Morning Lesson June 20, 2022 Transcription
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Baal HaSulam. Shamati 184. The Difference between Faith and Intellect
1.Rav’s Introduction: It sounds so simple, it is not so simple. The difference between faith and intellect and in general, the relationship between faith and the intellect. What is faith, what is the intellect? We are talking about spiritual discernment here so first of all let us please read it once and then we will see.
Reading 184 (00:47) “The Difference Between Faith and Intellect”
2. R. (03:47) Yes, so let us read it again.
The difference between faith and the intellect. Again we are not talking about our mind or intellect. We are not talking about our faith but rather we are talking about spiritual discernment so let us see if we are related to this or not. The difference between faith and intellect, there's an advantage to faith because it affects the body more than the intellect, because it is closer to the body. Why is that? Faith is considered Malchut and the body is related to Malchut, hence it influences it.
The intellect, however, is attributed to the first nine as we learned it regarding the Partzufim; and hence cannot effectively operate on the body, on Malchut, on the person. Yes, there is an advantage to the intellect, that it is considered spiritual compared to faith. Nevertheless, it is the first nine which eventually build Malchut. This is why he says yet there is an advantage to the intellect that it is considered spiritual compared to faith which is the first nine relative to Malchut. This is how the intellect is like this relative to faith which is relative to the body.
There is a rule in spirituality, there is no absence in spirituality and each penny is accumulated to a great amount, but faith is considered corporeality, Malchut, which is considered separation. There is no adding up in corporeality and what is gone is gone. What happened in the past does not join the present and the future, and so faith is something that affects him during the act one hundred percent. The person truly understands and is willing and is devoted and so though faith in something affects him during the act one hundred percent more than the effect of the mind but it only works for time. Then after the time passes, the effects from above passes and it disappears from a person. The mind, the intellect, however, although it is affected by only 1%, still that percent remains constant and existing. Hence after 100 times it is added up to the same amount that faith could have affected him one time.
Nevertheless, when he works in faith one hundred times he will remain in the same state. But with the mind it will remain perpetually in him, it adds up. It is as we learned something with the intellect although we forget the Reshimot, the records remain in the brain, in the mind. This means that the more one learns knowledge accordingly, the more one develops, the development of the brain, of the mind. These are the first nine, with corporeal things, however, that are extended over time and place in the east will never come to the west, or the past hour into the present hour. But in spirituality everything can be simultaneous, in one place at one time and it all adds up. This doesn't quite work out and it's not so clear and there are statements and sentences here where we understand one part of the sentence and the other part we do not quite understand where it is happening. What can I do? Wait until these things will be more clear to us.
I recommend to people who bring us the articles, first of all to read them well. Is it clear to them and if it is clear then check, bring it to us and if it is not clear then check how much is possible to actually scrutinize it in such a great audience as we have in the morning lesson. I do not think that just choosing articles according to size is how it should be done. Okay? Nevertheless, let us read it again. So what do we have? The intellect and the emotion. Malchut and the first nine. The intellect of the mind is the first, the nine, the emotion is Malchut, faith Is Malchut and the intellect is the first nine. Let us see if we can nevertheless see if we can understand something here. Please read it slowly.
Reading again 184 (10:35) “The Difference Between Faith and Intellect”
3. R. (13:46) It is difficult to talk about the things that are written here because we are still not in that same spiritual picture that can also connect to these discernments. Well, nevertheless let us here at least some questions. Maybe see a few more definitions to see if we can make them more precise, okay.
4. S. (14:18) In the article can we say that faith is discerned as an act, that the mind is an impression from the act that we are doing?
R. Well you can say everything but the question is how much are we able to come closer to spiritual discernment. What is faith, the intellect? The intellect is the first nine and faith is Malchut. From here comes the result of what we have in faith of the intellect when they joined together into one spiritual discernment. So it turns out that faith constantly changes according to our discernment in a will to receive, how we work with it and the intellect is not so dependent on the will to receive. But nevertheless if we want to determine our perception, then they need to be related, connected, the faith as well as the intellect. That is it. This is how we advance and we come closer to understanding these concepts bit-by-bit.
