Morning Lesson August 14, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: Actually this is our main work. As we want to enter the higher world the world of bestowal and the process of entering begins from Ibur, conception then Yenicka the Mochin, impregnation, suckling and adulthood where we acquire the entire upper world discover the Creator there, in all that area, the true space. Then we discover where we are now is called the imaginary world which is given to us, for us to exist for the time being and on his behalf attain something which is against, opposite to the Creator. At which point we will discover that what we have here is all help against him. The ego, the desire to receive, the physical world. It is all against the Creator, against the spiritual world because only in that they can be differentiated between light and darkness and our entire feeling is just this compared to that.
Therefore let's put forth several additional stages, forces, and discernments. We need to acquire them, find them, locate them and let's incorporate in them since this is what remains for us in order to come to the first degree of the upper world which is called Ubar, the embryo. So our entrance is by nullifying ourselves egotistically in place of that through a special transition called Ibur, impregnation we enter a different quality which is the quality of the Creator, which is the quality of bestowal. At which point through this quality of bestowal we see an opposite world, a very different other reality instead of this temporary which is filled with suffering necessities. We see a reality which is complete, eternal, and one that supplies us with endless nourishment, knowledge and ability and the existence above all limitations.
For the time being we have to develop within the limitations and above them in order to acquire the opposite qualities to the limitations and in this and only in this way, can the creatures acquire the upper world. This is why it is written in the heading that we should put to death our own authority which is the condition to enter spirituality. We will learn and we will ask and all together the document is not big. It is only two pages long. We go through it as much as we need to devote time to it. The main thing is to try to feel it. I recommended all these documents which we started from the point we defined the state of Ibur, impregnation, entering Ibur and working on Ibur and go over all the documents, not just what we are learning now. But we have learnt so far during the last month or so and see how these verses become closer to you. They will be more clear and understood according to the demand of the text of the sages who wrote them and they become closer and we are becoming more able to implement it in practice, reveal, come closer to the truth and for the time being let's read.
Excerpt 1 (05:15)
2. R. (07:08) Here we can see that there are two or maybe three stages. The first stage in which the person seemingly already comes to a state where he can hear what we need to do in or there to bestow and the person can hear this. Certainly he has yet to do anything in such actions but let's say there is no choice and we are told that only in such a way I can enter the spiritual world, discover the spiritual world which exists here but I do not feel that this is in control and it is a spiritual world, it is the world of forces and only through the forces of bestowal can I be that. Just like I am now in the forces of reception so if forces of reception I imagine for myself this world and I see how much it is in there are still, vegetative, animate, and speaking and I can be in contact with them and they influence me and I can influence them. I imagine all this in my qualities in my forces in my intellect and feeling and this is called this world.
The Sages tell us that we can come to a state where we can see beyond this. Besides this, when we ourselves enter a different world that you see there is a world that is much more vast and powerful and the internal eternal, whole and endless. It is higher than all this small world that you see at this point and it is a much more tangible world and much more powerful world. That world is what controls this world we are now given to see. We cannot see this as a preparation that we have some existence that if we want we can rise to the truthful world to the world of truth. That in this way we need to try and accept the words of the Sages because they already did this and they tell us about their experiences.
So the first stage they are telling us about is that if we want to move from one world to another we need to actually, to the extent we disconnect ourselves from the lower world, we can move to the sensation of the upper world. That's it just like we feel this world we have to replace this feeling with the feeling of that other world and what do we need for that? Not much just to replace our desires, cravings, the vessels of reception will change and by that we will start to feel that we moved to a different room where everything is felt in a different sense. That sense can be developed in the first world in the first room or this world and we then enter as much as I acquire this other quality, the other sense the quality of bestowal, the quality of love connection compared to what we have in this room where we have opposite qualities. It is not for no reason that we are given these different qualities in these two different rooms, in these two worlds, so it would be easier for us so we could actually reach the light instead of the darkness, the good instead of bad and somewhat depict qualities of that world. And this is how we need to get engaged in that.
Besides that the Sages tell us we need to engage in this in a group because one will help his friend. We need to give examples, negative ones and positive ones, but they all need to be aimed at a state where we are leaving this world, this room and we move to the next room to the next world. The difference between them is as it is written that there is no difference between this world and the upper one only the enslavement of the Malchut, where the desire to receive governs and controls with all of it might upon my heart and mind and each and everybody in this world. And in the higher world there is a different force not the force of reception in the heart and mind for my own benefit but on the contrary for the benefit of others in mind and heart. And if I try to somehow do such exercises then it is like I am going through a certain school, education where I see that I am willing to enter the next room, the upper world, where everything exists according to the measure of bestowal instead of reception.
This is what we have to do and that sages tell us this is how the Creator wants us and if we do not want it very innovatively, we have to go through this transition. Because the plan of creation is to move us to a good special state. It is inevitable, the Creator prepared for us this whole process from the light soft conditions which do not press us instead He explains and wraps us in all kinds of His forces, the soft forces but later more and more as much as we do not want to hear and in place of correcting our desire to receive to a desire to bestow, we use His entire care of us, in order to grow the desire to receive instead of diminishing it. Then we see the Creator's care for us even though He's constantly caring only in the direction of good, we feel His attitude towards us as more harsh, pressing, serious. This is how we see that humanity is entering this contradiction with the Creator at which point we feel our problems, our sorrows and torments which take place in us in a much more harsh way.
This is how we need to see it especially in this stage we are entering a period which is already called The Last Generation. Meaning we have already come to a state where all the previous states which we could have entered in order to give to the nature of the Creator in a soft beautiful way. Now we have to do this through hard forces, decisive forces that come from nature and the very ultimate forces that either we do them or not and if not then we will die or we will have such a suffering that we would prefer to die and this is what we have to understand. That all together this is what stands before us and this is why we have here two forms of death. I am talking in absolute seriousness when we slowly, slowly come to this although it is not clear yet, we still want to run into all kinds of adventures that would fulfill us time after time. In our previous times but now what stands before us is a very simple calculation. Just as you see from the title of the lesson; to put to death one's own authority. We either die, or we put to death that which wants to put us to death, it is one or the other. If we love our desire to receive and we give it an authority to control as usual then it will put us to death and if we want to survive then we need as much as we love it nevertheless we have to put it to death.
