Morning Lesson February 1, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #58
1.Rav’s Introduction: Once again we are making a common effort between us to connect and discover what the matter of faith above reason is, what it means to resemble the Creator and that everyone will feel through the effort of the friends that the common love, the common force of love and bestowal becomes increasingly revealed and this is called the revelation of the Creator to the created being, as it says “within my people do I dwell.” That this is how we reveal the Creator. We cannot reveal Him directly, we cannot do that, we have no vessels for it, but only through the vessel that we make and the vessel that we build is that measure of connection between us. Where each of us has his will to receive but through connection between us we build or we make, as it says, you have made me. Meaning we create this mutual bestowal between us and through our efforts we can sense, we can detect the quality of bestowal and that is how the Creator becomes revealed. You cannot do it any other way. This state between us is a very high and lofty state. Certainly from a state of oppositeness, from a state of zero that we are in, we build the quality of bestowal and when we join these qualities of bestowal from one to the other, we discover a fundamentally new quality that comes to us from a higher level, from above us and it is called Creator. Okay, let us move forward and see what we do but again we want to feel what is new for us today as opposed to yesterday, what we can establish before us as a new accomplishment, new strength, new connection and that we will advance.
Reading excerpt (03:30)
2. R. (05:30) Meaning how can we imagine to ourselves that we, like it says here, are in the vessels of the upper one, on part of the other one. This is on the condition that I will feel myself in wholeness every moment in life because I am under the control of the upper one. That state, these efforts, advance us toward becoming an embryo. This annulment exists not just in the state of the spiritual embryo but in each and every moment in the degrees and between the degrees. As he says, me for myself, I do not care how I feel about myself because I want to work in order to bestow. Meaning, I care about how the Creator feels for me so I can annul myself and incorporate in the Creator and feel his wholeness. That to me is the scrutiny or the indication or the measurement that I nullify and become included in him. Therefore, to myself I do not care how I feel, I do not even take that into account. I only take into account how I nullify before the friends and through them I annul before the Creator. The difference between the friends and the Creator is that the Creator is the sum total, and the friends are how I can check towards each and every one of them that I nullify ultimately towards the Creator, to adhere to the Creator.
Reading excerpt again (07:56)
3. R. (08:15) That is called our reason, so we do not want to take into account what we feel and what we understand.
Reading continues (08:23)
4. S. (10:11) When we do not have the intention to receive left anymore in the ten, does the will to receive become something common?
R. If a person transcends his desire for himself this is called nullifying his personal desire and he transforms it to connection with the friends and then by that he is already becoming connected to them. Similarly, everyone does the same towards the others and so they build this complete connection and according to the level of connection they can reveal the one and unique unified force that is before them, that has created them, that has designed them and now they can discover Him in return in their attitude and their relation to him. That is the whole matter of the attainment of the Creator by the created being. The Creator deliberately shattered the vessel, and we correct the vessel to reveal the Creator, to crown the Creator, to honor the Creator, to bring him contentment. For that we connect between us.
5. S. (11:59) The harsh times that we find through our advancement does not allow many friends to return or keep going and they fall, so what does it mean that the Creator is the guarantor, what does he guarantee?
R. The Creator cannot disregard our work because without our work we will not be able to reveal all of creation 620 times greater. Meaning at the intensity that we are destined to reveal and that there is no discount here, it is just laws of nature, the Creator is the total law of all reality. So I do not understand what it means that the friends cannot and if they cannot, they continue while they cannot, they cannot and they still continue. There are no conditions here that you can set for the forces of nature. We think about the Creator, think about it as if it is something that is changeable.
Can you change the laws of electricity or gravity from one body to another body or all the laws of physics? Can you change them? No, you need to learn them and learn how to use them for a certain goal that you set for yourselves. In spirituality we do not even set the goal. That is why we will not be wrong if we heed laws of nature. We only need connection, which is it. The forces of connection exist in our whole environment and correspondingly there are forces of separation. We have to determine how we want to connect despite the forces of separation. Then we have two forces in our hand, the separating force, which is called the ego, which exists within the still, vegetative, animate in every form, and also the force of connection. To the extent that we connect above these forces of separation by rising to a higher level, by that we can produce a great throughput from these forces. High intensity, and that brings us closer to the spiritual vessel from the corporeal level to the spiritual level and that is a Kli that already contains the forces of connection called NRNHY. We reveal qualities and principles that are new and great but to be there, we have to undergo some restriction or a barrier, all sorts of disturbances on the path to making a leap to the higher level. Those who learned some chemistry or in quantum mechanics, there is a leap, there is a state where a force is accumulated more and more until a certain leap happens, within us or by us and so on. So, we cannot wait for the forces of nature to change because they will not. It says, “I the Lord change not”. We have to recognize these forces, try to get to know these laws and follow them, carry them out as much as possible. Then we will see how accurate and universal, eternal, and whole they are.
6. S. (17:35) What does it mean not to take my feelings into account and enter the vessel of the upper world because the feelings are all I have?
