Morning Lesson October 25, 2021, Transcription
Part 1:
Baal HaSulam - The Advantage of a Land
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Rav’s Introduction: A very important article, actually all the Shamati articles are. Why? It explains to us how to advance towards the goal. Where our advancement toward the goal has to be through two opposite things left and right left and right. But each time we're actually advancing, it seems to us like we are in a state that is disconnected from spirituality, and it's not just disconnected from spirituality it's seemingly opposed to spirituality. They show us the coarseness of the next degree and we need to try and reveal or show the correct attitude towards it. That's why we each time advance on the left, then on the right and this way we are marching forward. If a person understands that this is how we should walk in each and every moment when something new appears to him it appears as a thing in its opposite. Where first the left appears to him the will to receive the Creator created and then a person needs to try and attach this new will to receive is broken will to receive because he is a result of the shattering of the general vessel. That he has to attach this broken state to correction to the left. And it turns out that left right left right that's how we are advancing towards the end of correction and nothing appears unless through these two states and as a result of them the middle line. Let's read how we should accept those things and you can ask, you can discuss, these are very practical things. The problem is that when we receive the left line, we don't think we're advancing by it but rather physically we are retreating and it's incorrect. Because the Creator only always shows us the future states and we are in bad states, terrible states, states of helplessness and confusion. In short both in our brain and heart when we're disconnected from our path and we find ourselves immersed in various physical states nevertheless we have to build such an atmosphere in the 10 that will hold us each and every one of us. Each one in his individual states and he'll be able to quickly from the states that he was thrown into, will understand he was thrown from the connection with the friends and there's nothing truly individual or private here. As quickly as possible he must return to the connection with everyone to the entire 10 and that's how he advances. Meaning we have to try and understand that the state that we are in the state of separation between us and coming closer to the Creator is through the effort to come closer internally with the hearts between us. That's how we need to advance, meaning it's not the good and bad that we scrutinize or what is understood or not understood, rather we need to decipher it as in the form of, we are distance from one another or we're close to one another and accordingly distant from the Creator who is between us and close to the Creator who appears between us. In this way we will direct ourselves correctly towards the goal and it will be near to us and clear and felt more and more.
Shamati 34. (05:42) The advantage of a land…. “
R. (06:32) Meaning there's no choice here we must feel these two states. Their opposition from one another and when we feel one from the other, negative from within the positive, positive from within the negative, when we stop labeling them as negative and positive rather this is one state and this is another. Because it's clear to us that we cannot be in a good state and a bad state, we simply label them as such according to the feeling in our corrupt will to receive. But in our corrected will to receive it is written, there is no one cruel in the King's palace, nothing bad exists in the Creator's world, rather everything exists in order to scrutinize the things that are opposite to it, otherwise it would not have been revealed.
Reader continues (07:40) “for example it is….”
R. (08:18) That is a rule it is impossible to come to love adhesion prior to acquiring the hate of separation where the hate of separation is the foundation of our basis on which we build love for adhesion.
Reader continues (08:39) “to be rewarded…. “
1. S. (10:49) Can it be said that when we are corrected then the bad in the system is emphasized even more and not disappear?
R. It's possible.
2. S. (11:16) Why is it that in order to come to adhesion I have to hate the separation and the distance between the friends and the Creator?
R. This is happening intentionally and Creation in order to bring us to a certain sensation we must understand the opposite quality. How can you feel anything that you exist for example that this is good in this is bad and this is warm and this is cold and each and everything you attain only because there is an opposite quality to it. From that we assemble our vessels of reception otherwise if we didn't have two opposing things in our feelings, we would not be able to feel any one of them. This is called this is light and this is dark, each and everything, this is how it is built. Because what the Creator did is He inverted Himself, He is entirely the force of bestowal and He created this, and this is the meaning of creation, Beria outside of his state He created the opposite state and my being and both of those states we can exist and feel these two states. Consequently, depict us, locate ourselves in this state that is distant from the Creator, close to the Creator, that's how we exist always and only between two states. It's called light and darkness in general. But these two states, we ourselves are create darkness and we are included in these two states, light and darkness, good and bad it doesn't matter how we feel them but from these two states we feel our existence. We don't feel ourselves, we feel what we sense, which is the difference, the gap between one state and the other. We always feel between that which belongs to the Creator and that which belongs to its opposite the creation Beria means outside of the degree, that's how we exist.
S. If I understand correctly, you started the lesson by inviting us not to appreciate what is good or what is bad but what promotes us more towards the goal, that's what I understood. How should we work with relation to the evil inclination, should we leave those parameters that have to do with our nature?
R. We never leave the evil inclination. Rather we receive a part of it each time it appears in us more and more. Against that we yearn to reveal from the good inclination and then from these two forms we put ourselves together. As since we include both the evil inclination and the good inclination. That's called the middle line and the middle line is called Adam that which we construct inside of us and the good and the bad come to us from the Creator. That's why it gave us an opportunity to be correctly assembled of these two intentions, these two states. That's why it's called, He performs light and creates darkness and it comes from the Creator, but a person only has to accept these two things correctly, even equally because the attitude towards them has to be as towards all of creation like in our world. There's no light without darkness and darkness is opposite light and light is opposite darkness, he can't have it in any other way and this is how we have to be constructed spiritually. Physically we are in it in a certain limited range. Where we distinguish between plus and minus in various shapes and forms and this is what makes up our feeling in this world. That's why we feel ourselves as existing in a very limited narrow band out of all of reality called this world. But we need to build ourselves and we can assemble ourselves into a higher form. Where we can place one against the other as it's written, I created one against the other, ultimately good and evil to scrutinize the evil from the good, the good from the evil and position them against one another as two lines and by that we construct ourselves as the middle line. This is us, who we are, how do we do it? The middle line is exactly the middle line, the faith above reason we're going to get to it.
