Morning Lesson August 11, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
The 15th of Av: the Day of Love - Selected Excerpts from the Source
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, these two dates the Ninth of Av and the 15th of Av are very special dates, one speaks of hatred that is revealed the Ninth of Av and the 2nd of 15th of Av is revealed as love. How from this we learn that you cannot have one without the other because the Creator created the evil inclination and then gradually bring all the creation to the side of good, from separation to connection, from hatred to love, we see that this happens gradually in our world where humanity is coming closer to the revelation of evil in it, first and then slowly, slowly, accordingly for the necessity. for love even though it's not quite this close yet but the preparation for it is ready in humanity and in the connection between everything and the necessity for love and connection and everything.
This is our entire human history upon this Earth of ours where we go through these two stages and let's hope that we are already entering the period of love, it begins from afar with all kinds of opposite events, different kinds of connections that humanity does not know what's going on in it and for what did we begin to recognize it more and more and this is how we come closer, and we understand more and feel more this process and from this process we attain the Creator. From these two opposites that take place in us, one upon the other we attain the upper force that awakens us and this is how the Creator is revealed. A thing and it’s opposite, therefore let's read and we will see according to the excerpt, you can ask anything along the way and we will try to scrutinize. It is clear that there's no joyous, more joyous day, a better and beautiful day than the date of day 15th of Av since it is a day of love, a day of connection, adhesion and this is how we see the purpose of creation, the final form of creation.
Reading (04:25) “1. Tifferet Shlomo about the Torah, Devarim It is said in the Gemara (Taanit 4:8), “Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel said,”
2. R. (04:57) Yes, we also hope that from this day that hatred will be revealed to and from this date onwards connection and love will be revealed and we will see how everything we have as he says will become good. Becoming good meaning to our connection, mutual understanding even when we are in all kind of opposite states to one another but when we connect these opposites, specifically when we operate to connection above it then we feel the power of connection above the power of separation that was before and these days has been revealed more and more. Hence we need to understand the extent to which this power of connection will come and be revealed more and more.
Therefore you cannot have one without the other, the foundation of hatred needs to be revealed just as the Creator says ‘I created the evil inclination’ and then we need to see how opportunity for connection come above evil where love covers all transgressions on a city street in here in the verse “everything will be invited to good”. When there is no good unless it comes from that which emerges from bad, let's hope that we merit this doing these days and during these days onwards.
3. S. (07:12) Why do you have to wait to cover above it, the fifteenth of Av, why can we do this during the ninth of Av, during the process, come above it, Ninth of Av, why do we have to wait so long to the 15th of Av?
R. The roots for correction need to be revealed in good but that which emerges from bad. There is no good in the world unless it emerges first from the root of bad, we are talking about the created beings and what is revealed in the created beings and it cannot be in a sudden way. It is a process of how the bad inverts to good, and it doesn’t invert through this process of the ninth and fifteenth of Av, it takes place later only the root connection is revealed, the root of love and then it continues this way and appears. It is a process that needs to be here and we need this process in order to understand the extent in which we change, let's say we went through the ninth of Av in a serious way, much more than in previous years and we also hope from today onward, on the fifteenth of Av and onward, we will discover in a real manner upon ourselves.
This process of change from hatred to love and what takes place between the ninth and fifteenth of Av are the roots that are changing this way but this needs to be revealed upon us. Let us hope from today onwards we will feel how these forces of love are working on us in connection, how we will help them and participate with them and us, and come closer towards correction.
4. S. (10:08) What does it mean that we would feel that we are acting upon the forces of love and connection?
R. We need to increase the sensitivity, both for hatred and love more and more, in order to feel that these forces are operating specifically according to the way the Kabbalists from previous generations, that is on one hand. On the other hand, we need to accept it as these things take place on all times, days and dates and then there is really no defined time for this, to accept this way both this way and that way. Nevertheless, for the whole of reality for the whole world these dates symbolize that the forces are operating and are there, we can really draw them and advance by them.
