Morning Lesson March 6 2021 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for differences from audio
Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #2
1. Rav’s Introduction: The prayer is basically a plea for the force of bestowal, for the second nature, the second force that exists in nature above the force of reception which controls us and we live in the world of reception right now. What was given to us is the point in the heart and the feeling of deficiency and the force of reception that we are in this desire to receive and we are not satisfied with this. This is really the help that comes to us in order to help us to shift from that zone, the area which is the environment, the atmosphere that we are all in through the force of reception to enter a different environment when we come under the influence of the force of bestowal. The force of bestowal is the force of the Creator which exists from the very beginning and it exists forever, it created the force of reception in me so we can acquire the force of bestowal from within the force of reception and then we will exist as independent on one hand, outside of the Creator, on the other hand we will know and feel like him. I think this is the only way that the Creator could create us on one hand outside of himself with a different quality of reception and on the other to allow us to give us a chance to become like him with the quality of bestowal.
This is when we have to divide the whole reality into two, the reality of reception and the reality of bestowal and constantly see how we shift from the reality of reception. The egoistic reality, into the reality of bestowal. That this transition we can do only by turning, asking for the force of bestowal which is present in the world of bestowal in the upper world, will influence us from there. Then we will gradually get the qualities of bestowal so they will be in it and it will control us and govern us and then we will choose that over the quality of reception. We will choose the control of this upper force, the force of bestowal above the force which we were born with and then the quality of the bestowal, when it becomes more than the quality of reception, in this way we build ourselves. This approach where the quality of bestowal where each is initially below by nature and above the quality of bestowal. When we want specifically the quality of bestowal to control us, this is called faith above reason, bestowal above reception.
All the operations we can do are through the situation which the Creator setup for us, in each of us is a spark, a small spark from the force of bestowal it is called the point in the heart and if we can connect with that it could be a little bit if you were in a ten could be fewer than ten but not more than ten because then we cannot keep within is this number because it is too much. So if we want to assemble our forces, our pieces which we have from each one, the yearning to reach the purpose of life, the essence of life, each have a desire for this although in each of us we do not have the strength to achieve this, if we connect these forces and together with this inclination that he wants to discover, the purpose of life even if it is the force of bestowal, then we make efforts, we will exert and act to make the force of bestowal very important between us. Then gradually we can receive the reforming light which is called the force of bestowal operating on us, which adds to us the ability to connect between us, to become closer to each other and in this way by getting closer, we begin to identify, feel, study what is the force of bestowal.
Of course, upon this is getting closer comes by the general force of bestowal which is the Creator which is present but concealed between us. It must reveal to us what is the force of bestowal and how we can work with it. How we can crave for it and ask for it's help, in this way, to gradually become and continue to come into contact with it. Although it is a slow gradual process we can detect that all of the sudden we understand that we feel more, that turning to the force of bestowal and it becomes more natural for us to turn to it and in this way we gradually come to know this. So we will find that the Creator will not be a foreign God for us. This will come through all the upper systems and enter into our systems which we still do not understand or feel truly. But bit by bit from day by day we gain some internal feelings to know this more and more because everything comes by recognizing a little bit more a little bit more gradually.
So there is the matter of prayer by which we have to help each other to give examples to each other to turn to the force of bestowal wanting it to help us, the force of reception also stems from the same source, from the upper force, the Creator. But the force of reception awakens us according to his program in each of us and all of us together, and it awakens in us different deficiencies but these deficiencies are not directed correctly. But we through the ten, as we come to connect and get closer to each other, we should explain to each other from the articles and the lessons, what we have to do in order to help to direct each one to the right direction, to be aimed at the direction of the Creator. In this way very gradually we attain both the connection between us and in the direction through the connection between us is the Creator. The Creator should be the target, yes, he is the first and he is the last us through the activities we do we have to get to the state where we feel that I am the last, that he is our target.
It turns out that between I am the first and I am the last, that in the beginning of the work and in the end of the work, we have only one thing to constantly turn to the Creator, activate him. When we activate the Creator we call it “my son's have defeated me”. I gave them the desire to receive, the evil inclination and they asked instead that I will give them the good inclination, the desire to bestow. In this way we all come to a state where the Creator can get contentment from us. He helps us and we, by participating with ourselves, working with ourselves, we become partners with him, we participate with him “I am for my beloved and my beloved for me”. Through our actions increases the force of reception and we also do actions which increases the good force, the force of bestowal, in this way we rise and rise each time in the degrees of faith above reason and in each degree we have more reason, more force of reception and faith, a greater faith above it, the force of bestowal. Malchut and Bina, Bina and Malchut, this is how they constantly are kept through our efforts and the work of the Creator so we keep rising and rising and elevating this sandwich of Bina and Malchut into higher levels and we see that specifically through this elevation of Bina and Malchut we begin to see the size of this world and the size of the spiritual world and how powerful both of them become. Then in the gap between them we discover the whole of the wisdom of the world, all the knowledge of the world and by this we all progress and enter eternity, with these two forces.
None of them ever disappears they always exist together because only in between the two can we exist as a created being and only when we have both the right and left, we through our work, can put them together, these forces, so they will be to us as the middle line, by which we can assemble the image of the Creator. This is called, “you have made me”, so from above downwards the Creator brings us the powers, the forces and from below upwards, we with these forces we put together what is called the force of bestowal which is at the basis of the force of reception which he created and we with the force of reception build the image of bestowal. Therefore here is where we truly have special creation. We still don't realize how these forces are above the whole universe, how special these forces are, how eternal they are and that nothing exists outside of them.
But in all of these operations which we have to go through every step of the way, we have really only one operation to do. To focus ourselves on the prayer, it is not simple, we already know but we try to turn to him, we try to pray and then we try how many questions we have. Should I turn to Him alone? No, I have to turn with the others, where are the others? How can we assemble ourselves into a ten, how to organize the ten, to become one man with one heart? Out of this one desire which we call the heart how to turn to the Creator and the Creator feels our one desire, one heart and accordingly he answers because we want to skip over the ego which separates us into individual desires and we have to bring this into a single desire.
