Morning Lesson May 25, Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: We are in a process that is called spiritual work scrutiny, correction. What is scrutiny and what is correction? Scrutiny and correction of our will to receive to invert it to resemble the Creator in order to bestow. The desire does not change. The intention upon it changes from in order to receive to in order to bestow. Along the way we need to define the will to receive as neutral, and the intention in order to receive is the negative thing, and the intention to bestow is positive and we need to work on this.
As much as we are going to get to know our will to receive, meaning the intention in order to receive, we always don't add to make a shortcut of it but the desire to receive with intention in order to receive is opposite to the Creator. This needs to be corrected. The desire to receive without an intention is just like we see in little children especially, they want and that's it. They don't have any intentions to harm anyone or to relate to anyone in a certain way, they just want each on their own. So we don't call that bad and this is not what needs to be corrected, just like we don't need to correct the desire in the levels of the still, vegetative, and animal. Also around us on the degrees of nature still, vegetative and animal, and also in a person whether it is in the degree of animal, we have no need to correct that, and it is not correctable.
Rather we need to correct in order to receive, that in order to receive is always against the desire of others. Where it is clear to me that by drawing to oneself I am doing it from another. Then this direction is already in a negative way. To scrutinize these desires that need to be corrected for us, we see from what we already have spoken about that it is not enough to have a small desire on the degrees of still, vegetative, and animate but rather it needs to be a desire as we call it on the degree of speaking, which belongs to mankind.
Mankind is not one who walks on two feet as also a rooster walks on two feet, but a man or Adam, is one that can feel the desires that are for his benefit and harmful to another. That he actually has pleasure from as much as he acquires something that another deserves, and yet he spends it so that he will deserve it, this person. Then this is called a transgression, this is called the evil inclination, for us, and this desire needs to be corrected. And the person that can locate such desires in him, this person is already called Adam. A corrupted Adam, but a degree of Adam. Whereas one that does not feel that he's using the desire in order to benefit at the expense of another is not called Adam. It is called a beast. This is how the wisdom of Kabbalah divides it in a simple way.
This is how we need to divide these desires that are on the level of Adam. Because we can't really locate such things we slowly developed throughout the generations in order to begin to locate the desires in us. Those people that can sort out the desires in them to a point of who they are for and at the expense of whom, at the expense of their own or another, to the benefit of themselves or to the benefit of another. Then those people are already coming to the wisdom of Kabbalah, they are brought to the wisdom of Kabbalah as it is written and the Creator puts their hand of a person on the good faith of connection on the means to rise above himself which is only possible through the 10. This is how they receive an ability, the capability to rise above the bad desire of a person to a desire of a good and correct person. If the desire to receive would not grow both in a person throughout his life. Also from generation to generation in people then we would not identify whatsoever that there is something that needs to be corrected, that needs to be changed in any way but only humankind emerges from the degree of animal as outside of it by changing himself. By changing one's environment from generation to generation changes everything that is in him, in his education, in his study, and his attitude towards people, towards countries and towards building the world.
All of this because the desire to receive in him develops day after day. It develops to the bad but it is not enough, this bad. Rather he needs to come to such states where people won't want the desire to receive that is developing in them, where they will recognize that it is what is bringing them all of their troubles and their problems. That it is the will to receive that is doing this. This process is called that Pharaoh, which is the evil inclination, becomes revealed. And the evil inclination is my desire that is fulfilled at the expense of others, which is why it is called evil or bad. If it's not at the expense of others, and there's no problem that I have with it, then it is called just a beast. Therefore it is written that man and beast the Creator shall save. We need to correct all of our desires but when can we correct them? When we feel that it is bad and that it needs to be a big desire to receive, that is ahead of us, in others, that we can identify it in others.
Meaning it needs to grow and how does it grow? This is called that Pharaoh brought closer, what does it mean that Pharaoh brought closer? The evil inclination grows in such a way that it brings a person closer to correction which shows a person how bad he is, how he is bad in governance, how after seven years of satiation, like we learned the exile of Egypt, the 7 years of hunger comes and the difference is that the will to receive grows. And it grew to the extent in which we feel bad within. In what? In that it doesn't let us bestow to others, to define good relations between us, to reveal the Creator, the good force in creation, and this is how we developed. We will talk about this through the verses that we read as there is plenty to talk about here and these things are very important. We will learn them first and then talk.
