Morning Lesson October 19, 2021, Transcription
Part 1:
Baal HaSulam 26 - One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past
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1. Rav’s Introduction: One’s future depends on and is tied to gratitude for the past. This means that we can't make even a step forward correctly if we are not correctly tied to our past. How do I need to research the past, understand the past, connect to the past in some way. Actually, I thought before that I am disconnecting from the past and going forward. This is what helps me advance and also helped me advance, but here it seems to be the opposite. Baal HaSulam says, through Rabash, to me that my future depends on and is tied to my past. Well, tied to it, I guess there is no choice, but depends on it. That seems to be saying that it is up to the person to the extent that I relate my future to my past. What is it that I need to do with the past, how to connect with it, what kind of connection do I hold with it in order to connect to the right future. We will have to see. But when you just look at this sentence as many statements of Kabbalists, it doesn't look so simple anymore, we have to put our mind and our heart into it, our emotion, understanding, experience. What exactly it depends on, our future, how does it depend on the past? The fact that there is a connection that’s natural, that can be because it is a single system that is operating. But if we are talking about what depends on the person, how does the person tie the past to the future? Perhaps there is no connection and we need to make the connection through ourselves. We’ll see.
Shamati 26 (03:10) ‘’It is written, “The Lord is high and the low will see,” ...’’
2. R. (06:56) Meaning, if a person feels how lowly and ordinary, and has nothing special about him. Actually, to the extent that he can see himself as not exceptional, not the smartest or most successful, when does this happen? As much as he advances in coming out of his ego, when he already wants to come out, be above it, and he sees that he can't. He is entirely in his thoughts and desires, immersed in his ego, and just can't come out of it even not a little bit. From here, he begins to recognize how low he is and with that, correspondingly, he can depict to himself what is the lowliness of the ego. As a result, he receives the ability to get to know the Creator somewhat. It is true that the Creator is high, but the low we'll see. The lowliness is not our lowness, it is the lowness of the will to receive that now governs in us, we have to make the distinction here. So, if we make ourselves neutral in that I don't belong to in order to receive or in order to bestow, I want to feel myself as it says, ‘’between heaven and earth.’’ Then to the extent that I feel the lowliness in the will to receive, I have the ability to recognize the greatness of the will to bestow. That is why it says, ‘’the Lord is high and the low will see,’’ that the lowlier I am, the more I can see the greatness of the Creator. There are many exercises for this, that the Creator does to us and that we do to ourselves in order to lead ourselves to a point where only out of lowness. If I can discover the Creator, then there are many opportunities for that, to see what the lowness is about. I have to feel myself as hanging between heaven and earth, between the will to receive and the will to bestow. Each time, specifically from the will to receive that I am immersed in, I want to try and appreciate within me the will to bestow, love, bestowal, and thus rise and summon the forces from above that will pull me out of this desire to receive that I am in. To the extent of the lowness that I find in myself, as much as I am immersed in the will to receive, I also get to know the greatness of the Creator, how high is the will to bestow. So, from the distance between the two, I rise from the deep pit to the high mountain.
3. S. (11:41) In this article, Baal HaSulam says we are not capable of appreciating the importance, that we can sometimes observe Mitzvot (commandments) of the Creator without any intention?
R. Sorry, I want to add. Without intention that doesn't mean without any intention at all. It means without any right intention, even in a state of Lo Lishma, not for Her sake, a state that is not truly in order to bestow. If we still try to achieve connection, to make certain actions between us, that too is considered Mitzvah (commandment). Even though a Mitzvah, in truth, is an action in order to bestow. Even if we have not detached from in order to receive yet, the ego is still alive within us, but we try like children playing a game, we learn from it how to rise to in order to bestow.
S. The question is really around that. How to learn to appreciate the Creator that shows you out of billions of people, between the environment of those who yearn for the Creator?
R. This is by the friends around you talking about it and you add to them, and you all see how selected you are from all of humanity. Thus, we should also look at all the friends this way, that each one was picked out of millions, picked out of hundreds of millions of people who weren't given this opportunity. Each of us is like a representative of those hundreds of millions of people, and that is how we should relate to each friend. The people who emerge from the general body of humanity that still exists only in the will to receive without any contact whatsoever with the inclination to bestow, we have to appreciate these friends and relate to them this way. That I am part of them as well, and we should feel concern and responsibility for the whole of humanity, on the one hand. On the other hand, to connect between us as much as possible so that we are always connected to the Creator in an increasingly stronger connection and thus, we can then turn to the people of the world as well and they will feel that there is some force within us. They can’t sense the reality of the Creator Himself, that is a different level, they are AHP. But we, as being GE, we are also comprised of the vessels that can connect with the Creator and those that connect to AHP, to the nations of the world, to all of humanity. So that puts us in the passageway between the Creator and the created beings. We should think about it, we should make us responsible, obligate us to do our role. Even though we too come from the same levels of all of humanity, of the world, we also have to reach states where we are connected to the Creator and become that conduit. Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article The Arvut, The Freedom, he writes about it a lot and we should be visiting these articles.
4. S. (16:31) How can we appreciate the greatness of something that we cannot see or hear, and can’t grasp in our senses?
R. We can perceive in our senses, and see it, and incorporate with the higher levels with the presence of the Creator, on the condition that I trust that the Creator resides in the friends. To the extent that I annul myself towards the friends, and I want to connect with them, and even though I feel myself being in some locked state, being under such a thick skin that prevents me from feeling them. But, specifically through this skin, when I want to penetrate through it and sense them, that is the effort that we need to make in the ten. According to how we get closer through that, we also pray to the Creator and He helps us and advances us towards each other. So that in order to be always balanced in our work, the more He brings us closer on the right line, He also raises more disturbances between us from the left side. That is how we walk forward, left and right, left and right. The right comes from our inclination towards the friends and the Creator. The left comes as a revelation from above. The Creator each time reveals to us another layer, and another layer of the ego that separates us, and comes between us. And again, we go against it not to cancel it, but go above it, to work with it correctly. That’s how we walk correctly on two legs. That’s how we advance.
5. S. (19:28) How can you do the Mitzvot (commandments) before you're in spirituality? How is that possible?
R. As much as possible, as if you do it.
6. S. (19:47) In the second paragraph, something is not so clear to me. On one hand, he says, ‘’ Therefore, if he knows his lowness, that he doesn’t stand out like the rest of people, his contemporaries, he lacks nothing.” So, he is special towards the Creator?
