Morning Lesson May 2, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes so we are continuing as usual with everything that happened to us during the times of congress and afterwards. Maybe it's a new level, a new platform but we need to continue and we are continuing with the same study materials. This is how Rabash would also start following all of the events that happened yesterday, today we continue. It's not that it's as usual, of course there are new conditions in each and everyone of us, inside and between us and the material itself is new but we continue. That is, the framework remains the same framework. and therefore item 18: That is the whole of reality is incorporated in Ein Sof and it is extended existence from existence only the will to receive is new and it is extended existence from absence.
Reading Item 19 (01:33)
2. S. (10:57) What Baal HaSulam describes here is that everything in the root is as close to the branch but we know that giving isn’t always pleasant to the branch like he describes.
R. We will talk about that soon. Yes, very nice. Don't forget about that, we will talk about it.
3. S. (11:32 ) What's the meaning of existence from absence? There's nothing without a cause right?
R. It is extended from the Creator. The cause is the Creator. He causes all phenomena, everything is extended from Him, the straight things and the opposite things, you have no other source, but with respect to the person who receives there is a difference. If he receives it directly, meaning according to equivalence of form, or in the opposite form, the opposite manner when he doesn't have the equivalence of form with the giver but nevertheless it comes to him in the opposite manner. So this is what he says that this shame he gets from receiving from the wealthy man, the wealthy man doesn't send him that feeling deliberately but this feeling nevertheless accompanies the action itself. This is called indirectly and whether we want to or not the Creator made it so that we will feel it and we will feel shame so much so that we will work only due to the shame and later on the shame will become honor. When actually the feeling that accompanies giving or receiving, this feeling of shame or honor, is what pushes us to corrections.
S. You say that the sensation of shame seemingly is not in the Creator? So He created something that's not in Him, existence from absence?
R. There are many things to it. I don't want to cut it so easily, in a way that it comes from the Creator or doesn't come from the Creator. This is what he writes but we need to wrap it also in such a way that we will understand the origin of this whole thing. Soon, soon in a few more words and you will see it.
4. S. (14:07) Why the sensation of shame and not that I am obligated?
R. The feeling of shame is not that I am in debt. It’s a feeling that I am not equal. You can feel it as debt but it is inequality between the giver and the receiver. This gap in the states and degrees, in the stature, this is what invites for us the feeling of shame and it stems from the will to receive, from our ego that cannot tolerate lowness.
5. S. (14:51) We read now that every root doesn’t like to be in motion. There is no motion in the Creator so it's against our nature and hated by us? This is something that's also correct after we reach spirituality? After a Kabbalists reaches attainment?
R. All of these things remain also in spirituality however they take on a new characteristic.
S. That was precisely my question: how does that change?
R. Sir, you need to reach that and then feel it. I have nothing to say here. We don't speak about spiritual sensations because we don't have the ability to make them up from within.
S. That's clear, not the sensation but how does the attitude change?
R. The attitude or relation between what and what?
S. Like now I hate motion because of my root but a Kabbalist has a different attitude towards motion?
R. A Kabbalist doesn’t take into account motion or rest. He takes into account the giver, the one that he is connected with. That everything in him is done according to the feeling of the giver or more correctly the feeling of the greatness of the giver, this is what he wants to determine all of his actions, the greatness of the Creator, that's the most important.
6. S. (16:33) How can we…? What is the best way to prepare an an environment where we can all go through these states safely and together and very fast if possible
R. As much as we yearn for connection between us it is considered that we are learning to go through these differences, this gap, this mind field along the way, the Red Sea, it doesn't matter in which form it occurs before us and that this is how we feel it but all of these things we go through them only by overcoming the lack of connection. There is no more. You can throw away entirely all of these examples, you can also bring in the examples from the desert and the mountains and the Red Sea and other obstacles along the way, these are all forces that obstruct our connection.
We have to overcome them and this is how we attain all kinds of achievements and degrees and also we don't have to call them by different names that appear in the Torah but rather according to the degrees. We nevertheless need to mark them, denote them with some numbers or something, and this is why the wisdom of Kabbalah explains this to us according to our nature, the degrees of zero, one, two, three, four, the degrees of coarseness, the degrees of the screen and so on. Try to depict it in a way that is more concrete. That this is about numbers, the degrees in our will to receive in overcoming the will to receive with the screen and reflected light and according to that, the revelation of the Creator.
