Morning Lesson February 10, 2023 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Zohar for All. "Introduction of The Book of Zohar". The Third Commandment. #204
1. Rav’s Introduction (00:30) Yes, the third Mitzva commandment is to know the Creator is great and rules the world meaning we’re already discussing how we perceive the Creator how we feel Him approach Him and we’ll get to know Him better and better, the commandment of knowing, it means to get to know that the Creator is great and that there’s a ruler of the world, let's read it.
Reading 204 (01:10) Zohar for All, The Third Commandment
2. R. (07:19) What is he telling us here? That the beginning of the corrections start with the upper Partzufim. The entire process of correction is when the parts connect more and more from the lower ones to the upper ones, so look the third commandment is to know that there is a great and a ruling God in the world, the world is called ZON and the main thing for ZON is to be adhered to Abba ve Ima therefore, hear o Israel that the Lord our God is one, they speak of the connection between ZON and Abba ve Ima, these six words they give us signs for how to connect the lower vessels with the more higher vessels for the main thing is to unite everything into one unification, one unification with the desires and the lower vessels desires of reception work together in the correct mixture with the desires and the vessels of bestowal the upper vessels and when they connect they complete one another, it turns out that each one is working in order to bestow to the other and then all of them there is the reception of light in order to bestow. Although in each and everyone has a different intention and different method seemingly for how to bestow because each and everyone has his own nature but ultimately like in our world because we wish to connect and do something then each and everyone puts in a special work, a special form of bestowal, and that’s how we connect. So what we are doing as he is telling us is that we are learning about the different sides in these vessels how in each degree we are raising them, these parts, we unite them unify them with the upper VAK and the lower VAK and raising MAN to VAK and in this way we are mix those vessels we connect them, various parts in them, until in total what’s made out of them is a concentration an assembly such a connection that there can be below the Parsa and above the Parsa as one vessel, and so when we carrying out those six words, hear O Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one, it turns out that we fill all these mixed vessels in the Partzuf, the general Partzuf, that is our entire role in uniting the vessels and unifying the lights. What else is there to say? We’ll talk about the sides in ZON and in these vessels in general, for now let's see questions.
3. S. (12:25) We have our connection with our friends in the ten. What are we adding here, what are we connecting, and with what are we connecting?
R. We need to continue reading. It is not enough from what we read it is not clear what has to be done. It is clear that it comes to us in unification but how do we.connect, what parts inside Bina and Zeir Anpin do we need to put together, it’s not clear yet, it is not clear.
4. S. (13:20) The commandment begins with that we should know that there is a great Creator in accordance with the attainment. What does it mean to know?
R. To know means to reveal. When we discover the upper vessel above us and we understand that it’s even higher than what we imagined in the beginning. To the extent we can connect, whether we need to unify daily and properly in upper VAK to raise MAN to ZON and ZON to YESHSUT and then ZON and YESHSUT rise and unify properly with Abba ve Ima, each one is doing it like a ladder and they’re called upper VAK, it needs to clothe VAK of Arich Anpin, and through this unification YESHSUT rise in the place of Abba ve Ima above the Parsa where the water is and this light is not hidden from them, we come to revelation. We are going to go to item 205 to explain to us a bit more and we can circle back to 204.
5. S. (15:38) You said that the unity starts in the spiritual world. How can we attain and unite them when we are still in the lower world?
R. Have to learn this certainly the commandment to unite and the idea of unity power of unit is coming from above and when it comes down from above it comes onto the lower ones and the little lower ones start to feel it and to carry out this unification and doing this there is the commandment from above the action and execution from below so we are going to see how it is happening.
6. S. (17:56) Regarding the connection between the higher and lower, how do I know that the connection between the higher and the lower is by reaching the Parsa. Does the higher know that it is higher and the lower knows that it is lower so each is keeping and maintaining itself and there is no breaking so everything is okay the relations are okay. If the barrier between is broken and bad things happen, how can the connection between the higher and lower happen when they break the barrier between them?
R. Still we cannot understand how it is happening where to even begin, either we are starting from the broken state and then we have to get from the broken state to the whole and complete state or we are in this standby permanent mode when we have to make sure that there are no changes so, let's see it is the correct state is still not properly stabilized before us.