R. No, we have a mind and a heart and if the will to receive dwells in the heart it dwells in the mind, then I do not really want to obey the heart and I have to think about how to direct myself correctly. The will to receive which is the heart creates fulfillment and each time it appears in a different way because I cannot listen to it because it will quickly take me to my death. Rather I have to increase a different goal in front of me not to fulfill all of my beastly desires but that I can be under the influence, under the environment, that society, the group, the ten in such a way that they will govern me. By that I will not crave what my heart craves but what the group craves. So that the group can control me and then together, me included, as I nullify towards them which is the main thing that Rabash writes and each of them does the same efforts, by that we will determined what is the group, what is the society, what are the right values of society and how we can influence each other and all of us could influence every one of us in order to determine that the higher values that we determine to ourselves are the main thing for us. So, the connection between us, the longing to connect, to bestow to each other and be under the influence of each other, that is truly a great thing, and it depends on the greatness of the group, the connection of the group. So we have to care about tomorrow's lesson from today, that I care about the friends coming to the lesson and all the groups coming to connect in the lesson where we see more and more friends participating, joining us and wanting to be under the influence of the environment because this is what our spiritual progress relies on, that is our work.
S. Every moment I feel something, so we have to kind of establish the feeling of the upper one above this feeling?
R. Possible, but I do not think it is a correct thing to always pick into what exactly do I feel but more work on how I nullify myself to the ten. As inside the ten lies the Creator, how do I nullify myself towards them because that is the right form.
7. S. (22:06) If I annul before the friends and through the friends to the Creator, does this happen right away at the same time or does it have to be all of the friends in the ten annulling before each other before we are annulling before the Creator?
R. You have a few questions here I see. First of all, I always have to try to nullify towards the friends like Yossi ben Kisma, that he even though he was a great teacher that he had his little students in order to nullify before he grew and rose as a result and even told those who try to pay him to come to another city, he said I could not leave them, because towards them I could nullify myself and they all work to be connected and then together with them I have the same environment, the same conditions that I need to advance towards the revelation of the Creator, and that is what we need. The main thing is to have the right environment and if not, then at least it is on the way there that is what we have and we have to nullify ourselves towards that environment more and just like in the case with Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma, it does not matter how great the environment is, it can be small. It does not need to be high in its accomplishment, no, as long as there is some measure of connection and nullification to each other in order to connect to each other and then altogether we all nullify and connect with the Creator. That is our whole technique there is nothing else we can do, that is it. If we can each manage to take our ego and submit ourselves to the ten and in the ten, we are all annulled towards each other, that we make room for the upper light, the Creator, to dwell within us to fulfill us. To the extent that we can receive him correctly we will reveal him. That is basically the whole method.
S. If one friend annuls before the ten that is enough for the whole ten to become annulled before the Creator?
R. No, completely not but it already gives them an example. If they see this example of the nullification of the friend towards the ten, that gives them an example of what they all should do and that is how we should each follow these examples in setting examples towards the others as much as possible above our strength. If I do not want to nullify, that I need to show everyone that I do want to nullify and that I do nullify, to act out. Then when I do that towards the others, they will accept it in a true and serious way, that I truly am notifying myself and they will take it as an example and also do these actions and then I will learn from these actions. So what I have done, as make believe, they will do the same and then I will accept it on myself, in a truthful way. That is called one shall help his friend. There are many subtle aspects here that are not valid for us but if we do that and we begin to see how it works.
8. S. (27:33) First of all thank you for the opportunity, the influence of the ten through my advancement I feel that I change, there is a closeness to the Creator, a closeness to the conversation with the Creator.
R. The Creator resides in the environment meaning inside of the ten. To the extent you relate to the ten truly in bestowal then you can reach a state where you can come into contact with the Creator which is a force that dwells in the ten and that is how you will begin to reveal him according to the rule, in my people do I dwell. So that is how we have to work.
9. S. (28:48) I do not understand how it is possible to come to faith above reason if I do not take my reason into account and here it says that we should not take our feelings and knowledge into account.
R. Every state that you are in you are going to have to nullify your feeling and your mind towards the upper one, when you are even on a very high level it does not matter what spiritual level, in order to rise to a higher level. In other words in order to cling to the Creator because the Creator is our higher degree, you have to nullify yourself and that is the only way you can adhere to him. When you do, which is like a drop of sperm that enters the womb, then you begin to develop there but you develop in nullifying yourself more and more. Nullifying yourself more and more. Through this nullification when you each time, nullify yourself you come to the first stage of observing the upper force and this is called the 9 months of pregnancy, and the state then is called an embryo, an embryo is nullified before the upper one. This is our first spiritual degree. What is the upper one? The ten. There is nothing that I have of the upper degree, only the ten.
So when I nullify before the ten, the interior, the internality of the ten, when I want to raise my friends to the level as high as possible and it is immeasurable. I can imagine it as best as I can, it will always be true because it all depends on me. Just like with Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma, he appreciated his students as very high and towards them he nullified even though he was actually higher than them by far but because he knew how to do it that he could grow along with them. That is how we grow, and this is called the 9 months of pregnancy. That is the first spiritual stage. The more we can increase the importance of the group in our eyes, the more we can grow inside of it. When we complete this process which is nine Sefirot, nine months then we are born on a higher degree, the degree of Keter, let us say, and that is it that is already entering the spiritual state in a tangible way. That we are already there in our own senses. Not that we just are there but that there is something with which we can hold, feel, sense that we are already in the force of bestowal, and we exist there and that all happens through the group in which the Creator dwells. We have to advance to that, and this is really in front of us.