R. Yes, but based on what? What makes him this way?
S. That’s what I don't exactly understand. How such a thing can happen, one thing and it's opposite?
R. No, no. It is not one thing and its opposite that is happening. That he is basically unworthy, he is not the son of a king, he is not rich, he is not smart, he’s got nothing that he could say that he has over the others. Why did the Creator choose him, he does not know that. The Creator’s choice is only according to the point in the heart that exists in the person, a preparation that comes from the system of Adam HaRishon making that person in need of advancing, and others will advance after him. All of that is rooted in the system, and for that he needs to be responsible for being given this opportunity, this possibility. He represents perhaps hundreds and hundreds of millions of people in this world that he is going to have to pass on to them, they are tied to him. The more he advances, they will receive the contact to the Creator through him. We, as we advance towards the Creator, will begin to discover the Kabbalists who already made their path forward. They’re making the connection between us and the Creator.
7. S. (22:09) What do we do in the case of making the work become an accustomed thing, a habit?
R. That is like we read before, that the habit ruins everything, it dissolves the flavor, we stop feeling flavor. We have to be equipped with a lack. It is not like how, each and every day, we want to eat and we discover flavors in what we eat. That is just nature, if we wouldn't have that we would die. There is a system that is responsible for awakening that sensation of lack in our body. That is why the created beings are attracted to food, by which they sustain themselves, and that is how they also somewhat correct the will to receive in doing so. But in spirituality, we have to take care of that lack. Meaning, that we will have high spirits and the ability to influence others, and to absorb the lack from others, from the general vessel of all of Adam HaRishon. That is what we should think about, how to equip ourselves, each and every time, with the right lack. When we wake up in the morning, we have to see to what extent I want something or I don't want anything. Thus, we will navigate ourselves to the right lack. There is no other work for us besides having the right lack. If we have the right lack, we will certainly do what is needed. The correct lack is what we need, and that’s what we should pray for.
8. S. (24:57) On one hand, we are talking about needing to be lowly towards the Creator and on the other hand, we need to thank for the past. How does my gratitude for the past have to do with me feeling low?
R. First of all, when I look backwards, I see that I went through some path, that I have connected with the godly wisdom that explains to me how the world goes round, not in a corporeal fashion. Meaning, how the planets and the cosmos move around and not the human psychology in this world. We are talking about the hidden forces of nature that operate through all of the universe, still, vegetative, animate and speaking, in order to bring them through all their desires, regardless of their external manifestations, that we discover through our eyes or other devices that are built for it. Rather, we are observing the desire that exists in each entity. These desires are what we need to attract, all of them, into a single desire. This is called Adam that includes both the still, vegetative, animate, and human, corporeal, spiritual, all the four levels of the will to receive so they’re all connected and directed towards the form of bestowal. Even though, to begin with, they are all in a complete shattering, meaning in an intention to receive. We are in these scrutinies and we have to see where our role is. We should see ourselves as being at the peak of all of these desires of the still, vegetative, animate and speaking. Even at the peak of the speaking degree where there, above everyone else. If we make the connection between us and the Creator, then through us, as in a pyramid, we connect all of the other levels of reality to the Creator and that brings the world to a complete correction. Feeling that and understanding that, and somewhat doing that is our job. We should be proud that we have this role and even a little bit that we are trying to do this every day. In that, we fulfill the will of the Creator.
S. Those parts are connected automatically in our work or does it need to be a special effort?
R. We have to try to connect to all of humanity, at least somewhat, so they know about the purpose and that they attain the purpose through us, and that together we have to rise to the level of the upper force. That’s on one hand. On the other hand, we will anyway discover and attain it, and they will too, but that can happen through a path of suffering. The more we open this explanation to them about the purpose and the path to it, we attract them to the path of light, to the path of correction, the upper light. Otherwise, we will advance by a path of suffering as we already are. As we know, only the suffering pushes humanity to make changes.
S. In other articles, we learned that spiritual advancement is if every day we add. If we don't add every day, we don't move forward. So here, he talks about the fact that you have to rejoice for every opportunity to work, even for ourselves, even if it's only for oneself and somehow doing a Mitzvah (commandment)?
R. This is completely, totally, one thing that supports the other. We have to try to do everything we can to move toward the goal, even on a corporeal level, in whatever states we are enabled to do. That’s it, there is no clash here.
S. (31:03) Is it a kind of break or something?
R. No, no, no. It totally does not cancel each other out, no. We need to be drawn towards the final correction, I need to attract all of those that are behind me all the way to the very last levels of humanity, and the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate, will also join through the collective influence that we humans will awaken in the system. There is no problem with that, no. Think about it some more and you will see that’s how it works.
9. S. (31:47) About having the confidence where you can say that you are destined to do with me is this connected to having our foundation to be able to go in faith above reason?
R. We have the bases to go in faith above reason according to this ability of going with faith above reason we became connected to our system of Bnei Baruch, if we didn't have this foundation meaning that point that is connected to the general point in the heart to the heart of the system then we would not be here. The fact that there is in each and every one here a part of the central system of Adam, meaning that we need to be those who are drawn to and realize the connection of the system. After us others will join, others who feel that yes, it is worthwhile but they can't make that investment of time and strength and that is how it works, those who are here are not here because they made the decision for themselves but rather a desire awakens in these people and then they are drawn to the revelation of godliness and that is us.
S. With regards to ourselves what he describes in this last paragraph is a kind of ascent, like we feel the gratitude and elation, should this be helpful for us to magnify his confidence when we are in the ascent?
R. Of course we need to be thankful for having this deficiency of wanting to get to know the essence of the world, the essence of life and the goal of reality, where is it going and what it needs to achieve. We should be grateful more, gradually recognizing more what is the true reality and how we come to this reality, how we discover it, this reality. I can't really find the right words for this now, that we will not just see reality the way everyone else looks at reality in terms of this planet and the other planet. We will see reality in the true form, meaning that this screen will be removed from us and we will see the system in the true form, a system of forces where we are all connected around that Central Point and we are That central point because we are on the speaking level and that still vegetative and animal of the whole reality exists around us in order to join us and complete the whole picture see, we will discover this.
10. S. (36:24) Why is our spiritual development dependent on the importance we receive from the past?
R. The more we understand what we are going through and the more we are aware of what we went through, the more we understand where the Creator took us from. As a result of that, not in our mind but emotionally, through the right attitude to Him and being grateful for the past, we begin to prepare the Kli to receive the future. It gives us a more and more correct attitude to the Creator.
S. Is this called the awakening from above?
R. No, we have to try to do it ourselves. I don't relate the awakening from above to myself at all; only to the awakening from below, when can I turn to the Creator and awaken Him. I should be asking myself together with the group what exactly do I awaken and ask of Him.
11. S. (38:32) What is it to be the servant of the creator practically?
R. It's all according to the desire, as I am in the will to receive. To be the servant of the Creator means that to some extent I perform all kinds of actions that the Creator wants in my will to receive, meaning actions of bestowal and love as much as I possibly can. This is called being the servant of the Creator.