S. Correct state is formed over the years of learning?
R. We are going to learn about it right now and prepare us for the correct state.
7. S. (19:38) The third commandment of the revelation of the Creator that is actually what brings me the fear and to reveal what it is to know that everything is coming from him, that there is some motion between fear and love and revelation is this a constant cycle?
R. Yes we constantly have this flow from above to below and from below up. We need to keep going. We stopped because the text is divided into several parts but it does not help us to understand, so let's go on.
Reading 205. (20:30)
8. R. (28:14) I think that perhaps we should read this again, this excerpt or the next one 206 and then we go back to 205, so it would be clearer where it is taking us.
Reading 205. again
9. R. (29:50) It is not the matter of letters but it is about desires and qualities that exist behind each and every sign.
Reading on
10. R. (36:48) This is how there is connection between the light and the vessel.
Reading 206.
11. S. (45:55) Can you explain what is the lower love and fear?
R. The lower or upper depends on what discernments we are talking about because we have the GAR and VAK, thus fear and the love on the lower that means that we still have not reached the state where we have the ability to work on the GAR of lights in order to receive them, so it is called the lower.
12. S. (46:49) What is Leah and Rachel for us?
R. All the names in the Torah are names of forces, discernments and different degrees. These are not human beings, it is clear to as already so we have to relate to all of these things as such that they do not exist in our world at all. They are talking about degrees and discernments in nature that the need to locate them, to feel them, to reach them, and to work with them, then we are going to understand what the internal content that is written into the Torah. If it was not written in this way then the Torah would be longer multi-fold, because instead of Rachel and Leah and other discernments of above and below and so on, instead there would be need to write many many more words so this way we can summarize things in one word and it is clear what we are talking about what Partzuf it was, what it can reach, what internal qualities, and what is changing what is expected from it, how it is tied to Malchut and so on. All by a single name that is called upon so this way we also used the names of the branches as we have in this world we have such specific relations between different parts of creation and created beings and we use these terms and names in spirituality.
S. Why in the excerpts does he give so much attention to the correct pronunciation of the letters?
R. In the meantime it means nothing for us we need to look at each letter each word what it is and where it is how it is tied to others because these are parts of the system of communication that we have between the broken parts of the system that we have to bring into connection and this way it should be important for us.
13. S. (50:14) Generally speaking is this commandment about the judgment needing to be revealed first in order to create a deficiency, a complete desire for the filling?
R. Of course the Din, judgment, needs to be revealed first that it would be possible to reveal the need for Correction and fulfillment you are right about that.
14. S. (51:00) The balance between the qualities described in this article are they qualities of the Masach?
R. Not only the screen also the light and the passing from degree to degree that degrees that connect between them, and of course ultimately the screen determines what phenomena will be revealed.
15. S. (51:39) Is the revelation of the Creator the expression from your action as we should know you and our request to become like him as a condition for revelation?
R. Yes, you said nicely.
16. S. (52:05) Two questions if I may. How to tie spiritual fear to such a powerful prayer as Shema Yisrael, Hear O Israel?
R. I don’t know what to tell you. I don't know what to tell you I think that in the Shema Yisrael, the fear and love and all the qualities that has to be tied together before hand need to connect together in order to reach the Shema Yisrael which is already a summary of the ascent of the force of MAN from the creative beings to the Creator.
S. What are the offspring and the fruit of the land in spirituality in regards to the group of the Ten?
R. The Offspring and the fruit are that deficiency we have to connect between is in order to raise it to the Creator in such a way that he cannot deny answering. He must answer us to our request and our entire request will be in order to raise him, we are asking the Creator to raise us in order for us to be able to raise him.
17. S. (53:39) He is mentioning here the matter of concealed light and the harsh judgment is coming to the world, so what is concealed light and why after he is concealing harsh judgment entered the world?
R. In this simple way even if you do not know what it’s talking about here if you're talking about a light that is concealed that it is already the time for harsh judgment because there is no light in the world or there is less light than before and then there is time for Din.
S. So the harsh judgment is everything we see today the earthquake and everything that is happening?
R. That is something else.S. This is not harsh judgment?
R. I cannot say I do not think that this is Din, seems to me.
S. The work between us in the ten, can we find a concealed light between us?
R. Yes, we are asking and I am very hopeful that by all such judgements that are revealed in the meantime here and there we haven't yet reached the end but there are things ahead of us shortly there will be a few more judgements to the created beings and that we will reach as stated that we will agree that only that Unity between us can heal as from all the judgements.