3. S. (18:58) How do we effectively relate to the suffering and darkness in the ten to build that middle line?
R. We need to accept everything that is revealed in us as being revealed by the Creator because There's None Else Besides Him. We need to try and accept it in such a way that we are advancing with what we have, both the good and the evil, and ascribe everything to the upper force because There's None Else Besides Him and to aim everything to Him. In our effort to ascribe everything completely to Him we come to the feeling that all of it came from Him. We're going to continue reading because I see these are just questions, they're not according to the direction of the article yet.
Reader continues (20:49)” it follows that one should know…. “
4. R. (22:12) When we look at the world, we can't say that the world is good and the Creator, the one that manages it, is good.
Reader continues: (22:32) “There continues over we must know that in that state….”
5. R. (22:50) When a person feels any sense of evil in the world, bad in any shape or form, he feels himself in a bad state and he is called a ‘wicked' and accordingly he condemns the Creator because certainly what he feels comes to him from the Creator. He then has to account for himself how much he has to correct his vessel so the vessel will not give him this corrupted sensation. Certainly, only good comes to him from the Creator. If his vessel turns the good that comes to him from the Creator into bad, the light into darkness, a person needs to understand that it is shown to him this way so he has to correct himself until he comes to a good feeling. This, after all, is great help from the Creator to show us where we are opposite to Him.
Reader continues: (24:03) “only when they see that the Creator….”
6. S. (24:32) How does it impact the ten when I recognize and ascribe my suffering to the Creator?
R. That's a different question; we'll get back to it. I think we need to read. These questions are still not following the line of the article.
Reader continues (25:56) “Thus when one suffers….”
7. R. (26:34) Naturally, without making a decision, we hate the source of the bad when we feel bad. We therefore have to understand what we need to do until we come to love from the hate. There's the beginning of the future corrected state and, at the very least, we have the opposite form of how it should be. The Creator is already providing us with great help when we begin to relate negatively to Providence, meaning to Him, and from that we begin our trail, our path to approach the corrections, adhesion, and the goal.
Reader continues: (27:56) “accordingly what should one do in order to come to love …. “
8. R. (28:17) The entire complex of all the actions, everything a person has, to tie himself to the system, to the network, including connection with the friends, study, dissemination, is called doing a Mitzvah, and is generally pulling the Creator to be revealed.
Reader continues: (28:49) “there is light there….”
9. R. (29:18) Meaning when we work on the disturbances each time and ascribe the disturbances to There's None Else Besides Him and how the disturbances has come to us, we ascribe these disturbances bit by bit to the left line which is how the Creator governs us. We will nevertheless approach the goal through that.
Reader continues (29:55) “thus one must believe….”
10. R. (30:40) Meaning by yearning to reach connection and adhesion, we see that we are incapable of pulling ourselves towards this, and He brings us hatred for separation. We cannot come to adhesion but we can certainly come to hate the separation.
Reader continues (31:18): “and then he can discern….”
11. R. (31:52) We are going to go over the article once and we will hear what's written in the article and try to think about it and to be in it throughout the day. We will accept it in some form because we are in it. We need to come from bad, unpleasant, and unclear sensations to good, pleasant, and clear sensations and to advance in these two lines. There's no difference between the unpleasant and the pleasant feeling. Rather, our will to receive is connected with the Creator or not connected with the Creator. There's something very special here. The Creator begins to construct states in us that are more distant or closer to Him through these sensations of pleasant and unpleasant. That's how we can advance.
Reader continues (33:30) “in other words ….”
12. R. (36:09) Meaning we can't say that what we feel depends on us. Rather, the Creator creates that feeling and arranges what we feel. Establishing the correct attitude, the correct reaction, to what we are feeling depends on us and we have to check and arrange how we respond and react to what the Creator arranges in our brain and hearts, and all our feelings and all of our understanding of our feelings.
Reader continues (37:07) “yet it is not so simple….”
13. R. (38:46) Okay how do you feel this article?
14. S. (38:59) We feel that it awakens many questions. How do we connect the evil outside of the ten correctly to the connection between us?
R. It doesn't matter, we're not talking about technical things right now. We’re talking about the essence of things and not where they are revealed.
S. I'm talking about our reaction.
R. No, it's not even a question at the level of within the ten or outside of the ten and how we arrange things that we're discussing now. Now we are talking about what is revealed, from Whom it is revealed, and how we respond.
S. I'm talking about the reaction, the place of the correction is our connection between the friends in the ten.
R. You're not hearing what I'm saying and I'm probably not hearing what you're saying.
15. S. (40:22) When he does not justify the state of darkness, does it mean that he's not in a state of conception?
R. We're not talking about conception here, we're talking about how we relate to what we are receiving from the Creator. What we receive in every place, in every state, we are receiving from Him to establish and arrange our connection to Him. Maybe we should scrutinize through the ten, but here we are talking about how a person should personally position himself with respect to the Creator. Let's continue. I don’t have simple words to explain it.
16. S. (41:47) I get the impression that we are feeling the article right now and feel as if something great is happening here between us?
R. Yes, yes.
17. S. (42:36) The negative forces in this world are in abundance. Is it our job to build the good on top of the negative?
R. Our work is to raise the good above the bad and to connect them together in the middle line. We attribute both bad and good to the Creator and understand that there is no bad, but it is only in order to point to the good. We then establish and reach the goal. We will scrutinize it and we will learn it.
