Morning Lesson August 08, 2022 Transcription
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For Every Penny Joins Into A Great Amount - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
1. Rav’s Introduction: All of our work is in bits of pennies and small parts that we are transferring from the intention to receive to the intention to bestow. We need to get used to this process and to understand that it is a very great process, a great calculation. Only in this manner we wish to reach the whole complete result. Surely there is in this, in our sensation, in our general will to receive, a sensation that once again we are returning to the intention to receive, once again we don't succeed once again we are not in the correct thoughts. and so on, but that takes a long time. Actions that are seemingly no renewal in them. Later on in the joining of all of these pennies, we begin to feel that nonetheless it works and it joins and comes together and in this we reach the goal.
Here the main matter is patience and mutual help, to slowly gradually learn along the path that we are dependent on one another and that nobody can complete his own work. Rather all of us give an example and support in some spiritual manner that we do not know and in the connection between us we help one another and thus we advance. The main thing is persistence and patience. Thus it is called 'penny by penny accumulates to a large sum'. That all of our exertion that we make the effort to do, whether we succeed or not, is not so dependent on us already. As pennies that accumulate to a large sum, large calculations that we reach the force of bestowal and in this begin to feel equivalence of form with the Creator, and how much we from between us reach to a large sum, large calculation and thus we reach the Creator.
Excerpt 1 (03:32) RABASH, Letter No. 65; 'before a person qualifies himself to be fit ..
2. S. (06:23) What are we lacking to see that we are already in wholeness?
R. What is missing? Just to join all these pennies. All the opportunities for connection. No more than this. A broken vessel needs to be gathered, united, that is all that is missing.
S. What depends on us in this deficiency because it is something it is something that is in us?
R. This vessel is us. In each and every one of us, there are desires and in the meantime there are desires that repel one another. We need to make the effort to make such actions that these desires will connect to one another. Meaning, in study from within the study to receive awakening and from within the awakening to request from the Creator to do it. In sum total, everything is finished, completed with a force of prayer.
3. S. (07:38) What can we hold on to as important impressions dissemination?
R. Everything you said is okay and is corrected. We need to join together forces for bestowal and mutual bestowal and connection, and study, and everything that we have from the wisdom of Kabbalah to the attainment of the goal. To connect all of these efforts with the knowledge, with the mind, with everything together, and to request from the Creator. To request from the Creator to connect us. That's it.
S. The work in bestowal is something that grows and accumulates?
R. Yes, along the way we gather all our exertion, all of our knowledge, mind and sensation. Each one that bestows to the other and gets bestowed in return to the others, all of this joins and comes together and joins and joins, until all of our tendencies and desires connect between us, like you do in a crisscross. Like in a weave and that is how we connect in mutual bestowal.
4. S. (09:44) It says that only at the end of the work I will be able to see all the wholeness. What is the end of the work?
R. When we reach connection, true connection, the first one but already spiritual, then we can understand, feel, see the path we have gone through and that is how we can then advance onword but not beforehand because it will bother us and it will cause us to stop on the path.
S. What is this first spiritual connection?
R. The first spiritual connection is that we feel just how much we are connected and how much we are dependent on one another and the tendency forward is only in connection. We need additional forces for this and that's how we advance. There are not many details, rather it is all out of the work. Okay?
5. S. (11:14) How not to reach a state where a person who works and labors and then they open up the account he sees that it is empty, like in the example with Baal HaSulam where he carries his own suitcase?
R. Because he did not correct his intentions along the way. Thus he expected a different reward than what he is actually given. Do you understand? That is the difference. The reward is different.
S. So it is possible that a person works and exerts but the question is what does he expect, how does he check himself?
R. Along the path we see how much each and every one of us changes slowly, gradually, in the reception of the reward. The reward that you want. That beforehand he did not have any connection with the friends, now he has more. Beforehand he didn't have any attitude towards the bestowal and now he is thinking a bit about it. That beforehand he didn't think that there is… any unique goal at all in the study besides knowledge. Now, he understands that the purpose of the study is specifically to connect with all of humanity, all of the people of the world, all of humankind back to the system of Adam HaRishon. As much as it is possible, as much as he advances towards it, he feels then more and more how much changes in him forces the first scrutiny and they become more and more advanced discernments. That is how it is possible.
S. Can you say that if a person checks each action as much as he is ready and connects to the friends and then the Creator and then the pennies add up?