Of course our ego wants to cancel these pictures because that is deliberate in order for us to have greater coarseness, meaning the spiritual state because without coarseness we cannot exist. Who are we without coarseness? But when we nullify our coarseness, we do not erase it, we nullify the egoistic use of it, then it turns out that we built ourselves each time in a more and more spiritual form. The more coarse we are and the more we nullify coarseness, and the coarseness does not go away, we rather use it in such a way through restriction, screen, reflected light and then we resemble the Creator. That is already after the birth, before the birth, it is only through nullification where we go through all of these states and only by nullifying ourselves, we go through these states like Ibur, Yenika, Mochin but in a form of annulment that is the matter of the nine months of pregnancy. We will talk about it more. Why am I talking about it like this? Because I want us to enter the study of TES in a way that we will go through the stages as we discuss emotionally, tangibly that we will not just study it like a physics textbook. Just remember all these things and play with them in our minds, which is called being a smart aleck or wise in the dark. Meaning you do not really have the upper light, but you are intellectualizing these matters to learn them.
That is not what we want. We want to reach true spiritual actions, that what we learn, we will try to pass it through our heart and mind and make it tangible through our own spiritual transformations. Otherwise we will just disqualify the whole study of TES. Some people study it intellectually and we must not do that otherwise it is just not going to work; it will not give us anything and we will even be proud that we know more. So, we must not use our intellect to imagine that we are already in spiritual degrees. The mind and heart need to be weighed in a way that they help us discover the spiritual states. It says about this that it is not the wise who learns, meaning that you actually have to have vessels of bestowal that we can discover and learn the spiritual forms.
10. S. (37:53) On what does a person's annulment before the ten depend in every state?
R. The sign of success in a person's annulment to the ten is that he feels himself in their hands and it makes him happy, not that it makes him sad or lowers him. At first in the preparation stages, in such states where we feel nothing compared to the environment, then we feel like we are we are canceled, nothing, and what is going to happen to us but the more we advance and feel that we are truly zero towards the friends it is a result of our efforts and then we are happy that we are nullified towards them. What is going to happen to us but the more we advance and feel that we are truly zero towards the friends it is a result of our efforts and then we are happy that we are nullified towards them. It does not prevent us from correctly participating in the group.
11. S. (39:29) When I work in the ten, when I want to annul myself but I see a friend who I see is going in and out of the right direction although I annul myself, I see he is not going in the right direction, what do I do then, do I really have to annul myself and say nothing or do I try to gently move him from the direction he is going?
R. No, you have to try to show him the right actions. If you are certain and you are right and you are certain that you know what correct actions to do and you are not wrong then you have to speak to the other friends and together with them, without speaking to that friend who might be wrong, you have to show him the right things to do. This is how you have to work with him and try to change him, to listen, to see what he is doing because it might be a lesson from above that we are getting so that we will try nevertheless to live with such a friend and not throw them out until he sees the changes correctly and perhaps we will have to get rid of him, if he under no circumstances is willing to accept the laws of the society that Rabash wrote for us very clearly. You have to take the articles of Rabash again and study them together and see if we all understand them correctly and to what extent that we all agree to accept them and implement them. Although we cannot do everything that is required but still have to accept it as the Torah, the teaching.
12. S. (42:15) About the principle that I have to keep nullifying myself towards the ten so when we have some interaction, we can annul ourselves, how do I nullify myself while I am engaged in might necessities, my work, and my family, how do I bring the ten to the state?
R. Necessity is necessity, there is nothing you can do about it. You certainly need to create a clear line between necessity which stems from our existence in this world and the necessity that you determine on your way to the purpose of creation and those two forms, those two parts of your life should not really collide, try to have time for both. Usually things that have to do with spiritual advancement I can add them to almost everything I do in this world even if they are not spiritual. So I just have to try so that even while I, as it is written, when he does something in the field, when he tills the land, when he does something like this in his shop or anything that we do, I can still somehow add to it my spiritual intention, or at least be with a disposition toward spirituality in every corporeal thing I do. You can do that without any flaw to corporeality, to blemishing or affecting corporeality in any way. We just have to try to distinguish these things. What is the disposition in our hearts so that we can do this? We can do this try and you will see that there is no collision between our spiritual intentions and our corporeal actions.
13. S. (45:09) Sometimes I hear this opinion that we turn the ten into some idol or something between us and the Creator, what do you think about this?
R. I am not sure who was asking, so it depends how I would answer him, but I would say that this is what is written, show me what is written in Kabbalists, Baal HaSulam and Rabash, that we accept that it is written differently from what we do. Of course each one can add his own interpretation, that is his business, we interpret it this way, that is it. The ten certainly becomes something, Holy, Sacred meaning above me, superior to me and I bow to the corrected structure of the ten to which I want to come. So when someone says I turn it into an idol as you say, so what is an idol, so what who says it is wrong, how many Idols do we have in our world in our lives, each of us? So I have my own Idol. This idol is that I want to build a society that operates entirely out of connection. This idol is that I want to build a society that operates entirely out of connection and love, is that a bad idol?
