Morning Lesson November 26, 2022 Transcription

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Part 1:

Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #47

Question about Congress: We wanted to ask a question, we are exactly one week before the Congress we call, “Entering Lishma”, and here and many places in the world people will sit together in Georgia and Czechoslovakia and Baltia, many major cities people will go into a strong, inspirational Congress, many friends are preparing for it. So now we are having this debate: how should we sit in this Congress, what is the right thing for us as to spiritual advancement? It’s true that if you are meeting in Georgia, for instance, friends from all over the world are coming, they’re sitting together, they’re mixing, mingling; but in other places, the tens are gathering. So there’s a question, should we sit together as our permanent ten just as we are sitting now, as usual, and go deeper into the scrutiny in the study material of the Congress or should we mix up all together wherever we are, including the internet and go through the Congress this way. That’s the question, what is the right thing to do?

R. If you are turning to me, I would say that we need during the Congress to exit our ten, not to truly exit and to leave them physically, but to feel ourselves more mixed in one general ten of men and another of women, and to depict to ourselves that we have a great vessel which is also a ten of men and also a ten of women and in such a way that we want to get closer to bestowal to the Creator.

To connection, through connection and mutual bestowal we want to reach connection and bestowal to the Creator, this is actually the feeling that we should have in the Congress between us. And I think that we already have the preparation for this, in some more, in some less, but all-in-all we feel that if we want to come out to the spiritual air so it’s faith above reason, it is the world of bestowal, it is the Creator's realm where He dwells and He is revealed then this is what we have to do between us.

We should depict to ourselves the form of this world which exist entirely in the will to receive in the forces of reception between us, which are natural and if we want or not, we are always in them, and only as much as we try to reach connection between us in bestowal and love and nearing, only in such a way can we begin to feel to some extent the spiritual realm where it is all in the force of bestowal and love and nearing and connection. And to cross the boundary between this world and the upper world, between the world of in order to receive and the world of in order to bestow, between the world of within reason to world of above reason, this is what we are aiming ourselves for, preparing ourselves to work on. In all kinds of different places, meaning in all kinds of incidence, people are talking about ‘where is the boundary of our universe’, ‘where is the boundary of this whole world that we exist in with all of the stars and all of these forms’?

So we can cross this boundary by changing our perception from within reason to above reason and this is what we are trying to prepare ourselves for and to do. It does not happen with some missiles or some other special devices of aviation that we will fly in the space between the stars, but rather it all depends only on the men’s perception, it is all within man, as much as we expand the vessels of reception, perception then he begins to feel a different world, an opposite world, “I have seen an opposite world”, as it is written. So let's continue preparing ourselves for such revelations, we do not need to get up from our seat, we do not need to perform some physical actions here, but only inside our heart; the brain will help us and the heart will do it. Let's go towards it, I think, let's begin reading from excerpt 48.

Reading 48 (06:48) twice

1. Rav’s Introduction: (10:14) This means that the Panim, the face is already the right and the left that are correctly bound together with the correct relations and then certainly there is a truthful reception of the entire spiritual system that is managing us. Us meaning everybody, the whole world also. You can see how much the whole world is also in the lack of the right and the correct perception. They do not understand what is happening and how to arrange the world. Each time mankind wants to arrange itself, to advance forward correctly, how much it is entering again and again to a state of despair and wars, all kinds of problems. It is because we do not understand the laws of the world and we do not want to know how we can adapt ourselves to the laws of the universe, the laws of nature and this is the problem.

2. S. (11:48) The middle line is related to, when it comes to the middle line to the Achoraim, to the posterior. I do not understand because I always thought that it would be the Panim already. So what is the difference between this middle line Achoraim changing to the Panim? What does it mean?

R. The middle line is the association between the right and the left and we need first of all to develop the right line and in each and every place we go through even though we discover along the way the left we need to try to add it to the right, and this is how we advance. That is we advance even though it is on top of the left but in the direction which is toward the right, and this is our advancement, the correct advancement. This is it, and now in that there are many things, actually the entire wisdom of Kabbalah, the three lines and everything that we will study, it all exists in this system of spiritual navigation. Okay?

S. I still don't understand, even after your explanation, I do not understand why the middle line is called Achoraim and what it needs to come to the step of Panim. How can I turn it into Panim?

R. The middle line is not the posterior, you are right but it uses the desire to receive and it adds the desire to receive to the right line and this is why it is also connected to the Achoraim, the posterior.

3. S. (14:30) We read that a person walks on the left line in order to improve the right line. The question is what does it mean to make the right line better?