We need to think about these words about these states and we have to decide and progress. And to add to this the main thing we need to do is to just ask, just to pray for the Creator to do upon us all the necessary actions that he wants, that he understands what needs to be done. That we just think of how we receive some form of connection, actions so that we will be able to ask in such a way that the Creator would help us and correct us and make of us what is necessary. It does not matter in what language, it does not matter in what words, it doesn't matter who appeals, all of us men women everybody this is how we need to be. Just like you see that the world is slowly gradually taking on this round form like Baal HaSulam wrote about this a hundred years ago. That we enter a new era which is called The Last Generation. The Last Generation of correction where we already are, all of us have to enter into connection with the Creator. If we are there to depict this in such a way that if imagining it this way that the whole of mankind have to do this and we have to be the first one's and this is how it turns out. Then we won't throw away this mission of ours, but instead we progress and succeed with our responsibility for all of mankind to turn to the Creator and demand correction from Him. All together he does all the corrections, he leads us to the goal but only with the condition that we ask for it.
Excerpt 1 again (20:49)
3. S. (22:43) This action of the person asking the Creator to disconnect him from the lower world is this something we do alone or the whole 10 together?
R. We do not need to ask so much for the disconnection from this lower world, this also seems very selfish, we just want to be in one thing; to be attached to the Creator with the force of bestowal, with the force of love and connection, that’s what we need to ask for more. And what happens to us in this world then to the extent in which we request for the force of bestowal and connection then inevitably distance from the selfish form from this world.
S. This is something we do alone or together as the 10?
R. We are not talking about this here, it is clear that it is the whole of 10 and the world Kli, workshops, study and everything. We’re not talking about that. This is already the means. We are only talking about the actual essence of the action. But the way and how it takes place, of course it has to take place in the 10s and in hundreds and thousands and as much as the person needs to, for this to strengthen him and to convince him.
4. S. (24:24) What does it mean that the force of love and bestowal controls us between us in the 10?
R. When we go through this we see what it is. It is called, as one man in one heart which we don't feel yet. Well imagine to yourselves that 10 individuals connect in order to bestow to be connected in one Partzuf to the Keter. There in every individual Sefira there are also 10 Sefirot, each of them incorporated with the others and then the whole form of their incorporation connects from them to the essence, to the result of their incorporation of each of them and all of them and by that they build the Keter. This is called “You have made Me,” this is the Creator that they can imagine to themselves.
5. S. (25:43) We learned that we are not supposed to ruin anything, everything has its purpose. Can you explain what it means to put to death that selfish ego?
R. We cannot do anything without our ego. Rather all that we can do is to turn to the Creator and the Creator will act and also it is not so important that you tell the Creator what to do with the ego. The Creator will do with it what understands and feels. Meaning according to the degree you are in the Creator is an absolute system which performs on all your qualities each time according to your request. If the request is correct for progress then the Creator does that request. How does he do this? We do not know this is the action of the upper force. To what state you reach, you also do not know. You can ask for whatever you want, but actually we are learning that the foundation of our request is nullification. I do not need anything else, except to annul. You can do whatever with me, I just want to be nullified, I just want to let go of my ego, so it won’t not define to me what I will do and this is how I want to fulfill myself with the Creator. For him to fill my heart and mind and function and operate all my desires and all my thoughts. This is actually what I am asking for. And then as such we progress. From now till the end of correction it is the same prayer all of the time for the Creator to give me each time gradually more and more mind and heart from Him. His mind and heart and this is how I replace them and kind of go through an upgrade upon myself.
6. S. (28:18) It is the first time I heard in the introduction that nullifying myself can be selfish and then we need to enter a new domain where we stop this selfishness. How to recognize that our nullification is actually a deficit?
R. Look, if let's say, I am in a state where it really hurts me and my pain comes from me being selfish then I understand that if the ego was not in me then I would not suffer. I am looking at you, a young guy, good-looking and I am old and ugly and I suffer, this is on one hand. On the other hand I'm thinking why should I suffer. I do not want to suffer to see him as good looking and I am not. He is wise and I am not, it is best if I don't have an ego, you I would not suffer because of my selfish ego. So in such a way we can also change ourselves and we do that somewhat in our psychology. In the wisdom of Kabbalah we have to develop specifically this envy, lust and honor in order to envy the higher qualities that we need to see in our friends. Then each and every friend if I really want to, even in my state I can make efforts and discover in the friends unique qualities unique new qualities that are truly worthwhile for me to acquire. In each of us there is something and this is called “One will help his friend” where each gives an example to the others as much as possible to progress more on this path.
7. S. (31:23) It says that the Torah exists only for one who is putting himself to death. I exhausted myself in the beginning to put all the enormous efforts but realized my program was not working, at that point I surrendered. Is this called putting myself to death? I realize that I cannot do this without the Creator?
R. Yes, the first step in our stage of progress, which sometimes takes many years that I want on my own to acquire the spiritual degree, the spiritual road and then I learn a lot. Maybe I do all kinds of actions just like in the study in university and I think it through that I can attain something until I break, when I break and I see that I cannot do this with my own forces it does not work for me. Either I leave and many people leave this path, this way, who will come to that world as the spies said, it is nice and but you cannot reach it and therefore they remain in the desert because they do not have the possibility to enter spirituality and there are those who do not leave because they cannot leave.
Either they are more or less become active and they are in some delay of sort, they are on standby and then after a few years each and everybody nevertheless gets a certain wake up because in the connection with the people who are more active, they remain in connection with the more active people and this is how they wake up and start to progress. But already their progress is not in a way that they want to progress by their own forces, they already understand that with their own force, they cannot progress and search how can they progress nevertheless how can they enter into spirituality? It is a certain emotional, psychological, intellect, barrier, boundary, sensory barrier, how can I if I am here in the distance in the same place, I am not gripping onto this, I cannot see him. So what can I do and by this we start to understand that only through the connection and only through prayer with the help of the higher force that the Creator has to do the actions. These processes and then every place that the Creator operates, but He operates according to the request of people so if we gather correctly and we turn to Him and we ask.