18. S. (43:35) Baal HaSulam writes about torments. What is a torment?
R. There's something called pains of love, torments of love. When I suffer from still not having love for the friends, for the Creator, this is called ‘the pains of love’ or the ‘torments of love.’
19. S. (44:34) Do we only need to reach There's None Else Besides Him in each degree to The Good That Does Good?
R. Yes, of course that's the way it is. Correct.
S. What exactly does reach The Good That Does Good mean?
R. When we correctly position all the opposite, negative, egoistic, and bad things that are revealed we discover corresponding and opposite them that they are actually good, beautiful states of love. To the extent that we try to position ourselves correctly. It's like a child sometimes saying ‘mommy is bad’ when she forces him to do something that he didn't want to do. Is the mother really bad or is it how the child feels because she is making him do something? By the same principle, the same style, we are like that.
S. Like that child, I feel bad in my egoistic vessels. Should I rise to the level of mommy's brain?
R. Yes, you have to try to justify the Creator even though you feel bad. Meaning abstain from the bad, rise above the bad, above the will to receive, to its opposite, to the will to bestow. Ask the Creator to give you knew, different vessels and the ability to feel them in you, and to rise above, to be a grown up. You can imagine what it's like to look at the world with different eyes rather than those of a child. It happens naturally to a child but you should already understand and rise above it. Although in my feeling I see that the world is bad I want to see the world as all good. This is called ‘faith above reason.’ I want to determine that the world is good above my feeling. Everything depends only on the level of my correction.
S. So I simply replace the bad feeling with the good feeling and add the Creator to my bad feeling?
R. Correct.
S. The article says that we should hate separation and immediately after that it says that without separation, we cannot appreciate unity. So, should I hate the separation or should I want it?
R. This is already working in lines. We can't be in all the lines simultaneously as that would already be the middle line. We will learn it; that's the next stage.
20. S. (48:47) How do we focus the intention in the ten to arrive at the knowledge of what is the cause of suffering?
R. If you try to unite, to connect among you, and discover the root of what is happening in the connection between you, you very quickly come to the solution in every single state you're in. You build conditions for revealing the Creator when you really want to establish the center of your connection where you want to discover the Creator. You reveal all the relationships through this because you have no one else to be in contact with. There is None Else Besides Him and only He operates on you. So, what you're establishing in all the forms of connection between you and the ten, is really studying the Creator every time.
21. S. (50:37) How do we work with the Shamati articles?
R. We need to have both intellect and feeling here, and to try to connect ourselves to them in all kinds of ways. The articles of Shamati are not really articles as much as they are a projection of the soul. The more we read and study them, and turn them this way and that way, in this way and that way, by this we will constantly advance ourselves towards the Creator. Baal HaSulam placed the heart and soul of the correction in them.
S. Earlier you said that there was individual work of a person.
R. Of course there is personal work here in order to understand, to feel, to incorporate and cling to this article and to adhere to it. There is each one's personal work here; on the other hand, we need to try afterwards to understand our general work in helping one another, and how much we can understand it in our reality. It is work that we really have to plow into our will to receive and turn it upside down. In this way we will approach correction.
S. What do we need to do in the ten while we are reading it in the lesson?
R. Today we only want to get to know this article for the first time. There is no doubt that we will be confused. We must not take into consideration what we feel and what we understand. We simply want it to operate and work on us. I want to hear and feel these specific words together among all of us, in the whole world Kli, and to be confused and not understand. This is a very, very, complicated state where I don't know what's happening to me and how these things work. It's like plowing the land in order to sow seeds in it later. That's the state we have to be in today. We understand it and feel it and are ready for it.
S. This is true work?
R. Yes, it's just like raising crops in the field. We have to turn the soil inside out, we plough, place the seeds in it, and then we water it. We get results by the sun and by the various conditions he writes about elsewhere.
S. How do we work with the torments and confusions we feel yet at the same time feel pleasure from this work?
R. We need to see ourselves a little bit from the side. It is not good to be so impressed by what we feel. We have to feel correctly but at the same time I have to use some intellect about what I am going through and why. We give the Creator a place to work on us in this way. We see this in animals also. When we operate on them, they understand that we are trying to help them; they suffer and they let us do it. It is felt even on the animate level as the will to receive with an intellect that measures that it is for its own correction. We have to be like that, and not like absolute babies that just cry, but rather have a little more of the correct relation to what is happening. Corrections are never pleasant in the feeling. It all depends on the extent to which we are connected among us toward the common goal. Then we can turn this whole path of corrections into a good, pleasant way with excitement. It all depends on the level of our connection to the goal. The greatness of the goal determines everything here.
Reader continues (57:40) “we see that there is a great difference…. “
22. R. (01:00:38) That’s the difference between intellect and faith, in the intellect you decide it's registered and stays and you can work on it all the way to the end of your life, whereas faith you will have to constantly work on it anew over and over and over again because it's a matter of degrees. The intellect once you decide it works on the same plane but with faith as it says you rise on the mountain of the Lord on the degrees of faith.
Reader continues (01:01:15) “and we see the difference…. “
26. R. (01:02:03) It's the nature of faith, it is the force of Bina, the force of bestowing which is not in our nature. This is why we need to constantly renew it and renew it, worry about it and maintain it so it doesn't not only stay as it is, but the power of faith also has to, if it doesn't grow it disappears. That's the problem. If it doesn't grow it disappears because it's unrelated to physicality, to the will to receive, it is constantly above the will to receive. So, it's like fire, you have to constantly feed it, it needs fuel. Right Then it exists, if it doesn't have fuel, something that can burn, it will not exist.
Reader continues: (01:03:05) “and we must know that the reason….”
