Morning Lesson December 11, 2021, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences from audio
Part 1:
Love for the Creator - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
Excerpt 1 (00:00 -01:41)
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, today we are going to start a really new topic, a special one the biggest one possible. There is no more important topic in the entire reality and in our work than the topic that is the love of the Creator. Why? Because by this we come to all our corrections, to the end of the correction, to the purpose of creation, to the purpose of our existence, to the purpose of our work, everything. We have to try to awaken our hearts with the love of the Creator. When we are understanding how to love the Creator is possible under the condition that we are drawn to the love of friends that we try out of the necessity to reach the love of the Creator we also understand that we have to develop the right kind of emotions of love of the Creator. This is why first we have to come to the friends and examine what can I do in order to develop such emotions in me to the friends, when usually we are indifferent to each other. This is why we forget about each other. We should time again remind each other of the commitment for our duty from above from the Creator to engage in love of friends but all in all this is in order to reach the love of the Creator. This is the peak of men's development. By this he reaches everything. Before him, the entire creation opens up. The person attains everything, he can feel everything, certainly rising above the degree of this world, the still, vegetative and animate to the speaking level. In the speaking level he elevates himself in relation to the Creator and there the degrees are called Sephirot, Partzufim, Olamot until he reaches complete love, absolute love, which is called the world of Ein Sof which means limitless. All the forces that appear inside the person and around him. He uses it all and incorporates everyone with the relation of love.
He learns what love is. This word is used when we are an infant and when we are grown up and in different relations which are completely not directed to the concept of love of the Creator as we know this. We have to open up and discover this concept, this term. To calibrate ourselves to a state where all our desires, all our thoughts, all our tendencies, everything is only organized, aimed and calibrated according to this term, this concept of love. By that we come to be similar to the Creator, to this concept we call Adam, a human that is completely resembling the Creator. There is a verse; 'all my bones will say it,’ meaning all our bones, all our internality will also be only aimed at the love of the Creator and this is certainly incorporating the love of the entire nature. What we now feel in the meantime instead of the Creator, the still, vegetative animate and the speaking. The main thing is that the Creator incorporates everything inside. This concept is not clear. It is not known to us even though we do speak about it a lot, we heard about it. It is a wonder but even our culture is completely talking about this. Singing songs most of the songs are about love, most of the books are about love or something the opposite to scrutinize love but what do we really understand and feel in this concept? This is completely unclear to us but no matter what around this concept is the whole reality built and also all our life. Especially in nature we can resemble it to a force that is inside within nature we can call this gravity. It is clear this word, right? This is what holds this gravitational force, this force contains an entire reality within it. This is how the love of the Creator is as well. It goes through the entire creation. All the world is holding up, organizing us, cooking us or being cooked more and more to understand this concept and to be ready to be incorporated in it and to include ourselves inside it in a way that we will be drawn, the entire universe coming from a single point. From the Big Bang spreading and so it is with us we will see the result of our work when everything goes back again to the same single source in the Creator and everybody goes into him and seemingly dissolves there in him. We will talk about these things both in corporeality and in spirituality but this is what is ahead of us. We just have to understand that the expansion and coming closer, the contraction are basically the same actions that all of us go through both in our development because the Creator as he opens everything up by this he gives us an opportunity, gives an opportunity to our selfish ego, to the force that is opposite to love to show itself and to develop and then we by our efforts wish to go back to the state where we all come as one man in one heart and to that extent we are incorporated into the Creator this is how we reach the final correction.
You can ask whatever you want. There are no limitations here. This topic is the biggest and the last of what we have been learning from the articles of Shamati. We will need to read all the articles of Shamati until the end, we just read about one-third of all the articles but this subject from now on when we want to see every article, every topic from the book of Shamati I also want to approach this to open it up in the light of love, in the light of our internal mental connection with the Creator. This is certainly going through the friends, inside the friends, inside the connection we attain connection with the Creator because otherwise this concept of the Creator cannot be attained. This is what I wanted to say so I'm happy to take as many questions as you want but according to the subject which is both new and the most inclusive. We exist from the need to reach the love of the Creator, we exist for this necessity to reach the love of the Creator and then there is the love of the Creator to us and then the love of men, the love of the ten, the love of the entire creation to the Creator. This is what we have to scrutinize more but, in the meantime, let's read this again.
Reading 1 again (12:36 - 13:58)
2. Rav: This means that we have to develop and always think about the force of love, to yearn to be needy of this force. Why don't I feel it? Why is it not awakening inside me? Why doesn't it fill me and then out of this I am looking for a way to develop the force of love and how to love in what way, in what manners and also what can I do? What to ask from the Creator, what to ask Him for, how can I have my friends help me reach the love of the Creator. We do not have the goal before us or any actions besides reaching that goal. Here there are many things that we can see from the shapes of love in this world, how a person loves another wants to show all the best to him when he loves him. He wants to see only good things in the other and if he does not see it means that he has to correct himself so he would see only good things in the ones he loves and to come closer to him, to reach a state where everything evil that he sees in the Creator in his behavior in the life of the person becomes good and certainly what he sees are only signs that in these places he has to correct himself until he reaches complete, absolute love, as the verse goes, ‘with all you might, with all your heart, with all your soul.’ We have a place here to make calculations and to be always in these exercises all the time 24 hours.