14. S. (46:59) Rabash writes that in each state you have to feel that it comes from the Creator, how do you come to that state I have been trying for years, and it seems impossible?
R. It is impossible but if you come to complete connection with the ten and you are already included in the Creator to an extent, as much as your will to receive is revealed to you and the Creator already awakened in you greater and greater desires to receive so you can adhere to the ten more and more and these are your degrees of spiritual ascent. So go ahead, it is all in front of us.
S. So, is it an actual spiritual state?
R. What is the spiritual state, when you annul to the ten, you want to be incorporated in them, this is spirituality.
S. When you feel that each state comes from the Creator, it is already a spiritual state?
R. No this could be in the imagination the result of being adhered to the ten and you want to come to the power of bestowal, the general force of bestowal then perhaps in this you will already discover the Creator. That is still ahead of you.
15. S. (48:34) You are talking about spiritual intention and corporeal actions, so I am thinking for myself, to make it easier on myself do not I have to know that I am at least trying to get to equivalence of form at all times, taking on the qualities of the Creator?
R. What do I get out of this being a corporeal or a spiritual lack is determined by the intention to receive or to bestow. That is it. It is not measured by being elevated to the upper world and I bring it down to the lower world, these levels are determined only by what I determine by my intention to bestow, to the extent that the desire by which I want to bestow more unto others to that extent I am in a higher degree. Think about it and do not get confused.
16. S. (50:06) I heard that by nullifying the will to receive towards the group, I connect with the group, how does that work?
R. To the extent of my connection to the group I shift, I move to spirituality and to the extent that I can overcome my ego and connect with the ten, this determines my degree in spirituality.
17. S. (50:47) How is this connection, how was it made, how does it go deeper in the group?
R. It all depends on my work to the extent that I can understand that I am in connection with the group or in the lack of connection, accordingly I determine what I have to do in order to come to the complete connection. That is why each and every friend in front of me, I see him as a means by which by connecting to him, I step forward to the Creator and when I try to be in some level of connection with several friends, it is certain that I will come to the revelation of the power of bestowal. This will be called the Creator.
18. S. (51:55) After the first stage of annulment how does a person feel when he is already born in spirituality, in the spiritual work?
R. He feels that he is born that he is in the quality of bestowal and that is how he is born in spirituality.
19. S. (52:17) How do we feel in the ten or see in the ten that one of the friends nullifies himself?
R. We cannot feel it, how do I know if she is annulling or not and to what extent, even if on the outside she is able to show us that she is annulling but to what extent is she annulling internally, I do not know. It all depends on me, how much I do it, not how much the friends do it.
20. S. (52:57) Does nullifying mean submitting, subjugating myself to the ten and feeling them instead of myself, how can you give such an example to the friends of such an internal matter?
R. We need to show them external examples, meaning what they can see, how much we are willing to help each other, mutual support. There are many articles about it from Rabash and not only from him but from all the Kabbalists, how much we need to connect, to participate, to support the connection between us, to make it stand out as much as possible and in this way we advance.
21. S. (54:02) If we feel there is no wholeness in our work how can we be happy about it?
R. We do not need to pay attention to incompleteness or completeness in the work. first of all because we could never measure it and also look at the example that is shown that everyone can see. What is the lower one closest to the upper one? When it is inside of it as an embryo. It is in the upper one and it is controlled, it is completely controlled by the upper one and the upper one does with it whatever it wants and the lower one annuls itself before the upper one and this is how it develops. If it does not know how to annul itself then disruptions begin to the point that the upper one has to abort the lower one from within it. Then we get a miscarriage, it falls from the degree of the upper one. So our whole work is first of all to annul; the annulment of the person before the ten and this has to be mutual in the ten.
You need to help one another, and, in this way, we have to determine our spirit to make it as much as possible from the depth of the heart, that I really want to annul before the ten in every way, in words, and actions, and all of our work, all of our participations as much as possible. Only in this do I see my progress in spirituality. The Creator to me right now is unfelt, He does not exist in my senses, but rather the group exists before me, passing on to me the form of the Creator, the Creator’s relation to me and toward the Creator, which is the group, I have to annul myself. I love each one and everyone together as I would imagine it to be if I were to love the Creator. So of course, there is no place for criticism here or anything, only one thing, are we really connected and advancing towards the Creator in order to be incorporated in him as an embryo in him, this is what I ask.
S. About the leap that you mentioned in the beginning of the lesson I understand that a leap is needed but is it by the person or the ten?
R. That general leap of the ten but of course it is included in all the efforts of each one.
S. How can we all make a quantum leap towards our progress?
R. By quantum leap? I think they mean from this world to the upper world, the difference of the worlds, as it is written there is no difference between the worlds except in changing the governance in our world. In our world the will to receive governs, in the upper world, the desire to bestow governs. If you want to make this quantum leap as you call it by all means do it, connect, hold on to each other, and together turn to the Creator because you do not have the power to make this leap and then let Him lift you. If you ask hard and together, then it will happen.
