Morning Lesson August 03, 2022, Transcription
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Part 1:
Opening the locked gates - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #7
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1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, you already realize that we have a plan according to that plan we advance every day, in the writings of Rabash and Baal HaSulam and the Ari, and this way each time we open another daily portion, some of it is done in the morning lesson, some of it is done in the noon lesson, and this is our way, but certainly besides these portions that we get when we meet and study together we have inner work in each and every one of us the way that he has an inclination towards connection with his friends in the ten, and from the ten also an inclination towards the Creator. This is our daily work. So let's begin our daily lesson.
Reading #7 (01:37) “A king who wished to select for himself…”
2. R. (04:43) This is, these are truly such precise words, so pure and beautiful. Is there anything to ask here? Recently I saw that Kyiv has been stopped by these guards, he's no longer on fire, he's not asking, it's good. This actually is a good time.
3. S. (05:22) Question is, why the closer we get to the palace, the guards are more cruel, the farther away than it seems they should be…
R. We are coming closer against our ego and the closer we get to the Creator, your ego resists it more, it opposes it more, and also I'll tell you, in this work when you go to school, let's say kindergarten, then school, then University, you need to invest more and more, and less and less they give you help, and more and more they demand from you and so it is also in the spiritual work. If we were given vessels or tools and we were told what to do and how we should advance, then take that into account, and if you don't do it, meaning if you don't do what you could have done today, then tomorrow you'll already be lacking, so if each and every day you're lazy, then you reach a state where you have no strength and you don't have any obstacles on the path that are clear to you that you have to go through them and jump around them and go around them somehow, in some form of connection with the friends and some form of study from the sources, how do you go through them, so each and every day we have work, and indeed there's no person who does not fail, there's no such thing. Specifically from the obstacles and when we come back again and again obstacles and again we come back to the work to the connection to the study, specifically out of that a person advances, that is we do not advance by being wise, there is no one who is wise on this path we advance only out of overcoming, despair, repulsion, weakness, rejection, lack of spirits, lack of strength, rejection from the friends, all kinds of such things, small signs that our ego is bringing us as obstacles, and we go around and from the right and from the left and we jump above them and this is how we go through them. Mostly it's through connection.
S. By the way, the unity of these over comings these putting up with, I remember that there is always great support from the entire world Kli, but what causes the unity, of how we overcome?
R. Yes, I also remember this, that I used to drive for a few years from Rehovot to Bnei Baruch where we would study, where the house of Rabash was, and sometimes it was easy and sometimes it would take a half an hour, the driving, and sometimes there were problems. I had a car that wasn't so good that in the rain it would turn off, end so sometimes it would take me an hour or an hour and a half until I got there, and also it would be cold or hot, and all kinds of disturbances, so I understand that but I think that every time has something which is suitable for us, something which is suitable for us, and I guess we should be immersed in the inner connection between us and not all kinds of corporeal disturbances, and also in the inner connection if there we want to use correctly the nearing between us then we'll see that there are many obstacles and guards and officers and truly whatnot, as I would meet on my way rain or storms, or people that were not so nice on the way, it was at 2 a.m. when I would be driving, and so that's how it was, so today all of these things exist between us as forces and not faces or hoodlums, etc. It's not the car that breaks but it's the person that breaks and this is how it works.
4. S. (11:44) How can we be in joy from these guards?
R. Well that depends on how much you are connected to the friends and you together with the friends overcome, you wage war against the disturbances so that these disturbances, they can come in the form of the still or vegetative or animate or people and the disturbances can be external from people, all kinds of incidents, external incidents, or they can come from more internal things and the relations between them, the connection between them, but all in all these are the same disturbances that wish to repel you from the king's gate so that you will not enter it so that you will not come near to contact with the Creator and that is your work. To truly be strong and most importantly the strength is in being together, none of us individually is a hero none of us, but rather all the mightiness is in what connection you can establish between you and in this connection between you, you can defeat any disturbance. Each and every disturbance. It's not in the feast of each one of you, but rather when you come together, that is called the feast. Just detect it, locate it correctly and feel it and understand it and that is a very strong problem because we're not used to, in our life, being connected in this way. To establish ourselves such that each one of us is zero, but when we come together then between us we discover forces and with them we can fight, the Creator takes into consideration only those forces that we establish in the connection between us and not in each and every one, none of us is a hero. Rather to the opposite we will discover each time that each and every one of us is very weak, more and more so, as we go forward but when we connect then our connection should be stronger and stronger. This is what we should pay attention to.