3. S. (16:30) What actions should we do in order to accelerate the love of the Creator?
Rav: We have to increase our sensitivity, self-sensitivity for this and thought we have to think about the relation when one loves the other to what extent he suppresses the negative emotions inside him, how much he wants to develop only positive emotions, how much he understands that what he has about the friend comes to him from his ego and this is why even though the concept of true love, the Creator is concealed from him, he aims to correct this concealment meaning to discover out of the Broken Vessels meaning out of the negative relations for himself to positive ones. If his goal, his purpose, is to reach the love of the Creator then anything that he tries to do on the path they give him a blessing with the Creator's help and by this the person can progress. Only from love of the created beings to the love of the Creator. This line has to be always before us as the line of light on the one hand, on the other hand we have to understand that on our behalf this is how it is but on behalf of the Creator it is certainly the entire creation comes out of love, like a mother giving birth and taking care of anybody who is born this is how we are taking care of the Creator, we are under the care of the Creator you just do not feel it, we are feeling even opposite forms. We need to go into this entire creation and to see it truly as everything that fulfills the entire universe is love. I can compare this to, I already said it, I compare it to gravitation, and gravity existing everywhere and you cannot run away from it and it comes from the Creator because he wants to bring us closer to him and we need to know how to work with that. We will talk about this. There is one thing and it's opposite, there’s also the force of rejection, not only the force of attraction that brings us closer and what should we do with these forces that brings us closer to the Creator? But, to the extent that we are capable to a thing here and work on it, we will also feel that our force of connection is what does the work because we in the connection between us we connect our internal forces like a missile when there is so many forces in it what do they do, they tie them together, they bind them together and this is how this heavy missile can rise out of Earth and overcome gravity. This is how we too have to connect between us so there is a force between us so we can rise despite the gravity of Earth and to go out to space, to the place where our ego cannot affect us but only the force of love and bestowal, the desire to come closer to the Creator and we will feel all these phenomena on ourselves.
S. (21:52) Is the love between us and the friends the same love we have with the Creator?
Of course this is so the problem is that between the friends it is dressed into all kinds of relations between us and we do not have anything to accept it to recognize it so we have to first of all we have nothing to hold it so we have to exert in the love of friends first in the intention to leave the love of the Creator in such connections that these connections are eternal so in relation to the love of a friend's we also have to imagine that behind the friends is the Creator, that he is that goal the one who wakes us up and of course if we engage in this we are on our way to the love of the Creator. These things I understand that are so close to us it turns out that the tendency to the Creator goes through all kinds of degrees and religions and the belief systems but for the Kabbalists they do not have a tendency to love their tendency is to knowledge to connection in the intellect maybe in emotion but it is not the emotion of love so we have to develop the manner of love specifically. If we feel rejection from this it is a sign that you have a preparation for a higher degree to attain the love of the Creator so we don’t need to be ashamed of this or not content with this each one has the extent of his selfish ego and the manner in which he has to overcome this and specifically by overcoming the person builds his connection with the Creator it is impossible to reach such an extent of connection we call love if you do not go through all the stages that the correlate to it, against it.
4. S. (24:37) Permanent faith or connection with the Creator, is it asking to be connected to the Creator or connected to the ten as an embryo to care for it?
R. This also is correct, one of the manners of connection to the Creator, to address the Creator may be in this way.
5. S. (25:16) In the beginning before we have love, how should we act love and not be confused in this play with self-love?
R. We go according to the sources, read the lesson material, we try to go according to it again, twice a day and this will be enough for us, if you read it twice a day, there are so much material, there is in the Zohar there are complete articles in it, and then Baal HaSulam and Rabash also wrote about it but we have to go over and see how we progress, the only question is and I tell you out of my experience, that the concept of love rejects many people, in the form the person is, he has a selfish desire, selfish because I have a desire to receive that does not want to hear about it, cannot hear about it, what is love, what is love for, what is there, here give me something I can put my hands on, to feel something, but this love seems to as like something that is not serious that it doesn't have degrees, it's not something technical, it is only seemingly emotional, so here we have to understand and not forget, remember and do not forget this, the love of the Creator this is why I said it is when we learn about the force of gravity, that we have to simply jump on it like on a horse, and to try to be on one hand devoted to this force of love, on the other hand to govern this force of love in us, and then by this we start connecting ourselves to the Creator because in truth the relations between us and the mutual relation with the Creator is the force of mutual love.
6. S. (27:50) How is it more correct to see the connection with the Creator, when the group exist between me and the Creator, or when I exist between the Creator and the group?
R. It is both, we will talk about all these states but basically we sometimes see this and that, sometimes I am between, and sometime I am governed, sometimes I am in charge, sometimes I want to pass all of my responsibility to the group and just incorporate in it as Rabash writes about the society, on the one hand the person has to nullify his ego to the others, on the other hand he has to give to the others and the others to bestow to him, it is the whole network of connection between us in that, and this will reveal itself.
7. S. (29:02) How do we jump on this force of gravity like jumping on a board that goes with the waves up and down?
R. We will learn about it. You do not have to jump ahead, so please don't jump yet. Everything will be in its place.
8. S. (29:26) Baal HaSulam writes that the power of love comes automatically as pleasure and that pleasure, he writes gives us the feeling of love to the giver, so what are we supposed to feel in the ten that it will be the same?
R. I cannot pass this on because it's a matter of emotion, an internal tendency to bestow to the Creator, to feel that you are giving good to him, you are giving him pleasure from your actions. This is let's say for us in the meantime, this is the matter of love for us.
S. (30:25) We connect with the friends and what additional power do we need to the connection so we feel this?
R. We need a goal, you have to determine what is your goal of your connection, what are we connecting for to begin with, in order to reach connection to the Creator so that the quality of the connection becomes love, this is all.
9. S. (31:03) You said that the Creator created gravity so we can reach him, so how can we approach him through this gravity?
