*This transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.*

*Morning Lesson October 28, 2020*

*Parashat Beresheet  (Genesis) - Selected Excerpts from the Sources #47*

*Excerpt 47 Reader (00:01 - 00:40)*

47. Genesis 1:31

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

74. R. If you look at the entire creation of course we can't see the entire creation and that's why it completely doesn't look to us as very good , but it is very bad, but we feel that all of creation, how it ends when it reaches its endpoint. In the end of the action is in the initial thought, the way that it should be, then we see that it would be very good. You cannot reach all of the good without going through the creation of the vessel, building the vessel, filling the vessel, all of this comes to us through the process of creation.

*Excerpt 48 Reader (01:26 - 02:17)*

48. Zohar for All, Yitro [Jethro], "And Jethro Heard", No. 32

“And God saw all that He had done, and behold, it was very good.” “And God saw” is the living God, Bina.” “Saw” means that He looked, to illuminate for them and to watch over them. “All that He had done” means it is all included as one, above and below. “And behold, it was very good” is the right side. “Very” is the left side, “Good” is the angel of life. “Very” is the angel of death, and it is all one matter for those who observe the wisdom.

75. R. Why is the Angel of Death called very good? Because specifically by it we begin to disconnect from the Creator to see ourselves as independent and through it we come to a state where we resemble the Creator, therefore if we're speaking of two Angels, the Angel of Death includes in it not only the will to receive but also the will to bestow that we obtained from the will to receive called to receive in order to bestow. Whereas the good Angel is only good, it is Katnut, Light of Chassadim, the vessel of Galgalta Eynaim the Lights of Nefesh, Ruach whereas in very good, Tov Meod, when you add the vessels AHP the vessels of reception because according to the vessels is death, the Light departs, but when you add the screen to it, you receive in order to bestow the Light of Chochma you attain life, fully.

*Excerpt 49 Reader (03:40 - 04:11)*

49. Zohar for All, Mishpatim [Ordinances], "The Grandfather", No. 165

It is written, “And God saw all that He has done, and behold, it was very good.” “Good” is the good angel. “Very” is the angel of death. The Creator provides His corrections to all until even the angel of death returns to being very good.

76. R. We learned that there is a shattering of the vessel AHP where is shattered and because of the Galgalta Eynaim were also shattered and you have to correct the vessels, we correct the first Galgalta Eynaim and after that we gradually correct AHP, only in the correction of the AHP do we come to a state where the Angel of Death becomes Holy Angel.

*Excerpt 50 Reader (04:46 - 06:07)*

50. RABASH, Assorted Notes. Article No. 28, "The Earth Feared and Was Still"

Rish Lakish said, “Why is it written, ‘And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day,’ What is the purpose of the additional ‘the’? This teaches that the Creator stipulated with the works of creation and said to them: ‘If Israel accept the Torah, you shall exist; but if not, I will return you to Tohu ve Bohu [emptiness and formlessness]’” (Shabbat 88a).

We should understand the judgment that says, “From the heaven You sound judgment,” what is the meaning of “judgment”? It is known that the purpose of creation is because of His desire to do good to His creations. However, in order to have Dvekut [adhesion], which is equivalence of form, there was the Tzimtzum [restriction], which is a concealment. Thus, in the place of reception, a judgment was passed that the abundance will not be drawn in full unless one can aim in order to bestow.

77. S. Can you explain the living gods, Binah?

R. Keter is beyond our attainment, from Keter we get two forces, the force of reception and the force of bestowal the desire to exist in Chochma is the Light of Chochma and the Light of Chassadim in Binah, these two Lights we need to attain all of creation, the Light of Binah means of correction of creation and the Light of Chochma is the Light of the purpose of creation. Therefore, the Light of Binah we attain the Light of Chochma that is how we operate.

78. S. (07:26) What should I do when we study all of these things that are so exalted, I have a sensation of shame that isn't enough to reach the states that we are speaking about?

