Morning Lesson October 14, 2023
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Fighting the evil inclination - Selected Excerpts from the sources. #2
1. Rav’s Introduction (0:18) Yes, that's probably our main thing in our work, without that we have nothing. If we focus only with our ego, our evil inclination which disturbs us from being connected and between us to the Creator that's the main thing. For that we exist, we exist on this planet, we exist in this world, in general, exist in order to raise the evil inclination which is opposite of the Creator to change him and to bring him closer, to cling him to the Creator to such an extent that we will come to the complete adhesion. That's actually what we need to do. That’s our work, that's our path and following us are all of the people of the world who need to reach that same form of connection with the Creator, so go ahead.
Reading Excerpt #2 (02:00) “During the work a person should say if I...” twice.
2. S. (05:00) When for the first time do we attain that the Creator made all the ups and downs?
R. How can you do it the first time?
S. When for the first time, when does it happen for the first time?
R. In the beginning when we enter the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah we don't understand where it comes from, it’s from us, it’s in our head, it comes, it just circulates in our mind and other than our sensation and our feelings and our environment, that's what influences us but afterwards when we learn that There Is None Else Besides Him and we try to be connected to that and we constantly remind ourselves that it all comes only from the upper Force alone, then we already get used to it and the habit becomes the second nature and we begin to feel that we are connected to the Creator and that He governs us and not us, and our work is to gradually begin to understand, to digest that by a reducer, by relating everything to Him and by that we enter contact with the Creator. Of course it takes a lot of time and we experience all kinds of states of connection, separation, remoteness and proximity but this is what needs to be done, this is what happens. The Creator is working on us here, He is shaking us, meaning bringing us closer to Him and pushing us away from Him and by that we begin to feel our emotions in our existence in relation to Him.
S. What action should we do in order to accelerate that feeling that the Creator makes all the ups and downs?
R. Only connection to the ten, only in that direction we can increase our sensitivity to the actions of the Creator upon us to the extent we come closer to one another, to the extent we want to locate that all of our sensation depends only on coming closer between us. If we're talking about the spiritual, the spiritual sensation in fact depends entirely on the extent that we are connected and on the extent that we are adhered, is that clear? In other words it's like two parallel lines that we have here in contact with the Creator, it's one line that's built of connection with the friends and in contact with the environment around that's a line that's built on our sensitivity to what is just happening to us and that is if you prefer one upon another and you prefer one closer to another and everything that happens, we are connected and that we are dependent only on the connection between us. If we are in the group that wants to locate the Creator, reveal Him, enter contact through this line with Him, so to the extent we are connected among each other we are connected to the Creator and are able through the connection between us to convey to Him our own messages and also in that same pipeline we will hear all kinds of messages from Him.
3. S. (10:20) Rabash writes when they are redeemed they attain the Lord as a host, the question is what kind of redemption he writes about here and what is our role in this redemption?
R. They discovered that behind all these actions is the Creator and that He pressures them and brings them closer to one another, that He did, does and will do all actions, it was only Him behind everything that is taking place and they need to agree to it and to want to reveal it. That is actually what is revealed to the friends that try and be in contact between them and by that he should never one of them needs to feel on what desires, qualities he needs to work with them to raise above them in order to be connected with the others that at least his ten will be as a single body and by that we will come closer to a state that we will build a vessel for connection with the Creator. All the five senses or ten senses which are ten Sefirot which will all be connected between us and the Creator.
4. S. (12:55) How can I expose the evil inclination within me so that I can reach a demand to rise above it?
R. Again.
S. How can I expose the evil inclination within me so that I can reach a real demand to rise above it?
R. We need actually not to care for the evil inclination, it will grow, the Creator treats through it, we need to care only in order to connect, to come closer to each and every friend in such a way that we come closer we will feel to what extent of connection between us is also the evil inclination and the Creator and to what extent the both of them are fighting each other and we then discover a connection between them. It's like between a plus and minus, like in electricity, when we connect the same force through our mechanism then we begin to understand what He's doing to us that both the minus and the plus, both the evil inclination and the good inclination they come from the Creator and we mustn't forget that and only in such a way we can reach the correct connection between the two and to raise from the both of them an eternal system.