R. We are coming close to this, the big bang was even before us and we are drawn to the Creator and we have to only organize that state we are going through and arrange it, first of all there is none else besides him, he is drawing us to him, and he is the good that does good, his intention and his goal is good, and we are also wanting to reach the same, so this is why we reach a state there we have to incorporate in the love of the Creator, but we can only do this through equivalence of form and this is what we can attain through the love of others, when we want to reach such an internal connection between us, feel that warm relation to the friends starts to awaken in me and I really want to be connected to them and I really want to be like a mother to them, to embrace them to feel them, and a feel them close to me, and this way each and everybody acting and working in the ten, then every ten can come closer to the Creator. We have to feel the willingness to come closer to the Creator in the connection between us. This is how we come to from love of others to the love of the Creator.
10. S. (33:18) When I ride on this force and connect to it, is it that I am already in love?
R. You will see this, we have many degrees to love.
11. S. (33:39) If I do not want or don't understand why I need to love the Creator but I do understand that I have to love the friends can I progress this way?
R. Yes, but what for, we are developing and therefore we need to position before us place before us a real goal, and the real goal is to reach connection of all parts of reality to the source of reality which is the Creator, to a single concept and this one concept is the Creator “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one. Meaning anyone who goes straight to the Creator, Yashar El, that is Israel, we have to come to a state when we have only one force, we discover that there is only one force and we turn to him and towards him and we come to this work. We want to reveal this higher force, the creator, this is it. Whether we wanted or not, whether we understand and feel it or not, we have to imagine this state because necessarily as we develop which is also necessary development, we come into a state where we will discover that single force that is the one that operates on us, that operates us, that gathers us and brings us closer to him, until we attached to it and reveal it in this way, and come to the purpose of creation when we return to the same place from which everything exploded and then emerged because of the revelation of the ego in us in the big bang when the universe began to develop. We can see that it all comes back to the place, that same place and everything assembles and comes to a single place. No problem, you will see this.
12. S. (36:25) Why don't we love the Creator now?
R. Because we do not have the similarity of form, there are many things that we do not see in the world, we are discovering only what interests our tools of sensation and understanding, and the Creator is the force of giving love and connection and we have to bring ourselves to a state where we can be like him, to the extent of we are like him we start to discover him according to the law of equivalence of form.
13. S. (37:09) What brings one to love, only prayer?
R. Well, love, speaking with women about it is even easier because in a woman there is this internal need to be in love, man does not always have this and you can say man hardly ever have it, but for a woman yes so to women it is easier to understand the need for loving the Creator. We also have many appropriate examples for the woman, a baby, a child or even in older children also, although we are more than older children, subconsciously we still all look for love and do not understand it but we will discover that's precisely this is how it is.
14. S. (38:21) How to come back to the Creator out of love, not out of fear in each and every state?
R. We need to think about it and then try to develop this kind of approach, relation, try and then you will see this it is possible, we can see this in this world as well, it is coming from Lo Lishma, not for her sake, to come to Lishma, for her sake that I did not love but through habit it became a second nature. Then I see that I do like the other now and I start to appreciate people, for example slowly I got used to the other and then also I slowly reach love. People live together and it is not necessarily that they love each other to start with, for all kinds of reasons they connected to each other, of course they had no actual rejection to start with, but love is something you have to develop. Rabash would say that love is like a pet that you have to feed it every day, it is a pet the two of you bring home and that pet you constantly have to feed and you can only feed this pet with your thoughts when you think well about each other. then by this we feed this pet and then it grows along with you, this is what Rabash used to say. Maybe we understand maybe we do not, but love is something that comes between two people who nurture this between them, by seeing how the other goes towards me and how I can go towards the other and how much we can help each other, assist each other and how we can build between us a relationship, a home, have children, something that is common to us. But that main thing that is common is our feelings, that we build between us connections and in our connection this deep connection reaches love.
15. S. (41:07) What is the measure of the love of the Creator, what is the unit of measurement?
R. The whole ladder of degrees from here to the end of correction is measurement of the love of the person to the Creator, in every rung of the ladder it is the extent that our love reaches the love of the Creator, on that degree. Because this is the ladder from here to 100% because we contain within us 5 levels of coarseness and this way, we come to the 125 degrees until we rise on top of all the degrees of coarseness and they are all in this concept of love. It contains within it many general concepts that we will talk about, the Sages write about this, for example Maimonides and Baal HaSulam and Rabash, as well in the Zohar they write about it.
16. S. (42:39) When is our technical prayer for connection becoming love and what is missing to make it happen?
R. We need to talk about this among us. We need to awaken the need for the love of the Creator in the heart of the friends, and then this way we can gradually come closer to it until we come to a state where I do not need anything other than constantly feel this disposition to love the Creator. Because this world is a false world, I see through my ego and if I correct my ego then instead of these images, I will feel only the love of the Creator to the extent that I elevate my love for him with the reflected light.
17. S. (43:48) How can we make sure that the force of love is stronger than the gravity in the ten?
R. Why should it be this way, I do not understand, what does it have to do with gravity? Maybe they mean the force of rejection, I do not know what they say.
18. S. (44:05) How can we control the force of love?
R. We can control the force of love because we develop it, of course it comes to us from above from the Creator, but as a response, as a reaction for our request, for our desire to come to feel love, and only this way do we come to the power of love through prayer, and efforts. First of all in wanting to feel love among ourselves, to nurture the power of love between us and out of this we can understand how to relate to the Creator. In the same form that we relate to each other with, we want also to want to relate to the Creator, you cannot relate to the Creator more, differently from how you relate to the friends and the ten and also how we relate to humanity
19. S. (45:26) We say that we discover, attain the love of the Creator in the ten but if I feel love to all people around me, I feel the Creator in them, is that considered a love of the Creator through the people of the world?