This single desire, governs the ten individual desires and out of all the individual desires what is a left is their qualities, nothing disappears and the one desire they become does not mean that nothing is left from the personality or individually, instead it is to the contrary, the more we progress he who is greater than his friend his desire is also greater then him. We become more and more conspicuous, standing out different from each other and on top of these differences we should only build one inclination towards the Creator so he would govern and connect us. In this he does not cancel us, nothing disappears with the individual qualities which are revealed in the breaking of the system of Adam. That precisely by this breaking each of us received the whole package, all of the forces and qualities of the individual soul this incorporation that took place through the shattering we only elevate this incorporation to the level of mutual bestowal between them in general bestowal between them in each of us.
There are many desires and qualities which are different and we must not destroy anything, we must not erase anything but instead we have to arrange them in such a way that they are internally interconnected to each other correctly strengthening towards the Creator. This is what it's called positioning our own internal broken bodies which are made of many pieces. They all connect into one operation, into one inclination into one action towards being Adam, to give contentment to the Creator. Then each is seemingly assembling together connecting all the broken pieces and then each of us individually does this work and in this way we come to a state where out of ourselves, out of these broken pieces, we put together the Creator. Because who are we? We are broken through the upper force and as we work on uniting, we struggle, we make a fight. We fight with the evil inclination that separates us.
By struggling to unite, to connect there are forces which separates us and we do want to connect them. The forces are egoistic forces. They are different in every way we discover how much different we are in every way and we discover this more. The good force that we want to pull from above which is one unique and unified for each to connect us above all the differences and connect us into a single desire, it cannot change in us and he does not want to change our initial nature but it's create such connection between us that the love covers all the crimes and then we put together each of these broken pieces. We don’t all exist in this one in this nature, one in that nature, one with this desire, one with that desire, once we are good, another time bad, once we fight, another time we love. Rather through the common force of bestowal we see how to use all of our different qualities that are completely contradictory to each other.
We can still use them together despite all the conflict and then we begin to learn how they can complement each other these things so we do not shift from one state or one mood to another mood, from even thought to another, but we all connect everything together and then in this common connection, it will give us the image of the Creator, the shape of the Creator. This is how we build the Creator and then in each of us and in all of us together. The image of the Creator did not exist before the creation that was only a theoretical force of bestowal but now it becomes revealed that the force of bestowal, truly governs and it is great and it stands above this force of reception, over the broken pieces which can connect between them above the shattering. Specifically by this as it is written that the Lord will be one over the whole earth, his name will be one. He will be one and his name will be one. So we will be able to connect everything above the separation and by this we truly bring the Creator into complete governance.
All this is achieved as we said it through the force of bestowal, through the force of the prayer so we could receive the force of bestowal through patience, through gradual work where we need only to want to arrange these things to put them all together to organize them. But in truth we never know how they connect and we only are amazed each time, how the same things that previously a moment ago, or yesterday they were contradictory, conflicting and we could not bring them together all of a sudden they connect and complement each other. This is what brings us the joy, the greatest possible joy, as it is written there is no greater joy than the resolution of doubts. So if we suddenly see how contradictory things can actually complement each other, this brings us the understanding and recognition and joy as a result of it. The greatest joy is when we should come to this state, it is the joy of the end of correction but all the contradictions those suddenly see that through precisely through the contradictions they can complement each other and it is all done through the power of our own work, of our own prayer when we ask and drew the reforming light so it would make peace between us, make us whole, complimenting everything.
Therefore our work is to connect the broken system of Adam HaRishon to bring it into wholeness completeness through our on participation in the prayer and the upper force according to our prayer only according to our prayer, this upper force will act and correct that situation which he himself broke and we, by this we become the Creators partners. We participate with him and we understand the whole creation from it's broken state to the state when the broken pieces complement each other and then we have no greater pleasure than to see the work of the Creator, how he does this according to our request. That's why everything is attained by the power of prayer from now to the end of correction each day as we feel that we go more and more into the matter of prayer and this matter becomes more mutual between us and the Creator and also among us, it becomes more powerful in between us and the Creator and then through this we can truly see work and count the degrees we go through. So let us read the writings which we prepared.
Excerpt 2 Reader (25:42 - 26:59)
2. This is basically the prayer itself as a Rabash starts so we ask from the beginning.
Reader continues “ (27:09 - 28:28)
3. So that itself is the prayer, it is a beautiful perfect prayer and it is written in such a state in such a desire, in such a style that we can understand and we can agree with it and we can see what we have to attain. If the Creator does not help us we all are lost, if you do not help us then we remain in the desire to receive for ourselves and pay attention that usually all prayers are as the group of people that turns to the Creator and never alone not one person we are asking together. To begin with we, we, we all the prayers are in the name of the many in the name of the collective, okay.
4. S. (29:39) There is a feeling in this text that there are two prayers, for you or for the sake of the Creator, so when I ask not to receive for myself is one and the other one is in order to bestow to the Creator, have we each have this or it is a different degree?
R. These two tendencies are opposite, if I think about myself I cannot think about the Creator. The whole goal is to give contentment to the Creator because by this we rise above our desire to receive and we become the same level as the Creator is in. We get rid of the desire to receive this is right the request to come closer to the Creator, to grow further away from the desire to receive, to be connected to the friends or to the Creator, this is basically the same action, it is the same tendency. However we express this from several points, the point of our desire to receive, the point of our connection in the group but ultimately this, if you go deep into all these requests you will see that this is all a single request, only a single request.
5. S. (31:36) We are working with the prayer a lot during the daily meetings in the ten and we see a problem when we go to take off our desires of what stops as at the end we want to exchange with something which brings benefit to the whole ten. We cannot find a common deficiency, we get different answers and then we work during the day on the prayer each time we have a different prayer, how can we do this, how can we do the right work?
R. Exactly as you say when they talk every morning about the prayer about the address to the Creator, how to organize the prayer, how to understand what we receive from the Creator because, we all the time, live in the fact that we receive everything from the Creator. The Creator establishes the personal state for everybody and all of us together in the group, each and every moment, In each and every moment there is a verse that he renews the act of Genesis in every moment so in each of every moment we have to respond to him and see in each and every moment what is new for us to such an extent that in each of us and in the relation between is where we start the changes from moment to moment. By this we move from the mechanical clock of this world to the spiritual clock which is the Creator's actions on us and then we can attach ourselves more and more because we received from him and we feel that he is acting in us. He is acting between us and he is changing our states, he is changing the fundamentals, the relations between us, the fundamental relations between as everytime more and more and then each will feel themselves in different directions.