5. S. (15:19) It's already clear that the most important thing in our method is to connect between us, to reach the degree of the others, of the friends and from that we reach the Creator, what is the form of connection in the ten, what testifies that indeed we are reaching that? In the ten you can take two or three friends, so what are we still lacking in our connection?
R. We are in the mind but not really clear in the heart; that's the problem.
S. How can we do it in the emotion?
R. You have to bring the hearts closer between the friends, we try to be together with them in one heart and then everything will succeed.
S. It turns out that the method says that every friend holds on to None Else Besides Him and he justifies the Creator, then we only ask the Creator for connection, for love but at the moment there's some deficiency revealed in the friend that he cannot justify the Creator and we truly have something to turn to the Creator with, is this how our work is done and this is how we can make it stronger?
R. Yes, yes, and the Creator will make it so that there will always be a reason for it, to reach out to Him and to ask Him.
S. Meaning we shouldn't hide our deficiencies but serve our deficiencies to the ten?
R. [no translation]
S. So each one of us should work on his deficiency in order to be connected to the ten? What if this friend is not capable of justifying the Creator because he can fall from that?
R. You have to bring him closer to the friends, you ask to bring every friend closer and it will turn out that in a way everyone will have strength to ask the Creator to connect, try and you'll see. I'm willing to answer.
6. S. (17:58) What does it mean to raise the evil inclination to the Creator, to change it and bring it to the Creator in our work?
R. Again?
S. What does it mean in our work to raise the evil inclination to the Creator, change it and in this way to always bring it closer to the Creator, the evil inclination?
R. We need to identify the evil inclination, that it separates us from the Creator, to locate it correctly as much as possible and to ask of the Creator to correct him, to turn the evil inclination to the force of connection, unity, adhesion.
S. Meaning from all of our efforts towards connection we discover all the hindrances to connection between us, this is the evil inclination to which we ask the Creator for help, that we can rise above all of these hindrances?
R. Yes, the evil inclination eventually becomes the good inclination.
7. S. (19:19) He opens up and he writes during the work, what is this defined time when we can say now we are in the work?
R. If we make sure that everyone will be connected on a single plate, in a single Kli and that this Kli, this plate is like a flying saucer that is coming closer to the Creator, traveling to Him and it's motor is the connection between us; to the extent we connect ourselves to one another in spite of all the disturbances, obstacles, differences, to that extent we come closer to the Creator until we reach Him.
8. S. (20:29) In the preparation for the lesson, we engaged in the topic of asking questions. That was the topic of the preparation for the lesson. My question is when a friend asks a question, even if the whole ten did not put this question together should we relate to it as the question of the ten?
R. Yes.
S. How should the ten work with the answer?
R. To try and work together.
S. Try to understand together the answer that Rav gave?
R. Yes, of course, also the Rav’s question and also the friend’s question. If we want to be “as one man in one heart” this is how we need to treat one another and all of us to the Rav.
S. During the lesson friends ask questions but if a friend from the ten asks a question you said that it’s not his question, meaning it’s a question by the ten. After the lesson, during the day should we scrutinize Rav’s answer because it relates both to the ten and the whole world Kli?
R. You can do that, too.
9. S. (21:55) You said that between the Creator and the evil inclination we build an eternal system if I understand you correctly. What is this eternal system between the Creator and the evil inclination?
R. The eternal system is when we form a certain scheme of egoism to altruism, love to hatred. An eternal system is that when between us there is no lack of understanding, no misunderstandings, or lack of compatibility. That everything there is in each and everyone spills out to everyone and presents a mutual system, because the mutual system that we build in our world we connect to many things that then work simultaneously, simultaneously if the system is eternal.
10. S. (23:40) Connection must be mutual?
R. Connection has to be mutual, otherwise it's not connection. Meaning what comes out of one goes to the other and what comes from the second goes back to the first.
11. S. (24:12) Each one of us has his point in the heart and there is yearning in it and longing. How do we connect these things and keep them pure, clean, this yearning, this prayer between us so that with everything that comes up will have a common place, a place which is ours?
