Morning Lesson February 4, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #67
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, I think we just get started.
Excerpt 67 (00:33) Twice
2. R. (04:00) This means that what we have here, that we have to constantly hold on to faith as much as possible in terms of time also through the ascents and descents and all the different states. It should be simply for us as some kind of layer that we live on and this is how we relate to our life, that there is a reason and then there is faith above reason and then we are living for us, for ourselves in faith above reason. Whatever happens to us in life we behave with that like everybody however inside we have our own degree of faith above reason and through that we relate to life. This is it; this is how we continue; this is how we go from degree to degree, state after state until it becomes absorbed in us and it becomes a second nature.
3. S. (05:23) What does it mean to be adhered in faith and how to hold onto faith because it is something difficult to tangibly hold on to, how can this be our foundation?
R. We have to arrange ourselves such that faith becomes our foundation, because faith is the foundation for the upper, for the upper world, because the entire upper world is working in the force of bestowal, the force of faith. We operate according to what we have, what the Creator created in us which is the force of reception. Therefore we have to constantly be on guard where are we within reason and what from that in what can be above reason, against reason and this is how we progress in each and every moment in our life. That is to accept the form of life that we get this from the Creator, and this is the form of the good that does good and if you do not feel this, then they have eyes, but they do not see, but we try to see it this way. Bit by bit we see how it becomes much more incorporated into our organs and eventually reach a state where we discover this in our sensations, we do discover it.
4. S. (07:20) When we are in the lessons or meetings it seems easy but when we are in our daily work what tools do, we have in our physical life to help us, to remind us to keep us in this faith?
R. Only the force of connection in the group, that all of us are thinking about everybody and really want to be in the force of mutual bestowal, everybody on everybody. This is actually the most important, if we can try to be in this feeling, in this disposition, everybody for everybody inside the ten then even above the ten, in our whole Kli, in the whole world Kli in then it turns out that suddenly you will feel that there is here some new section, a new level and there we need to exist. There we will feel ourselves in our truthful form connected between us and with the Creator existing above our nature and we need our nature as we always rise higher and higher from it. This is how we will feel ourselves as created beings.
S. Is there a point when this becomes part of our reason?
R. Our faith, it remains as the force of faith, the force of bestowal and we do not want it to become the force of reason because our whole ascent is to the degree of faith into the degree of faith.
5. S. (09:56) With which force does one merit to rise into faith above reason?
R. Out of constantly making an effort, there is nothing here that is special, it is wide open to everybody, and everybody must eventually acquire his degree out of his own desire or above his own desire. You should determine the force of faith above the force of reception, which is the person's natural desire, his personal desire, therefore this is how we need to progress, it is very simple.
Excerpt 68 (10:53) Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 108, "If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two. Twice.
6. R. (15:08) I think that here everything is written so let's see what you are asking.
7. S. (15:20) What is not to receive satisfaction from the work, what does it mean not to receive any benefit from the work?
R. I do not demand any reward, I simply want to perform such actions that it will be in one direction, to give contentment to the Creator and whatever I feel good or evil, whatever I have, all these things I erase all together as if I did not exist in reality. I bring myself to the degree of zero.
S. So where am I moving my interest?
R. To the Creator I perform all kinds of actions from which the benefit comes to the group and to the Creator and I myself just simply do this, this is my payment, that I am the one who does this.
S. Simply here he writes that I should be happy that the Creator enjoys my work.
R. This is my payment, I have to accept it as payment that out of the fact that I give to the Creator through the ten, out of this I get joy, why not?
S. But there is a certain intermingling with the Creator here.
R. Yes, you have that, and you do not demand anything, you simply do not want any other reward in any other form you have to know whatever I give to the Creator it reaches Him, only this without me demanding to know how to do it, what does it do and so on. In the beginning simply nothing just to know that I am giving to the Creator.
S. You said to know that it comes to him, how do I know that it comes to him?
R. I do not want to know I act according to what the Sages tell me and that is enough because if I already want to know something there is a reward there which I am pulling to myself. Just make this clear.
8. S. (17:53) How to keep the persistence and consistency in the work?
R. Only through the group, of course we do not want to work in this ever and the more we progress we will have a greater disturbances, we forget and we will confuse ourselves and the world will confuse us and it is all done in such a way that the confusions and disturbances will become greater and greater so therefore we need to simply determine such a relation in this society where each helps his friend. This way we show an example to each other and also the most important thing is that we need to do this work together, it is not that I work, and I perform actions alone with the Creator. I do not have any possibility to reach the Creator and perform any actions opposite to him, only on the condition that I connect with the friends and together we are going forward.