In each and every state that the Creator is changing this way we will be able to learn how to respond properly to Him through the connection between us and to the attachment with him, the connection between us and the attachments to him this is how “I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me” so this is our work all the time without any cessation. This is how every moment we will feel, that this is a new day and we have to wake up for a new action everything depends only on us how much we are organized the how we are set up for this and then we can enter with the Creator in a mutual rate in the connection “I am to my beloved my beloved to me” and this is how we will progress very quickly. Our prayer will be endless aimed at Him all the time because it will connect to Him without any sensation without any changes in a foundation, we are ready for it all the time. Everything depends on the preparation and we will see that some nations developed through years and years thousands of years and nothing happens other nations develop very quickly so there are great changes happening and it all depends on the preparation. I really hope that by trying to establish the prayer as the address to the Creator out of the connection between is we will feel how He is working on as this is the meaning of the revelation of the Creator to the created beings becoming partners with him “I am to my beloved my beloved to me”. So if I to my beloved then I will feel the Creator is the beloved for me, it does not work in any other way. This is how we can reach this, this is a different kind of level, this is a different level of life, this is the spiritual level of life.
6. S. (36:41) How can we from a certain state advance to raise a prayer, can I expect some results for the prayer, should I get into this expecting results?
R. I barely want to feel any results of my prayer. I want to send my prayer as much as aimed as possible, composed properly and I always sharpen it, I start to sharpen it more and more through the friends to the Creator. As the more the friends are connected together the more I can locate the Creator between them, I cannot imagine the Creator outside of the 10, because how can I build the Creator’s image otherwise? Let's say this way, you have a target before you so you have to shoot at the target and this target is scattered, you do not see the center so there are different centers, there are seemingly 10 different centers. So you still try to connect them together, connect them together until they become a single target with a single goal. Usually when you put two things together maybe 2 or even 4, but here you have 10 different things as many as you are in the group so you have to see the goal as one may be the qualities that are different, certainly they are different, or the approaches are different, but the goal, the target is one, and you all agree with this single target. When you feel that you are together with them towards this is single goal, then you have a connection with the Creator and you have to try to come to this the address to the Creator only through the connection with the friends, when we are all of us, agree that we have the same goal and it is not only with words it is also in the internal feelings, when we feel that with all the different friends that we are all together in a single heart, so we are all together in a single heart to a single goal.
S. So should I want or expect this situation to appear this way in every moment?
R. Yes, certainly we have to be focused all the time on this, to be in the center of the group all the time all of us together with this single direction to the Creator, and we cannot reach it unless we connect the center properly, each and every individual to the common center which we build. We have to feel this in our emotions that we are in this, and if you come out of this common feeling, that we have a common goal, then we need to immediately come back to it and always correct the work, that one man with one heart has to be established all the time, because only through this can we reach the Creator otherwise we cannot. Here the group becomes the vessel by which you turn to the Creator and then you get a response from Him through the center of the ten.
Excerpt 3 (42:12 - 43:30) twice
7. S. Isn't it better to focus on the ultimate goal which is connection above all differences if this gives us joy not to waste energy and effort working on the illusion of separation instead?
R. All the time we have to fight for the connection instead of thinking about the separation or trying to go directly against the separation, because there you can be certain that you will lose, and you can never gain anything. We are very weak against the desire to receive it is a tremendous monster acting on us, and only by the right address, with the right prayer to the Creator can we come out of it and run away from it, and this way to reach the opposite form. Meaning this is how we can imagine the escape, Exodus from Egypt, when the desire to receive is the enemy, the Pharaoh and He puts more and more pressure on us, increasingly more weight on us. Only by us craving to rise and reach state when we can escape, then we will even discover in the end of our efforts, that the Pharaoh is helping us by putting pressure on us all the time towards our goal. That he even verses say that he opens the gate for us so we can go away, we can discover that the Pharaoh is also the servant of the Creator like an angel, thus the desire to receive, the ego also acts for the sake to reveal the Creator for the created beings.
8. S. (46:10) So the right prayer generates connection, is that a small deficiency that is corrected after which we don't return to the correction of that deficiency anymore?
R. Yes, if we work on a certain state and from that state we turn to the Creator then we already corrected that state, and it will not come back again, maybe the next state will resemble this state, it will be similar but this state already is corrected.
9. S. (47:03) How can we pray to the Creator without imposing on Him our conditions through which we are willing to receive from Him what we asked for?
R. We, according to our present state, first of all from our state we want to reach connection between us and from the connection between is to turn to the Creator, so this is how we work, also in the connection between us we turn to Him to establish the connection between us. Without it, it is impossible to turn to Him, we have no strength or understanding how to organize the connection even in our ten before we turn to the Creator. This is why the address to the Creator has to be before everything it has to be before everything, we wish to reach the ten so we pray for it, we want to feel the center of the ten from where we can turn to the Creator, so we turn to the Creator for that also. Meaning even before we organized anything, before we received any correction, then how can we turn to the Creator, we are not yet organized, if we do not have a ten yet?
So we have to turn it to the Creator even from that state, when we are not organized yet as much as we can, and from these efforts we will see that we will get organized as the Creator is helping us, we don't yet practically feel His help because He works in a concealed manner, because we do not yet have the vessels to discover Him, we are not yet partners with Him, but we always have to turn to Him. Anything that is in the direction of correction first of all has to be in partnership with the Creator, otherwise it will not be in the direction of correction, because we won't have any force of bestowal, so in each state, any state we are in, we have to turn to Him so it does not matter in what state, still we have to turn to Him and we turn to Him when we are not connected, when we do not feel the friends together with us, and when we still don't turn out of the center of the ten yet, but still it brings us the habit we get used to this, this is right where the person just turns to the Creator whether we want it or not but we do it this way, even though if we could connect but we do not connect, it really causes to us the continuing of the shattering.
10. S. (50:17) When we try to hold onto the state of the prayer what is this quality of the common yearning to the Creator?
R. That you all want to reach the address to the Creator, you want to organize your deficiency so it will be all inclusive or seemingly it stems from the corrected state. MAN is considered that I from my current state, I want to be on a higher deficiency compared to my present state, that I want to be in connection with the others and as a result to see how much I am not connected to them, even though I do not feel too much pain from this yet. MAN is always the tendency from Malchut to Bina and this is why there is a feeling here, the feeling of Malchut how much it causes the separation between us and controls us, and there's a some kind of an understanding, feeling of the state above it, which is already the state of Bina, that we have a craving for it, we want to reach it, but we are not there yet, so we have to try to turn from any state from any state we can first of all, we have to try to turn to the Creator and ask for the connection.