R. We try and connect all of the deficiencies and all of the good results of the friends in a way that we want to give them the possibility to flow through us and that we will all be connected as a single system. If you take each and every system, a technical system like in technology, you'll see that each and every part of it cannot do its actions: in the radio transmitter, in a television, whatever you want. We need to do actions which work on friendship, on togetherness, that each one does their own in order to support the other. The words ‘in order’ here are the most important because they aim all the work of each and every part or the entire group where every person works in order to support the others and he doesn't think of himself. Then the system works. That’s how our body is built and that is how we are gradually coming to discover that it needs to be in our society; also in the ten but also in all of humanity. That we have no possibility to escape any commitment but only if each one cares for the general goal.
S. If I may ask, how do we keep that point so that it won't become dirty between us?
R. I don't understand.
S. The point in the heart between us is actually the factor that moves us, that we have the yearning and the longing and we want to direct it toward the goal. What you said now, this is actually the engine. How do we keep this engine clean in terms of the point in the heart with all the different states so that it doesn't become dirty or if it does become dirty then the least as possible?
R. On the condition that you want to work with your heart only in order to bestow upon the friends, to the others. That's actually the entire condition.
12. S. (27:44) I have a question from a friend. Why is it that when we are between the Klipa, shell and the Kedusha, holiness, a person cannot simply look at the war between them from the side and learn about their qualities but rather he has to take part, he has to take a side?
R. There's no such state that a person will be in between, only the greatest egoist can depict something like that and want something like that. A person needs to understand he is certainly either in the Klipa, in the shell or in the sanctity, Kedusha; either in the will to receive for himself or in the will to bestow on others.
S. What does it mean to take part correctly in the war between the good and the bad?
R. You try and make of yourself a beneficial element to the general desire, how through it the positive desire to the others will go through.
13. S. (29:10) You said that we have to detect, to identify the evil inclination which is pushing us apart. Is it enough that every moment when we don't feel as one body it is considered that we have detected the evil inclination or do we have to reach the feeling of rejection and distancing and only then it is considered that that we've actually identified it?
R. Again.
S. Is it enough that every moment when we don't feel connection as one body it is considered that we have detected the evil inclination or do we have to reach the feeling of rejection and distancing and only then it is considered that we have detected the evil inclination?
R. If we receive rejection or distancing that means we already located Him and we need to work in order to try and invert. It’s written we shall invert the forces of rejection to the forces of connection.
S. What is our difference in our appeal to the Creator from a feeling of sorrow, that we’re not in a feeling of one body and turning to the Creator from a feeling of rejection and distancing?
R. The difference is to the extent we yearn to the Creator something that’s opposite of Him.
S. So turning to the Creator out of the sorrow that we're not in one body is an appeal which is on a higher level than turning to the Creator out of rejection and distancing?
R. Yes.
S. How do we get closer to it? Can we skip over that first stage?
R. You can't skip over anything, we just need to try and constantly get closer between us.
S. Why doesn't it bother us that we're not in the feeling of one body?
R. Because we never were in such a state, we don't have Reshimot from it but the opposite. We need to be brought to such a sensation, that we will lack what we don't have a lack for.
14. S. (32:00) It's not clear what is the difference or what is similar between feeling what is separating between us and the feeling of the common deficiency of the ten. What should we work with?
R. We’ll work with the deficiency of the ten.
S. How do we detect it? Let's say I know how to detect the deficiency of every friend but it's not clear what is the common deficiency of the ten. How do we reach the feeling of it?
R. The deficiency of the ten is to be together as one man in one heart, We need to try to yearn for that artificially, that we will make efforts and raise MAN and the Creator already helps us connect more and more and feel how we have not yet come to be “as one man in one heart.”
S. Are there any characteristics, maybe like milestones on the way to this feeling of being “as one man with one heart?”
R. I don't think we can talk about this because no one yet has these discernments and that is why we now will not be able to locate these things. It's like you never drove in a car and they're telling you what you will be able to discover along the way.
S. So what are the stages that we can and should have in order to reach it?
R. Try and come closer from the conditions we have in us, that you will feel that you are entering in one car.
15. S. (34:48) This state that we’re building can hold a maximum number of opposite states at the same time, simultaneously?
R. Let's say so.
S. So the state of the concept of correction, it creates this state in reflected light, this opposite state or do they disappear or do they join into something whole?
R. Correct means connect.
S. But the opposite states still remain on different degrees?
R. If they disappear from our sensation then they disappear.
16. S. (35:40) We need to reach a state where we have to reject the evil inclination and hate it. How is it possible to do such a thing? We ourselves, this is us, do we reject ourselves?