S. It is revealed that this is a gift from above?
R. These are forces, simply forces, we are constantly operating and being operated upon by these forces which is the Creator all together, the upper force and therefore we need to try and go with him. As much as possible good, with love to justify, to mitigate, to sweeten as much as possible and constantly these actions are coming from Him because our actions are basically prayer where we raise ourselves this way towards Him.
5. S. (12:25) What does it mean to feel the 15 of Av, a root for love and connection, what does it mean the root for love and connection is revealed?
R. From this day onwards we can succeed more, with spreading love, with activating love between us and also to all the world.
S. We can feel it in the root of the matter or is it more for unification?
R. It depends on the extent to which we activate our forces, increase our sensitivity, for more connection because to the extent of connection between us as tight as we are to one another internally, we can feel the forces that are opening upon us.
S. How do we increase sensitivity to feel the situation?
R. By increasing the sensitivity between us and through increasing the sensitivity between us we need to think by which actions, by which actions, there's nothing else, the actions, speech, meals, all kinds of such deeds that are external and also the main thing is how we aim our heart to a connection between us. To the extent in which I seek in my heart for the friends, as they need as Rabash says,’ to stand within my heart’.
S. On the Ninth of Av we feel have any connection to the state are we going to feel elation?
R. Yes, truly tried with the forces in the night of 5 till today to our waking you cell twist connection new feeling this coming for a thing which you are already about to rebuild the upper Force. The Creator will be revealed in the force of love between us.
6. S. (15:33) Love is a force that Creator and we work in the ten, How do we yearn for such love between us to give contentment to the Creator?
R. We talked about this many times, it all depends on us because we are in a special preparation from above, the Creator arranges for us this force of mutual rejection and we need to come to mutual Arvut. He arranged hatred between us and we need to rise above this hatred towards connection and love and that's how it is. It all depends on us and the extent to which we bring ourselves closer to this. Well, if everything is clear we can read this excerpt and continue onwards.
Reading (16:43) Excerpt #1 “Tifferet Shlomo about the Torah, Devarim It is said in the Gemara (Taanit 4:8), “Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel said,...”
7. R. (17:20) Yes, eventually this goes according to this order; where first evil is revealed and we need to go through it and to learn from it many things, because we cannot know the good unless it is where the evil comes and appears and it's turned into good.
8. S. (17:53) The state of 15th of Av is also in the corporeal reality like the 9th of Av?
R. Yes it is the future to be revealed.
Reading Item #2 (18:19) “The fifteenth of Av is regarded as the correction and the sweetening of the ninth of Av,...”
9. R. (18:56) Yes, also from these we have to learn that they cannot be good unless they stem from the bad. It can’t be a whole eternal life unless they emerge from their root which is opposite to them as death, separation, and hatred.
Reading (19:23) excerpt #3 “On the fifteenth of Av, when the days of good will begin to shine,...” Twice
10. R. (20:13) They only start from Tu of Av. We can't say that today we have a day of connection that is called the day of love and that’s it and no more, but from this day it just starts this process of connection.
Reading (20:34) excerpt #3 “On the fifteenth of Av, when the days of good will begin to shine,... “ continues
11. S. (21:28) Very interesting, what does it mean that the will of each person needs to be included in his friend?
R. How could it be any different if we are connecting? How do we attain the concept of love? How do we attain correction, how do we attain? Only through connection. Through the connection we connect our desires from the closest ones towards us, that are understood and clear to one another and all the way to those that are contraindicated with great coarseness and separation between them, and we gradually come near with all these desires until eventually what is the end of correction that we attain, Gmar Tikkun?