S. How can we check this force of deficiency together, if it grows or lessens?
R. We cannot do that yet we do not have yet the deficiencies, how can we receive the MAN and the MAD from above if we do not have the vessel for it, so how could we measure, it is still far away for us, very far away. How can that help you if you want it to control the situation or you want to turn to the Creator for correction to be able to control the state? To wish to control the state is a selfish desire which is opposite to the right progress, you get results from your efforts and your actions but you do not want to manipulate them, you only want another opportunity to turn to the Creator so you can nullify yourself, but it is not in order for you that you want to know where you are! These tendencies will only push you back because they come from the control of the ego when you want to control the situation, that we'll just make you fall because it comes from the egoistic desire.
11. S. (53:49) If we don't want to control the situation but simply turn the prayer to a common prayer, a common deficiency, how to do this?
R. This is what we are studying all the time, that we have to try to nullify to each other as a Rabash writes, and then from the point of connection then each nullifies to the connection, each wants to show an example to the others, how much he wants to be drawn to the connection, then from this connection we will turn to the Creator, from this point there is nothing else.
S. When we get together to write a prayer together as you recommended, can this be regarded as a common prayer or it should be a common deficiency?
R. What you are trying to do is already an action, it's already an exercise, a certain deficiency and the Creator has joy from your actions.
S. But we should crave for this deficiency to be a common desire and work in this direction?
R. I don't know what you mean that everybody has the same deficiency? That is not possible, of course each and everybody has a different characteristics, because each and everybody has a different desire, different Reshimo, a different result of different shattering, but ultimately what makes us united is our tendency to the Creator, we have to discover Him as one for everybody. But at the same time all of us we are growing further from it, the more we advance in spirituality will feel ourselves separating and much further away from each other with all our thoughts, intentions, desires, but above that we will connect as we progress, because the difference between us is in the tendency, the attempt to be above everything, this brings us closer to the Creator, this tendency this is something which we will discover from experience.
12. S. (56:22) What does it mean that in the gap between Malchut and Bina we reveal eternity and the wisdom of the world, is this in the delta we open up?
R. Yes between Malchut and Bina we reveal the whole reality.
13. S. (56:49) What does it mean when we raise MAN concerning our deficiencies?
R. Raising MAN is an address to the upper light to come, correct ourselves and fulfill us, this is the meaning of raising a prayer. Perhaps we should organize a few source materials that speak about raising MAN from all the source materials, so those responsible should organize those texts for us.
14. S. (57:55) There is a process of turning to the Creator and it is in the form of a text or a prayer, I understand that the process itself is what is important, is this already adhesion, is this building the vessel?
R. This is not unity yet, it is only an address for the unity but this is already building the vessel, part of building the vessel in raising MAN and then later the right form of the vessel comes down on us which is called MAD, the Creator’s response from above.
15. S. (58:44) Deficiency in the ten is what makes us something we turn to the Creator and ask him to help us to feel the deficiency, is this the way to work in the ten?
R. Turning to the Creator with our common deficiency is the work, yes. Everything is attained only by this address and the Creator doesn't do anything except by the raising of MAN of the deficiency, he is awakening us to have this deficiency towards him. Look at all of humanity and also for us that we want to come closer to Him and all of this is for us to turn to Him as He can't give us the force of bestowal but only to the extent that we are asking for it from Him. Then we compose this force of bestowal upon the force of reception, that I have created the evil inclination and we know how to put these two forces together to build the structure called the Adam that resembles the Creator. So that the force of bestowal that we are receiving will ride over our force, the force of reception and then we will become Adam, resembling the Creator. On the inside there's a force of reception and on the outside, upon all of its actions and expressions it will be like the Creator, working in bestowal. What we are learning in the sum total is how to get the force of bestowal from the Creator, we put it up to restrict ourselves in degrees 0, 1 and 2 and even in degrees 3 and 4 we put on the force of bestowal that works against the force of reception so we have a part called Katnut, smallness, infancy, GE, this is the root and Aleph, number 1 and ½ Bet, the second and the force of reception that will work with the force of bestowal is half of level 2 and 3 and 4, GE working with AHP.
16. S. (01:02:07) Can we say MAN is Hassadim and MAD is Hochma?
R. No, that is incorrect, MAN is raising a deficiency it is not Hassadim or Hochma, it may be the raising of a deficiency to the light that brings you vessels so you can do the work in the vessels of bestowal with Hassadim. Maybe you can ask for strength to work with the vessels of reception. It is not related to each other MAN is the action, it is raising a deficiency from the lower to the upper. On all of the degrees raising a request from below upwards from the lower to the upper is called MAN, Mayin Nukvin and MAD is Mayin Duchrin, when the forces of will come from above downward giving the lower all of the force, maybe the force is letting the lower one work with the vessels of bestowal as this is the root in Phase 1 and half of phase two or maybe he is even given the forces to work with the vessels of reception to work with the vessels of bestowal which are half of the vessels of level 2 and level 3 and 4.
17. S. (01:04:18) Since I was a child I learned to raise a prayer and to thank the Creator for every time I received what I needed but the more I studied the more confusing I got, should I build a prayer before I go to sleep or just continue with a prayer of the ten?
R. I can't go and interfere in your religion or your education so you should see what to do. The wisdom of Kabbalah has nothing to do with religions, faith or customs that you have and all of your different cultures on Earth. We have nothing to do with that, we have an upper force that controls everything and from it comes to forces the force of reception and the force of bestowal are made of these things this is how He prepared us and we have to turn from our state to build, to turn and have a connection with Him. This is what we are speaking about, praying before sleep or after sleep, that is your habits from childhood and I'm not going into it, I'm not telling you what to do as we don't have anything to do with that. I'm asking how much from the upper force to organize us as one desire made of ten desires, we can say, and from these ten desires we turn to him from the collection of these ten desires. He answers us and we go into a mutual connection with Him, a mutual connection with him, that is how we keep on going until we discover him fully in the connection between us. That the Creator is revealed in the created being of at least ten connected together because he can't be revealed in one you have to have a collection of different desires which are all opposite and with that above the contradiction they try to connect. This combination of connection has to be there to reveal the phenomenon called Creator which is something the Creator created, the good inclination created in us a bad inclination and good inclination in order to feel him and between these two forms we can come to Him to feel Him and to also remain created beings. It is not that we disappear.