9. S. (19:16) The writing said that you should not hope to receive anything for your efforts. I cannot nullify my desire to receive but I can direct my desires as they appear again to ask for my friends to receive my desires. Is this correct?
R. Ask this way for the time being, yes, it is ok. Everything is correct according to the state, according to the degree if you see that in your action of bestowal, you have a certain action of bestowal in your possession that you can do now then do this.
10. S. (20:07) He writes that in the state of a descent when he wants to enter once more, he begins to open some kind of a conversation, so what is this conversation with his body after one cannot save himself from imprisonment why doesn’t he turn to the friends or the Creator for help?
R. You need to see who is obstructing, what is obstructing, who are you dealing with and then you can turn to the means, that it can help you only after the person that talks to his desire to receive in the sees that he cannot succeed with it then he can turn to the friends and ask help from them.
S. So there is a certain scrutiny before he appeals?
R. Of course how can you say that he is turning if first he is not making the scrutiny?
S. The friend asked how to enter the work without asking for a reward?
R. How to enter the work without asking for reward, there is no such thing without asking for reward. The meaning is that without asking for an egoistic reward but without a reward it is only an insane person.
S. So meaning our reward that we are happy to have the opportunity to give to the Creator even when the will to receive is in resistance?
R. This is the reward, bestowal itself is the reward but for that you need to have a certain relation to the Creator in the form of love. Let us say like a mother taking care of the baby, how many forces she has to constantly, always invest in the baby through what, due to love.
11. S. (22:14) He says that we also have to believe that the Creator gets pleasure when we keep the Torah and Mitzvot that we can keep the above reason, we have to believe this above reason but then there is something changing in the last sentence. Also, the person has to be glad and to add that the Creator received pleasure from this. So, this is normally, in our work, within reason is that right, so it is actually talking about the corrected vessel, we feel this joy in the vessels of bestowal?
R. Look what he says, so we should reply to the evil inclination, to the opposing forces that I have faith in the Sages, and they said, they wrote to us, they said that I should believe in abstract faith above reason. That this is how it is. I have to accept it that the Creator commanded us to take upon ourselves faith, the force of bestowal and that he commanded us to keep the Torah and the Mitzvot. All kinds of operations of connection between us, mutual bestowal for the correction of the Kli, those operations are called the Torah and Mitzvot. Because through the Mitzvot that we make, that we are commanded to perform mutual bestowal to each other by that we awaken the reforming light called the Torah. So this is it and to do this in faith above reason. It does not matter if I understand or what I feel, I do this because I am told to do so, the Kabbalists command me to do this, why?
Because like to the child who does not know where he is or why he is doing it, he is simply doing it. This is what I also have to do and then through all of these doings, we reach states where we start to understand the benefit in those actions and what is the relation and the connection between these actions, what do I get in return for these actions. I acquire wisdom, by what, by taking part in the faith of the Sages. I hear what they say, I perform these kinds of operations like a little child doing things without knowing what he needs to do and then I should feel how much I am progressing to this. So you need to reply to the evil inclination that is opposing you that I have faith in the Sages, they said that I need to believe in abstract faith above reason, that the Creator commanded us to take upon ourselves faith, the forms of bestowal. This form of bestowal is above everything, and this is it and he commanded us to keep Torah and Mitzvot, all of our actions only in bestowal, I do not think about myself, and we should also believe that the Creator derives pleasure when we keep the Torah and Mitzvot in faith above reason.
Even if we have all kinds of dispositions, we should be happy that at least to some extent, we can do some small actions in order to bestow. This is considered that we keep Torah and Mitzvot in faith above reason, also the person has to be joyful that the Creator receives delight and pleasure from this work, and this is very important. This is something that I constantly have to think about, but this is not difficult, just try to lock yourself on the upper force and to disregard all the other factors but only what relates to the principle, to connect to the Creator and this is through the ten. I dwell among my people; in this way we progress. There has to be persistence, again and again and again to come back and again, just like how children play, how a child does it, this is how we should also do this.