27. R. (01:03:20) That's the problem, that it constantly disappears as we have to constantly worry about it and we constantly forget what it means. What is faith above reason, where does it come from, it doesn't exist in us. Because we always have to build it above us.
Reader continues (01:03:44) “and since the desires of the body….”
28. R. (01:04:20) Faith too has an intellect but a different intellect, it is the intellect of bestowing, it exists at the Rosh of the Partzuf, it's an intellect about how to bestow whereas the intellect of the body is about how to receive.
Reader continues (01:04:43) “Hence before one acquires vessels of bestowal...”
29. S. (0105:32:) Can we tie what is written here to that tightrope walker who has to walk exactly on the rope or else he will fall, he can only move through the center?
R. I don't know, if this is the example that comes to your mind, I guess you're seeing something in it but I can't see, I can't say.
S. It seems like the moment I deviate, I lose my attention on everything coming from none else besides him, good that does good. I immediately stop on the path.
R. That is true.
S. And I ascribe everything quicker to there's none else besides him and then the movement continues, it turns out this is my only freedom of choice to ascribe it all to him?
R. Yes here begins the right scrutiny, you're right.
S. He's the one that gives me all the states to show me I deviated from the path?
R. All right, many questions, you'll work them out by yourself one at a time for sure.
30. S. (01:07:18) We have to return this system in a purified state?
R. You can put it this way.
31. S. (01:07:32) What does it mean to believe that Providence of the good who does good?
R. To believe in good providence means that in every place I accept it as a fact in faith above reason and I want to come to it in a way that I do accept and feel it within my vessels.
32. S. (01:08:14) We understand and it's been talked about it a thousand times, we get this projection from the evil inclination, there's no way out of it, this is a given from the Creator. How to maintain this constant umbilical cord to project that he is the good that does good and connect only through that channel?
R. We have to remain this way or else arise in degree and then we will feel that both the umbilical cord remains, and we also become adhered to a higher form, become adhered to the Creator. The more we grow our connection with the Creator becomes higher and higher.
33. S. (01:09:36) What kind of fuel do we need to give up to faith above reason so it will continue to exist?
R. We have to try to work as much as possible above my will to receive for the sake of connection with the friends. This is the clearest way.
34. S. (01:10:18) What is a thing he attained in his mind and he risks his life?
R. These are already revelations, we will talk about it later
S. When there's no faith in there, the mind awakens, meaning both of them are pushing a person towards the goal?
R. No, know if it's not faith in his push to advance towards the goal in a negative way.
S. Meaning?
R. In a negative way, meaning he's not advancing in bestowing he's advancing in reception.
S. So how to live constantly in faith?
R. This is what we're learning about. First of all, we have to appreciate the power of bestowing and pray for connection with the friends and pray for our connection that we will discover the power of faith that is between us.
35. S. (01:11:36) It seems like he is aiming us, in the article, to anything that is happening to us has to come to love, adhesion and hatred for separation, all to come to that. Let’s say, thank God I came to a state of adhesion and I hate separation, I don’t feel that helps me in life?
R. Look you haven’t attained yet. This is why you feel this way.
S. I love adhesion with the friends, I hate separation from the friends.
R. There are many such groups and societies in the world that love connection. It doesn't mean they're in faith above reason. Understand. It's like Kabbalists like to talk about it. They write that those who are in the best connections among them are gang members when they come to kill someone or steal something, then they feel that they have to be connected and they are connected among them because otherwise they wouldn't be able to rob a bank or something. That still doesn't mean anything. The fact that they are connected.
36. S. (01:13:14) I don't understand the headline of the article, how does it relate to the content of the article?
R. I'll tell you the title of the article should be very clear, the advantage of the land is in everything. Meaning we feel through the opposite desire that is revealed each time. We feel advantages of the desire to bestow compared to the will to receive and the form of faith above reason as opposed to the form of faith below reason and connection as opposed to separation. All kinds of opposite forms are revealed in opposites. By this we discover the actual reality and the Creator too cannot be revealed unless it is called Boreh, come and see, Creator. Bo means we have to approach, to come towards him and as we advance, we can Re’eh, we can see him. So how do we do it, this is what we're trying to understand. That approaching the Creator is possible only through the opposite. Left and right, left and right. The Creator arranges the left for us confusion, distance indifference, all kinds of states like that and then we have to skip over it, rise above it. This is called faith above reason and when we come to connection with the Creator. This is how we attain the connection, this is called the advantage of the light from within the darkness and there was evening and there was a morning, one day. This is the matter of our work.
S. Can we compare the spiritual circle to the circle of growth in nature?
R. Yes, yes, you can. There are also many examples of such and Kabbalists explain it to us.
37. S. (01:16:43) About the hatred of separation, love of connection and hatred of separation, sometimes a person is thrown to all kinds of corporeal desires and it makes him further away from the path, separated. We have been through different states so this person, he holds onto there's none else besides Him and he knows it is the Creator who throws him. It doesn’t seem he hates this state, on the contrary he gives excuses that it's the Creator who let me be the lowest and now all will be low and dirt for you all. Next thing is that the framework is not a framework and that you don't come to the morning lesson, it is a slippery slope. What advice can we have for the friend and the 10?
R. The advice is simple, this is what I heard from Rabash, and it is clear to us as well, whatever maybe I must be in the lesson. If I pass a day without a lesson then that is something that needs to be in my eyes as the worst thing possible. This is disconnection from the tube, the umbilical cord and then seemingly that same day I remain without spiritual nourishment, without spiritual air. So, to disconnect from the lesson daily that is to disconnect from the society, from the group and the spirit that the Creator is in within the society. Then it is called that I am disconnected from it, there is nothing else here. We need to understand nobody has a personal connection with the Creator. There is no such thing, only throughout the system of Adam HaRishon. So, when you say that there are people moving back and forth that sometimes they come and sometimes they don't, that is something that was not acceptable by Rabash. You must be in the lesson, that is it.