R. Yes, in general that is correct.
Excerpt 2 (13:51) RABASH, Article No. 13 (1987), "Why the Festival of Matzot Is Called Passover"
6. R. (17:05) Meaning that here he tells us that our work, our progress is in strides. That each step is on its own, that is how the breaking of the vessels was and that in each and every vessel broke and shattered within it the connection to others.Thus, this is the most necessary thing for attainment of adhesion with the Creator. Because without the shattering of the vessels they would not be revealed at all. Those same discernments that we need to correct in order to resemble the Creator. Thus, what is he telling us here? That the vessels that were initially all connected. that they broke the connection between them and now we need to make the effort by our efforts to connect them together.
The action of connection begins from a state that we do not know anything in it. We just need in the meantime to build our qualities, our desires, our sensations. Taste, scent, feel,touch all sorts of discernments of such for the connection of the vessels. So that we will know, that this is how we are connecting them correctly and this is incorrect and to learn like this. This is okay and this is not. Just like with kids, in their young early age, they learn through all sorts of games. This is actually their whole life and it takes a long time. Then they enter greater calculations, higher ones, by what we can hasten our development, how we can connect all of these things that were not connected beforehand and so on.
What more do we need to add,what mind, what sensation. In spirituality it is in the intention to bestow that we will have an additional force for that. Thus,we reach a state that truly every penny accumulates to a large sum. We learn how to connect. That is all of our work in life, and everything and every place. Everything Is concealed from us, everything works only for connection and we advance in such a manner. Everything comes together in one picture. In this we scrutinize how different and close we are to everything in order to reach unity.
7. S. (20:31) Is it correct to feel each day that I do not have an accumulation of pennies in the work and continue to take the power to continue this work? When will my ego receive its reward?
R. We need to search. It is better to be in the correct work. Our correct work, that will be our reward. That it is like in our world a person who loves his profession that he is an artist. He is not looking when he's going to get paid for what he's doing but rather the deed itself is a pleasure for him rather than doing itself. This is a difference between an ordinary person and an artist, and a master. That is thus how we have to see the things, the matters. This is especially important at the beginning of the study.
8. S. (22:02) Where all those acts get accumulated, what is that action of accumulation?
R. The action of accumulation that we want nonetheless, that we find the connection between us and to put up connections. To bring ourselves to a mutual form, even unified. Then these actions accumulate between us but in a state that we do not feel so much initially we are really connected. It is greatly desirable to make the effort to see how much each and every one gathers with the others, during the course of the day if he is bringing down that penny from himself into our mutual vessel. Meaning exertion, a penny is exertion. Thus we will see each and every time that there is a greater and greater accumulation.
S. This accumulation, we did an action of connection and we accumulated an expense on behalf of the ten, on behalf of the world Kil. Where does this accumulate?
R. It will accumulate in our mutual vessel. Our common vessel and if you are drawn to one another then you can feel that it is there, there is the result of our efforts to connect.
S. Can you say that the more actions of connection the ten makes or even two friends in the ten connect the entire tien benefits from it eventually?
R. Yes, but not that it is a matter of physical connection, its internal tendency.
S. Then what will happen in the next stage? Let's say it adds up, it adds up and accumulates what is next?
R. Until it reaches the state that this accumulation turns into a spiritual phenomenon. Then in it you feel a truly spiritual phenomena, a spiritual vessel, the revelation of the Creator, yourselves that are in spiritual connection in a spiritual quality. Clear?
9. S. (25:08) We have such states in the ten, where let us say he does not want to connect in the ten, and there are people who object to it. When there is a congress, dissemination everyone wants to participate. Why does it happen this way?
R. This I do not know, you have to talk to your friends. Could be that if they are opposed they have a correct intention and thoughts there, why they do not want to receive. Except, that person it's not related to what we are talking about now, this topic. If there are friends who are opposed and we need to first take into account the others, your friends with those who are closer may be also close to the others.
10. S. (26:17) How to want more and more spirituality? Because the desire keeps diluting as if it develops inside. I do not know how to find it. How to do it?
R. You need to run after it like let us say you are running after someone you want to catch and to make an effort more and more. Then it will be clear for you what you are missing. In order to do this, this desire will stabilize in you. Invest time and effort in this.
11. S. (27:17) How do we turn every effort to exertion and to work will be considered as a penny, what makes the final decision?
R. Again.
S. How do we turn on each effort and exertion,and labor that will be considered as a penny in the end?
R. That I feel all the time in each moment that I have new disturbances and I need to gather them and connect them together.
