Morning Lesson April 3, 2021
1. Rav’s Introduction: So with a mighty hand he will send them so we will come to a state where we can detect in our relationships in the ten that we have difficulty connecting in the way the Torah as one man with one heart. The one that is interfering is Pharaoh and him we have to expel from our hearts. This is thanks to Pharaoh that we can get closer and we can unite and we can come to a state where we are truly one man with one heart because he shows us how we are still immersed in ourselves each of us within ourselves and the cannot rise above the boundaries of the egoistic nature the Creator created us in. So now we have to go both above the boundary of our ego which is called the exodus from Egypt. How do we come out? Only on the way Pharaoh shows us meaning the whole ego that is in each of us, how we can go against it, how we are not only unable to resist this but also that we are working for this evil force, we cater for it. Each time in all kinds of states and all kinds of exercises, he shows us how he is playing with us, willingly or unwillingly. But nevertheless we obey the demands of Pharaoh. There has to be a revelation of our desire to receive in the most powerful, most evil, most massively against us so we can understand that this is the one and only enemy. Then there is nothing besides it as our enemy there is no other enemy only our ego and we can detect it only through the connections between us in the ten.
Only through our common work can we then reach the state, where we see how much we are incapable of doing anything. This force is in the hands of the Creator as he writes, with a mighty hand and then we turn to the Creator and demand that he will treat and take care of Pharaoh because we ourselves are very weak. Here we go into those relationships between us and the Pharaoh as a one by one through the ten plagues we become ready to strike our ego to rise above it. Then come out from slavery after the last plague come out of its control. This is how we are redeemed from the Exile. This is it so let's read the writings why with mighty hand will the Creator send them, this is what the Creator does because without great pressure, with great fear, states where we feel that there is no choice when we feel completely pressed otherwise it is in possible that we would be able to come out and move away from the evil inclination, from Pharaoh, from Egypt. Pharaoh is the inner Force and Egypt is a more general force, we can say that this whole world is Egypt and what we see, what we feel, the internal feelings, the forces and the king of Egypt is the inner force, the thoughts in the desires, the selfish thoughts and desires.
Excerpt 173 (05:53 - 07:30)
2. In other words the whole purpose of the Creator is to bring the created beings to a state where they can see what force governs them and then when they see that they cannot emerge from the power and the control of this selfish force. Then they become willing to perform and do all kinds of actions to come out of its governance if they want to come out and then with their acts of connection in all kinds of ways they also see that they still cannot connect and they still cannot attain the power of bestowal. They cry out to the Creator. Only this correct outcry to the Creator and they try to unite and they cry out to the Creator from this pain and they cry out because they want to walk on the path of truth towards connection, towards rising each one above their personal selfish egos in order to unite together and we by that resemble the Creator as much as possible. So if their direction is this and it is correct then the Creator helps them, he helped them even before as even before the Creator created all those states for them but those were opposite to the final goal because these are the states of recognition of evil. When they recognize the evil sufficiently to come to the next state on the path, then the Creator starts to help them assemble and unite and in this way they can obtain a common good force and acquire the degree on the path, the degree of connection. By this they already have a special certain attainment of the connection between them and with the Creator with the power of connection and this way specifically through the mighty hand when the Creator by waking up the evil force between them, he compels them to want to come to the good force. By that they have two forces, the evil and the good forces together as God created them and this way they begin to walk on two legs, left and right and the power of separation and the power of connection will be in their hands. When love covers all crimes, when there is separation and a crown, the power of connection, over it through prayer throughout cry, litany through all the efforts we can do and by this they try to unite and discover the good force over the evil force. Specifically because the advantage of the light is from within the darkness they discover the upper system, the right relationships between them and the Creator. This is how we progress until all the incidents that the Creator shows them in the dark in Egypt, in exile, they bring the light of redemption over the light of correction and the light is the filling and the Creator himself is becoming revealed in this way. But everything is revealed on top of the Pharaoh on top of the exile, the force of darkness.
3. S. (12:01) What's the kind of connection we need to establish to feel the mighty hand as our ten?
R. We read in the social articles and we studied this many times especially with what Rabash writes, the types of connection to be as a one man with one heart and Baal HaSulam writes in the articles of The Arvut and actually the whole wisdom speaks about the kind of connection we have to establish between us so in this connection we will reveal the spiritual world and the Creator. A connection of the absolute bestowal, love, connection, mutual support and so on, to be as one man with one heart.
4. S. (13:19) When we reach a demand and an inability to act as the Creator wants?
R. We have to advance so much that we gradually attain this desire, that we want so much to finally emerge from the distance between us and from the distance between us and the Creator. So first of all the first of all the relate and connect the connection to the Creator to the connection between us because at the beginning it is not so clear so first of all the work on the connection between us as it is written that from the love of people to the love of the Creator and from this we come to meaning through testing and the criticizing and building the connections between us in all kinds of possibilities and the kinds and opportunities from this we begin to see what else is missing for us to really come to be connected between us as one man with one heart as it really is because we are all pieces of a single system one organ in a body because they are all kinds of pieces but they're all working under one mechanism, one goal, for one purpose. So this is what we should come to so in order for us to receive some sort of a demonstration, some ability, a place to play with this we were given the ten and this situation in our world so in this we begin to feel but we can really do to somehow become connected.
S. (15:41) However, it is important to really feel that this is what the Creator gives without mighty hand because usually we’re simply feel that we are not capable so we try to do it and it seems as if we succeeded, should we feel that this is the Creator who is giving this to us?
R. It will all be revealed gradually we just have to progress. We may need to set conditions we have to progress and approach the connection and if we need to connect then we go for connection if we have to get closer we try to get closer if we need support we will support each other we need to perform all kinds of activities in order to connect ourselves into a single system. As if each of us is a part of that system and then we're like hands and legs in the body the head the different organs in this body we connect to one and other into one system to come to one goal where each act as much as he can according to his nature towards the same goal and then the same goal should shine for us and giving us the strength to connect. If the goal is important and we overcome the desire to receive that separates us and on top of it we unite. This is how we advance and we learn from this what is the power of separation and opposite to that's what is the power of connection and by this we one step at a time towards a state where all the coarseness and refinement and all of it is connected together.