S. So it is not enough the judgement but there will be even worse and more judgements?
R. There are worse things in the world what is the problem?
S. I feel that the world is falling apart, look what’s going on around us. 20,000 thousand people died in Turkey.
R. And what?
S. It is not so simple.
R. How many died in Ukraine?
S. I don't understand this chaos, how can it be even worse it is inconceivable I'm not talking about another world war.
R. Chaos that can be worse means that the same states that you have the few places in the world can spread to the rest of the world.
S. How can be correct it, because you say that through our study we can correct the world.
R. Then truly, both in us and in others there will be a desire deficiency and a lack that we would finally draw lights of correction on us and correct our state.
S. We can do this in another generation or now?
R. Of Course if we feel the need for it is all in respect to the lower ones.
18. S. (56:56) First of all I would like to say that reading the Zohar is forcing me to look for the Ten that everybody is present and we are whole and complete to be able to engage in the Zohar it is felt that this is working together.
R. Very nice.
S. It is like a music that is a great deal of benefit from this reading so what we are reading about the third commandment and there is first and second and there is the forth. What are those articles that are these Commandments?
R. These are all corrections, corrections that we need to do in order to reach completeness and wholeness.
S. Is it in ordered, what is the specific order of the number?
R. Yes, yes, you do not yet understand what is the benefit of this specific order.
19. S. (57:57) Meeting of land and desert in one place is this the Red Sea? The confluence of water and desert?
R. I did not see that written. I did not see that this is written.
20. S. (58:43) The judgment the harsh judgment on both sides from the low one is that called Hesed or only during the descent?
R. Do not get confused, why are you getting into things you have not seen yet? We will look at the exact definitions in the book. Why are you trying to add the words instead of the author why are you pushing yourself into it, try to scrutinize what is written in a clear manner and not what here and there excerpt passages and you're trying to put them together in their entire theories you cannot work like that. you are getting confused and this type of study it can just throw you out. throw you off the path.
21. S. (59:55) The light that was concealed first in the upper one came out meaning that it was revealed because of the connection in the lower ones?
R. Yes.
S. And in response the upper one connected and when the lower one was awakened fear spiritual fear?
R. Right
S. It seemingly the spiritual fear should also mix with something that is concealed and now it came out so what is that spiritual fear that was awakened after it was revealed?
R. That the light, that the light is revealed is revealed as a few types of fears first of all not to lose that fear harm that light, meaning not to cause it to depart. To receive the light correctly and in the correct manner suitable for its degree to realize it all these things place a person stand him up to this that he is receiving this edition of light in a very sincere very hard tense state and here he needs to specifically determine his attitude towards the upper one that all this comes to him out of love and he needs to raise fear from himself and then this fear and love connect together there will be such a connection between them that this contact will continue in the future. We will speak more about this later on. We will have all of this.
22. S. (01:02:25) Humanity has been through states where there is chaos around the world?
R. Yes, of course.
S. People melted each other with nuclear bombs, burned one another, poverty, disease pandemics, but correction did not come from this. It is as people suffer yet they do not reach the solution from that?
R. But the solution can be only on the condition that the same suffering will come and expand and cover humanity, that it will be felt in humanity in the correct manner; that they understand where it comes from, for what purpose it is, what they need to do, who they need to aim themselves towards and so on. Meaning that it is not just bombing rather what are those states going over those created beings.
S. So how will the correct understanding be in humanity: where is it coming from and what for?
R. For this there are few paths. Let's do a workshop on this for a few minutes, not long yes?
From our state onward to what form our state and onward in what manner can we reach the next state, the good state or through the bad to a good state? What do we need to do and what can we do? What can humanity do in order to reach states that are more secure, comfortable, good or just leave it all and let it all be thrown in the water?
Workshop: From our state onward, in what matter can we reach the next stage? What can humanity do in order to reach states that are good? Or should we leave it all to be thrown in the water?