2. S. (11:08) What is a bad desire?
R. Egoistic. The desires themselves are neutral, but it depends upon how we use them, whether it’s to my own benefit and in place of using them to the benefit of others. Actually, all of our desires we need to invert to desires that bring us closer to one another. That builds for us one net of connection, of desire which is called Adam, one general soul, this is what we must do. And every desire which is not yet corrected for this sake is called bad. Certainly, it depends on the extent that a person can locate such things in him but this is the definition, actually. In order to receive is the bad and in order to be so to others is the good.
S. What does it mean that we correct it?
R. That by the upper force, the reforming light, we use it in order to change my intention from doing it for my own benefit to the benefit of others.
S. But I discover (Rav interrupts)
R. We're not going into scrutinies. You asked, I did, that’s it. All the rest, think. You can't take on yourself a scrutiny, now, throughout the whole lesson. There's no such approach, I'm sorry. I'm willing to let you ask but like to everyone, in the same way. Wait, you’ll get more.
3. S. (13:29) You said before about the beast and you spoke about recognition of evil. Degrees that we went through, and now we are in the study with our friends. We are either in a spiritual desire when we’re together with the friends or we are in the state of a beast, much more of the time. How can we make it so that we are in between these two states, in the middle, and have balance and harmony and not fall to one direction or the other.
R. It all follows the intention. Try to constantly be in the intention in order to bestow to bring forth good to others and through this to the Creator, through them. That’s it. In that you will have scrutiny.
4. S. (14:42) You said that the use of the well to receive is a bad thing. But I feel that when the use of the will to receive is not at the account of others but for myself, that it also weakens the deficiency which is also a bad thing, right?
R. Well of course. First of all it's for myself, as if for the benefit of myself, and then in addition, it is also at the expense of another. In the desire to receive there are degrees: Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel Dalet. So the degrees of Shoresh, Aleph, and Bet are degrees that aren't really coming at the expense of another. But the degrees of Gimel and Dalet are truly at the expense of another. We will locate and use these things as it is our nature, we need to feel this.
Excerpt 1 (16:00 - 17:10)
5. R. (17:12) Meaning, if it weren't for Pharaoh who raised the desire to receive and a person sees it before him as he is walking and killing him in his spiritual life. That he is willing to bury him in this corporal life and doesn't let him in advance in a direction of connection, love, bestowal, adhesion through the 10 to the Creator. If Pharaoh wouldn't have shown that to a person that he is and he is not letting a person advance towards the purpose of creation, towards the purpose of life, then a person wouldn't cry out, he wouldn't turn to the Creator, he would (just) live. Meaning our whole emergence from the degree of a beast into a degree of a person and then to the degree of the Creator is all by the evil inclination that is constantly growing and is showing us the extent in which we are under his control. This is why it is written, “and Pharaoh brought them closer/” He is truly the Creator's servant, a true angel, and he does his work in this way. This is why we need to feel ourselves that we are under these two forces the good inclination and the evil inclination and we receive an awakening specifically by the evil inclination which is what obliges us to turn to the Creator and come to the good inclination.
6. S. (19:14) If I understand that I am afraid of Pharaoh but I am not… (Cut off by Rav).
R. Continue. Continue to seek a place where you can hide in the Creator from Pharaoh. Where you are running to the Creator and wanting to hide in Him because only there do you have a place of salvation, a refuge.
Excerpt 2 (19:56 - 20:38)
7. R. (20:40) Meaning it's not enough that the will to receive is constantly growing and we see the extent in which it takes us up more and more. And also takes from us what we knew before, what we thought and felt, retained, and this too he seemingly erases and takes for himself. Then it works out that he doesn't give the feeling, the attainment of the Creator, as something that I yearn for to appear. But rather, truly, (he) suckles all that needs to come to me, into my heart, he stands between my head and my heart and cuts that path of feeling, of recognizing and this is how I remain in a state, a feeling of more and more emptiness, that’s on one hand. On the other hand, it’s by this that he’s actually bringing us closer to the cry, to the outcry, the demand, request.