S. You say that the main thing is to recognize it and then immediately begin working with it and not let our hands off and start looking at the result?
R. For example when you hear from me what do you pay attention to, the connection between you and not each and every one, but to the contrary when we pay attention to each and everyone it's not good, it's the ego, and when we pay attention to the connection between you, specifically with that this is already a true spiritual quality, bestowal, annulment, and if you now throughout the day want to establish yourself that way then already you have between you, new, correct spiritual forces that are built on mutual annulment, concession, and this is how you will advance and suddenly you will feel that you have a new force in your hands, it's not like before when each one was on his own and then he's most of the time not knowing what is happening to him but rather if we pay attention to the connection between you and how you attack all of the disturbances through your increasing connection, then you are already truly on the way forward.
5. S. (16:40) Someone like me who doesn't know what it means to connect or connection, like I hear these words, but I have no sensation from it.
R. So I told you what to do and that is it and I have nothing more to say, what I said now you should do it and that's it.
6. S. (17:05) What is considered an attack with the quality of patience?
R. There has to be patience each and every time and we have to help all of the friends, he should help each other and the other should help the other and with the quality of patience to give an example.
7. S. (17:54) A friend from the ten asks, what is patience in our case, to develop a habit, to suffer?
R. No the habit or the ability to suffer is something else, patience means that I seemingly repeat the same questions, resolving the same problems, even though they seem to me to be the same I accept them as new, each and every day they are new, each and every moment they are new, the Creator renews the act of Genesis each moment that's how I take it, and this is how I operate in the direction of connection between us and connection with the Creator.
S. Why when we have physical nearness there are more obstacles but there's also more excitement?
R. It's good and it's true, both greater excitement and more disturbances because we get closer to the king’s gate.
8. S. (19:16) How can we fight adversities that come from the physical world if we can only work in by spiritual means?
R. But we don't have two worlds, we have a field in which we operate, and the Creator rejects us each time, according to what we can feel ,what we can be impressed by, against our ego and therefore corporeal disturbances or spiritual disturbances, it at all depends on you, how you relate to them. If you relate to all disturbances such that you have to go through them in order to reach bestowal then already you have a spiritual disturbance before you. You think that there is some kind of road sign or traffic sign on the road that you have to go through it and it's going to say on it, from here onward it's the world of Assiya or something like this which is spiritual there's no such, thing but rather bit-by-bit you begin to feel through your attitude to the life, to everyone, to the group, to the disturbances, to the Creator that you are already in spiritual discernment that bestowal is important for you, connection is important for you, etcetera.
9. S. (21:27) What's the difference between officers and guards?
R. The guards, they guard something, let's say standing at the king’s gate there is a guard and officer that's more kind of in the field. It's a correct question, we will see these subtleties why they wrote it this way.
10. S. (22:00) Is it possible to disconnect from the disturbances?
R. No, no, it's impossible and you don't need to. I shouldn't love the disturbances for the time being, maybe I can do that, but I must not throw them away or just go around them from the right or from the left or jump above them, it's not like running with obstacles.