R. He wants to go on the right with all of his inclination being towards the right. The fact that the left awakens, he takes from all the left all of those qualities and coarseness in order to advance in the direction of the right with the baggage of the left.

4. S. (15:19) In our relations in the ten when one of the friends takes this consideration of the left line and he has his personal criticism to a friend, is this a way to go or should the criticism be more general? For me it’s hard to hear personal criticism of a friend.

R. Personal criticism, I don’t know, in general we shouldn’t. You’re asking already about something completely different from what we are studying. If you want to criticize anyone then we have to prepare ourselves for that and dedicate time to it. And in the preparation first to read a few articles from Rabash about how to enter connection on the right side and the left side and the middle, etcetera and then you can get closer to providing a criticism or about something. I wouldn’t just break through and start with that. It’s like you bring little children and you give them the possibility to also have such calculations about one of them. So what would they be able to say, in which form, with which kind of knowledge and what kind of connection between them, what middle line? They don’t have it, so I don’t think we should already reach such things. Whatever is written in the articles, it’s not all written for us yet.

5. S. (17:25) What does it mean to have the time to walk on the left line? Criticism I understand. We all have to scrutinize all the time but what is time? There is no time in spiritually.

R. Time means a state where we should accept such states when we are not on the right or on the left and then we want to dedicate certain forces and time to criticism and so we do this according to our efforts. We enter a state we are in and try to criticize it but again I am saying it is not for us yet and I do not understand why such a great inclination to engage in judgements judging the group and the friends. What do you understand about it? What do you feel regarding it? How could you do this? I do not think that this is the time yet.

S. Hold on. So the criticism should be personal and I should criticize myself all the time?

R. Even regarding this I do not think you are ready yet. Be a judge to be in a trial, these things are not simple. We have to try to look to see things through three lines with a certain experience with each one of the lines on their own and then we can begin these scrutinies but it is not just like that why did you even start about this today? Just look at what it says here. Walk on the right line and on the left line and it is only with the criticism checking that the left will not be greater than the right.There are many things to it and we must not enter into it if you do not have the preparation.

We will simply reject the friends and push them out of the group and we will not come out of it with the correct and good spirit. We have to enter such judgements regarding ourselves only on the condition that we are confident and certain 100% that we know how to advance towards the next step and it is only through such judgment and discussions between as and turning to the Creator and then we will take a correct step forward but it is not that by this we disintegrate ourselves. So I do not think we should start with that.

S. So how can we avoid this criticism and only push for the positive force for connection always?

R. Yes and if we do awaken the negative force it’s not yet the right or the left because we cannot yet divide them correctly and work with each of them separately. The most important is to maintain unity. Unity should always be increasing.

6. S. (21:32) You partially answered the question but I wanted to ask. So how to take this formula, everything we go through together in the ten for example, deciding about something because many times we have not reached a decision or maybe we postpone it. We reach a state when we have no decision and then we either come to you with questions or we wait until Bnei Baruch to decide. This is how we act all the time because we have no decision?

R. You do not need to have it. I do not understand what is happening with you today. All of you that you start to talk about judgments and how to divide and how to judge. I don't understand what is going on. You truly understand and feel that you can take such decisions about the groups, about the friends, about a friend. How come it is happening to you? You think that from this you can advance? No. It is not correct, it is not possible to judge, to have judgment it is always a step back, it is not a step forward.

S. What do you mean?

R. I think we have to speak about connection, how else to connect, how else to stay put and if we stay where we are with the inclination to advance we will discover what is coming to us and then we can judge the forces that are obstructing us. Then we will know how to overcome them together together and then in that we connect above the rejection and this is the form of our advancement it is not yet judgment.

S. Thank you.

R. This spirit that we now need to enter in some kind of judgements between us some kind of discussions between us and start to argue between us if it is correct or if it is not correct I do not think this is us. It is not our state yet. We still have to work with love covers all crimes and only in such a way to continue and continue.
It does not matter how much I am right or the friend is right the most important is nevertheless how in the meantime we go through all the states that are revealed between us. Look at children when they start fighting.

Do we want to enter into those quarrels between them? Let’s say there is a group of children and they also have some kind of chaos going on and yell and have demands from each other so do we want to go in between them? No. We want to calm things down. Why is that? Because we know it is all incidental. One time it is this way the other time it is that way and it is never something serious where somebody is insisting on his view and he has a stable and clear demand from somebody else.