R. This is also good but it does not mean that I progress and I am increasing my love to the Creator and I am going to enter spiritual degrees. This is just a simple thing, it is without the ability to progress in a way that the progress in three lines, right, left and middle, in all kinds of phenomena I have to discover through the degrees, it is a general relation, it exists in many people. To some extent it is also in many faith systems and methods, the tendency to love, the desire to love, the words of love you can find around any corner in the world, you can call it spirituality, we do not talk about this approach. We talk about how the elevate the power of love above ourselves, on top of the power of our selfish ego, then the build out of our desire to receive a relation of bestowal, love, on top of our ego, that on the top of the rejection as love will cover all transgressions, everything will be covered with love, this is our method. This is the method of this wisdom of Kabbalah, otherwise we're not using the desire to receive and that is the real substance of creation.
20. S. (47:37) You said that we are not in equivalence of form with the Creator so we do not love him now, so we only come to love the Creator when we enter the first degree of spirituality?
R. Of course, now what kind of love do we have to the Creator? There cannot be love for the Creator more than there is love for friends. From within that love of the friends we start to nurture the real and correct love to the Creator, if there is no connection between the two, from the love of people to the love of the Creator, then this love of the Creator is not correct, it is selfish and false and I do not understand or even feel it.
21. S. (48:53) Did we ever love the Creator?
R. Not yet, never, on our basis there was love, the Creator’s love to us when we came out of this, we did not come out of his love to us, but when we disconnected from Him, and we do not feel him anymore this is called being created beings, being outside of the love of the Creator. Now we have to with our own strength, climb up to that, approach to that love and then this way we come to a mutual love, this is called “I am for my beloved and my beloved for me.”
Excerpt 2 (49:59)
22. Rav Reads: (51:41) All our work in Torah and Mitzvot is just to emerge from the desire to receive for ourselves which closes us in itself, so we see only this world and only our egos. In other words we have to aim while engaging in Torah and Mitzvot with all our actions when we want to emerge from the state we are in and approach the real world, the Creator that our reward will be that by this we will be rewarded with emerging from the exile of the current state and the enslavement in the desire to receive for ourselves which controls us, which is called the Pharaoh. We will be able to work only in order to bring contentment to the Creator and this is the goal, how to emerge from our selfish ego, it is as if emerging from one enslavement to another enslavement, we can think about this way. We will not demand any other reward because the reward of wanting to give to the Creator with our heart and soul through working with Torah and Mitzvot we don't have any other reward, we want to be rewarded with feeling that when engaging in Torah and Mitzvot in everything we do when we want to perform any act of bestowal, which is called a Mitzvah. the operations correspondingly to receive the upper light correspondingly, then we are serving a great and important King and this will be a love of the Creator between us, from feeling his exaltedness. In other words basically all that we need is to feel the greatness and the exaltedness of the Creator, this will cover everything for us, it is how we are built. However all of our pleasure will come only from serving the Creator. This will be our reward and to the extent that he is great in our eyes, we can rise above our ego and serve him. Serving him, meaning to be in powers of bestowal from us to him and not that he will somehow give us a reward for the work, instead feel that the work itself is the reward, and there is no greater reward in the world than the privilege of serving the Creator. This is the greatest reward, from this we receive accordingly the plan of creation, the purpose of creation, we receive the greatest reward the pleasure, that as much as I give to the Creator this in fact is my fulfilment, what fulfills me.
23. S. (55:05) When we serve others we feel wholeness, is there a connection between serving others and love?
R. Any serving of another results from, is incorporated in love, this is why I did not understand the question, we have only one thing, it is very simple. We need to relate to the Creator with love with growing love, which is an expression in all kinds of operations, actions from us to him. This is our whole work. When we connect between us in the ten as much as we can, we connect and it is not simple as you know, because by himself a person thinks that he is capable of this. But here it is a matter of that it is not turning to the Creator, if you want to direct yourself to the Creator you have to take your relation through the ten, otherwise it is not aiming at the Creator, it is as if you are shooting the air without an aim, so this is what we need to do.
24. S. (57:39) Which comes first, the love of the Creator to the created beings or the love of the created being to the Creator?
R. Everything develops from the love of the Creator to the created beings, the whole descent of the worlds, Partzufim and Sephirot the way we feel ourselves, how we are born, how we exist, how as we come to development to the Creator comes from the lowest degree of the material of the matter. In this material, all the forms start to develop the still, vegetative, animal and finally the speaking and this is what we are learning and see now our work is that we are at a certain level at certain low level of mankind and we do not need to participate in the building of the material on the still, vegetative and animal levels. Instead now we have to develop in us from now on a relation to the Creator, which is called the speaking degree, the Adam, the human degree, which is similar to the Creator, that is all that is left for us and this is our work.
S. So before the person feels the love of the Creator towards himself, before the person feels the light in the vessel there is nothing to respond to, so I cannot love the Creator before I feel his love to me. If I feel his love to me then there is something I can respond to I have a reference point, but if not, I do not have it, so it is needed the Creator to love me so I can come to love him so everything depends on the Creator, nothing depends on me, this is why I am confused.