S. Obstacle course race.
R. It's not like running over obstacles, fences. I need to know how to cope with them, how do I cope with them, how do I take them and make them into means for advancement. Jumping over the hurdles, you see this is a better way to see the disturbances, whatever there is it's all mine it exists in the inner structure of my soul and therefore discovering these disturbances it's the revelation of what is known as help against him. It seems to you that he is against you but actually it is help it it's assistance and if you take it and work with it correctly you don't look at it as you hate it even though it says that if you cast your eyes on them they will become a pile of bones, but that too will come, let's say, but what I'm trying to say is try with love to turn them into assistance, into assistance because to go in a direct frontal manner, directly, frontally against it that's not going to work because we don't have the strength, but if I understand that this is help and I have to take it in such a way, then I relate to it that it is standing against my ego and also the disturbances. What are disturbances, they show us where my ego is so big that I cannot skip over it. Meaning the disturbances actually help on the way, it shows me where I'm still weak or not okay or I don't know, it's just like each and every exercise that we were given at school ,so the teacher who gave us the exercises during the lessons, he wants us to advance. If we would disregard these exercises then we would not advance. So all in all these things are to our benefit, the question is only how do we go over it, so here going over these obstacles, it's only through connection between us and a prayer to the Creator at that we try to connect, and at first we think that by that we can go through these obstacles, these hurdles. We can't jump over them just like in in a hurdle race but turn to the Creator and then you will see that He is giving you forces, forces of the mind and forces of the emotion, and then you grow up and you are able to go over these obstacles where these obstacles are now, they're inside of you and it's not that you simply go through them and you forget about them but they enter in a corrected form into your spiritual structure.
S. Can we change our attitude to this obstacle course instead of attitude to receive to an attitude to bestow?
R. I don't know what you're saying and don't be wise just do what we're saying, you're looking for additional ways and I don't see that you're succeeding in this, so just do what the Kabbalists say, that is the safest thing.
11. S. (27:20) It seems that the guards of the palace while they beat us I think they want from us to purify our intentions and I think it's an order to check our intentions, why do we want to enter the palace so they beat us until we do not want anything for us inside the palace can we say it this way?
R. Correct, it is true. However they don't beat us, they beat our uncorrected egoistic desire, later on we will see that.
S. There's another allegory, it says kiss the stick and how can we come to this state, kissing the stick, like how can we appreciate the troubles, the disturbances that we receive as a force which is pushing us, how can we have gratitude?
R. So that work is work that's done in stages at first we only work in order to detect that these things come to our benefit, they come from the Creator and it's an order to help us.. Later on we already learned how to use them in a practical way, so much so that everything that we get we get it, we accept it as help not as disturbance, and this already depends on our vessels that we can qualify them that there is bestowing in order to bestow. There's even receiving in order to bestow, when all the desires that were egoistic desires, we're able to invert them and work with them in the opposite way for the benefit of others because without the ego we would feel the others not the friends not the Creator. Each one would be operating as though there is nothing else outside of him, it's because of the ego that we want to either harm others or to connect with others to benefit others, and this is why this is how we come closer to each other, we will learn how we need to do that.
S. It seems that the more I feel pain I become more sensitive to pain of the others. If I wouldn't have pain I wouldn't feel, I wouldn't be able to do anything without the pain of the friends. Can we say the pain takes a person out of the vessel and gives a soft heart emotional heart?
R. Yes, you are right. There are other discernments, but it is true.
12. S. (30:53) These difficult moments that we're putting up with spiritual obstacles, what advice can you give us that we’ll be able to focus with heartfelt-ness on our connection and thus will be beneficial to the group?
R. Repeat please.
S. In our difficult moments on the path when we are dealing with spiritual obstacles, what advice can you give us so that we can focus once again on the connection between us?
R. A person should restrict himself. It's worthwhile to restrict himself to feel himself as a baby, as small who doesn't understand, who doesn't feel anything that is true. Therefore it is worthwhile for him to connect with the friends, just like a baby wants to stay tied to his mother and in that way he should begin to feel the environment and through the environment more and more he will be able to rise to the spiritual work correctly. First of all the most important is connection, inside the connection one begins to become established correctly. Because in the connection he begins to grow in the form of Ibur, Yenika, Mochin, conception, suckling and Mochin, and all the stages that he has when he's incorporated in the group and in the nine months of pregnancy until he is born, when he already belongs to the group, and the group then becomes the embryo, the fetus that is born. This is the most important work is to annul before the ten.
13. S. (33:42) Why is there a repelling as soon as a person starts to feel that he is close? Why is it like this? Why does the beautiful feeling disappear?
R. When there is rejection in all kinds of forms it's in order to direct you to a more correct connection between you. It's like you are trying to insert a wire, let's say into some bent pipe so you have a problem. You have to follow it exactly, the direction, the curvature of the pipe. You have no choice but only to annul yourself and accept the path in the way of the pipeline. He writes to us about the pipeline, the desire, the pipeline, he writes about it, this is in relation to connection, what else did you say, what else did you ask?