R. Even little kids it is good for them to look at the grown-ups that are more successful and more special ones so that they will get a direction for the development so it is good, we the little ones can see and somehow receive an impression from them. In the middle it is difficult for us, in the middle they have great work, Partzufim, Sephirot, Ibur Yenika, Mochin, all those things we get easily confused but in the end, we hear in the endpoint how the corrected Partzufim exists and we think that somehow we understand this. Hence the little kids can connect better to older people, the elderly and less to people in their thirties or forties but people in their 50’s 60’s or 70’s, they can find the connection with them. There is a special connection between kids and the elderly and by studying the Wisdom of Kabbalah we receive a special impression by learning about vessels that are the end of their correction because it is a bit clear to us what is happening and where we need to be drawn to.

79. S. (09:41) Usually we don't do this, you usually say not to connect two things but here it is clear that there's a connection between what we learn TES and what we are learning now?

R. So connect the things together, go ahead, so of course you're going to find various connections in various articles.

80. S. (10:55) What is judgement?

R. Limitation, a limitation beyond which you cannot work with certain desires since I don't have the intention to bestow.

S. Is that connected to the Tzimtzum?

R. Of course it all relates to restriction.

*Excerpt 51 Reader (11:23 -13:04)*

51. Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot, #6

The angels made no complaint about any of the creatures created during the six days of creation, except about man. This is because he was created in God’s image and consists of the upper and lower together.

When the angels saw it, they were startled and bewildered. How would the pure, spiritual soul descend from its sublime degree, and come and dwell in the same abode with this filthy, beastly body? In other words, they wondered, “Why do You need this trouble?”

The answer that came to them is that there is already a tower filled abundantly, and empty of guests. To fill it with guests, we need the existence of this man, made of upper and lower together. For this reason, this pure soul must clothe in the dress in this filthy body. They immediately understood it and said, “Do that which seems good to You.”

81. S. Emptiness and void is this the state of reception or not?

R. Tohu vBohu is receiving in order to receive, meaning there is no order in the state and everything is permitted, there are no laws.

*Excerpt 52 Reader (13:49 - 15:43)*

52. Zohar For All. Beresheet Bet [Genesis 2], And God Saw All that He Had Done, #174

This is what The Zohar asks about the words, “and God saw all that He had done.” It means that the Creator saw only all what He had done in the work of creation, but not the heaven and the earth that were to be corrected by the good deeds of people, who are destined to do them in each generation. But does He not see before He does, even what is to be corrected in each generation through good deeds until the end of correction?

It explains that the words, “all” means all the good deeds that are to be renewed in each generation by the righteous. “That He had done” means the work of creation, which He had already done.

Since the correction of reality that was established by the Creator in the work of creation is the foundation and root of people’s corrections, it follows that the works of people are included in the work of creation. This is why seeing the future relied on seeing the work of creation that He had already done. That is, this seeing of the future, which he Had done, is the work of creation.

82. S. In the beginning of the excerpt we read that the Creator didn't see the whole process, can you explain that?

R. Yes, because if you don't see the end of the process that is how it seems, what does it mean that the Creator's saw or didn't see? Do you want to interpret it as the Creator cannot see something? It depends which Creator we’re talking about, either were talking Binah, Chochma or Keter or Malchut depends on which place and from which place we are speaking of the Creator.  If we are speaking about Him from the state of creation before Malchut is doing any work and performs its restriction on all of creation, then of course there is no correction, there how can you explain, I said later on the 7th day or the 6th day when He finished the work of creation and He looked at it and he said everything is very good, before that He didn't know, He did it without knowing if it was going to be good, rather that is the language that they're using. Those are the discernments because the Upper Light, the Light of Ein Sof that is above all of the discernments which is called the thought of creation which exists inside the influence of the Light in us.  We are not speaking of it at all it exist above all of creation that what we are speaking of creation, we are speaking of the actions of the Creator towards the created being, such actions that come out in sequence and how the Creator waits for the reaction of the creature He enjoys it or not, He gets mad or not, there are stories like that. It is according to how the Upper Degree needs to appear towards the lower degree. But of course, we are not speaking of Creator Himself, the Creator, the Uppermost Creator is the Upper Light who is in absolute rest.