Reading 207 (01:17:07)
23. S. (01:21:00) It's not exactly about the excerpt we read about, it’s about the workshop we did: I wanted to ask, we see many disasters happening in the world right now in many places like we saw in Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and many other places that we are not even acquainted with or know about. But what is missing here? It's clear that it is us, it's in us and we have this ability to get out of it. We talked about how instead of blaming others we come to ourselves to understand the immense responsibility of our role here. What can we do in order to rise up and do something? What inner earthquake do we need to go through to understand what in our power to do, to go out and do something?
R. First of all we have to reach a state that if something happens somewhere in the world I feel it that it's happening to me, so much so that even if it is not being announced in the media I feel it, I feel it because I'm Incorporated with everyone. And to this we have to come to; to be very very sensitive to all those unorganized and disconnection that is happening in the world that due to them It suffers. if ordinary people cannot suffer it is like children that we suffer from something they don't understand what it is about? So this is how we should understand that, through our suffering we need to correct all these corruptions and to raise our prayer to the Creator as much as possible to save all of humanity from the blows. That is what I can say.
24. S. (01:23:40) To continue the previous question, there is a certain lack of faith that from the connection between us we can make such huge changes, and you from the very beginning as I remember you have a very sharp faith. How can we attain that faith on the path in the connection of ours, so that truly from that the correction will come?
R. Only for us discovering the sensitivity to that, and we cannot discover that if we do not have it. But we can build relations for that sensitivity between us; if I see the friends around me being drawn to something they are sensitive to something, so I also look at it, I come close to that and want to know want to feel, and this is how we help each other. We can be more gentle, more subtle feeling things we didn't feel before, this is also by envy, lust and honor.
S. What is there in the force of the connection in the ten that can kind of influence the world?
R. We are all one system although we are not aware of that, so if we somehow come close to each other in the ten we can cause the whole world to also come closer and what hurts us will make the whole world painful, sensitive.
25. S. (01:25:45) I wanted to ask, what is your ability to develop such a sensitivity towards what's happening depend upon and for to truly move you from within?
R. Sensitivity depends on the extent that a person discovers that he is in this network how he works on it and it works on him; I'm very sensitive and also I'm simply in a decent in a place where the world is not so aware of, to the extent that we are in a dangerous situation, dangerous, this Earth can fall apart within one second. We are not aware that we are like babies that in the meantime we play even though by their side something is happening, but if it doesn't go into their senses they don't understand it this is what we know work with; we want to isolate them in a way that they will not feel the negative discernments, the negative states that are happening around them. But we, for ourselves, already need to discover everything that is going on even more than that and the main thing is the cause why this is happening? and this is how we will advance. The main thing is the reason: if we are able to discover the cause then we will certainly also discover all the events that are related to that cause.
S. What is the cause, the reason?
R. The cause is that we are not preparing ourselves as one system.
S. How do you become more sensitive?
R. You need to think more about that and then you'll see how much you'll be able to depict to yourselves that you are all in one system, then you'll truly get great anxiety being in the hands of all of humanity. Starting with the ones who live in the jungle and the suburbs somewhere and more such places, some are terrible and everything that happens to everyone depends on you.
S. I see that also when something happens that is seemingly disastrous and it terrifies you even more when you kind of, alright it's okay we continue with life.
R. Yes and no. I heard about a few great Kabbalists from the previous generation like Baba Sali for example. You don't know him, he was a great Kabbalist here, I know him personally; and he used to cry out, cry out that airplanes were flying with bumps, for him it was a terrible act.
Meaning everything depends on the way we accept the things that are happening. We need to be on a very special earth, it is very special; not like astronomers and scientists tell us that there are thousands of plants like this one. No. we are living in a very special place which is a result of the balance of all the forces of nature. That is why it is so developed and in it there are such creatures that have free choice to be like God; and we need to understand that and to attain that.
S. What helps mostly, to expand your vessel so that you'll be sensitive to more than that which is happening around you, like I'm very sensitive to what is happening in my family in my home with my children. How can I be more sensitive to what is happening in the world that way?
R. It does not come from a sensitivity to your relatives; it simply comes out of connecting oneself more and more to the general system.
S. So that is the question I have, how do I feel like I am part of the general system? What is that thing of being part of a general system?
R. When there's a connection between what is happening to you, in your body and your desire, your thoughts, everything, and everything that is going on in the planets and all the universe. That is what comes to a person, it comes.