S. He's asking why in the moment when we begin to get closer immediately there's repulsion like you’re rejected.
R. It's not correction, it's correct guidance in order to reach there, the way is not straight or maybe I should put it more correctly that the way is straight is direct, but we are not straight. Our will to receive is constantly wants to, cunningly with deceit, to reach in order to receive so each time it hits something and stumbles because you can't get closer in order to receive. It's constantly searching, and it's directed each time and all kinds of different forms to bend itself according to the pipeline according to the path and if one understands that he is inside the desire, same letters as pipeline, then he surrenders and bit by, but he comes closer specifically through the guards and the officers.
14. S. (36:31) How do we need to accept the problems of health in our family, our children, some maybe even in jail or taking drugs or different problems that are bothering us in our ten?
R. Yes there are problems that really seem to us that they are not on the path but there is no coincidence, there's no coincidence and spirituality and of course we need to accept these things also as a stick, as blows, as obstacles and to make the effort to straighten the attitude between us in the group. I hope that we will advance more. We'll begin to see how all those personal problems, family problems, they will be dependent also on how much we are connected and getting closer to the Creator. Not that it will be easier but that we will see that one is dependent on the other, that there is no coincidence in the world in life.
15. S. (38:19) At first you said if I heard correctly that a disturbance is considered a disturbance once that you went through it already, once it is incorporated in our spiritual structure, what does it mean that the disturbance becomes incorporated in our spiritual structure?
R. When we receive everything that we have, everything that comes to us that all comes from the Creator, from the good that does good in order to connect us in between us and to him.
S. What does it mean to change our spiritual structure, does it mean that we take the disturbance with us?
R. What was an obstacle will be, no longer, an obstacle because we've taken into account and accordingly we build ourselves in connection between us that's overcoming, and thus it's no longer an obstacle it's helped us to be more connected, more formed.
S. If I may be more precise how do we work with disturbances in the ten, usually in our daily life, if I place my enemy before me in the right way like a diagnosis that I do to myself, that's half the remedy, do we want to relate this way to the disturbance that we should be discuss it in the ten and say yes this is our disturbance and we have to work with it?
R. Usually for each and every one there are private obstacles, and he doesn't need to talk about it with others, but sometimes there are those, first of all this passes over everyone, and everyone in their time, their special time receive certain problems and obstacles, you can talk about it, but the question is how much in this you will just confuse and bother the friends. It's better if each one is engaged in their problem and show the others only a nice, good example of how much he is overcoming the problems and pulling the entire society to the Creator.
S. If we collect the connections we establish, it’s all made of obstacles?
R. Correct, correct on our path it cannot be even a millimeter forward if it's not by an obstacle because each and every obstacle is an addition of coarseness to our vessel and thus we need to advance it cannot be that I advance without obstacles, it's correct.
16. S. (41:48) Why does the Creator place guards and what is it that he's guarding?
R. A guard or officer we still can't discern between them, seemingly we still don't have the sensation, what's the difference between them and how much they are as road signs on the way, how we can go around, what we can do, where you need to pay a toll, where you can advance, where it's forbidden, there are ways that is forbidden for you to enter, there are ways that you are allowed with conditions, all sorts of things, all in order to form our broken vessel to be ready for the revelation of the Creator.
S. But what is the Creator guard, the vessel?
R. The Creator guards, the Creator wants that we will connect in our vessels such that our intentions to bestow will connect between our egoistic desires.
17. S. (43:22) Usually the disturbances with respect to let's say friends in the ten, something very concrete, a certain opinion, a certain behavior of the friend, what does it mean to pay attention to the connection and not to every individual separately?
R. To make the effort, to make it of our whole path a system, that's not by coincidence that these obstacles reach us and how you need to overcome them and what manner, and how upon them you're advancing even more a bit more forward, that to truly make an effort to reach a state of connection that is scrutinized, mutual, emotional, and intellectual, that's what we need. As much as possible to join to each and every state of our connection and in connection what do we have with intellect and sensation, do we have an agreement on what this is connection and a mutual sensation of connection, how we can somehow to get closer.