12. S. (39:44) Can we say that gratitude is the cause for joy in the spiritual path and this is the main criteria on our path?
R. Yes. Only according to the extent of joyfulness that we have as we come in contact with the upper system, only according to that can we come closer to adhesion with the Creator. We should understand that it is impossible to approach the Creator if not from good, positive, high spirits. He bestows all the goodness to us and we have to approach Him in the same way. Typically, the reason a person erupts and cries is because he discovers his lack of the force of bestowal, that he cannot bestow, and the Creator hears that. If a person erupts about what is happening to him in life, not that he wants to achieve bestowal, but that he can't and doesn't want to bestow, the Creator deliberately orchestrates the rest of his life to bring the person to the shattering of his heart and to make him turn to the Creator again. If we are crying about how the Creator addresses us, it indicates we don't understand what He wants from us at all. We don't feel what it is the Creator wants to tell us, we don't understand Him, and we don't properly decipher His dialogue with us. We have no choice but to approach the relationship with the Creator through the group to answer Him and achieve success. It is impossible to properly hear, understand, and decipher what is happening to us with the Creator without incorporating in the group. We can begin to feel what He wants from us and what He is doing with us only by incorporating between us. We need to organize ourselves to be on the same wavelength so that we begin to answer and respond to Him so He will also listen. The connection in the group is necessary, we have no other chance.
13. S. (44:06) Is gratitude the effort we make or the result of the efforts?
R. The sensation of gratitude is the result of my effort of wanting to recognize the actions of the Creator towards me in order to delight, connect, and appreciate Him. All the way to love. It is therefore an effort on my behalf. We need to talk about this.
14. S. (44:34) If there is no time in space in spirituality what is the meaning of past and future?
R. It is relative to what happens to a person, what happened to me and what I want to take place from here on.
15. S. (45:00) Why does the Creator give this sense of deep gratitude and then the state of indifference? How to be grateful in every moment of life?
R. We need to be adhered to the Good That Does Good and None Else Besides Him in every one of our states in life no matter what. This is how we can grow and increase the extremes of our work, so things that will come to us will come to us for good.
16. S. (46:00) Can a person have a true concern for humanity before he achieves spiritual attainment?
R. Concern for humanity in a person?
S. Can a person truly care about humanity before spiritual attainment?
R. I think so because we are living in a system and the extent that we are dependent on another has already been disclosed to us. No one can disconnect himself from the whole world and say that he built himself a home and has some food storage place, a few cows and a few horses and I can disconnect myself from the whole world. There is no such thing. We discover more and more to the extent that our ego doesn't want to reveal this to us each day, but we also discover our great dependency. Such a great dependency that is going to be revealed more and more and we will see that we have no choice. If I don't think about the well-being of others, I can't assure anything for myself either. My future is dependent on me being between everyone. It is being revealed more and more that everyone needs to think about everyone in the integral world of today. It is a very harsh revelation for humanity but this specific revelation will change the face of humanity. Meaning this specific revelation, of the general system which closes us in more and more into closed place.
17. S. (48:28) What is the past and future in the ten? Are there any engagements with the past in the ten?
R. Yes, just like it is written. We live and we need to also talk about the past and what we have done so that we will have the forces and the direction to advance to the future that we want to build.
Article 27 (49:07) Baal HaSulam - What Is “The Lord Is High and the Low Will See”? - 1
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18. R. (53:09) A very short article, short quotes but there is a lot of content in every sentence and in every half of a sentence
19. S. (53:33) What is the difference between a servant of the Creator and the worker of the Creator?
R. Those are two degrees. The servant of the Creator is when he cancels himself completely, he certainly and willingly nullifies himself and he is willing to do all of the actions of the Creator. One who works for the Creator is one who does not feel that the Creator compels him to nullify, but he annuls himself by his own volition. It is a matter of choice of what and how much, what level he is annulled to the Creator and does His will. The difference between the servant and the worker of the creator is that the servant is a degree that is smaller than the Creator's worker, but on the other hand it is also greater than the worker depending on what levels we are talking about.
The servant of the Creator is annulment on behalf of the person’s ego. He is annulling his nature completely and then becomes the Creator’s servant of his own will. The one who works for the Creator works in three lines in the work with a mixture of his own feelings and intellect. There is involvement from the side of a person himself. A servant works in adhesion with his Lord. He wants, does, and executes everything he is capable of what the Lord, the Host, wants him to do. One who works for the Creator is constantly having to come to agreement with the Lord, the Host. He sees where it is worthwhile and how he can work above reason, but nevertheless always has a certain critique about the Host. There are many levels here.
Here it is even more special. We can reveal the Creator only to the extent which we lower ourselves relative to Him otherwise we do not see. We are now within the Creator, in the upper force, but we see everything that we have in this world: the friends, bad things, good things, the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. Where is the Creator? The Creator is concealed behind all of those, and we come to a state where we can reveal Him in our senses by revolving our senses. We can see the force that is operating behind all of the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, like turning an iris or a lens and instead of seeing the world that we see, it reveals Him when we turn the lens. It is clear that the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking that we reveal in our corporeal senses, and even later in our spiritual senses, the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking in the spiritual that we reveal, will be so that we can reveal None Else Besides Him and the Good That Does Good as the one upper force that operates behind all of this.
Therefore, this world is altogether a false concealment and we have the worlds. The world, Olam, comes from the word Haalama, from concealing the Creator. As much as we are capable of rising above this concealment, we begin to reveal the Creator behind all of that. All of these worlds become vessels and we ascribe these vessels to ourselves, and we annex them to us, and we discover the Creator in them until we fully reveal Him in his totality. All of our vessels become as one vessel and then through that we come to be as one man as one heart and the Creator fills us.
20. S. (01:00:02) It says here that precisely when people despise him, he thinks of himself as lowly, and that Kabbalists and Bnei Baruch will never be respected in society. Is this assistance from above that we have this kind of lowness?
R. You are certainly correct that the Kabbalists will never be respected or appreciated by the majority of humanity, but rather the connection will be only between people that will understand them and the importance of what they engage in. We are already in the last generation and therefore, here the conditions change somewhat. Humanity completely loses all of the direction in its development, not connecting itself to great philosophers, wise people, or scientists. It is no longer relying and dependent upon anything; they are simply following the primitive force of control. It reveals it in a very closed manner where they don't care about anyone in the world if they have power, the power of the fist, the power of finances in their pocket, and then they can do anything. Humanity understands and feels that it is a state of despair and doesn’t need the Creator or the wisdom of Kabbalah. This is why we see in these times that all of the religions are falling in the manner of emptying their content. It used to be that there was content because people were seemingly more primitive, but not today. It is clear that all of the religions and faiths have become some wrapping for regular life. This is why the wisdom of Kabbalah can be revealed only out of a sensation of necessity for it.