We're all desires, all thoughts, all the discernments that are in one they complete the other. Meaning, it is not that they are truly the same like the other, no, rather we are searching for how we can by being different and we are in need of still discovering how different we are, to the extent of which we are completely distant, and then upon every hatred love will be revealed. Whereas they will be operating together towards connection. I don't have any worlds, but we, for us to not be distant but nevertheless come closer to one another by the shattered vessels being revealed
We collect them and connect them in all kinds of ways between them in such a way that each is connected to the others. It is a certain kind of a Lego, a very diversified one upon the spiritual plane which has thousands of axes and in each and every one of them and we need to be connected, each with all the others. This is what we need to see in the future; the extent of which each one supports everyone and eventually this connection becomes a spherical connection, and we lose our space, our area and enter a concept called love; where we are ready to be connected and embraced with everyone, each with the others. We throw everything that bothers us and in this way come to absolute love. This is what we want to happen between us and for us to do this.
12. S. (25:46) “Each of Israel will pass a part of his good and his blessing to his friends”, what is this blessing and what is the abundance that we need to pass?
R. Each and every one from Israel meaning whoever participates in directing themself towards the Creator, Yashar Kel, is helping others. Because he is participating in coming towards the Creator by connecting to the friends and from this also the friends get the forces and the awakening to do so, and this is how “one will help his friend”; through example, through support. This is how we come closer until the connection between us becomes a sphere, a ball.
13. S. (27:03) Why does it come out that we talk about the same thing every lesson? How do we make a correction, how do we build the Creator? Why does it seem that we have so many approaches to the same action?
R. That is because a person is made up that way, of all kinds of discernments. And we need to come to him each time in a different approach and awaken him to show him the extent to which our business is right and true and supported by both these and those forces of nature and rules. This is all from our egoistic structure.
14. S. (27:55) from the sentence that “on the same day where all of the tribes were able to connect with one another” was that the state of Gmar Tikkun?
R. No. it is before that, It is not yet the Gmar Tikkun but it’s the beginning of the completion of the correction of the Kli.
15. S. (28:28) What does it mean “the part of the blessing and the favor…”?
R. That we have yet to come to the final correction and therefore in parts we correct ourselves such as that we are Incorporated in others and work for the sake of others.
16. S. (29:19) Do we understand properly that now towards the end of correction all of the days of the month of Av are felt much sharper compared to previous years and it is clear that we are progressing, and it says that we need to prepare for the will of the Creator, how do we prepare for the will of the Creator?
R. Only unite as much as possible in your group and be ready to connect with others. I'm very happy that we went through the 9th of Av in such a serious manner, where we felt the extent of the revelation of evil can be harsh. Also now we feel how the connection between us is on the way and takes place and is revealed in us.
Reading (33:52) excerpt #4 “Regarding the most important matter, called “love,”
17. S. (34:44) What does it mean that “is the beginning of salvation but the end of correction”?
R. Because there's no more, there is not more than love. Love includes in it all the discernments; where there is a connection between each and every detail in every individual just like in a system, a complex system, and each and every detail supports the rest of the details until it moves from discrete to analog. Meaning, there's no longer each connecting to each and everyone but it actually starts to become one vessel and one light within it.
S. So why is it only the beginning of the salvation and not the end of the salvation?
R. Because we are beginning to attain this essence that already exists in reality. It is only revealed in us gradually in our vessels in the extent that we connect and develop and are incorporated in this. And, there are also many states in which we need to be aware of them, agree with them because this nevertheless takes place upon the intensifying ego in us that then enters a stern struggle. So we shouldn't think that our nature then agrees with the final correction, these are called “The wars of the Final Correction”, the Messiah wars; these are very not simple things but very complex ones.
17. S. It says that “The Creator reveals to His creation the love that is hidden in His heart”, is it to the degree that we reveal this love in our hearts to each other?
R. To the extent that the Creator opens His love towards us accordingly, feel and can reveal and disclose the love between us. Yes. There's nothing that is revealed in our world unless it is being revealed prior to that from above.