S. I just do not understand where to get the joy from, I want to be in faith, but I am not.
R. From trying to perform actions of bestowal, I try to perform actions of bestowal and then out of me trying, those actions somehow occur to some extent, each and every action to some extent they succeed in a small part. Maybe just at the beginning a little bit and then from that I am happy that I am constantly each and every time, I am touching sanctity, the upper world. I do not enter it yet, but I am touching it. Again like a baby it has something, it plays with the toy even though he does not know what to do with it, it takes it and puts it into his mouth instead of playing with it properly, it does not matter. We have through this already some connection already we are rising above this world.
12. S. (29:06) This excerpt is not clear but clear on its own, but practically it is a little different and there is advice here that is contradicted to it. Where it says one will always work in Lo Lishma and then he will come to Lishma. Baal HaSulam also tells us that we should not hope to start immediately in Lishma?
R. We are not capable of that, but we have to try each time.
S. First of all when we awaken, let us say we come to a certain meeting, and we do some certain act of connection then naturally a person looks for a reason to overcome the force of the will to receive in him. Here he is saying, do not do that, say in advance you will not do this for yourself, do not look for reasons for your own sake?
R. Yes.
S. But in practice it turns out that?
R. Whatever happens in practice that is something else, but this is what I should tell myself. That I am going to try to perform an action without any self-benefit so it will only be in order to bestow contentment to the Creator. And if in the middle, in the end, in general who knows somehow, who knows how to check these things I nevertheless do this for myself? That does not matter. I try as much as I was able to in the beginning in the middle at the end of the action to be in the intention of in order to bestow.
S. Because it is written in the entrance it concerns me that a person will not succeed and will fail at the onset of the action, even before he manages to get forces from the group. He needs to enter, he needs to come out from the descent that is written here, that there is a descent. He needs to come out of it, and he has to find every way to come to the group. Even if it is from his will to receive. Does he need to convince himself so there is a reward?
R. The reward is to perform an action of bestowal. That I now try to perform an action and my reward will be that this action will truly be without any self-benefit.
13. S. (31:44) How to feel bestowal as a reward?
R. If you really want to be in bestowal then they will reveal to you when you truly perform an act of bestowal, and you will accept it and receive it as a reward. As a spiritual reward. You succeeded in performing an act of bestowal. But for that you already need to try to be in the form of bestowal. This is a spiritual Partzuf, it is the soul, this is the construction of the soul. I receive certain conditions and these conditions I want to perform them only in order to bestow to the friends, to the Creator. I take myself with an effort to perform this action of connection of bestowal and if it works out then I need to receive a result from that and I feel that my action has succeeded. I see the friends, I see the Creator, that they are happy as the result of my action.
14. S. (30:30) What to do if instead of joy you receive?
R. If you are in an act of bestowal, you cannot be in despair it is not possible. That you did not succeed, or you did succeed seemingly, but it is not shown to you, you cannot discover it. You should nevertheless be happy out of the fact that you had the moment of exertion, you wanted to accept it in order to bestow.
15. S. (34:17) What does it mean that the Creator will get something from my work? What is the joy that he gets? How does his pleasure come into account?
R. What does it mean that the Creator gets pleasure out of my work is that I feel l my attitude to the Creator that I gave him contentment. This is the result of an action which is in order to bestow and the upper light that feels my action it shows me that feeling that attitude in order to bestow.
16. S. (35:07) I am trying to scrutinize the difference between faith above reason and the faith in the sages as it was written that it seems that the faith of the sages is below reason?
R. It is not below it is simply faith in the sages I believe what Baal HaSulam and Rabash write. I believe them and I want to keep what they said. That is all. It is not above reason or below reason just accepted it the way that it is, an instruction which already brings you to faith above reason. If you keep what they recommend for you to keep then you can reach the force of bestowal, the spiritual force of faith above reason.
17. S (36:06) How long do we have to work without any reward? How long will this state of darkness continue?
R. If you are going toward bestowal then I do not ask how long. I do not ask about anything that pertains to me. I only asked when will my deeds be similar to the deeds of the forefathers, so that I would be able to bestow contentment to the Creator. About this I can ask because I want to reach this. I want to reach spirituality bestowal to the Creator but when will I get a reward, which is not a spiritual question. The moment I asked this, I am in the corporeal world.