Excerpt 3 (22:08 - 24:14) 2x
8. R. (24:16) In this way, we acquire the soul. Where the Creator hardens the heart of the person, his egoistic desire, we feel that we are not capable of reaching something by this egoistic desire but rather we remain a beast, such horrible egoistic ones. Then we cry out and ask and do all kinds of actions that the Torah explains to us that we should do. And then we get help which is called ‘a holy soul’. Then we will have the forces and understandings of how to connect between us. How to make such a correction, such that we will be able to bind ourselves between us into a vessel, in which the Creator will be revealed and we receive the soul. The revelation of the Creator to the created being as actually called ‘the building of the soul’. The light which corrects and fills the corrected vessel.
9. S. (25:30) In the excerpt, there is seemingly a difference between the Kli and the signs that the Creator puts in the Kli so what is the difference between them?
R. The Kli has many discernments which are called Otiot, or letters.
S. It says here that the Creator makes the action of hardening man's heart so that he can cry out to him. So all of these ups and downs are for us to turn to the Creator.
R. Yes, but for us to also know how to turn to Him so that we will have the Otiot, the letters, the reasons, discernments for our outcries, not just like a baby but where we will actually raise the letters of work to the Creator.
10. S. (26:36) You said before that the will to receive for ourselves is evil. We always look for connection in the 10 as a strong desire for it. When it comes from the Creator does it mean that this desire is unjust, is not pure?
R. I don't understand your question. You need to hear a lot more and learn otherwise your questions are not connected to what we are reading. I’m sorry to tell you the questions are not clear yet.
S. Can I try again to ask the question? If the intention is towards connection, so receiving the connection from the Creator, is that a correct inclination or an evil inclination?
R. To aim our connection to the Creator, of course, is correct and good. We need to scrutinize what we want to present to Him, in what way, and whether it brings us closer to Him, what signs we feel in return.
S. I wanted to add, if I correctly understood the translation, he asked this: The intention to receive -- the intention to receive the connection from the Creator -- there's a connection, here, between receiving from the Creator but receiving connection. Is that a correct intention? Relying on the idea that the intention to receive, in general, is wrong?
R. If he's asking it in such a way, it’s fine.
S. So that’s the question: What is the intention to receive connection from the Creator?
R. We always receive from the Creator, there's no such thing that we are giving Him. The fat that we want to bestow to Him, we can only bestow to Him by asking Him corrections that is the pleasure that He feels from our questions for correction. Therefore this is what we need. As much as possible to raise to Him requests for connection between us. If you asked in this way then I, probably, I didn't hear from the translation such a thing. Very good.
11. S. (29:35) What is the vessel of the 10?
R. The Kli of the 10 is considered those desires in order to bestow to the Creator that we can connect together like a bundle or a bouquet, and to present it to the Creator. There needs to be a desire of each and every one in this and everyone's desire together, connected, and this is done by the upper light. We are not capable of connecting our desires and aiming them to the Creator but rather all of these actions that we do of how to connect between us and how to connect to the Creator, all of this is a process that eventually we received the upper force. The upper force, with the proper guidance, connects and corrects us, properly. Just like a kindergarten teacher arranges the children so they sit nicely and are connected between them, holding hands and walking together in a circle or in a certain way. This is how we need to receive guidance from the Creator of how to be connected so that from the connection, we will create a tendency towards Him and in this inclination towards Him we will feel how He already relates, not to each of us, but to all of us as one.
12. S. What is the help that one receives as ‘a holy soul’? What is ‘a holy soul’?
R. You receive many discernments: how to connect, the need for connection, what to demand from the connection between us, from the Kli that we create? It is all speaking of the structure, the address, the raising of MAN. Then when we receive the response, the answer, when we see what we received with what power, intensity, to what degree that it raises us, how we can be connected and reveal in this connection between us, the spiritual world. Here it is with MAN and MAD where we begin to be partners with the Creator, we for Him and Him for us.
13. S. (33:00) If I want to receive a deficiency for bestowal through the 10, does that mean I want to receive for myself?
R. That’s something you need to check. To whom is it aimed, the benefit of whom is it aimed? To the benefit of me, towards the 10, towards the Creator? Check.