It is the same between as we do not yet understand we do not yet know the forces that are operating us and we cannot detect the paths in which we need to get closer to each other until we become “as one man in one heart.” So we are in some kinds of activations and operations. By nature they are seemingly random and incidental and so let us nevertheless relate to these things in a temperate and calm manner and realize that this is how we are operated. We are being operated.

7. S. (26:55) It says in the text that we just read that we need to believe that from everything he does brings contentment to the Creator. So we do many actions in the ten but I noticed that on the subject that to believe that there is contentment to the Creator is always something that we leave it to the end as if it comes on its own. My questions about this believing that there is contentment is this an action from our side. Is this an emotional response, what feeling does it ride on, what is this believing that there is contentment to the Creator. Is it an action?

R. I begin to do something with the intention that through this I will cause contentment to the Creator this is called the end result is in the preliminary thought. This is what I would like to happen, that's it. Now if I think about this then for me the result should be connection between us and from between us to the Creator. This is what I would like to happen. That’s it. There is nothing else to add.

S. Just a moment but I have to reach some emotional summation here?

R. Yes you need to reach an emotional conclusion.

S. So do I have to feel that there is contentment or just want it?

R. You may feel it, you might criticize it, is it correct or not, do I just imagine it? It could be that you feel that it is the Creator who is shining on you that you caused Him contentment. It is possible that even in that he is shining on you you feel that you are together with him in Dvekut in connection that you are then bestowing to each. It could even be that in that you will feel that this mutual bestowal is done on your side with an effort a certain effort meaning with a certain coarseness against your original desire that you had and in that you will seemingly be able to contribute to the Creator your effort and this is how you will begin to get closer and even to connect with each other, “I to my beloved and my beloved to me.”

8. S. (30:11) You said that in the tendencies towards connection we have to see what is standing in our way and how to overcome that in the connection. We find out that the Creator is what is standing in our way. So how to advance? Should we cancel the Creator?

R. To cancel the disturbances not to cancel them that you erase them but you go above the disturbances.

S. But in the text and the sources it says that you have to cling to the right. You do actions you try to connect to the friends you are sitting with them in connection and the Creator is bringing different thoughts to you.

R. Why are you asking why you did not learn why?

S. How to invest into more connection? You are already in connection?

R. In order for you to establish the connection even stronger. He does that. He adds disturbances so you can add additional forces to the connection.

S. But what should I do? What should I do? I can place them aside, that's what we usually do.

R. Not pushing to the side.

S. So how to work with the criticism and avoid criticism towards Creator Himself?

R. Yes, work with this criticism as well and along with that be in Dvekut with the friends and with the Creator but He is seemingly working against you. Seemingly because it is called help against you in spite of that you connect with the friends and I do not want to say yet that you are neutralizing it but you are adding it to his disturbance the fact that you are connecting with the friends even more and this is how you rise on the degrees of connection.

S. So it moves from a place of criticism to gratitude because criticism gratitude?

R. That's also after that you have to have gratitude that the Creator is hindering you by that He is obligating you to overcome the disturbance and connect to the friends even more and with Him.

S. This duality of the work with the Creator sometimes causes a situation at least for me of anger.

R. I don't understand that.

S. You invest you want but you cannot break through.

R. You don’t need to break through. You have to work with all that heaviness that He adds to you. Let’s say those who lift weights in the gym. So let's say you are lifting 200kg. They add another 10 kilograms. You have to lift that as well and then another 20kg. So each time you are overcoming and the Creator adds from above more heaviness. One who is greater than his friend, his inclination is also greater. The Creator awakens the inclination more.

S. Then He stabs you so you will remember Him?

R. It comes through family and through your character and through your friends through alll kinds of means and you have to think about a single thing only: how about all of these things how they help me to Dvekut with the Creator.

9. S. (34:05) I also have a question in the same spirit. We in the ten are very active and we do whatever we need. We go beyond. We work in dissemination and there is also a feeling of a very good connection between us. Yesterday during the meal you said that we have to prepare our hearts to be naked without any external clothing to feel that the heart of the friend is touching my heart flesh to flesh and then I suddenly felt that I don't understand what you are talking about.

What connection you are talking about these are states we do not know and we do not know how to work in this direction so I understand that one day, then one more day ,more work, more connection but it seems that we are supposed to do something different to reach such a degree of connection that flesh is touching flesh and heart is touching heart.

R. This all comes from above but you have to put pressure into it you have to give drive and willingness from below.

S. What can we add from our state? More hours and more Zoom meetings?

R. No it is not about more zoom meetings or hours it is about the heart.

S. We do not feel that there is an action I can do that my heart would be more connected to the friends or loving the friends more.I do not know how to activate this. What buttons to press?

