Morning Lesson September 09, 2021, Transcription
Part 1:
Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #11
Rav begins at 8:47 - 11:15 (see preparation before the lesson)
It is written He is one and His name one, He is the Creator and his name is the vessel so they have vessel and what fills the vessel have to be as one. In other words, in the end, the group shouldn't be less great and important than the group and the Creator. The Creator's importance can only be as big as the group's importance. How do we maintain it constantly in this way, elevate the group and the Creator in such a way that they are together He is one and his name one. He, being the filling, the Creator and his name being the vessel which interprets, which explains to us who the Creator is. This is how I have to relate to the vessel to the group to our big group. That the greater it is in my eyes and the more I can distinguish and make all the discernments in it, by this I will build the Creator through the vessel, through our relationships where on the one hand we are all very different and we have yet to discover just how extremely different we are completely opposite from each other. We nevertheless connect to each other. By this we attain the concept of the one this one that we attain, corresponds to the separation between us so we're not afraid when we are growing apart and growing separated and there is a bigger will to receive between us but this actually helps us when we connect above it. Then we attain the Creator more powerfully, so don’t give up. Just understand that the group and the Creator must be for us of the same importance. It is called he is one and his name one this is how we attain.
1. Rav’s Introduction:
I don't know what else to add because really faith above reason is the main topic in attaining the Creator and opening the eyes and the actual reality when you see both worlds. Our world which appears within us, which is seen within us, in our will to receive and the upper spiritual world which is going to open up to us in our desire to bestow. Those two desires the will to receive and the will to bestow how they support one another, the upper force above them which governs us both through the will to receive and the will to bestow, and we need only to try to, very patiently, through all kinds of states that were going through, approach from all kinds of angles, approach the matter of faith above reason. and to try to understand it and to feel it, to turn ourselves according to it. How against it we are, how we are for it so that this concept becomes more and more regular, clear, near. While we also know that it will be the opposite, you can't have day without day and night without day they alternate and that's how we advance but this is the only way to opening the senses to the upper world where the upper force is present, the force of bestowal and we must only patiently approach it. The way can be long even today but we already have a big group, the material is ready, and only persistence in attaining it, and hearing and clinging to this material formatting ourselves according to what is written.
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2. R. In other words, all a person can seemingly explain to himself what is happening with him and it seems to him that he understands and he is right 100% he should put it aside and ask and wait and demand until he gets an answer from above for his situation.
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3. S. (07:45) What does it mean that the Creator will answer my state, my questions?
R. The Creator's answer can be all kinds of ways but in truth it brings a person to feel what is this discernment of bestowal meaning a force that operates on the spiritual level. It's not a force that operates on the corporeal level, on the corporeal level the intellect works, our feeling, our reason and in it we feel we understand we can discuss, we can perceive, we can remember things. The intellect, the feeling, the memory, the intellect and memory they all operate on our level where we were born and rising from our level to the level of the Creator to the spiritual level. There, is the quality of bestowal that governs, we want it but we can't. What I ask of the Creator is for Him to give me the ability to rise above the feeling, the intellect and the reason the logic, above my memory, and in this way, I approach the power of bestowal, so it will be instead of the power of reception. It is a different lifestyle and feeling of thinking and attitude that is completely different to reality and we don't know it. It is called faith above reason, the force of Bina, the force of the Creator to clothe in us and accordingly we will work and until it happens, we don't really know what it is. We do all kinds of activities in the group by ourselves perhaps as if we are in the force of bestowal but it was only in order to exercise it and practice it like little kids who are playing games and not something real yet.
S. Sometimes the states confuse you, you don't know how to ask the Creator like a dog looking at life, what does it mean that He answered that state?
R. I ask the Creator to give me the feeling and understanding. I have two things, understanding and feeling, intellect and feeling so I will be able to perform some operations that don't follow my ego, don't follow my nature but according to the nature of the upper one, not according to the power of reception that is in me. And then I constantly think about how I can satisfy my will to receive but rather, how I can imagine myself as if I am in the quality of Bina, I rose from Malchut to Bina and I am in the will to bestow. Then in this desire to bestow I operate towards the friends towards the world and towards all of reality and through it of course to the Creator as the Creator is everything, He includes them and therefore from the love of people to the love of the Creator.