5. S. (16:17) Yesterday when we went over the article we broke our heads. Can we say that the mind belongs to Reshimot, records?
R. The mind, the intellect of course pertains to their Reshimot, their records, and so we have to work with them also in order to advance. But the most important thing for us is how much we can advance Malchut, because to the extent that Malchut can join the first nine, to that extent we measure the level.
6. S. (17:20) Concerning faith and intellect, from which perspective are we looking from here… is this from the Creator's perspective in this article, because it looks like it's from another perspective not from our perspective.
R. Of course, this is written from the side of the person. How a person is impressed by faith in the intellect that he has, corporeally and spiritually. Again we need to understand also that this thing is not an article, as we know from the article written by Baal HaSulam or the others that it is a few pages. Here it is just a part of a conversation that was there. Yes, it says here, this is a city that Baal HaSulam loved very much and also Rabash. I was there almost every week with Rabash. We would go and we would sleep there in some abandoned house.
This is how it was also during the time of Baal HaSulam. Rabash was there with him and he heard these things so of course especially that this was spoken on Tu Bi Shvat, the 15th of the month of Shevat. Tu Bi Shvat is a holiday called the New Year of the Trees,when the trees begin their life, they are blossoming for that year, approximately in February. At that time they were in Tiberius and apparently this is what Baal HaSulam said. Probably next to the table, when they had wine and ate fruit as is customary on this day. Then he spoke and therefore to say about this, that this is an article, of course not. To say that it is written and in a consecutive and correct way as done when you want to explain things. No, it is not an article meant for explanation. Rather it was spoken in this way, maybe someone asked or spoke before this but what is written is only what Baal HaSulam said.
S. Normally we learn that faith is giving, bestowal, and here it is Malchut. So what is the message here? What does faith mean?
R. Malchut determines the degree of faith that character faith Malchut operates in the first nine. Everything is done in Malchut the will to receive, as much as it is able to perform a restriction over itself and have a screen and reflected light, as much as it is able to join the first nine it operates the first nine so everything the term depends on Malchut.
7. S. (21:33) Continuing your answer, how did it find the connection or sensation between the mind and faith?
R. We will have to work with our brain and also our heart. That is with the first nine and also with Malchut, we will have to work so that all the friends want to connect in the ten by this. This is how we work.
8. S (22:20) The connection between the mind and the intellect maybe will bring us to something additional? How dependent on it is that with some people it does occur to them and some others not?
R. The general vessel, which is a collection of all of our parts, is called Adam HaRishon. This general vessel that was broken so each one of his parts feels itself as disconnected from the others, that it exists only in its ego thinking only about itself, worrying only about itself and not realizing in concern for everyone. It cannot digest that it should be concerned for everyone because in the end this is its vessel. This is the state in which we are in right now. That is it.
Now each one in his small individual ego with his corrupted first nine this is how we exist until we begin to realize that we have to gather back again because indeed the true future state is that we will reach once again the same structure of Adam HaRishon and this is why when we became separated through the sin of the tree of knowledge as we call it, through the shattering of this vessel Adam HaRishon then by that we feel ourselves that each one is alone. Each one is unrelated to the other even though we have, we even have between us some competition and some pride. Each one has a certain ego towards the other but it is not that we feel that we need to be together, that it is worthwhile to be together, ect., and to connect so much so that we will have a single body.
Meaning a single desire and we will only be concerned about the common desire. This common desire, we try to somehow arrange it in the ten. Right? This is actually our work. Therefore, people are usually in competition with each other in ego and in pride, rejection, hatred, but we need to do the opposite actually. In the ten we need to care for connection for coming closer to actualizing something of the structure of Adam HaRishon. This is our work. We need to aspire to that. The whole of humanity needs to aspire to that but they do not have the same inclinations, the same drives, the same things. We also do not have them but we learn that if we want to attain the true form of our existence, if we want to discover the Creator then we can attain him only when we will advance, when we will reach a state where we will all connect.