26. S. (01:33:11) In the request to the Creator, how not to ask Him to stop or take away or take back things but rather to give us the correct attitude towards it?
R. You need to ask as you are saying it right now, it does not matter what words you use, even without words. The Creator understands all your inclinations; it doesn't matter in what level you elicit them.
S. I'm trying to ask because many times we talk about it in other places when we talk about hardships and burdens we are not asking for Him to take them away, we need them.
R. Yes of course, yes.
S. So, here too all of these things are being revealed in the world, we need them, to be sensitive from it?
R. No. we do not have to go through all these states; we can learn from things that are much more restricted, concrete that we go through in a minimal way. We do not need wars for thousands of years and all sorts of blow. There are people that go through thousands blows until they understand what is going on with them, and then some of them from the smallest touch they understand in the right depth what is going on? it all depends on a person and we are asking the Creator that we can learn these things quickly and in a deep manner.
S. Let's say I find myself asking Him to stop the suffering. Does that mean that I'm being wicked towards Him?
R. Stopping the suffering doesn't mean anything, maybe you're taking a means for yourself to advance by that; the main thing is for you to be connected to the goal and to ask to learn faster, even if you do not care how much pain you're going through.
27. S. (01:35:33) The fact that we have friends, each of us has friends in the world Kli and also his friends and his ten, does that help us develop the sensitivity that..?
R. Well of course it helps. Because you have few friends you relate to them with extra sensitivity compared to others, right? So it helps.
S. And without that we could not develop that sensitivity without there being…?
R. We are built in a way that we have sensitivity for each and everything on its own; according to our nature and height of the response etc.
28. S. (01:36:33) How do we train the degree of sensitivity towards friends that we are missing, is it possible if so to aim the light correctly or in order to aim the light from us towards humanity?
R. We need to learn to awaken a connection with all of humanity. I mean with all of the worldwide Bnei Baruch, in a way that my heart will be open for all, and that by connecting between us, we will have a greater Kli, a more sensitive Kli for reception; and this is how we will advance. To simply get a bit more into the general World Kli of ours, so that we really will be able to feel together in high sensitivity what's going on between us. There lies the Creator.
29. S. (01:38:22) Is everything allowed in order to progress forward in the work? For example, is it okay if I remind myself that I'm going to take all of the NRN, all the lights and that all my suffering in this world is temporary? I feel religious when I do this, what is the correct thing to do here?
R. It doesn't matter what you say, the question is are you ready for it? and when you say I want to feel the NRN and the lights in the vessels the restrictions, the shattering, the problems, these are very complicated things. We don't know how we will feel and how we will be able to go through that? so let us focus on what we are being told: You want to reach the final correction, try to do it in your ten and you will see how much you have the strength to do it or not. You can ask for that or not. You can run away from that or you're willing to come closer? Do that, this is practical and it helps you advance much more and it is for each and everyone.
S. For now I focus on my friends but I do not think about the Creator or the lights, I just focus on the friends.
R. We want to come close to the friends, we want to be with them ‘as one man in one heart’ and in order to do that, we are turning to the Creator so he can help us and when we reach a connection with the friends this is considered; that from love of others, we can come close to the love of the Creator. This is the order.
30. S. (01:40:50) We are about to enter into a convention we are about to gather so how to take this force, this dryness, this lack of flavor and make it a fertile land?
R. Everything depends on us, to the extent that we want to use those desires we have. even the driest desires have no benefit at all, I could take all these desires and start processing them, making them softer, more flexible, making sand and soil out of them and then water them; they are saying that I could even use tears to do that, eventually from this land everything will grow, everything will grow. Everything only depends on my relation to how I will relate to these components of creation, myself, the soil, water and the people around me. so we have nothing to worry about. We are in a very special situation; a transition from all the different states that used to be in history and all that happened in the past towards the last state of correction. That is why the most important thing for us is dissemination, dissemination of the method of correction as broad as we can. It doesn't matter how they understand it. The main thing is that they will have some connection somehow with someone and then we will be able to overcome all those problems, prevent all those problems that are otherwise coming to our earth.