83. S. (18:24) He writes about seeing the future relied on seeing the work of creation, what is that?

R. The action of Genesis, Beresheet happens from the end of the action is in the initial thought, he explains to us those who wish to build a house and they have all of those details in the drawing and he starts to build the house but he has before him the final blueprint.

S. What is the action of Genesis?

R. The action of Genesis, Beresheet is where we learn how we construct all of the vessels that will be ready for the work of the lower ones. 

84. S. (19:36) He writes that by the deeds in our generation we will correct all of the states, how by working in the ten and bestowing to the ten do we correct all the world and attain all states Upper and lower?

R. It's not a difference whether it happens in one ten or all of reality it's only a difference in intensity, if we are performing our corrections in our ten, then the moment that we come to our Circle so more desires and disturbances accumulate in our Circle we put those in we include them in our connection and that's how we come to the complete correction.

85. S. (20:41) No Translation.

R. Everything like King David writes in Psalms, how your actions are great in all your days, I'm also there in my own day, meaning each and everyone is included in the beginning of creation the middle of it, at the end of it, and it is not like in our world where we divide creation, rather all of it is at work and we simply cannot comprehend the participation of all of the individual Souls as one Soul but this is truly so. 

86. S. (21:54) Is there a similarity between TES and Beresheet that we're learning here, is there a parallel?

R. It all speaks of the same, there's no difference TES, Zohar, Torah, Chumash, Talmud, Pentateuch, Gemara, they all speak of one thing and one thing only, how do we need to correct ourselves according to the actions of the Creator on us. It all speaks of the same, there is no other kind of Torah, God forbid. Except for how a person needs to reach identification and equivalence with the Creator.

S. In that state Tohu vBohu, where does that happen in TES?

R. The shattering that we're learning about in Part 6 and 7 of TES, the shattering of the vessels and by the shattering, the connection between the Upper Light and the broken will to receive was severed and we began to correct the vessels, to raise them. Go to the Zohar and you will see how he explains Tohu vBohu.

*Excerpt 53 Reader (23:43 - 24:19)*

53. Genesis 2:1-3

Thus, the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So, God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

87. R. It is clear to us that known line.

88. S. (24:29) The Angels only complained about man and this is because the Creator created a man in both the Upper and lower together so, what does it mean that man was made of the Upper and the lower together?

R. The person that was born can work with the forces of in order to receive and in order to bestow, it means that he is included of both Upper and lower ones and they complained together with that that man was given free choice, how to choose what to engage in or what forces, how to connect them, how to reach corrections. They want to understand because the degree that precedes the man is the animate degree, man is the speaking degree, so these Angels didn't understand, couldn't understand how you could give man such powers and for him to use them correctly.  Simply couldn't understand that there is the matter of shame, such limitations by which a person can advance and he will grow up, the matter of shame is included in competition, envy, honor, lust that take a person out of this world all of those things that don't exist on the animate degree of the Angels therefore they were against the creation of man.

89. S. (26:42) It is written God rested on the seventh day, what does it mean that God rested?

R. He stopped working on the seventh day, He gave man this day not as a workday but rather as a day of rest, several times today that's enough.

*Excerpt 54. Reader (27:17 - 28:47)*

54. Rabash. Assorted Notes. Article 630 “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning

Why was it not said, “And there was evening and there was morning, the seventh day”? It is known that absence precedes presence, for there is no light without a Kli [vessel]. Hence, first there must be evening, and both together are one day, for if one does not feel a lack, he has no need to draw the filling.

This is precisely during the six workdays, when there is an awakening from below. At that time, there must be darkness first, for otherwise he will not draw the filling. This is why it is written concerning the six workdays, “And there was evening and there was morning.”

But on Shabbat [Sabbath], which is an awakening from above, he does not need to first feel the state of evening in order to draw the filling, since Shabbat is regarded as extending from above without the assistance of the lower one. This is why it was said “the seventh day,” since on Shabbat, the light and the Kli come from above.

90. S. What does it mean the Light in the vessel will come from above?

R. In truth both the Light and the vessel come from above in every state, except there are states where we can and should interfere with and organize and balance and then there's a state called Shabbat it comes in a way where there is nothing left to do, only to integrate into the state and that is a correction. The corrections of Shabbat are there, how can you correct it? By not getting involved, not interfering.