S. You said He answers?
R. The fact that the Creator gives me such thoughts is already salvation. it is already some emergence from this world to the spiritual world, from the corporeal level to the spiritual level, because I already have some belonging to it, I'm not there yet but I'm on the way. Then I have to be thankful for it and look for how, through what means I can be drawn more and more to the level of Bina, to the level of faith, to the level of bestowal. What does it mean to be in bestowal to swap our nature with the spiritual nature? We can't even imagine it instead of the basis for all of our calculations being the will to receive, all of our calculations will be only through the desire to bestow. Meaning I have to feel the other and myself as an instrument for satisfying the other for filling the other and doing this to all the still, vegetative animate and speaking and come to it. This is called the correction of creation. The Creator created deliberately for us the evil inclination, our ego so that from it will be able to come to his nature.
4. S. (14:03) What is the meaning of working in the 10 within reason and asking to transition from work within reason to work above reason always in the ten?
R. In order to work above reason I have to appreciate each friend and all of them together more than myself, that they are more important than I and all my work is only to serve them as opposed to how I always thought that they came to serve me and this is really the work in the group. That each friend in the group should be as great as the greatest in the generation in my eyes, the greatest and then because I relate to them in this way, I begin to understand and to feel to establish before me the image of the Creator because behind all of the friends stands the Creator. If I relate to the friends in this way, in this way I begin to attain the concept of the Creator because connecting the images of the friends that in this way they form for me the image of the Creator as standing behind them and establishing them. Then by establishing myself, positioning myself in love toward them, I begin to discover what it means, what the concept of the Creator means. This to us is the direction to attaining the Creator for feeling Him understanding Him, only in this way. We have no instruments to attain the Creator except through this Divinity and the Divinity is relationships of bestowal between us in the group.
5. S. (17:19) I have such a contradiction and inner conflict. To give an example, that when we come to the wisdom of Kabbalah we don't need to believe, we need to check to such an extent that we can go through all kinds of other methods and look there, but don't ever believe me now or saying that faith, the term of faith in its place. Is there a difference between blind faith and faith above reason, and how do you check it?
R. The word 'faith' normally for us, in this world on earth, means that there is no knowledge, no proof, fact. But rather, when I don't have it, I replace it with the concept of faith, I believe that this is so. The minute I have the possibility to swap faith with knowledge, I do it. This is called the right existence of a person on this level, on the egoistic level, where we live and exist only through the power of knowledge. We measure, weigh, everything according to our will to receive, but if I want to rise to the level of Bina, where the desire to bestow governs, this is called the degree of the Creator. Because I want to achieve it, because the Creator is called Boreh (come and see), so how do I come to that degree and then I see? How do I come and finally see? That can happen only by acquiring the power of bestowal. Therefore, the whole of the wisdom of Kabbalah talks about this. I can acquire the force of bestowal only on one condition, that I in my situation perform all kinds of actions that will help me come to the power of bestowal.
To attain the power of bestowal, I nevertheless can't, because the power of bestowal is the power of Bina, the power of the Creator. Therefore, when I perform all kinds of actions, by this I seemingly pray that the Creator will give me according to our efforts from below, which are called raising MAN, a prayer, so He will give me the power of bestowal from above which is His quality, His nature, the nature of bestowal. Where we are, this is called ‘the forty years in the desert’, when we don't know where we are and we have nothing good, we are eating sand, truly. But we have to go through these forty years, this is called the distance between Malchut and Bina, then we finally acquire the qualities of Bina. The qualities of Bina are already called the ‘land of Israel’ (Eretz Yisrael). Eretz (land) is called Ratzon (desire), and Israel means Yashar-El (straight to the Creator). So, it’s a desire directed straight to the Creator and there, I already feel that I'm in Him. I’m entering Him, an area where the power of bestowal, the upper force, governs the eternal complete world. But it all comes to me after I assume or I accept the method of correction and I follow it, I observe it until I reach the quality of Bina which is called ‘the forty years in the desert’, from Mount Sinai to the entry of the land of Israel. That's the difference between Bina and Malchut. So, this is how we have to exist now.