18. S. (01:08:15) Is an external example an example of bestowal?
R. What example are you talking about?
S. An example in the external work?
R. I don't understand the question. In the example of the external world we don't have a desire to bestow as everything is the will to receive in different manners so I don't understand what you are asking about. Is it a spiritual example of a corporeal example I don't know, asking the right way.
S. Is any external example an example of receiving to bestow?
R. In our world, symbolic, but not real. Suppose you are bringing a gift to a friend of yours and he accepts it and he thanks you for it, so his action is receiving that he received from you in order to bestow back to you contentment when basically he should also want this gift otherwise it won't feel the gift and he receives it on the other hand only to give his feeling back to you. There are many such examples by Rabash in the articles. These are examples that there is nothing spiritual in them because we are still, all of us, in our will to receive this is why as much as it seems to us that we've been so, we give and we act, it is all not actions of bestowal but rather only actions of reception undercover.
19. S. (01:12:31) What quality should each friend ask when he raises MAN in order to be drawn toward the center of the ten?
R. He should want to be incorporated with all of the desires of the friends in order to raise them to the Creator as a representative of everyone and to stand before the Creator with all of these deficiencies of the friends. It is possible that he will ask over these deficiencies to connect to one desire that is made of the ten, asks to be made of them in such a way. That he needs to develop in him a place to receive all of the deficiencies of all of the friends that belong or relate to the address to the Creator. He must be capable to connect to all of the desires of all of these deficiencies of all of the friends together that the result of all of these deficiencies is what he wants to serve to the Creator, to present to the Creator. He is presenting this to the Creator as the greatest delight. Because the Creator has no bigger pleasure than feeling a group of created beings that received help from Him, care and fulfillment from Him and this is what each one of us should try to carry out. It is a great pleasure to prepare these deficiencies, for the Creator into one deficiency and present it to Him and by this we feel how happy he is when we turn to him and ask of Him that more than the calf wants to eat the cow wants to feed. The Creator has a huge desire to feed, to nurse so when we turn to Him and ask Him we feel how happy He is.
20. S. (01:15:41) The feeling of the prayer each and every friend in the ten should feel the same feeling?
R. When we are in a ten we should try to come to one desire that consists of ten and it doesn't become one ever. The complexity remains and instead of ten but they become a hundred, a thousand. The power that we will come to will grow in terms of number increasingly more, this is how we will feel and yet we in our work will accept it as one. That we will have no problem with it, that I feel ten friends and in each of them there are thousands of qualities all of which are aiming to connect into the Creator and if they are all aiming in one direction it doesn't matter how many there are. It only gives you another force, another effort to be together.
21. R. (01:21:00) You are my brothers in the last battle final battle, we have now embarked on a path as if we want to go from this side road into the main road, to the highway that leads to the end of correction but nothing else is missing anymore except for the first entry which as we read is the most difficult thing out of all of the states. Afterward we are only going forward in the same method, using the same method that we connect together with to turn to the Creator. The Creator connects, creates the connection and the feeling. Once again we will discover a deficiency and we turn to the Creator as much as we can, the Creator connects us and gives the feeling and in this way He to us and we do Him wait to Him and He to us this way we advanced going through all of the degrees of congruence with the Creator and following us the whole world. They will not actually need to go through the stages the same as we with the searching and the breaking through, rather they will just follow us.
Excerpt 4 Reader (01:22:48 - 01:25:23) twice
22. R. What is important for us is that we don't follow our will to receive so we understand what we are doing according to our opinion but rather I want to adhere to the Creator and follow His will, His intellect. The Creator is a higher degree than us, than where I am right now, so what is above me on a higher degree than I is called the degree of the Creator because there I receive all of the forces, all of the discernments and this is what I want to reach. This is where I want to turn and in adhesion with that degree I want to perform all of my actions.
23. S. (01:26:28) In the different excerpts we read there is a certain action, it is written as if we received an answer, as if the prayer has been accepted. What is this as if?
R. That is really a question, I have to try to build my work as if I received the powers of bestowal and then to the extent that it seems to me that I would then work with the force of bestowal, accordingly I have to try to reveal myself and establish, position myself although I am not still in them and I don't feel them operating in me. Exerting is like a game, kids playing as if they're grown-ups it helps them to grow and by this they draw forces that operate on them and they grow. If a child doesn't play with the grown-up games, or games are being grown up then he won't grow. This is why we deliberately buy them games where they can do something that it seems to us it is good if they grow up to be this way. You don't want to buy them only toy guns or things like that that they will play that they’re walking in a forest and hunting animals. We don't live in this world, we live in a more modern world so you want them to play with games that give them a feeling and understanding of how things work in our modern world. The same goes for us in the games between us in the ten, each and every ten must try to establish such relationships, such games let's call it this way, where we are seemingly in the upper world and in this way we should relate to one another and relate to the Creator as if we really are in a spiritual game with him.
Even though we don't have it, we have to try to rise in this, it is called raise MAN, a deficiency for states that we dream about, that we want and if we try to do it this way we will get closer to it. This is why we help each other and all of those tips of how to relate to one another and how to help one another that each one should play at being great before everyone in order to set an example for others. This is for us to this game to awaken higher forces that will position themselves giving a feeling of the spiritual world. Just like in our world there is no difference, as Baal HaSulam explains there is no difference between the spiritual and corporal except for enslavement of Malchut where the force to receive governs in this world, the force to bestowal governance in the spiritual world. But the disposition and relationships between the degrees of the corporeal and the degrees of the spiritual world are the same degrees. You have to think about it but this is how it works so you have to use what we have between us in order to awaken us.
24. S. (01:31:07) I want the Creator to hear our prayer during the day above religions, traditions and such Kabbalists have said we should read Shema twice a day and then say it's because I want the Creator to hear my prayers?
R. I'm not certain what you are asking. We are in favor of reading a small excerpt that is in the Torah called Shema Israel, Israel referring to a person who yearns for the connection with the Creator and we. Rabash used to explain this portion he used to say, Michael that is your name you should be turning to yourself to say the Lord is one. Me and you tell yourself that you're in a state that is the upper force to you, that one unique and unified force that you address and you want to come to connection with that force and that is called love, love the Lord yourself. So the excerpt both in the morning and in the evening because it is about addressing the upper force in saying that, but instead of the word Israel, you should say your own name. It doesn't matter what is your name, that is what you can replace Israel with. Israel is like the general name for the person who yearns so you need to put your own name instead.