S. (17:58) What does it mean that the screen?
R. All of our desires although they are selfish and we reject one and other if our desires have the same goal then this goal connects the different desires and then we work together. Look at the world, in the world you have 120 countries let's say and all of them have their own goal each country and they don't want to connect but only to destroy each other but if there is no choice and we have to let say we have to live together although each one remains as a single unit by themselves, above them let's say they connect.
S. (19:08) Meaning the screen is what is coming?
R. The screen is a special force that connects us together although internally we remain opposite, different just as in nature each and every part of nature has within it, in its own inner structure. It is different from the others but they connect according to the goal according to what can become of them so we don't take it in the opposite nature into account but only the common goal like there is nothing more opposite for example than men and a woman but if they want to connect in order to create a family and continue the species then they connect then they united this is what it's all about
5. S. (20:32) You talked about the revelation of the light of the Creator, what do we actually reveal then?
R. We reveal the power of connection which stands opposite to the power of rejection which exists in the desire to receive which the Creator created. In this power of connection we reveal all kinds of phenomena which we call lights, ascents, descents etc.
6. S. (21:31) Why does it seem that this process takes a long time as people take efforts for many years before reaching this outcry, why does it take so long?
R. Because our evil inclination is very deep and complex and we have to rise above it to reach the Creator that's why the depth the manner of the evil inclination determines how much we have to overcome because he who is greater than his friend his evil inclination is also greater. If the person has a big soul, it takes him a lot longer and a lot more effort to achieve something with some success in the spiritual advancement than regular people. So we don't need to take examples from each other some may reach the end of his own personal correction relatively quickly as opposed to another who is hardly advancing even for decades and who knows when he might finish it but because the other one has a difficulty in his progress he has a great deep soul and he has to carry this load, this sack on his shoulder until each quota comes to a form that is ready for connection.
S. (23:42) What nonetheless gives us the strength to hold on for so many years in physical life I would not invest even one-tenth of this effort I would give up if I didn't succeed so what does give us the force to progress?
R. We have no choice. In the physical life, we get powers by achieving some goals and relatively small efforts with these are only partial temporary rewards and goals and what do you get out of them. It is as if you get some satisfaction here and there but here on the spiritual path when you do succeed you succeed eternally, greatly. We are still not aware of how much each step in spirituality is complete and very special. You cannot compare it to anything in physical life. In the physical life what you achieved yesterday you don't want today anymore, you move forward because egotistically what you attained today is cancelled and it cancels your today, this is how it is. It is not like that in spirituality, in spirituality everything you attain is wholeness you still have to discover the manner of spirituality and its character.
7. S. (25:34) Does any blow bring us closer to the purpose of creation or he needs conditions, understanding?
R. Each blow we suffer from our ego. The more it is directed towards the ego, the more it promotes you.
8. S. (25:59) The question about the ability of the vessel to receive the light. Does it depend on the complete despair of the ten?
R. The ability to correct ourselves and raise ourselves first and foremost depends on our efforts to reach connection and out of this effort the come to the resolution that we cannot come to it by our own strength and then when we still unite among us in order to master the common force and the to break the resistance of the ego which stands on our way and does not let us to come to spirituality because spirituality becomes more and more clarified to us as the connection between us. Yet we can’t. Then we begin to cry out, to really cry out to the Creator. That we do want to unite we do want to understand what is the spiritual force but we cannot achieve this and therefore because we have no choice and according to the information we now learn we ask the Creator to do this for us because it is clear that we cannot attain the power of bestowal, that spirituality is connection yet we cannot obtain it ourselves that's why we turn to the Creator to help us since he created us this way and then it follows the rule “my sons defeated me”, the Creator built the evil inclination and we demand the good inclination and this is how we progress.
9. S. (28:20) Is Pharaoh revealed in our thoughts or in our emotions?
R. In both, just like the Creator afterwards in his place, instead of Pharaoh.
Excerpt 174 (32:54 - 34:27) twice
10. R. We have an enemy against us, something opposite to us and it is strong, it is armed with all kinds of forces, powers and weapons against us with great wisdom then we can discover how strong we are but if we are facing some one weak or childish than we cannot discover those things. This is why our ego grows from generation to generation showing itself as successful governing all parts of reality. Although it does not seem to us, it seems that it shows us nothing like this but it is not like that it is to the contrary it shows us in every situation in life it is a present and determines everything and we have no choice we have to fight it in order to bring it down from its level, to dethrone it. He does not relate to it as something eternal special that controls us. That really he is the king of our lives so we have to bring it down from its high throne to zero and only take from it only what is necessary which don't pertain to recognize it's greatness only that pertains to our body because our body does depends on it but our minds and heart the purpose of our development it is all only towards the power of bestowal the high light and not the power of a reception of Pharaoh.
11. S. (36:40) How can we understand that the time is right, that this point of resistance to everything we do is here and not that we really miss something, how can we know that we are really ready?
R. This stands opposite to your ability to prefer the power of connection over the power of separation how much you choose spiritual life in connection in the society among you to the physical life where you live on this road experience only this world only for yourself and other such examinations according to that you can measure where you are with respect to spirituality how far you are perhaps already from the physical life.
12. S. (38:01) In the excerpt 173 something confuses me. The demand that you are able to walk the path of through so only to have a vessel to receive the abundance. What does it mean that we do not have the right vessel?
R. He is speaking of vessels of bestowal which we have to prefer to vessels of reception, this is it, these vessels these qualities accumulate in us until we begin to discover that we are already in them.
13. S. (39:01) In this excerpt there is some subtlety which is difficult to perceive: if the ‘mighty hand’, the Creator, throws us out of Egypt but yesterday we said that strong envy won’t allow us to be in Egypt. How do we connect these concepts ‘might hand’ and ‘strong envy?’
