Morning Lesson August 11, 2021, Transcription
Annulment as a Preparation for Ibur [Impregnation], #17
1. Rav’s Introduction: We now heard a Nigun, the melody that is according to the words of King David, ‘hope strongly to the Lord’. 3000 years ago, he wrote it, King David. This actually is how it needs to be. He is speaking out of himself, hoping strongly to the Lord and strengthening your heart only to that. And this should be, here, a whole course of your whole life, all of your effort, this is what we need each and every day to strengthen more and more because this actually determines our whole ascent on the ladder of degrees from here until the end of correction. As much as we, more and more and more, all of our desires and our thoughts we collect them together and aim them to the upper force. He will correct it and He will connect so that He will simply gather all of them together and then according to the intensity of the connection between them between our thoughts and desires, as much as they will be aimed to the Creator, according to that we will see that each and every degree in our ascent towards the end of correction was predetermined. All in all, as much as we can, all of the thoughts and desires and each and every one in all of us together if we can just concentrate them and focus them on the Creator. Therefore, annulment until we reach the embryo has to be only on that and also later on when we have already reached the annulment to the extent that it is called Ibur.
When the Creator starts to form out of it the form of the future human Adam, human that resembles the Creator according to the force of bestowal that was revealed in this new creature. We need to realize what will that be. It will be a will to receive, ours of each one of us, and all of us together, that does the work of connecting each one with the others, on the condition that each one shall help his friend. That each one wants to take part with the others in order to help the others to build a system, to create a system, to connect to a system that is aimed entirely towards bestowal towards the Creator. This is our spiritual work all together degrees, worlds, Partzufim, Sefirot, all kinds of forms of Arvut, of coarseness and screen, direct light, reflected light, these are all included in the connection the incorporation between us in order to resemble maximally the form of bestowal which is the Creator. Let's hope that we will start to feel how we are establishing ourselves in such a way and certainly to the extent that we will succeed in establishing ourselves as the Creator and to that extent we will feel what it is to be the Creator. In the spiritual world with the quality of bestowal meaning seeing the whole of reality from one end to the other, it will come. In the meantime, let's come closer to this another step and we have to check.
Can we say that each and every day we are working on a new will to receive, a greater one, a more complex one. We are learning each and every day more and more how from this will receive we want to reach the form of bestowal, to connect between us and to cancel the gaps between us and to attach ourselves more in our desire, complex desire, and in this way we will advance. There is no moment that is similar to and not an adjacent moment, all the more so a day, to the adjacent day but rather we need to be more alert and aware of how much everything is coming and changing and upon all of these changes that we are doing our own work also. The work of connection and prayer well let's see that. In each and every action to also detect the desires to receive in a new manner. Also, to bring them closer to connect them to each other and also to direct them to the Creator. Nevertheless, we need to turn to the Creator so that He will help us to do it. Both in connecting the desires and also above the desires to arrange the intentions. In this way, we will come closer and closer to the revelation of spirituality and the revelation of the upper force which will be revealed out of the connections in our desires. We need to connect ourselves in such a way that the connection between us will seem to, in some way, similar to the Creator so that the connection between us will be called Adam, similar to the Creator.
Excerpt 17 (08:18) Twice
2. R. (12:18) Rabash is giving us a few stages of development right. A person feels that he is not capable of reaching the qualities of bestowal, spirituality. He begins to understand that this thing can happen only on the condition that he will get the spiritual strength the force of bestowal from above and this force of bestowal, and it's all through many actions that he's tries to do and he understands that this force of bestowal can only come to him from the Creator, and then he turns to the Creator, and until he arranges this prayer, that I very much want to reach the force of bestowal, not your spirituality is he might imagine it to himself, but I very much want to reach the force of bestowal and I understand that I have no beginning, even to this state. You have to give it to me; I'm asking of You. See what I'm doing in the group, in whatever I can bestow to some extent in my situation, then following all of these appeals one reaches the right appeal. They're in that appeal he has both the experience, the attempt to reach spirituality and when he understands that spirituality is the force of bestowal, the force of connection and he has no choice but to turn to the Creator because only the Creator can do it. Then to demand of the Creator to give me the possibility to be in bestowal and only in such a way I want to exist. Imagine to yourselves how far away this can still be from us, however on the other hand it is close, it is truly close steps to us. So let us try to carry them out and we will succeed, we will succeed. I see this, that we are approaching the realization.