We have no choice. Therefore all of the actions that are one against the other, every person who is in opposition to the other he activates his ego,his pressure, his power, his pride, he is truly against the process of creation and of course the deeds will not succeed. Eventually it will not succeed, and during our time when we are close to the end of correction, as Baal HaSulam writes that we are in the generation of the Messiah, the generation of the end of correction, the generation where there is an upper pressure from the Creator that is pulling us out of our ego into in order to bestow.
This is why it is called the Moshiach, in Hebrew Messiah, Moshech pulling us above the ego. Of course all of these actions where we operate,where we operate here and there, through the force of our might, the force of our ego, those will not succeed, they will not succeed. This is already done by human development. By powers that each one is stronger than the other and there is no room for wars anymore. there isn't. We need from everything that is happening right now and hopefully this will be the last war that is happening right now in humanity, if we will learn from it. There is no room for such relations between people because this is truly in contradiction to nature's course.
9. S. (28:41) What do you mean that this will be the last war. Till the end of correction we are going to have bigger and bigger wars, right?
R. These are not wars you are right but these are scrutinies for the correction and here these wars are scrutinies for the corruption.
S. What is the difference between them?
R. That in these forces that are happening right now there are few wars in many places in the world by this we are scrutinizing how much we and our ego cannot succeed that we need a different force that we'll fight and it will fight for connection and not control this is the difference between the wars that were until the last war the war of the Messiah as we call it in the war of the Messiah is for the force that is pulling us from Moshiach pulling us from pulling us out of the ego in order to bestow.
S. What wars will be from now on?
R. I hope that all of these wars with force will gradually disappear there will be many reasons but in the end they will gradually diminish disappear and there will only be scrutinies maybe yelling or small wars complex skirmishes maybe in which there will be scrutinies know how we reach the scrutiny and knowledge in which form can we come closer to the good correct future which will be according to the laws of nature this is what is important this is what is correct. What is correct? Correct means it will go along with the laws of nature and then nature will not contradict it so that the human society all in all will become congruent with the process by which nature is advancing.
S. One nation will fight another for what? What will the inner war be?
R. I think it will be an inner war not a physical one but rather only about the scrutinies so what is the truth? This is what it's like just between scientists that they also have struggles, conflicts between them of all kinds but these are clearly scrutinies in order to scrutinize the truth and this is what will happen. That is there is no end to the war saw until we truly reach the final congruence in this general vessel of Adam HaRishon where everyone connects so until we connect of course there is a lack of congruence between different parts different levels different manners and this is called wars but the scrutiny is will become scrutinies in order to reach the general unity.
S. You see in the near future that humanity will stop physical wars and go on to ideological wars?
R. Yes we will be more more clear that we are in wars not ideological wars but it will be more clear where where we exist and there will not be a big differences in terms of what we have to reach that for sure we need to reach a single nature a single sphere where we are all included Incorporated in that same sphere and in that we have to complete each other in different manners until this whole puzzle in this multidimensional space not three-dimensional multifaceted, multidimensional until it is possible that we completely come together and will become established.
S. Advanced degrees like with the students of Rabbi Shimon that out of hate they wanted to kill one another, won't come into expression manifestation just internally.
R. No, the fact that they have scrutinies as in such a state as the students of Rabbi Shimon that will also happen on high degrees certainly. The person needs to discover how much he is in opposition to others in his views but it is not that these views should bring us to a physical war where I kill the other one that does not agree with me. There were such events also between scientists but it is when and how you see. I think that in the future the opposition, the conflict, this status of being against will be a great one but it is not that it will be in order to kill the other one so that I will be just I might, by force but that I will be correct in the brain, by scrutiny and the measurement will be according to the Creator.