R. I wouldn’t try to compare these things between these two qualities. ‘With a mighty hand’ is the Creator who works this way with us showing us that we have Pharaoh’s mighty hand behind us who catches us from behind and then we begin to appreciate the Creator’s hand pulling us out of Egypt. In this way, the Creator, the upper force plays on us with those two forces and then we grow between the two, where once were incorporated in one and another time in the other, every step of the way. This is really the learning that we have to acquire throughout this process of the exodus from Egypt.
14. S. (40:40) It is not clear: why should you need the mighty hand when Pharaoh is the posterior side of the Creator and there is nothing else besides him?
R. Ok you need to think how to phrase your questions so that we can understand you. Maybe it is my fault but I do not understand you. There are several words that are missing here and I do not understand.
S. Why do we need this thinking when Pharaoh is the posterior side of the Creator?
R. Yes, Pharaoh is the posterior side of the Creator so then this upper force of the Creator should control us from both directions. With a greater force of Pharaoh -- through greater, more powerful blows and with the force of the Creator who has no choice but to activate himself more so, specifically through Pharaoh -- ‘you will know Me,’ says the Creator. And when the two forces are revealed, one opposite the other, in the end what happens is we get to know the Creator on top of Pharaoh. We cannot discover the spiritual force unless there is the opposite force from it. This is why it says, ‘come to Pharaoh because I have hardened his heart.’ Why go to Pharaoh? Because then you will know me.
15. S. (43:21) It is not clear who should be strong, the person working against his ego or the Creator who has to bring him out of ego?
R. A person has to be smarter than being strong. Smarter, to be able to reveal, check and see that he cannot go against his ego and that he has no choice but to subjugate himself, submit and yield himself to the Creator. Pharaoh needs to be there only so we can have an indication, a revelation that, here, we have to have the power of the Creator.
16. S. (44:22) You just said that at some place, one should prefer the vessels of bestowal? How can we do this as a 10 now?
R. If you feel the need for it in the connection between you, that you want to connect and you’re lacking the force of connection and every time you discover that the opposite force of connection -- distance, the rejection works more and more between you, cooling you down -- then you start crying out, you ask. Then after this outcry, by the outcry you attain the force of connection.
S. Yesterday evening we met and it turns out the friends who gathered in the 10 over the years suddenly told us that, right now, he doesn't feel anything. He cannot have any thoughts of bestowal and love. On the one hand, we connected -- he stood with us -- and on the other hand this is how he felt, so how can we pray for such a friend?
R. Of course you have to pray for the 10 and he also is in the 10 specifically because his state is good. Up until now, he was working with the force of Pharaoh, working in that direction both when he is close and far. Now for the first time, he discovered that upon the Pharaoh that is revealed, he has only one chance to come to a truthful connection which is not by the egoistic forces that he can connect to all of you. He truly needs the upper force and because this is revealed in him, you can connect to him specifically and also ask for the forces of connection above your ego, already. There is a connection that is done in the ego that you used to have, previously. Here, we see how it works in new groups, beginner groups, they have no choice so they do it and they’re successful. To them they seem so successful, so advanced and they feel very good. It’s like small children playing together between themselves. Later on comes the bigger ego, Pharaoh comes and grows and then they feel that they cannot continue like before, they cannot continue in the same style, to be connected this way. Then they are perplexed, this is what it means that ‘the children of Israel sighed from their work and their cry came up to God.’ Meaning they have to cry out to God to give them a discernment of connection, something. This is how they attain, one by one, time after time. More and more they attain the need for connection and this need is becoming more essential every time and more spiritual. And the force of connection is also more spiritual, so just don't let go of this.
17. S. (48:28) Over the last few lessons and the excerpts we read, we learned that the quality of bestowal comes to Israel and tells them that they are working for themselves and cannot work in order to bestow, while Israel is certain they can work for bestowal. Now we in the 10 are working among us, so how should the quality of Moses appear so it will show us that we do everything in order to receive, what is this quality, is it Rav?
R. This quality is when we only act for our own sake, is the quality of the common will to receive that is in the 10. Then we already know what we should do, against what we should be aimed at, what we should do.
S. We’re sitting in the lesson now, we connect in the 10 -- we are told that we have to connect. I for one am sure that I am performing actions to connect. If I understand correctly, Moses’ quality should tell me that I do it incorrectly. I have to see that I am doing it incorrectly and to cry out to the Creator. What does this mean? How do I discover that I'm working incorrectly?
R. You should keep on going as much as you can, do whatever you can do, do everything that you can do, when you do everything you can in order to reach connection, and a later whatever is revealed will be revealed, but in the meantime it is like a little child doing everything that he can, everything that is possible. He does not know what is more of it is less he is just investing himself totally and whatever happens, happens. We are organized in such a way that if I do everything that is required from me, then both the good forces and the evil forces, the seemingly evil forces will be revealed, and aim as together both, the evil and the good towards the right goal, this is how we progress. Your questions are correct but please hear the answers as well, you should simply keep on going in a single direction without all kinds of twists on the way or detours, and the direction is towards unity, only unity can give us the answer every time when we seemingly reach this unity in the ten what you find is a bigger range of connection, and then again we see that we are not connected, it was not there at all even before and this is because instead of 1 it becomes 10 times more, and then instead of 10 times more it becomes 100 times more, this is how we reveal ourselves that we have to work on the connection more and more.
Excerpt 175 (53:04 - 53:14)
18. R. This is clear that according to the forces one invests one is pushed back, that’s when he asks where is the success? What he should see as success is that the Creator places more and more barriers, obstacles until he discovers all of them, until he discovers the absolute in need to overcome all the obstacles, until then we cannot reach the goal. Is this clear?
19. S. (54:51) The Creator created the still, vegetative, inanimate, and speaking of thousands of years of evaluation so we can sit now on the morning lessons and learn from our great teacher how to rise above Pharaoh and unite among us and this is how we realize the purpose of our lives? Is this the goal?