Sometimes people come, I would come from Rehovot and sometimes it is a path that would take 20 minutes sometimes it would take an hour and a half because the car would turn off or sometimes such horrible rain along the way and all sorts of things. The police would stop you asking who you were, then they begin to know you and it was possible to pass quicker. You must reach the lesson wherever you may be. Then it wasn't a lesson like today where you sit at home where you are turning on your computer with your house coats, rather back then it was truly quite a mission until you reach the place. Rabash would say in order to reach his father, for a lesson of Baal HaSulam, he had to go through neighborhoods that were very hostile along the way. There was an Arab neighborhood there and there was another neighborhood of criminals that he really had to go through and he would do that for every lesson. I don't think there is justification for anyone who is not in the lesson.
S. Can a ten help his friend to hate this state he is in, this state of separation or the path is woven from above? Because, you see, over the years you see your ability to affect the friends is minor.
R. Talk to people in the 10, how you can influence them and this is always how you should organize who is for and who is against, influence, try as there is nothing else to do. Otherwise, we are also using the force that is against the progress of advancement, against development entirely and we are not allowed to do that. The Creator is always increasing a greater will to receive in order to rise upon it which is called to rise to the mountain of the Creator, as he raises the ego and we need to rise above it in faith above reason, more ego rises and more we rise above it in faith above reason. That is called who is rising on the mountain of the Creator. Then we have to reach the peak, we are seemingly in a direction to it but we have still not acquired the artistry, the force and knowledge, the mind and experience in all of this work. We are precisely now in such stages.
S. The truth is it seems as if we have been on the path for years and no one has anything outside of it, everyone has importance but it seems as if the necessity puts him down, that it subjugates him and he has nothing to do. Everyone is praying and it's clear to everyone that there is nothing in life except for the morning lesson, we are discussing it, we have assemblies, we are talking about it.
R. We need to feel if our friend is weak, it is our fault and then look how to help him.
S. Can we say about the actions of friends in the ten, we should also respond with actions or just prayer, sometimes prayer doesn’t help if an action affects more.
R. Yes, of course.
38. S. (01:25:31) What is faith?
R. Faith is the force of bestowing that we developed between us in order to rise above our will to receive, that is called faith.
39. S. (01:26:32) Why are we given lack of faith?
R. We have no faith to begin with which is the force of Bina, bestowal and our nature is only the force of reception and we need to compose ourselves a force of reception and on it a force of faith. Meaning all the force of Malchut and on it Bina, by this each time is revealed Malchut and we shall cover it in Bina, call love covers all crimes and this is how we raise ourselves revealing our spiritual state more and more.
40. S. (01:27:22) is correcting the vessel correcting the intention?
R. To correct the vessel is to correct the intention, yes.
41. S. (01:27:49) How is one thing and it's opposite expressed inside a person?
R. Just as we're learning now from one thing and it's opposite that the Creator adds to us reason and we need to add faith above reason, he adds to us Malchut and above it we need to add the force of Bina. Each time we raise our self to a spiritual degree from the degree of Malchut to the spiritual to degree the degree Bina, in the meantime to raise the force of Bina above Malchut and later on we work even more than this after the corrections of Bina that we can with the force Bina work within Malchut not above it. Right now, we are only covering the force of the will to receive with the intention to bestow, we will reach even higher degrees.
42. S. (01:28:58) If a person feels bad but at the same time, he attributes the state to the Creator believing that he is the good that does good, is this still considered that he is hating the Creator?
R. That is already called faith above reason that he feels the desires within are entirely egoistic, horrible, all against the Creator that he wants to curse the Creator, not agree with him in any form or any manner. Along with this he understands this is all given specifically by the Creator for himself, that he will go above this in the force of faith and the force of bestowal.
43. S. (01:29:50) When we accuse, we blame the Creator is the feeling of regret a prayer in itself or should we express the prayer in words?
R. It could be that a person doesn't find the words but that he needs to feel it.
44. S. (01:30:14) Should we imagine the bad states in the opposite way and then we can acquire the vessels of bestowal, is this the right way to see things?
R. No I don't think so, I am not familiar with such a method, that we instead of the bad depict the opposite good states. I think we need to rise above the evil, the bad and let it remain that it always remains as a foundation, the material of the degree, the matter of the degree and above the sensation, we rise above it and even more are adhered in the Creator.
45. S. (01:31:26) Is the right line when we are capable of covering the crimes with love?
R. Right line is when we want to cover the crimes with love. Yes, actually that is true.
46. S. (01:31:50) Can we say we are giving contentment to the Creator when we are in a descent?
R. That is incorrect, what does it mean we are in a descent, that I agree with this that I am in a descent or that I no longer agree with the descent and begin to make some actions in order to overcome it and turn it into an ascent. That a descent I no longer feel as a descent but an opportunity to straighten my relation to the Creator, there are all sorts of opportunities here and I recommend that we scrutinize these states and then it will be clear to us how we relate to the Creator.
47. S. (01:32:49) Where is the evil that is made by the Creator, where do we feel it?
R. In every place where I feel that I am in my desires to receive, in disconnection from the Creator, disconnection from the friends, where is he but between us and from between us to the Creator, there is the evil. The evil is the force of separation that cuts the will to receive that the Creator created into many parts.
48. S. (01:33:43) Should a person determine the difference between the Creator's qualities and his ego in a good way and a bad way?