Then we can progress this way and then it is a stage that the person starts to digest his position, his attitude to spirituality and starts to connect more and more correctly with other people and finds himself and others in a way that they are understanding and demanding together from the Creator to help them, to help them connect and in the connection come to the Creator as nobody can do this alone and also the group cannot do this without everybody. Everyone has to be connected each with their own qualities but in one direction where the connection between us in the mutual giving. Do you know for us to establish this mutual bestowal between us there will be the Creator this is called, “You have made Me” that there is None Else Besides Him. Nothing comes from another place but from our necessity from the missing sensation that first we want to connect and then we want to discover the Creator to give Him. This is how we feel that we build Him, we invite Him and from there the Creator comes and appears before them this is more correct to say that He appears in them.
8. S. (37:48) Is it correct to say that we want to put this as our intention to receive?
R. Yes, only that, because our actions, they do not need to change so much but in the actions everything depends on the intention.
9. S. (38:16) What we read, it says that we're in the time that he wants to do everything for the sake of heaven and that for his own sake and we heard that you said that we need to convince ourselves that this is for our benefit. Is there a difference between benefit for ourselves?
R. For our benefit it can be for the benefit of the Creator as well.
S. Meaning in this case when we see ourselves as the part of the whole collective it can also be the benefit of the heavens, ourselves and for the Creator?
R. Of course, if I want to hold onto the Creator it means that what's good for Him, it is good for me what is good for the Creator, it is good for me as well.
10. S. (39:17) You said we seemingly come to the point where we want bestowal. What is still hidden from us in this point so we truly want to attain bestowal?
R. What is concealed from us is to discover that the quality of bestowal is the quality of the Creator. It is the nature of the Creator the most sublime quality and that our reality including this world is temporary and that it only exists in the quality of reception and it is about to end. We can feel this world that everything is happening in us and we reach a state, as it is written, 6000 years is the life of the world and later it is all over. We are progressing towards this state when this world is over so we have to understand this, we have to feel this and we have no choice. Whoever wants this and whoever has this understanding, has to convince himself and to move on to the feeling of the higher world. The other reality is eternal, our world only exists to give us a feeling that the light comes out of darkness, to understand to feel that the world of bestowal, this is the quality of the Creator that is the eternal world.
11. S. (41:53) To request death out of our nature is the result of the revelation of the importance of the goal or faith in our Sages?
R. No, it is the revelation of the importance of the goal, when I discover that the goal of reaching the quality of bestowal is the highest most sublime goal that even bit by bit I come to this through all kinds of doubts, falls and ascents and I reach a state that whatever happens, living in the quality of bestowal is sublime it is something special which attracts me according to all the values I can attach to it and this is why I yearn for it.
12. S. (43:53) I cannot understand because one point is not clear, if the Creator’s wants to give us more than what we want and the created being wants to annul himself and come to the right deficiency for correction, then what is the essence that separates the Creator and the created being?
R. We learn what it means to be distant or close with adhesion which is according to the similarity of desires and accordingly we can decide what you’re talking about. If one understands the other, while one has similar desires and if they are not similar then it is according to their desires how much they are not similar, and this is how everything is examined and felt. It is written make your desire as His desire so that He will make His desire like yours, we have to reach the similarity of desire this is called Dvekut, adhesion.
S. If I have a deficiency to have the Creator’s desire and if I request a correction from Him to correct my desire, what is the thing I have to do with the rest, what is missing?
R. The only thing missing is that your desire would be like His desire, your desire to receive and His desire is entirely to bestow. Your desire to a certain extent has to change from in order to receive to in order to bestow your desire, then you start feeling that it is graded to many different desires each and every desire also is divided into many grades of desires on all these are 125 degrees. Then you start feeling how much according to your desires you rise in your desires from one state to the other, both with force with intensity and also with an essence of the desire and bit by bit you start understanding more the upper force, you will feel it, resemble it and this is our whole work.
13. S. (47:15) We are talking about the group being in absolute bestowal in Bina in attachment to the Creator. I want to see this reality and the Creator in the same reality, is this the correct work?
R. Yes, but it’s best if you go along with the group you go over the lesson we had that same day, and talk about it shortly. With everything, it should be clear to everyone but we went through in the lesson because by this you connect because during the lesson you do not connect. Each absorbs the lesson personally and when you are together all of you and you discuss the lesson. When you hear the lesson and after the lesson and you have time to talk, to communicate, to connect between yourselves and by this you basically generate, establish the connection, spiritual contact between you through the lesson. This is what I really, really recommend for you to do, to be meticulous about this and over the morning lesson again. It has to be clear to each one that we want to and what we agreed to because by this you build more and more a certain single vessel in which the Creator can be revealed.
14. S. (49:08) If we win the war against our will to receive and reach spiritual attainment, is that feeling nourishing our ego?
R. It does not work that way. The fact that you try to win the war against the selfish ego you discover that you are not capable of doing that. Moreover, to do this together and you have to turn to the Creator for the Creator to connect you and help you to make some agreement, some general desire out of you and then in this general desire you start feeling some new state. This is the spiritual degree and then out of some agreement, some spiritual feeling that dresses on you, out of that you start thinking onwards, what else should we do. When you start thinking on, you feel that you distance yourself again and you feel how distant you become again and each one is not connected to the other the coarseness of the higher degree is appearing now and you are not ready for it and that’s why it separates you and from this new separation you try to connect again between yourselves until you turn to the Creator to help your connection. Then the Creator helps, then in this new connection of yours you start discovering this is the only force that connects you, this is revelation of the Creator and once we attain Him then immediately a new coarseness appears separating you again and this is how we rise every time.
15. S. (52:13) It is written, prior to that a person cannot merit the discernment of the Torah, what is getting the degree of the Torah?
R. The Torah means the general force that brings you a feeling and understanding, called in the mind and heart, it brings you fulfillment for a new state. And then all your corrected desires that used to take part in attainment of the Torah, attainment of this degree receive a fulfillment and you start understanding what you attained, by what did you attain it. This is called the attainment of the degree where you ultimately discover, out of the attainment of this degree itself. You’ll also discover to a certain extent the upper root of this state which is the Creator.
16. S. (53:37) In the excerpt we just read it said there about a state in which a person must turn to the Creator directly with a request. I am quoting “now I came to a state in which he sees that if you don’t help I am lost.” According to that I understand the ego understands that if the Creator does not come then he’s lost. What is this state? How can I build it inside me so that I’ll be afraid of being lost?
R. This is the state we should reach. It comes bit by bit, everybody comes to it, and you too as a created being you come to it. Don’t worry. This is soon before you.
