How to use it correctly?

R. You can't receive it in a different way. That's why as much as you advance and you see that you can’t receive anything you start because you have no choice to value the friends and through them you receive.

S. And at what stage do we begin to realize you to count and do as the Creator does with the nation of Israel?

R. It's like the Sefirot and the Partzuf, none can receive directly without being connected to the other. On the contrary, the right connection between them brings every Sefira its own filling, only in that way.

S. In a meeting my incorrect attitude towards a friend means only me on this?

R. Yes.

13. S. (01:14:52) If you can explain please what are these two actions: charity and the gift in the ten? Say a gift is clear, right but charity is there such an action in the Ten that you need to give in concealment?

R. We need to take these articles and learn them separately. There are serious articles about that. What a gift is and what's a donation and it's worth it.

14. S. (01:15:58) In the combinations of actions and blessings and counting and then again blessing twice, blessing, how will we perform this between us. What are we blessing on? What are we counting on? In what is this work expressed?

R. We are going to need to learn that separately because they are actions that are very deep here.

S. At least to understand what it means, a blessing in the Creator?

R. To reach a state that we are blessing the Creator that is not simple. There has to come a few actions before that. To bless means that you understand what you are receiving and the way you weigh it and you see the purpose, that through what you got from Him you can reach the goal. The actions of the Creator are actions upon us, we are in His hands as the matter in the hands of the Potter, the clay in the hands of the Potter. We will learn about it. It's good that those questions awaken.

S. Nonetheless, I need to bless Him on what I receive from Him? Or I need from myself to try to express love, bestowal to Him?

R. You have to discover according to reveal, to what's written, love, fear, subjugation, yes.

15. S. (01:18:01) It's written that the result of the gift must be love that connects between the two, ties them together but rather with charity it needs to be entirely in bestowal? Is there a difference between love and bestowal?

R. Of course there's a difference. Bestowing is an action and love is a feeling.

16. S. (01:18:52) What's necessary for me to appreciate when I receive a gift from the friend?

R. It's a lot of calculations. When you get a gift from a friend, why, for what, what does he want or could you attain by that? How can you give something back? How do you let him know about it that he receives a gift, has to announce it and so on. Meaning there's things to do here.

17. S. (01:19:48) Why in the writings of Rabash do we speak more about gifts rather than acts of mercy that we don't know who gives how much gives?

R. Because in gifts at least we feel what we get from the friends in the group and in other cases we don't feel it.

18. S. (01:20:31) Do we need to make an effort to receive in order to give or do we need to be worried only to give without being indifferent to what we receive?

R. It's important for us to connect between us in such a way that we will be ‘as one man in one heart.’ According to that calculation we have to see what's before us and what action we'd rather do now.

19. S. (01:21:20) It says here in the article someone who blesses his friend verbally and then there's one who blesses him in act. What’s the difference between a blessing that's verbal and an act? What's a gift in this state?

R. In words or in deeds?

S. Yes, if I bless a friend I can't give him the gift, an act then I'm blessing him from the friend in something that I don't have? What is he trying to explain to us here in words?

R. It's different degrees of coarseness that you are activating. We are in such scrutinies here.

20. S. (01:22:18) Why is something that is counted as having no blessing?

R. We want by that, how do I say it? The fact that we count something we are lowering it in importance. Let it be that for now.

21. S. (01:23:04) He defines Katnut as bestowal for bestowal sake and Gadlut as reception for bestowal sake. This seems to be a really huge difference. How do we come to this?

R. We need to try and hold them both in the same level of importance.

22. S. (01:24:13) There Is None Else Besides Him and we need to always make room for Him, to make the effort in it but when we get states, events that we are not familiar with and understood by us we feel them as empty. So how do we open our minds and everything we get will not be wasted?

R. If we connect and want to reach one response so everything is settled; we can do everything.

23. S. (01:25:02) It's written that when we don't attain spirituality there is bitterness and it's written that when we have the intention to receive to ourselves we can receive the sweetness. My question is: we work hard in our ten all day long. We connect, we work on the intention. What else should we do besides these actions in order to attain this spirituality and to feel the sweetness?

R. Only connection, only connection.

24. S. (01:26:14) What's the most important thing that we have to scrutinize in our ten when we receive these gifts that come from the Creator through our friends?

R. To try and be closer to one another and to awaken a deficiency in one another. How to solve our issues in a general way? General means in one vessel, that each one wants to, as if to reveal, to solve the problem in him. He is not aware that it is in the ten and then doesn't approach it, to the solution of the problem. That's why this is actually the source of all failures. We need to understand that when we connect between us to solve the problem together for sure we are solving it.

S. These scrutinies that we do internally, we can have judgments, they may also come so we will feel how separated we are. Is that also a gift?

R. Yes, that's a gift too.

S. How to overcome them?

R. We have to discover as much as we are in separation and to understand that that's a gift too because the Creator is opening our eyes and explaining how still far away we are from one another and we want to reach as some kind of connection the opposite form in order to get the answers on what we are asking.

25. S. (01:29:07) If I received from the Creator a gift in the form of a friend, a Rav, meaning a friend who is my teacher, who is my Rav. How do I work in a way that the next day this Rav, friend will be Rav plus-one and the friend plus-one?

R. As much as you raise Him above you?

S. What should I do to raise him during the day?

R. Think about him, how great he is, how smart he is, how he is advancing, bestowing.

S. It says here that the vessel has a boundary with which it can perform in order to increase and enlarge the friend and then it pours from the mouth as a blessing there. What exactly causes it to be poured more as a blessing so it will enlarge the gift?

R. Only efforts and prayer.

S. And what exactly must I make an effort with the friend and with the Creator and with myself so that I will look at my friend I will count him and he will be X plus 1?

R. Raise him in your eyes.

S. How to raise him in your eyes?

R. I don't know in what you appreciate him or value him, just value him even more.

S. With every area I go into with my friends I discover how huge he is, it doesn't matter?

R. Okay, that's good, that's clear, so what’s the problem?

S. I'm asking what's the fact that I go into many places with him, that's okay. The question is: How do I get him to that place while I discover that what I said about him yesterday is minus-one. How do I cause it to go forward more?

R. It all depends how you look at him.

S. I'm asking how to look at him, to enlarge him?

R. Look at him in your eyes that you value him even more. Usually it is caused through love, by love.

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