22. S. (59:40) A while ago you gave us some exercise to prepare a daily prayer in the ten, three lines about connection and two lines about addressing the Creator, can you explain why that was the structure of the prayer?
R. No, I do not want to go into this right now and bring everyone into this, sorry this is not the time.
23. S. (01:00:30) Can we make this quantum leap in spirituality, even if one is not doing it?
R. Even if part of the ten does not want to, does not understand, and does not feel, you can do it. You can still do it because then you need to through your mutual responsibility, you need to take them as if they are, with you like children who grownups take in their hands and rise with them. There are all kinds of manners of participation in the ten where even if you cannot, according to the situation there are some who are in a fall, in a decline some are in a descent but all in all, if the ten had a general desire and at every single moment it has to be ready, approaching this leap from corporeality to spirituality. We just need to make efforts, which is it, to make efforts and a connection between us and efforts toward the prayer towards the Creator, the prayer towards the Creator is really what does everything.
24. S. (01:02:08) When a person does not feel a clear resistance to the ten in clear states to nullify, but just to flow, where is the work, where to invest?
R. We have a flow that is like a strong current and there are many Gevurot and there is a flow that is hardly felt as having any power. We need to increase the importance of the goal and then we turn the small current into a strong current that will take us forward.
25. S. (01:03:03) Feeling my state without relating to the friend’s state without relating to my state is that receiving the friends in order to bestow?
R. Yes, it is exactly what we need, not to take my personal state into account but the state of the group, in that too, I do not feel I have vessels, still this is how I will advance.
26. S. (01:03:33) You mentioned that we should relate to each one and everyone together in love, what does it mean to relate to everyone when each one has different desires and requires a different attitude?
R. Of course, we are all very, very different, the more we advance towards the goal, and advancement is through increasing the will to receive then we will be more and more different from each other. At the same time, we will feel more and more that we have a common goal and each one precisely by being different from each other, complements each other into one complete vessel called “a ten”. Then we will look at each other in a mature way and the fact that everyone is different from me, I am happy about it because it is the revelation of the truth and the revelation of our ability to be in one vessel, to mutually complement one another.
27. S. (01:04:46) Rabash writes in his article about the order of the assembly of the friends, that if the friends make a decision it needs to be acceptable to everyone. If the ten made a decision and one friend is not happy about it, what do you do in such a state?
R. You first need to scrutinize if everyone is satisfied or not and if not, everyone is happy then you have to sort out why, tend to each one as part of a complete vessel. Let us say a person has a problem with his leg, will you not take care of it? if he has a sore in his hand will he not take care of it? So how can we leave it? We have to bring you some sort of a remedy. So we cannot just drop it and neglect it, something will happen later, or you decide that in our case we cannot treat it anymore we will do it later. Later means during the day or the next day but you do not put it off indefinitely. No. Meaning right now we cannot. The conditions have not been clarified yet they will clarify some more, and we will tend to it. But it has to be in our hearts and our mind as a red light that is on.
S. From their perspective as a friend who is unhappy, does he not have to annul himself towards the decision?
R. He needs to help us, to help us to understand him and he needs to understand himself as to what happened, why and this one is to happen. All in all, we will advance toward mutual understanding.
28. S. (01:07:03) Please explain what state is higher, is it the fear of being separate from the Creator and falling to the ego or the hatred towards your ego?
R. Yes, we can be in but if we advance correctly, we can be in the middle line. We do not hate ego; we can treat it as help against us.
Reading Item #59 (01:11:07) “One should depict to oneself as if he has already been…”
29. Rav reading #59 again (01:13:45) One should depict to oneself as if he has already been rewarded with whole faith in the Creator and already feel in his organs that the Creator leads the whole world in the form of the good who does good. Meaning that the whole world receives only good from Him. Yet, when one looks at oneself, he sees that “he is bare and indigent”. In addition when he observes the world he sees that the whole world is tormented, each according to his degree, one should say about that, “they have eyes and they see not”, they means that as long as one is in multiple authorities, meaning multiple desires to receive we call that “they don't see the truth”. Because he is looking at the world through his will to receive. What are the multiple authorities? As long as one has two desires even though he believes the entire world belongs to the Creator but that something belongs to man also, but in truth one must annul one’s authority before the authority of the Creator, and one wants not to live for oneself and the only reason that he want to exist is to bring contentment to the Creator. Meaning every single moment in my life I want to extract from it benefit to the Creator and for myself I need to understand that, if I have any consideration for myself, it is a false consideration. There is no such consideration in the world to do something for one’s own sake. It can only be when he is directed towards the benefit of the Creator. The Creator means everything outside of the person, outside of the person's will to receive. Thus by this one annuls one’s own authority completely and then he is in the singular authority. Precisely by this he crosses the boundary from himself to the Creator, the authority of the Creator. Only then can you see the truth: How the Creator leads the world by the quality of the good and doing good. So, basically, we have conditions here and he clarifies them for us, Baal HaSulam in Shamati, about how we can come to a state where we will be incorporated into the Creator. We will enter him; we will feel the world through His qualities and not the opposite qualities from the Creator which are in our inherent qualities.