S. So who is afraid, is it the ego that is afraid?
R. Both the ego and I’m asking you only one thing, what can be afraid in reality besides the ego? That’s the thing that is always in deficiency, always caring about what will fill me, what will I have, only that. It’s always thinking about what’s going to happen to me, only the ego. The quality of bestowal doesn't care about anything.
S. Meaning according to what I understood from this excerpt, the ego is what bothers and we have to disconnect it otherwise a person is lost. How can the ego itself ask?
R. It is very simple, if a person is suffering very much over something, he is praying to the Creator to take it away from Him. If I, for instance, have a quality that I am a liar and I like lying, that’s how I’m born, this is my quality, I am lying all the time. And over this lie I get beaten up, people beat me up. And so I am talking to the Creator, I’m asking Him to take this quality away from me. I am lying all the time. I can’t stand it all the time, you’re forcing me to do it and I am suffering. This is how we get rid of all the egoistic qualities when we feel how bad they make us feel. That’s why without the torments, when the egoistic desire doesn’t get the fulfillment, it gets the opposite. Torments it understands, it has to get rid of this quality, the ego itself. One has to bring himself to a state that he can enjoy it. The desire remains, it's only the method. So it’s better instead of getting beaten up when I steal all the time, maybe I will get a good, nice fulfillment by doing good things to others, to the friends. Of course, this is called, Lo Lishma, Not for her Sake. Starting to do good things for the friends, to connect to them in the 10, etc. But out of that I start feeling that we have some profit here, and this way egoistically, I myself come closer with my ego to the quality of bestowal. That’s called the Angel of Death becomes a holy angel. This will fall into place, it will.
17. S. (57:51) Sometimes a person feels hope from receiving pleasure from a negative quality, for instance a liar thinks he'll get pleasure if he continues to lie but intellectually he understands it is a contradictory quality to our path. So what is the advice to convince one to understand that this quality causes one harm?
R. Maybe you should talk to others. That’s the best thing, they can tell you what they think about it. This is how you will find the right answer.
18. S. (58:54) What you said about a common summary of the lesson does each bring his discernment from the lesson, is that considered a common discernment where all the friends together summarize?
R. I don’t know what you're saying. I’m saying that people should sit, hear the lesson as much as possible together or separately and then they certainly must reach a summary. With this summary to be ready for the next lesson. That’s it.
S. The common prayer that we build, could that be our summary of the lesson?
R. I don't know what is the way you should do it. Again I tell you, I don’t know. Sit together, each one on his own and then you can connect all their summaries, but ultimately you have to reach a state that in heart and soul you agree to whatever you got from the lesson. Because by that you already built a group, a common place and you decided that you connect yourself upon the previous lesson. This is how every time more and more in various ways you reach a state where you start discovering what does this summary do between us. It's not just a summary, it is the upper light roaming there, building all kinds of connections between us and how it connects between us the heart and brain of each and every one. That we start feeling that it's not only us, we are not alone here. There is between us - like when you are weaving, and that’s between us. There are many examples in the Book of Zohar about weaving and this way we reach one vessel.
Excerpt 2 (01:02:00) Twice
19. S. (01:05:02) What does it mean he puts himself to death over it?
R. Torah means the force of connection in thought and desire together so that they can all be to bestow. Over this form, this direction, that’s what he wants to have and he is willing to put his ego to death just to belong to the direction of bestowal and love. That’s the Torah which comes from the word Ohr, light or the word Moreh, teacher. So it is the upper force that teaches us how to reach the Creator.
20. S. (01:05:07) Above the ego that's built in the 10 we discover the quality to bestow and in this way we build the ascent to Bina, is that correct?
R. All right.
21. S. (01:06:41) Should a man die in a tent, what is a tent?
R. It means the vessel in which he exists. It is his circle, his desire.
22. S. (01:07:16) The ego clothes in each day in different ways in order to take over our desires. When and how can we pay attention to the ego which controls us in order to work on this?
R. To the extent that you try to do actions against the ego, together with the tendency towards the Creator, you will feel how stronger it becomes and is standing in your way. It will come to a state where you will really hate it and see that everywhere it wants to cause bad things to you, until you cry out to the Creator to annul it. And then the Creator annuls it and you enter spirituality.
23. S. (01:08:36) Are the connection duty people the only ones responsible for awakening to 10 during the day?
R. No, each and every one has to see himself as he is responsible to maintain society in awakening and direction towards the goal. I can't detach from this work of building my soul which is the 10 and to give it to someone else. I must be in it truly, busy at that day and night.
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S.
(01:09:39)
Are
we
missing
the
advancement
of
the
10
in
the
world
kli,
if
in
between
the
lessons
we
don't
organize
correctly?
R.
Each
one
has
to
know
what
he
is
doing
in
their
recesses,
in
their
time
off.
We
are
gathering
twice
a
day
except
for
the
morning
lesson?
We
have
to
know
what
we
are
doing
in
this
time
from
the
morning
lesson;
from
the
first
meeting,
in
between
the
first
and
the
second
meetings
and
in
between
the
second
and
the
preparation
for
the
next
lesson.
25. S. (01:10:30) How can I ask for the death of my ego? Why do we need to nullify the ego if thanks to the ego we can discover the light?
R. The ego is not a desire. The ego is the intention for its own sake. And for the sake of the other, that’s the desire to bestow. For his own sake is the will to receive. We need to only annul the intention in order to receive the intention for himself as it is the opposite of the Creator and distances us from the Creator. The moment I change my intention in order to bestow to others and through others to the Creator, then I can along with that increase my desires to Ein Sof and specifically this is how I advance to the final correction. That I have infinite desire and upon it an infinite intention, that everything is towards bestowal, by that I resemble the Creator, exactly like Him. My desire will be infinite and my intention infinite in bestowal, and by that I come with the Creator to the final adhesion.
26. S. (01:12:49) Entering spirituality - is the condition of entering spirituality is to put to death my will to receive?
R. Putting to death the intention in order to receive, with the desire, we are not the landlord's, we are not the boss as you can do nothing with your desire, it is a desire given from nature. In order to receive or in order to bestow, this comes from the light that reforms that shines on you this way or differently. If it shines on you in the form of face, Panim, then you are in order to bestow like Him. If it is in the posterior way, you are in order to receive, you are opposite of Him. That is basically what is given. This is why we don't think about the desire itself, we are confusing that what we should think about is only the intention, for ourselves or for the others.