91. S. (29:34) If the created being doesn't intervene why did the Creator rest?

R. In other days does the Creator work or does He not work? He is the Upper Light that brings a person, all of the states and arranges him so a person will perform an act of determination, a decisive act. On Shabbat, doesn't exist, the worlds rise to the World of Atzilut and there they are all in complete rest. It is the end of the degree then they come down again and again there is work. but not in the state of Atzilut because when the Upper Light influences him a person doesn't feel any deficiency.

92. S. (30:38) The six days of creation and Shabbat that is Atzilut of Beria?

R. All of the days are in the World of Beria and Shabbat is the World of Atzilut.

93. S. (31:09) Absence comes before the existence because there is no light without a vessel, how do you build that vessel in the end?

R. When you feel that you don't have the quality of bestowal, the quality of connection, the quality of unity, the quality of love, all of those things that you can define as the qualities of the Creator, you can ascribe to Him, not only to Him but also to His actions. To Him and about Him you can't really talk about but you can talk about His actions towards us. We say “from your actions we shall know you.”

S. He's saying because he doesn't feel a deficiency there's no need to drive fulfillment so I'm asking about this deficiency, how do I acquire that deficiency?

R. You have your group, you have your ten you should get your deficiency for connection from them and if you don't receive it ask them to help you, ask them to help you explain to you why aren't you feeling a deficiency for connection, it is written I should receive it deficiency for a connection from you and I don't have it, I am indifferent, I live like that among you and tell me to come and I come tell me to speak, I speak, I'm like this or like that, but a deficiency that is eating me from within I don't have it.

S. What is the deficiency?

R. This deficiency is a deficiency for a Kli, where if we will bestow to one another and want to connect to one another by that we wish to feel the general force of bestowal called The Creator.

S. So that is the only thing I can build a Kli with such a deficiency?

R. Of course, your Kli is the connection in the ten.

S. It's not enough that I come to the Morning Lesson and sit with the friends?

R. Yes and?

S. How do I build a vessel between the..?

R. 20 years in this, what's up with you?

S. I sit with them, what deficiencies can I see with them?

R. That they want to connect.

S. Oh that's a thing?

R. Do you feel that they have it or not.

S. I see they're making efforts, they hardly want to wake up, I see their faces, I want to cry, I see that they wake up to know they have a deficiency?

R. They come and they want to cry because they have you.

S. They're crying because of me?

R. Because you are the one preventing them from completing the connection and receiving the face of Shekinah.

94. S. (34:34) It's not even a question, is like a condition that he says about the state of evening, how can I disconnect from this?

R. Where does it say what he is asking?

S. In 54, that Shabbat is an awakening from above that's why he does not have to feel the state of the evening.

R. No, explaining the state of Shabbat where you feel wholeness some of these are the states where we invoke, let's say I'm sitting with the friends and we can feel wholeness with them in the connection between us, this is called Shabbat. A deficiency that I am revealing between us is called Sunday and another deficiency is called Monday and so if we discover in between us different types of deficiencies, one, two, three, four, five, six kinds of deficiencies and after all of those deficiencies that we feel that we discover them as true deficiencies and the lack of connection between us is a lack of attainment of the Creator between us. If we reveal these connections, it is certain that in the 6th deficiency even if you don't finish it it is called Friday afternoon, already we begin to feel that we are connected between us, we feel that between us a certain connection is taking place. And the connection between us is called the state of Atzilut. And inside the state we discover the Creator.

S. So the question is, I understand I have that state of evening that state of corruption and me so it turns out that I am just like grabbing a hint of it and not really experiencing the connection?

R. The state of evening is when you're not in connection with everyone and you feel that you are moving away, you are leaving the previous state of connection it is necessary in order to feel the darkness, the deficiency, and lack for the next state, for the next day you go through the night, the dark and you are looking for revealing the deficiency for the next state and then you wake up in the morning meaning you wish to attain additional connection, more powerful connection this is the meaning of moving from Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday you have reached these 6 deficiencies and 5 revelations that you are after then you come to Shabbat, the connection with the Creator is revealed to you, but it is all in the ten.