S. Where do we connect them?
R. Inner efforts, internal efforts. I need to accept them, that they come from one source and they are aiming me towards one goal, I only need to connect all of the reasons together, to establish them in such that I have no action rather than connecting what is between them.
12. S. (28:40) When can we say that I managed to gain these pennies for the friends and not for my own sake?
R. This you need to answer, how much you make an effort each time. Each time all of these disturbances, to see them not as disturbances but as actions that are aiming you towards the goal.
13. S. (29:19) Can I not know in each and every moment, how close I am to the goal or how distant I am from the goal?
R. Make an effort. You need to make an effort to receive sensation in this of how near or how far you are from the goal. It all depends on how close you are to be friends.
S. Why is it concealed from us?
R. It is concealed from us in order that we will reveal the importance for it and the request, sensation, force.
14. S. (30:14) The mere thought that I'm collecting pennies isn't that an egoistic approach?
R. No, because I am gathering all of my pennies of exertion in order to get closer to the friends and through them to the Creator. Check, check oneself. What are you drawn to?
15. S. (30:45) If it is important for us to work, and only the Creator demands the work and the exertion is the reward. What does that knowledge of the accumulation of the pennies give us besides the hope for a reward?
R. Okay, but is the reward the exertion itself? That I can exert myself for Him, for the Creator? If I make an effort in order to resemble the Creator, to connect to Him in order to do as I understand what He wants. Then I receive pleasure for this. If not, I need to pray. To request the importance of this work and to request pleasure for it. I want to receive pleasure from the exertion that I overcome my laziness and my evil inclination. I want to receive pleasure from this and not suffering. That is how we advance.
S. The great amount that it adds up to is not important to us, right?
R. I do not understand your question. You need to scrutinize this. What do you want from me? We are scrutinizing, clarifying all these other points along the path but each and every step you have along the way you need to scrutinize that. I cannot in each and every one of you enter your private states and poke around there and start arranging everything. I cannot do that. That is not my work. It is your work actually.
16. S. (32:55) What do you do when you feel specifically that the account is inverting? It is not getting empty by the day but becoming more heavy?
R. Please speak clearly and do not swallow words.
S. I'm asking what they feel about the amount that it becomes heavier day by day, not that it is getting emptier.?
R. It is a sign that you did not advance yesterday if today appears much heavier than yesterday. We need like every day in school that you are giving exercises and you perform them, then the next day you can rise higher two more difficult exercises. That is how it is in a chain. If you feel things are becoming much harder, it is a sign that you did not perform your exercises the day before and before that and so on.
S. I'm asking what you do in such a state where you cannot do such exercises?
R. If you do not succeed you need to check with the Creator wants from us and where did I miss. Where did I not perform these exercises? If you are going precisely with us day by day with the excerpts and articles and everything that we do, on everything that we do then they are precisely in the correct stream, the direct flow in order to advance us without jumps truly to bestow more and more and more. That is how we make the effort.
S. It just feels like there are friends who are simply by each passing day we cannot seem to connect with them and it becomes more difficult.
R. Work on it more of course. Of course day by day becomes more difficult but that is a sign you need to invest more.
S. I don't know what to invest in.
R. Each one shall help his friend. There's nothing besides that. Only in Arvut.
S. Where is the Arvut here because you want to connect with a friend?
R. In mutual help, even if I do not want to and I'm not capable of connection, I play. I act in front of them as if I am capable, as if I want. I give them an external example for myself. Each one of them is also towards the others and not for the sake of the Creator, not Lishma. We reach Lishma for the sake of the Creator.
S. If we try and feel that the friend doesn't want it, he is moving away, he is running away, what to do? Leave it?
R. It is a sign that the Creator gave it some more difficult exercise and we need to invest more in it. To see in our friend our mutual work. Yes? To enter him more to the group, as much as possible. Even do all sorts of actions so that you can join him more towards you. To make the effort to be in envy, lust, and honor as much as you can, to awaken it, that he will awaken.
S. I'm asking more personally, if possible, about the work with a friend. A friend, another friend, one versus another friend. What to do in such a way when we fail?
R. Do not think about this that you are not succeeding. The emphasis by you is that you are not succeeding. For me, not succeeding is the place of work and for you not succeeding is the place of failure, of falling and that is not good. We need to always feel that we are not succeeding.
