Part 3:
The Intention in the Heart - Selected Excerpts from the sources. #4
Excerpt 4:(00:26) Zohar for All, Toldot [Generations], "
2. S. (01:53) It's written that the meaning of Torah Lishma which is highways in their hearts to anyone's heart so there is engagement in the Torah draws that abundance of knowledge to him from the whole world. what does it mean and draw abundance for him in the world?
R. Out of straightening his heart and above reason specifically for the same goal like the Creator then He is extended to filling his heart His heart such that his entire heart will be in that same intention the same goal like the Creator.
3. S. (02:54) We're learning this excerpt of aiming the heart, intention of the heart for the Congress that is coming up in less then a month. He writes here the whole world needs to know the name of the Creator that will spread to the whole world. The Congress we're doing, do we have to focus on our development our advancement or is this Congress for the whole world?
R. Actually this convention is meant for the whole world because we are living in a period like Baal HaSulam defines "as the final correction. Therefore everyone can be taught the wisdom of Kabbalah, come to conventions and participate in all the exercises there are no problems with it.
S. Is it enough that we think of ourselves as our connection or do we have to add the intention for the whole world?
R. Certainly that is what we need to do with intentions for the whole world.
S. Where do we take such forces to think of the whole world it's something huge, the whole world?
R. To begin with, from those prayers that we composed for us by the great assembly we take the intentions of this about these and about those and about those and those and also about us. We pray for everyone in the world and about us in the end.
4. S. (04:44) He writes that whomever engages in the Torah and doesn't attempt to aim Lishma better not be created. What is the severe warning?
R. Everyone needs to attempt to come to Lishma. Whether they can or can't doesn't depend on them but our attempts, our trying should be.
S. What does it mean that the person tries to reach Lishma?
R. That one through his acts of bestowal, act of connection for the others, he comes to such desires and vessels that he begins to feel the upper bestowal that is correcting him.
S. What is Lo Lishma then?
R. That he remains in Lo Lishma and his desires to receive and thinks that with these desires he will understand as much as possible the purpose of the study, the purpose of life, that is called Lo Lishma.
S. What is it that we say that specifically from Lo Lishma we reach Lishma?
R. It's already in such a Lo Lishma that you can already come to Lishma through the effort that draws the reforming light.
S. A person in Lo Lishma that wants to reach Lishma what does he need to do?
R. To try with his actions, with his thoughts, to constantly resemble the upper light.
S. What is to resemble the upper light?
R. Resembling the upper life meaning in the intentions, and thoughts, and actions of bestowal?
S. If he still sees that every time he's in Lo Lishma ?
R. Then moreover he sees he has more to correct. In his heart he raises his desire to a state of Lishma which is called prayer. When I'm in something that is Lo Lishma, and I want to come to a more advanced state which in my eyes appears as Lishma, that is my work. That's the prayer.
4. S. (07:51) How does the person not get stuck in a state that he has a regular order of actions and he thinks that he's in the right direction and still he's stuck he does not advance in Lo Lishma?
R. Yes, and he's stuck and he's stuck and he's stuck and later it works out that he's actually not moving anywhere and there isn't before him even anything that is clear to him that if he comes to that he will be in Lishma, that's how it is.
S. But how does he not get stuck in the state that he thinks he's in the right direction? That he justifies the order of actions that he knows he recognizes, there is experience and he just keeps going?
R. There's nothing you can do.
S. There's no advice here?
R. There is no advice, just connection with the Ten whether it's either the friends or death.
S. What's going to change?
R. The force of the society will advance and then he will continue to work with them. It is a simple path here. We advance by connecting to the environment and together with them make a step forward.
S. We can't connect with the environment?
R. We don't move forward but we can only discover that this is what I'm missing and that too is good. Then I connect to the environment and move with them forward. This is the path, either left,right,left, right. Then I discover how much I'm not connected and I move forward. To the extent that I'm not connected, I connected and move forward. I connect and I move over.