27. S. (01:14:13) Does the vessel that we call the tent equivalence of form?
R. If it is the right vessel, if it’s the will to receive with the intention to bestow and if it works by using the desire to the extent it has an intention to bestow it is called balanced. And accordingly it is in similarity, in equivalence with the Creator, and then you reveal Him. If your intention is to receive and the measure of the desire doesn't matter, you're not in equivalent form with the Creator, and you're out of the area where you can be in contact with the Creator.
S. So I have to annul myself to the group and the environment which should affect me. And by the environment the Creator should correct my intention without canceling the desire, then I will be balanced?
R. I don't really understand the method you are presenting. You have to annul before the friends as before the Creator, the same. There are no compromises here. If you annul before the friends and you're willing to do everything together with them in order to achieve connection so that in the connection between you, you build that concept called the Creator, then you will be in the right vessel, spiritual. That is where you have to aim.
28. S. (01:17:00) How can we identify the authority of the singular?
R. We can identify the singular authority by the extent to which we want to relate ourselves to the singular authority. The singular authority is the Creator who, there is None Else Besides Him, and if we annul ourselves among ourselves completely, then we come to a state where we come closer to attaining the singular authority. Only the power of bestowal operates in all of reality. We begin to feel it on ourselves because the connection between us is the vessel in which we feel reality, can study reality. And our whole life is the extent to which we discover the connection between us as there's no other method to discover Him, only the connection between us is the only vessel where we can feel reality. Before that we are in a state that is disconnected from the actual reality when we exist in what is called this world, the imaginary world. It is like sperm before it begins to develop in the mother's womb that is our situation. It's not life and it's not reality.
29. S. (01:19:16) You gave me practical advice before on how to work through the day with the lesson summary. Can we get an example for what is a lesson summary and what it should contain?
R. It doesn't matter as long as we understand what is written and what we went through in the lesson. Usually during the lesson we go through 3, 4 or 5 maximum excerpts. We have to read them and implement them according to the excerpts, to feel how much we agree. Not agree as if we are doing each other favors, but we feel that by this that we connect, that these excerpts operate on us toward new connections. To each time position ourselves in a more connected way, and this is how we have to work. The main thing is our feeling, when after working on these excerpts I feel that by this we unite, we connect, we achieve some new connection. And even though we don't really feel the Creator between us, we can already begin to see ourselves toward Him as connected, as seemingly intending to feel, to receive Him.
S. So this is emotional work and less about discernments in the intellect?
R. It is also in the intellect, but the intellect works in order to help our feelings. In the end the feeling is the vessel, the desire. But the intellect comes in order to position the desires and connect them all. We need it.
30. S. (01:21:47) When I discover a desire and I use it egotistically, what is more correct to put it to death immediately or gradually?
R. I don't put the desire to death at all. I don't think we have any intention or order or commandment to put the desire to death. We have to put the intention to receive to death but not the desire itself. Let's say if I am a 5 year old child and I misbehave so I need to be brought down to like a 4 year old boy, because I was a good boy, or should I correct myself into being a good boy at 5 years old? So we're not talking about the desire, we're talking about the intention from in order to receive to in order to bestow. This is our whole work.
S. So do we do this gradually or immediately?
R. We have to recognize that we can't change our intention unless through common prayer from us to the Creator.
S. You gave us an example about smoking, saying that you stopped it immediately, you cut it off. Should we also do it this way with desires that are revealed to us?
R. When the whole group said they were stopping smoking I couldn't refuse it. I just threw it away and that was it and I felt no inclination or desire toward it, and I've been smoking since I was about fifteen. I stopped altogether because I was incorporated in their desire. They convinced me to stop smoking and I had no problem with it. That is the power of society.
S. How to think of the other when the will to receive is fearing loss?
R. We need to connect and this is the power of the society. It's not a problem, it all depends on the influence of the environment on a person.
S. When they say a person cannot discover or feel the word of Torah before he fails in it, what does it mean, if I want to change my intention I must first fail in it, I can’t do it immediately?
R. What do you mean immediate? I have to constantly seek to improve my intention, constantly, so the intention in me, outside of me is directed to bestow through the 10, for their connection through me to the Creator. This has to cause them to be like a flashlight that I switch on to show me the way ahead of me. That is what I have to be concerned with all the time.
31. S. (01:25:51) You said the intellect is helping our feelings, what does that mean here?
R. The intellect helps us sort out our desires, put order into things and understand how we have to advance. So it is an auxiliary means but nothing more than that. The rest of our work is in the desire. But we need the intellect in order to adjust and adapt our desires for the work.
32. S. (01:26:39) I wanted to ask about the verses we have to go over for the lesson. Many of us prepare with the source material. When I go over the material I get the feeling that I identify with them, I enter them, I go from my feeling to the feeling that exists in the texts. Is this correct or is this something my ego does?
R. It is great work. Continue it and you will see how much more there is for you to reveal with this approach. Very good.
33. S. (01:27:48) What does it mean to divide and plan between the lessons?
R. When we constantly process deeper and deeper the writings that Kabbalists wrote for us, usually it's Rabash, sometimes Baal HaSulam, accordingly we want to format our relation towards the Creator through the group.
34. S. (01:28:41) We always say that every discernment exists thanks to its opposite discernment. How do we notice the intention to bestow without the intention for the self? How is that settled with the transition to one authority?
R. I can't say about this as there are many internal discernments about this. When you engage in it you will see how to direct yourself more and more correctly.
35. S. (01:29:23) Is the will to receive putting a person physically to death?
R. No, it’s unrelated. But of course a person may grow weaker because his desire is aiming towards the intention to bestow. And here there needs to be some work with his worldly ego, to do some worldly work, so of course he will be a little distracted sometimes, they don't go together, we see this. But if he continues he will see that there is nothing in it that is related. He could be in any worldly job and excel in it and at the same time think about his spiritual work and excel in this as well. It all depends on the efforts, on the experience and over time you will see that he can work in both worlds.
S. What does it mean to come out of the limitations of this world? How do we do this in practice?
R. That is not a simple question. The limitations of this world, meaning the intention to receive how to do this in practice, we talk about this all the time.