That only gives us room on how to advance more, to invest more. If we want, in the intention to bestow, to do action on the intention to bestow. The Creator has prepared this work for us,He broke the vessel, the distance between us, inserted the egoistic desire in each and everyone. We need to understand that we have work here all the time. That spirituality we enter we reveal it whenever we can connect from between us to connect us to one desire or more correctly for one intention. That is it. We have no objections, no complaints. We are always at work and not waiting for the next day that maybe we will reach the end of the correction, but rather this is the way.
17. S. (38:45) He writes that of all of the ascents, all is equivalent to one large sum. and I thought that the descent all accumulates into one large sum because the experience comes from the descents. He is talking about ascents, do they accumulate to some corrected picture?
R. Repeat it, I do not understand what is happening with the sound today. I cannot hear you.
S. He is writing that all of our accents are accumulating into one large sum and I would have thought that all our descents would accumulate to a large sum? He is talking about ascents, do they accumulate to one whole picture?
R. No, the ascents connect and combine into one big ascent, which is the degree.which I climb. The descents are only to awaken me to put in the effort, to climb. That is why we need the accents. We try to connect between us. We try to come closer to the Creator, we try to resemble him and that is how we climb. Is there, do we need to make the effort to go down? No of course not, only to go up, to approach the Creator in the form of bestowal and connection.
S. How to stabilize this sum? From degree to degree, a person should receive and attain.
R. Only with friends, when we reach this summary. This summary is already existing and determined and we continue to the next degree.
18. S. (41:00) It is a very clear sensation that without pleasure you cannot continue. You invest some effort in the ten and you find yourself immediately looking for a reward, like you are entering some trap that you can get out of?
R. How to reach this is that the work is the reward for you. Not that work but the connection, the connection with the friends. The growing connection has to be for me is the attainment of the reward.
19. S. (41:43) Your answer to the friend seemed harsh to me. Until today you asked us to turn to a friend who is getting farther from us, to return and you gave us instructions to try all the time with that friend to bring him closer. I'm trying to understand what we are supposed to do now.
R. Maybe I didn't quite understand the question. You have to explain it to me again. It is possible that I answered according to how much I heard. It is possible that I did not hear enough or I did not hear correctly. I believe you that there is a problem that I didn't have to touch.
S. There is no doubt that we actually no one understands how much closer we want to bring closer all those friends, all those points that are getting farther. We understand the importance of the matter. There is no doubt that each and every one of us would want to turn to more than two or three ties to the same friends that are getting farther. We just want to know how to act in order to reach our correct goal.
R. I don't know, it is said that there is none as wise as the experienced. Each and every group is already experienced in organizing itself, connecting itself. Rising above the difficulties and from the outside we can only give general advice. Every person is an entire world, if there is a problem that we cannot solve, let us talk about it outside of the lesson and I'm willing to participate with you in this discussion and find a possible solution. We will think about it.
20. S. (44:07) It sounds like our work is to constantly turn our exertion into the reward, to turn the work into artistry,to find taste in the effort itself.
R. Yes.
S. Is this the correct work to look for reward in the connection itself?
R. No, who told you that this is the goal, The goal is adhesion. The goal is adhesion, the growing adhesion between us and towards the Creator.
S. In order to do the work towards adhesion, I need to constantly enlarge the importance of the work and we also said to find the taste of the work right?
R. That is why you have a group. A person cannot by himself cannot give keep himself a feeling of greatness and bestowal
S. The search for greatness through the ten, through for the friends, that I understand, to constantly search for the greatness that is the correct direction?
R. Yes, greatness of what?
S. Greatness of bestowal or connection, right?
R. Ok, so say it this way.
S. Am I cheating the ego or is the ego cheating me? Because with every word I can not advance to connection. The reward that I am depicting to myself, is the connection itself. The greatness of bestowal. like the Creator. The question is, if it is the correct direction of the work to constantly search for greatness?
R. The greatness or the greatness of the Creator has to be all of the time before us has a problem against which we measure everything.
21. S. (46:12) Every method we can measure as advancement somehow is knowledge? The question in Kabbalah is that you can also find some keystones along the path. Over the years we change and something is happening. Can a person depict to himself that he is advancing through these keystone's or is he supposed to advance until he reaches a correction?