R. I cannot do this instead of you. Simply to get closer in your heart to the friend you need to want to participate with him from your heart.

S. What does it mean in action to come closer, you are his friend there, we have this joint work and everything is ok but what?

R. These are all only words.

S. I feel that the flesh to flesh is also words, it does not move anything so what should we do?

R. You have to pray to the Creator that He will open your heart: you'll have to cry before Him. Do your work hereYou have to ask the Creator to do his work on you there is nothing else to do you have to have some more patience and in the end you will hear these things and you will feel them inside but at least you should feel how much we are talking and still it does not enter the heart it is still does not enter the internality of the feeling you are saying words and these words are just awakening up air but not feelings.

S. What can we do to evoke emotions and feelings?

R. Pray ask the Creator that He would help you to feel these things a bit more inside. It takes a lot of time and many months until it breaks a bit more inside and this is the way. There is nothing else to do we have to be very patient here this is why it is written that thousands enter the room and one goes out to the light that it is not going to happen just like that to someone by itself and don't you also look at those who seemingly succeed they probably did not yet get the burdening of the heart where as somebody else has already received this burden. We have to hold everybody and we will advance and those who fall we should also try to be together with them in the place where they are and to try to bring them out of that place.

S. I have a feeling that to go out for such a thing to happen you need some traumatic event like an accident or something that changes your brain and your perception of life and connection to God. Without this in the routine of life you cannot move an inch. This is how it seems that you need something big to restart the person and otherwise their heart will not change. Is there a way to initiate this restart? I'm not going to go into an accident on purpose but can the person restart himself somehow? In a Congress?

R. A spoke about this at the beginning of the lesson. About the boundary between this world and the higher world. So there are those who depict it as the boundary of the universe and something that exists beyond it outside.

There are no stars or all kinds of systems like those that are in our universe but there are other things. What things we do not know. We need to depict to ourselves that we really truly exist in the boundary between the world that we feel and we are able to depict to ourselves somehow to a world which is entirely different where there forces of bestowal operate. Now we do not know what are these forces of bestowal because our entire perception feeling of the universe it all exists within the control of the force of reception. So that then we have to depict to ourselves what does it mean to go out to a realm where the force of bestowal dwells. The force of bestowal which is the Creator. This is where we are coming closer to this boundary and how do we exit?

How do we break through how do we exit this world into the spiritual world and this is through getting a force from above that changes our nature from reception to bestowal so that we would become similar to the Creator and then to that extent that we receive such forces we continue flying but already in a new dimension in that new place in the new world. In the world of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria and Atzilut in the spiritual worlds. In our world it is the central point as we have read about it in part one of The Study of the Ten Sefirot that it is in the center of all of the worlds as the black point and within that black point there is only the will to receive and us. So slowly, bit by bit, we need to establish this perception within us and then we will start to feel the upper worlds and our world.

10. S. (42:58) You gave a complete answer to the question I wanted to ask but I also want to ask is as if inside of me there is a fire burning that is distancing me from the friends and from the path and from the ten. So what can I do in order to overcome this moment when nobody can help me and this is what I think?

R. If nobody can help you as you think then above that there is only the Creator. So turn to Him and demand from Him and be in Dvekut with Him like a child that is coming to his mother for instance and he will not leave until he gets what he wants and ultimately he does. So that’s how we have to relate to the Creator. This is it so ask and demand and examine your request if it is correct or maybe you are demanding things that can completely harm you. But if it is not harmful and you think it is advancing you then go ahead and demand more and more.

S. I do not manage to understand if I am asking correctly if I'm asking for myself because eventually I'm asking for my own pleasure. This is why I feel this is why I don't manage to understand correctly if my request is correct but I'm grateful to you?

R. For this also you need to request here to be able to scrutinize your request so that it would be correct and you would be able to get an answer from above.

11. S. (45:16) Am I asking correctly for the right thing? Also how would I know?

R. I cannot tell you. A person should see himself all the time to examine himself and this way when he examines himself he can rise from one degree to another because whatever you have in your present degree you need to scrutinize it to criticize it to examine it and on the next degree you can correct it. That's how it is from one state to the other you can rise more and more.

S. What is the ascent in?

R. The ascent from one degree to the other is when you criticize your actions and the Creator’s actions on you and you see that He all the time that He, is adding new qualities that are spiritual to you,qualities of bestowal and qualities of love and this is how He draws you truly to Him. Try to detach yourself from yourself and to be in Dvekut with Him.