R. I didn't understand the question.
S. If we have to reject the evil inclination but we are the evil inclination we seemingly need to reject ourselves?
R. No, we need to reject from ourselves the evil inclination in order to connect more and more between us with the good inclination. If we're not capable then we're activating the prayer to the Creator that will help us pray for the good inclination.
17. S. (37:02) The state of “one man in one heart,” is what's called redemption?
R. Yes, it's not just redemption, it's called the final correction.
18. S. (37:25) You said once that we were made of heavy, lazy matter. I truly feel that, and my question is how to ask correctly that the friends will pressure me or should I ask the Creator that He should correct it?
R. Talk about it among each other that each one of you becomes everyday more and more egoistic and that's why you need friendship for support, help, so the friends will push you. This is done purposely by the Creator so that you will need the connection between each other in order for you to be able to advance this way.
S. This means we should talk about it and together to raise MAN?
R. Correct.
19. S. (38:32) To continue the friend's question, you said that we have to support each other. How exactly should we support the friends in the ten, what should we focus on?
R. To support what you feel you want you should do that to others. You need to support the friends.
20. S. (39:09) We heard now in the Rav’s words three concepts: one is us, the other is the good inclination and the third one is the evil inclination. Can you explain these concepts? Who is us, we, where is the good inclination and where is the evil inclination?
R. Both the evil inclination and good inclination are in a man's heart, there is no other place that can be located where they are. That's all I can do.
S. Who is this us, we who detect or try to detect the good inclination and the evil inclination?
R. That's us working with the good inclination and bad inclination. What we find more and more with respect to ourselves, towards our consciousness, to these two inclinations are that they are opposite, hate one another, why they are in us and for what goal they are intended.
S. So we're not the good inclination, we're not the evil inclination, who are we in this scrutiny?
R. We are between the two of them, between the good inclination and the evil inclination.
S. Where does the Creator come in here? Where is He in this equation?
R. The Creator is above and we are right in the middle between the evil inclination and the good inclination. It is written, the good and evil inclination hold onto a person and each one says it is all mine and they’re in conflict.
S. If we try to add the ten also to this equation then we have the Creator, the ten, ourselves, the good inclination, the evil inclination. How does it work out, where in between the good inclination and the evil inclination the Creator is above? Where is the ten?
R. The ten is within all of this scrutiny and to the extent we help one another to scrutinize more and more the network of connection between us, to such an extent we all feel that we’re in this network and we all depend on each other.
S. This means that our efforts towards connection in the ten expose the good inclination and the evil inclination or first the evil inclination and then through the request to the Creator the good inclination and so on. This is the field of work?
R. Yes and usually they come to us in balance. He who is greater than his friend, his inclination is also greater. That to the extent there is the minus, there's also the plus, and then we’re always in between the two only to scrutinize them in higher and higher degrees.
21. S. (42:49) To continue the topic, in the ten we’re different, one wants to be pressured and pushed because he understands that’s the only way for him to move; someone else is the opposite, he says about pressure, he says there is no coercion in spirituality, how is it correct in the ten to realize this pressure, maybe to focus on those that want the pressure, what’s the correct equation?
R. We shouldn't be afraid of pressure. We only need to behave correctly in the ten, be as clear and precise as possible, and then all the problems will be solved. The problems are resolved actually by the Creator, Himself, not by us, we must only relate correctly to where we are.
S. What does it mean to relate to it correctly?
R. To relate correctly means everything that was done was done by the Creator and we must ask of Him that He will correct the lack of balance between us which defines all of our negative actions.
22. S. (44:55) A few minutes ago, a friend asked if we could be in between, you said, “no, you have to be either in bestowal or in reception,” and a few moments ago, you did answer a friend that there is an intermediate state, so I am confused?
R. I already forgot about all of that, I can't answer, it will work out, don't worry.
S. So there are all kinds of states, there is a deterministic state and sometimes we depend where we're hanging and we don't know where exactly and we need to navigate?
R. Sir, I am not in what you're in, I cannot help you.
23. S. (45:46) Also a question about mutual bestowal and one towards the other: When the ego grows, there is physical influence, physical gatherings, so there's a feeling that they are more and more important. Is this a general matter and to what extent will it continue that the physical gatherings will be felt as life saving, until when will it continue that way?