It turns out that there is an opposite direction here that I will have to help all of those that are against me so that together with them we can scrutinize the truth. It does not matter to us who has the truth so long as it is the truth because by this we all advanced, both those who were against and those who were in favor, those who are correct and those who are not correct always this is how we advance together to the Creator. So this is why there is no difference here between the one who is right and one who isn't but rather to begin with we realize that this is how the Creator is making us scrutiny by giving each one of us opposite views so that we will become incorporated and discover that the truth has to be above them above these opposing views.
11. S. (34:55) The result of this development as a result people will reach an understanding of a sensation of the same terms Baal HaSulam writes about?
R. Of course and more than that we have to reach the same degree as the Creator. As it is written, “return oh Israel to the Lord your God.” What is return o Israel? Those who wish to reach Yashar -Kel, Israel so they need to reach up to the Lord your God. meaning up to the Creator to reach his degree. This is actually the Creator's will with respect to the created beings and we all of us will certainly reach that.
S. How exactly will that occur in evolutionary terms? I mean humanity needs to cook and develop?
R. There is the manner of the pyramid here as he explains to us at the end of the introduction to the Book of Zohar and at a few other places, that there are those who reach it more with the intellect or those who reach add more with the emotion. There are those who are being helped where you participate and all kinds of different things in humanity but all in all we reach a stage where each one according to his vessels understands where we are, feels where we are living. Of course it is not that everyone will have the same degree of attainment of understanding a feeling.
Each one will have what is according to his vessels but if I according to my vessels feel that I'm completely similar to the Creator and I'm being filled,then by this I am satisfied besides the fact that we have a corporation among everyone it is like a sphere and the vessel of Adam HaRishon and then each one through his incorporation he attains everyone for all the generations and everything and so there is no problem in that. It is as it is written that the handmade saw as much as the Yashar Kel, the prophet saw. Which means that everyone from the smallest person and up to the greatest person in attainment, they will all be in the same attainment. This is why it is considered a sphere. That we all of us perceive the same degree of attainment and we in the tens gradually are beginning to come closer see that form.
S. I mean in the tens that is understood there are all those that I have gathered here we have some in the final level of desire we all want to attain the Creator but in the world there is such different developments of human beings there are those that appreciate knowledge, does that appreciate power, those that appreciate to imperialism. So I mean, what happens when people still haven't developed?
R. The upper light eventually arranges everyone, it arranges everyone. You will see how much it will come bit by bit it will reach incorporation and each and every one in this process fulfills his role and as it says' that the cast out will not be cast out from Him and everything reaches its root and the Creator eventually arranges these things. However, according to how much we are drawn to that perfect state, according to that, He takes us through a better path or a path that is not as good. But you will see how everything reaches complementation, completion. We need to get a bit more emotion towards it, a bit more of an intellect those then you will see that it all works out.
12. S. (40:56) According to this article influencing the faith of my friends so that there is an understanding of what is in reason?.
R.I don't know exactly what he is asking and what and on what level but of course what we are able to do that can actually do everything because we can be in a ten and an inclination be connected and each one completing the others we can through all of these others we can connect to the Creator and absorb, receive what is in the ten from the Creator individually through each one and it turns out that by this I am as a representative towards the Creator a representative of the ten so it turns out that I am in the middle between the Creator and the ten. Then there's really no limit to my ability to bestow to influence reality, the world because I and like a mini Adan HaRishon with respect to the Creator. I truly feel like his son. okay?
13. S. (42:48) Why in spirituality can everything be simultaneous? How can that be possible?
R. Because time is something that is relative and therefore there is no problem here that we exist above time, motion, and place. These are the axioms, the prioria axioms that we read about, we attain them. We cannot have time, motion, and place, in spirituality if we do not have the egoistic forms there, if the ego is not working there because time, motion and place are the results of the will to receive.