S. It should be above the request?

R. Yes.

12. S. (47:02) I feel that the Creator is giving extra coarseness and rejection, this is what we are familiar with, it’s not the first time but he doesn’t give enough forces of connection, He's doesn’t shine on me in order for me to be able to overcome this rejection, and this is the problem. He gives the coarseness but he does not help with His light against, and I am all alone with my evil inclination and there is a picture in front of me which is everything that is impossible. Please help me.

R. This is something I hear from many people and I have also gone through these things on my own, it took a long time and there is none as wise as the experienced. So we all have to go through these states and this is a step away, even though it’s very unpleasant you learn a lot from it. You only need to try in these times to be attached to the Creator, adhered to the Creator no matter what you get, despite what you receive and what you feel.

You have no knowledge, nothing, you have no emotions, nothing, you have nothing. You are adhered to Him because in this way exactly you become an embryo, this is the time. So try to diminish yourself as much as you can just to be attached to the Creator in a state where you have nothing and you will not have anything and you do not want anything aside from adhesion in a single point. And then you start being like a drop of semen in the womb and from that you start developing.

S. No, it is not clear, by all this process I think what the Creator wants to give is pain. I am having pain, the friends are feeling pain, without confidence, without faith. This is taking all the faith and confidence, putting us inside the pain and in the nearest point of death He saves us,He gives us fear that we will lose everything and in that point He saves us. All the time this process happens hundreds of times, thousands of times and I’m furious. Even coming to the morning lesson is extremely hard for me, you cannot know how hard it is for me to ask questions, to see the ten, to see the world Kli, to see my teacher.

R. Yes. You see you are such a hero, you have no strength to overcome your emotion. You are given a bit of a burdening of the heart and you become like a bunny.So how do you see yourself?

S. But the Creator created me, so you can ask Him why did he create me like this?

R. Okay, so now you are pulling me out of your pocket and a few more sentences so you can justify yourself. We’re not talking about you being strong or being wise or successful, no. We’re talking about how you discover the Creator's actions on you, this is all. The fact that you’re weak that’s clear, the fact that you’re the created being and you have nothing on your own, that’s clear. But what comes out of that, how can you take the next step, the next step. So the next step should be what? You tell me.

S. Demand?

R. It’s clear it’s a demand because you have nothing, but what to demand?

S. Hassadim?

R. I don’t know Hassadim.

S. The importance of the Creator or faith in the Creator?

R. That too, I don't know what faith is. You’re bringing such definitions that are from the academy; something simple that everyone can understand.

S. So connection?

R. Connection. You want to feel the Creator by annuling yourself, that's all, this is the work of the embryo. On his behalf the Creator puts him inside Himself, in the womb, this is something that the Creator does. He brings this drop of semen into the womb in Himself and here all a person needs to do is to annul himself more and more. And then according to his annulment forces can act upon him, Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida in the first degree. Then Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama and this way more and more and more. All these months of pregnancy all these nights and days, there are no nights and days for an embryo in our concepts but all those stages it has to go through in order to grow. And then it grows more and more.

By what? By more and more of an egoistic desire awakening in him. He feels himself opposite to the Creator, to the womb when the womb is entirely to bestow and he is in it, in this womb entirely to receive and he only asks from the womb, from the upper one to annul his will to receive so he can grow as an embryo in the womb. And then he starts growing and then he also starts to feel in that desire that starts to develop in him a bit more and more, he starts to feel in this desire that he is in the womb and in this desire he becomes connected with his upper, he starts to feel his upper. This is how we should start to advance. This will happen, it will happen.

13. S. (56:19) You have already answered most of it but I would like to hear it again so I do not make a mistake. It looks like that until now we were able to advance with knowledge, we did not define precisely what connection is, that’s my question about connection. Connection is already a beginning of love? It’s a device that gives me some access to experiments and corrections that allow me to love the friends above all the disturbances and become this drop of semen?

R. When we are within the upper one to the extent we annul our ego, each one is willing to connect to the friends, to that extent we discover, we feel that we are like an embryo, in impregnation within the upper one and then we start feeling the upper one, the womb. The womb is our whole universe our whole nature; when we feel, it’s all felt in us as a womb. So how it affects us and how we can identify with the entire nature being the Creator, Elokim. God in numerical value is nature. And in this way we also advance between ourselves a little bit more and more. And also through this connection between us we start to feel the forces that act on us which is the Creator. And this is how we grow, this is what happens to us.