The need for it will come on one hand, by us advertising the wisdom of Kabbalah and what it gives people and on the other hand to the extent a person and all of humanity will see themselves in a state of despair. In order not to lead humanity to a state of murders and eruptions of wars etc., we want and need to disseminate and publish the wisdom of Kabbalah more and more. What the purpose of creation is, what needs to take place in human development according to nature, how we need to behave with one another, and why it needs to be this way. We need to think about this and bring them proof because no matter how much of humanity are playing all of their games, with their toys, in wisdoms, forces, little wars, and other things, they don't understand what they need to go to, what they have to come to and how they need to grow. They don't understand. We need to acquire the essence of our path as much and as fast as possible in order to advance in it and to draw them after us and to develop them as well, otherwise the world will truly advance in a bad way.
We need to reach connection between us quickly, to be somewhat connected to the upper force. We won't be able to connect to Him, as we need to have a reason for it. We need one thing: to hold onto the upper force, to receive the force of bestowal. We need the force of mutual bestowal to bind between us because we belong to the degree Bina and we can connect to Keter only as we want to be in the mutual force of bestowal. As much as we all will be together, we will bestow and influence the people of the world and they will connect to us more and more. They inevitably will come to a state where they will join us through despair because we will advance by greater blows. Together with them we'll come to the Creator. The whole world will join us in our vessels of reception and hold onto the Creator. There will be a nice connection with the Creator and He will be able to bestow the light of Hassadim to us and through us; and through us the light of Hassadim, the light of Hochma, and we will all become one system of Adam.
21. S. (01:07:1) In the excerpt BHS gives a definition of lowness, when he sees that he is being despised and not respected, I don't really understand how this feeling adds to your relation to the Creator?
R. That is very supportive of a person. It really supports a person when the environment shows him, not the group, the external environment shows him the extent in which they disparage him and despise him; that is how the Creator helps a person in such a way to reach a state of the greatness of the Creator in his eyes, that is greater than all the humiliations that he receives. I'm willing to pay with all of my bestowals in the world, all the degradations in the world, just so I will have connection with the Creator. This is something I don't give up. But there are those that come to us and study and later feel how much the world degrades them or despises them, and they don't agree with that, then they go back to being in the same forms as much as the world can appreciate them and to bring them honor, the feeling of connection and so on. Then a person lowers from the degree in which he is connected to the 10 in the Creator to a state where he is connected somewhat to the common folks, to the people. There he feels confident that he is connected to the whole world, that the whole world understands him and encourages him, and he receives this feeling from the many people that he is around and this is how he is and ends his life that way; this depends on the person himself. Who does the person want to receive the confidence from? From the Creator, alone, through the 10 or that he needs the whole world from this mass, let's say the religious or the secular? It all depends on the person. This is why we see these things taking place with us as well, many enter into Bnei Baruch and few remain. Because all the rest cannot be above the external attitude towards them, where the whole world will disregard them that they are all connected to that idea that ‘in order to bestow is how they reach contact with the Creator’ and they are willing to give that up as long as they feel themselves comfortable, good in their egoistic degree that they return to, and they continue that way, calm and good is enough for me. This is how we see it happens sometimes in the people that come to us and then leave: they have then to make many justifications and that's why they are very suspicious as Rabash writes about them. If they were in an environment close to Baal HaSulam and they left, they are very suspect in his eyes because they are capable of doing anything against Bnei Baruch in order to justify themselves why they did this. Then they become very active in their campaign against us. But we need to understand that our path is the same path and we can't listen to them because they are just going to justify themselves and how just they are; they just want to prove to us that they are now happy and satisfied, that they have great support, a great audience let's say, all the best to them and good luck. I can also understand you, that you're coming to me with the complaint that you want me to supply you with a spiritual heights and corporeal support and this is not something we are capable of, on the contrary, we want to rise above any corporeal support to just be connected to us, and the confidence and our force shall be in a higher degree than us, meaning from our 10 and from the Creator.
22. S. (01:13:06) Why does the Creator want to let us feel that we are lowly?
R. In order to help you deal with your ego. All the rest you think on your own. It seems to me that you understood.
23. S. (01:13:43) You answered that it is important for us to disseminate before people get to a bad state, but for people to hear us they need to have flour first, but for us to disseminate we have to connect between us first. So, in the beginning of the path of Kabbalah, there is a big desire to engage in dissemination typically and it then disappears and there is still a desire to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, it’s a desire that kind of comes from the Creator against the other desires but the desire to disseminate disappears.
R. That is the egoistic desire that is warming you up more and turning you more towards caring for yourself and not for others, what do you care about the whole world? We don't understand, we forget that the world is the creator, that is the vessel of the Creator, that is where He is clothed; and in our stance of the End of Correction of the last generation, this is where we actually have to express ourselves. If you want to bestow to the Creator you need to bestow to the created beings, if you want to come close to the Creator you need to come closer to humanity. That is where the End of Correction is expressed. So, it's not that we need to be immersed there fully, so I would say we need to be concerned with the correction of the world and to the extent that which we need to correct the world, we need to correct ourselves. If I'm thinking about our 10 only, that is already egotistical. If I'm thinking, I'm not even talking about myself that's clear, but even about the 10, I need to correct the vessel of the 10 in a measure that this 10 as a vessel will be ready for the correction of all of reality, the Human Correction. That is what we need to understand. So, when we look at the world and see what is happening in the world, we need to think in what way we need to be in this world towards humanity, how we need to be revealed to them and how we need to bestow to them? Because in this I bring myself closer to the Correction of all of Humanity and to that extent I bring forth contentment to the Creator. Certainly, the creator feels what is happening in our 10, as BHS writes, this entire group, Yashar Kel [direct to the Creator] is arranged only in order to reach human correction, to the correction of all of humanity. If we have such an inclination then we go together with the program, the plan of Creation and we will certainly receive support from the Creator as we want in our level to perform His complete plan. We need to not forget that our correction needs to be only in order to support the general Correction of all of Humanity and also be ready, in order to be that nucleus that around it all of humanity will be able to receive the method of correction on the levels of translations in all kinds of materials that we have to disseminate to them, and this is how we will advance to the general correction. We ourselves don't need to be as the goal but only to the extent that we support and pull all of humanity, it’s written in many places about that, only according to that the Creator takes us into consideration and in no other case. If this group that came out of Babylon, that used to be built of the seventy nations that existed in Babylon; if this group is not aimed at correction of the word, then this group has nothing to do. This is why we need to make certain that we are in a state that we are willing to accept this role for ourselves and advance that way. That is why there is an action in the group to connect the group more and more and there also needs to be an act of dissemination,
to disseminate from every 10 outwards, in the language in the form that we are capable of doing it to all dwellers of the world.