S. I want to be in the ten within the center of the prayer?
R. Yes, first of all to yourself and then from that you come to the rest.
S. What do you mean to myself, I thought that caused destruction to myself?
R. To this you raise yourself to a connection with the upper force and then from the connection you have with the upper force you want to connect with others because otherwise how are you going and with what forces, with what intentions and from what point will you connect with the friends, from the point in the heart that you have from here, you have something. Shema Israel is also each and every one's personal prayer with respect to the upper force and also you can connect that to the ten, connecting everyone in the ten but it begins from the individual, that is how I got it Rabash and how I communicate it to you and a previous friend already asked about it.
S. There's just always this confusion that this term of a private prayer is not stabilized, that we are always working with a force that our prayers should only be mutual from within connection.
R. To the common prayer you also come with yourself not erasing your “I”, that you want to connect and merge with all of the others as it is still you. Then as you connect with them you fight to be as one man with one heart together but it is you fighting that. This is what each and every one does, the “I” never canceled even when we talk about annulment, it doesn't get canceled it as if dissolves in the connection between us which is more important to me than the existence of myself and this is what we call annulment, that one dissolves with respect to Shema Israel it is desired for everyone to say this in the morning and in the evening and instead of Israel to say your own name. Meaning anyone who yearns for the Creator is called Israel and you can put your own name there. So anytime you see the name Israel it refers to the person who yearns for the Creator. Jewish, Yehudi is someone who specifically yearns toward unity and people is already another term but yet they all aim towards the shape of connection, of annulment towards connection is what all of these names are referring to.
25. S. (01:37:41) Can it be understood that happiness is the correct intention to perform the work in the ten?
R. It depends. Joy from what, we can't see joy from a goal as it is the result of a good deed that we do, joy itself can't be a goal. So go to some festival, a joyful event and be happy, the joy is the result of a deed, what kind of deed do you want to do in order to reach the joy depends on the action. One has joy from doing good to others and another has joy from may be doing bad to others. Joy is not a goal.
26. S. (01:38:51) If we connect in the ten in a minimal level and it is as if we received an answer how do we continue onwards?
R. Exactly what you said that we need to strengthen each and every one in the ten all of us and then feel that we are connected as much as possible in one intention with all of our qualities that they are all aimed at one intention, the unity between us. The prayer to the Creator that He will realize this unity connecting the prayer, directing our prayer, accepting our prayer to give a correct response to it and that this response will go down to us and correct us to a higher degree this is essentially our whole work.
27. S. (01:40:12) Baal HaSulam says that surrounding light is light that illuminates from afar?
R. Yes.
S. Currently we have spoken about the game that we should depict to ourselves as if we are in a state of connection, higher state of connection can you explain to us that when we draw the light in the beginning of the lesson and that we are requesting, the light is doing the correction for all of the friends can you explain what is the process here in such a state?
R. This will be ahead of us, we will talk about it we are not talking about this right now, right now we are talking about how we raise the prayer and how after the Creator accepts the prayer and organizes His response to us how we goes down towards us as far as inner and surrounding light which we will talk about later.
28. S. (01:41:41) Can you please clarify the prayer is an inner ready state as a result of mutual guarantee or?
R. A prayer is our inclination to connect, the address to the Creator, the yearning to reach corrections, it is all the same thing and there are many prayers but ultimately it is really one prayer, addressing the upper one that will take us to adhesion with Him in an advanced way as much as we can gradually.
29. S. (01:42:40) How to use how to use in a beneficial form the Psalms to pray in the ten?
R. You can find in Psalms something you see that is suitable for you and read it, King David was Malchut of all Israel, all of the structure of Israel and therefore he was able to connect and compose Psalms for us. These songs coming from the Malchut of the whole vessel of Adam this is why it is so acceptable in all of the religions and belief systems. Of course we can use that and I have used that a lot have even shortened some of these songs and sort of translated them, try to use it and it is not mandatory as it could be too soon for this but there will come a time when you will feel that you need Psalms. It contains those words and expressions that you feel, answers of what's in your heart.
Excerpt 5 What is a Flood of Water in the Work Reader (01:44:39 - 01:45:34)
30. R. The most correct prayer is that we ask the Creator to subjugate our will to receive, our evil inclination so that we can submit ourselves and be devoted to the orders of the Creator and everything that is happening to you and in every moment in life as we feel we're we are that we want to reveal the action of the Creator that He appears before us and we try through all of our emotions that we try to see him. Of course we can not do this in a truthful way and we might even get confused with it but somehow at least in the group, in the lesson, in times when we are truly aimed at the Creator with the friends that we should see what is happening to us that the Creator is doing that and so he expects us to discover him this way that at least in these forms that are clear to us that come from the ten. That it is Him revealing the world to us.
Excerpt 6 Reader (01:47:22 - 01:48:44)
31. R. The truth is both the deficiency and the fulfillment come from the Creator, the mind and the emotion comes from the Creator only one thing doesn't that we annul before the ten and out of this we receive direction towards the Creator, all of this is prepared in advance by the upper force. I only need to subjugate my ego towards the friends and by that I find that I am aimed at the Creator and I advance towards Him.
32. S. (01:49:31) Why did we get such a monster called the ego?
R. It is exactly opposite the Creator and we can be in both, thanks to the Creator we have free choice and thanks to the ego we are called created beings not just like this still, vegetative an animate as we are not considered created beings. A human who doesn't have a will to receive ... with a will to bestow in between this is not Adam because he cannot become similar to the Creator because it is specifically by being comprised of both, that he can aim himself towards the Creator. The Creator is in the middle between good and bad towards us otherwise we can't detect him, we don't see the light, we don't see the darkness. We always see what is in between them.
Excerpt 7 Reader (01:54:28 - 01:56:30)
33. R. Method is simple we have to put all of the possible efforts into our connection and prayer to the Creator and see that way do wish to attain both the connection and the connection with the Creator and it doesn't help us. When will it help? Only when the Creator gives us the connection and the more we ask and demand, we are probably not yet capable ready like he writes in other places that if a person cannot awaken the Creator to help him it is a problem in man's desire. That is how we need to overcome the disturbances and to continue after that, after all of the efforts we receive such a condition from which we can pour out a prayer from the bottom of our heart and on the other hand we will reach for the sake of the Creator, meaning the highest high, from the highest high to the lowest low this is how we can tie all of reality in the middle of it from the point that is in the bottom of our heart to the highest point which is the Creator. And this is how we succeed.