R. We have all these milestones but we still cannot see them clearly. We will talk about it.
Excerpt 3: (46:57) RABASH, Article No. 10 (1984), "What Is the Degree One Should Achieve in Order Not to Have to Reincarnate?" Twice
22. S. (50:31) I feel that I know that I need to connect with all of humanity to completely adhere to the Creator but on the other hand, I feel like I want to escape from all human beings. I cannot stand it. Something inside me can't stand humans anymore. How to balance these two states?
R. You are correct, it is a correct sensation according to your ego. You cannot stand anyone and together with that according to the purpose of creation, the Creator created you opposite to the goal. To the extent that you correct yourself,you approach the goal. The end of the path is when you identify with everyone, connect with everyone, love everyone. Get to know the true form of all the people who are truly parts ,fragments of your soul. Then you reach complete adhesio with the Creator, from love of the created being to the love of the Creator. For the time being you are in such a way you described it. I agree with you that this is the path and this is the first, initial state to and you are already in it, Good, now let's continue.
23. S. (52:19) How to return our desires to reception to bestowal?
R. With the reforming light. When I see myself opposite to how it should be, then I break out with a request to the Creator and the Creator corrects me. This can be divided into many egoistic states and made up of many requests and many corrections from above. Ultimately, this is what is happening. The Creator corrects each and every detail, and every penny adds up to a great amount.
24. S. (53:22) It turns out that our advancement in spiritual work is that same yearning in a person's heart for connection to the friends, the love between the friends and in this we are building the image of the Creator, that we are connecting all the friends in love? in this a person wants to give pleasure to the Creator like this?
R. Yes.
S. An additional point here, This connection of love with friends will be called the Creator at some point? As much as a person can predict it?
R. Yes.
25. S. ( 54:24) What is the better of a penny? Is it less in quantity and quality?
R. A penny is the smallest measure. The smallest measure in weight and everything typically is relative to force. Each and every penny we have to invest force is a four so all of these forces add up to one big force through which I can raise myself to the degree of the Creator more and more.
26. S. (55:05) In the writing that the King has no loyal messengers. Is he talking about our ego?
R. Yes.
S. The messengers, the many messengers is that my group?
R. Many messengers can be all kinds of various means.
S. The sparks meaning in privilege of the Sitra Achra, we can correct with this, bit by bit, penny by penny?
R. Yes.
27. S. (56:00) He writes here in the excerpt that many souls is a division of outer lights and a division inner lights?
R. We do not need to understand it now, it will only confuse you. Keep going the way that we are and it will work itself out. Don't get into philosophizing like a scientist. Whatever doesn't enter your feelings just toss it out for now. We are working only with that which enters our feelings. This is the main thing because we have to correct the desire. The feeling is the desire. If my desire still does not accept it, let's say I do not know why I need to connect. What will I get out of connecting with my friends? What will I get out of connection with humanity? I'm letting it go. I do not stress it because I have nothing with which to work. I have to work with the things that are before it. In this way we will gradually advance. This is very important.
27. S. (57:42) He writes here all the time about ascent and descent, to constantly gather penny by penny.
R. Yes.
S. What is the difference between one on the beginning of the path, or the middle of the path of someone who is soon reaching the end of the path? Is this the right role in the descents and ascents in the same path, right?
R. Yes.
S. What is the difference between them?
R. Either a student in the first grade has a problem on how to write the letters or a person like a scientist for example has a problem on how to connect two parts of creatio,.somewhere up there. The twork is the same. There is some exertion, with effort in connection.
S. Yes, but here we are talking about reaching a state where everything accumulates.
R. Yes.
S. It could be that a moment before that the person is not even aware of it yet and he feels he is at his worst state even in the beginning of their path a person feels a ascents and descents.
R. What is the question?
S. What is the difference between them practically? Is it that same child or scientist?What is the difference between them?
R. The vessels in the child are small vessels, the intellect and the feelings are not connected yet. In the scientist, the intellect and the feeling are connected. He's got experience. He knows the state he's got to reach. It is totally different. In both, it is always when we rise from degree to degree the state between the degrees is empty. Emptiness, void.
He is telling us Baal HaSulam. He wrote one of the letters, I saw you, he wrote in one of the letters, I saw you helpless and I was filled with joy and he asked me why. why am I happy and I told you that in this great complete wicked, I see the developments, the next degree. That is how it is. Here he writes that there is none as wise as the experienced . As much as he has the experience ,he knows that he will go through it ,with the right effort, in the right way, the right logic and connection and if his experience does not provide him forces between the degrees and he carries himself until none is as wise as the experience.