S. I heard that we shouldn't pay attention to each and every one, but specifically to the connection, but the disturbance it's very concrete with respect to each and every one.
R. And it needs to direct it as a means for connection.
S. What does it mean if we can be precise about it, something disturbs me of the friend, a certain behavior.
R. Not even in the friend, let's say I have all sorts of obstacles different troubles and problems in life although I need to take care of them and not look down at them, but along with this I need to see just how it's beneficial to me to even more connect with the friends and to take another step forward towards the Creator.
S. So what do I tell myself, I shouldn't no go frontally towards what is disturbing me in the friend but rather on the connection in the ten, seemingly I'm working on a different place?
R. Yes everything results and operates into the connection between us, everything. If you are correctly taking care of the obstacles then usually these obstacles, if you're taking care of them correctly, they bring you to greater connection between the friends.
S. Then what happens with the concrete disturbance with respect to that friend that awakened me in the beginning? What should I feel, what should I feel in it after the connection?
R. Towards that same friend?
S. Yes.
R. You feel a connection, love that he helped you.
S. The annulment, it should be towards the specific disturbance or towards the connection?
R. Annulment, that I cannot say I cannot tell you in a general manner, annulment needs to be for this that I go towards the overcoming connection by use of the obstacle.
S. How do I use the disturbance in order to intensify the connection?
R. Because it's not an obstacle, it's a means of connection. Try to turn it around this way and that and see specifically how correct use of it more correctly causes a stronger connection.
S. That concrete disturbance that I see in the friend, once I have connection then I will not see it anymore, I will love it, or I'll see that I was wrong before?
R. Of course, you will love it, that's called that you are kissing the stick.
S. The work is towards the specific friend or towards the entire ten?
R. Both and both.
S. Because a disturbance is with respect to a concrete friend then the connection is towards the whole ten.
R. Yes, yes, because it only seems to you that the obstacle is towards the friend, it harms the entire society.
S. Towards the friend I don't have concrete direct work of connection with him?
R. It's possible that yes, you're asking very general questions and they demand a very private answer, you can't answer this way. It's possible that towards a friend you need to do some specific word to get nearer to make up with him and so on.
18. S. (49:30) How to work with internal disturbances?
R. About this we’re talking all the time and there are very many opportunities. The main thing is that with each and every one of my inner obstacles I can take care of them only in the extent of my connection with the friends in the group. What bothers me ultimately is that I'm not connected enough with the friends in the group.
19. S. (50:33) Every friend in the ten sees that the intensification of connection in a different way, one sees it in the form of more external connections of connection, the other one sees it as more internal actions, each one has a different angle on this. The question is what is the correct attitude that I should develop towards such an initiative if some initiatives I don't connect with them so much and others I do connect with them? I agree with them.
R. So what to do, that's how it is each and every one for himself, but we have to discern each one correctly towards the overcoming connection and of course each one will operate a bit different from his friend.
S. He says here that the mighty ones are those whose patience serves them. Is this an acquired quality or is it something we learn, patience?
R. This I would say that it's a blessing from the heavens.
S. You many times say about yourself that way you say many times that you have no patience but with respect to the path you seem to have infinite patience. Is it something you acquire, or you learn on the way, what do you mean it's a blessing from the heaven?
R. In my nature I would already long ago run away from the entire path and in this that I am, let’s say I am involved in this, engaged in this from 1980, this surely is a great aid from above not me in my power in my hand have done this deed.
S. So how do we get such a blessing?
R. Mutual support in the group, mutual support in the group, only. That envy lust and honor this will bring a person out of the world as this he can acquire in the group and then he has this envy lust and honor as a result from the group that he feels upon each and every state of his then in this he specifically upon this he advances.
S. Can we ask for patience for the friends?
R. That you'll have patience to put up with them?
S. No that they will have patience.
R. That they’ll have patience? You can pray for that, yes. You can pray for the friend on each and every thing.
20. S. (53:59) I want to ask about love because from time to time we are attracted to specific people suddenly spiritually we develop a great love. I also feel that love can be destructive because I have too much love, I have too much love and I don't know how to give. I can say that person each and every moment I love you. What is this destructive phase of love?