14. S. (43:53) He writes in the article rather faith discerned as corporeality which is called separation, we said that we are talking about spiritual terms, how is faith considered corporality?
R. Faith, no he does not mean corporeality as we do. He means faith which is the will to receive Malchut that we constantly have to work on it, to rise above it and to reach by this complete faith towards the Creator bestowal.
15. S. (44:37) What is the difference between work in prayer for us?
R. I think that prayer is the work the summary of all the efforts by a person in spirituality should be prayer because one understands that by himself he cannot achieve anything and what he wants to attain, he has whom to turn to the Creator so he accumulates all of these discernment and praise.
16. S. (45:19) When he works with faith a hundred times he will remain in the same state it writes and when he works with his mind it will remain in him always. How can we depict this in the ten?
R. Start working in the ten and then you will feel that what is happening between you is the first nine and this lives and exists and remains and what happens in each one that goes away.
17. S. (45:50) How could it be that a person has no remaining impression from the faith?
R. Because there's constantly an exchange replacement, constant replacement about this it is written that Malchut each and every day becomes a virgin. There is this rule that each and every day Malchut becomes a virgin which means that she has cleansed of what she had yesterday and once again she is ready for today's spiritual work.
18. S. (46:51) How to maintain the faith above reason even in 1%?
R. If you try to be between friends, to truly be in between them, to be immersed between them, connecting them, working with them, and being devoted to them, you will start to feel that you are truly above yourself. This is already the first step toward spirituality.
19. S. (47:26) How to change the source of the fuel from pleasure from listening to questions and answers to the intention to draw the light that reforms when we are learning and reading from his sources.
R. It is only through effort there is none as wise as the experienced one and so it will come but just keep going in this and persist in it.
20. S. (47:58) What you talked about before about the ten and the world it awakens many impressions because there is this feeling that this is happening before our eyes and I'm very curious about how it will happen in the world. To what extent, in our community we have to hurry up to ever come to come stronger and our connection because they're truly is an illumination and how much the light that we pass on change his reality and you want to accelerate this already and there is a feeling that this is actually possible this is how it is really? An illusion?
R. It is not an illusion or some exchange of reality but rather we are really in a very special state that humanity must scrutinize how to advance onwards and its direction towards correction by force or by connection above separation. Here there are scrutinies.
I cannot speak what I would like to speak because nonetheless, we are still in separation and all sorts of countries and governments and so we will wait and hope that soon we will be able to speak in a clear manner and then we can scrutinize everything. One thing is clear according to the wisdom of Kabbalah not just from today but a thousand years ago. That love covers all crimes. That we must not by force to convince and bring tomorrow until today but rather by all sorts of actions of connection. The connection can not be against the desires of the other. Rather there must be a process here of study to come to recognition, awareness, familiarity and then accordingly we can reach a stage that we can all be connected in a good connection. In the meantime we need to continue.
21. S. (51:04) I'm a bit lost. I would like you to clarify to us what faith is, really as in a clear manner, precise manner. Earlier you talked about it so what is faith?
R. Faith is called the upper force that reaches a person and feels him and ties him to the Creator. That is the force of bestowal, that fills the vessel of reception of man and then the person begins with us to come closer to the Creator. The force of Bina which is in the middle between Malchut and Keter. That is it.
S. In relation to the article we read it is not so clear here it says that faith is the quality of Malchut and the intellect is related to the first nine and so a question comes up out of that. we go through different states and the ten and then Kabbalists write we have to rise to faith above reason so what does it mean in relation to this article is it a certain hope?
R. That is called that we need to stand up, establish the force of connection of faith for a reason above what we know and feel. That we will flip. invert our forces, what is more important and what is less important. That is called I saw an opposite world. What was important to me before knowledge, power,reception, now what is important for me is bestowal love and connection. If I will invert these discernments, these values this instead of that. Then I will already begin to advance toward spirituality. The spiritual world is built upon the opposite qualities. Bestowal, love concession, and so on. All that is opposite from our present nature.