R. You are not very confused, this is all correct what you said that Creator wakes up in us all kinds of feelings in relation to the friends. We hate the others, we reject them, we do not want to accept anything from mankind. Everybody thinks that it is best to be left alone, why do I need these other created beings, and with the Creator I will get along with fine, I do not need anybody else. It is clear that everybody feels this way but if I want to really approach the concept of the creator to be in his place, to attach to him, this is called reaching his place, so I have to acquire qualities of his. This is why then I will be called Adam from the word, Domeh, similar to the creator, and this is our whole work, how to acquire qualities of bestowal, qualities of love and then dress in them towards others and towards the Creator to everybody. By this I become Adam, I become a man, who is similar to the Creator, this is our whole work and then of course I awaken only when the Creator wakes me up.
This is how we also come to the group and to the wisdom of Kabbalah that talks about how to achieve attachment to the Creator, to know Him is to love Him. Here we have been in this society for a long time, we have been learning and during the learning we also draw a relationship from the Creator to us which is called reforming light and then this is our work. There at one moment nevertheless, I get a wakeup call from the Creator where I want to love him to get closer to him and when does this come, when I try to be in the society in the ten a little more and a little more and I bring myself closer to them, to my friends in the ten and of course we do not love each other. We are acting out as it is customary in this Society of Bnei Baruch, we relate to each other but it is enough to draw upon us the reforming light, a general surrounding light, the general light of the Creator because we are doing what we can do. Because we are receiving this illumination from above, we come to a state where we understand more and more what it means to bestow, what is the need for the intention to bestow and we specifically with an attitude of bestowal can discover the real reality, the real universe, the real forces and the Creator who includes all of it, who incorporates everything and this is how we come to it.
S. How can we force the Creator to constantly wake us up, and serve us to wake us up?
R. First of all by understanding and accepting and reacting correctly to what you feel in your mind and heart, that it all comes from the Creator. So when you wake up in your relation to the Creator you have to understand that the Creator woke you up beforehand and he is the one who wakes up such feelings and thoughts in you.
25. S. (01:05:08) We feel we can talk about the subject forever. Is happiness a result where there is love or it is a vessel that helps us to develop love?
R. Happiness is not a vessel. It's a feeling that's revealed in a vessel, a vessel that is in bestowal.
26. S. (01:05:46) There is no happier state for a man when he's despaired of his forces, in the states where he cries to the Creator to help him, a lot of things happen in this point which are mentioned in this article in these excerpts, when he can justify the Creator that he is good and does good. Everything is done by the Creator and only the Creator can save him, is this actually a revelation from the Creator to the person of love of the Creator?
R. Of course, it all comes from the Creator, the question is to what extent does it come with our effort that is what's important.
27. S. (01:06:56) Can we say that love is enjoying reception?
R. No.
28. S. (01:07:13) Does love of others necessarily bring us closer to the love of the Creator?
R. No, it's on condition that you are directing love for the friends to begin with because you want to reach love for the Creator you want to achieve it otherwise it doesn't, that's the difference between the love between people and love between people we reach the love of the Creator.
29. S. (01:08:05) No Translation
R. We want to turn to the Creator. We understand he is the reason for everything that happens within us and with us up to this moment and what will happen in the future, and we want to turn to Him in order to participate in those stages that he takes us through. We want to feel and understand and participate in those operations and in this truly be His partners this is why we turn to Him.
S. If I may continue, if at a certain point I feel that for me it's not important I fall from this advancement and friends keep on praying, how I connect to them, how to overcome the state when I fell outside?
R. It's a problem on the other hand. It's a great correction that you feel this way, so try to join the friends by this you reveal, you expose another piece of your ego and you correct it. Very good, try, this is why it's called from the love of people to the love of the Creator. Because first we have to connect them in ourselves and likewise every time, it's not like this happens now with the friends, no, and in a month, it's immediate from us to the Creator, from us to the Creator.
30. S. (01:10:53) Yes, also both love our friends, should I love the friends that have bestowal and love because they bring me closer to the Creator and hate those that have ego and reception because they drive me further from the Creator?
R. No, I need to love everyone, we need to understand that in a society where we love each other in that society the Creator arranges all kinds of friends in all kinds of states and we have to accept this form correctly, this matter correctly, as this is how the Creator sets it up for us. It's not anyone's fault this is how he wants our ten which consists of all kinds of people with all kinds of levels of reaction, he wants us all to connect and together we will build a relation to the relation of love to Him. We need to relate to it, if you're related to all things that happen to you with understanding and connection it turns out that what happens is that those who are during those states those who are, let's call it those who are a little disconnected, a little resistant, they are too and they state bring family negative, opposing relation to your general pool, collective pool and it works correctly so don't worry about it, the important things is together.
31. S. (01:13:00) When we talked about the students of Rabbi Shimon, that love covers all the hatred, what did they do to attain that love?
R. They worked hard.
S. What did they do?
R. What did they do exactly like you.
S. What do you mean like me?
R. Like you means even though they don't want to connect and they had even greater resistance, they nevertheless worked on it to connect and pull themselves to the Creator. They prayed even more and connected even more.
S. What you have been teaching us for all these years, you said that if you want to discover love first hatred and then love. There is no love.
R. That is how it is revealed, left, right, left, right.
S. So how can we reach love without hatred?
R. You can’t, this is why it is written 'love will cover all the crimes', love can only come over the crimes.
S. Explain to me what should we do in the ten, love won’t be revealed if hatred is not revealed?
R. Of course, more and more so until, as it says, the students of Rabbi Shimon wanted to kill one another.
S. There is a paradox here. You say don’t engage in the left line.
R. We don’t deal with it, we want only love, then hatred is revealed.
S. If we want love then hatred will be revealed.
R. Yes, and you will have to reveal the coating over the hatred which is love.
S. It will come, we are not afraid it won’t?
R. The will to receive that the Creator established at the basis of creation, the will to receive has to be revealed entirely. This is why we all have to go through all kinds of states that are contradictory to connection, against love, against approaching one another in all kinds of ways. 125° very seriously to the point of hatred that you have no idea.