30. S. (01:17:31) The writing talks about this condition that I need to acquire but in the measure that I make an effort, I cannot always enter the condition where everything is conducted by the Creator, that is good that does good. So this trial that I do continuously to be in this thought, is it something that brings into another reality that I can already see what is besides?
R. Yes, out of the efforts that you want to see in every place the action of the Creator, for the friends they come to you through someone, through something, even through your manager at work and your family, through the people at your home. You want to see in everything that it comes not from some people or incidents in life, but it only comes from the Creator because there's None Else Besides Him. There is only one force that operates in the world through all kinds of clothing, and you need to take all these clothes and connect them to bring them to one source then you will begin to reveal Him and those clothing do not disappear. They will be even greater and bigger and different, varied. But through your efforts by ascribing them to the Creator only, you will reveal him more and more. What I'm trying to say is that in such work where you discover that everything belongs to one force, you reach adhesion with the Creator, understanding and in that you change yourself because through the concept of love covering all crimes and all the disturbances, you do not see them as disturbances but rather you see them exercises that the Creator has given you in order to reveal him in every single state. In states that are more and more refined where it is more difficult to reveal Him each time. But you try to achieve it, every state that comes to you as it comes to you from the Creator and to come to the state, you need to address Him in return.
31. S. (01:20:39) Under the same topic it is written that “a person brings himself under the providence of the one” and that it is written that it is clear but what is that providence of the one?
R. The “providence of the one” is the Creator that arranges, controls and He sorts all our world before us, a big world, very complex and refined. Meaning having many different contradicting forms and many incidents and cases but altogether we need to bring it to the concept of one. To one matter, the Lord Our God the Lord is one. This has to be before us as the goal and our entire world, all of our life gives us exercises so that we will come to this and interpret it in a complete manner, clear?
S. Somewhat.
R. Hear the others and it will be clear for you.
32. S. (01:22:23) “They have eyes and they do not see”, what do we not see?
R. We do not see that in the whole of reality there is only one force that operates.
S. One force, meaning a different reality?
R. When you see that only one force is operating, then for you it is considered as a different reality, a spiritual one.
S. The friends also?
R. The friends together with me are included in that one force and then the higher degree comes in which we feel once again that we are in the increased the will to receive and the entire world is more in ruins. Then we understand that this is the picture that the Creator is presenting before us and that nothing is changing, that He is just turning the knob on the will to receive and the will to receive in a greater way appears in each one of us and the whole world is like that. It is all that we will reveal His uniqueness, the unification of the Creator in all of reality, in a higher degree in more complex states and more contradicted states.
S. How do we get out of this blindness, are we really that blind, we have eyes, and we do not see, that is blind?
R. It is less than blind, we are not even aware that we are blind. A blind person nevertheless feels that he is blind. We do not feel that we are. Therefore if we try through all sorts of aids, meaning we have the ten and we define in the ten all kinds of forms, through all kinds of things and customs that are like the Creator that is dwelling between us. Through all kinds of things like that which the main thing being prayer, we bring ourselves closer to the Creator.
S. Can you say the ten is like our new eyeglasses?
R. Certainly, it is not just the glasses, it is all our five senses, our spiritual five senses, is the ten. If I could adhere to it now, and it is not important how I see it, if I want to adhere to it right now, I will already enter into the spiritual device. I do not have the words to describe it, but we will find them, the words. We will find them.
33. S. (01:25:22) In excerpt fifty-nine, it is not clear for me, it says “a person needs to depict to oneself as though he's already been rewarded with whole faith”, what is this am I meditating all day?
R. He needs to depict to oneself as if every moment of his life to the extent that he feels, to the extent of the reality that he feels, he needs to feel as though he is in complete faith to the Creator, the is actually relative to the Creator in bestowal in an absolute way.
S. Even though I do not know I feel it?
R. How can you feel it if you have not reached that quality?
S. That is a problem, I do not get it.
R. No but you cannot. Do you understand what Adam is, if a person does not have eyes, for example, can he demand to see, no, he has to demand for the first of all to have eyes and the eyes will be healthy and then he will see reality.
S. Yes, I get it but am I supposed to just imagine to myself?
R. If you do not reach the quality of faith, you just do not see the upper reality.
S. So it says that you have to depict to oneself?
R. Yes, by that we advance. Where would you have the desire for that, for faith, for the force of bestowal? By you depicting to yourself as if you merited complete faith in the Creator, to complete bestowal to the Creator.
S. You need to think like this all the time?
R. The Creator is the quality of Bina and if we want to reach something, something that mirrors him, to feel, to come close so we also have to be in the degree of Bina.
S. You need to be engaging in the thought of this?
R. You think of course, what does it mean to depict to oneself?
S. So I have to think about it?
R. Yes and he says more than that, he already has a feeling in his organs that the Creator governs the whole world as good that does good. So you need to depict it as you are truly in the state you are filled with the good that does good of the Creator.