Everything we are going through now, although we are going with faith above reason, there is no faith here in the sense that we are used to in this world. Faith means bestowal, we have to go with the force of bestowal as opposed to the force of reception, which is in us initially, inherently, and advance in this way. Another step, and another step, and another step, and each day, we almost have to start over from the beginning. It could be even worse than before, and this is how we advance. So, the most important is to renew each day our ascent so that faith is above reason, so we want to acquire the power of bestowal above the power of reception. We don't erase our power of reception. On the contrary, it constantly grows and on top of it we cover it with the power of bestowal. This is why the more our power of reception grows, above it we cover it with this crust, with the power of bestowal. This is how we grow until we come to Bina by developing Malchut completely, and all of our desires to receive, and we know how to cover it with the power of bestowal. Because the power of bestowal doesn't have any size or anything because it covers the power of reception which is called ‘love will cover all crimes’, and many crimes that exist in Malchut are revealed. Yet, we cover them with bestowal and in this way, we elevate the Creator on top of all of the qualities of the will to receive. In this way, we can attain the spiritual world truthfully, live in it, control it and truly be on the level of the Creator. Afterwards, we have another ascent from Bina to Keter. But we will talk about it later, not before we attained the degree of Bina.
S. As far as I understand, all our problems are revealed because we come to study the wisdom of Kabbalah while understanding concepts as we do in this world? We understand faith as it is in this world, that's how we approach the study and that’s why we have difficulties? So maybe we should emphasize, we should do the conceptualization of it?
R. I'll tell you. The thing is that, to begin with, all the terminology, the definitions, the discernments, they all came initially from the wisdom Kabbalah because there was nothing else. We are talking about what happened five thousand years ago with Adam HaRishon or thirty-eight hundred years ago with Abraham in Babylon. There were no religions, there was nothing in humanity. What was, was the wisdom of Kabbalah. But when that group began to merge and mingle in Egypt, in Israel and throughout the Middle East, people started to see that there is something here that they didn’t understand, but they began to take from it signs of culture, education, and all kinds of customs at home and in society in those times, in those primitive ancient states. So, they started twisting it the way they understood, in their direction, and seemingly translate these concepts of the wisdom of Kabbalah to the will to receive that was operating in them. From this, we got all the belief systems and religions, and insights that already existed to this day. Speak to any religious person, even Jews in Israel, not Kabbalists, you will see that they think that way too. What is Faith? I believe, etc. What are Mitzvot (commandments)? When I do something with my hands and with my mouth. That's what they think.
Because people couldn't stand at the spiritual level previously, they couldn't understand down here already, so they fell. This is why they conveyed, they passed on the wisdom of Kabbalah to whoever wanted it, to whoever understood it in this way. There was a huge struggle whether or not to build the temple. Kabbalists said ‘we don't need anything, we don’t need it, we need to build everything inside in our hearts’. At the same time, there are all kinds of groups that opposed them and Kabbalists agreed that there was no choice, there was a decline of the generations. The generation is already not the same generation that came out of Babylon. Therefore, you have to give them something, through it maybe we could bring them closer bit by bit. But you see, it didn't work out. Now we are in a situation that the world might nevertheless understand that it is going into a dead end. This is why we have to implement the spiritual approach only without any connection to any culture, education that is mundane, worldly, without any practices, without anything. But keep everything only spiritual so we will understand and clarify to everyone and explain to everyone. By this, we will actually draw reforming light and it will fix everything. It's not like we have to start explaining it to all of humanity. But these concepts of faith, they all come from the wisdom of Kabbalah. The books, the first book we have from Adam HaRishon and then from Abraham time onward, all of them talk only about spiritual discernments without any connection to physical actions in this world. Also, the definitions of faith and religion and all that, it is all desire to receive, desire to bestow, and how we elevate ourselves from the level of the will to receive which appears to us here little bit in this world and to the will to bestow which is completely concealed from us. Gradually, what can you do? We will continue. We’ve been together twenty years, we'll keep going.
