Part 2
Morning Lesson October 22, 2021, Transcription
Shamati 29 Baal HaSulam - When Thoughts Come to a Person
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Shamati 29
1. R. Baal HaSulam said this probably at a meal or an occasion and the Rabash wrote it down and from this we have this article “The Lord is Your Shade” it is written in the Torah, in the Psalms that the Creator is the person's shadow. If the person thinks, meaning he is in doubt, in all kinds of confusing thoughts not on the straight path, so of course we cannot progress directly to the goal they are always diverting and reflecting, and in our world, in technology and in science we know that we can never progress directly straight. Rather, we always have some sort of an angle toward the goal. but we are constantly maintaining the goal.
Rav Drawing: I will draw a picture for you. We have a goal and this is the target. We can never reach the goal directly, this is not possible, instead we deflect and correct a little bit, we deflect and correct until we reach the goal and we hit the target. Why, because we cannot feel that we are in the right place. Llet's say I am here right now and I have to always have to measure myself with respect to what I am in my state.
I try to not feel my deflection, my diversion from the path then I am in the state of zero, I do not know where and how to progress. This is why in all our organs of hearing, sight, touch, smell, taste everything that we can feel. We can feel it only between truth and falsehood, bitter and sweet, between two opposite things and only this way can we begin to understand where we are. This is how it is in everything, so in the wisdom of Kabbalah we also learn that we come to all kinds of states, we come to arguments, we are not happy and, in the family, at work, in the group, in all kinds of places we are always in all kinds of changing states. Good or evil, this and that there is a reason for this because it precisely through two opposites, between light and darkness in everything we can distinguish ourselves only this way. The more advanced things are then even if they are advanced, they become more subtle. As I drew the picture, if I begin from like this from big things and later, we come to smaller, more subtle things in this amplitude, in these states.
From state to state to state to state, but the more we progress to the goal then here we seemingly have smaller details examinations they are actually more important details and examinations. Then it turns out that the gap between the two lines, this gap, this delta becomes more and more significant, this is the plus and this is the minus, this is what is more important than before. Let's say for example, compared to the previous one, between plus and minus, this is just like in every science and wisdom, if you take a certain expert and start to talk to him about tiny precise things, you can talk and you can see that there is a sea of conditions in the depths of wisdom.
With children you need simple things so they altogether can see it easily like a big picture. Here also we have to understand these fluctuations, distances in our relationship between good and evil and to differentiate between the two. You cannot have good without evil and evil with good, we have already talked about it also in the physical life, in family life, in group life, but we need to understand all these things were given to us so not that we relate to them seriously but to relate to these changes as to the means to reach the Creator. The Creator will always be on our scope, on our goal he is our target we are talking about these are things which we will later see how to work with it above reason, below reason.
2. S. (08:10) The feeling of emptiness, is it different from the feeling of death?
R. The feeling of emptiness is felt more heavily than the feeling of death maybe and maybe they mean it as the same thing and maybe the death is altogether when I don't feel emptiness. It could be that death I define as the beginning to be interested in things which are not so important in this life or in the physical life, it depends on the person how he defines it. Emptiness and death each according to how the person defines it for himself but in truth death is when the person is interested in egotistical fulfillment and the emptiness is what the person feels that he is empty both from giving and from reception and there is nothing to do and he is in the middle without any strength to do anything with himself and also not to turn to the Creator.
Only the ten can help and this is why we are in this special physical world as through all kinds of physical actions that have nothing in them but by them through them, we can wake up ourselves and begin to rise to spirituality. This is why it is very important for us to establish a certain action in the group like certain actions, certain framework, like lessons and the conversations during the day every day, meals on Sunday, a congress which we start to organize soon and all kinds of such things in order to wake up ourselves and also each takes upon himself some physical commitment that he does in the group or in Bnei Baruch altogether. All of these things can wake us up and bring us from all kinds of such examinations of emptiness.
3. S. (11:08) What is the state of heart in spirituality, how does it operate in us?
R. The heart is the feeling, there is the individual heart of the person, the main thing is the general heart of the group, that's the main thing. If there is a common feeling between them which is called the heart of the group.
4. S. (11:35) How should the 10 work correctly in order to bring back every friend from his deflections to the right path?
R. Only through examples, the best way is through examples also to the friends, also to the children, there is no better, correct influence than giving a personal positive example.
S. And if the example doesn't give the friend strength?
R. It is a sign that you are not acting in the correct way yet.
5. S. (12:21) What to do when you talked about death or living, when it's not 10 minutes and you are not a successful created being and the guys next to me would love it if I left the path. What do I do if it is not the most important?
