Morning Lesson February 8, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 3:
Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #79
1. S. (01:44) Something always has to be in lowliness, self-pride, or spirituality?
R. Either faith above reason or faith below reason, one or the other, of course.
S. If I feel disregard towards spirituality do I need to invert it to a disregard for corporeality?
R. No, why? You need to raise the importance of spirituality and not that you lower corporeality. You raise spirituality, which is the correct approach, clear? It is a very important thing what you said and what I answered you. We do not look down on corporeality. Corporeality is important. We need to behave correctly according to the rules of nature, according to science, all the things. Along with this, in our spiritual development, faith above reason.
Reading Excerpt 80
2. R. (04:06) That is what we need to take into account. That in the eyes of the Creator it is the opposite and thus in order to reach equivalence of form with Him we need very much appreciate the path of faith; meaning, not according to our mind which is built entirely on the path of reception, rather on the path of bestowal, so bestowal higher than reception.
Reading Excerpt 81
3. S. (07:18) What does it mean that I have to use the reason to go above reason, if it is written “they have eyes and they do not see, they have ears, but they do not hear”?
R. How can we go in spirituality if we are not going above corporeality? We are in the will to receive, that is our matter, which is our foundation. We understand, we feel, we build in it, we connect through it, the will to receive but if we want to feel the upper reality which manages us, that activates us that is not revealed, although we want to reveal it, we want to rise in the connection between us in corporeality to the level of connection that is activating us from above in spiritual forces. Spiritual forces are opposite forces. We do not feel them because we have no matter in them. We are built from the will to receive, how will we feel the forces of bestowal that activate us, in some total, the Creator? That is what he explains to us. How we reach a state that we gradually begin to locate these forces of bestowal, of connection, of love, that they activate us. We look down at them, we do not want them, we seemingly pass through them. That is it, and so he says here the failures themselves cause one to take upon himself the discernment of the staff once more, which is the discernment of faith above reason. That I have no choice, I will ultimately need to recognize in the upper system that it operates according to the force of bestowal, and it is opposite from me and I have no choice, I must begin to become familiar with it like this because otherwise, I do not know what is going on with me and the world at all. Our world also is advancing towards it more and more as well, look at all the human beings.
This is the meaning of what Moses said: ‘but they will not believe me’. It means that they will not want to take upon themselves the path of working in faith above reason. That looks crazy, right? You have to go blind with your life, with your eyes closed, to act according to the force of bestowal? In this system, which is built entirely on reception? Then the Creator told him, what is it in your hand, a staff? Cast it on the ground; meaning, do not go with your principal that you were going with before. Promptly as soon as you do it, it becomes a serpent. That between the staff and the serpent there are no intermediary states. It is rather to know if one is in Kedusha, in Holiness or in the Sitra Achra, the other side. It turns out that in any case they do not have any other choice but to assume the discernment of faith above reason called ׳a staff, Mate, which also means below. This staff should be in the hand and the staff should not be thrown. This is the meaning of the verse, ״the staff of Aaron budded”, meaning, that all the budding he had in the serving of the Creator was based specifically on Aaron’s staff. That the Creator wanted to give us a sign to know if we are walking on the path of truth or not. He gave us a sign to know only the basis of the work, meaning the basis on which one is working. If one’s basis is the staff it is Kedusha, Holiness, below, and if the basis is within reason, then it is not the way to achieve Kedusha. Is that clear?
4. S. (12:15) It seems like in faith above reason we need no proof, so what is this sign?
R. If I am going in faith above reason then I reach a state that Aaron’s staff budded. What does it mean that I have budding? I have reason, high, large reason, the reason of the Creator. The eyes are opened in the spiritual manner. I begin to see, not this world that I see within my corporeal beastly reason, rather I begin to see the spiritual world, the upper system. That is what it is called Aaron’s staff budded; that in the light of Hassadim, that I invite, also the light of Hochma comes in and there is budding to this system called the staff, Ma’te, also Mata, below. Meaning when I go downward, I actually become wiser and understand the degrees more, the greatness of the Creator and all of creation is open before me.