S. The experienced one is happy in the state that he is going through?
R. He knows that is how it has to be and he knows he has to collect helplessness because he reveals the next degree in this way.
S. How does he form this yearning for this accumulation? Like he says this large sum has accumulated and revealed to him? How do we have a lack for this?
R. They know that this is the vessel. They begin to understand that the deficiency, the despair, the helplessness, the separation, all of those things are not some side effect and I want to throw them out, no, they themselves are the vessel.
S. This is the treasure that we want?
R. Yes, that is the treasure through them I come to a state where I correctly taste what the host is trying to give me.
S. When a person reaches a state where his reward is the exertion, that is the accumulation of everything?
R. Yes.
Reading excerpt #4 (01:02:06) “We must always consider…”
28. R. (01:02:32) You can go above the questions in those states or I've done something I'm in a certain state and the evil inclination comes to me and ask me why, what for, let it be, it's not for you, if I go above it this is called above reason.
Reading continues (01:03:01)
29 R. (01:03:14) The evil inclination comes specifically to give you a place to work.
Reading continues (01:03:17)
30. R. (01:03:55) This is huge what he's telling us Rabash, specifically in this way we advance and by what, here the measure of connection between the friends is very important. Since then and all those states of weakness a person finds no power, no desire, no awakening, nothing that would raise him up, stimulate him but only the connection with the friends only through that he can receive additional force here. We need to understand that we must receive the force for advancement from the group because we have nowhere else to get it from either, God forbid from the other side Sitra Achra, or the connection in the group.
These are the only things we have in our system so if we wish to advance towards the end of connection the end of our correction, we need only to connect a little more as much as possible in the ten and and take an awakening and forces from there, more and more a bit more and extract everything from there even when it seems like nothing, nevertheless it's possible to extract the powers, the forces. You're eating from the pot and yet nothing more there and you're trying to finish additional crumbs from it that's how we need to do it with the group, we need to try and receive those forces of connection because this is truly the our true work, and that should make us take another step forward, only this way.
31. S. (01:06:21) What does it mean to divide the times?
R. We have a group and we wish to perform actions, our actions should all be connected I would recommend for each and every group to have a daily session a few minutes and renew for itself the actions that they demand from the group each and every friend and in this way we will perform a spiritual action. We'll talk about it some more maybe towards the end of the later.
32. S. (01:07:46) An action that let's say I performed yesterday easily and today I find it more difficult today. Is that overcoming or because of negligence?
R. It’s because everyday you see additional egoistic desires to correct it so go with the same action but with today's conditions and you will succeed.
33 S. (01:08:16) What are the actions in the ten that help us accumulate the pennies?
R. Connection only connection.
34. S. (01:08:39) Are there spiritual actions which can increase or diminish the accumulation of the pennies?
R. What we are learning about there’s nothing more, the will to receive that we need to have to work with or against in connection and in prayer that's it.
35. S. (01:09:25) What to understand that I overcome something or if I just delayed it onward, how do I know?
R. It does not depend on us maybe I've put in one ounce of work but by that I opened the door for others to do great difficult work or it could be the other way around that they've done something simple and I have to work several actions, do several actions on it over a period of time, it's not none of our business we just need to see what can we do each and every moment to increase the connection between us and from between us to the Creator this is the path nothing more than that.
S. How to relate to this feeling that the Creator gives you every day thousands of opportunities for correction and maybe the best case that I've used maybe one and the rest kind of press on me?
R. It's possible that this is how it appears to you but if you choose this action in order to connect the friends and connect them later to the Creator then this is the correct action, we need to worry more about it.
36. S. (01:11:07) You said to receive forces from the group and not the Sitra Achra, how do I identify that we’re receiving forces from the group?
R. Take from the group and connect to the group as much as possible in order to bestow to them.
37. S. (01:11:39) Is the knowledge that penny by penny accumulates to a large sum is what should help me exit states of suffering?
R. Of course, a penny and a penny accumulates to a great amount means that our treatment is gradual, in layers, slices.
38. S. (01:12:11) In the second excerpt it’s written that in many times, many souls, we can by the illumination of the days to scrutinize all the sparks, the question is in what is differentiated in these times, the illumination of days, are they identical?
R. They are identical, the order of times means that everyday meaning every moment the sparks new sparks work on us each time more and more these tiny illuminations and they advance us forward, they develop us in spirituality and in corporeality and through us it comes down to reality, people and then the animate, the vegetative, and the still.