R. It will continue until we will feel everyone in our heart, each and everyone in our heart, that we will feel everyone in one heart.
24. S. (46:45) What is the true descent in the ten and what does it mean that we have come out of such a descent?
R. The true descent in the ten is when the whole ten feels itself that it has no connection between them and to some extent with the upper Force, then it is truly a descent. And then what they need to do is, first of all, to speak about the connection between them because with the upper Force they don't have the foundation with which to connect between them they have to do, to do it and to be connected. And connecting more and more between them, they detect the quality with which they should reach the Creator, the Creator is expecting them to discover this quality and reach Him. Like, let's say, we come to some meeting, so we have in our hand some questions, some issue, why is it that we come there etc., this is how we should detect in us, between us in the ten such a state.
25. S. (49:26) How can we overcome the hatred that is revealed due to the war, it seems like we’re in battles that are losing against hatred, how can we overcome and hold on to one another, together?
R. We must specifically see the ability to be connected between us and hold on to each other, that this is our work. I don't look at myself but rather I look at the friends and how much I can hold them in the state of spiritual life, of a spiritual attack.
26. S. (50:32) The consistency and habit are important but it also seems that the intention is the most important thing, so how can we work on this principle that is so important, on the intention?
R. This is something you should scrutinize between you in the group.
27. S. (51:10) What are the messages we should get from the Creator, from the connection between us?
R. You have to get a gradual feeling of coming closer to the Creator.
S. And through that feeling?
R. Through that feeling you will see what happens next.
28. S. (51:40) What is the evil inclination, if I correctly understood it's my entire substance, what prevents me from coming out of myself, feeling the ten, feeling the friends?
R. That’s right?
S. So in other words, every time there is additional coarseness, some kind of heaviness in the connection between us, that means that our evil inclination has been increased?
R. Yes.
29. S. (52:08) Do we need to reach a state that Rabash describes as “we’ll be ashamed of our petty actions towards the friends”?
R. Yes, of course!
S. And as we’re rewarded with that?
R. That you should not, for that, but for the opposite things, and this will be revealed to you as a consequence that emerges without your desire.
30. S. (52:52) How to advance in the connection of the ten when we know that there is the equivalence of form for each and every one of the friends in the ten has there time and their own perception of reality, how to come closer in the connection in the ten if each one has his time and his perception of reality?
R. As much as you connect between you, you will have the greater feeling of the connection and you will be able to scrutinize better the essence of the correction.
31. S. (54:18) How to correctly treat these pressures we feel to advance, to connect, the pressures that we feel now?
R. That all these pressures come in order for us to connect even more strongly between us in order to discover ourselves “as one man in one heart.”
S. How to relate to this positively so it'll actually be beneficial and not, you know, to lose it?
R. In this way they are beneficial, if we truly detect that we are “as one man in one heart,” in a single system and we want to support each other then we have nothing else to do, all the rest the Creator does it.
32. S. (55:33) What is “one helps his friend,” is it the example we give each other in the mutual support, is that the help for all these all these incidents we feel inside?
R. Yes, exactly!
33. S. (55:51) In our work the evil inclination is the growth of the inner inclination but the good inclination, is that the connection in the ten, is that the correction for the evil inclination, connection of the friends, between us?
R. Yes.
34. S. (56:24) In relation to dissemination, may we ask?
R. Go ahead and ask but be clear.
S. How is the state in Israel today, how does it open up new opportunities for dissemination?
R. When we can explain more and more now, to ourselves and to the whole world, that all of the solutions are in connection and not by fighting on all the different levels. And so we have brought ourselves to the state as it happened to us because we had great quarrels, conflicts, with each other, and we did not agree to be in some form of connection between us. This is why we have no choice but to reach a state of connection.
35. S. (57:52) If we are responsible for what’s happening, if we are responsible and cause the growth of the evil inclination, how can we cause the growth of the good inclination?
R. With the same work, it is all with respect to the person, the good inclination and the bad inclination; we will continue and it will become more clear to us.