5. S. (14:03) We have a friend in our ten that is in complete devotion, to the ten, to the group, does whatever he can in heart and soul and in corporeality does everything that he needs to, by the book. He has been sick already for several weeks and we pray for him, we connect around him and seemingly we are doing everything that we need to in order to correctly respond in corporeality and spirituality as though nothing is happening, things are only getting worse. We attribute it to faith above reason and everything, but it does not seem like anything is changing. Maybe we are doing something wrong, maybe we are not responding correctly?
R. If the state is so serious, like it sounds, then you need to advertise your request. I do not know if you can advertise his name, but it is desirable that even without, even without advertising the name. Advertise the request for help from the whole world Kli to pray for our friends that absolutely have a very unique heaviness of the heart in these days, burdening of the heart, these days, and we will take them into account even without mentioning their name. Above it is known, and once again we will have a reason to connect between us and turn to the Creator. That is what I can say and also send me the details.
6. Rav reading: Excerpt 82 (16:38) “Happy is the man who does not forget You, and the son of man who exerts in You. When one advances by way of whiteness, he should always remember that everything he has been granted is only because he took upon himself the discernment of blackness. He should exert precisely in the “You”, by way of “and all believe that He is a God of faith”, although he currently does not see any place where he has to work in faith, since everything is revealed to him. Nevertheless, he should believe, above reason, that there is more room to believe by way of faith. This is the meaning of “And Israel saw the great hand and they believed in the Lord. Thus, even though they had been awarded the discernment of “saw”, which is seeing, they still had the strength to believe by way of faith, and this requires great exertion; otherwise, one loses one’s degree, like Libni and Shimei. This means that if it is not so, it means that one can listen to Torah and Mitzvot precisely at a time of whiteness; it is like a condition. However, one should listen unconditionally. Hence, at a time of whiteness, one should be careful not to blemish the blackness”. Meaning for these two states not to erase each other, you need both and you need to know how to combine these two together.
R. (18:46) Okay I have no choice but to say that we do not really have questions. Later on awaken these questions among yourselves and now we move on to the women.
7. S. (19:02) What does it mean to place His divinity over rocks and stones, what does it mean?
R. Meaning we need to take into account things that are not important in our eyes and to raise them above reason. That they are the important things because they belong to bestowal. Meaning, that I go in this with eyes closed. That these aspects of bestowal, these are the most important things for me.
8. S. (19:45) The fact that the Creator is not revealed yet, does it mean that I am not or cannot be in faith above reason yet?
R. Also. That is the basic condition, yes but it depends upon which states, upon which coarseness I succeed to go above reason.
9. S. (20:36) Previously you said that I ascend to the Creator and ask Him to give me the ability to correct all my friends. I did not exactly understand, do I need to see all the corruption in them and ask for corrections or?
R. I rise to the Creator and ask from Him, give through me all the forces that can correct my friends, which can connect them together and then in such a matter, that He will be revealed between us as a force of bestowal and love.
10. S. (21:13) What does it mean that I correct my friends in the ten and ask from the Creator for fulfillment? What is the act of correcting the friends?
R. It is that I am requesting corrections on the connection between us. Actually all the corrections are included in this. We do not need anything besides this. Just that the connection between us will be to such an extent, that the Creator will be revealed because that will be a sign that we are really connected.
11. S. (21:50) What does it mean to blemish the black? Darkness?
R. There is black and there is white. I need to receive all these elements, that I received them from the Creator and that everything has its place and what I want is only to rise above.
R. (22:28) With this we will end our lesson. I understand that the material is not so simple both in the first part and in the second and the third, but it is good. It is a sign that we are progressing. I am asking only, do not forget that everything that we have to correct is corrected in the connection between us. So it does not matter how much I remember from the lesson what I am doing; rather, as much as I can over the course of the day awaken the friends to the connection between us until in the connection between us, we will reveal the upper force, our source. It is present between us; it is just concealed. We will make a connection between us, a strong hug between us, until He will be revealed.