Rabash Letter 8 (01:31:25)
“And now let me clarify to you how and in what way I begin to obtain that clothing of love. “The order of making a proper garment is to first, weave a piece of cloth. In other words, we take threads and place them together in a warp and weft manner (crisscross). Through the warp and weft, a piece of clothing is woven.
Therefore, I take a thread of warp into a thread of weft. A Nima [Aramaic: “thread” as well as “say”] comes from the words “Say a word about it.” Shti [weft] comes from the word Tashi [forgetfulness], as in “You forgot the Rock who begot you.” In other words, I begin to act with the power of my memory and soon remember that my friends spoke unfavorably about me, that these words made them do bad things to me, and this saying [also “warp”] wears out the friendship, the camaraderie, and the brotherhood.
Afterwards, a thread of Erev [weft] comes to my mind, meaning I heard that my friend spoke favorably about me, which made him do good things, which are Arevim [pleasant] and sweet to my taste. That is, I hear and see that my friend has left all his engagements and thinks and acts only in my favor so that I will have pleasant pleasures. And these two threads create a mixture in me, and I don’t know which way to decide, saying, “Is truth on the side of the warp or on the side of the weft?”
It is known that everything that exists in our world is in a form of positive and negative—right and left, true and false, light and dark, Israel and the nations, holy and secular, impurity and purity, and bad and good. This is so because it is impossible to detect a good taste without tasting the bitter taste of the bad. This is the meaning of what our sages said, “To avenge the wicked and to give a good reward to the righteous.”
The word Para [avenge] comes from the verse, “Para [let loose] the hair on the head of the woman.” In other words, it is possible to receive help from the wicked in order to discover the real flavor and sensation of the good reward of the righteous.
For this reason, when weaving the garment, I stand bewildered and await the verdict that will eject the poverty of mind that is clothed within me. And since I am now engaged in weaving a garment of love, to place the light of pleasure there, I am already biased and an interested party. For this reason, I decide according to the words of the weft, as the Torah implied to us that “Bribe blinds the eyes of the wise.”
Thus, I no longer care if the truth is what it is; rather, I care about the goal that I desire at this minute, during the weaving of the garment of love. In that state, I have a deciding line in the middle, meaning the goal is the very thing that always decides between right and left.
And once I have acquired this above-mentioned clothing, sparks of love promptly begin to shine within me. The heart begins to long to unite with my friends, and it seems to me that my eyes see my friends, my ears hear their voices, my mouth speaks to them, the hands embrace, the feet dance in a circle, in love and joy together with them, and I transcend my corporeal boundaries. I forget the vast distance between my friends and me, and the outstretched land for many miles will not stand between us.
It is as though my friends are standing right within my heart and see all that is happening there, and I become ashamed of my petty acts against my friends. Then, I simply exit the corporeal vessels and it seems to me that there is no reality in the world except my friends and I. After that, even the “I” is cancelled and is immersed, mingled in my friends, until I stand and declare that there is no reality in the world — only the friends.”
36. R. (01:38:09) Part of this we already heard several times, but the first part we didn’t. We will have to process it within us more and more, what it means that we begin with a crisscross, with the warp and weft, to work with it until we have a vessel. There are many things to learn here. We will work on it.
Excerpt 3 (01:38:57)
37. R. (01:39:26) We have to try through learning, through the connection between us to awaken such upper light on us that we will gradually bring us a desire so we can rise above our ego, except what is necessary for our sustenance. So everything will be only for bestowal and not for our own benefit. Meaning what matters is the intention to receive, the intention to enjoy what I do, what I'm learning, my existence altogether, so that all my intentions will be one pleasure to reveal more of the upper world, more of bestowing, more of the world of love, to reveal this and to be drawn to this all of the time. To the extent that we yearn for it and scrutinize this inclination, this disposition we are preparing ourselves to receive the Torah. The Torah is all the upper light which is bound to be revealed in us.
Excerpt 4 (01:44:30)
38. R. (01:46:07) It's speaking of the force of the Torah, the upper light that comes to us and what does he do? How do we invite Him and what it does when it gets here and what kind of changes it makes in us. And let’s read it again, we’ll go forward.
39. R. (01:46:41) That first has to be clear. If I wish to reach in order to bestow to the Creator I need the Torah. And if I do not have that direction, that desire to reach the Creator to bestow to Him then I don't need the Torah and what you receive, it's not going to be the Torah. The Torah comes only to a person who wishes to approach the Creator and be like Him in order to bestow. As it was written I have created the evil inclination and created the Torah as a spice because the light in it reforms. The Torah corrects the evil inclination with the intention to bestow. That is the only thing it should be doing.
40. R. (01:49:06) Meaning not for everyone. There is no Torah that reaches each and every person but only for those who have a special preparation in them called the correction. And then it comes to them selectively.
41. S. (01:49:11) How do you distinguish between the intention for yourself that you have to put to death?
R. A person begins to feel what he is lacking, what separates him from the Torah which is his intention to receive, and that's what separates him from the Torah. To the extent that he wishes to remove the intention to receive, which is like a barrier between him and the force of Torah, the light of Torah that influences you, so he is not capable of doing it. So he's asking and then it happens,
and the Creator cancels that barrier and the light of Torah influences a person and corrects him.
S. When the intention to receive is attached to the will to receive and you can’t separate them, it’s
confusing. Where is the intention and where is the desire? How do you distinguish the intention so you can say this is the intention to receive and this is what I have to put to death?
R. Try to see it in the friends, how they are doing it and learn from that, that's it.
S. What should I try and see in them?
R. How do they try to annul their intention to receive and receive the reforming light which turns them to working in order to bestow.
S. How does it seem when I stop working for the intention to receive for myself and I start working for the intention to bestow without putting the desire to death but only the intention?
R. This depends on the subtlety, the sensitivity of the heart, how much you can see it in the friends, identify it and detect in them. And you have to pray on that as well that the Creator will give you more sensitivity of the heart to see, to feel the friends, to justify them, to come closer to them and so on and so forth.
S. To believe that everything they do is with the intention to bestow?
R. That is already a great state. What does it mean to believe, just to say it?
S. To try to accept the Kabbalist’s advice to say that the friends are working with the aim to bestow. Is this how I should accept it, try and see it in them?