34. S. (01:58:43) How to renew the prayer each and every moment?
R. This is something you need to do in connection with the friends that you won't forget about this, to persist, because if you won't have connection between you you will always forget it because everyone always goes back every moment from his will to receive that he won't want to connect with the friends or with the Creator. This is when you need some external circumstance that will hit you in some way and then as a result of the blow you can start thinking again what is going on with the group and the Creator. But if you don't want to advance by these awakenings from the Creator, if you want to advance by ourselves, that by this we show that we want to reach contact with Him then there is no other choice than one will help his friend. Where everyone will think how to awaken the others because one cannot awaken oneself and this is a lot of hard work to awaken the friends and I discover the friends don't want it themselves and I also escaped from them wanting to awaken me and I tell them that I'm busy and not right now but if we recognize our nature and we stand against this, pressuring each other never the less than we can quickly come to a state where our prayer will become both a complete prayer and properly directed.
S. How does the ten know if the raising of the prayers can connect?
R. It doesn't, it only examines the response from the Creator, the group has to raise the prayer more and more each time not to stop, this is why it is said one should wish to pray all day, what does it mean to pray all day? To arrange MAN all day, there's no moments where you don't raise MAN. This is how you come to constant adhesion and connection with the ten and the Creator until the Creator begins to arrange all of you into Partzuf.
S. What is the difference between a deficiency and a prayer?
R. Deficiency could be a deficiency for anything prayer is a deficiency that is aimed at the Creator demanding a response, a fulfillment.
S. How can the mind help us to pray from the heart?
R. By the mind we examine what the heart actually wants, the mind was given to us to understand what is felt in the desire. The mind scrutinizes the desire, the feeling and so by the involvement of the feeling with the desire with the mind we can begin to arrange our prayer towards the Creator.
S. You said there is no force of bestowal between us so the action that friends do for the ten through the society through nullification?
R. These are actions of preparation but the actual connection between us is missing and it is because this connection comes from the light that reforms from above, from the Creator and so we have to achieve such actions between us that we want to ask the Creator to turn to the Creator to make a connection between us that this is the only thing that we need. In the meantime we're connecting and we think that is fine, we don't feel a deficiency in the lack of connection and we also don't acknowledge that only their Creator can make the connection between us. In that case we can turn to Him from great despair, begging Him to please connect us, to make us in one heart so that we will address you from one heart. We are as if we are one heart, it is not literally one hard but when we turn to Him like that we will receive a response all depending upon our prayer and how much we sharpen it. For the third day of engaging in the topic of prayer with you I see that there is a sort of problem, there is a loss of sensitivity to this topic and I am concerned that it will now become some ordinary or routine thing and the routine dissolves the taste of it that we won't treat this topic as a thing that has to be at the center of our work and through that to come to the purpose of our lives. Only the connection between us and through that to the Creator and from the Creator back to us and this connection of me from my beloved and my beloved is for me because through the ten it can't be that I am me as an egoist guaranteed toward the Creator. Only together do we come to success with the Creator, you want to enter the first degree only turn into the connection between us and then turning to the Creator.
S. What is the antidote against the habit of this?
R. One should help his friend always remind each other this is what we need.
35. S. (02:06:00) It turns out the prayer from the universal vessel to the Creator defines themselves in connection with Him ...?
R. Yes, prayer is our connection with the Creator we don't have other connections with the Creator and only through the prayer addressing the Creator do we change ourselves so much that we come to identify with Him to our final correction.
36. S. (02:06:54) What does it mean a man must do all the possible actions to attain the discernment in Malchut Shamayim? What does it mean the man has to do everything possible to reach the real prayer?
R. All the connection with the ten he must perform so that from this connection to reach to an appeal to turn to the Creator. Just understand that this is the point that we cannot move from, through this point we enter spirituality, do it and you will truly be the first generation within the last generation, that the first group that enters the last generation to the period of the general correction of all of reality. We must perform this.
37. S. (02:08:53) I am first and I am last, between these two what is really dependent upon us?
R. The Creator says I am the first and the last I started creation and I finished creation all that is in between the first and the last point is all in my control.
38. S. (02:09:32) You said that there is no moment where you don't raise a prayer to the Creator from our experience in the ten the prayers are typically short ..... every moment we kind of had to go back to the phone to look at it to read it and it's not clear how to work with it when it is long.
R. It is said I should be in prayer all day, this is the desire to be connected through the hearts of others and through them it connects to the Creator not that with me and my heart that I connect to the Creator, but through the friends that I'm not calling them on the phone or through the computer, but rather that I feel that I want through our desires, our hearts to turn to him, this is called to have a constant prayer and that will help to pray all day.
39. S. (02:10:59) During the scrutinies of the prayer in the ten can you come up with such a depth of feelings that the prayer itself will be redundant, can it be that the scrutinies of the prayer are as important as the prayer itself?
R. The scrutiny of a prayer is a prayer itself.
40. S. (02:11:29) You explained it well but something is unclear to me. He says that the prayer has to be a complete prayer from the bottom of the heart, that a person knows 100% there's no one in the world who can help besides the Creator Himself. If we learn that then why is it the ten, why do I need the ten around me?
R. In order that you will request the Creator to correct you.
S. To the Creator Himself?
R. To the Creator can only be from the center of the ten.
S. We learned that the Creator is behind each friend in the ten.
R. Also.
S. I don't know the Creator, so how do we work here?
R. Work that you want to connect with each and every friend because this is a presentation of the Creator to you, with respect to you in some manner and then from all sorts of presentations of the Creator to you let's say through the nine friends then more or less from this that you notify with respect to them that you want to adhere to them, ultimately, all of these friends are not friends, it is the Creator clothed it in all of these forms to give you the opportunity to change yourself and it here to Him. That you disconnect from your form of your ego and get close to them.
S. So can we say that the ten is the Creator Himself?
R. Yes correct but that is afterwards as we still don't see it, because other than men only the Creator exists and although that now you are not aware of it and don't understand, you don't feel or don't accept that this is how it is and that's how they write it.