18. S. (37:33) What is the heart of the creator? What can we define as the heart of the creator?
R. Absolut love to everyone without any conditions which can be revealed. We are actually, by wanting to open and love on our behalf, discover the love that already exists and did not change on His behalf, you understand? Depict to yourself, on the part of the Creator there’s only love that never changes, that’s 100% unlimited, and us by not disclosing our love we don't give Him the possibility to disclose His love towards us and we cause suffering, terrible suffering to the Creator by this, seemingly, and this is called “the sorrow of the Shechina ''. As much as we can reveal the connection between us and give the Creator the possibility to disclose His love towards us, then by that we are actually giving Him the possibility to rejoice and bestow and be in His revelation.
S. After this description this emptiness that I feel now would be filled completely with His love?
R. Yes. Meaning to the extent that we reveal the connection between us, the nearing between us, we connect our hearts together, we let Him connect our hearts and fill them and by that we bring Him contentment. This is basically the beginning and the end of every one of our correct actions.
19. S. (40:17) Our only function is to receive and to bestow on our friends from the love of friends?
R. Repeat please.
S. In the connections, do we completely subjugate and play the role of a conduit so that we receive from the friends and pass it to the friends and nothing else, just for the purpose of strengthening the connections? And to hold to the principle of love of friends?
R. The principle of connection between us is by us first having to connect between us intentionally approach the Creator, appeal to him through this in order to bring him contentment as we want to receive correction from him and filling from him, and then to the measure of connection and correction and filling of ours, we can open ourselves and bestow to the Creator. Why are we doing this? We are already practically capable of doing this and we turn to him and want him to be filled from our attitude towards him just like the guest and the host. The guest has nothing to give to the host except for his attitude and his attitude is such that he receives from the host and by that is giving to the host. These are the states. There are other words, but they usually blur the situation here.
21. S. (42:32) There is a feeling that a state is a gift. Do I need to feel that it is a gift, or no?
R. No, well, maybe we do reveal it as a gift, but eventually we need to come to a state of connection, of unity, of partnership, of your sons to the Lord your God and the sons and so on -there's a combination of all kinds of relations and connections of Fathers and Sons, of man and woman, of great and smaller, it include it all, it includes everything, and we all together discover this along the way. We don't really have too many words here, also when we read the text we can see that there are people that don't find anything in the text and there are those who can cry over it, and those who can laugh over it, and everything is included in the feeling eventually.
S. There's sort of a fear that the state comes and then it will get lost because it is sort of a gift. Do we see it in our state and then?
R. Yes, there's a fear to lose and it’s a good fear and we will try to strengthen it too, just like we are afraid to lose love from a relatives from our children's and close ones to us, which is good, fear holds us and fear continues, we connect and overcome more and more in order to reach degrees of spiritual fear that are very exalted.
22. S. (45:18) What is the proper preparation in the Ten to be able to enter this special day?
R. We need to shake up our hearts, each one’s heart and demand from one’s heart to be more sensitive for us to finally be able to come closer together to connection with the others, to feel that one is touching from his heart to the heart of the friends, to the others, that one’s life is such that the hearts of the group are felt, are felt in him in a way that he feels it as the the source of life. We don't have many words here in order to pass this to others, but to the extent to which each tries to feel, we will find in those words, in those few words, more feeling.
23. S. (46:52) Why is it not clear yet what connection is and how does it need to be expressed?
R. So at least feel that you are in separation, and then from the feeling of separation and this and that and that and this in the diverse separation between you, you will feel the necessity for connection. It seems to me that that is what needs to be done then. I understand you, I'm also completely not built according to my nature for connection. As far as my nature is concerned I am completely disconnected from everything and I am dry, I have a very hard heart, but we try to work on it, we try to work.
I look at others and the extent to which they are willing to come through mutual nearing and closeness between them II really see this not just assistance from heaven but assistance to everyone, either good or bad, but nevertheless there are those for whom it is easier and they're those for whom is hard, and then later when we are all connecting in the the form of a sphere in the system of Adam HaRishon, all these things mingle together and then operate in a mutual manner.