S. Got it, not alone, you say the ten should do this?
R. Yes, together as much as possible.
34. S. (01:28:25) Sometimes it is hard to depict to yourself because the will to receive is great, interjects when one is trying to annul oneself and the stages that the person which attains this does it depend on his sensitivity or what quality?
R. Degrees, the stages, the steps, the states that we come to the close to the quality of bestowal we read about them in the articles. When we are ready to enter the quality of bestowal, we can also read it in the articles and we can also already, understand them from the wisdom of Kabbalah. The wisdom of Kabbalah starts from us crossing the restriction and at least we have at least some form of bestowal in us because the entire wisdom of Kabbalah, what does it mean, by which wisdom can I become a receiver from the Creator in order to bring him contentment.
35. S. (01:29:53) It turns out even one moment during the course of the day, I am not relating to the Creator has the good that does good then I am still under the control of the authority of the many, the multiple authority?
R. Yes, which happens this way, that we do not need to be clear about this also.
S. To annul one’s authority entirely before the Creator and the ten is it the same thing?
R. I make efforts in the ten in order to come to a state in which I will annul myself before the Creator. The Creator's the complete one, the whole one, it is like the Keter where I make all my efforts towards the nine friends and then I reach a state in which I nullify before the Keter. That is it.
36. S. (01:31:09) If for example a friend in the ten is sick and we want to pray about it, that he should be healthy, the matter is that the sickness came from the Creator, the good that does good, so what exactly what should our prayer be?
R. So what are you trying to say, that if the Creator gives a disease to a person that we need to add, is that what you mean?
S. No, if I am asking for him to be healthy am I annulling what the Creator did?
R. Everything we do we operate against the Creator and the will to received it wasn't created by the Creator himself, it says I created the evil inclination and we need to annul it, the will receive in such a way that it is in order to receive, to use it opposite the Creator which is called my sons have defeated me in order to bestow.
S. Meaning the way I see this I need to see this as an opportunity to unite and request for the Creator to heal and that is it?
R. This is called, that he has created in order for us to do. That we need to do our work opposite of what he has done. He created the evil inclination, and we need to work on that in order to invert it to become the good inclination and we come by that we could become from the degree of the creature to the degree of the Creator.
37. S. (01:32:54) How to help the friends to be in the lesson even more and to hear all the questions?
R. First of all try to do so with yourself, that is the first thing. Second thing is to pray for them, that really helps for everyone for yourself as well. Also the same person who prays for the others he also merits from that and that is it. To scrutinize from the others how we can, nevertheless, more and more awaken ourselves. We are in the final development of this reality, in this egoistic reality which is apparent in our ego. According to the perception of reality we learned, we read, maybe we need to read again, that the reality that we see with all our five senses is revealed in them and it is depicted and not just affected but it also ends there, it gets concluded there. Meaning from the beginning to the end of reality it is in our senses and our senses for the time being are egotistical. So we need to make an effort here, a general effort for us all and for all of humanity even and the Creator will reach such conditions for us that we will not have a way to run away from this. Then we will see how everything changes, it will change, soon.
38. S. (01:35:00) Can you give us advice: What happens in this condition that the Creator is “the good that does good” and for a long time there is no opposition, not in mind, not in heart and in general in the ten we seem to be holding such a state. So what are we supposed to add to this state, to sharpen this point?
R. The fact that the Creator is “good that does good” to his created beings we need to check whether we as created beings feel really with all our senses, that He is good that does good. Or that we just hear it, but we are not checking in, and we cannot check whether we agree with this or not.
S. How do we check?
R. Do you agree that the Creator is good that does good, with your vessels, with your desires, with your thoughts, that he is truly “the good that does good”? Are you not cheating yourselves a little bit, deceiving yourselves?
S. I see that everything that is happening, even some pain that we had seems to all be for the good, that everything works out in our mind and heart.
R. If you can do so in the group, then you are coming closer to the degree of Ibur, of impregnation and all the good and the bad things that you are going through, you are capable of feeling it from the good source. Then you are already coming to Ibur, in which you justify the Creator, for both the good and the bad in what you are going through. But from what I hear you are not even feeling the bad, so much; It is not that you are also justifying the bad. That, we are yet to go through but nevertheless, the state is clear, and it is a good one as it is.
39. S. (01:37:28) How can we reach the truth in this world of lies?
R. If we build between us such a state in which is somewhat spiritual, as if spiritual. Then we can begin to check and sort and see in it our states, as either false or truth, as spirituality or corporeality. This is what we are capable of noticing or discerning.
40. S. (01:38:31) Regarding that we have to relate every moment of the day to the Creator, those scrutinies happen in a matter of seconds but…
R. Wait so why don’t you attribute those to the Creator?
S. I do connect them. But it turns out let us say I understand that all that I feel in my mind and heart, all comes from Him. I have a long path to go until I am justifying Him, but I have nothing to seemingly grasp. The Creator is a quality and I have no way to adhere myself to Him, in my beastly qualities and all those qualities that I still do not have, and I am yearning to.
R. You are missing knowledge of the sources, you need to invest in reading articles and reading Rabash articles. Then you will see how much that adds for you room for work and for thoughts.