14. S. (33:33) What is ‘the burdening of the heart’? It feels far, all of a sudden.
R. The ‘hardening of the heart’ means my will to receive receives an egoistic addition in which I see that I want everything for myself. Then I say about this addition that I feel now, that it is called ‘the burdening or the hardening of the heart’. Where my heart wants to receive for itself and this is how it wants to go forward this way. It doesn't want anything different. That as much as I spin it, it wants for itself.
S. I'm being led to feel that I'm in the opposite of my intention?
R. Well of course it's the opposite feeling. Without this feeling we have nothing to do.
S. Sometimes I don't feel that I'm opposite or I'm indifferent or I'm used to my intention being opposite.
R. Continue to work. I have nothing else to add, but this is our work. Do it as intensely as possible and do it fast.
15. S. What is the connection between the ‘hardening of the heart’ from Pharaoh and the servants, and the signs? What is ‘the sign’?
R. There are signs that I am here in scrutiny. Altogether, what is my desire to receive as much as it is in the intention to receive? Where does it bother me and where does it not bother me?
16. S. (35:37) As Pharaoh brought Israel to repentance, how do we cope with the Creator in order to discover Him?
R. We have no dealing with the Creator, we don't need to deal against Him but rather all of our work is to prepare ourselves for the meeting with the Creator by Pharaoh. Pharaoh prepares us for the meeting with the Creator. If we will work correctly with our ego then exactly we will see the extent to which he is aiming us correctly towards the Creator. How to turn to Him, to connect, to adhere and reach the end of correction. All through the evil inclination of ours that becomes a help against him, ‘a help against him’.
17. S. (37:07) In the process of correcting the desire to receive what came first scrutinizing or the intention?
R. Certainly, first the scrutiny because how can you define the intention if you don't scrutinize something. Also the question isn't so clear because we need to scrutinize it more. We will.
18. S. (37:53) What is the difference between scrutinizing the desire and correcting the desire?
R. Scrutinizing the desire is we are scrutinizing whether it is in order to receive or in order to bestow. The correction is where we already decide that we want to use it only in order to bestow. From that, we raise MAN, a request for us to have the forces to use it instead of in order to receive, use it in order to bestow, and this is already called ‘work’.
19. S. (38:37) How to work correctly with the desires of the 10?
R. We are learning this all the time. I can't answer you such questions. In general, raising myself to the 10 and working correctly with the desires of the 10 is to help them in our bestowal together to the Creator.
20. S. (39:16) It is not clear, what is the benefit in Pharaoh causing us to cry to the Creator because when man puts efforts to run away from Pharaoh and the Creator says no I'm hardening his heart so you will cry out?
R. Running away from Pharaoh is not a solution or a correction. We need to correct him eventually and bring him to correction. This is considered that we come out of the control of Pharaoh from Egypt but we take all of the vessels of Pharaoh with us, together. Then when we come out of the control of Pharaoh and we are in a neutral state, then we begin to correct the vessels that we took from Pharaoh, yes, the desires, and invert them to in order to bestow all the way to the end of correction. We have nothing else to correct but that which we received from Pharaoh.
S. It's unclear specifically what is the benefit of Pharaoh causing us to turn to the Creator and not from our own efforts?
R. What efforts? By what efforts do you turn to the Creator if not by Pharaoh who puts an obstacle before you?
S. We read in the first quote that they came to the sea and they saw the army of Pharaoh and there was an escape, they wanted to come out?
R. They want to run away from the control of Pharaoh where the desire to receive controls me and I can't do anything. No matter where I turn and no matter what I do, the will to receive is spinning it in such a way that I am in order to receive. Then I want to come out of its control.
S. So why does the Creator harden the heart of Pharaoh?
R. Otherwise I don't want to leave. You can't identify the small ego. Therefore anyone who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than him.
S. And the fact that there is a desire to escape without some push from outside. Why does there need to be a push from outside and what awakens without Pharaoh, why is that insufficient?