24. S. (49:02) In the ten when each works with his natural inclination, how can we find the love in order to reach mutual inclusion?
R. I don't have the answer. Search for how you can come to such a connection in which love will be revealed and, in the love, the Creator will be revealed.
25. S. (49:54) What kind of demand should we have rise from the lower condition, so that the Ten is like an elevator for us? How to raise the importance of the ten for all of humanity?
R. We need to the depict for ourselves that there is a soccer field and a goal and in the goal stands something that is bothering us and we, our entire group, is playing in connection and understanding and mutuality in the heart of each and every one only in order to reach this goal and score our ball into the goal. Is that clear? So, this entire effort by all of us is in order to reach the goal of our hater and to put our ball into it. Try. I have actually heard that the Turkish play soccer well.
26. S. (51:46) Where does this hatred come from that I need to overcome to reach the love of the Creator? How is it possible that he created this love if he's all love?
R. It’s actually a very easy thing. You need to see before you the one that is bothering you, to come to connection so that you somehow, somewhat want him to a certain extent, and what bothers your connection is your hater, it’s your evil inclination that the Creator put before you so that you will break his teeth and through him move through to an embrace and love with the friends. That's it.
27. S. (52:48) How do we see love, as a series of laws or as an emotional thing? What is the most appropriate way to relate to love.?
R. In all kinds of a ways. Love is actually the connection that I want to attain in order to fill the desire of the other. So, that's called that I'm connecting with the other, I'm connecting with his desire in order to do everything for this desire to be happy, to be satisfied, and this is my goal.
28. S. (53:50) About loving another as yourself. What’s good for me in relation to spirituality, let’s say the force of the Creator or faith and I wish for it to be for the friends to have it as well? Is that correct to ask the Creator that way? Whatever I think is good for me, to ask for the friend?
R. Yes, yes.
29. S. (54:44) When this system of correction is in our hands, it comes that the harder the road, it becomes the path of the righteous? And we are walking it?
R.Yes the temple is the place of our connection. The sum of the hearts to is called the holy Temple.
30. S. (55:27) In the revelation of evil that we reach, we understand that we are in hatred to the Creator?
R. Yes. Of course, yes. The true revelation of evil is where the difference and differentiation and hatred towards the Creator is being revealed. A differentiation between us and hatred for the creator, yes.
S. How do we address something or someone that we don’t love?
R. No, to the extent that you differentiate yourself and your ego and you hate it, you can operate in such a way where, on the one hand, you want to come to love of the Creator, on the other hand you are feeling hatred of the Creator. The main thing is to continue and discover. It’s a matter of feeling that we need to discover.
31. S. (56:43) It's not clear how to build love above the hatred. You always reveal more hate, so what's built prior is not love, we remain with hate?
R. No, it’s the way we go, left-right, left-right, and that’s how we ascend. Therefore, if you have discovered some measure of love, then you're being shown and elevated that you are even in more hatred and we try to reach love above them so we discover even more hatred. This is what how we ascend left-right, left-right, we are already used to this.
32. S. (57:41) What does it mean to ask a part of your blessing to a friend?
R. Meaning, that I'm willing to work and invest forces and the good result from this is welcome to go to the friend.
33. S. (58:07) What is the difference between the 15th of Av and Purim?
R. You will get there and decide. I don't like wise questions like that. This is what we are learning here, but all the discernments about Purim and to compare this to that . . .
34. S. (58:46) How can I add in love in order for the previous love not to be considered as a flaw?
R. If we added it doesn’t a mean that we are harming something from before, rather we just add and add its not that we are insisting on wanting to erase the previous state, but wanting to add to it and this is called love covers all crimes where we discover flaws in the connection between us and make them into love.