14. S. (58:56) The battle for self annulment is it when we seek the middle line and rise above the confrontation?

R. Yes, we need in every place meaning in every state we’re in on the path we need to care about the connection between us because connection is advancement, it’s going forward. That’s why if we go against all the forces of separation and acquire and ask and pray for forces of connection, that’s basically our work towards the correction. And on the way to correction we’ll discover more and more spiritual states when we discover how much we're nonetheless connected with the disturbances between us.

There are so many disturbances between us but still nonetheless there are also forces of connection. And then we’ll see that these forces of connection and these forces of separation can work in a mutual way, like a plus and a minus in a system and then we’ll see how much we exist this way. Our corporeal body too also works with systems that are opposites, are in contrast with each other but we exist thanks to that. It stems from the Creator being one, but the created beings, the world that the Creator created has to be made up of two forces, and this is what we discover.

15. S. (01:01:36) Good morning dear teacher. There is this feeling that's the right prayer that the Creator wants to hear already exists inside of us however we are searching for it in the wrong place. I don't want to ask about for myself, I want to ask for my friends. Can you give us the direction how to get closer to the right prayer?

R. That is only under the condition that you will talk about it between yourselves and do it together. One should help his friend, not that each of you has to work on his own. When he hears a few words in the lesson from me and does it quietly, it should be a bit more to show yourselves to each other and this will help you.

16. S. (01:02:45) This advancement on the middle line that we use the right line and the left line, it happens many times a day or it happens in a change of state that we have yet to reach in our work? It happens only after a lot of time?

R. It happens when it should happen and we should accept all these states, they all lead us towards the goal. What we feel inside comes directly from the Creator and we need to accept it as an aid for correction.

17. S. (01:03:37) Is the middle line a result of our prayer?

R. It includes the prayer as well, but we ultimately feel, we feel the action by the Creator, the response by us and the result of the two.

18. S. (01:04:16) I hope my question is related not to judgment but to the correction. According to the Ten Commandments we must not bow down to idols. If a friend in the group leaves the spiritual path and starts to bow down before the gods of art or sports or other egoistic engagements of this world, by this does he shift the whole world from the scale of merit to the scale of demerit, or thanks to our connection in the group we neutralize such a negative influence of the friend?

R. The friend comes down from our teachings to corporeal business. He doesn’t disturb us, it’s not idol worshiping. That’s why we have nothing to talk about. Let him do it, later he’ll want to come back, he can come back. By that he’s not harming us, whereas your shape worries me because here this can be a kind of idol worshiping. Think about it.

19. S. (01:05:58) You explained in the beginning of the lesson that we should reach a state of one heart. We are in an act of connection and we feel we achieved a special degree of connection. Does it immediately pass onto other tens or should we perform something active in order for that to happen?

R. The action on our behalf is only connection, only coming closer. I have nothing else to answer.

S. How to make it pass on to the friends and not to stay with us?

R. Talk about it, have an assembly, talk, read something, be a bit more active in the ten.

S. And then it will automatically pass onto the rest of the society?

R. Yes.

20. S. (01:07:00) There's a question by the women if there was some change in the policy of showing them and if so how can they ask questions? Should they ask like before with the Arvut system or put up a question mark so they will be shown? There was no announcement about it.

R. We did not change our policy or anything, we just kept on going as we were with men. Soon we will ask the women as well.

S. So you’re saying they will show them later, the women?

R. I think we'll find the time for that too. The women and the men can send us their questions and we’ll relate to them, of course. We have to be flexible, we don't always have a way to put all the men and all the women and to mix them together. Today that’s how it turned out. We’ll sometimes have parts that maybe the women will be upfront and the man in the back but usually it's the men who come first.

21. S. (01:08:34) Sometimes it appears that only if there was no corporeal disturbance I was able to advance. Is that luxuries?

R. It's not luxuries. All the disturbances, the way they seem to us are not disturbances, it’s actually help for us to advance.

22. S. (01:09:02) In relation to what you said about the transition from one world to the other, what does it mean to be under forces of bestowal?

R. Forces of development by the Creator, we are there in them.

S. But what happens with all the forces of reception?

R. The forces of reception also developed from that.

S. So what is the difference between the worlds if there are still forces of reception there?

R. Hold on. The whole reality is built from having a force of reception, there is no such a thing as a force of reception disappearing, God forbid, no. Everything is built on the will to receive and within the will to receive, it’s just that to extent the will to receive absorbs in it the qualities of bestowal.