6. S. (31:48) In the process of going from below upwards, we go through Zeir Anpin to Bina. Why does Malchut go directly to Bina?
R. No, without going through Malchut through Zeir Anpin and acquiring the forms of Bina, one by one. Zeir Anpin connects and installs all the qualities of Bina into the will to receive more and more and more. Rav drawing. We have Bina, which is complete bestowal. This light goes down and builds the degree of Zeir Anpin and after that it creates the level of Malchut. What does Zeir Anpin mean? The light of Bina, the light, the force of bestowal. Gradually the force of reception begins to form in it and that's why Zeir Anpin consists of Hesed, Gevura, etc., through Yesod. Gradually the light forms through the force of Bina and dresses in desires to receive, coarser and more crass until it comes to Malchut. We’ve got Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut. When Malchut climbs to Bina it seemingly dresses in all of those Sefirot of Zeir Anpin but in the opposite way until it comes to Bina. There has to be six Sefirot here as well. That's it.
S. What is the quality of Zeir Anpin?
R. Zeir Anpin is called small face in Aramaic. Anpin is face in Aramaic, and Zeir means small. Small face. Face, Anpin, is light and Zeir is small. The light from Keter through Bina comes and gradually quenches in Zeir Anpin until finally the light that comes to the Malchut is very, very small, only enough to sustain Malchut. It has to rise through Zeir Anpin more and more to attain more and receive more lights until it reaches the degree of bestowal, the degree of Bina. Hochma is called big face. Face, meaning light, big light and Zeir Anpin is called small light.
7. S. (38:22) How do I learn more from my ten by using faith above reason?
R. When you relate to the ten in faith above reason, you are starting to assemble the ten as a spiritual vessel because you want everyone to be connected in bestowal. You are giving them an example, you're working in it. By working in faith above reason you are placing the desire to bestow, called faith above reason, above the force of reception. Bina above Malchut, bestowal above reception. You arrange the ten correctly by that and are positioning them correctly. Very simply, you are showing everyone that you're trying to have the force of bestowal, that we did not get from the Creator but demand to get, above have the forces of reception that we received from the Creator. We pull the Creator in this way to cover the ego he created between us, the will to receive. That is our work.
8. S. (40:10) How do we know what is within us and what is outside of us? How can we use the intellect to scrutinize how to help the friends?
R. Talk about it more, as much as possible, as if you are already in the forces of bestowal towards one another. Try to present, to display, according to everything possible as if you are in the qualities, in the forces of bestowal towards one another. This is called ‘each shall help his friend’. You will see how you raise the entire group and come to the goal very quickly through envy, lust, and honor. This, indeed, is the most important action we can take. Set good examples to one another.
9. S. (41:58) Does the light come to us in the form of a thought?
R. It depends on how it clothes. There's light that comes through one’s intellect, through thoughts and through desires. Sometimes we don't feel it, but it appears as desires inside of us and the inclination to bestow outside of us to the friends, to humanity, to the Creator. These are the results of the influence of the light on us.
10. S. (42:56) When one is granted the understanding of his purpose towards the ten, is this from Bina or is it knowledge?
R. He needs to scrutinize that. I'm afraid to tell him one way or another because it's possible he didn't scrutinize that enough.
11. S. (43:45) Is the concept of ‘faith in the sages’ also bestowal?
R. No, belief in our sages is something else, it is not the force of Bina. That is when the little one believes the great one, like a child who believes his mom or dad. Whatever the grown-up wants to do, he should do. He instinctively uses the power of their intellect and so on when the little ones want to cleave to the bigger ones. It is not the force of faith, this is a desire to receive that wants to use a higher degree. This is customary in our world.