Reading (59:45) excerpt #5 “There is self-love and there is love of the Creator, and there is a medium, which is love of others…”
35. R. (01:00:48) Meaning we cannot reach the love of the Creator which is the goal without us discovering our love to everyone, to each and everyone and all together and all the people in the world eventually. Because this is the vessel within which we need to discover our condition and then in this vessel the love of the Creator is disclosed to us.
36. S. (01:01:23) What is the connection between a mechanism of loving my friends and love of the Creator?
R. The connection is the vessel in which you discover your attitude towards their friends and by that where you discover through your attitude to the friend sent from the Creator and then you would relay your friends and then in the middle of the way you kind of meet and the Creator gives you the vessel within which you will do the work towards them. To the extent in which you discover your attitude towards them you feel that you have what to relate to, because the Creator is completely concealed from your senses from the time being and the friends not and to the extent to which you disclose your heart to the friends you will feel that you are coming closer to them and acquire experience in working with foreign desires where all together all those foreign thoughts, desires, are the Creator.
S. I might be able to love the friends in a way that it will not lead me to the love of the Creator in an egoistic way, how do I check this?
R. Of course, if you are in a society to study and work together In order to advance to connection and to the Creator, you are in this flow you are all together in the upper force that is guiding you.
Reading (01:03:45) excerpt #6 “This is what Hillel Hanasi assumed, that “Love your friend as yourself”,...” Twice
37. R. (01:05:23) Meaning there's nothing else for us to do. If we come to love of friend in a complete way, by this, we complete what can be done on our behalf. All the rest comes from the Creator.
Reading continues (01:05:35) excerpt #6 “As it is the clearest nature and form…”
38. S. (01:06:55) What is to love with all his heart and all his soul and all his might? What are these three categories?
R. With all his heart and his soul and might; meaning, let's do it this way: We don't yet feel these discernments in the inner connection between us but we need to get there, where we are drawn to connection, that we discover more and more possibilities of how to connect internally to one another and then we discover one heart, one soul, one might and there are many discernments there, many discernments.
39. S. (01:08:02) It is written that a person comes from the love of friends to the love of the Creator. What is the difference between the love for the vessel and the love for the light? Because the Creator is the light and the friends are the vessels.
R. I do not know. Today is hard for me to talk because the matter of feeling cannot be expressed in words but the difference is that, that which belongs to the vessel has to do with our actions and through our actions we can express this matter and what has to do with the filling we cannot express the filling. Also about lights and fillings we are also talking on behalf of the vessels. Hence, we don't have much that we can explain to one another here, also in our world, explain to me how you can differentiate between sounds or tones like the C F G the Do, Fa, So explain to me how do you understand those? How do you differentiate those? What are you moving through those emotions? No. You are moving through a frequency or something; meaning, we are always talking on behalf of the vessels, as far as the filling we cannot talk, that's it.
S. Is it possible to say that a person is impressed here by how the friends are filled or fulfilled in a pleasant way. How the light fills them in a pleasant way.
R. Try to explain and you'll see how you are out of words. Look according to our work in our world, the extent that we have compositions that talk about suffering, sorrow, deep deep composition, books, tragedies and the extent to which you have about joy. Seemingly, light,, simple things, not deep because our vessels are built to feel that depth more and when we talk about connection between us and then connection with the Creator then it is the opposite because then we acquire the vessels, we acquire theses vessels of ours in bestowal and then we begin to discover, to talk in bestowal but how to talk.
Also we talk and we'll see how we talk in the study of TES or in some other place, on the side of the vessels, on behalf of the vessels. We talk about which coarseness and screen we reveal some specific light and then that light is then called NRNHY, so what? You can’t express it because in our feeling we only have the feeling. We will come to states where we all start to connect between us and by this, at least this is how I think, we will establish a new vessel, a connection between us and this is how we will advance.