R. Destructive phase of love. This that we see in mothers sometimes just how much she does everything in order to fill the ego of the child that by this his ego only grows and grows and grows instead of educating him that he needs a bit more to be… others into account, that's a destructive use of…… ego.
S. My problem is that I feel that I am too attached to the material person in this world, too much love for the person but I cannot see the Creator behind them so it holds me on this world it doesn't, I hope I can explain, it doesn't let me rise above and to see Creator behind it, but I am too attached with love with the material objects.
R. I don't think that's a problem. Try to understand that in your connection with the friend you need to reveal the Creator and the Creator needs to be revealed in his qualities inasmuch as you are annulling yourself towards the friend meaning what ultimately are you attaining, you attain the qualities of your bestowal your qualities of bestowal because you’re annulling yourself before the friend and your qualities of bestowal that you receive instead of your ego that you annulled it upon the friend then in this you attain the Creator. It turns out that in your ego and the ego of the friend that you ascribe one to another, you place one on the other, annul one another, then you receive a form of the Creator, that He formed you and formed the friend and if you…….. with your forms you and the friend such that you have no difference between these egoistic forms then you reach a form of the Creator a certain form of bestowal.
S. Are we connecting by the broken parts which I have and which that person has, with same pain and through the pain we feel that connection?
R. Yes, you could say so.
21. S. (58:32) following all your answers and very beautiful guidance that you gave us we see throughout the years that friends veteran friends that invested greatly in the society, in the group, and in dissemination, and they truly put their whole life on the path suddenly they grow very weak, so my question is first of all how to be guarded, what happened to them, why suddenly they grew so weak, that’s one. And is it possible to help those friends who invested all of themselves on the path and suddenly it seems like they lost their whole spirit, and the wind came out of them, what can we do?
R. They're encountering new officers and guards and they see that they’re standing before conditions that are more difficult than before because that's how it is at the new gate, the Gate of the King, there’s nothing I can do to them and help them rather in which I support them but the work is privately of each and every one and we need to strengthen one another, what more do you want from me I'm willing to do everything except to work with these officers and guards, that you need to do on your own to support, to help, to give advice, please I think you receive this and a whole manner in a complete manner. I understand your work and I understand the difficulty and the complaints and criticism but I have nothing more to add here, if we could I’ll add but in the meantime like this, but really we can add only in the extent of connection between you, because to pass the barrier you can do only on the condition that you reach a state of as one, meaning the first condition that the ten is as one, then there will be the ten is as one to the power of ten, and more and more like this until we will reach…….. to the absolute term of one which is the Creator truly, in the height of infinity.
22. S. (01:01:31) What does he mean that only their patience endured and served them? How come patience is what defeats the guards?
R. That's what he just asked, that already the veterans are in some weakness that they don't know what more to do so there is not more what to do, the method is a method and it takes many years that’s true but we need to make the effort to realize it, it's not to realize it by this that I'm sitting in a chair a few hours and listening to a lesson and somehow participating rather to realize it in this that in my heart I feel how much I am connected to the friends and more and more in each moment I make the effort to be connected with them more and more, and searching where are those officers and guards that can tell me where I’m still not okay and can connect more in all the corners of my heart to be connected with the friends, and that is the problem, to the extent that we reach the whole connection for the meantime then we are advancing another stage and there too is suddenly opened up the point of connection we've attained, all of us together and we feel that it’s not a point but there is rather a lot of questions and problems and once again feel that the Creator has blessed and once again we have to come closer between us until we once again reach one connection, one man and one heart, and once again we attain this next state and that's how we advance, that's how it is.
23. S (01:03:59) We have personal characteristics and habits that fail us on the way to connection. How come we can include such opposite qualities in our connection?
R. I don't know what we're referring to.
S. All kinds of qualities that a person has that he feels that they’re failing him, they don't allow him to come closer, do not allow him to hold on the path.