R. It is desirable, yes.
S. So what is the right way to respond to the good and bad you get from the Creator?
R. It is desirable to react to them in an equal manner to both good and bad are forces of my development that I by them specifically rise to adhesion.
49. S. (01:34:23) If a person cannot not suffer, he must suffer, can gratitude to the Creator turn the suffering into merit?
R. Yes, of course.
S. What should be the right prayer and such a case?
R. He gives thanks to the Creator to give him such opportunities seemingly negative and to understand they're not negative but positive because they come from the Creator.
50. S. (01:34:59) How can we help friends not to let go of the path if they cannot stand the descents?
R. Prayer is one thing and the second thing besides prayer, in examples, help everything that we can to take them to mutual work all sorts of things, just don't pressure them too much otherwise they will get even farther.
51. S. (0135:49:) What is the correction in order to get light from the Creator for others, what resistance prevents me from receiving the light from the Creator?
R. Only connection between us as much as we are connected more tighter to one another, by this we can be more connected and bestow more.
52. S. (01:37:20) When you feel it's bad how can you be in faith above it, as it is really in order to receive to run away from the separation?
R. I don't understand.
S. If I feel the separation and it is bad for me, why am I doing it because I'm caring about myself, I want to feel good?
R. No, why it depends what kind of separation that you feel, if you feel you are separated from the 10 and separated from the Creator and you want to correct it, why is that bad?
S. Because I'm not doing it because of the greatness of the Creator or the goal, I do it because I feel bad.
R. No once again that all depends on how you arrange these things.
S. So what should be my relation, what is the separation exactly about which I should hate?
R. It is written that all will be clarified in thought, you need to see what you are separate from, if you're doing it through the 10 then it is spiritual separation and if you separate from the friends you separate from the Creator. If you are not making this calculation and are not in this sensation, then the separation is corporeal.
53. S. (01:39:13) Is there a difference between Lishma and faith above reason, sometimes in the articles it is written that faith above reason you say it is bestowing and Lishma is also bestowing from above but faith above reason is written that we should attain this on our own.
R. We need to make efforts in order to perform actions of bestowal, what are actions of bestowal you don't know, it is this that in our world that a person gives something to another it's clear that it's not an action of bestowing, as truly he means in this by some opposite action from someone who is giving. It is like in a store someplace, where each time if we are capable of doing something in giving one to another, in this we are actually in the action of acquiring, purchasing, like in the store. Each one is doing something that is good for him, worthwhile for him that he is getting a benefit from it. This is actually the bestowing that we have in this world. Sometimes this bestowing we think that this is bestowal but it is not such, it is simply just concealed from us maybe, sometimes how much we are intending for reception.
Our intention is for reception, faith above reason is the force of Bina that awakens in us from above, it is not in us and then this force of Bina gives us the opportunity to perform actions without any return to us, with no return to ourselves. What will I have or get from it? Nothing. I will get from it, that I am performing an action with no return to myself, it is hard to understand it but this is what we are actually intending by faith above reason. I don't have these vessels now in which I will feel they will benefit from giving because many people in our world are giving, they are donating but all of these are actions of the reception and not bestowing. It is like in the store that I am giving in order to receive and also the store owner he is receiving from me in order to give me, but he doesn't mean to give, but in this give and take manner we are in relations between us. This is called go and benefit from one another. The question is how do we reach faith above reason? We cannot but only by this we perform actions such that we obligate the Creator to help us. That is called “my sons have defeated me,” that we want to perform actions in order to bestow between us, with the friends, between the groups to the Creator, to corrections.
This, we are not capable but we very much want to perform, this awakens the upper light, the force of bestowal, the general force and it helps us and it is present in each and every action of ours. Not that he gives me some force of bestowal and I am in it and that is it, I that I don't need anything more to do. He is working and maintaining us like little kids this is called that I can bring myself closer to forces of bestowing, actions of bestowal, thoughts and calculations of bestowal to the extent that I receive this force of bestowal from above that clothes in me, and then I have an opportunity to work in it and not otherwise. Otherwise, I won't have forces, in the extent that I received from above some unique spirit and force, the force of bestowing, then I with this force of bestowing am capable in something to calculate my actions in bestowal because a spirit from above fills me and then I am capable of working in such a manner.
The minute this spirit departs me I am not capable of anything, once again I fall to beastliness. All the time to make the prayer and the request to the Creator for the adhesion in the Creator that he will fill us in some force of bestowal, in some spirit. Then to this extent we will be in spirituality. That is the sum total, then this force that I requested of him, from the Creator is called faith above reason, the force of Bina that dwells on the force of Malchut that awakens by the Creator. This force of Malchut each time in greater measures but they are not big on their own themselves but rather a little more and a little more, so we will receive and request from him each time that we shall have force of bestowal that is greater and greater. This is called faith above reason, the force Bina above the force of Malchut, the force of reception. I know that these words of faith above reason, they are very difficult to grasp for beginners but accept it as such. We must each time determine in our minds and our hearts the internal form of these words, the internal essence of what it is talking about here.
54. S. (01:48:15) Why don't we be afraid, why don't we be afraid to lose what we are attaining every time or maybe we should agree with that?
R. Look, fear is good because it helps you, protects you, that it warns you, it is good but really there isn't because we don't know what we are losing so we have no fear. Fear is usually from losing what we have but, in the meantime, I don't have such a sensation of what I'm losing.
S. Some states after the lesson or during some lessons everyone experiences something then they say wow what a lesson, later it goes away, how can we make a state where you are afraid to lose it?