40. S. (01:12:19) It is said here to care for the needs of friends and I don't quite understand this part. What needs does he mean? We know that all the things that we experience in corporeality it could be that the Creator is giving a complicated situation for the friend, we pray and we ask for him and it could be just to advance him and it doesn't mean that it is something good for him, so what needs do we need to pray for? Maybe he won a reward and it takes him out of the path and all sorts of situations, so maybe just to clarify this please?
R. I need to see the friend as my relative where I need to help him with all that he wants and if he feels some need on his spiritual path then certainly I want to join the path and be together with him.
S. How can I help him with this?
R. I didn’t understand, talk if you are talking.
S. I am saying how do I know what he specifically needs?
R. You don’t need to know exactly what he wants and how he feels his desire. You need to help him according to what you understand and how you understand, how you feel the extent to which you can assist him. First of all is that you give him the feeling of confidence, support, where you are next to him and you are willing to be with him and approach any problem he has in life and you want to assist him in anything he's about to attain, to give him a shoulder, to give him forces on your behalf. That's what needs to take place, nothing but that.
41. S. (01:14:54) It says love your friend as yourself is the ultimate goal in the practice. That is as it is the clearest nature and form to man. Why does he say that it is the clearest nature and form to man? Why is it the clearest?
R. Because a person is in support with others and from this mutual support you can understand how beneficial this is and then he can come to an agreement and in this mutual support he can be with each and everyone. The fact that it is hard to get there, that is different but it is always in some kind of society. He is connected in some way and we want to arrange this connection so it will be beneficial to everyone. That is what we want.
42. S. (01:16:17) Baal HaSulam says puts the needs of his friend before his own. What does this before mean actually because is there nothing that is left for yourself anywhere?
R. First the needs of the friends need to be more necessary for me than my needs and then for me to give forces, mind and body in order to have him attain what he wants by which I join him, by which I enter him and work with him on this implementation.
S. Thank you. Total annulment, does that mean before? The total annulment of your own needs? Like you have nothing for yourself in this case?
R. If I want to connect to the friend I need to cancel my desires for now and approach the friend to help him, to incorporate with him and only after that I can check, examine whether I still have my desires which demand fulfillment. Usually we see that my desires are then also filled and satisfied.
43. S. (01:18:26) The 15th of Av. Does that symbolize not the attainment of the purpose of connection but the beginning of emotion towards the goal from our shattered state?
R. Yes. From the 9th of Av to the 15th of Av we come to the root of love, the beginnings of love and from then on we begin to perceive, to assemble or connect with the matter of love, yes. Let us hope that we will truly feel how it happens within us.
44. S. (01:19:36) He writes that he loves himself with all of his heart. The matter of loving himself does that to mean that he is obligated to supply his own Pleasures, is that what he likes?
R. This is the initial condition in each and every one self love. It does not disappear, it does not go away, we rather build everything on top of it and in contrast to it but it does not disappear and we actually because it exists we can also feel end define the degrees of love of others and the more we grow onword, one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater than himself; meaning, if I rose to a certain degree then I stand on that degree and from that degree downwards all the way to zero that is the whole ego that has appeared in me that became revealed in me.
S. Self-love is expressed by me filling my own pleasure, that is how it is expressed?
R. No self-love appears when a desire, only a desire is awakened in me to fulfill myself and I do not. I would rather use it to rise with love of others higher than self-love and that is how love covers all crimes more and more otherwise I do not rise.
S. We know that when a person advances also hatred of himself develops.
R. Yes.
S. What does that mean compared to always loving himself, what does it mean that he also hates himself?
R. He has both. In terms of his own nature, he understands, he feels that he loves himself and he reveals it more and more in little things but each time he finds that more and more and with it he also determines that he hates his nature and does not want to carry it out because he already wants to transcend it. He can no longer stand his ego that keeps directing him and managing him and he really feels it as an enemy. There is a certain transition in man's development where instead of agreeing with his nature he begins to hate his nature because he sees that that nature overpowers him, rules him, does not let him do anything freely and then he is searching for how can I reveal my source of resistance.