R. You are talking in an unrealistic way, where do you have vessels other than Pharaoh? Your ego where you come to a point where you start to identify that your desire to receive is against you, that it is harmful to you. This is called the beginning of the revelation the Pharaoh, before that there is no Pharaoh. Before that you can only discover a force of good, he lets you advance, build the world, computers, games, all kinds of things. Going on trips and all sorts of things like that. Right now the world needs to feel that he's moving from the good Pharaoh to the bad Pharaoh where there will be blows and problems and we will recognize the force that is managing us, not as a force of good that we are advancing each time to better and better things but rather into worse things, day after day.
S. So what is the work that we do in the 10 because we say that the 10 is something outside of me, opposite of my desire to receive?
R. When you connect in the 10 and you want to seemingly connect, you already somewhat come out of Egypt and want to build for yourself a spiritual state.
S. Why isn't that sufficient, why does there have to be more pressure from the outside?
R. It is not enough, and also one 10 is not enough as you see what is happening in humanity as they will start to discover that it is all in the negative nature and it cannot run away to anywhere. Wherever you turn you will have all kinds of problems, different microbes and so on. Otherwise we won't feel that we are under the force of evil.
S. What is that Pharaoh we need to feel as a 10 or several 10’s, how do we identify as 10?
R. The force of bad that does not let us come close to the Creator, the intention in order to receive.
S. It is not clear. What is the intention to receive in this connection that we build in the 10 or between the 10?
R. That is what we are discovering and all the actions that we do in connection we will have even less intention in order to receive.
S. Is it with respect to humanity?
R. First of all towards us, where I want to come to the 10 and to be connected because it is to my benefit.
21. S. (45:36) I heard from you more than once that towards Pharaoh we should treat him in a way that is to the point and in many places we see that we should hate him so when do we hate and when do we relate to him otherwise?
R. I don't know what to tell you. You have a button you can press or you can say you love Pharaoh and the other one that you can hate Pharaoh, you can decide for yourself about hatred or love. You can only do actions if you want to hear what the Kabbalists tell you and through these actions you can then come to a state in which you will either love or hate, but actions and not that you're saying from now on that I will hate.
22. S. (46:51)
R. The transition is that first of all we thought our development on the face of earth is all for the better and we will reach a world that is all filled with good and we will build better machines, technology, healthcare, development, phones, TVs, computers, that the world would be like... I was once in America in Disneyland in a sphere that you are in and you're being put through different states being shown how the world is evolving and how we are ultimately coming to a point where the world is great, everyone has a helicopter, a jet and it can be anywhere they want in an instant and there is so much technology. What is this for? The only thing that they don't talk about, Americans. That was maybe 40 years ago. What I'm saying is that humanity has come to a point where it sees that the physical, corporeal development, scientific development, it doesn't matter what kind, all the development that we can do, is finite. It has an end that nothing good will come of it. We would rather come to a point of complete despair from our ability to make a world that will answer our demands, no, and why not? To begin with we can't, even if we live 200 years it doesn't matter, we can't provide for our desire to receive any true fulfillment. When we already come to a state of despair from our lives, ultimately each and every one discovers it in their own way throughout their life. People are then searching for what we can do. That question comes to us from nature as well because nature is eternal and whole. So within me there is a demand for such an existence that is eternal and whole. What will I do and then, a person faces this eternal question and doesn't know what to do and might escape to religion where he also doesn't find more than some psychological method that by coming together with many people where he can make himself blind or half stupid to just accept things and life passes. Now we are facing such questions that we can't calm down and we have to answer them. So what can be a solution to our existence and the wisdom of Kabbalah gives you a solution that you have to change the world by changing yourself because the world is a replica of yourself. What you see, is what you see. You are projecting your own qualities in what is outside of you so change your qualities, to qualities that are in order to bestow spiritual qualities and you will feel a different world. That is the solution.
S. What is the bad Pharaoh?
R. Pharaoh is not bad or evil, we call him that way that is the 7 years of satiation. The 7 years of hunger, the 7 years of satiation means all of the process that Humanity goes through until he reaches a state where he starts asking. But why are we alive, why do we keep developing and operating all of these systems in life, why do we need to try to chase the Moon, Mars or all kinds of things. When we are still there, we are called in the seven years of satiation where we can satisfy ourselves but when he starts asking, that's not going to give me anything, what is it going to give me? Even if I go to Mars or the Moon or create all kinds of nonsense in this world, it is just to distract myself so what am I going to do? Then we come to the 7 years of hunger where we don't actually have in practice a way to fulfill ourselves and then humanity begins to ask fundamental questions. We typically just run away from these questions, why are we alive, what for, what is the purpose of life. As Baal HaSulam writes we flow in all kinds of the world and continue as yesterday.