S. So if we uplift above and won’t run away only then there will be love?
R. Only on condition that we walk on two legs left and right, left, right, left, right, this is called love will cover all crimes on the left they are covered by love which is the right.
S. And that is true work, meaning if we won’t make love hatred will be revealed?
R. No, if hatred is not revealed then it's a sign that you are not working with love, this is why it is natural when people let's say a couple begins to argue, to quarrel and they can't overcome this because they're not taught how to overcome and that's the problem.
S. And such an argument comes….
R. We need to understand that it's a sign of progress and nearing.
S. We need a lot of forces for that.
R. Correct, the important thing is not to leave, not to divorce but to continue.
32. S. (01:16:50) A partnership gives some equality but doesn't raise the greatness of the Creator?
R. The greatness of the Creator appears specifically when we are in a gap and growing distance between us to the extent that the Sefirot are greater and more distant from each other then all together the concept of the Creator that appears through them is greater and more powerful.
33. S. (01:17:43) What's the difference between actions in bestowal or building an intention in bestowal?
R. The intention of bestowal we clarified together and in it there's all kinds of searches and scrutinies until we stabilize it and the action of bestowal is already after the intention when we want to activate the intention in the direction of the Creator. Within our intention it's like a reflected light there is restriction, screen and reflected light and we reveal the love of the Creator towards us which is direct light.
34. S. (01:18:47) Can we do bestowal with our own intention?
R. How can it be an option of bestowal if the intention is not through the ten to the Creator. I don't understand, also from the structure of the whole reality. How can you imagine such a thing? How do you even ask about it? Think carefully.
35. S. (01:19:38) Until we reach love we act in love. How can we reach a state that is acting that makes people nervous and reject?
R. Is the result of working on connection and love that it repels you, it is good, it indicates that you are doing it against your will to receive, you are on the path, nothing more to it, just keep going. The main thing is not to stop because the moment you stop you go out of all your attitude to the Creator and the goal of the creation and you don't even feel that you could be continuing to do all kinds of activities between you, but it's completely not in the goal, so be careful of that.
36. S. (01:20:36) The environment influences us, so should I always awaken them or should I wait for their development?
R. Don't wait for anything but treat it gently with love, what can I do to help the group make another step forward so that I will be both for them forward towards the group and backwards, meaning I am attracting them and I'm also pushing them so each one should be pushing the group towards adhesion with the Creator.
37. S. (01:21:50) We're speaking a lot about love towards the Creator, love towards the friends, but only a bit of love between a man and a woman. Can we use the rules of Rabash Social Writings towards how to build such relationships?
R. Of course, we can learn from the Kabbalists' descriptions of relationship to how it applies between men and women, but here there is also a matter of rejection and attraction on the level of this world, and that's why we're not talking about it. But certainly if you were to try to relate correctly to your friends that are of the same sex, and you try to relate to them correctly, then you also will learn how to treat your spouse in the right way because what we're learning is ultimately the correct balance of relationship between two different forms of ego. So you can actually learn from that to the extent of all the other examples, and also how to look at animals and plants and all other phenomena of nature, and you see how it all changes for you. You become more patient, knowledgeable, accepting of everything and not hating because you realize that the attitude to everything needs to be love.
38. S. (01:23:59) Everything is the Creator. I love the Creator because I acknowledge that everything came from Him or because I annul and disappear before him?
R. This is your own thing, how do you love Him or why do you love Him. We're talking about building the right relationships, so leave what you're thinking about, listen to what we are talking about and try to build the kind of relationships that we're talking about. When you put that together then you can go back to what you had before and compare. Otherwise you’ll be confused.
39. S. (01:24:51) What's stopping a person the most from attaining the love of the Creator?
R. His pride, that's it.
40. S. (01:25:09) Rabash writes in a second excerpt that our reward isn't getting the compensation from the Creator but to be able to serve Him? What is that reward?
R. The reward that I receive from trying to work on love of friends, love of the Creator is that I receive a distancing, and on top of that I can make more and more steps forward, towards connection with the friends and the Creator, even though both the Creator and the friends seem far away.
S. So the reward is the distance we get?
R. Of course, yes, being successful in exercises and actions and taking on more difficult and complex work each time, that indicates that I am rising. One who is greater than his friends his inclination is greater, meaning that he has more difficult, higher degrees that he needs to climb to against his ego. And in favor of connection on top of all the disturbances, that's how we advance. This means we’re building within us Adam, similar to the Creator.
S. In the hands of the Creator that rejects, how to reveal love there, to feel it?
R. You have to change your attitude and then you will see that He's not hurting you, hitting you, He wants to envelop you, embrace you. It all depends on your attitude. Correct your attitude and you will see how it will be, because you will be seeing the Creator through your reflected light. You build him, come and see, it all depends on your attitude.
S. My reflected light is the way I want to hug friends and hug the Creator?
R. Let’s say so.
41. S. (01:28:18) How is the love to the Creator expressed?
R. In that I want to do everything for Him, that I feel as if I bring Him contentment, pleasant things, and that's what I want to do. That's it. In order to bring Him contentment.
42. S. (01:28:57) What do we discover when we find His love toward us, what do we feel?
R. You're then in equivalence of form with Him. This has called me for my beloved and my beloved is for me, and by that we come to connection, which is coming closer, embracing, kissing and coupling, that are such degrees of integration, incorporation between man and the Creator.