R. I don't understand what you're talking about
S. If a person easily gets upset or is impatient and he feels that this is obstructing him.
R. So he advances according to how much he is capable and along the way these things they form, they receive a form, in all these things I am the worst of all of you I have no patience for any of it, no intellect, no sensation, I'm cruel and so on and so on and slowly slowly somehow nonetheless reaches some correction, that it doesn't bother the connection in the group so much. Nothing you can do just as a person who is born in that manner he is worthy of connection and the Creator doesn't stop taking care of us and so along the way will receive all sorts of changes.
24. S. (01:05:35) Kabbalists try to teach us something, many times they do it through allegories. Why do they do use allegories instead of teaching us directly?
R. Because we cannot explain everything to you directly because either you won't understand or it will harm you, it's better that like this and through hints you begin from around to see the state.
25. S. (01:06:06) What is special about the disturbances that it helps is so much to make the desires more precise as we advance on the path?
R. Disturbances are the same disturbances that are inside of us. It's like a person that felt himself healthy and suddenly he feels himself sick, so this illness was in him before just now it's been revealed, it's the same thing by us we need to see in these disturbances when they are revealed that these concealed, wicked as Baal HaSulam calls them, they are now revealed wicked, and we can work with them.
26. S. (01:06:53) If everything is related to me and the disturbances come opposite me, what does it mean when the disturbance seems to harm the entire group?
R. The disturbance is not personal, it's not personal, it always belongs to the ten and even to the entire world Kli, truly so but we cannot identify it and so only in that manner as it's been revealed we can take care of it.
27. S. (01:07:31) The King's guards’ work was to deflect the person from the opening of the whole. Does that imply that we are ready at the entrance to the whole, that we received an invitation from the King, but we have concealment we cannot see that?
R. Yes and no.
28. S. (01:07:55) Over the last week we've been rewarded with the noon lesson that started now in our life. I would like to ask if the fact that the noon lesson started does it mean that each one of us individually, but also as a vessel, we should expect a new level of disturbances and the purpose of the lesson is to help us grow stronger and overcome and give us additional tools with which to face the upcoming disturbances?
R. I don't think that there is in this any additional great disturbances although yes you are right that in the moment that we add in study Torah then surely we have greater disturbances so that we’ll advance by our study, more intensely, more intensively towards the goal, but it doesn't seem so in some total I see the afternoon lesson as some part of the morning lesson, it seems to me that it's working it's adding, it's doing good for us.
S. I also would like to say thank you very much really from me from the whole ten for the effort that you make giving us these lessons thank you very much.
R. Thank you to you.
29. S. (01:09:35) What changed inside of me after I work in the ten and how do I feel the correction that I've been through? What will ultimately also change at the end of correction?
R. I cannot explain it because you are not in it and what can I say, we’ll advance and we’ll go through all these stages and accordingly we’ll see, it’s like a small child is asking what will be with me when I am bigger, how could you show him? So at least he sees people who are bigger and life and so on but what can you explain here, you just need to do what we must in the meantime for now in order to advance in each moment and forward.
30. S. (01:10:41) You told us a lot about disturbances as a part of our study and we stumble across it, and we have to accept it, but I would like to be more precise. When he asked you a question if we care about the disturbances correctly, how do we really accept it as a part of the study, as part of the path? For example next week we're going to have a meeting of the veterans with the new students how, this topic of disturbances we can serve it in the right way so that we will truly learn to work with it, and it won't deflect our attention from the inner work and from the study?
R. A disturbance is only in this that it’s on the intention to receive but if you approach it on the intention to bestow it's no longer a disturbance rather a jumping board to the next stage and this is what we need not to forget, thus try to see in the disturbance only a means that it’s awakening you to change the intention to from the intention to receive to the detention to bestow and if you will have this attitude towards life, towards the connection between you, to advancement, you will see how much these disturbances are not just disturbances but rather coming to help you.
31. S. (01:12:42) It turns out if I summarize what we talked about that without our participation anything can be called a disturbance if we don't turn it into something else.
R. Yes, correct.
32. S. (01:13:08) I would like to be more precise also. How much working with disturbances depends on my having a correct schedule, a daily schedule in my life and having a balanced life?