S. Where is the transition point from the bad to the good Pharaoh?
R. When we begin to feel that in our life there is no true purpose, there is no reason for it, then Pharaoh is the force that governs our life, not the Creator, or it is the Creator that appears to us through Pharaoh as Pharaoh, so we begin to see that this force is evil.
S. It sounds from what you described in the transition from the good Pharaoh to the bad Pharaoh sounds like the awakening of the questions of the point in the heart, does this mean that all of humanity will go through this process?
R. Humanity will have to go through it and we will help them through dissemination and if humanity will not start with that, we also will not advance because our whole progress is for humanity, it is all in order to carry humanity after us, with us so that they can help us to ascend, and they can help us too as we can only ascend on their shoulders. We can't just stay on our own and I keep telling you more and more that each and every one has to work on dissemination, each one has to have millions following them in all kinds of networks otherwise it's not going to work. I am telling you that we live in a very special era, everything is given to us on the one hand and on the other hand, are we using all of the opportunities that we have.
S. Who do we need to press at the moment?
R. On yourself, yourself. Pressure yourself. How can you pressure the world? You can only advertise to the world the destiny, the purpose, the necessity to teach them quickly how they can see where they actually live, where the world is actually going and then open their eyes. You need to push yourself.
23. S. (57:11) If I feel despair because I want to see all of my friends in the 10 meetings, is this the Pharaoh that is playing inside of me?
R. I don't know, I can't get into that now and start answering. You always have something to deal with Pharaoh because you don't have the qualities of bestowal and you are facing Pharaoh together with the 10, try and achieve such connections with the 10 so you can convince and sway Pharaoh. But you need to know that Pharaoh is a necessary force and it advances us and we need to realize that we advance only by that force.
Excerpt 4 (58-38 -01:00:47) twice
24. S. (01:00:52) You mentioned a neutral state can you expand on what that is? You said we are under the influence of Pharaoh, we come to a neutral state and then we can correctly turn to the Creator?
R. I can't remember, you don't understand, the reader read something, can you ask about that?
25. S. (01:02:25) It is written here about the hardening of the heart and the great lights bring us. Is it correct to say the hardening of the heart is the revelation of the fourth discernment of the heart?
R. The hardening of the heart is the increase of the desire to receive in the heart.
S. We also said that the hardening of the heart is the disclosure of the egoistic desire that I want towards others. Is this not the 4th discernment, the depth of the desire is increasing due to the hardening of the heart?
R. Yes, the opposite, the desire that appears brings the hardening of the heart, the hardening of the heart is already a feeling in the person because he doesn't control his heart, his desires, he perhaps wants to do something to words bestowal, toward spirituality but then he feels that he can't, that his heart doesn't let him. That is called the hardening of the heart, that he has a heavy heart, he cannot think of anything in order to bestow.
S. How does that work in the 10 to advance the revelation of that desire?
R. Through envy, lust and honor.
26. S. (01:03:40) What is the true pain that a person needs to have one who is not operating for the sake of others?
R. That he can't work for the sake of others and through that to the Creator.
S. In the calculation of the desire to receive he understands that it hurts him, so what does he lose from that?
R. He loses the spiritual action identifying with the Creator, coming closer to Him, feeling Him in this common feeling. If I am on the same wavelength as the Creator, I think like Him I want like Him, I act like Him, then I already begin to feel who He is, what He is and I enter that. I start identifying with Him and this is called entering adhesion. This is how the Creator appears to the person through bestowal. The Creator is complete bestowal, he doesn't need to do anything, he is in complete rest 100% bestowal. A person does these actions of mind and heart, intention, action and he begins to see how much he identifies with the Creator, sympathizes with the Creator, or not. According to the gap between the desires he can raise the prayer, raise the request.