3. S. (15:13) If we put the will to receive to death with which desire can we create the vessel of bestowal?
R. With the will to receive however it should work in order to bestow. That’s all. Tell me, a woman who is taking care of her baby and she is willing to give him everything at her expense. She takes from herself and she gives to it. Does she work with her will to receive or not? For sure with the will to receive but she is giving everything. It is not considered that she is giving, it is considered ultimately that she is receiving because of the quality, the nature of the action, the essence of the action is that she is receiving, she is fulfilling herself by giving to it. This is what we learn with the spiritual Partzuf that even though we have the restriction, the screen, the reflected light that seemingly for ourselves for our original will to receive we are not receiving anything. However, we are working with it in order to specifically through it to actualize the force of bestowal to perform an act, action of bestowal and then we can receive and we receive the light of Ein Sof, infinite, upper light. spiritual life, spiritual light that is we are working with that same will to receive however with greater degrees the true will to receive is revealed only in spirituality. This is considered that we are working in bestowal because everything depends on the intention. If the importance of the group the importance of the Creator begins to become more important than my will to receive and I am working in order to fulfill them and I use my will to receive in order to fulfill the Creator and in order to fulfill the group it is considered that I am bestowing. It will gradually become established in us and we will become more and more clear to us. It is all related to our emotions and if we will start to feel these things correctly and put everything in its place then it will work out.
4. S. (18:16) You said that we don't use our desire to receive but we use it on higher levels. What does that mean exactly?
R. That we add to it the intentions. The intentions of in order to bestow and we use our nature in order to bestow to others that is the others become for us more precious than ourselves. This is what we learn in the group in the 10 that I can reach a state where the 10 is more important for me then myself. This is how we reach the act of bestowal.
S. Bestowal to the10 at what point does this start?
R. We are still not talking about that, that from the entire 10, we will start bestowing to the Creator we are talking it about a person that wants to bestow to the Creator he reaches a state where through the 10, through his personal attitude to the 10, that he annuls before them and he wants to connect to them and truly wants to seemingly be devoted. Through that, he comes to bestow to the Creator. The way the entire 10 works all of it together in a circle and each one feels the others and they try to rise on the degree of the common degree of connection between them and to the Creator, that we cannot yet discuss but it will be. This is one of their degrees of Ibur impregnation and Yenika, suckling however on higher degrees.
5. S. (20:37) When a person strives to come out of his will to receive he comes to a state where he feels that only the Creator can help him and later comes a time where a person can only overcome with the help of the Creator and then there's another degree of ego another greater degree and then he loses the decision that only the Creator can help and a person again falls in thinking he can only come out with his own help with his own hand why does it happen this way?
R. Each and every degree begins with zero from a greater will to receive being revealed out of the shattering, and therefore this is how we work. A new will to receive is revealed that didn't take part in any connection any discernment of its own with relation to the group and the Creator’s so we feel ourselves that when this will to receive is revealed in us that we are disconnected we don't know and we all together get maybe there is a 10 and maybe there is a Creator and we need to reach through the 10 to the Creator and to bestow there are such disconnections, such transitions between the degrees where a person completely loses his spiritual state and he falls to this world where only this reality remains for him and therefore this world there's a need for it to exist so that in between the degrees we fall into it. But the most important thing we need to see from this excerpt 17 is that time the person has no choice but to turn to the Creator. So, to reach such a state this is what is important, to turn to the Creator. This is what we ultimately need to do and from that we need to gather and master all of the advice and reasons, the necessity, the urgency that only to turn to him but with the true prayer. Not to be like children that are constantly crying, that when they cry about a serious issue the parents will not look at them. This is how it is with us. We need to try to implement and connect within us and to establish true prayers, serious requests so that when we turn, we have hope that we can truly open up the connection between us and the Creator. That our questions, our requests will truly be for spiritual advancement and not because I feel bad, I don't want it I'm tired of it or all kinds of other such complaints. for which usually the creator doesn't respond and we in our life really don't respond.
6. S. (24:33) How to ask from the heart that the Creator hears the prayer that we ask him for bestowal?
R. Try, try to reveal, to open your heart and to see what is inside of it, and how can you from your heart, how can you connect to the Creator. What is it you want to change in your heart and that's it. Start checking and with that turn to the Creator.
S. How to connect the attitude towards the friends in the 10 and the connection to the Creator, it will be more direct with no gap between asking all of the friends and asking for connection with the Creator?
R. You need to constantly think until you reach the decision and the knowledge, the understanding that they are connected to each other that as much as you are connected to friends to that extent you are connected to the Creator. However, the Creator is the totality. He exists as the sum total of all of your relations with the friend.
S. How should the friend help me? Do I need to get their help?
R. That you are working on it and give examples.
7. S. (26:25) Is the establishment of the common intention of the 10 of wanting to bestow that brings the light of Ein Sof does that bring the light of Ein Sof?