24. S. (01:20:15) So you could say that if a person doesn't find his place in dissemination, he's not engaging in the correction in the complete way?
R. Yes, I think whoever doesn't find himself at least in some kind of engagement in an external dissemination, that could be working in translation, or supporting through the technical department, computers or even by contributing your Maaser to the center. We use this to support our system of dissemination. The tithing goes entirely towards dissemination: people that are translating, people that are maintaining the entire system for all of the servers that we have and so on. That is why participation is included in those who participate in paying the tithing, and if not then I recommend considering the lack of participation in the correction of the world, and accordingly their own correction is not complete, they will not be able to enter spirituality if they don't participate in dissemination.
25. S. (01:21:52) How can I help the world, that I am only humiliated by them? What is the difference between lowliness and humbleness?
R. It is not important that the world lowers you. You need to do your action, your work to the extent that you feel contempt towards the world. And don't worry, whatever happens from your work is not dependent on you, the results come from a system called Godliness.
S. He also asked what is the difference between lowliness and humbleness?
R. The difference is that humbleness is a very high degree that a person reaches spiritual degrees, very high one, and alongside that he feels this humbleness and the more he rises in these ladders of degrees alongside that he feels that he is lowering on the ladder of humbleness, meaning becoming more humble. Lowliness usually speaks about an individual state, of a particular state or situation.
26. S. (01:24:06) Can we agree with the feeling of lowliness?
R. Of course we can. If I feel that the world is humiliating me, it is actually the Creator who is humiliating me. Then I accept all these states as necessary for my advancement and in that I actually even aid to humiliate my ego, to lower my ego and it will be easier for me to rise above it. You need to see yourself from the side and to understand to what extent there is an opportunity for spiritual ascent in every single state.
27. S. (01:25:38) Do we have to be low towards the world? Do we have to show people that we get a benefit from this?
R. No, we do not have to be lowly in the eyes of the world but we have to be lowly in their own eyes because we still have in us the will to receive, our ego, that is our own individual work. With respect to the world, it is the opposite. He will raise your heart in the path of the Creator. We have to show the world that we are complete, not lowly, complete, whole; and towards ourselves as it is written here in this article that the "Lord is high in the low will see.”
28. S. (01:26:52) In the 10 is it enough. That we are fit to see Mochin of the Hochma, and what is so special about it?
R. Mochin of Hochma is the force of sight, that I see in my mind what is taking place in all of reality. We cannot really grasp what we see with our eyes, we see with our eyes the same, but beyond the eyes and besides the eyes we have a mind that sees, and in the mind we are different. The mind works on the will of the receive and to the extent that we can add to it a will to bestow then by that we can see the words between the will to receive and the will to bestow. By that we already begin to see a correct image of the world. That is the difference between all the people in the world; that each one in their mind they are very different although they have the same eyes, physically. Everyone has it; so, it seems to us that everyone sees the same, no one sees the same as the other, because it all depends on the mechanism that works behind the eyes. The eyes are just another name after hearing, sight, talking, reading, anything that includes receiving data from the world. Then accordingly I perceive it and I process it in my mind, and the mind is different between each and every one, and that is why no one can understand the other.
S. What does it mean that ‘the eye will know’? Does it mean that now the eye will see because we’re connected according to equivalence of form?
R. To the extent that we are lowly, we see more: because by that we minimize, we decrease our ego and accordingly we can see the Creator, we can see his bestowal in the world. It is against our regular perception, against our regular education that the more the person is in lowliness with respect to his correct perception that is, to the extent that he understands that he does not understand; then accordingly he has greater willingness to see the truth.
29. S. (01:30:25) Is the servant of the Creator meaning bestowing in order to bestow in the 10, and the worker of the Creator means to receive in order to bestow in the 10?
R. For the time being you can think of it this way. We will talk about it, it is not exactly clearly distinct that we can speak of it that way, but we will see. A slave and the worker are 2 degrees, Eved [slave] and Oved [worker] and to divide them with the annulment of the desire, and the usage of the desire, will talk about it, it is still ahead of us.
30. S. (01:31:09) We talked about dissemination and if it is so urgent to save the world with the dissemination, why doesn't the Creator let the world hear us? Why don't they watch the clips we make? Why don't they become viral? Why doesn't a big number of people come to us?
R. The Creator is arranging the world according to that same large egoistic desire that we need to correct. It is not that he chooses this desire and this desire is seemingly under his control. What he commanded, what he said up through the upper light from the beginning of creation, all of these conditions exist and take place throughout this entire place process. They are all history. The Creator is not going to change the act of Genesis in the middle of the process he does not cancel it he does not help we are in the system and in that system through our exertion we need to determine which forces will be greater and which forces will be smaller. All of these forces we will try to reach the correct form of connection. We are not cancelling any force. Even the evil forces, even the other side, the Sitra Achra, even this great ego, everything remains, nothing is erased. We would like to erase it all and remove it. We need one in comparison to the other. We need to increase the force of bestowal with reference to the force of reception. The bad force and the good force and only that way we can reach balance between two systems. When they gradually reach balance, between these two and the correct participation of the two, in that we discovered the force of the creator
31. S. (01:34:05) What is the connection between the 10 and dissemination?
R. That every 10 needs to see itself as part of the general Kli. Its goal is to be connected to the general Kli with many such 10's. Even those that are not such 10's and are spread around as single souls. We need to bring them the knowledge of the method of correction to that extent they will start moving towards connection with others and by that we will reach the general direction
32. S. (1:35:21) Can we give contentment to the Creator only through our work in the 10 or through dissemination or through both?
R. Of course, if this termination supports and it brings us to a connection between us then it is on the same path as on the correction towards the end of correction. We must not disregard dissemination especially for a woman. I expect that because of this preparation to give birth to more and more bodies and souls in the world. This is from the female part in the Bnei Baruch group. I really want to awaken the women to participate in the dissemination because thanks to their participation in the dissemination they will bring themselves to the correction of the soul in the most efficient and fastest way
33. S. (01:36:45) Humanity doesn't need what we want to give to them right now, can we say that we are preparing everything for the future? That that will be able to find it when they need it, is this the reason for disseminating?
R. Yes, of course. Let's say we have children. There are those that really are active and want to grow up, and there are those that are more passive. There are those that later on who want to learn and those that don’t want to learn. There are those that are aggressive and those that do not show us they have much strength. But we want them all to grow, because it is not us that determine the different levels of development, to the extent we want to invest in them. Then, we need to invest. The result of that is from the participation of the upper force that will take part and give us the results. We need to do everything that is on us.