27. S. (01:05:28) Can physical ailments be connected to the sweetening of the heart of Pharaoh or is this a different degree?
R. Usually physical diseases are almost not connected but we will learn this at some point but not right now as it will get you confused, but physical disease is not connected to the size or the height of the desire to receive. Let's leave that aside we will get back to it as we will have to answer it later.
28. S. (01:06:32) If a friend in the 10 has a strong hardening of the heart and the 10 is trying to break the stony heart and can't, maybe the 10 can't raise the correct prayer?
R. That also or just possible that it doesn't give him the correct example in front of him so that he learns and needs to take on the quality of bestowal otherwise he won't be accepted in the environment. Meaning to show him that he is respected if he is in a different way, not in the way that he is now. Envy, lust, honor is what you should have awakened in him.
29. S. (01:07:39) In what do we do light the Creator the moment we yearn for it we get rejection?
R. What you feel as a rejection is an invitation to advance. This is the burden of the heart. This is called and Pharaoh drew near that by showing himself stronger towards you, that the ego is growing means that he is inviting you to advance further, this is assistance, this is how we need to treat our will to receive and always being neutral in that I don't want to be connected to my desire to receive I want to be above it and if it arises then I need to raise and even greater request for the correction.
30. S. (01:08:54) The feeling of the hardening of the heart is known to us on different levels to each of us but if in a certain 10 a friend has a hardening of the heart beyond the usual, that individual friend gives a certain form and place of working on the intentions, what can you do in a 10 in such a state?
R. Let's say you are going together on a trip and suddenly one falls, something happens to his leg, you come to him and you want to help him. First of all you tried to stand up to see if he can walk or not, build some crutches for him so you can continue the journey. This is how we need to help each other and by that you will discover that the Creator is not doing it to someone specific he's doing it to the whole group, he doesn't take any individual into account but only to the whole group.
31. S. (01:10:24) Am I to blame that they didn't reach through their efforts, am I responsible through this hardening of the heart to ask for prayers through the Creator?
R. There's no other way than asking the Creator and then.
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32. R. How good it is that there is a hardening of the heart because then a person can turn to the Creator and ask for help and the Creator sends him a portion of light called the holy soul and a person receives these portions of light more and more at first perhaps he doesn't feel it but as it accumulates he begins to feel that he has a soul.
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33. S. (01:13:26) How to understand that the Creator is helping with the holy soul?
R. It is only according to the correct question to the Creator, the request to the Creator in understanding the answer from the Creator and then you will understand.
34. S. (01:13:48) I don't know if it's connected to the topic, what is the form of the hardening of the heart that a person gets which is called at home with his wife, troubles and problems?
R. No, forget it, let go of that. Always ask in the direction we are studying.
35. S. (01:14:13) Is it the intensity of the cry like when you say we must cry out, is this the intensity of the cry that brings us into the connection with the Creator?
R. Cry has to be from the heart that we are really wanting to connect, otherwise we remain broken as we are after the sin of the tree of knowledge and we cannot advance in anything towards bestowal.
S. How do we increase that cry?
R. By advancing between us trying between us to always strengthen our connection, make our connection stronger.
36. S. (01:15:39) I am asking forgiveness, this state of the holy soul that you are speaking about is this a state I can receive individually for the exertion I made or is this a state that comes to the 10?
R. This is only by your efforts to be connected in the 10 to others, inside your heart to make an effort to connect all of the friends to yourself and then accordingly you will be able to feel what this soul is, you will begin to feel what it is.
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37. S. (01:18:55) The thoughts that one receives affects the way he advances?
R. A person receives from the Creator all kinds of thoughts or desires that come against the connection that is called that he supposedly receives from Pharaoh. Pharaoh is the posterior of the Creator, the other side of the Creator and then a person has to see, to locate that these things are against the purpose of creation, against the correction, they don't belong to the Creator but to his opposite form and still that opposite form, has to be related to. There is nothing special about this, it is like you, if you play with the baby, sometimes you say no, sometimes you say yes, sometimes you show him that he did something bad, sometimes you show him something good in order to evoke all kinds of responses from him to help him develop. That is how we see ourselves as we watch movies, theater, everything that we want to present in life. We always show both sides, the good force and the bad force one against the other and between them we have life. Same thing here in spiritual life, it's the Creator wouldn't create the evil inclination there was no creation, there was no place for the created beings to be, you could not advance or feel creation and this is why I specifically by creating the evil inclination he was joyful and said here, this is good. What does it mean this is good, the fact that there is death in the world meaning the opposite form of the light that by this there is a place for the created things from this darkness to discover the light.