43. S. (01:29:38) Is there a place to try and feel and believe the Creator loves me or loves the ten, should we engage in such thoughts?
R. Yes of course, love is a mutual feeling, me for my beloved and my beloved is for me. That through all the friends I want to pass to Him my relation to Him and advance love towards everyone and bring Him contentment in that. It’s like, look at our ten and how much it wants to do good to you, to bring you contentment, to please you. We want to be in order to bestow, how can we do good to you by connecting; to the point that we feel that in our connection you become revealed and you’re pleased by us. And that's called a coupling between the Creator and the created being, everything is close to us.
44. S. (01:31:09) If I feel that the Creator is too good to me is that imagination or it's a real feeling, how to work with that in the ten?
R. Just continue until it becomes clearer and clearer and it doesn't leave me. And that's how I advance and that's how I even awaken the friends towards that.
45. S. (01:31:33) Can love of the Creator be felt as life, a force that I feel at the end of the morning lesson or is it only expressed in a ten’s meeting between the friends?
R. In everything, everywhere, at all times.
46. S. (01:31:52) A lot of times we feel love for our friends in the ten. Is it our scrutiny in the work that brought this or is it the Creator?
R. Certainly after each and every state we go through lies the Creator and we have to respond to Him in this way.
47. S. (01:32:15) What's hatred in our development? What does it build in us?
R. You can't discover one side without the other, the light excels from darkness. So if we want to discover love, on the other hand we also have to discover the hatred. That's why it says love covers all crimes. And if we discover attraction to each other, we can't call it love because there is no hate first. So then we still have to discover the hatred and on top of that build love, because we recognize how that needs to be done, how to connect these emotions and relationships so that all in all we’ll get love and we will feel in each and every detail of love the hate that also exists and lies within it and its basis. Because in our nature we are built from hatred, there is no such thing as love. The attraction that we feel is on the animate level just like it happens between animals, but we want to raise our biological connection, let's not call it animalistic, it's not nice to say that, and it's also like we disrespect animals. Because for them that's a beautiful attitude, a relationship without any added calculation, just like it comes from nature, just like we see babies. For us however it's done in a horrible way, so we want to ask for some bonds of love, we find hatred because we have no love. Love means that you transcend your natural ego since we have nothing more than the evil inclination, and you want to build the opposite of it, the good inclination, that's work. And so people don't want to marry and they get divorced because there is no choice. Maybe they are together because there is no choice and it's better to keep the family, but really, we have to build these things, to learn these things and hopefully we will be able to understand all of this and start some circles, some social circles where we can explain what's the right relationship that should be between people and how to achieve it.
48. S. (01:35:40) To what extent can you reveal hatred in a ten that it won’t lower the ten, to use it correctly?
R. We always need to be in preparation and only then try to reveal the measure of hatred, of rejection, the true state that exists between us so that we can add that to ourselves, to our correction.
49. S. (01:36:14) How to change a rejection to closeness?
R. To begin with we awaken the rejection in order to become closer to each other above that, so all depends on the initial intention.
50. S. (01:36:30) What should we do when even when we’re making efforts and praying for love of friends only distance is revealed in the ten and no love?
R. Well at least we understand where we’re advancing or where we need to advance even though we are not advancing yet.
51. S. (01:36:52) What should I love in the friend?
R. What should I love in the friend? First of all, that with the friend I reach the Creator. The Creator put us together and wrote us down in the same group. There is no coincidence in reality. I have to accept each and every friend in a way that she's really a part of me, that if we are connecting all of our pieces, our ten parts into a single piece, in that way we come to the recognition of the Creator.
52. S. (01:37:52) If I don't feel the hatred yet, what efforts will help me reveal it?
R. We don't need to long for hatred, meaning to long for connection all the way towards love. And hatred will appear, if you advance correctly, hatred will certainly appear.
53. S. (01:38:14) Sometimes we feel that from the work in overcoming and efforts to connect the inner attitude changes towards the friends. Is that pleasure egoistic? How can we use this feeling to advance?
R. That's not important. Even if this pleasure is egoistic, and I'm using what we receive from our connection to enjoy, and it feels pleasant, that’s good, enjoy it. As long as you feel how the connection between you is good and respected and liked by the Creator.
54. S. (01:38:58) What's the desire we want from a ten acting in love? That the acting will turn to the feeling of love?
R. That we will feel how connected we are, and in our connection, we come to such a quality of connection, the essence of connection, by which we discover something, Boreh. We will discover how through the connection the Creator arrives. It's like you're trying to light a fire and it doesn't start off until it does. So we want this light to appear specifically through our connection, this fire. And it's called come and see Boreh, and specifically when we come together and from the friction between us, you remember how people used to discover the fire, right? From the line of fire, from rubbing things together, friction, rocks, wood, that's what we need to do until the friction between us brings that. Specifically because we are opposite to each other and it doesn't matter to me that I'm rubbing against the others and they rub against me, as long as we stay together. And so when we’re doing that, we certainly reveal the light, the fire, the Creator.
55. S. (01:40:59) What should we ask for the ten to help them to advance to the Creator?
R. Only connection between us, what else is missing? Nothing.
56. S. (01:41:20) What develops first, the feeling of love towards the Creator or the feeling of the Creator’s love towards us?
R. We have to try to advance in the connection between us until we discover between us the love of the Creator. That the love of the Creator exists, and it envelops us 100%. This is essentially all of reality, and all of this reality is hidden until we reveal between us that form of connection, that measure of connection that is correct to reveal the Creator.