R. You cannot even see 1% of the path and you are already asking about the goal? This is completely not natural, like a small child when he's going to the kindergarten on his first day, and he comes home and he says I don't want to go to the kindergarten anymore, this is life, and I have to go to school and do other things and I have to wake up and go to some place, I don't want it. This is how it seems to him that his whole life is how he experienced his first day in kindergarten. Don't do these summaries of what you understand, as you understand it from this world and you don't even know this world from the spiritual side, How important it is, how required it is, the Creator created it as a preparation step for spirituality, so at least don't summarize things the way you were doing, it this is not a wise thing to do.
20. S. (56:43) This amazing process as we go through this Passover this year as compared to previous years. Is thrusting us forward. The question is in the excerpt of the chariots. I always thought that the chariots were on the positive side and not only from the side of holiness, and not from a disturbance to advance
R. There is no such thing, you always one vs. the other There is never something good revealed from spirituality if previously we did not discover some evil pains in corporeality and that evil, when we treat it in the right way becomes a good spiritual thing, only this way.
S. Thank you very much Rav.
R. That is why we have to stand on both feet to relate to things seriously like men. This is good and this is bad this is why it is revealed this way that later it will be revealed in a different way. Try to be along with the great weakness and also get great strength.
21. S. (58:23) It is written that the people of Israel in the Exodus of Egypt ate Matzot. What does it mean to eat Matzah Passover bread?
R. Eating Matzah means that they came out and they could not bake the bread as usual as everyone does with the bread, so because they were in haste they were running away from Egypt, they ran to come out of Egypt that is why there dough didn't become sour and as it was they put it into the oven for 1 minute and immediately they took it out that's how they ran on the way, that's a sign of haste. There are other signs we will learn later what it means that the used little amount of water. This is where we take that recipe from. You can be sure that there is nothing incidental here. It’s not by chance.
22. S. (01:00:16) We are feeling our desperation as a 10 to overcome the state, how can we attract the upper light to our vessel, our Kli?
R. I read from being a few verses that everything we can do is only ask and if we do ask you for asking together in a way that we force the Creator you have to help us you do this things and we are ready we're willing to connect as much as we can where it's impossible you'll have to come and help us and that's how we force him. Meaning after we did everything we can do we understand what we need to do according to our degree? We turn to him and now we say that's it, what's next is your work, where are you? We are in one system. The demand has to come from us to you that you will help that you will do, which is called raising of MAN. What comes from you is help in our understanding and feeling in the force, this answer is called MAD. Where is that? We need to have these forces. It's not that we ourselves are trying to be heroes, what we want is just like Pharaoh we felt that he controls us, not letting us move. In each and every cell in each and every desire every thought is in us that's what. This is what we want you to do. We want you to enter and control us. That you will insert yourself in us and we want to feel you between us, us organizing us and everything that happens between us, in us and that's why we annul ourselves. We want you to be in control and want you to be in control because we don't have any strength or understanding or anything besides the fact that we really want you to fulfill that space that used to be filled by Pharaoh.
23. S. (01:03:46) Normally in the 10 there is a part there on the left of the part that's on the right, how can we ask together to be all in the same situation to all come out of Egypt if we're all not in the same state?
R. We can't and enter each other's soul, what we need to add of each internality, to yearn for connection as much as we can for me. It doesn't matter what form of connection my friend or my mind is imagining or depicting. The main thing is that we all want it to happen the Creator will organize this thing that's why we call him inclusive, the organizer who includes us and encompasses us he does make us into one from all our desires for him to control. It will happen we asking him to control us.
24. S. (01:05:00) In the outcry to the Creator there are two parts I cry to the Creator to bring me out of Egypt and another outcry to pass me through the Red Sea, what's the difference between the outcries?
R. It doesn't work that way, you try and put the states together, it goes by grades each and everything according to the deficiency the desire that awakens.
S. Isn't it the same deficiency?
R. It's not the same state, not the same deficiency, any state has its own deficiency its own fulfillment. Each and everything is in its place.
Excerpt 176 (01:07:01 -01:09:58) Twice
R. You see that there is no concessions until the Creator shows all the evil that exist in the evil inclination, all the resistance for connection for holiness until then nothing happens when we feel that how much all the way all along the path we are helpless we have no strength nothing then you can say that's for fury that's poured on us and we have nothing to do but to give such an outcry that only that will help us cross the barrier but everyone ultimately will need to pass and the Creator has these two forces and we’re in between as clay in the hand of the maker, He will arrange us in a way that's we will want it, both from the good side and the bad side it will help us advance in the right way there is no question about that.
25. S. (01:11:15) Why does it say that the Creator pours out fury on him?
R. The Creator always wants to bring us to a state that will see the mighty hand will see that we're incapable of passing on ourselves when neither in ... bringing or in our own emotions we're in the strength we have to reach a state where we raise our hands and cry out because then they can take or vessel here knows himself to it and then the vessel will be organized properly to be fit to him that's how it is.
26. S. (01:12:25) The only way to break in to the King's Palace, the only way into the King's Palace is to break in?
R. The only way to go in the King's Palace is to break in, that's where it is.
S. The tool we have to break in is through the right outcry?
R. Yes, the right outcry certainly comes out of pressure, it's a problem, yes.
S. What is the correct action we have to work on now? Or is it that we attempt to make a strong prayer and through that process we build enough desire to break through or do we attempt to break through until we get to the level where the frustration brings us to the correct outcry?
R. No, I don't think we can meaningfully know. We are incapable of reaching any outcry or any correct action unless we try to build it on our own. That's why to simply cry out is like children do as if they really want. We know that they don't really want to. They're just acting as if he really wants however what we have to do is to perform an action as if we do it from beginning to end and were sort certain were organizing properly and you have no doubt we're going to do it we going to finish it we're going to establish a spiritual state and the fact that we read it we learned it's many times that everything only attained by the force of a prayer it’s a pray that comes out of a deficiency when we gave all the strength or one hundred percent of our forces and we went on to succeed and then the last moment the Creator tricked us and it won't give us that's why we're turning it to him both with disappointment, anger and with the request and crying and all kinds of shapes and we demand his help to build a new spiritual state. But to begin with we are starting with a request, we don't have the deficiency, we don't have the disappointment. We don't have despair, we don't have it. We have to try to do everything on her own whatever we can and only in the end when we see when we're incapable then we discovered that here truly only the Creator help so returning to him and then we have a real demand. Where are you come on you have to come and help us. You built us in the way that we can't do it but we really want now we discovered that it all depends on you. Then comes the help. That's the meaning of “my sons have defeated me” there are many things there that we have to attain out of our effort to carry it out on our own.