Reading Excerpt #3 twice (58:58 - 01:00:05)
Reading Excerpt #4 twice (01:00:16 - 1:01:51)
36. S. (01:01:56) We need help of the friend in order to fight my will to receive?
R. Are you saying it or asking?
S. I'm asking if it's correct to think that way?
R. Yes, wait a minute, tell me where do you take those forces to fight the will to receive?
S. By coming closer to the friends, from getting a deficiency from them.
R. Where do the friends have this force to fight with your will to receive?
S. We've been seeing recently that it is through many examples, friends are showing that we have mutual desire in that direction?
R. Meaning, out of your envy towards the friends?
S. Envy and demand that we are building together.
R. Well, well, yes?
S. I wanted to know how to help the friend pull out himself, out of this will to receive that’s inside, how can I help him help me?
R. Through the example on your side, how else can you do it?
S. Only by him showing me an example and by me showing him an example, by that are we doing it or are there more means?
R. There are no other means because no one can enter into the other and help him. What, are you the upper Light that can enter the desire and change it?
S. I see that I need to open myself up toward the friend that he’ll also help me. If I am closed then even if he wants to, he can't.
R. That, too, is true, so what do we do?
S. How do we open up to each other, the friends, so that they will always be able to come and to help each other cleanse their desire?
R. Can each one help the other in this way?
S. That's the question I'm asking: How can this all be done so that each one will feel confident opening himself up toward each friend so that he and the friend will fight against his will to receive?
R. Through an example, when each one shows an example to the other of how he is fighting with his own will to receive.
37. S. (01:05:32) Is the war the thought that I'm responsible to these states in comparison to the Creator governing them?
R. I’m not clear what you're asking?
S. If the evil inclination, is it me thinking that I'm responsible for these states, that I am doing them?
R. You are responsible!
38. S. (01:06:12) Due to the external circumstances we received, it’s really felt how the inner state and adhering to the friends in the ten, how to continue and truly use this to work correctly and to not just cover all kinds of emotions that awaken in the will to receive?
R. I didn't understand, please repeat the question?
S. We now have a state that due to it we can truly feel the adhesion and the need for the friends.
R. Thanks to what?
S. Due to the external situation, what's happening now in Israel.
R. Yes?
S. How can we now work correctly in the ten in that state in the connection that we formed between us, how do we use the correction correctly and not just to cover up an inconvenient feeling or fear in the will to receive?
R. This depends on your intention, maybe the actions are external and are equal in many cases, but intentions are different and so you want to be more connected, closer to each other and with the intention that all of this will influence all of Bnei Baruch, first of all. And later on, all the people of Israel and later on the whole world, such that everyone, everyone will come closer to being closer to each other, more dependent on each other.
S. This state of adhesion that there’s adhering between the friends, is it something you can maintain or does it have to have this disconnect?
R. Yes.
S. So then how do we maintain it in a constant state and not detach from it?
R. We need to keep it, we need to be sensitive to all the changes that occur in us each and every second, and upon all of these changes to build more and more connection and to try to feel every moment that this connection is changing, it changes.
39. S. (01:09:21) For our mutual connection in one heart, is our relationship to nature important, how do we relate to all of it, how do we use resources in the world?
R. No, of course it's important but it's not that it’s fatal.
S. So it's important now, our connection, our relationship?
R. That's the most important, this is the center of the problem and the center of the success.
40. S. (01:10:35) There is a state that a person feels that he’s weak and without the ten he can not do anything; in the state where he sees that the friend is weak and without each one's help he can’t do anything. But here in the excerpt, he’s talking about a state that each one forgets that he has a body, that you need to maintain it but they're both connected in one opinion, how to beat his enemies, what's this state of togetherness?
R. ‘Together’ means that you are already connected, now you have to operate together against your common enemy.
S. That we need to feel that the hatred is also mutual, it's not the one that’s separate from the other?
R. Of course, of course.
S. What comes first, the mutual hater, or the togetherness against mutual hater?
R. Together against the mutual enemy they are willing to connect and then what will come out of it is that they both connect.
S. So the mutual sorrow, it creates unity, or is the unity by feeling that the sorrow is mutual?
R. For this, I think you need to have a conversation between you, a workshop for a few minutes.
WSQ (01:12:33): The question is: Do we first discover that we have a common enemy and then unite in order to fight it,
or do we want to unite each one from their own personal sorrow and then we discover that the enemy is common?
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