18. S. (37:15) I hear a description of a state where I feel that I feel others. I feel that by that I make this whole corporeal system become corporeal, but it is only an illusion of corporeality and in truth we are a single body of Adam HaRishon. This is our natural state which we do not see and if even my depiction is correct, I sometimes feel that I live this thing and it dilutes me again and again.
R. I still do not hear a question.
S. How to hold on to the state?
R. What state do you want to hold on to?
S. That state when I feel the integral system, where I give, and he receives, and it doesn't really matter?
R. Only through the efforts you make in the group.
19. S. (38:16) What is the most recommended thing to do during the breaks when we forget about faith, and we do not have any relation or connection to the ten during the day?
R. At any given moment except for the lesson try to depict yourself as in the ten and how one operates in the ten for connection between them and the Creator. That is the most correct action which needs to lead us to the goal. There are many manners in this but simply, I want to feel that I am in connection with my friends and together with them I want to advance a little more and a little more, in different ways to a connection between us and between us to reveal the Creator. We are not walking on the ladder of degrees where we depict and imagine the ladder as being an angle and we are walking on it. We are trying to move on the ladder of feelings where more and more we come closer to one another. First of all, going in bestowing to in order to bestow to the middle of the ladder where we have a transition to receiving in order to bestow. At which point we also reveal more and more connection between us and within that connection between us we reveal the Creator. Until the middle point of the ladder, where we get to the middle of Tifferet we discover only the force of a mutual bestowal and we do not reveal the Creator but only actions and from the middle of the ladder, from the middle of Tifferet and onwards we begin to discover the presence of the Creator among us because then there will be a general Kli above Tifferet. That is what we are going to learn about more and more in the Pticha, in the Preface.
20. S. (41:14) In relation to faith above reason can a person reach faith above reason by his own forces or is it only through faith in the sages that he can reach being above reason?
R. It is written that there are many ways to the place, the place is the Creator. What does it mean that there are many ways? There are these and those, and these methods and those methods. I cannot explain them. I come by the method of Rabash and Baal HaSulam. Therefore, we need to simply hear what they say and advance.
S. This means that there is no possibility for a one to reach there by himself to say, look I see what my reason is I understand my reason is and I annul it and go above it without faith in the sages simply by the person's own desire is this possible?
R. By what? Who will bind you to that force, to the force of bestowal, to the force of the Creator? Who will connect you to it?
S. My study, my ten?
R. No way, what connection is between you and the ten and the Creator and the Upper source Please tell me?
S. The ten is my connection with the Creator, I do not have a personal connection with the Creator but the ten that I am in it, it ties me to the Creator, so this is my question, can we reach above reason by that?
R. But how are you connecting to the ten? For that you already need to get some kind of instructions. Rabash writes to you how to nullify, how to connect to them.
S. That is true. What I understand from it is that there is no way to reach it except through faith in the sages, meaning we read Rabash, we read Baal HaSulam, we read the words of the Kabbalists but that is the only way?
R. Discover something else it depends by what you are asking. I know that by the study where you awaken with your connections with your friends the connection that you have with the Creator which the study describes for you these connections then you shake up that form of connection between you and the Creator and the friends in the group that you are in also. Tell me what system is more logical, more practical that you can invent?
S. There is no system that makes more sense than that?
R. This is all from the system of Adam HaRishon. It is not someone fabricating it from some way of calculating it is worthwhile this way or that no there are all kinds of beliefs and psychology but here you are being told simply in what way Adam HaRishon was created in the form of ten complete Sefirot direct ones God made man straight and then there was the shattering of all those parts that were together. They were shattered and then they demanded many calculations which is the state of shattering, and if at the state of shattering they asked to compose themselves, to reassemble themselves into a one system like it was prior to the shattering then they are observing themselves with the shattering together as they’re overcoming this whole shattering and then it turns out that instead of being particles of the inanimate, they raise themselves to the degree of vegetative, animate and speaking spiritually and that’s our actual work. These are very simple things. They are not clear to us; they are not understood. We cannot remember them with all the details that the Kabbalists write. They write billions of details that are in spirituality. Therefore it is not the wise that learn. We just need to know the principle of how to constantly be increasing connection and connection between us and to the creator and each time implement it.