41. S. (02:14:03) Because of worldly circumstances, I feel my prayer is not complete. What should I do?
R. Continue. I have no more to recommend to you and don't leave it, make an effort, to again and again to listen to the lessons and as such you will receive the ideas and everything in the lesson revealing the direct attitude toward the Creator and the group that's you simply will be all the time in these exercises. These exercises will make the correct form of you, that they will sculpt you like a sculpture giving you such a form.
42. S. (02:15:20) When the ten has the desire of the deficiency How can I ..
R. Try as much as you can as there is no advice here, try to be connected to the ten and to turn to the Creator from with in your connection to the ten as much as it is correct or not, gradually after many actions you will begin to differentiate and reveal, it is you, it is two, it is ten, it's true, it's false, no one is wiser other than one who is experiencing, only by this will get to the truth.
43. S. (02:16:36) One should not give advice to the Creator to help, what does this mean?
R. We don't tell him do this or do that, do otherwise, no the opposite that we asked to do upon us this work, to change us, correct us that we shall be like the matter in the hands of the sculptor, that's what we have to make the effort to show Him. Like out of silly putty or play that you shall make of us a form similar to him like Adam, what is He we don't know but by us through all sorts of actions to make us to be similar to Him.
44. S. (02:17:53) The one who is able to be praying all day long is this the one who is as one man and one heart?
R. These are two different things and it could be that a person is praying all day in order to be rewarded in a stock market.
S. I'm really talking about the true prayer like he is immersed in the friends he annulled “I” in the right way and feels the deficiencies of the upper 9, he is active Arvut, he presents the deficiency of the ten to the Creator asking of the Creator is this like being as one man and one heart?
R. On his part it could be yes, on the part of the others that could be, no it is desirable that all of us should reach to feel as one man in one heart.
S. What does a ten specifically add that a person can do this and have a genuine deficiency from the ten, from the upper nine what does it add that we all do this together?
R. In this that he corrects himself privately, in the meantime needs to cause for the group also such corrections. It is a private correction in the meantime, as many forms of this incorporation that each one is incorporated with the others that we will learn how we are building Partzuf in the meantime we are discussing how to reach the point of connection between everyone and then how from the point of connection with everyone that each comes with his qualities suitable for that connection that each has its own private sefirot and in total they incorporate together that we can see how in this it is built like out of a drop of seeds Ima, the mother that the drop begins to develop and is built all sorts of cells and systems. This is how we also appear.
S. So we continued longing to this place where we can be together in this one request?
R. It is so, this is the main thing that only from the same place do we have the connection with the Creator and only in that place to get an answer from him. This place needs to always be in the center of my efforts, in my appeal and in my listening. We have the mouth and the ear and in both I need to work with respect to the Creator to talk to him and to listen, to talk from the point of Malchut that is incorporated in Bina and to listen to him from Bina which is incorporated in the Malchut we're truly we always need to constantly be in such identification with the Creator.
Excerpt 8 and 9 Reader (02:22:26 - 02:27:26) twice
45. R. Don't be wondering that the Creator doesn't answer you, or not present but that you must relate to Him as He exists and if it does everything and operates upon you with the force that awakens everything for you you must relate to Him that He is before you and then your actions are such that you relate to Him correctly according to what the Kabbalists tell us you begin to reveal that truly he is revealed from this that we don't feel Him, we develop our senses that they begin to feel His presence and his actions upon us and how we operate upon Him. From lack of sensation, lack of understanding I'm a lack of knowledge we gradually reveal Him on the condition that we build this connection. That we continue in a way it doesn't matter what happens we must locate Him, finding and stabilizing Him correctly as much as we can from the connection in between us and then gradually we see how we make Him how we bring Him out of the concealment, you build me is how He says this is why it is called the concealed Creator, that you reveal me and this is how we reach revelation of the Creator for us.
46. S. (02:29:30) To come to the center of the ten and raise the prayer from there is an interchange of hours he also said do with us whatever you want and this force of connection from the Creator is this same change that He does with our will to receive, that He basically creates the ability in us to move to another dimension of bestowal?
R. Our force of connections stabilizes the Creator before us, we don't see the Creator as He is, He doesn't exist, we form Him, as it is written you made me, before us there is some screen some white lights, it doesn't matter what and by the connections between us we make the effort to put together His form and this is why it is called you made me. We must without stopping talk to Him we have nothing to turn to Him other than our request for connection as the things which are necessary on the path and with our connection we begin to form the connection with Him, to stabilize it in all sorts of forms that He begins already to react to us and to this extent we begin to see and sculpt Him, in the beginning is the level of still, vegetative, animal and speaking this is how we build Him until it is made a live Creator. That my heart and my flesh I shall see a live Creator is truly the work that we from such garbage matter we begin to build the Creator. Look what is happening here as we are yet to see this it is unimaginable what the Creator prepared for us and what we need to do as we specifically us, human beings oh, so lonely that we have nothing must reach to a sensation and mind that in our efforts, in the mutuality between us oh, that our partnership with it before we build the Creator. The Creator is not truly the upper force, come and see means we are building how we can form him correctly in each time as much as we rise we will feel a new creator. As Rav Zushi asks, each day we have a new Creator which seems like something that is hearsay, what everyday I have a new Creator, maybe you're insane or you don't believe. Yes I build Him such that for me appears to me that each day a new according to my group according to what I am search how I ask day form before me the Creator until I use all of my vessels that were given to me I correct all of my connections with all of the creatures and then we reach the true form of the Creator, the true depiction of the Creator, the whole one. This is all before us.
S. Is this the same field that has been blessed by the Creator where we identify with these qualities of the Creator?
R. Yes, this is how we work so I truly wish for you to succeed in the and gradually that all of these things will connect and you will feel that you have a correct expression in the work of the Creator. Where is the work of the Creator? To create before you if we can say a form, to stabilize before you the upper force. That this is the Creator and we hope for Him and that we made Him and with Him we have a connection.
47. R. We can talk about what we are doing over the course of the day how we activate our prayer how we operate it and let us summarize between us what we do so that we can connect all of the prayers and all of our forces to succeed truly making a significant step forward of unity between us and with the Creator together.
48. WSQ: How do we connect ourselves each one to his ten and all of the tens into one general vessel so that we can form the one-upper force for everyone, for all of us?