R. This is the work that you must speak between you in the group. The main thing for us is that as much as we go through today to make the effort to realize in the connection between us and then it will remain in something. What we are learning, spirituality, not in any one of us are there spiritual vessels, as they exist in the connection between us, between me and you there are these vessels and each one of us is as Malchut and to be in spirituality is to be in bestowal above Malchut. So, from each one to the other and in the distance, in the gap between one and the other we reveal the spiritual world. If I pass on my intention, my heartfelt desire to there, I reveal it.
Reader continues: (01:50:57) “Hence before one acquires vessels of bestowal….”
55. S. (01:53:57) The evil inclination turns to be the intention in order to bestow?
R. Yes.
56. S. (01:54:17) Why does the upper light always reveal itself in the form of suffering?
R. The light does not reveal itself in the form of suffering, the light is revealed more and what we feel to the extent that we are opposite of it, we feel suffering. The light does not reveal the suffering. Let's say that I am among wise people and they are talking about things that I don't understand and I am sorry that I don't understand. It is not their intention to make me sorry but it is a simple result of the fact that I can understand what they are talking about, it is the same with the upper light that it appears as the light of love and the light of connection. If I'm not in it I will run away from it, that I don't want it at least I am not far away from it, I still feel that I don't belong to it. We get all kinds of rejections and this is how we grow.
57. S. (01:56:06) No Translation from Russian
R. The force of bestowing when we start to discover it inside of us is the force of the illumination of Bina that affects us.
58. S. (01:56:39) Suffering leads to the source of the suffering which can lead to hate of the Creator, do we need to hate the source?
R. We should hate our will to receive which is what leads us to states that we cannot feel good in each and every state, that is it, as our will to receive is to blame with all of our unpleasant emotions.
59. S. (01:57:28) Where to obtain the force to believe the Creator is the good that does good?
R. From the environment, we have nothing else, only there can we receive forces and with these forces that we can overcome and succeed.
S. How to know that we're not confused between faith above reason and some imagination or self-lie?
R. That also is only by the connection between us, you have to understand that the vessel that used to be whole in the beginning of creation and everything is okay and organized nicely with truly Godly harmony. What is missing there? Only for the created beings to understand where they are, that they are in the Creator. How is it possible to reach a state that we are in the Creator, only as we learn, as the advantage of the light from darkness, is that the land is the desire so it is inside everything that is opposite of it. This is why we have to go through all of these opposite states in this way we discover ourselves. This is what is happening to us now.
60. S. (01:59:27) Is revelation of the Creator when we feel that we rise together above reason?
R. The revelation of the Creator cannot be in any way but when we are ready to accept him with faith above reason, when the force of Bina is greater than Malchut, then the Creator can be revealed and if he were to be revealed. Malchut is greater than Bina then we would devour it, we would perceive him in our vessels of reception, what we should do is restrict our vessels of reception to cover them all with vessels of bestowal and then we will approach the revelation of the creator to certainly give him contents meant by that.
61. S. (02:00:37) What can help to feel the greatness of the Creator?
R. To help me feel the greatness of the Creator is only the group can help me there, only the group not to the extent that there I am incorporated, that I desire and participate, to that extent I perform all kinds of actions of bestowal, they help me, I carry out within the group spiritual actions.
62. S. (02:01:22) Where do we feel the greatness of the Creator more in concealment or revelation?
R. We feel it more in the two opposite extremes, in the darkness and in the light, this is called a King that kills, that gives life and grows salvation.
S. Self-importance causes suffering?
R. That is something you should connect together, these opposite states and then we will know.
63. S. (02:02:09) Does a covering need to come before revelation of evil?
R. Of course the covering has to come before the revelation in each and everything because only after the covering do, we discover the real state, if we cover correctly the desire to receive, we need not be afraid of the revelation of the evil, the recognition of evil. It won't happen.
64. S. (02:02:48) Is faith above reason always suitable to the coarseness revealed?
R. Over the coarseness that is revealed we always try to perform a restriction, a concealment and gradually to discover our relation to it to the extent that we have the restriction, screen and reflected light, to the extent we can be in bestowal.
Reader continues: (02:03:29) “Now we can see that all of the torment that exists….”
65. S. (02:09:45) There is a will to receive that is in separation is hate for the separation bringing to restriction?
R. Yes, we don't need anything beyond hatred of separation as hatred brings distance, performs the restriction and does everything as it corresponds to love.
S. The force of hate is what gives us the force of restriction?
R. Ask again?
S. On our part that we hate the separation, is there another force that needs to come to give us the force for restriction?
R. Yes certainly, as hatred is hatred, what you are asking is besides hatred do we need an additional force of restriction, yes. Because hatred comes to me from the Upper Providence and the rejection and restriction come from my awakening already.
S. What more do we need to reach the action of restriction beside hate?
R. First of all our decision, if we don't want to work in order to receive that we are willing to rise to the degree of bestowing you can't say that I don't want to be in it, so what do you want to be in? There also has to be something that is positive as this is how we should determine it.
S. In a time when a person is in hate for the suffering, he is still wicked?
R. No, when he hates separation, he is no longer wicked because he hates these separations but wicked or righteous is with respect to the Creator there are many actions here on the way, I feel it with my feeling am I ascribing to the Creator or to me, what am I doing with this. You're saying righteous which is to the extent that I relate to the Creator I justify his Providence even though I feel it as unpleasant inside me, it is just. When I justify him with the things, he is doing to me also is it for my sake or for me to justify him in a different degree by which I can reach spirituality. By that I can read to state that the Creator becomes the goal.
66. S. (02:13:25) I wanted to ask about the two ends of our work. You said that we need to pray that it will come soon from the Creator that it fills us, the spirit of good called above reason and on the other hand, how do we need to pray for connection between us as prayer for connection between us in prayer for the force are the same thing or is one beginning and one continuing?