That I do not just say in words that I resist my nature but that I also transcend it and feel that I belong to two levels. One level is where my nature keeps unfolding more and more and I attain a source of resistance to it and rise above it higher and higher and each time love covers all crimes and that is such a sandwich, I can rise. If the will to receive will not appear in its new shape in each and every state then I won’t have the degree in which I could rise higher and higher therefore we must see and every state when we cannot overcome the will to receive that it is a new degree that has appeared and we need to climb above it, to climb it, to rise above It by connecting with the friends in prayer and that is how we will do it.
45. S. (01:25:25) When I try to love the friend, I do not understand why I cannot cheat myself with it. Because the friends will always tell me that he feels love and support from me, he will cheat me back so what I see in my corrupted eyes, I can’t even relate to it.
R. I can’t say, clarify it among yourselves. I don’t know how to answer. Look for an answer and then ask again.
46. S. (01:26:32) The whole path that the created being has to go through in creation; meaning, from the complete state to the shattered state and back to wholeness.
R. Wait, why do you say that? Where do you start from? From a state where the created being is in a complete state, perfect state and then goes through a shattering and then goes back to a perfect state. Where did you see the perfect state of the created being in the beginning?
S. That is what it seems like from what we learned about Adam.
R. No, it is completely not a perfect form. It is more like a baby who does not understand anything in his life because he has no evil inclination so everything seems like Heaven to him. He does not have a great will to receive and so what he felt was like this mini world like his room full of toys and he can play and everything is great but nothing more than that, no more than that.So in such a way he cannot actually know anything in creation, creation itself, the governance of creation.
The Creator and so on. He cannot so he must be moved away from that state, from that place and then a will to receive is injected into him with this evil inclination. Now he can advance by recognizing the evil inclination in him more and more and then we are in that process where from some point on we begin to feel that inclination as an evil inclination, which is evil to us. Because as we grew from the beginning of creation we grew from our ego and our ego always rules us and therefore it is referred to as an evil inclination and we have to get rid of it and get rid of it not because it harms us.
That is another issue, but I want to get rid of that ego because it separates me from bestowal, from the love of others which is called the good force of the Creator and so here I have a two-fold problem on the one hand I have to move away from the evil inclination on the other hand I have to move closer to the good inclination. So our path consists of two parts. The first period is recognizing the inclination as evil and to that extent to try to move away from it, to resist it, you reject it as much as possible and on the other hand also recognize the good inclination. That we have a goal here to achieve connection to the point of love and that is how we have to see the situation and how we advance on this path.
47. S. (01:30:55) I guess the word wholeness was wrong but Adam in the Garden of Eden.
R. But if his desire is zero, there is no egoistic desire yet, it is very small. So even though we call it Adam, man it is Adam, similar to the Creator implying about the future and not about that state of Heaven that he is in, the garden of Eden where he is like a little baby there. So we do not relate anything to that baby; everything happens by Nature. The Creator governs him and that is it, everything he does is not good or bad it is not taken into account. Like how we consider little children.
S. This process from the state of closeness until the complete opposite and then coming back closer to him, this circle, this track, is it expressed in this holiday?
R. We come to these dates on the calendar from a person's recognition of the person that is already on the path, otherwise there is no one to talk to. Look at what holidays we have. First of all the Exodus from Egypt where we discover our ego and we want to escape it so everything begins from The Exodus.
That is essentially the beginning of the year and from the Exodus would come to the reception of the Torah which is the Shavuot holiday meaning 50 days after the Exodus and then after that we come to the 9th of Av which we just passed and the 15th of Av which was just yesterday but these are just days. It does not mean we have made it in our development, it is just that the cycle of the year just symbolizes our correction process and then we come to Rosh Hashana, the head of the year and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and then Hanukkah until we come to Purim, Purim corresponds to the final correction.
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