41. S. (01:39:57) We know that with or without the prayer the Creator gives us only what is correct for our correction. So what is the purpose of the prayer? Because the Creator will give me the best thing for my correction?
R. Without prayer you are not in the mutual connection with the Creator In which you turn to Him, and He turns to you. You cannot come to a mutual connection but rather you are like every other animal. A person, an Adam, is from the degree of animal and when he rises above the degree of animal by turning to his Creator, by addressing his Creator; and asking and demanding and thanking the Creator. That is why we need to learn how we turn to the Creator, and it is not so important how, in what way, in what manner, which is later. You see a baby cry, his mother knows why he is crying, that is how it is, that is how we are: We are in the Creator and no matter how we appeal to Him we will get it. But we must turn to Him. Every moment that we are not turning to the Creator we are disconnected from Him. Certainly, it is us who are disconnected from him and not Him disconnected from us. He is not. It is written, “He dwells in them, in their impurities”, but we are disconnected. We cannot bestow upon Him, and our entire goal is to be in mutual connection, “I for my beloved and my beloved from me”.
42. S. (01:42:13) What exactly is a plea to the Creator, turning to him? Is it just a request, gratitude, does it have to be active or just a thought?
R. We are in constant connection with this Creator, it cannot be any other way. Because all together we are the creatures that receive all of our vitality, our bestowal, our nourishment from Him. But we are talking about the connection with which I connect to Him, and demand from Him to renew and change the connection. Therefore, the connection is not just there for no reason rather it becomes a prayer. Therefore we need to know how to pray, meaning how to ask from the Creator: First we need to praise Him for creating us that from all the creatures in all of the creation He ascribed the importance to us, as we can change all of reality and through that become partners with Him, and so on. Meaning once more we are returning to the prayer.
43. S. (01:44:04) He said we need to go against the Creator but on the other hand we need to justify Him in everything. How do we work with both of these states?
R. Against the Creator we go since He created the will to receive, and we are demanding from Him to be the desire to bestow. For us to be in the desire to bestow that is called “against the Creator” and in such a way as we demand the desire to bestow, we actually come to equivalence with Him; until we are incorporated in the Creator.
44. S. (01:45:00) You said that the Creator clothes through friends, family or work and we need to relate all of that to Him. How to do that correctly? Do couples have a unique role in this correction?
R. If the couple is under a spiritual care, then they have to also show that they have a spiritual connection between them and the Creator, as it is written “men and women, Divinity amongst them”, of course. But that is not yet now. Let us hope that we will gradually, slowly, slowly come close to it, towards the end of the correction. We will come close to that where more and more couples will feel how they are operated by the upper force, and to that extent, they can change the connection between them through appealing to the upper force. As it cannot be, you cannot have a connection between the man and woman unless it is through the participation of the Creator, until they learn how to bestow mutually in the correct way. Otherwise the hatred and the ego that grows in each of them will not let our worlds to be made up of couples. Rather there will only be more divorce than connection.
45. S. (01:46:56) How is adhesion in the ten felt? What is it to adhere?
R. Adhesion in the ten is felt by feeling more and understanding more the states that we are going through. And, in those states we search for the point of connection that connects us together, and try, at least a few times a day from one lesson to another to be connected as such; that we feel more and more that spiritual success depends on our being close to the thoughts and desires to one another, in mutual concern for one another.
46. S. (01:48:00) What is the self-check for complete annulment?
R. Self-examination for complete annulment, is the extent in which I care for the friends. To the extent that I care for the friends; that is the self-examinations. To the extent that in the emotion and the thought I am caring for them, just like a mother who is not home but her baby or babies stayed behind, and she is constantly thinking she has a place in her head from which she is constantly thinking about what is happening with them, how they are? This is how we need to be, each of us, towards the ten.
47. S. (01:49:01) Is a personal desire for a correction considered bestowal?
R. If a personal desire for correction is considered bestowal? No. If I want to reach correction it does not mean that I think about bestowal, whatsoever. It is just my desire; it could be an egoistic desire; I want correction. That could be completely a contradiction to correction. Rather from that I only come to the increasing of my ego.
48. S. (01:49:52) How does the ten help me to annul myself entirely and see the truth that the Creator manages the whole world “as the good that does good”?
R. The ten with its example needs to give me a clear example of the extent to which I need to annul myself towards the ten. They need to show me how much I need to annul myself, examples; that is what each one of us gives besides prayers. To pray for the friend and to give him such an example, which will not repulse them but rather bring him closer to the deed that is demanded of him.
49. S. (01:51:01) How does the Creator manage the world in the quality of “the good that does good”?
R. With love.
50. S. (01:51:18) I need to Justify only what occurs in the ten or everything that is in my life?
R. Actually everything that happens in my life, and all together in what I feel the Creator rules over all my senses and all my desires. Meaning altogether what I feel in my desires is after it goes through the General State called The Creator.
51. S. (01:51:52) How do we come to the correct annulment? What are the stages?
R. To reach the correct annulment is first of all with the friends, afterwards the entire group, and with the group in its entirety towards the Creator; and accordingly we prepare ourselves to be a spiritual embryo.