38. S. (01:22:04) The first thing is we need to explain and work hard and only thanks to this hard labor, are the sufferings what will induce an outcry to the Creator, do I understand correctly it's not the hard work and suffering but it's impossible without it?
R. But we don't need to suffer as it is not a commandment to sit and suffer, on that it is written the fool sits with his hands crossed and devours his flesh. The moment we feel something bad it is a sign that we are moving away from the Creator and we right away need to perform some kind of action of closeness. There is no commitment to suffer, on the contrary if you suffer it means you're a fool, that you are not developed enough. Because what are you doing, you need to advance to the Creator, you are given a sign of where you are distant from him and in that sign you get a feeling of sorrow and pain, meaning that you are also getting help to come out of this to see where the evil is to use it to come out,
S. From a state of lowliness when one feels he is worse than anyone it gives him a push to cry to the Creator from the depth of his heart, what does that mean he is worse than everyone?
R. That he is the lowest, that he is the worst, that he is the lowest, that he is the dumbest.
39. S. (01:24:30) I'm trying to put together what we are learning now in the work of the 10, the states of the hardening of the heart or the lack of connection we need to fill this in the 10 is one man is one heart or it can move and go by each and every one of us in a certain period of time?
R. You can discuss it and you will see more or less it happens to everybody.
S. The advancement of the 10 is discerned by us feeling immediately that a friend has a hardening and we get recruit help together to help?
R. Advancement in the 10 is measured according to the extent that you can think of unity. Only to the point of connection between you according to that your 10 is measured, whether it exists or not and to what degree and this is the only point the Creator relates to.
40. S. (01:25:37) When a person stands inside his ego how does he cry out to the Creator when it is something he doesn’t want?
R. Yes, when I am in my desires to receive, I love them I don't want to get rid of them, on the other hand I know that something opposite has to be there, they desire to bestow and I don't want the desire to bestow, meaning that Pharaoh is controlling me, so help me get rid of Pharaoh, get rid of the desire to receive even though I, my ego doesn't want it. I am asking you to help me for it to happen.
41. S. (01:26:41) I am afraid to come to the 10 and tell them about the hardening of my heart as I learn here I'm supposed to awaken the heart of the friend so how do I do this correctly?
R. We will learn about it is not for now as it is a big question. You have to come to the 10 in a way that you will awaken them to connect and for spiritual advancement in order to bestow from all of you to the Creator, and from all of you to the Creator means that you connect in the 10 and you are bestowing towards the whole world, why? Because I dwell amongst my people where can you really express your form of bestowal that in the 10, through the 10, you start bestowing to all of humanity and don't forget about it until we don't go out until all of humanity and explain the purpose of life, the purpose of creation. The corrections we are doing is what they need to do. Where we are advancing and where the Creator is taking us to until we don't explain this to humanity we are not really bestowing and everything is still with us, we are not keeping the demand of the Creator.
42. S. (01:28:27) If I feel a burden does this mean that I am doing something wrong?
R. Baal HaSulam writes that if you feel in spirituality in your spiritual actions that you haven't the energy, the easiness, the spirit, it's a sign you are not connected to the Creator but to Pharaoh.
43. S. (01:29:07) The cry, does this mean the soul is yearning to the upper light?
R. Not only for the upper light, for what? The Klipot, shells, also want the upper light to fill them, we want to work in order to bestow so that the upper light doesn't just fill us but the result of bestowal feels us, that we bestow and from this we become satisfied, fulfilled. Like a mother who gives her baby food, it satiates her and she doesn't want to eat anymore after she gives it to her baby, clear?
44. S. (01:30:22) In order for a person to have the force to cry out so there has to be 2 points that he is low and on the other hand that he has support from the 10. Is that the only case that he can cry out?
R. Yes.