S. Another simple question about corrections: I didn't understand what is the essence of correction well we drew the light, a state came upon all the creation, all of creation is not ready at all, those that can maybe understand a little, us, we are a very small part and we are also going through sufferings in the ten. So what do we do, we hasten times, do we advance the world forward, by what correction have we done? it is like it is clear that let's say one two quarrel in their scrutiny in the lessons it works but did we correct?
R. We are not supposed to correct anything. We ourselves cannot correct anything. All we can do is invite the upper light so that it will come and correct us; it is not that we correct ourselves, never. we can never correct ourselves on our own.
31. S. (01:44:48) The recognition that everything depends on us causes a deep and very heavy feeling of responsibility and from that I want to understand practically, we as the group of Bnei Baruch who constantly change; all of a sudden women join the study, all kinds of changes in the system that are constantly aiming us towards more connection between us, and there are always friends that get accustomed to these changes quickly and there are friends that really take these changes difficulty and feel like this group is not the same group and they're not willing to really agree with these changes, how can you relate to this process, who needs to nullify before who? How do we need to solve these conflicts correctly?
R. Whoever can’t and to the extent that he can’t annul himself, there are no rules here; at any given moment everyone should look for a place where they can annul themselves in order to connect with the others. That's all. There's nothing besides that.
32. S. (01:46:11) In relation to the sensitivity we talked about, it feels that actually the lack of sensitivity is a certain defense mechanism because we can't contain this clash as we feel this great suffering of humanity it's like we are disqualifying the Creator and we don't want to feel this suffering, so how can we really do this and open up the sensitivity and feel that the Creator is the good that does good?
R. Ask your friends and they will tell you what to do.
33. S. (01:47:12) About our incorporation in the whole system does this lead me to a sensation that it's harming me in relation to the friends, and this is the only thing we need to correct in the whole world?
R. Yes. Yes.
S. What needs to be the prayer so that there will be no self concern?
R. That it won’t be self concern. That's enough
34. S. (01:47:53) We need to feel everyone and everything, if we do this we will find ourselves in constant pain and suffering, does our happiness come from feeling the pain and suffering we feel, is that possible?
R. Our happiness is a result of our good actions when we could have overcome all the negative results that we had in the beginning of the action. That's it, to the extent that the beginning is difficult, to that extent the happiness is greater when we conclude.
35. S. (01:49:06) According to the degree of connection in the ten, like you said, the sensitivity to the whole group, we can move to the direction of the Creator and relate to all that's happening like a mother, from an attitude of love, and it won't evoke critique but rather a desire to ask for correction, meaning then it turns out that I feel the responsibility for the correction. Is such an attitude possible in changing, improving what's happening in the world? Where we will start to relate to everything as an opportunity to ask for the Creator to correct out of love for what's happening?
R. I'm asking you to make it a bit shorter because it's very difficult to hear such a long question and to maintain the intention, we have to do what we're talking about and then we will succeed.
36. S. (01:50:42) Early we already heard that you said that we are in an interesting period of time, in a transitional period of correction. So what do we as Bnei Baruch, maybe not do, but what is our role in this transition?
R. Our role is to connect between ourselves, and from the connection between us to connect to the Creator. and by that we will finish all the corrections that are still registered on the account of the humans. We should feel ourselves able to pay to cover all the corruptions that remained for humanity, and to bring everyone to the final correction. And we, in our desire, can want that, so let's please make an effort to desire that and the Creator will help us come to that.
S. So it seems that the next convention is super important?
R. Yes, yes.
37. S. (01:52:18) When we scrutinize deeply the judgments inside us that are unable to come out from self-love, then we'll be able to rise to the right deficiency and avoid future judgments?
R. Certainly.
38. S. (01:52:52) If I heard you correctly you said that in order to increase the sensitivity of ours, we need to go deeper into the world vessel, what does that mean, we're now working in the ten trying to connect in the ten?
R. Also in the ten there is greater and greater depth where we can connect between us, unite above all our disputes, our misunderstandings, all together when we don't pay attention to one another we need to understand that the connection actually needs to be the deepest possible amongst the members of the group, so much so that each and everyone understands and feels the other all the way, like that, in some way that of course it's now it just seems this way but, especially when we will do it this way, we will be a Kli that will be filled with the upper light.
S. And this should be first done in the ten and then in the world Kli?
R. For the time being in the ten, for the time being in the ten.