12. S. (45:00) Please elaborate on how we should imagine that we are already in bestowal.
R. I think it is worthwhile for everyone to try to do such exercises, to implement them in the tens, according to the recommendation of Kabbalists. We are in mutual bestowal, as much as possible, considering each and every friend in the group, supporting and helping each and every one according to how much we think he needs help. We always get possibilities and then we are in the force of bestowal towards them, even corporeally. Even though we are in corporeality towards them and in our will to receive, in our egoistic desire, we think it will help us. The friend is only a means by which I want to help myself. Nevertheless, when I help him, this influences me. It awakens the reforming light on me. Nevertheless, through the corporeal action I resemble the spiritual force, the force of bestowal, even though if I go deep into my intention, it is not an intention for the friends, but only for my sake. There is no doubt that I am not in bestowal to anyone before I get to the degree of Bina. All of our thoughts and desires are only to receive.
13. S. (47:26) What does it take for a person to need the Creator and not want to fill up the emptiness directly?
R. First of all he needs to somehow be incorporated in the group and from that he comes to envy because everyone is bestowing more than he is. Then, from this corporeal envy, he comes to the need and necessity to do something with himself. He then starts to look for ways to do it. Then he will not miss any lesson and will try to be close to the friends, all of it in order to gain something because he has to do it. That is how he advances.
14. S. (48:51) What elevates Malchut’s rise to Bina?
R. Malchut rises to Bina by trying to perform acts of bestowal. It can do it mechanically, but not internally because the will to receive is not in the control of man but in the control of the light. The light created the will to receive and keeps it in this way. Our actions and corporeal reality have nothing to do with the light or with spirituality. We are not influenced from the spiritual level by trying to perform corporeal acts. We never awaken more than the light of Nefesh of Nefesh that works on us and somehow maintains us at a certain degree between corporeality and spirituality, but not more than that. However, we do need to increase the influence of the light on us. This is all done through actions between us, actions of bestowal, but mainly the prayer.
S. Where should we aim our prayers?
R. We should aim our prayers through the connection in the group to the Creator.
S. Is the Sefirot of Zeir Anpin revealed along the way?
R. I’m not thinking about this at all. I don’t dictate to the Creator what I want to do or what I wish to reveal. I wish only to be in the quality of bestowal.
15. S. (51:29) Can we identify the qualities that are in our friends as the Sefirot of Zeir Anpin and we identify as Malchut?
R I'm not starting to answer these questions because it is only confusing us. Don't ask me such things. Let's begin to feel the difference between reason and faith above reason, and then we will enter it
16. S. (52:21) Do we perceive spirituality in our internal vessels or our external vessels?
R. Spirituality is perceived as the equivalence of man's qualities to the upper light. Spiritual vessels, meaning the intention to bestow, are formed in us as much as we try and we get help from above. We begin to understand what spirituality and bestowal are. ‘Spirituality’ is from the word ‘spirit’. You have the light of Nefesh, which is a static state, it doesn’t move, it simply keeps all of creation in the degree of inanimate. When it changes it goes from Ruach, Neshama, Haya, to Yechida. It starts from the degree of Ruach, spirit. That's why it's called spirituality.
17. S. You're saying our external activity has awakened a very small light Nefesh tuna fish but you also say that we have to operate practically what do you mean by practically?
R. I mean such actions that awaken our desires, our prayer Our tendency towards connection; those are the actions I'm referring to. The important thing is to come closer to the friends to feel ourselves together in one boat. And above us one Creator and we belong to one another and then the more we come closer to one another the Creator will also come closer to us.
18. S. When we deal with it then when we speak among ourselves, I try to think that when the friend speaks I tried to connect to his inner intentions is Art and direct it to the Creator intentions of bestow a contradictory to what he says I might disagree the intention behind his words and I may even agree to his word does this mean I'm working towards it may be stalled and faith above reason or am I just trying?
R. I recommend for you to read more verses and not be confused in your thoughts and the thoughts of the friends. It is best if you feel your time with reading versus the way we do it in the lesson more and more. Then afterwards you'll know how to approach the friend and how to scrutinize those things. before that it will only have one confusion over another and all from your belly from it's in your will to receive so don't rush into anything else except for filling yourself first with our material.
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19. R. (58:55) Meaning those who have faith feel a certain state as day, because the light of Faith shines to them. Those who are not in bestow, all those who are not in faith, for them that light appears as darkness, actual darkness. That’s the difference between darkness and light, day and night in spirituality. it is all relative to the light of Bina, the light of faith of bestowal.