S. So if everything is the will to receive then in relation to the spiritual reality what does it mean that we are now adding forces of bestowal to the will to receive? What changes?

R. The desire to bestow is the Creator himself about which we cannot speak at all, we have no words about the will to bestow. It’s only that if this will to bestow appears upon, within, by something with the will to receive then we can feel the way the will to bestow influences, affects the will to receive and that’s what we are talking about. We're talking about the revelation of the Creator within the created being, the will to bestow that’s revealed in the will to receive.

S. What is the difference between the way the will to receive operates? In the present state it's clear to me how it operates. What will be the addition to the will to receive that the will to bestow will give to the will to receive?

R. When both these desires are acting as one and the desire to receive also wants to take upon itself the form of bestowal, that’s called to bestow in order to bestow or even to receive in order to bestow, then we see that the will to receive reveals the Creator.

The will to bestow itself if it has nothing to bestow upon you cannot see, it’s concealed. However to the extent that the created being comes and he gives himself, he hands himself out to the revelation of the Creator so that the will to bestow can be revealed in the created being’s will to receive, accordingly we can say that the Creator exists. Prior to that we cannot say that He exists.

S. So there is still reception in the vessel?

R. Is there still reception in the vessel, yes of course. We're not talking about the vessel that has no force of reception.

S. So this addition, if there is reception and now there is also the force of bestowal that operates in the same vessel…

R. So we are talking about the force of bestowal that’s revealed in the force of reception.

S. What changes then?

R. That it's revealed. And it's revealed with respect to the force of reception which is the foundation of the created being and the force of bestowal which is the quality of the Creator. Then we can talk about the combination between the Creator and the creator being. How the created being reveals the Creator how the Creator is revealed within the created being.

S. So the differences between the worlds, in both of them there is a reception eventually, so in the spiritual world the addition is that we receive in different vessels?

R. I receive in vessels of reception that are capable to absorb, to perceive the force of bestowal.

S. And the actions are the same actions? It’s all the same just that..

R. To the extent that you can receive in order to bestow that is the force of bestowal of the created being towards the Creator. So he's working with his vessels of reception in order to bestow to the host. He has to receive the refreshments but for the benefit of the host.

S. This means that if the vessel doesn't meet this condition, that I'm receiving it for the benefit of the host then it does not receive?

R. Then it is not yet a vessel.

23. S. (01:15:00) In the beginning of the article Rabash, says “I have to believe that everything I do brings contentment to the Creator”, but what are the conditions for me to reach such a faith that everything I do brings Him contentment?

R. Contentment to the Creator, you can do that to the extent that you resemble Him, meaning you are also bestowing to others, to others or to the Creator Himself, by that you bring contentment, The Creator doesn't need anything but by wanting to resemble Him, to make yourself compatible to Him, to be like Him, by that you bring contentment.

24. S. (01:16:15) In addition to the previous question, could the Creator cause us descents roughly in order to encourage us to hold on to Him?

R. He causes us to feel distant from Him so that we will grab hold of Him even more. There is a matter of holding on like a little child that wants to receive, and there is a matter of holding onto the upper one in order to bestow which means Dvekut, adhesion. Adhesion has to be to the extent that I resemble the influence of upper one on me, and I want to give Him, to return to Him; so the little child is in his mother's hands and he clings to her and the adult wants to be in an embrace with the upper one, to completely bestow to the upper one, that is the difference, so everything depends on the intention.

25. S. (01:18:12) The faith that a person brings contentment to the Creator, is that before the deed or after the deed?

R. Say it again?

S. The faith that a person gives contentment to the Creator, it comes before the deed or after the deed, meaning it comes to guide me or to give me a feeling after I performed it?

R. I don't understand, that faith is to bring contentment to the Creator, faith is the inner force within the created being.

S. It's written that the person has to believe he's giving contentment to the Creator.

R. Okay, so there is faith and there is to bring contentment to the Creator but it's not that they are one and the same.

S. I don't understand, it says “a person has to believe that he's given contentment to the Creator”, that’s what’s written. So if I believe I give Him contentment, is that to guide me before I do a deed so I choose the right deed, or do I do a deed and then I feel that I gave contentment, is there a correction in this?

R. It is the action itself.

26. S. (01:19:56) I don't understand what you answered, what do you mean the deed itself, giving contentment, also what was asked before.

R. Yes?

S. So if a person performs an action without the intention to begin with, that this desire, this deed, no matter what, will give contentment to the Creator, can he retroactively put the intention on it?