R. Of course, it’s good if you can see your friends as working in order to bestow. It’s a very special, very high state.
41. S. (01:52:53) The topic of the lesson is to put the death to his own authority. What is the authority?
R. Authority means where you feel your ‘I’, meaning that's your desire, that you feel as your own. This is what we call authority.
S. If there are two authorities, if he feels like there are two authorities here?
R. Two authorities can only be your desire and the Creator’s desire. A desire to receive and a desire to bestow. Typically it's not sustainable because it says ‘Him and I cannot dwell in the same abode.’
S. How can I identify the intention in the friends, isn't it hidden?
R. It is, but you justify them and you try to see them all as righteous, as corrected. And you therefore wish to adhere to them as much as possible. It doesn’t matter which state they’re in. You will never get to see it. What’s important is how you imagine them to be, how they are portray them in you.
42. S. (01:54:32) Concerning the reforming light, where is it most concentrated so you can suck it out in the most effective way?
R. In a person’s heart if the heart tries to be in the good.
S. Yes, but we’re learning that in the books, in the Rav’s words… (Cut off by Rav)
R. Yes, but I think that it all depends on the one who wishes to extract it from there.
S. But still in our frameworks for example from the morning lesson, the meeting with the friends without the Rav during the day, a person's personal work with the sources, where in all those things or maybe there is no connection. Is there any measure of reforming light in these things or does it totally depend on my yearning, regardless of where I am?
R. There is no reforming light in anything, but only a person who is interested in finding it, he can extract it. But he could say what means he can extract more or less of it?
S. Interested in extracting it. Which means can help you?
R. The group.
S. Only the group?
R. You could study alone, you can perform acts of bestowal alone but it's much more difficult.
S. What do you mean by a group, a workshop between us, a conversation, when we are together in a lesson trying to connect to Rav’s words, to cling to them? What does it mean group?
R. A group is a collection of different desires that from the beginning belong to different authorities. They all wish to cancel their authorities, limitations meaning the barriers, and remain without any barriers in one desire that will be incorporated of all these desires and this common desire will be aimed to the Creator.
S. And in relation to the reforming light, how can the group direct itself in the most effective way toward the reforming light?
R. Turn to the Creator and demand it.
S. Should I demand the reforming light concretely or should I demand connection, annulment and the light works on the demands?
R. You can do both. From above you’ll get exactly what you need.
S. So it doesn't matter if it's through source excerpts, Rav’s words, a lesson, a workshop.
R. The main thing is where is your heart, you should do more there.
S. During the morning lesson the light is most effective, isn’t it?
R. Yes because of the audience, the people and they’re all aimed at the correction in some form. That’s the best possible time to extract the reforming light from here.
43. S. (01:58:12) Today I felt like I’m living in a Rabash article. I woke up with criticism of the friend and of course I felt justified and then remembered that I’m here to love the friend, not for the friends to love me. The problem is it took me all day to go through that process, many, many hours and I feel like its wasting time. How do we go through it much faster?
R. How can you say that it’s a waste of time? Those are the best hours of your life because in that you later scrutinized these hours where truly your attitude toward the friend, good, bad - it has to be purposeful, only purposeful. If through the connection with him you can scrutinize further your direction towards the Creator then everything is great! I'm happy to hear actually. Keep moving, you will be successful.
44. S. (01:59:45) It seems like from the moment we heard this part of letter 8 by Rabash we remembered together with the friends that we have to kill our own authority. Does that mean that we are building this killing without cancelling our own authority and now we’re very close? How can we help each other, encourage each other in this weaving that is building? You can feel the progress, everything is becoming very meaningful.
R. I understand what you’re saying but I can’t say anything except for one thing: keep going together and we'll be successful. I'm happy that you understand all these verses correctly.
45. S. (02:01:17) Ahead of us is a Congress. Is it possible that we get to the congress in a way that really considers yourself?
R. We should do it today, why do the Congress?
S. How do we organize such preparation?
R. You should turn to the organizers and they should tell us about the preparation and the congress itself and we should truly reach a state where we will get what we need corrections, connection. You are one of the organizers, prepare yourself and tell us later on how we did that and what we should be waiting or aiming for we're waiting for meaning on sending the question back to you.
46. S. (02:02:56) It says in the article that the light only exists in one that puts himself over it puts himself but you also need Torah to put yourself to death, so what comes first?
R. First of all is our intention, what do you want to get out of life, what do you want your life to get to the next degree of existence which is the degree of man and for the time being we just exist like animals and we care about our bodies and no more than that. A person is the one that wants to rise to the degree of the Creator throughout his lifetime to enter the Creator's degree, the spiritual world, that's what we're doing and that's why we're building ourselves, arranging ourselves that way. We are capable, truly capable to reach a state in the connection between us that you have a common place, which means the common desire where we start to reveal the common force that is revealed between us and that what it means to reveal the Creator, that's how we will become apparent.
47. S. (02:05:04) There are many lights: the reflected light, direct light, surrounding light. What is the light of the Torah?
R. A lot is written about what is Torah, what is the light of Torah. I would say this, a force of bestowal and love that dwells in all of reality. Typically when we speak about Torah we don't speak about the light we speak about the bestowal but it's quality to influence reality and to bring it to the corrected intention which is in order to bestow. Then the will to receive that comes to be in order to bestow to that extent it's also included in the Torah and that light and the purpose of this correction is for all of us to receive front he light of the Torah the intention to bestow in order to connect between us and with the source of all which is the Creator.
Excerpt 5 (02:06:50)
48. R. (02:08:08) Meaning he tries to feel the Creator more and more, how the Creator is felt in his desires, in his thoughts, in all of man. The vessels of a person expands and the Creator fills that more and the person feels how the Creator fills him more and more with your desires your intentions more until a person comes into a state where he reaches the final desire and the desire holds the Creator in it and the Creator dwells in it. That is how we could probably imagine this state but that's why war exists within a person because a person wages war with the ego and either falls under his ego and can't do much about it or he is then revived and gets up and continues towards the Creator corrections with his patience, patiently correcting his broken vessels, revives them and he fills them with these light until He is revealed. Then you come from the authority each of the created being feels that he's under His authority is the landlord and he comes to the desire to be under the authority of the upper force to rule everyone and bring them to the corrections.
49. S. (02:10:56) Today you direct us as the world Kli to new results but sometimes I feel that I'm outside of that flow. What can I do to stay parallel with the friends?