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R. (01:00:03) They don't feel it in their will to receive, in their usual vessels, but only in the forces of Bina that they acquired the forces of bestowal. Then, according to the equivalence of form between the Creator and the forces of Bina in them, they begin to feel that the Creator is good that does good.
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20. S. (01:02:02) What does it mean that common Malchut rises to Binah to such an extent that there's no difference between reason and faith?
R. That means first of all that you need to have a certain discernment between you, truly as ‘one man with one heart’ meaning: not to have the same desires, it's impossible since desires stem from each person's individual Reshimo (record). But when you rise above the will to receive, individual will to receive of each one, in order to connect together in mutual bestowal, by that you come to a mutual bestowal between you and it's already equal to the Creator to some extent. Similar to the Creator, maybe equal is too strong of a world, like the Creator. Then according to equivalence with the Creator you begin to feel something of the quality of bestowal which is Him; inside the qualities of bestowal that you wish to establish between you, that is called the web of connections that you wish to establish between you mutually. Then we say that the Creator clothes between you, in the created being, in the Shechina.
S. He writes here in the excerpt that faith becomes like reason? How do we come to it?
R. of course it all depends on connection. We used to be confused by pretty words: to connect, to embrace, to love one another and to be beautiful people, nice people towards one another, from our childhood mommy said don't hit anyone, be a good kid and so on and so forth. Consequently, we relate to all of these words the Kabbalists are using because we don't have any other words, and it turns out that we don't really consider them. They say connect and we say okay connect, they say to come closer to one another and we say okay we'll come closer to one another, these things we leave, we erase. At least 90% of every one of these concepts has to do with connection, and the main thing is according to the quality of connection, how much each one adds from his will to receive, from his inner character that the Creator created, accordingly we attain the Creator. The Creator seemingly has no picture, no shape or form but according to the egoistic qualities of each one; to the extent that we awaken this egoistic power of ours in order to connect above it and that egoistic desire and its opposite form, where it is not participating in the connection between us, it arranges for us the quality of the creator, of the image of the creator, the essence of the Creator. That's why it is called Bo-re, come and see, I come and see what I attained from these tendencies to connect between us. That's why we say that we are making the Creator's, as it is written in the Torah ‘you have made me’. So don't disregard it, don't belittle those recommendations that the Torah is giving us. We are accustomed to belittling those words, devalue them, that's why we don't ascribe to them the essence of creation. We think it’s on the level of this world, that everyone is talking about good relationships towards one another, and we all understand that is all a lie.
21. (01:07:24) At the end of the article it says that they ask from the Creator to give them such strength, that this faith would be so strong as if they see it within reason. Is this like asking the Creator for a Mashach?
R. Yes along the way of course, the way it happens is with the screen and reflected light. But we have to understand the principle here: just the way I have a sense of reception right now in which I feel all of reality and it all gets depicted inside of me in my sense of reception, I now go to acquire a sense of bestowal above my will to receive. The sense of bestowal is not limited as the will to receive, I rise above myself towards the others. so it turns out that the way I am limited in receiving our reality in my vessel in my will to receive, when I connect to the others I become unlimited in my perception of reality because I grasp their will to receive which become in me my will to bestow where I bestow to them and then, my perceptions become such that through bestowal to them my perception becomes unlimited, unbounded, and by that I perceive the upper Force, the upper world, the Creator the true upper reality. The difference, as kabbalists say, is that what you grasp and perceive in your will to receive is like a grain of sand compared to an entire world. That's the difference between corporeal, egoistic perception and the spiritual altruistic perception. Where in bestowal I'm coming out of my own limitations and I grasp reality the way it's depicted outside of me, truthfully.
S. If I try to overcome the obstacles and come to the morning lesson and come to the meetings with my 10, can I use these obstacles to ask for the friends to give what I need to the friends? How can I use the Creator to add to my friends?