I am very happy that you are with us. Let’s advance together. Don't forget that dissemination from the women, specifically, gives results that do not come from dissemination from men. Because women are intended to expand humanity, to give birth to humanity, to bring a new generation, that's how it is in spirituality. So let us participate in this together. Thank you.
34. S. (01:38:57) In my feeling when we are studying Shamati articles, if there's a state that you read and explain, we go deep into the article. It’s like, it was as if nothing happened, if you didn't do it.
R. Okay. So, remind me that I need to read the article myself.
Rav reading: ‘’Shamati, 26. ‘’One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past’’
35. R. (01:39:36) Meaning, to the extent a person knows and understands what he has been through. Meaning, how the Creator is leading him until this point that has great influence on his future, and how he will advance.
Rav reading: “It is written, “The Lord is high and the low will see,”
36. R. (01:40:06) Meaning, the Creator is high, He’s very high, that to see Him, a person can only to the extent of his lowliness that he acquires. It’s not really that clear that only the low can see the exaltedness, even it becomes more unclear. Maybe it is clear to us because we know that we are in our egoistic desire. So, to the extent that we lower ourselves from this level of the ego, lower ourselves down, and accordingly when we overcome our ego, then we can better see the Creator.
Rav reading: “The letters Yakar [precious] are the letters of Yakir [will know]. This means that one knows the exaltedness of a thing to the extent that it is precious to one.”
37. R. (01:41:12) Meaning in attaining the Creator, in attaining connection, to the extent that it is precious to one. Meaning, the exaltedness of connection between the friends. That one is impressed according to the importance of the thing, that it is important to us to connect in the group. By that, we can connect to the Creator, to that extent we receive an impression. The impression brings one to a sensation in the heart from the external impression. External means in my mind, that I imagine all these things for myself. Then, I come to the fact that the heart begins to be impressed.
Rav reading: ‘’One is impressed according to the importance of the thing. The impression brings one to a sensation in the heart, and according to the measure of one’s recognition of the importance, to that extent, joy is born in him.
If one knows his lowliness, if one annuls oneself, then one has no authority that separates him from the Creator. In that state, one “will see,” meaning he is imparted Mochin de Hochma, “and the high will know from afar.” However, someone with pride, meaning one who has his own authority, is distanced, since he lacks the equivalence
Lowliness is not considered one’s lowering oneself before others. This is humbleness, and one feels wholeness in this work. Rather, lowliness means that the world despises him. Precisely when people despise, it is considered lowliness, for then he does not feel any wholeness, for it is a law that what people think influences a person.
Therefore, if people respect him, he feels whole; and those whom people at he is not more privileged than his contemporaries, meaning he sees that there are many people in the world who were not given the strength to do the holy work even thin the simplest way,’’
38. R. (01:42:45) Meaning that they will think about godliness, that they will listen to it, that they'll want to know something about it. Many people around us don’t need this, don’t want it, they’re completely indifferent to it. Even if we would want to explain them about something, they’re incapable of hearing, they are not yet ready, they are not internally prepared. The Creator has not brought them to that level of ripeness that they can think about the purpose of life, the meaning of life. They’re thinking only about today and today. They cannot be in the holy work even in the simplest way just slightly even be tied to it, that there is in the world that I too wanted even passively. ‘
’Even without the intention and in Lo Lishma [not for Her sake],’’ Meaning not in bestowal and equivalence of form with the Creator, ‘’even in Lo Lishma of Lo Lishma,’’ even not yearning for it,
They can’t and don’t want to, they don’t see it as a goal at all,
‘’and even in preparation for the preparation of the clothing of Kedusha [holiness],’’ to feel something that comes from the Creator towards the human beings, ‘’he was imparted the desire and thought to at least occasionally do holy work,’’ sometimes yes, sometimes no. Sometimes he has some awakening and then again, he falls, he comes to a state of indifference, disregard ‘’even in the simplest possible way.’’ Again, ‘’while he was imparted the desire and thought to at least occasionally do holy work, even in the simplest possible way.’’ Even he comes to the lesson, he doesn't really hear, understand. He doesn't even have a desire to participate but he continues, he somehow continues mechanically, completely, only, completely mechanical. With Rabash there were students who didn’t understand what he was speaking because they did not know the language, and he used to say, let them sit, they will know the material even without knowing the language. It is true, I saw such people that suddenly they started speaking in their own language, let's say in French. When they started speaking and they understood, they started explaining in French what they got. We see that without translation, without reading, without writing, without hearing a single word of the Kabbalist explanation, from literally the air, they get this influence through the environment and from the sky you could say. That’s how it is, they advanced and they understood. There are many entrances to a person's soul that enable it to develop even not through eyesight, smell, touch, taste, hearing.
Rav reading: ‘’if one can appreciate the importance of this, according to the importance one attributes to the holy work, to that extent he should give praise and thanks for it.’’
39. R. (01:46:48) Meaning, if a person is grateful that he has even a small contact with spirituality, not about we are constantly, you know, whining about it, where is what I thought, where is what I expected. But, if a person is grateful even for the tiniest measure, for the single penny that he got from the Creator, an opportunity to come closer, to feel, to know that he is in contact with the upper system. If he can appreciate the importance of this, according to the importance one attributes to the holy work, to that extent he should give praise and thanks for it. There has to be even the tiniest point of contact with the upper force, and that is enough in order to expand this contact to a very wide pipe through which you will be able to receive all of the upper light. It all depends on the person, if he has a point of contact with the Creator that awakens him, invites him to connection with Him. Everything else is dependent, not on disrespect, God forbid, but on only appreciation and gratitude. “This is so because it is true that we cannot appreciate the importance of being able to sometimes observe the Mitzvot [commandments] of the Creator.’’ All these commandments are to come closer to each other and to the Creator, to the system of Adam HaRishon, ‘’even without any intention,’’ because a person says sometimes, what can I do here, I don’t have the right intention, just following my own thoughts, I’ll have nothing from this. That is not true. To the extent you can, you need to appreciate it as being the greatest possible thing. Then, you will see how from your side, according to your soul, you’re grasping and clinging to the center of reality. ‘’In that state, one comes to feel elation and joy in the heart.’’ If he faces this point of connection that the Creator gave him. ‘’The praise and the gratitude one gives for it expand the feelings, and one is elated by every single point in the holy work,’’ it all depends to what extent he gives it importance, ‘’he knows Whose servant he is,’’ by being grateful, by having even a tiny point of connection even through a single thread with the Creator, ‘’thus soars ever higher.’’ He doesn’t need more than that.
Rav reading: ‘’This is the meaning of what is written, “I thank You for the grace that You have made with me,” meaning for the past, and by this one can confidently say, and he does say, “and that You are destined to do with me.”