S. Why is it so difficult to understand the idea of above reason? Why is it so difficult?
R. Your will to receive each time erases these things for you. It is truly so. The moment you let go of it, it already eludes you because the will to receive is what’s in you and what controls things and only under the condition that you resist it, are struggling with it, with force, then you can somewhat sustain yourself above your will to receive and also for a few moments and then once more you fall into the will to receive and this is how it is each time, that's why it is written “the righteous will fall a thousand times and rise."
S. This is a constant war until the end of correction.
R. You do not know this yet? Ask your friends if they will tell you.
21. S. (48:02) A similar question about the entrances and exits and what helps us enter spirituality it’s faith in the Sages and the fact that the Creator gets pleasure when we keep the Torah and Mitzvot, the scrutinies they are in each and every one of us this is what is common to us so the question is was so how can we somehow do it in the ten?
R. Only in persistence work and supporting and connecting with one another that is the essence of our work one will help his friend and in such a way we will compose the image of the Creator between us.
S. It is through personal examples?
R. The Kabbalists write a lot of things about that, read what they write, of work in the ten there are many details there.
22. S. (49:18) Long Italian speech without translation…
R. How could I understand what you are saying in such a way as to answer that? We need to concentrate a little bit on your speech.
S. What he is asking is he is says there are moments when is as a student am not in the lesson I am not with the friends in the corporeal material, I fall from my reason I fall from the connection what does it say about me as a student am I even a student at the time? How do I keep or do the incursion again?
R. A righteous falls a thousand times and rises again and that is our way. Whoever does not rise again does not fall whoever falls does not rise therefore ascents and descents are our constant work specifically in all those operations, those actions the entrances and the exits that kind of loose connections and we correct ourselves constantly that way. We cannot sustain something with our mind and heart for more than a second one point of contact clicks and that is not past, and I can try to be in that, but it is not good, it is not good. Let the states that flow in you to flow you just want to be constantly upon them just like upon the waves that you go with the little boat on top of the waves upon of all those states you want to be adhered to the friends and to the Creator and the states themselves the thoughts and the intentions let them change. That is how you will feel yourself better not pressured and gradually you will start to feel how all these states with the changes in them actually lead you to the feeling of the Creator in them you will feel at melody a spiritual melody.
S. He explains that many times he is afraid that he will get such a state where it will throw him out of the state from the friends and it pressures him. He is afraid that he will get states that will throw him out of the path.
R. First of all you sign a contract with the group which is called Arvut that each holds each other so you do not have to think about yourself. The fact that you are afraid that you will be thrown from the group is not a good state. You need to think and be concerned and be fearful for your friends that they will not fly away from the group and by that you are assuring your correct attitude your correct place in the group. That is how Arvut is defined. I care for everybody and by that I obligate everyone to care for me, I obligate them because the Creator is in the center of the Arvut and will aim and arrange this according to our efforts.
23. S. (54:04) When the ten-reach faith above reason is there a feeling that our teachers are in unity with us?
R. Of course, not only teachers, but you will also gradually slowly feel that many corrected souls more or less are in that whole process. It is like you are going to the highway and you can truly see the pure souls.
24. S. (54:54) How can we constantly hold on with joy to bestow to the friends if we have spies?
R. We need to rejoice from the sufferings just like we do from the gifts because all together they come to reveal to us more room for work where we need to add connection and specifically in those places the Creator wants us to put forth effort and then discover Him.
25. S. (55:42) Is it true to say that faith in the sages is parallel to an axiom in a scientific approach so I simply assume certain guidelines like Rabash writes?
R. I do not want to talk about that whole scientific, all those kinds of things, no.
S. It is enough to just follow the guidelines of Rabash without leaving anything else just to follow the instructions properly in order to get the reforming lights and to change?
R. Yes, do that in a way that you understand with your intellect to do so do that. There is no faith here, simply to follow the directions.
S. It is not about there is no faith here simply to follow instructions.
R. Follow the instructions and you will come to the force of faith; The force of faith is the force of bestowal do you hear? What scares you this word faith the force of bestowal and I want to reach the force of bestowal because it is an opposite force to the will to receive from my force of reception where I will be composed from those two forces then I will know how to compose the correct vessel to resemble the Creator.
26. S. (57:13) I want to continue the question from before. You said that during the suffering the Creator is waiting for us to make some effort so what kind of effort is expected from us?