R. You need to divide yourself in a normal way as needed to the friends and everyone in such that there will be room for each and every thing then you will see that the obstacles also come in order to advance you.
33. S. (01:13:49) When the Creator’s messenger wins, let's say the anger operates within me and I reject a friend and I humiliate him, later I feel guilty and sad, is that okay or should I thank the Creator for revealing that evil that wicked inside of me?
R. You need to be as much as possible to be closer to the Creator and that will always give you the correct answer. We want…
Reading #8 (01:14:41) “we need more strength to stand in the King's palace….”
34. S. (01:16:38) After the entrance they were rewarded to see the face of the King. It's written that each one got the duty suitable for him, what does that mean?
R. When we truly enter the King's palace we see that everyone has a place there and his intended place already from the beginning of creation.
35. S. (01:17:13) By overcoming disturbances do we reach the quality of bestowal of complete correction and adhesion?
R. Yes.
36. S. (01:17:25) Diseases are only for personal work or do I need to help a sick friend?
R. Both, both if possible.
S. So they're asking how to help
R. Well that's now with whatever he can.
37. S. (01:17:52) Are disturbances and overcoming them in the external world different than what awakens in the ten?
R. No it's all similar there's just a different proportion.
38. S. (01:18:13) A friend writes down the lesson and doesn't participate in the ten. Is that a disturbance on the way to connection? How to relate to it?
R. Do you also have the sound issues? …………..
Reading #8 (01:19:21) “we need more strength to stand in the King's palace….”
39. R. (01:21:10) It means don't think the Creator doesn't answer you, He’s answering but you’re not yet hearing because you’re not worthy of hearing and when the time comes you will hear so it's not silence, it's not rest, take no rest means there will come a time when you will see that the Creator was always listening to what you say both in your heart. in silence, with your lips, anywhere any slightest movement is felt in the Creator in a very conspicuous way, and He answers it, except a person doesn't hear or feel the responses of the Creator because it's for his own good for man's own good.
40. S. (01:22:15) We have a friend who types during the lesson, types your words during the lesson, so she's not with the ten. Is that a disturbance, how to relate to it?
R. We should be with heart and soul with these people who are serving us there are many people who are right now in translations, in organizing computer systems, making sure everything's working, many things I'm in headquarters in Peta Tikva Israel and there are some twenty people or more here that are working to maintain the communication between us, computer systems, the broadcast, and so on and I'm not even mentioning the translations and so on, there's many people sure so we’re thankful to these people they’re working in duties, in shifts, sometimes some people they have a nonstop duty because there's no one to replace them and they have a great reward for that, the Creator will pay them for all of that and congratulations to them for that so if one of the friends is in translation or some other thing and she's a member of the ten than take care of her in the ten afterwards and embrace her and support her so she feels she's with you.
41. S. (01:24:01) What causes the change in attitude towards the disturbances from suffering from them and wanting them to disappear and seeing them as a means to advance?
R. It's the difference between cursing the Creator and blessing the Creator.
42. S. (01:24:20) Is this some way possible to help my husband overcome obstacles? How can I bring him back to the morning lesson?
R. With love, with love.
43. S. (01:24:36) What's the biggest and central obstacle that prevents us from jumping to spirituality?
R. Pride personal pride.
44. S. (01:24:55) What does it mean that you won’t blemish that the Creator will give you the force to stand?
R. Because indeed all the flaws are not flaws, the Creator made them deliberately so that we heal them by asking Him to heal them and thus we make connection with Him so each and every flaw is actually a reason to turn to the Creator who is the doctor for all the illnesses and we want to ask Him to heal my flaws meaning my egoistic qualities, so on the one hand I thank Him for creating me so egoistic evil and I bless Him for giving me an opportunity to turn to Him and ask of Him for healing and that I can feel how much He heals me and transforms me to bestow to everyone and I can connect to everyone and help everyone, all of that is my plea to the Creator.
45. S. (01:26:20) Where can we get the forces we need in order to be able to go into the King's palace?
R. From examples I see from my friends, that's it. I look at them and see how much they try and by that through envy, lust, and honor I also get the strength to do the same. Thank you to the women.