S. During this whole lesson and holiday, each one comes into the boat with his own ore and rowing in his own direction, with his own understanding and feeling. It’s as if we can't come to our own deficiency. One comes with their own problems,
R. The true prayer has to be out of disappointment, that we did it all, we were 100% sure we are capable and ultimately we see we are incapable of succeeding when the Creator in the way that I would say unclean if you can say, impure, unfair way you tricked us he did it on purpose so that we want succeed and then we come to him with such a demand with anger on the one hand. On the other hand, we discover how much love you put into it and care and the fact that he is suffering, it's not that we're suffering, but what am I trying to say all in all, I'm trying to say one thing here. We have to do these things and only once I carry it out there is none wise like the experienced then we discover that we are incapable, we don't have the strength enough to do it, only the Creator. Then we discover that there's no one else beside him means that he holds the keys to anything.
27. S. (01:19:22) The Creator uses the mighty hand when the ten is connected maybe in order to teach us to maintain this connection?
R. The ten uses the connection in order to maintain the connection we should always come to an intensity and you kind of connection and the old one is called anymore because when the will to receive grows between us becomes greater all the time greater than the intensity of the connection with we are and that's why we're already deteriorating according to the connection we previously attained and then we have to connect again very quickly that's how we advanced.
28. S. (01:20:37) In the end everything happens in order to bring us to a state of one man as one heart and this is how a person can reach the Creator?
R. Yes.
29. S. (01:21:17) What is the spiritual substance we are made of?
R. I heard that it is written that that's the will to receive, there is no other measure. What do you do with it? You connect the pieces as much as you can and you ask to create a vessel to pour his light, the glue, so we can be together.
30. S. (01:22:00) It seems like the Creator is like a father that keeps trying to climb and ask him and needs his hand doesn't give us what we need to have the right deficiency?
R. That’s incorrect. We ask what we think we should ask and he gives us what we need. We don’t always identify with what we are getting but nevertheless we should try to see what we're getting from him each and every moment we are getting what we need. That I get it from the Creator. That's why it's perfect for the time being and what's revealed to me I have to raise MAN to the Creator to connect me more. That's how we advance.
S. If all the operation happened on our part from below so what does it mean that the Creator pours out his fury upon us that he does this operation if we have to do it?
R. How do we reach some action with doing it, because the Creator awakens an unpleasant state within us, how else can we move?
31. S. (01:24:00) Where is safe from the Creator all kinds of rejection and obstacles along the way on the other hand we are commanded not to place an obstacle before a blind person, how does those things reconcile?
R. It reconciles, without obstacles we can't move our whole ascent into degrees is about obstacles, but this obstacle is no obstacle. We’ll make it into a very easy ascent. Under the condition that we arrange the right relation to all of these questions that the Creator awakens within us. He only makes these question, these problem if he's not in there and if we organize a relation to it, there is no connection each in every deficiency in this state is he's revealed is the lack of the creations greatest presence in it
32. S. (01:25:25) The mighty hand and the fury poured out the only way is to come out through a true demand, so what is the true demand?
R. What is a true demand? Only adhesion between us in which we will reveal the Creator reaching one vessel and the light that feels that vessel.
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Excerpt 177 (01:29:47 - 01:29:59)
32A. R. It is in the same body when a person feels himself that he has the force of Moses and the Egyptian force, not wanting to connect with the Creator and how he works with these two forces. Yes...
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32B. R. This is a very difficult writing, I don't think that we can already discuss it, maybe we'll continue let's leave it as a question mark.
Excerpt 178 (01:34:07 - 01:35:39)
32. R. Truth is I am not sure that today these excerpts are right for us. We are in some heaviness, tiredness that's how I feel it, even the questions that are asked are not exactly following the text.
33. S.(01:36:06) He said killing the Egyptian, meaning corporeal lusts, what do I have to kill all my corporeal lusts in order to reach spirituality I have to die before it?
R. Why die?
S. He says that the corporeal lusts as if you have to get rid of all of them. It's hard for me to see it.
R. No. Look, perhaps it's difficult for me to explain this but lust means that you are in it and you don't want to get out of it or replace it with anything else but when you feel some better fulfilment, stronger fulfillments, more whole fulfillments than you replace it.
S. What is a corporeal lust in our work?
R. Corporeal lusts is what you feel in your ordinary will to receive
S. And then, so what is he actually telling me? As if I see that he is actually telling me let go of your corporeal lusts otherwise you won't be able to advance or is it something else, I don't understand here?
R. Right you have to tie all your fulfillments in your will to receive link them to one source of fulfillment which is the Creator and enjoy, please. You have your kids, family, and many things.
You can't not enjoy. Each and every moment that you feel your existence in some environment, in the world, in the air, anything you still measure it by the sense of pleasure. We don't have more than one vessel which is the desire to enjoy, if I'm sitting on a chair right now I am enjoying that, otherwise I wouldn't feel that I'm sitting on a chair.
S. So I don't need to annul my corporeal pleasures? Cause otherwise how do I advance? Like you said.
R. Are you discovering who is giving you these corporeal lusts and who do you relate it to, that is what this is about?
S. And what do I do with it? With my corporeal lusts in my work, daily work, my level?
R. Your work I don't know.
S. Our work, how do I relate to my corporeal lusts, everybody is asking so what do I do with my corporeal lusts, what should I do with them if I want to advance?
R. You need to advance in a way that all of the lusts that you have all the pleasures that you have will come from wanting to bestow contentment to everyone through them.