R. So that above the sufferings the confusions and all that we will want to come to the state of connection and that we don’t feel the ability to connect, that brings us sufferings and these sufferings we need to discover in them if we approach them together then in them we discover love torments where the Creator is coming to us on purpose playing with us with this game just like we give it to a child to exert and through his exertion acquires certain knowledge a new mind from it. More and more I recommend depicting ourselves like little children relative to an adult. Then we will understand faster what the Creator wants at any given state of our burdening of our hearts.
27. S. (58:43) It says that a body always pulls the person to his own nature and only when he adheres to faith, the faith has the power to bring him out of the body's desire to go above reason. The question is, what does it mean to be attached to faith?
R. Attach to bestowal.
28. S. (59:07 Is the feeling of the greatness of the Creator the result of prayer or a work in the groups or is it a gift or loan from the Creator?
R. I would say that it is all of those together.
29. S. (59:43) What helps us to distance ourselves from calculations about getting a reward in the work and being in a state of joy when the body opposes it?
R. I am trying to do all kinds of actions between us towards the Creator. In that I need to be in joy. Those are eternal complete actions, corrected actions, in which I try through them to come to connection to eternal complete connections. I am happy. I have no greater pleasure than to be in that effort. In an effort for connection with the friends and with the whole world Kli which inevitably I discover the Creator there.
30. S. (01:01:46) Is there a way not to blemish the faith even if we fall each and every time?
R. No, that is not possible. It is not that we are blemishing the faith there was when we are raising to a higher degree of ego and upon it will try to find the greater force of bestowal.
31. S. (01:01:11) Is there such a thing as blemishing the faith?
R. No, we are raised in holiness, not lower.
32. S. (01:01:23) Should I believe in abstract faith above reason because the Creator commanded us to take faith upon ourselves, what is abstract faith?
R. I do not know what she means. We need to see whether it is from Rabash or the Baal HaSulam. Then we need to see what he writes around it. What he means, whether it is from the side of the lights or from the side of the vessels.
33. S. (01:02:05) I understand from this that we need to pray for the friends to be an example for the group. What does it mean not to work alone but with the ten how to do this?
R. We need to talk about spiritual upliftment, about spiritual actions between us all the time. In such a way that it will become clear to us that if we at least do not talk about this and do not feel that we are coming closer. Then our action is not a spiritual action. Constantly, constantly in our actions demand to bring the heart closer to the desires and the thoughts closer without this our action is not an action but on the contrary, we will eventually receive harm instead of benefit.
34. S. (01:03:21) If the person works all the time without a reward for his effort, labor, where will he get pleasure?
R. Where will he get pleasure? Pleasure, he receives from making efforts he receives from the force of bestowal from the work itself. He becomes through those efforts, and they become slowly a craftsman, one who enjoys the work itself. He does not need a salary; he does not need money. He enjoys the work itself. This is called the craftsman or the artist. This is our work. It needs to be an artistry, where we do not demand anything to perform this work of ours. To make from our will to receive a form that is called Adam. Adam means a small creator, one that is similar to the Creator. When I will relate to the whole world, to all the creatures, of course to the Creator too, l the Creator. This is called that I become an Adam. This is it. I do not need anything else. This is actually my work, and this is my reward.
35. S. (01:05:30) How does the person know that he truly gives contentment to the Creator with his deed?
R. The Creator needs to be revealed inside the person because then they have a certain equivalence of form. This is called where I am for my beloved and my beloved it is for me, that the Creator is something that the person becomes similar to the Creator in his actions and intentions towards the society and then Creator is also revealed inside those actions those deeds that one stabilized himself like the Creator. The Creator I can do and stabilizes himself as the Creator the Creator comes as the form of light inside that action inside that Partzuf, inside the soul, inside those 10 Sephirot. Then it turns out that this way the created being clothes the creator or the Creator clothes into the created being.
36. S. (01:06:38) The Creator is defined as a force; how does the force get contentment or pleasure?
R. By us feeling that way that He is enjoying this feeling from us, and he is delighted by us. We never talk about the Creator that exists outside of the created beings. Rather only in the created beings that He is revealed inside the created beings, and this is how we understand it.
37. S. (01:07:11) If giving contentment to the Creator is something airy and inconceivable concept I cannot grasp, is it correct to translate it to contentment to the ten?
R. It is a means to come to give contentment to the Creator and to reveal Him.
38. S. (01:07:31) If we are not supposed to do anything within reason, then how can we aim ourselves to the next degree? How do we establish it before us? How do we use our freedom of choice correctly?