S. That's the only sign of disconnection or connection?
R. Yes, every single disconnection and connection needs to be especially like that with one another.
5. S. (10:21) It sounds as if a person doesn't feel he's stuck. He didn't discover his lack of forces and he doesn't need help from the Creator yet. It sounds as if it is something that you have to go through when a person feels he's not advancing in the work?
R. Each time each time.
S. It gets worse every time I feel I get more stuck and it gives me an ability to go prayer and connection?
R. Yes.
Reading Excerpt #5: Although man’s nature is only self-love(11:01) Twice
6. R. (13:40) Okay it's a certain clash, yes? That on one hand, one hand,yes and on the other hand, no. 'Although the body disagrees, through the labor in which he exerts himself, forcing his body to work with this intention, although his heart’s desire disagrees with this intention, the light in it reforms him".
7. S. (14:18) I can understand oneself to the environment but how does one coerce his heart in the intention as he writes here?
R. Also with the first condition you don't agree?
S. No, with the first condition I can understand and even agree. I can sit myself down and agree and sit down with the rest even devote to Rabash to a certain degree, I understand?
R. That's only from your lips outwards.
S. What does that mean?
R. Because that's only external subjugation.
S. This is in the limits of my understanding and my ability.
R. If you were to investigate yourself deeper inside you would discover that from pride what a hero I am, and I'm subjugating myself.
S. Okay, that's the question, how can I coerce my intention, my desire like he writes here?
R. He's talking about more internal coercion. He is talking about real coercion. He doesn't say one word and say another word.
S. That's what I mean, should I read what I'm asking about? He writes "so much so that old organs are not against but there's a matter of coercion meaning that when he engages in Torah and Mitzvot. He learns against his will, meaning that he wants it to be only for the sake of the Creator, and then he learns and thinks only about things that speak of the matter of bestowal. That is what I am talking about, how can a person coerce himself and think of matters of bestowal and later he also talks about coercing oneself to engage in this intention?
R. Yes, because he sees he's not capable.
S. What does that mean to coerce himself?
R. Even if he bends himself to some state, physical, emotional, spiritual, it doesn't matter what he is thinking. He sees that it is all from his mouth outwards as we say that's it.
Reading Excerpt #6 (17:14) Regarding things that come from the heart ….)
8. S. (19:13) It sounds that Dvekut is even though he wants something else, he still adheres. It's not that I agree by adhering to him, is that right? Because from this excerpt, it's the first time I'm seeing this, that adhesion is upon a different desire of mine mind and I'm still adhering or is it not right? I will ask this way, at some point will a person agree to be in bestowal and will just bestow naturally or is there no such thing? Adhesion is always beyond his opposite desire?
9. S. (20:13) During the lesson there's conditions to adhere to the Rav to the books but when he goes out to the world, he doesn't have these conditions and the advice here is to keep adhering to the Rav and to the books but I don't have the conditions. Here and there I can stop but we have opportunities together but how to continue this force? This force here throughout the lesson to stretch it out throughout the day?
R. Operating a prayer subconsciously below the world that you feel and below that, activating a prayer in which you don't want to disconnect from the forces from the spiritual system in the world.
S. What will renew or activate and or bring light to the subconscious prayer?
R. That is what the Creator will do? You are just asking to be adhered to this all the time.
S. I'm asking how to constantly be adhered and that way not to stop that prayer?
R. That is something you need to try. It all depends on you and in all your engagements in this world you need to continue also the spiritual world is with you somewhat.
S. The prayer depends on me or on the Creator?
R. On you.
10. S. (22:02) You have talked with a friend about basic concepts of the Wisdom of Kabbalah and these things we don't learn in the lesson because it's like sometimes a difficult language but I still wanted to ask I heard you advice gave there that you just told a friend, that in every contact with the world whether still, vegetative, animated or speaking, in any movement you do to try keep the adhesion with the system. That in the past everyone was religious, there was always a ritual to do and we have adhesion with the friends. On the other hand, to always remember that we're always before that system that its the Creator is hiding behind it and not lose the right attitude? Are we ready for such a thing?