S. And if I add corporeal lusts from my donkey so what do I do with them?
R. Invert it, transform it, add to it such discernments so it knows that it enjoys not just from being a donkey but a donkey that is spinning the wheels or the grinding stones in order to make food for human beings.
S. But I don't have to annul my corporeal pleasures; money, intimate relations, my daily life...
R. No, corporeal lusts means that you are doing this only for yourself and not in order to give that to others and through to the Creator meaning that they're all closed and end in you, it's all about your intentions.
S. Ok, but not to say that I'm annulling before everybody from life from everything and I’m always spiritual. It's dangerous to do that. You said not to be a monk, if you’ll be a monk you won't reach anything, you taught us that once.
R. So a monk, need to bring a sacrifice because being a monk means not enjoying forcefully not enjoying what the Creator's giving you and the Creator didn't create anything for no reason but rather for us to enjoy except with the right intention which is in order to bestow, even when you enjoy.
S. Ok I am now starting to understand what you are saying…
R. So you’re not going to be a monk?
S. No Not about being a monk. I am just afraid every time that I do work that I am learning from, I am afraid that if somebody shows me excerpts that aren't to the point and I am not in a spiritual world and my environment changes and my head changes I’m afraid to fall into things that aren't spiritual and you are saying no, live your life, don't be extreme in any direction, that's my fear that I'm going in a direction where my head shouldn't be all kind of things like that.
R. No you can be in anything as long as you care about working for the sake of others.
S. Now you have complicated it even more.
R. This is where it lays this is what it’s all about. Why didn't you tell me before that spirituality is for the sake of others, I wouldn't come close to it?
S. Right, you are right, it’s like to leave this life.
R. I understand.
S. and you are saying it is the standard?
R. Soon it will be revealed to each and every person in the world and the biggest billionaires. Who has invested their lives in being rich? That what they have done was only for the sake of others.
S. What do you mean that everything they did…?
R. Let’s say the rich but not just that, everyone, each and every person in the world who did anything in life he did that only for the sake of others. How could it be right? They did it for themselves. It is a lie and was orchestrated for them so they have an incentive so they wake up and compete with others and try to succeed and so on. All these competitions it's all about how much one can bestow more to the others. But in order for them to do all these things they were given what is called a potion of lie that they think that they were doing it for themselves, look at how the Creator orchestrates the world.
34. S. (01:44:05) In 177 is going above the mind is it in relation to my connection to the group where I can go above the mind?
R. Yes, thought first and form is there.
S. What does it mean that he remains in the Tzimtzum?
R. That one doesn't know the reason for which is operated, that's the problem.
35. S. (01:45:14) What is so horrible in the second shovel if a person has the will to receive. So why is the second so horrible?
R. The other is spiritual pleasures so if receiving spiritual pleasures is a corporeal pleasure in order to bestow half to trouble, so receiving spiritual pleasure in order to receive is a complete trouble because until you're ready to arrive at that you can’t enter spirituality. In this world, you enter spirituality and then you it depends on how do you work in corporeality, meaning you’re in here you can see how you work in order to receive in order to bestow that's in front of you but in spirituality until you acquire this condition of in order to bestow, faith above reason then you can't be there you can discuss it but you can't actually feel it, what it's about because this condition transforms your foundation and only then after that you can see feel what spirituality is.
36. S. (01:47: 06) What does it mean to strike?
R. It's the same will to receive that wishes to enjoy, we not us but the Creator wants to give a sense of suffering that's called the strike.
S. How do I strike the desire that I want to enjoy?
R. You yourself you can't do that.
S. It says that Moses struck the Egyptian.
R. That’s already on a spiritual level. That just like that we can't do it because I'm one desire, whatever you do you always change a cow for a donkey, so to speak, meaning you can't.
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36A. R. Even as they are in very difficult processes, they go through that and remain on the path and nothing happens to them. Even if they’re burying, the fire doesn’t consume them. This is what it means that the power in those people who want to enter spirituality, the force that drives them to spirituality doesn't go away, doesn't disappear in it, it actually strengthens the person. As much as one suffers for spirituality, this suffering becomes a strength for him.
Excerpt 180 (01:50:14 - 01:50:59)
36B. R. Meaning even when they see how wrong they are, how they're not correct, it all goes for the will to receive that the Creator created. So even if they want to get rid of that will to receive, you have to understand that it's not ours, it's not in our account. And even all our failures and mishaps, it's not in our account so this burning that exists in the will to receive when it’s on fire is because the Creator with His eternal force resides in the will to receive. The will to receive itself doesn't disappear, doesn't get deleted, doesn't go away. It's only for us to rise above it with the intention to bestow. Then it can burn towards the internal state. It's like he writes, ‘the bush is not consumed and it doesn't get destroyed.’
37. S. (01:52:26) How can we be in two states? On one hand, I see that I feel myself far from loving the friends, on the other hand, I have to be happy about that direction. It really brings pain, this process.
R. Why don't you enjoy the suffering, tell me why don't you enjoy the suffering? If you recognize that the suffering also comes to you from the Creator. With this feeling of suffering and pleasure, it stabilizes you closer and closer to Him. You are better and better stabilized by these two forces. You can't be unaffected by these two forces, reception and bestowal, which courses below Masach and Tzimtzum, -- the screen and restriction -- and that's how you build the Partzuf of your soul above the will to receive. If you recognize that this is your true eternal structure then why don't you enjoy that? Let the Creator do what’s needed with you. Bless Him for each and every action, you don't need anything other than that.
38. S. (01:54:06) Your teacher wrote that “the corporeality of a friend is my spirituality,” so can I ask for forces from the Creator in such a period, in such states?
R. Yes. You can't say it about everything but basically, it’s true. The general process in spirituality, sure. In corporeality, we have to see where we are in order to determine for ourselves.
39. S. (01:55:23) How do we use the hardening of the heart between us?
R. To bring the burdening of the heart into the 10 as well so we all work on the burdening of the heart of each and every one, because this is the coarseness that we will overcome and then rise to the next degree. And so each time, from where do we take the next degree? If we discover the Aviut, the coarseness, the burdening of the heart that we each have, it's not personal, it's not something off the street. It's the burdening of the heart that we feel towards the friends. That we have greater distance between us, lack of mutual understanding and we overcome it. We connect to each other as much as possible, and thus we connect, we let the upper light influence us.