R. We need each time to try and see ourselves in connection between us otherwise we will imagine spirituality in an unrealistic way. In the connection between where we want to connect and bestow to one another. In that bestowal towards one another we need to try and feel what is the spiritual action in which I restrict myself where I am in vessels of bestowal when I am in vessels of reception in order to bestow. This is after I established myself within this connection with the friends.
39. S. (01:08:43) How can I stop entering into myself each time and not to be in that pain but rather to replace my intention entirely from myself to the friends?
R. We need to work on this until we receive importance for the Creator and for bestowal to the Creator through the ten. I do not want anything else except that action.
40. S. (01:09:15) How do I intensify the connection between us if I do not check it in the present moment? How can we go in faith in that present form?
R. We first need to connect between us, to examine the connection between us and then talk about the essence of the connection. What we want to fill ourselves with as a result of that connection.
R. I just wanted to tell the women that I am really, really satisfied from your question. Very good questions, very powerful questions to the point. Thank you very much. A great thanks. It helps me greatly through to scrutinize our spiritual work.
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41. S. (01:12:07) You are constantly aiming us to talk to each other. I wanted to ask if when we speak to each other should each friend feel as though he is talking to himself?
R. I meant not to be too closed up but as much as we need to talk with one another not necessarily, I do not think about the blah blah blah blah talk. Where we will need more and more, the inner conversation, the inner connection as if I am talking with the friends and I understand what I am thinking they are thinking too, what I am feeling they are feeling too until we are coming to a state of the connection between us which will appear to us as one. We do not need to talk and move the breath from one mouth to another to the ear or something like that.
S. The question is about the approach that is should I feel that I am talking to the friends openly as though I would speak to myself as though I am speaking to the Creator?
R. No when we talk to the friends we need to talk only after I examine that my speech will help them not lower them but rather help them ascend.
S. But let us say that we are being directed to pray to the Creator we are directed that nothing should be hidden from him that we talk to him and it’s all wide open he knows everything. Why shouldn’t it be the same with the friends?
R. We need to reach one Kli to the extent in which I nullify before with friends and connect to the friends in order to help them and be ready to receive help from them which causes our incorporation then through that incorporation, we come to a complete Kli in which the Upper force, the Upper light can arrange and fill, and receive pleasure through that where the Kli we’re composing is just like that just bestowal that he is bringing us and then there will be Dvekut.
S. There has to be a mutual feeling?
R. Of course, a common feeling between us and between us and the Creator until the whole world feels that way.
42. S. (01:15:30) Is it okay in the ten to let each other know we appreciate each other to say it to one another?
R. Yes, not all the time but sometimes it is possible to show this respect for each other and demonstrate that yes.
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43. S. (01:19:46) What does it mean to work with all of your heart and all you might even if he takes your soul?
R. With everything you got very simple without leaving anything for yourself.
44. S. (01:20:13) To take the burden of the Kingdom of Heaven to accept that the Creator is in the ten?
R. This is called to position the force of bestowal above the force of reception in a simple way I do not want to discuss the Creator that becomes revealed in the ten that we will think of some idol worshiping of something that appears or does not appear, we are talking about something, simple bestowal, being more important than reception.
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45. S. (01:25:16) Rav, our ten really appreciates the daily tasks we get. Should we everyday have a new task to do a new observation and an aspiration to unite in order to not lose flavors and go into a routine?
R. Routine could only be as a result of the lack of exertion but from putting in the efforts we are always in inner changes and then there is no routine so do not be afraid of routine. With the right work in the Wisdom of Kabbalah there is no routine and every time every state is new, you are always renewing.
46. S. (01:26:29) A question about foreign thoughts, how to work with them correctly in order to not leave the battlefield?