22. S. (54:24) Is he saying that intellect is the sum total of the spiritual discernment from our ten but none of those will help on our current state because each state has different so we must rely on faith which is the sum power over of intensity to resist the negative force says it's kind of what he is saying is it's the right approach? Thank you.
R. We do all sorts of actions in order for the upper fourth to operate on us but actually, e makes all see all the changes in us and also all the Reshimot records and on the records it illuminates up on the upper light and then turns the records into Sefirot, spiritual discernment and as such you begin to feel received the upper world. It begins to rise in attainment towards it. That is what occurs.
23. S. (55:53) Do I determine what is the intellect and one is faith?
R. It is in your structure that it already exists.
24. S. (56:09) The question is in relation to what you said before that this will be the last war. that humanity will no longer have to fight wars, you told us many times about the blow of hunger that is approaching.
R. These are wars that need to be as the wars of the Messiah yes, but it can be not in a corporeal manner but in a spiritual manner.
S. The question is you explained you told us that apparently it is going to be a blow of hunger when the pandemic started you said that this will be the direction then it seems far away it's time now during this war it seems to be approaching as Ukraine is the greatest source of wheat in the world and there may be a shortage so the question is if their inability to prevent this or is this a scrutiny that we will have to go through?
R. I do not talk about how to prevent things. I'm not some commentator from some newspaper and it is forbidden for me to talk about that. I just explained what are the processes according to the laws of nature and how much we can improve our state. If we couldn't improve then I also wouldn't speak because what is the benefit if there is a war ahead or not.
Rather on the condition that we can turn the bad into good that I speak about it. We will continue with the work according to what we have in our hands. We will continue to believe that it is actually the strongest means to bring the world to good and that is how it will be but really we live in the time that it will actively be revealed this entire package in the world and how it is all connected, closed. and how it is all incorporated in it, and in our incorporation in it and how we can influence the world. This we need to reveal shortly soon.
That is what is important and will soon add what we need to reveal. Our actions in each and every ten are truly acting upon all the large humanity and the spiritual corporeal worlds together that although we are small and only in the beginning of the ladder the bottom rungs, the bottom of the ladder we can specifically because we are in the last generation and standing upon the shoulders of all those who preceded us the great Kabbalists we can take part, participate in raising our world to the end of correction. That is like the baby that is born, he does not know by whom he was born. Maybe he is the son of a king or maybe some poor family, who knows. Maybe he was born in a bad state or a good state. He doesn't understand anything. That is how we are, we don't understand who we are, what we are, or know what we can arrange, but that is what is standing before us. We are the chosen ones and we must realize it.
S. Humanity can receive in her insides without paying the physical price if we do strong work between us they can get this inside internally without the external form without hunger all kinds of things?
R. Of course, yes.
25. S. (01:00:09) When we speak of space and multi-dimensional space that means that we influence all of the world with love?
R. Yes.
S. Sphere, a ball a wholeness
R. What is the question?
S. Can you tell us a bit about it?
R. We are not philosophers. I do not want to talk about things we are not in.
26. S. (01:01:20) On the one hand you said in the beginning of the lesson you said about this article that they chose it but it is not really suitable, but on the other hand, you read it a few times and explained it, I realize that this article changes your attitude because the world is something that we can I perceive with our hands, with our legs and it influences us in a good way so I think the article influences us.
R. Each and every article we read influences us but it influences us in a way that we do not understand. It is like you tell something to a little kid, like you open your mouth and he looks at your mouth and that is how it is and there are things that already enter the ears and the mind and the heart, there is some like this and like that but all Incorporated and it enters in a bit and that is how we advance. This article I will say again it's not an article, it is the list of things that BaalHa Sulam said in a manner that is how they heard it from him, during the meal I guess. That is why I look this way. All right we will continue. Nonetheless, everything completes the other all will be clear.