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40. S. (01:58:41) The suffering that we can feel both as an individual and as a 10, is it something that the Creator does with us to show us where He wants to help us?
R. Repeat, please.
S. It is to show us where he wants us, to help us?
R. Where we can actually make these discernments, I don’t know. But in turning to Him this already directs us correctly.
41. S. (02:00:04) During this whole lesson and this whole holiday, each one came with his row into the boat with his ore and each one is rowing into his own direction, his own understanding, own feeling. It's as if it's like we can't create one deficiency, that's what I feel. If not for you, sir, everybody would be rowing in their own directions. So one comes with health problems, one has other personal problems, etc. So what do we need to do? Do we need to get more blows, more miracles? I don't understand. How to succeed to connect all this? Also in the 10, here. Somehow we succeed but I don't know, I don't know what to say.
R. The process unfolds as an extended process where we make efforts and in these efforts we feel that we are helpless, and so that's part of our progress. Of course we're going to see a lot of disappointments ahead of us but it's all for the better. Specifically from feeling that you're unsuccessful, you advance because success doesn't advance us. It's actually the other way around. From feeling that we don't understand, that we have to work more with the Creator, that we depend on Him, that it doesn't work out for us -- all these things, all these discernments, -- they're actually advancing us towards correction. Look at what's happening today, it's a very good sign. We're all in this way: where we have no power, no strength, no focus, desire, everybody is kind of feeling foggy in their mind and darkness in their hearts. We somehow keep going but what's the benefit? You kind of think about it like that, but it's incorrect. It's incorrect because specifically these states are advancing us more. They're leading us to the right discernments. That we ourselves are incapable, we are like clay in the hands of the potter and we all depend on Him. He can raise us or throw us. And that's how we advance. So what we have left is one cannot do anything. There is no cry, it's not heard, it's like crying in the desert. Rather we have to come together and cry together. Then the Creator hears this cry and answers with generous hands, only this way.
S. After a person invests, exert so much, that's actually what happens? The lack of seeing the results? People just start falling off, they just disappear -- within a year, three friends were lost from the 10 and we have a very strong 10. We support, we connect -- 3 zooms a day, half an hour, we do everything. The 10 is formulating but still you see friends falling off.
R. What do you want me to do? I'll tell you, when I came to Rabash he was 75, let’s say. He was born as Baal HaSulam’s son and he had a group from the age of 20, meaning for 50, 60 years, but what kind of group was that -- 1 or 2 people? All the rest came and went. So I'm not overwhelmed by that. You already know how I'm looking at that. Each one has his place. If he thinks that's outside he has a better, more successful place to be, let it go, let it go. It's his right, it's a free choice.
S. I agree 100%, it's also not my first year, I’m here almost 20 years. But everything that's happening, like with the friends, should we see this as our failure in the 10 or if he chose this then let him go and that's it.
R. Look at humanity. See the shape of humanity and say that it's the Creator failure. What do you think? Is that ok or not? Look at the Creator's group and He is managing this group 100%. Look at how it looks. So we don't understand and we don't know what really is going on in all of reality. You don't know what the spirituality world is and even when you start feeling spirituality, you will feel it a little bit within yourselves, how you transcend the ego but not the entire complete system, this is a totally different thing. So let's not try and talk, draw conclusions from our narrow, little, egotistical states. But I just know one thing, I have nowhere to run. This is the most accurate answer that I give to myself, I have nowhere else to go, very simply. Because I can't see any other form that is more correct. Read Baal HaSulam writings again you can see how you get answers for these fundamental questions.
42. S.(02:08:53) You said we were like children who don't really ask and we have to be like children who do really want a spiritual hunger, a vessel, like somebody who’s really hungry. As much as you read about it or act in it, you’re still not able to feel that hunger until you actually don't have anything to eat. So how does it work? We read the source of the Kabbalist, the articles, we try to act in it and we understand that is not true hunger. I still have this corporeality that I'm still holding on to and I won’t let go of it. So I don't really get a true cry for the Creator, really hunger for the Creator. How to fill it?
R. Simple. You invest 100% in what the Creator wants you to do invest and you don't demand anything of what you think that you want to demand and that's it. You give everything and don't receive anything. Then you reach the beginning of spirituality. Obviously I'm speaking in such a way so few more people are gathering their luggage and leaving the group, but what can you do.
S. Is it me giving everything and not receiving anything? I don't have to feel it from the friends or from the Rabash but I am responsible to see and act this way every day?
R. Correct
43. S. (02:11:58) You said now that we have to connect and then just cry and cry. To what extent do we cry? Are we expecting a certain result in this process, meaning to what extent do we cry? Is it a constant thing?
R. We want the force to dwell between us and as much as it's artificial or not, we don't know yet but let's think about it and let's ask for it. Just like children, they don't have a real true desire but they cry and cry, let's just do this. We see that it works so let's also do it toward the Creator.
44. S. (02:12:12) Are we expecting a certain response or are we going through this process and never leave it?
R. No, we can fall off of it. You have to do it a few times until you truly enter spirituality and you acquire the first degree. And until you are in this degree, you don't know when you're going to attain the next one. There is a constant state of ascents and descents.
45. S. (02:12:57) What does it mean to take the 10 as the Creator so He instructs us with all these states? What does it mean to relate to the Creator so He guides us through all these states that we go through individually in the 10?
R. I don't understand what you're telling me.
S. What is the meaning of accepting the 10 as the Creator so the 10 will guide me through everything that I go through?
R. I feel them all as one. I disconnect from my personal self and from here onward, I want to see the 10 that ‘I as we, and we are me,’ simple. I have to get used to this that for me to be in the 10 means that the spiritual ‘I’ is the 10.
45. S. (02:15:22) Why does the Creator give us such a difficult development in spirituality? If corporeality develops in such a way like spirituality, why are there such big difficulties Babylon, Egypt, things in the future? Why is it such a great difficulty?