R. It depends on what state a person is and where he is. Does he distinguish between these things are not, at least in the middle you see comparing the way that you were in the beginning or the middle or end of the lesson. How much your discernment changes. How many inner scrutinies we are going through and this is how it is revealed. This is basically the work for us to bring ourselves to all kinds of states that each and every form of connection and disconnection and relation between us will be for us more and more felt prominent to such an extent that we will be able to discern the different states in it, to mention and sort them out that is our whole work. That is our whole work, to discover the soul. We can call it the soul of Adam HaRishon or our general soul or each and everyone's individual soul. It is all the same. It only depends on the scale and to what extent I know this state because each of us is ultimately the entire reality. Meaning he is coming to depict himself as the created being that the Creator created.
S. Specifically on this point, between us and the Creator is the same thing or it starts at one and then it turns into the other or they are both parallel?
R. Don't understand
S. You said in the beginning of the lesson that you give answers this way and that way. That the work is between us we pray between us looking for the connection and we turn to the Creator from this and on the other hand I also heard that we turn to the Creator in order to receive the force of good that dwells between us. Are these two different types of work or one continues the other?
R. It is the same. You should try to discover your tendency toward bestowing the friends and through them to the Creator and in each and every step and each and every case then certainly you will be attaining faith above reason because you are the reason the friends are already the faith above reason and everyone is aimed at the Creator. it should be more and more clear to us.
67. S. (02:17:28) How to correctly cover all of the will to receive?
R. All of the will to receive we should think together both men and women. Let's think we are doing something together. That we want to connect in our desires and that these desires will all be aimed at the upper Force. All of them will be organized to give some space to the Creator to fill us in order to give him contentment. Not that we want to grab him and to bring him to us, no, we want by that to give bestowal to him in an action of love. Let us all want it to happen together. In such a tendency that we all have to be all the time. We're now going to our day of work and all kinds of troubles, some go to sleep it depends where they are on Earth. All of us we all think about this and we all want to be connected. In our connection above each and every one's personal ego we want to give some room for the Creator to clothe in it, to enjoy, to fill it not for us, but for him to enjoy. That should be the sum total of our intention. Not that we want to receive the Creator and to feel that he is filling us. Rather we want to feel that we give him space to fill his vessels. What he created and to enjoy it, we want his good. It is like a mother who is concerned about her child enjoying each and every moment of his life is how we should be concerned about the Creator enjoying every moment of taking care of us. He's taking care of us anyhow but on our behalf that should be the relation, the feeling as we want the Creator who is taking care of us every moment, we want him to enjoy it. Try to imagine that you are like a baby, like a child that wants to return to the mother, her relation to him.
68. S. (02:20:57) What is the request for the forest to rise above the ego for equivalence of form with the Creator that it is not self-reward?
R. This depends on a person's height, it depends on the height that a person is in. We have to reach a state that we understand that nothing changes in creation but our relationship. What we used to think is hard work that becomes a reward for us. We thought it was so difficult, why do we need to do this? Then we see it is not difficult, we see that it is a pleasure and there's nothing better than that. That is called I have seen the world and it is opposite. We will come to that but that is all a result, exercises that we tried to do between us, that we during the day think about how to connect so the Creator enjoys us, let us be good boys.
69. S. (02:22:1) How do friends help each other to be in faith above reason?
R. It is when they connect between themselves and they want to give contentment to the Creator
70. S. (02:22:30) It's clear there's no direct connection with the Creator but only through others and the revelation of the Creator can be a personal revelation?
R. To the extent that you can accept others as you do with yourself and then you have a vessel to receive the revelation of the creator.
71. S. (02:23:00) How to keep myself constantly in the direction of the Creator and the goal?
R. That is only by the friends thinking about you, you can't do it any other ways, you can't do it alone, together we go through all kinds of degrees and degrees and from 1 degree and on we can guarantee Arvut for ourselves, Awakening and strengthening and then from that we start promising the friends, guaranteeing without words of course, that we can stand in a way that is not only that we help them but that we are responsible for them.
72. S. (02:24:16) Is true suffering when I am opposite from the Creator when I can no longer bestow and the will to receive controls me?
R. Yes, moreover the suffering becomes more real when I don't help the friends, when I throw them away, when I suddenly let go of them or leave them. This is a much bigger suffering, a higher one because here it is from love of others to the love of the Creator as these are the two degrees.
73. S. (02:25:07) How in all of our state's in the 10 can we feel the direction of the Creator?
R. Of course we can do that if we connect and we try in our connection to reach the Creator. We start understanding and feeling the states between us and the Creator. We try to depict our state with respect to us and it. Meaning out of our connection we can already feel each and every state in reality, in the spiritual reality. Then out of that what else are we missing but only to go deeper in the connection then in the connection between us we start attaining these degrees, the ladder of degrees and we build the Partzufim in ABYA. We can discover these degrees and states, truly so. Even though to us it seems that it is something unattainable we see that there were Kabbalists who attained it so why cannot we. They not only attained but they got an ability from above to publicize and to speak, to explain and write about it. This is certainly with authorization from above. In the meantime, we are at least in the tendency to discover this to a certain extent to see where it is and in what way it is revealed, what can we do? All these things help us to be better connected as the Kabbalists write about connection. To bring our vessel to the Creator to fill the end to enjoy it is all before us. What we need to do is to try to fill our role and let us hope that during the day we can stay impressed by this article that we will read again and again and in truth. I'm certain that those who are on the path that every time we see that there are new states. We are the ones who change so let us do whatever we can in order to change until tomorrow and tomorrow we will see the new world.