R. Why are you sorry that you're not in a religious environment?
S. I'm not sorry about it. I'm just saying can each and every action because we are not in the Ten all the day like with the conditions the friend was saying. Let's say we're now doing actions, actions that sometimes make us fall into concealment that we are in this natural world eating doing all kinds of actions that make us forget the goal in some way. I don't feel sorry religious, or not religious but more how we can, how can with every action we keep adhering to the right intention\ in the friends, the Rav, as he says here. It is like work that a person needs to do not and still be connected to the system. Not that the system is holding him ,you also said this week you need to make an effort on your behalf to resemble the system and then you'll see that the system is holding you back that you are getting support but there is also an action of a person himself he has to be calibrated every moment back to that system. To make sure that he is adapted to it. I just feel sorry that we're disconnected for too long of a time.
R. That depends on you.
S. That's what I'm asking that does depend on me and I don't want just to drop everything on the Ten and say when we are connected that everything is going to be okay. There is like an entry code every time you enter the system,every time its new.you and I have to be somewhat adapted to it and make sure I'm still with it. In each and every action I do have to be in this inner scrutiny and remain connected to the system?
R. That's considered why I do this. I must perform an action and that is a serious action for the sake of what, why otherwise how is it done?
11. S. (26:08) You gave once an advice of investing in the group, the friends, dissemination as much as possible and then it will be like your own and that pain will hold during the day. I see in myself that I'm trying and there is a certain point where the pain isn't doesn't go throughout the day so what can we add?
R. Envy, Envy, develop a little bit more envy.
S. For one to see that it exists in the friends?
R. Yes, yes yes and it exists inside of you.
12. S. (27:09) What's in the system, how to connect it to my life, how to develop sensitivity to it?
R. Do just as we're talking now.
13. S. ( 27:27) Friends that have weakened and can't uplift on their own right now, what's the gift the Creator’s giving all of us to a friend who is weak now and needs support?
R. He's awakening you to that so you have to awaken and help him rise.
14. S. (27:58) I don't feel sorry that I'm not in a religious society because Rabash says you go out into the world, you mix with the will to receive and we have to be in bestowal so no matter what form there's in reception outside but I do from your example that you were connected to Rabash all hours in the day and I heard Baal HaSulam wanted to make a place that all his students will be together during the day maybe work together so I like being with my friends all day. Yesterday during the end of the lesson, when they were going to read announcements I felt a lot of happiness that you said that we have six more minutes to listen and we didn't finish there because I know once I leave here my heart needs 24-hour correction otherwise I'm not advancing. This demand held me from the lesson and held me during the day. It doesn't usually happen and today I came with a stronger demand that I don't want to leave the lesson without this deep demand throughout the day. I want to ask about the friends that during the day I don't see them all day and I'm not with them all the time. You used to be a Ten so what advice can you give on the gap between the conditions. You had a Kabbalist, to be next to a Kabbalist all day and we're not there?
R. I constantly depicted to myself that I'm in connection with this friend or another in theTen all the time and that we in such a way sustain one another and connect to one another. The fact that the Creator created for me this place, I thank him and try to hold on to this and absorb it. That's it.
15. R. (31:09) The main thing we need to grow the desire for the Creator to bind between us all to one big connection, strong, big, permanent and that we by this desire will be able to be partners with the Creator in creation. Where his entire desire to correct the created beings is revealed and thus to connect and settle in them. That's what we want, that's what we expect. That's it. Also everyday we need to think about the convention and to try to locate that little package of mine that I arrange in order to come with it to the convention. We will reach what we want for sure. There are actually Tens that are advancing more and Tens that are advancing less, so try and delight each of the Tens so what can you do?
16. S. (33:22) What is that package that I can take with me to the Congress?
R. That you need to know what you're taking with you.
S. Because the Ten is advancing, it's all working out. We're learning with strengthening but what else can we add?
R. What's missing is what we need to add.
S. So to see what's lacking and work on that?
R. Talk with the friends and all together with the world Kli later, then ask the Creator that what will be discerned as missing make sure you're taking it with you.