R. We have a lot of difficulties in the spiritual development between us because we don't know, according to which laws or rules, how spirituality works. If we were disconnected from this world too, so that this world would also be very complicated and we wouldn't understand it. But what does help us in this world is that our ego aims us every time to things that are right for the ego. It tells us ‘this is good this is sweet, this is warm, this is nice this is soft’ and the opposite isn't good.’ So the ego working in us, aims us and we develop in it. And here comes our spiritual attitude that's towards spirituality. So how do we use our spiritual nature in order to acquire spirituality? We don't have a spiritual nature, we don't have a spiritual world, but we are told to build your spiritual nature as opposed to a corporeal nature. What can we do then? We need to invert and this is a problem. So we did get a rejection. Slowly, we need to skip over this. We have to connect, rise above it, we have to make efforts no matter what. It could be more in quality or less but still, each and everything gathers and brings us the result.
46. S. (02:18:12) I heard in the lesson that we need to ask like children that cry without the true deficiency. On the other hand without the true deficiency, you can't adhere to the Creator. So if you can refine where our place of work is here. Where does our work end and where does the Creator's work begin?
R. Constantly turn to the Creator, pray and cry, even without a deficiency.
S. So what does it mean that we need to do the work as if we are ending it?
R. There is an exertion in quantity and quality. In quantity, that I turn to Him and am not letting go of Him. And exertion in quality, that is when I'm already concerned in quality as much as He gets inspired by my deficiency.
S. There are two opposite states here that I want to clarify. I can stay as a nagging child without a true deficiency and it's like . . . what are you turning for?
R. I turn to Him, I want Him, I take Him an upper one, I depend on Him to do something and it works. I'm connected to him instead of being connected to other kinds of sources that are, supposedly, there. I think of You as ‘none else besides Him,’ and I don't have any feeling or mind toward You but I'm still from having no choice, I'm connecting myself to You and constantly going around You and crying, and still in this way, in false cries, still that's how I work.
S. On the other hand, there can be work where we can sometimes warn about what's called, ‘I'm working with my own power,’ and I'm forgetting about the Creator and overcoming on my own.’ So how do you not come to the other side, here?
R. I’m saying the opposite, we constantly have to be in prayer. If we don’t do mechanical actions, but only get inspired by the Creator or prayer to Him so we have a connection to Him. Everything will be clarified in thought.
S. So what does it mean that we have to establish the work in a way as if we're completing it?
R. That I’m sure the Creator will finish the work for me.
S. How do you do it? That on the one hand, I don't take Him into account, on the other hand, it all depends on Him?
R. I don't take Him into account that I'm sure everything depends on my exertion but my exertion is that I constantly turn to Him.
S. My exertion is that I turn to Him or do I try to connect to the friends.
R. That obviously has to be. Without connecting to the friends, what are you turning with, in what vessels do you activate yourself?
S. So when we say that I’m always turning to Him, it's basically saying that I'm connected to the friends and I turn to Him?
R. Without this, you can’t.
S. So what is this action that I turn to the friends before I turn to Him?
R. We have such a work in corporeality to prepare ourselves.
S. So I can’t just turn to Him automatically, I have to do some action of connection with the friends?
R. Everything Rabash weirs about the Social Writings -- about how a person needs to work towards the ten is speaking about a person and the ten.
S. In this steps, this half a step of connection with the friends before I turn to Him, I do it with myself without taking Him into account?
R. Yes, that's what everyone does when they come. So he has no ten or anything. He does all kinds of actions, efforts and also in them everything is calculated.
47. S (02:22:54) I'm always with my 10, I'm at the lessons but for all time I can't come to the state of the Dvekut in prayer and I feel this appointment. What can I do when I'm in this state?
R. That's great, the fact that it is disappointment that is great. Keep going, keep going. Even though it could be that the disappointment will grow, it's very nice, it's a very great result.
48. S. (02:24:04) How can I know what the Creator wants me to do so as to devote myself to it 100%?
R. The Creator wants you to connect self to the 10, on one hand and the Creator, on the other. And pull the entire 10 toward the Creator. That's what He wants. Clear? And that’s clear, easy, and perfect. You don't need anything, each one must know that he has to be Moses, to tie the group to the Creator.
49. S. (02:25:11) Following the question from Turkey about the despair form the progress, with what power do you do it, out of fear?
R. I think it comes from envy.
50. S. (02:57:36) Why is it easier for my Pharaoh to connect with another Pharaoh and my Moses has no connection with the friends Moses?
R. Because it’s either in order to receive or in order to bestow, in order to receive we know how to connect in order to bestow we can’t connect that is why we have a problem.
S. How can we get the importance of the goal that our progress will be with our own desire and not by forcing myself each time that I want to advance?
R. Just cling to the friends and get the forces to advance from them.
S. When is our work for connection turning into a routine that makes us fall asleep and comes us down?
R. It all depends on your work as much as you pay attention to what's going on.
R. Friends I think that what's happening today, it’s a very nice example of a group that's coming out of Egypt, that a bit is shown to us what the will to receive is, as much as we can't connect, as much as we don't have forces, as much as they're not getting paid and if they're not getting paid then they're not willing to advance, to invest anything out of themselves even one gram of exertion and it's alright, because in the nature of the will to receive we have no way to make efforts if we don't get a payment, our material won't work. That's why what we have reached is really a recognition of evil that we are in the exile of Egypt under the control of Pharaoh. We can't, even though we want to, we can't make any movement in order to come out of it, that's why I think that all and all we did our work correctly. We just need to have to taste, what state we reached and then what possibility are before us either we remain in our will to receive which is the living degree or we overcome our will to receive to the speaking degree. We need to think about it, to speak about it and we advanced. Whoever wants to advance to the speaking degree I'm inviting him today do the afternoon lesson and tomorrow morning as usual in the morning lesson. Have a good day rest, finally, give your Pharaoh a little price to let us go a bit and we'll keep going. I'm hugging you, have a good rest day.