R. We can advance only by foreign thoughts foreign desires because that’s what we have left from the shattering of the Kli of Adam Ha Rishon and each and every one should be ready in that each and every moment to receive a broken thought a broken desire and recognize that is coming from the Creator as a reward for getting an opportunity to correct oneself and try to bring contentment to the Creator and bring oneself closer to the Creator, so we should bless for the bad as we bless for the good and thus advance, and there’s no problem with that. I am telling you from experience we have to try more and more to try to transcend the disturbances more and more and be happy that the Creator is not forgetting us and is giving us new work to do. That is it. What is so bad about it? Just tell me what are you expecting to be? To do spiritual work by which we come closer to the Creator and getting closer between us to building a Kli the Kli of Adam Ha Rishon that’s the highest most sublime unique work that exists in reality and therefore we should be happy as much as we can and also each one shall help his friend to do such actions that we’ll want to increasingly build the general Kli. There is no other higher, more unique work in the world, especially in our state. We should be prideful about it. I understand that you fall into despair and helplessness but why do we fall? We fall because the Creator is adding onto us more will to receive, he is revealing the will to receive in us more and more so we can correct it so the moment a new broken will to receive becomes revealed from the shattering then we see how broken we are so what it says a thousand times the righteous shall fall and rise and so that’s how we should advance.
S. If I read the excerpt, during the lesson I get foreign thoughts. What should I do, wait for it to go away or can I at least work with it?
R. Why will I wait for it until it passes by that I am not doing any spiritual effort. My spiritual action is actually how I work with the foreign thoughts. After the shattering we cannot have any thought or desire to correct everything that surfaces as broken now. If I sit and wait this is called the fool sits in his own lap and eats his own flesh so I must not do that. I have to bring myself to a state where I, obviously for a moment there, I disconnect from the spiritual action otherwise that would mean that I absorb the new state that awakens from the shattering but then I have to see how I work with it how do I relate this thought and this desire to the friends the group and all of us then how do we work on these states. That’s it and one should help his friend in that I seemingly turn to the friends and the Creator to give me the strength to achieve Arvut between us and receive this shared desire between us to overcome the desire that he revealed in me and then I bring that desire with the correction to our corrected mutual common vessel and that’s how we all rise to a state called erecting or raising the divinity from the shattering that occurred between us.
47. S. (01:32:55) The words of gratitude in this excerpt, I say it every morning, the Creator returned my soul but now actually it turns out that he helped me awaken for spiritual work.
R. Right, right.
48. S. (01:33:27) To what extent can a person awaken friends and feel that the Creator wants to give us the next stage of being in this intense work? To what place should we work above reason and not search for a reward and be even closer than what you are telling us?
R. Look I think we have to understand that our work has to be always above what appears in us broken desires broken thoughts and thus advance and not to accept anything within our ordinary mind and heart but to adapt ourselves to the form of faith of bestowal and from bestowal we’ll discover that we’re coming to a new vessel to a new attitude and that new vessel will be called a soul and in it we’ll begin to feel ourselves and the Creator that we are intertwined.
S. Not to believe anything we see for instance there are things that we do not get to we do not attain but we are so close. Should we change what we see?
R. No we just need to describe to ourselves that besides our life here in this world between us in the ten we have to assemble a new system of connection between us that’s in order to bestow and that connection that we build in order to bestow we raise it like that to the Creator and then the Creator appears in it based on equivalence of form. That means we are making the Creator that is our work. Now we are getting very close to the practicality of this soon. I hope we will start discovering this in practice.
49. S. (01:36:48) How can we increase our interactions between us, the inner connection?
R. It is only by not forgetting about the right response that each and every moment we catch ourselves and see in what relationships between us and between us and the Creator we are in. Try to establish each and every moment as much as we can grab hold of these moments out of our life until we come to a state where we never leave if we can say that never exit the connection between us and the Creator.
50. S. (01:37:41) From this last excerpt “the matter of concealment", it is clear that it is necessarily am I supposed to give my ten and then ask for faith above it?
R. You do not need to make an effort you just need to try to be present in our lessons and that will lead you to do all kinds of actions of concealment between us and the Creator and you will start recognizing what types of concealment exist between us and the Creator
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S. (01:37:44) From this last excerpt, the matter of concealment it is clear that it is necessary. Am I supposed to build my own concealment and then ask for faith above it?
R. You do not need to make an effort. You just have to try to be present in our lessons and that will lead you to all kinds of actions of concealment between us and the Creator and you will start recognizing what types of concealment exist between us and the Creator.
S. (01:38:34) It is written in seventy-one that if a person wants to get pleasure so it conceals the Creator from them so we should always be in an intention to not be in this?
R. No, we want to bring contentment to the Creator. It is opposite to receiving pleasure in vessels of the reception. We can bring contentment to the Creator only on the condition that we try to rise above our vessels of reception to bestowal and in such a way we will be. Soon we will move to preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and there we will talk about that force of bestowal.