40. R. (01:50:23) Meaning that a person’s future is dependent on the past. If we don’t disregard the past if we appreciate it. From the appreciation of the past that we kiss all of the forms of connection, positive, negative, it doesn't matter. Everything we arrived to today, that it all comes from that same source, the Creator. If we appreciate that with all of our heart, by that we build the correct form towards the future. That’s what the article says.
Article 27 - “What is the Lord is High and the low will see”
41.(01:51:43) How could there be equivalence with the Creator when man is the receiver and the Creator is the giver, in a connection maybe, this one is giving, this one is receiving but the equivalence of being equal, according to the qualities or the actions, it is supposedly being opposite to one another.
Rav reading: The verse says about this the Lord is high and the low shall see, if one lowers himself then one has no authority that separates him from the Creator in that state the one will see.” Meaning one is imparted with Mochin of Hochma
R If a person annuls himself, meaning, he has no authority over himself he is just annuls. He's not there supposedly, as if he does not exist at. He is willing to completely annul before the Creator. Just one thing, to be annulled before the Creator Not that he annuls himself and does not exist at al. He wants to be annulled towards the Creator. This is a big difference. This already demands great work on our behalf, the work of annulment, that I am constantly restricting my desire to receive in order to receive and opening myself to resemble the Creator as much as possible.
Rav continues to read ``the high will know from afar, if a person annuls himself, he has no authority that separates him from the Creator.”
R. He annuls himself, his ego. What the Creator wants, he too wants and what the Creator doesn't want, he also doesn't want and in that he is in lowliness towards the Creator.
Rav reads: In that state one will see, meaning he is imparted with Mochin of Hochma,
R. Mochin of Hochma.is called seeing, so he will see, only in such a way under that condition. There's another part of the verse,
Rav reads: and the high will know from afar, except for seeing you can also know and that depends on the distance. However, someone with pride, meaning one who has his own authority is distanced since he lacks the equivalence.
R. Meaning there is another issue here in seeing that accept it is written the Lord is high and low shall see, in that lowness there are few conditions. What is one condition he explains that as much as a person lowers himself annuls himself. There are a few conditions, as he explains as much as a person lowers himself, annuls himself, according to that he can reach seeing the Creator. That is on one hand, he is rewarded with the Mochin of Hochma. But here, the high will know from afar, yet someone with pride is distanced, he moves away. He has a distance from the Creator since he lacks equivalence. What did the Creator create this for?
Rav explains lowness is not considered one’s lowering oneself before others,
R. We don’t need others to show ourselves as nothing as if we are invisible and airy. Like supposedly sometimes spiritual people show us. On the contrary, if we are speaking of the greater than his friend, his inclination is also greater too. Specifically, those who have reached high degrees and have a much bigger ego than simple people have. Th. can sustain it and manage it, conduct it. not erase it but conduct it.
Rav reads: This is humbleness, lowliness is not considered lowering oneself before others. This is humbleness and one feels wholeness in the work. Someone who lowers himself before others, he gets such a degree. He feels calmness, he feels what can I do here? I am dust, I am nothing. He thinks simply and then his ego is even bigger. He thinks he is low, that the world despises him,
rather slowly this means that the world despises them precisely when people despise it is considered lowness for then he does not feel wholeness, for sure, we are in the world, we are in the environment and the whole world jumps on these people who engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah or even have a distant root to the wisdom of the Kabbalah. The world can smell it and they want to annul those so the world despises them.
Rav reads: " precisely when the people despise it is considered lowness for then he does not feel wholeness.".
R. Then this person has two states, either he follows the opinion of the many and then he wants to act before them that he is just like them and he takes their customs and culture and education in life or the opposite, that he stands his ground quietly and holds on to himself according to spiritual laws.
“For this a law that when people think influences a person therefore if people are respecting, he feels whole and those whom people despise think of themselves as low".
R. This is why he has a problem. How to cope with the knowledge and the opinion of the world around him. Let's say us. In Israel, we (Bnei Baruch) feel very much the general public relates to us and it is obvious that we need forces to overcome the negative attitude towards us and to [put ourselves in a stable manner against them. It is not desired by annulling them, who are they? I don't care what they think No not like that, by me increasing my attitude towards the Creator that I am connected to him, that he is great in my eyes and that is why that's why by increasing in my eyes I'm connected it to the Creator and by that I can cope with the negative attitude of the environment towards me. Is this point clear?
42. S. (02;01:40) We always speak of this study that enables us to connect to spirituality and that spirituality begets within a person and additional sense and it is important for us to also draw upon the surrounding light. The question is that in the resistance of the ego and overcoming it is that speaking of the friend in the 10 or everybody in the friend that resists internally to the ego then is able to overcome it?
R. I do not understand you. We need to be as much as we can to be connected in the 10 and I don't care how my ego talks about it. We need to annul it towards the 10 and the main thing is to adhere to them. Read Rabash articles about society again. We are not talking about words said by a person but the attitude of the world towards us, towards the entire Bnei Baruch and here we have a different kind of work. The fact that I feel that the whole world is disregarding us and we feel in Israel and maybe overseas too, relatively. Even though they are very big and not so obvious, the fact that if we here feel that we are being disregarded, we do not need to fight against. To explain ourselves, yes. Mainly why does it come so we will internally be able to raise the greatness of the Creator In our eyes above all of these disturbances. I kiss the stick. I thank those haters. I thank them that they hate me because specifically that hatred awakens me more to increase the Creator in my eyes. This is my goal and in this way I advance.
S. Is this awareness emotional?
R. I always need to be connected to the Creator. I'm not calculating anything towards humans or to the world so that I can strengthen my connection to all the means that can bring me through to bestow to the Creator and the purpose of creation.
43. S. (02:05:13) Question about dissemination that the Pandemic gave us an opportunity to disseminate and you were ahead in terms of explanation of what is going to happen to someone without spiritual attainment to understand. Is it good to make clips from what you said in the beginning about the virus when it first started spreading?
R. Do it. They say in advertising it says that in everything they cannot be anything bad as much as people hear about it so it will bring them closer to our source so do it
44. S. (02:06:31) Please tell me, why practically can’t we reach the point you speak of?
R. What point?
S. The influence of the external world on us?
R. Every person, wherever he is, whichever environment, whichever language or country, he is getting an influence according to that. He needs to understand that wherever he is and according to that, the Creator is working on him in order to help him advance towards the goal. You can live between white bears, polar bears, or you can be in the jungle, and you can be Israel, or you can be in Africa, it doesn't matter where. The main thing is that according to the data that you were given, the conditions you were given, you connect to the purpose of creation. This connection that you try to perform, it will give you a direction in life, it will. You can start healing as if everything revolves for you to change your environment, wherever you are, so you can come closer to your ten, so you will be organized in the lessons, and so on. The main thing is dissemination. You could be participating correctly, that’s it. In this way, we need to see ourselves, in that you will advance.