R. How retroactively, I don't understand?

S. Let's say I did some action for the Creator but I forgot to intend it to the Creator.

R. So you did what you did and that’s it.

S. What happens to the deed, what was the benefit?

R. As much as you managed to join the intention to the action, that is what you have done, that is what it's working.

S. The whole matter is, the whole point is to put the intention before each and every action?

R. Of course, this is called ‘blessing’.

27. S. (01:20:55) You said to try and separate from yourself and adhere to the Creator, what does it mean?

R. In bringing contentment to the upper one, contentment to the upper one.

S. That’s the intention?

R. Of course, it is intention, action, whatever possible towards the upper one that manages you, sustains you and sustains and guides all your life matter as much as you identify him.

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28. S. (01:21:53) What does it mean to connect my will to receive to the right line?

R. That I have to locate and exactly find what do I belong: left or right, the line of bestowal or that of reception, and work accordingly.

29. S. (01:22:27) How can we believe while we're serving the King that all of our actions are truly giving Him contentment?

R. I have faith that by making actions through the friends, I reach the Creator with these actions.

30. S. (01:22:51) Is working in the right and the left an motion and intellect or both?

R. Both in the right and on the left we have both mind and emotion.

31. S. (01:23:09) What does it mean to be connected to the friends and through them to the Creator?

R. We should depict to ourselves that the connection between the friends includes in it the Creator as well, and the Creator resides at the center of the connection between the friends, and we do want to connect with the friends in order to achieve unity with the Creator through that.

32. S. (01:24:03) Is the coarseness an extra force being revealed in bestowal, do we use it to rise above our resistance?

R. Yes the thickness, Avuit. Say it again, what’s the question?

S. Is Aviut, coarseness, a force that is revealed in bestowal already?

R. Yes, in receiving in order to bestow, and?

S. Do we use this force in order to rise above the resistance?

R. We use this force to rise above the resistance and bestow even more with the will to receive as well.

33. S. (01:24:54) There is a feeling that we're trying to pull the love of the Creator to ourselves, do we have to release this desire for the friends?

R. No, together, we have to work together, sometimes we say that, that we seemingly direct the love of the Creator towards the friends, but practically we need to try to be together and draw His attention to us, to all of us.

34. S. (01:25:29) What is Idol worshiping, what saves us from it?

R. Foreign work or idol worshiping, is that we want to try to do all kinds of actions for our own benefit, for ourselves, that is what it's called ‘idol worshiping’, and spiritual work, clean spiritual work is that we ask for the benefit of the others.

35. S. (01:26:02) About the big disturbances that the Creator puts in our path, how do we turn the pain that they cause us into happiness?

R. To the extent that we are connected, pain becomes joy.

36. S. (01:26:21) What is the difference between the posterior to the face, do they both have the taste of the dust?

R. No, to the extent of the posterior becomes the face, the taste of dust disappears and there is actually good taste of the whole of NRNHY.

37. S. (01:26:44) Does being adhered to the Creator mean to yearn to bestow to the friends as much as possible, in every moment?

R. Yes.

38. S. (01:27:00) You say to be a bit more open to one another, what does it mean, what should we open to one another?

R. The heart.

39. S. (01:27:12) Sometimes it's hard to love our friends. is it because we don't love ourselves correctly?

R. Yes, that you don't love yourselves correctly then you're not loving the others, because if you were able to love each other correctly then you would understand that the expression of this love is in actually loving others.

40. S. (01:27:47) The Creator awakens the light and the darkness so when we reveal darkness and reveal bad, we don't view it comes from Him, why doesn't He show this to us?

R. If you reach the Creator then you will ask Him and get the answer, He's doing everything to give us the best possible, safest, progress for our state and more than that, He doesn't open up so we don't get confused.

41. S. (01:28:40) How do we establish connection if we go through states?

R. Repeat?

S. How do you establish the connection if we are going through all these states?

R. If we're going through various states, right, how do we stabilize or establish the connection? We always want connection on top of the changing states, there is nothing in spirituality that exists without changing, there are always changes all the time.

42. S. (01:29:31) I wanted to thank you for this lesson, we have to listen to it again and again, we have great happiness that we have come to a state of studying this.

R. Thank you.

43. S. (01:29:51) You said the person has to give his everything to bestow to the Creator and what does he bestow to the Creator?
R. By nullifying his ego and wanting to connect to the others, meaning the Creator broke the world, shattered the Kli, the general Kli of Adam HaRishon, and man wants to correct that shattering, to bring the vessel to connection once again.

S. He becomes the partner of the Creator, that is it?

R. Yes, yes.

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