57. S. (01:42:17) If I'm in two tens, does it hurt the love of friends? Does it hurt the work?
R. You can’t be in two tens, I would say it indicates that you’re not even in one. Just to be formally written in two tens, that’s not it. We're talking about achieving a state of devotion, so it's impossible. It's like in a family the husband tells his wife you know today I have a different wife and tomorrow I'm coming back to you. Maybe there are such relationships, I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's not spiritual love. In spiritual love there is no cessation of adhesion.
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58. S. (01:45:13) It's written here just like with love to a woman that you can't stop it. Meaning in life there is like a limited time that is based on hormones, then when she becomes your wife obviously there are some different sensations revealed, love, hate and so on.
R. Why do you say it happens naturally the love and hatred, the question then is?
S. In the relationships you say yourself, that also great hatred is revealed, and then love again. So the question is in an analogy: hatred like we find towards a woman has to be revealed towards friends, such intensity, and also towards the Creator in order to change it with love?
R. A lot more towards the friends and the Creator, yes. But then you already should be learning how to overcome that. It is like the exercises you're given in this life in order to achieve love, there is nothing more than exercises here.
S. In my family I have learned how to do it. Sometimes I'm scared by the hatred I feel, like I want to erase the person, but then it changes. How can we bestow upon one another because in a family the ego is pressing on one another all day, but here we're not really pressing, you are shaking us up in a lesson. How can I attain it?
R. Exercises must always take place, always. I always have to think about the ten and how do I come closer through the ten to the Creator. So hate or the love doesn't matter, in what way do we have to go through it. It doesn't belong at all to whether I love or not, is it pleasant or not, I don't know how to explain it to you. You understand, it doesn't belong to the beastly egoistic love that we have. People used to get married without even seeing the spouse at first. The bride would not see the bridegroom and vice-versa, the parents would decide and then they would bring them to the place where they do the ritual of getting married, and that's it, so what’s the question here? The fact that we are confused today with regards to love, you're measuring a woman let's say according to how long her legs are or her hair, it's completely unnatural, it's completely incorrect, you should be looking at how suitable she is, compatible she is for you in your corporeal life. You can't take someone as a partner that is completely different from something you're used to. In the Torah, the one who brings his woman first to his mother, his mother teaches her what her son loves, and then this woman can get married with her son because she knows how to behave with him at home. There are many things with regards to that today after so many corruptions, but no worries, that's how it should be.
S. I'm married. Everything is OK with love and hate. The question is that's the only example where I build a relationship with a complete stranger, and then there’s all kinds of intricacies with the love. Is that similar to states with the friends?
R. Yes. The question is only do you and your wife let's say, or you and your friend instead of your wife, do you know that the main thing is concession? This is called' love covers all crimes'. Love is not that I love her with this hormonal kind of love, it means I understand that this creature that is next to me, when I connect to him or her, I come to the purpose of creation. And that's why I make a concession over all kinds of things between us and all kind of things in me, in order to achieve the connection called love. That's the main thing.
S. In the ten it feels sometimes we are strangers, but even if a wrong word comes in between us, suddenly there is a conflict that is revealed. Should we scrutinize it afterwards?
R. These are already problems we can't discuss. They are taking us to a different direction. We are talking here only about the essence of love without going out of it, and back to it. You understand all of life revolves around it but we cannot try to discuss all of that. If you want to write down those things, collect them and then we can do a scrutiny on this along with the sources. I'm asking you to give us questions not based on your life but to our point, from love of the created beings to love of the Creator.
59. S. (01:52:49) In the name of a different friend in which way can we work in the ten so that the Creator will change our thoughts and feelings from the intention of reception to the intention of love and bestowal? How can we strengthen that mutual feeling so we will influence every friend?
R. That from day to day we decide that the connection between us becomes stronger, more inner, cordial, and we try to raise ourselves internally to a higher level of concession and connection. And thus each and every one guards himself to see that he transcends himself, and that's the conclusion that we're talking about.
60. S. (01:54:09) My friend wants to know if reaching true love of the Creator means reaching total annulment?
R. It's not enough, the annulment. If you annul then you become an embryo, and afterwards you have to grow from small to bigger and this demands you to use your ego, your will to receive, in a way that you use your will to receive in a healthy, correct manner. And that's not only annulment, but it’s also using it and receiving it in order to bestow.
S. Do I have to annul myself before I can make concessions towards the 10?
R. Of course, that of course.
61. S. (01:55:27) From the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator, from the love of friends to the love of the Creator, we learn this a lot in the mind and it’s somehow perceived, but how do we really begin to do it in a way that we feel it in our heart and in our common work? All the time, in everything we do with the friends the Creator is always there. Why is it so difficult for this to dress into our feelings and our emotions?
R. Because it comes against our ego. I have to annul myself, I have to give up all kinds of things that are pleasant to me and instead of them to take what's pleasant for the friends. Who wants that? That's why it turns out that we are here speaking about work against our desire, and that desire is our entire essence, so how can we do this? That's why in the beginning we can do it a bit but afterwards we already need to turn to the Creator. That He will help us and give to us from His force that we will be able to acquire the force of bestowal, the intention to bestow, and by that reach Him.
62. S. (01:57:16) Does the upper world compare with the lower word, and if so, why?
R. Our world is the result of the upper world, obviously not one by one because our world is felt with our ego, and the upper world will be felt with the desire to bestow. That is why our world is entirely egoistic and from that we have to see what opposite world is.
S. So in any case the parallel here comes to show the connection between the Creator and the created being?
R. Yes of course. We're not learning anything but the forms of connection between the created beings and the Creator, and this way we are aimed and we’re advanced. Whether we want it or not, understand it or not, our entire life, our entire existence is only in order to scrutinize the connections between us and the Creator.