7. S. (19:30) It's written here that the pleasure one has from the gifts which continues to him from the giver, because of impatience does not continue to him from the Creator, isn’t it the opposite that the reception of the pleasure needs to come from the Creator? There's like some oppositeness here?
R. No, no, no. You should think, how could it be that something is not extended from the Creator? It is extended either directly or indirectly however everything comes from the Creator. We are only the receivers. So then we speak only about how do we receive? How do I detect whom I'm receiving from, in which way am I receiving, under which conditions, what is it I'm receiving but we are always the receivers. So you seemingly want to search for some other place besides the Creator from where we get something, from nowhere, only from Him.
8. S. (21:16) The Congress clarified just how important the renewal is and here it's talking about the principal renewal. How to do it in the ten?
R. Only by overcoming to a new connection, another connection, another connection, another connection. Out of that we will have new discernment, usually following a congress there is some sort of a decline because we can't constantly be in such tension. There is day and night and this is why we sometimes have or some of the friends are in a state of lack of forces, lack of spirit. There is no concentration the way it was in the Congress where everyone was drawn to it and so there was this atmosphere that helps everyone and after that there is a certain let down that is true. We also need to know how we advance through such actions. It's like with a wheel that we say that there is a turn forward but a part of the wheel seemingly goes back.
This is how we all in all turn so as it is written, yours is the day and yours is also the night. That the night also joins the day into a single day. The darkness is an inseparable state from the light. It is a part of the corrections and actually the corrections start from the darkness, from the evening, from the night and only after the night passes we absorb all of the deficiencies, the problems, the darkness that is in the night where we cannot understand, we cannot feel, then begins a desire to discover everything, to arrange everything and in this we already invite the reforming light and then the day begins. This is how we should also understand all of our times but because we exist in a great society and indeed in the Congress we saw what a great power there is to our whole, our entire connection the men and the women together.
Truly we are all in a good desire to advance so we can reach, we actually do reach a state where both the night and the day, all the times that we go through, they are all registered towards our advancement forward. In the same opportunity I would like to say that I received all kinds of appeals, how come I do not appear? I do not answer and I do not participate? So realize that this is for your own good because I can already see how much you are capable in being in that on your own and therefore I'm not allowed to get into it but rather to the extent that you are capable of managing everything, that you are capable of managing, advancing on your own then there is no room for me anymore, then I have to stand on the side while I am still with you. A day will come when I will no longer be physically with you so you should know and advance on your own without any problem, this is actually the nature of Creation.
9. S. (25:35) To bestow we can only by reception so how to receive correctly from the Creator in every state we can?
R. First of all, that from Him only good emerges and I receive these things in a way that is according to my qualities and if I am in identification, in equivalence of form I also receive it as good. To the extent that it is closer or further away then how it comes from the Creator but if I am in lack of equivalence of form, even in oppositeness of form then I feel in that the opposite, that it is bad and everything depends on the identification of my desires with the desires of the Creator and this is where the whole thing is. The Creator is a system that makes me feel things that are in favor or against according to the degree of my development, according to my ability to overcome according to states that I have to go through. It all comes from above and therefore I should always realize that whatever comes to me, it's good that comes to me in order to educate me and bring me closer to the Creator. That's to begin with, always. That is all Mercy, however what I feel, it could be the opposite and this only testifies to how much I need to correct myself. That my entire correction is until I feel good in the Creator's world in each and every state.
10. S. (27:55) What is there in the will to receive that can also feel unpleasant things from the Creator?
R. From the Creator we don't feel unpleasant things.
S. But the fact is we do feel unpleasant things, how can that be?
R. It can be because you feel that you're receiving them from the Creator maybe and you're full of complaints and in that you'll need to change your vessels of reception and then you'll receive what you get from the Creator, what you deserve and now you're getting the opposite, it's an inversion.
S. I get that just what is this addition that He created us in the will to receive that acan even feel unpleasant things?
R. Will to receive without equivalence of form feels bad things from the Creator.
S. So what does it mean that the innovation in creation is on the form of the desire to enjoy, he writes it in the beginning of the item?
R. Yes, I understand it so what is unclear here? The entire innovation in creation is the form of the will to enjoy so that the will to enjoy can take on all kinds of different forms, a will to receive a will to bestow with all kinds of intentions in order to receive, in order to bestow and we have to arrange these things such that we will always be with our face towards the Creator.