R. I don't understand what you are mumbling, so talk a bit better.
S. What to do when preferring to die rather than live when it is not a matter of 10 minutes and it doesn't go away?
R. It doesn't go away because you're not getting rid of the state, you have to dispel it or maybe the Creator will have mercy on you and will change your state, but you have to relate to the states correctly.
S. You see that you are not successful, you are not a successful being on this path.
R. In what are you not successful?
S. You want the Creator to succeed
R. In what are you not successful, tell me?
S. I cannot be with them, ask the others next to me, ask them who I am.
R. If you are dust and ashes then you are close to Moshe, just don't be proud of it.
6. S. (14:05) About the daily framework, if not the whole ten does the whole framework, does it make the friends weaker?
R. Of course it weakens the friends but let's hope that by the example that the whole 10 tries to give themselves then everybody can progress towards a certain single goal.
7. S. (14:43) On the drawing you said that the more we rise the situation is more important?
R. We are entering a deeper resolution, such precision that what we had before on the scale we had before as a foot is now like an inch, we become more sensitive, more delicate, more precise in feeling the changes in each and everybody and all together.
S. Is it just that I am falling?
R. It is not just like that, it is the matter of the worlds.
Rav is drawing; This the world of Assiya, Yetzirah, Beria, Atzilut and at Ein Sof, AK this is the matter of the worlds.
S. And what is the frequency of the states?
R. Identifying the differences between reception and giving, between the creature and Creator, between darkness and light with all the different changes, this is the difference.
S. How the quality of the scrutiny, the difference, how can we make it more subtle, more accurate, more precise not to enjoy egotistically but how to make it more precise?
R. If the person for every thought and every action, there is a certain source that is written about this, but it all comes down to our work slowly, slowly, gradually in our work we become more sensitive to these provisions. Even if we are not quite aware of the extent to which we are progressing with these are precisions between darkness and light and between good and evil. Nevertheless, it takes place in us and we enter more and more inside, like in every profession, if you take a musician, he will talk to you about such things that regular people cannot understand, cannot feel. I am not talking about the physicist who needs a certain intellect in the study but even such a thing with sounds or colors.
Just talk to a painter and he will tell you the different nuances that they are in a single color. The same thing is with us, it is written that there is none wiser than the experienced, when as much as we work more and more, we develop a certain sensitivity to these things. So much so that we start to feel spiritually in all the details, where is it, spirituality is here, the Creator Divinity is here. All of the spirituality is here, where you tell me where it is, there is no sensitivity for it just like little children. Look at him, half of what you feel the child cannot feel and this is what we need to develop in us, the sensitivity for bestowal. Meaning to the relations between people where these special relations between people, the relations of giving the mutual giving between people we call this Divinity and the force that is in it we call Boreh, the Creator come and see. This is why it is written you have made me, when we actually build and come to a state when we reveal the Creator.
S. In your drawing there are three points, the minus and plus and the Creator on top?
R. In the Creator you connect all this is why it is called the middle line. There are many things in this diagram, we can add to this diagram more and more things but all together 5 worlds that are great degrees each made of 25, which is called Partzufim and Sephirot. Altogether we come through a motion, to such a resolution when we reveal the single source and that single root, we discover by coming close to him, identifying him, attaching ourselves to him and then we are in his place. Then it is considered that we developed ourselves to the final state up to 100% which is the final correction.
Reading from Shamati 61 (20:50)
8. R. (21:58) This is how slowly, slowly, along the way as we go, we do not even feel this at first but like a child growing, he does not feel the changes that take place in him. We can see it from him from the side as much as he identifies things and does things he could not do before it is the same with us.
9. S. (22:21) As such who used to work with gyro and compasses, you drew very nicely how and inertial system works which constantly corrects mistakes in direction. My question is Baal HaSulam says in one of his writings that the minute you begin a deflection you lose the direction, so something does not work out?
R. That is a thing and it's opposite, you are right. I have worked with this guy at the Air Force in gyros and the navigation years ago and it is true because the moment we emerge out-of-balance we lose the place where we are, right or left but specifically the feeling of right and left helps us to maintain the line that is precisely dependent on if I go from Europe to America, so I do not need a special precision. I need in a general way to know the plus and minus 50 miles this way or that way I have that kind of gap between this and that and the more I progress and come closer to New York I need more precision. This is how it is with us in the work as well, so the fact that we are not exactly aimed at the source, it is not a great concern, the main thing is that we are in the general direction.