45. S. (02:08:28) Is there a difference if this bestowal, if its influence comes through a relative or?
R. No, it is not important. There are many ways to get to the goal, we each have a lot of disturbances. We have to understand that all those sources of disturbances come from the Creator and, we need to overcome above those sources towards the connection between us and towards the Creator.
R. (02:09:02) Now we will have a workshop. We read these two articles, so let's speak between us.
WSQ. What do I take out of this? What are my summaries of this. How do I summarize the first article and the second article?
46 S. (02:17:13) Can you say that there are two forms of work in the ten? That it is good to humiliate oneself, to keep the pride inside, and outwards to be prideful that I have something to give in dissemination and inside feel still lowly?
R. Yes, that is correct. Towards the external people we can’t show ourselves as low, no. Towards the friends we have to show them that the lower I make myself and appreciate the friends. It doesn't really have to be so external, but the more his heart is connected and organized in that way, so he is preparing himself correctly for revealing that inner force, the Creator within the group.
47. S. (02:18:26) It says, ’meaning he is imparted Mochin de Hochma, “and the high will know from afar.” You said this has to do with distance. What do you mean by that? What does this mean?
R. Yes, because he annuls his will to receive, from in order to receive and then he can start working with in order to bestow. According to that, he can already receive the light of Hochma (wisdom). He goes through the border between the light of Hassadim (mercy) and the light of Hochma (wisdom).
S. What does this mean that ‘’he will know from afar’’, something about distance?
R. Even if the Creator seems to a person that He is in a great distance, but according to equivalence of form within man, he is supposedly. The Creator means ‘’come and see’’, ‘’Bo-Reh’’, that’s what is revealed in us. If a person corrected himself with the light of Mercy, Ohr Hassadim, according to that light of Hassadim that he has reached, that was revealed in him, it doesn't matter to him where he is, whether close or far. The light of mercy has no limitation, that is why a person cannot organize himself in such a way that from a distance he starts feeling the Creator as close, because he has annulled his ego. Now, he has only one problem, how by attaining the degree of Bina he can use his vessels of reception to awaken them again in order to bestow to the Creator, to really receive from the host and give Him contentment. Then, he has opposite work.
48. S. (02:21:39) It is written in the name of the article, ‘’gratitude for the past.’’ The Hebrew word Hoda’a means awareness.
R. Who said about the transition he did. He's giving gratitude to the Creator for taking him through all these states. That he was in them even in transgressions or merit, it doesn't matter. He just gives gratitude that all these things that he’s gone through, one by one, brought him to his current state, that from now and on, he can do the correct actions.
49. S. (02:22:21) The extent a person lowers himself and appreciates the friends, can we say that’s how it is also towards the Creator?
R. Yes, yes, the same attitude. There can’ be a better attitude towards the Creator than he has towards the friends.
50. S. (02:22:48) Disseminating in the ten does that mean that we need to support one another, or is it better to have a mutual project in the ten?
R. I can’t answer that. You have to discuss and see how much you can work together, maybe you can’t, and it depends on which project you have, I can’t say. External dissemination is not only from the ten, but a few tens maybe can also connect, there's no problem with that.
51. S. (02:23:37) Do we need to relate to the external world like we do to our children, for the time being, so that they will be able to learn life on a deeper level? It turns out that we need to treat the friends in the ten children, like our children? Have to be grateful to the Creator for bringing me closer?
R. No. The whole world I treat them like my friends, like my children, and the friends like my parents.
52. S. (02:24:17) In the first article Shamati, 26, it says that all the 8 billion people in the world, except for our friends, they don't have the strength to work the work of holiness. They don't even have the preparation for it, or even the beginning of a desire. So other than the will to receive, what did the Creator leave them with? How can we reach at them?
R. The Creator has left them with what Baal HaSulam explains at the end of the Introduction to The Book Zohar. The Introduction to The Book Zohar where he explains things about the whole structure, that we need to receive and bestow to the whole word, how the whole word connects and reaches it also. We need to perform all kinds of actions towards that, and to see the state as the desired close state.
S. As far as I remember, it says that we need to connect and from that connection, they will be drawn to us. I'm asking with respect to the explanation in our approach in dissemination. What are we speaking, too?
R. We need to disseminate the method of connection in a way that they can understand, and to the whole world. That is our responsibility, it is our obligation. Otherwise, they will not grow. Like you got those things from your teachers, they have to get something from their teachers.
S. Do they have such a desire to listen?
R. It doesn't matter whether they have it or not. First, force them, they want it, even that way.
53. S. (02:26:14) What is the intention of the name in article 26, One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past? Does that mean that the person receives and he is grateful for everything that he had? Is that the only way to have a good future?
R. Yes, it is very important how a person can accept the past. As much as he gives gratitude to the Creator from the beginning where he knew himself. Altogether, not only in the wisdom of Kabbalah and until today. It is very important. He needs to justify the Creator and ascribe everything to the Creator, that everything that happened to him ever it only came from the Creator.
S. And with a special goal to advance?
R. Right.
54. S. (02:27:21) As long as I can’t completely justify the Creator so my credit is just lip service, is that worth anything?
R. Even that is good, yes that is how we are built from not for her sake to for her sake, from Lo Lishma to Lishma.
S. Gratitude for the past leads to the future but we know that we do not look back, so when do we look back?
R. In order to give gratitude in order to take something from there for the future otherwise you cannot look backwards.
55. S. (02:28:19) You spoke in the lesson a lot about preparing humanity for a great crisis and understanding that we are in mutual dependency, you wanted to pull all of our friends from around the world to this. How can we and how should we build some document with an ideological vision to bring the whole world Kli to participate in dissemination?
R. Sitting next to you is a friend who knows very well the Arosa document that I once gave a lecture and it was translated. I gave a lecture before a great audience in a place called Arosa in Switzerland. In that lecture, I actually gave guidelines on how humanity needs to advance from this state that they are in now and I explained what state they are in and to what state we need to reach and why specifically in that way and not otherwise. I think that even though this happened almost twenty years ago, this lecture, but still you can still see it, we have it in our archive for sure because we filmed it and the document itself, we have and is translated into a few languages. I think that by checking what we have there we can keep going and publishing it, advertising it and we will talk about it more.
56. S. (02:30:45) Regarding the articles and the process that you brought the 10 to work, to searching, with love everything that he prepared for us and towards the end of correction, lowliness and the light of Hochma much we are beyond time.
R. Thank you