R. Simply ask of the Creator, ask that he will give you the strength to connect. That he will be revealed to some extent as a force of mutual bestowal between you, until you will feel in this force of mutually bestowal between you, you will be connected to such an extent that you'll begin to feel they're not only the forces that connect you, but that there is a certain personality to those forces, an upper personality and that's how the Creator will be revealed. It is not a degree of Nefesh like a baby that doesn't feel where he is, or the degree of Ruach where he is somehow still touches everything around him, rather he begins more and more to advance towards the degree of Neshama, this is called the degree of Bina, then he already begins to realize his desires in order to bestow. In this way a person comes out of the feeling of this world and discovers the true reality, discovers the Creator, the force of bestowal that is working there. It will happen, we are on the way to it.
22. S. (01:12:14) How is the screen of the 10 built besides sprayer, there are other internal activities we should do?
R. The screen that we can build only comes and is established and exists by the upper Force, the upper Light. When we asked the Creator to build it between us and not that we can do anything about it ourselves. Each and every action of ours must end with turning to the Creator and asking him to do it.
23. S. (01:13:18) On what degree do we begin to make the Creator from Malchut or only from the degree of Bina?
R. We begin to build the Creator from the degree of the will to receive, the root degree or 0 degree, where we can connect between us, somehow with a certain inclination towards it. Then through the degrees of coarseness of 1 2 3 4, this is how we build the connection between us on top of the coarseness, on top of the will to receive and accordingly, the will to bestow appears above the will to receive which is called the upper light, the Creator. That is it.
24. S. (01:14:34) On one hand, we hear that the sign for advancement is that we feel close to each other, more and more, from day to day. On the other hand, we hear that every day we start anew and it can even be worse than yesterday. So how to settle these two things correctly?
R. We are results of the breaking of the one Kli (vessel) that the Creator created and filled it with one light. This state is called the world of Ein Sof (infinity) without boundary of the clothing of the light in the vessel. When the Creator wished, according to His plan, the created beings to exist and to attain the entire creation, then this vessel has gone through the shattering. Soon we’re going to learn how that was made. When the vessel has gone through this chattering, it divided according to the egoistic desires that have been revealed in each and every part of the desire. And our whole work is, despite each of us being in his individual desire, we above these egoistic desires connect ourselves with the intention to be one. This is how we reconstruct the broken vessel into a whole vessel. That’s considered to bring it to correction. Then the light, that was there previously, filled the vessel that the Creator created and then broke. The ego has been revealed because we connect above, despite our ego, then the light later is revealed. Despite this vessel, we connect together, is a very big light because it is revealed against the resistance of the egoistic desires. Just like in mechanics, according to the resistance, we can attain the current, the voltage, etc. That’s why it turns out that this is how we attain the light at the end of the correction as a very big light, 648 times more, that’s called NRNHY. Then the vessel connects as one, above all of the differences, it connects itself as if it wasn't broken and the light that was in it, it was very small after the shattering, reaches a great magnitude. Meaning the Creator is revealed in the whole manner completely.
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25. S. (01:21:12) In what is the work in concealment should be important as the disclosure of the face?
R. The work in concealment is more important than the work in disclosure of the face because I don't work with my will to receive to draw the Creator, the light. But rather, I place myself with the restriction, the screen and reflected light to bestow to the Creator just as the Creator wishes to bestow to me. Then, we are like the guest and the host, when the guest wishes to be in equivalence of form with the host, not going to receive any more than I can give Him. This way we settle the relations between us.
26. S. (01:22:23) The desire needs to feel. What feelings do we need to want in the ten in order to rise above reason?
R. Besides the greatness of the group and the greatness of the Creator, I don't need anything in order to rise above reason. What else can there be? There is me and outside of me. I am Malchut and what’s outside of me is Bina. So as much as I decrease myself, diminish myself and raise the degree of Bina above me, which is the group and the Creator, to that extent I can advance towards them. We need to establish them more and more this way, spirituality and me. Then we’re going to have what to do and in what way can we increase and enlarge the spirituality between us. Simply the force of bestowal, the world of bestowal, that’s spirituality. The force of reception, the world of reception, that’s corporeality. We need to establish it correctly and to do exercises. According to the exercises, the light that reforms bestow upon us and very quickly we reach the revelation of the spiritual world. Meaning building our vessels by the feeling of the spiritual world.