39. S. (01:13:17 What happened to our uncorrected desire?
R. Our uncorrected desires will be corrected when all of our desires are in one system, it cannot be that we're dealing with correction of any desire it's impossible that they won't influence the desires that do not exist for this action our soul is a complete reality and if we do something in one end it's certain that the entire body feels it we are not aware of it but we will soon reach such sensitivity where we will feel it, that all of our desires, our thoughts, that they are all being transformed.
40. S. (01:14:27) What's the result of a person overcoming the will to receive and adding an extra bit?
R. The result is that to a small extent he's upgrading his entire body and he’s raising it to a small extent a little higher and a little higher through the connection with the friends and with the Creator.
41. S. (01:15:01) Is it right that when you bestow eventually you get more of an influence of the feeling by others?
R. Yes and no. You’re influenced more you become more sensitive but you process it through more corrected vessels and therefore you're not going crazy with the world along with the world but you're not so much inspired by what ordinary people in this world are inspired by but you perceive things through corrected vessels.
42. S. (01:15:50) Is it possible to understand from excerpt number three that spirituality is like a muscle that has memory and if you use it gets stronger? You remember as much as the activity’s benefited and if you don't use it so it just dies away?
R. True, well put.
43. S. (01:16:14) How can we give an example to a friend that isn't interested in the efforts or the desires of the friends? I'm really happy when she comes but then she disappears again and the disappointment remains in the heart.
R. Try and influence her in a way that you want to light the fire of envy in her, envy, that she will envy the things that exists between you and then you will see how much she is drawn to you, that as is if you have more than she does and you're connecting and you have more knowledge and intellect and emotion and spirituality then she does things that she doesn't have and that she’ll feel how much she is losing as a result of not being connected with you. It's worth while doing it's good. It's actually with a good intention in order to stimulate her for her to come closer and that's why it's okay. It's possible
44. S. (01:17:34) How to feel that every little bit is a huge asset?
R. We exist above time, space, and motion, toward Ein Sof infinity, that our true existence is ahead of us destined to become revealed to us and therefore it's good for us to come closer to it and work in the way that this work is specifically in our world not leaving anything for the next world, and that's how we will approach or come closer to the truth.
45. S. (01:18:30) How can you measure the work in advancement?
R. The more we’re connected and heart and soul.
Reading Excerpt #5 (01:18:59) “Each day when a person digs the foundation…” Twice
46. R. (01:20:54) Here wait a moment. You see the depth of the digging until he gets the desire to work in order to bestow.
Reading Excerpt #5 (1:21:11) “Each day when a person digs the foundation…” Again
47. R. (01:21:30) Meaning what happened yesterday is gone. Every day is new.
Reading continues (01:21:36)
48. R. (01:21:59) Meaning how should we measure our success today compared to yesterday, compared with yesterday? That we're more helpless, more powerless, we understand less, but we have a strong desire, a big desire for the Creator to help us. I have nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing besides one strong desire for the Creator to help.
Reading continues (01:22:33)
49. S. (01:23:01) If I just ask the Creator for guidance every time about to do something, does that count as being close to him?
R. You're right, but on condition that it really comes out of your desire and not just so because you read that that's how it's supposed to be. You need to try and bring your quest for it to be from the bottom of the heart, from the depth of the heart.
50 S. (01:23:53) Why did the Creator organize the process of correction by penny by penny accumulates to a big sum? What was the problem in growing with great efforts?
R. That's according to the building of the will to receive. That's supposed to be mixed with the intention in order to bestow reaching gradual corrections so that we will be able to perceive the desire to receive with the intention in order to bestow upon the previous intention of in order to receive, and then that way we discover the gap between the two worlds of reason and above reason, the corporeal world and spiritual world. Corporeal means in order to receive, the spiritual means in order to bestow. So this way we need to try to come closer to spirituality and start acquiring it above corporeality so that for us and our values it will be higher and that's how we will advance. It can't be in a single action and one decision.
For each and every corporeal discernment we need to get a spiritual discernment and to appreciate that spiritual discernment more than the corporeal one and the corporeal one exists in us and we need to deal with rising above it as much as possible and impossible and then we ask the Creator through the connection with the friends meaning we have very serious work here in terms of our inner effort against our ego and trying to rise above and determining a new existence, a new form for ourselves.