95. S. (38:26) Is our only work to advance the state of creation?

R. I don't know to advance it but we need to do it, we need to carry it out, you can say to advance but I don't understand this word, you need to push it forward yes you need to do it yes, but without you it's not going to happen, it's not going to happen.

96. S. (39:16) A person who does everything in the ten and nothing in dissemination, can he advance in something?

R. No, but this is already from the connection in the ten when they ask themselves what else are we lacking to advance, they will understand that they need dissemination because dissemination is the strengthening of the ten, if we have to Circle in the ten but we have to reinforce that Circle then naturally we will feel that we lack additional support from the outside. The external AHP, if we lack the Circle if we don't have a ten then we won't feel the need for dissemination, true need. From within our structure. Whereas once we come to connection in the ten we almost immediately feel how we can strengthen ourselves, this is by attaching to us additional such Circles.

S. I think it's clear what you're saying but if he feels it or not if he just takes a role because I today I feel, tomorrow I don't it's holding something stable?

R. Yes, if we wish to advance then “I awaken the dawn,” it is called, I need to awaken these vessels, if I go out, even now without us being truly connected to the ten, if now as well we are working to disseminate it will advance us of course. I spoke about it more than once and sadly what can I say. I don't think they hear me, what can I do? We are entering more difficult states, the world and us because our work is not adapted to what the Creator is giving, we are lagging behind. Whatever the mind doesn’t do, time does.

*Excerpt 55 Reader (41:54 - 45:07) reads twice*

55.  Rabash. Article 35 (1989) What Is, “He Who Is Without Sons,” in the Work?

It is written, “Which God has created to do.” As Baal HaSulam said, “created” means something new, existence from absence. This refers to the will to receive, which is something new because before He created it, there was no concept of reception in reality. It follows that the Creator created the will to receive, and the creatures must turn it into a desire to bestow. This is the meaning of “do,” to make of it a desire to bestow.

Yet, we cannot change the work of creation, and if the Creator created it in such a way that the will to receive is what operates, how can it be changed? The answer is that man must seek advice how to come to the desire for it. This is called “doing.” Although we said that a person cannot do this, but the Creator Himself must do this, since we cannot change the work of creation, it is still named after the person.

97. S. I would like to help scrutinize that...

R. Our connection is not powerful enough to stop humanity’s deterioration, humanity is deteriorating more and more, coronavirus is spreading, there is a growing number of conflicts between countries, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Turkey and France, inside Europe, it is constantly and daily you have additional separation between people, distancing. Look what is happening with the virus and a few other viruses is on the way, we can stop it only with the connection between us, we can influence the whole world that is clear to us because we don't have in us this general force, this Godly Force but once we connect between us you will see how much you work, you will see how much you can bestow, you will see how people can hear what you're saying. They will draw from it, not intellectually but they will be attracted from within to what you are writing, we must increase the connection between us as much as possible. This is the problem

S. What's the minimum degree of connection we need to stop?

R. When we feel there is one Spirit between us that exists between us that it circulates between us and from this Spirit, this mood we can influence all of the other tens and the Creator, we can bestow to them. We will feel how to a small degree we resemble Him and He can fill us, He can fill us to the extent that we connect even on the lowest degree of connection above our ego. When we connect a tiny bit.

98. S. (48:09) It's written that you can't resist the action of creation and demand less work, where is the freedom of choice because it feels that we have it, because the action of bestow has to take place, so do we really have freedom of choice?

R. That's not what freedom of choice has to do, we have to come to the end of correction, is someone asking you or not, do you want to be a creature or not to keep the thought of creation or not, to do certain actions you must do or not, there is no question there. This is not where free choice is. Free choice refers to everything that you have to do before you, you say I wish to do it by myself, that is it. Not that you can decide to take it and do it or not to do it, but that you will certainly take it, that you will take it of your free choice and if not the Creator will arrange you in such a way that will bring you to want to take it, never the less you will see that it will be your free choice.   

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