S. The reason, those are the foreign thoughts?
R. Reason? No. Faith above reason is desires of Malchut.
S. Not faith above reason, the reason itself when a person has reason and opinion. Those are the foreign thoughts?
R. You are talking about the Sefira Daat (knowledge) which is within the Partzuf?
S. No. I'm speaking about the posterior, the feeling of the darkness. Those are the foreign thoughts? Is that the reason, or the mind, of the person himself?
R. Yes, you can say that. Just don't get confused.
S. So if we don't receive these feelings of darkness and distance, we still believe that the Creator is the good that does good? That's not faith above reason, it's faith below reason?
R. Now you're confused already. It's like I told you. Don't be confused, and that’s it, you’re confused. Forget about these things, let go. It is better to, bit by bit, establish them, stabilize them gradually, correctly. That’s it. Only put yourself with the verses we’re learning and make sure that you won't divert into all kinds of directions and start building seemingly a system that you’re imagining and it’s non-realistic. It’s good that you have this tendency towards that, but let's go according to the verses. I'm really afraid that by that, there’s going to be a big confusion for many people. That’s it.
27. S. (01:27:17) When we work in the posterior, is it the same work that we do to correct our Reshimot (reminiscences) in order to work with foreign, the thoughts? Which is the beginning of faith above reason?
R. Yes.
28. S. (01:27:55) I am still confused about what it means the work in the posterior, the work in the Achoraim (posterior).
R. I didn't talk about this. It’s your friends who talked about it, work in Achoraim (posterior).
S. It is at the end of the passage we just read.
R. Yes. What does it say there?
S. ‘’If the Creator understands that I have more contentment if He works in posterior then I agree.’’
R. So that’s what they call the work in the posterior, the Achoraim (posterior)? OK. In short, it means that I don’t feel, I don’t know, I have no contact with the true spiritual state but I go above my own mind and emotion, my intellect and my emotion, I am in true darkness. From this darkness, I want to bestow to the Creator. This is a state where I'm certain that I am not working with vessels of reception. Then, I reach a state that this darkness starts to shine to me. This is considered not disregarding these states of darkness of Achoraim (posterior) and then, this specific place of Achoraim (posterior) that’s where the light of Hassadim (mercy) starts shining.
29. S. (01:29:49) When a person feels empty, what helps him work, what’s his fuel?
R. When a person is empty, he starts establishing himself to work above his empty vessels. But what does ‘above ’mean? Despite being empty, it’s him feeling empty. And this place he can fill with his relation to the Creator, even though the Creator is hiding. Then in his empty state there is no relation to the Creator. He can establish his relation to the Creator, the relation of bestowal to the Creator, and to live with all his relation, his attitude of bestowal towards the Creator, as if it really exists. Try it and see how you can develop the right relation to the Creator from this point.
S. What is the difference between the force of bestowal working on a person or if he's working from the greatness of the Creator?
R. The force of bestowal can only be according to the recognition of the greatness of the Creator. Otherwise, how? With everything when I bestow to friends, it doesn't matter what and where, where does my force of bestowal stem from? To the extent that the Creator is great in my eyes.
S. A person gets the ability to bestow if he acquires the greatness of the Creator?
R. Yes, of course. Otherwise, it’s not the greatness of the Creator, the force of bestowal. Otherwise, it is a concealed force of reception.
30. S. (01:32:20) When, at what time, does a person attain the stage where he can constantly work with the emptiness and the darkness?
R. Yes, of course. With the light of Hochma (wisdom) and the vessels of reception he reaches a state that for him this is darkness. He wanted it to happen so much that now he discovers that this is darkness. What is light for him? Light is being in the quality of reception? No, the quality of bestowal. Then he starts measuring in what quality of bestowal he is, what intensity, is he organized correctly through the friends to the Creator, etc. This is our whole work. The main thing for us is to hold on to the direction, where are we aiming ourselves to.