51. S. (01:26:13) The deficiency in despair, that's the vessel we are building and our mutual work, love of friends, the quality of the Creator, and we get the fulfillment. After we get the fulfillment is the digging deeper as we read here? So what does that mean that all the fulfillment we have disappeared?
R. It doesn't disappear, it's hidden from us. You can say it disappeared from me but nothing disappears in spirituality at all, there's no absence in spirituality, but in order for me to cross to the next stage, the previous stage disappears. We even see it in our life and technology and everything, if I cross from one degree to the next, then what I had on the previous degree usually disappears in order to build the new degree independently from beginning to end and that's how it is every time more and more. We also see it when we study the Partzufim that if the previous old Partzuf purifies and instead of it comes the new Partzuf, so from the old Partzuf all we have left is the record.
S. So the fulfillment we get that distinguishes the deficiency, what happens in that stage in our work in the ten towards the friends?
R. Only connect more and more despite the different changes in states and relations. Don't look at it, but overcome in connection.
52. S. (01:28:25) How to dig deeper every time because there's a feeling that I start digging from new every time, that the Creator covers the hole, and I dig it again
R. Try every time to decide that now you're doing real work from beginning to end and you're not stopping, you're going all the way in order to reach connection and then in that complete connection that you have achieved now, you've reached the Creator. It says about it the final action is in the initial thought if in the final action you want to reach the Creator and serve him then you go for the connection as much as possible as much as you can today don't think that that's the end but it will be the endlessness and that's how you will advance
53. S. () Could there be a state that a person digs a pit of yesterday
R. I know it can never be we never have records that repeat themselves it's always all the records are renewed. It should be as new in your eyes every time.
54. S. () … Only prayer and only efforts why the prayer is the end of all of our. …
R. How can you advance you have no spiritual Force if you really want advance and spirituality you have no intellect no emotion no nothing you only have a thin thread of connection to the Creator and you ask him to help you how do you enter spirituality tell me with your intellect no emotion no different other means there are none. You have just one thing that you have some kind of marginal connection very thin thread of connection to the Creator where it's like a baby who's tied to his mom besides his mom what does he have nothing. But thanks to having that connection he's you he uses it and grows and grows up. And becomes gray 2 that's how we are too.
55. S. () About what you said about the records that a record never repeats itself in our work, is that only in spirituality or also the current state we are when we only works with a few records
R. That's always how it is the records the entire world all together nothing repeats itself. Nothing.
56. S. () The true deficiency to receive it with the help of the Creator to want to work in order to bestow and to be rewarded with… light…
The force of the stool and the lights are not the same thing the force of the stole is the restrictions screen and reflected light that I prepare myself for the Creator for him to do whatever he wishes with me to clothing me excetera and then the lights and everything else it's already him for feeling me and then I feel that as the lights.
57. S. () Make the help from corporeal Into a spiritual state
R. That if I go in the corporeal Direction I'm not doing nothing for my body for my soul and in general I'm working on some kind of a lie that a person's giving an order for him to play around with it but only there's really just one action which is the act of connection of Correction and it is really worth while to think about it all the time and come closer to it
S. Is there an order of actions of how I turn this thing in..
R. only with the help of the group. I can run around my tail like a dog with a long time without reaching a solution but with the group we attained it very quickly. Because it is the character the nature of the group that when it talks about something it very quickly reaches the correct solution. Even the smallest group the most the most unsuccessful group but that's how it's built that is the nature of the group.
58. S. () Is it bad to take forces from the other side in order to advance?
R. It is forbidden for us to touch the in order to receive egoistic Ali Wise but on condition that it awakens and and integrates in us with us than we need to fight against it against them but not that we ourselves need to come closer to an order to receive by that we don't correct them but to the contractor we are under their control.
58. S. () Can we connect more and in turn away with internal actions more than external actions like meetings or Congress has or in this world is it always needed.
R. I did not understand.
S. He's asking there's internal actions for connection and external actions that
R. both both. I also saw it on the teacher who really supported corporeal or exterior actions like meals and different types of connections and things like that. that it first or in the beginning when I started studying with them then the entire broader group we went out for on trips for a day or two, and usually to the North of Israel and it was very supportive of it and participated in it. Afterwards maybe a bit less it was less supportive of going out someplace but meals and these types of connections yes. He he was in support of it and therefore I think that we should renew at least our virtual meals as much as possible and to also renew our local Congress has as much as we can but meals for sure I think already this week we have when a meal on Friday.
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