R. To connect with more and more through my 10, through my guidance I am not expanding the distance between you, my guidance simply opens up the upper light that influences you and with the influence of the upper light over each one receives additional desire, egoistical desire. That's how you start feeling that it's opposite you and you have to work with that, that this upper that pushed you apart and created a certain friction between you, so that the upper light will influence you according to your plea and with that he will influence you towards correction. This is called a king that brings to life and also puts to death brings to life and brings forth salvation he does both because in the feeling of light between these two fillings, we fill our vessels that's how we advance.
50. S. (02:13:09) What's happening is something really great. We have the whole team of the congress working on preparation here to tell us a bit about the congress. The name of the congress is “Entering Impregnation, Discovering the New World”. We've been going through this whole degree together and special degree that we want to reach and each one of us wants to make the effort like we said we're not waiting for the congress and we want to realize all the writings that we read about, now we going to hear from the friends that in charge of the preparation.
S. Dear friends, we have a great team that is working on the preparation for the congress. We are meeting several times a week and we have sent out the survey in which we are asking the friends about their thoughts about the congress, how they see the congress, and what do they want to get. So we're asking everyone to cooperate. Do you answer this preparation as we're moving together towards the congress and we are going to have more activities with interesting preparation and we want to see all of you in this preparation.
S. Dear friends, this is an amazing opportunity for all of us to solidify all this wonderful knowledge that we receive from our Rav in this morning lesson and we want every 10, every 10 not to be passive about it's about participating in the preparation. How do we unite our hearts together so please every answer on the survey and sign up for participation in sign up for participation in congress preparation.
S. Yes, we will help everyone with two things, first of all the congress site we have a logo we want to put it on the site for now we only have the dates and the name when will have the logo we will put the site. The social team wants to say we have the preparation so we will reach the climax of connection and it will expand our inspiration on the path. On September 1 the registration will begin last time more than 3000 people registered were calling on all people that don't have the monthly payment to do it and then you'll go through the green roots and if not will tend to each one of you personally and will help each one let's organize it together and click to Rav and get to that point.
S. Can we ask?
R. You can ask, I wanted to continue the lesson.
S. The name of the congress is Entering the Impregnation, Revealing the New World. We really want to discover the new world we asking for it every day we are learning about it were beginning to feel it to some extent so what are we looking for their give us a precision about the expectation and dissipation the intention of the art.
R. You need to depict to yourself this new world, what is this new world and understand what is this new world that you were expecting to enter. It is going to have a lot of candies, cartoons, all kinds of actors will be acting for me like a circus, what is this new world? We need exactly and as precisely as possible and we need to depict it for ourselves and see if we're closer to it. That's what it is about and we work according to that, a person it's to depict the future for himself until it becomes real.
S. What should be our daily preparation?
R. Whatever it is that you depict to yourself, it's not really about the congress, the congress is about impregnation, we want to see how much we accomplished in relation to the topic of impregnation. What else is left in order to get to impregnation, so it will be clear to us and that there will be right before us waiting to be executed. The more we will feel that this is the only thing left for us to do, it will be better for us, it'll be easier and you'll see what's happening in the world. It's all preparation for impregnation but in a different way external way but the same effort the world will have to put in and will have to come to the same form. Only to its own measurements that's called impregnation eventually he will annul himself to the upper force and it will raise his hands and say I give up. We're not able to do anything in this world to make ourselves feel good with each passing day people will lose and are losing their direction. Eventually that will be their decision, there will be through various phenomenal natural phenomena, natural fires, floods fires floods who knows what or it could be through the recognition that we don't need all these things. We have already reached, in our sensitivity that we are going towards what's happening and see that surely we don't understand anything about the world and we don't want to live as we did before where our ego is pushing us in all kinds of directions. We can't trust it, we can't put ourselves in its hands, we can't deliver ourselves to the other ego, we have to go above it so we'll save ourselves. These two, both of these things we need to pass into the congress so will decide in the congress that yes we wish to enter Ibur, impregnation and what kind of prayer we have to activate in order to have this impregnation so this will happen to all of us.
S. What is the importance of the congress in the daily progress, so it is important to know all the advantages of the congress because we used to do 3 or 5 congresses a year physically and now it's virtual. We need to know what kind of a spring board it is calling to the preparation that we made to it and it is to elevate us in our spiritual progress compared to 3000 people that we have regularly in morning lessons, in Congresses we have 6000 people and more. Beyond that in Congresses ourselves we focus on different facets of the organization also at the congress's, women participate as an inseparable part of us and there are equal partners in the correction, so how do you see the congress as different to what we do in every day?
R. I can say only one thing, connection, at the end of the day there's people from the whole world who have the desire to connect and we have friends from every desire to annul ourselves to the force of bestowal, we want to jump from hate to love from reception to bestowal, from separation to connection. For it to take place in us so we will feel something already happening. We think that congress can give us this leap forward because a congress is a prayer of many and as much we are trying to express this prayer and the future that we're after, we're not just talking about good life, we want a world full of love, so the whole world is entering the awareness that others than connection between people nothing can help it. All the medications we are taking will not help, after them we will get the greater the despair, except for the upper force and I hope that quickly these things will take place. We will try to mitigate all those forces that come to us from above with the right intention. We learn from the wisdom of Kabbalah that a force that is coming down is called Gevura and the force is called Hochma is sharp like a knife. Only us by clothing in the light of Hassadim can turn it to a good force and it'll start working in our favor. So let us nevertheless try to come closer to that good future because otherwise, all the voices of corporeal nature and diseases and everything, it's all ahead of us. It's only for us to surrender to the upper force and receive the correction in the desirable way so the wise person sees the future, so let's be wise.
S. Not a question I just want to continue the update from before those are here are a part of the world social team, every Friday we have a meeting after the morning lesson and in yesterday’s meeting which was of course about the congress with decided that we wanted to do the service during the lesson and also give the women a task to want them to write a letter to the man to encourage them to sign up for the congress. We also want to have a blog so every friend can write in there. We're going to ask tens to prepare clips and prepare for the congress. We want to get excerpts from the lessons, we want to activate the daily duty for friends to pray for the congress. So we want to light everyone up towards the congress so everybody would come ready to it and we want to invite people who want to join the team, send the email to boardworldkli@gmail.com and say that I want to be part of it, we will work together.