R. It's on the way, yes everything doesn't end with that but it is on the way. If you're asking, does this bring the light of Ein Sof? Well, we have to continue beyond that but however it is a correct beginning.
Excerpt 18 (27:10) Twice
8. R. (31:38) All in all everything depends on the help from above. If what we call the reforming light shines from above then the person enters into this work. He is able to annul himself, to adhere to the higher degree, and to advance from state to state. Everything depends on whether the reforming light shines on him from above. Therefore, all of our work is towards this light.
9. S. (37:16) Rabash writes about the call from above, when a person is willing to annul himself before the Creator. Does that call come because we are ready for it or because the Creator wants to hear from us?
R. There is an awakening from above and there is awakening from below. In the awakening from below we awaken the Creator and we ask Him without the precedence of Him bestowing to us from above but of course He's influencing us from above but it's in a concealed manner. We do not feel it so we think that ‘we now want’ and ‘we now think,’ but there is no such thing. It all comes from above. However, the Creator is doing it in a way that is hidden. Or we suddenly feel the desire, a thought, awakening within us and we are drawn to connection and it is clear to us that this is an awakening from above. We have this and we have that. We, inside of the group, need to constantly keep the fire so that we are drawn forward. As much as we will take an awakening from the group, from the friends, this is called ‘an awakening from below.’ This actually is what is important. Then, in other cases, the Creator gives us His awakening.
10. S. (34:30) In excerpt 18, the last second paragraph says that all of the doubts and thoughts were completely burned. Why does it say that they were burned and not disappeared, why specifically burned?
R. If you reach this state, you will also agree with what the Kabbalists say, when they discover such phenomenon. They say specifically that they have been burned. That they were burned means that the fire of Hochma, the light of Gevurot works in such a way that it causes burning like fire. Being drowned in the water is something completely different, it is not this degree. Water is Bina and if they are drowning in the waters, it means Gevurot in the Bina meaning Hochma that awakens inside of Bina, like a flood. There are many things to it. We need to accept what they are writing. Later on, we will understand how precise it is, how each and every word is in its place.
S. It says that he feels great pleasure when it happens.
R. That's also part of the process.
11. S. (36:19) Baal HaSulam writes that we gradually feel inside of us an opportunity to leave the will to receive and attain something greater. I forget about it often many times during the day and the ten doesn't help me because I forget about the ten and I feel that the ten is distant. How can we reach the state where we can remain in that attainment?
R. Again, only through connection in the group and connection with the Creator. Constantly hold on to that and you will find ways to advance more and more. You're asking about things for which I have no answer. As usual we have two means: the ten and the Creator. You will be able to advance the more you strengthen yourself towards them. That's it.
12. S. (38:02) Can a person have a lack or an appeal beyond what the Creator is awakening in him?
R. A person has to yearn to turn to the Creator to awaken a desire inside of him. Seemingly, this desire is not being awakened but he wants to awaken that desire towards the Creator from within himself. He does it by connecting to the friends. That's why you were given the system of connection with the friends, so you would awaken yourself there and stimulate yourself and, in this way, turn with the group to the Creator. Each one helps his friend. That’s how you are turning above.
S. You said to hope strongly for the Lord. So, should a person constantly be on fire?
R. Of course, that's called ‘awakening from below.’ We ascend specifically through an awakening from below through a raising of MAN. The Torah was only given to those who are satisfied with turning to the Creator by eating MAN. That is what makes him feel full.
S. Should I not be satisfied with what I have but constantly look for something more?
R. If each moment you have the possibility of turning to the Creator, you have to be fulfilled and satisfied by it. You have connection with the Creator. It is the opportunity of turning to the Creator, not what you have. It turns out that the more you lack, the greater you plead to the Creator, and the happier you are.
13. S. (40:20) How does the entire ten go through this process together?
R. It is not simple. We must yearn to reach such a connection, otherwise we won't make it, we won't have the vessel for the revelation of the Creator if we do not connect. We must begin to connect all of these discernments between us. Only in this way can we rise above. I agree with you. I also feel your deficiency.
S. We constantly have a fear, a concern, about sharing what is happening inside of us with the friends. When is it correct to open up with friends and share these things?
R. Beautiful. This is something you learn from experience. I can't tell you here to do this way or there to do that way, what you should share or not share with them. I can't tell you; this has to do with inner discernments, the subtlety of the soul. This will come.
14. S. (42:04) There is a feeling like we are a row of blind people who are advancing but don't quite know where. Connection in the ten isn’t enough. We need to connect around something. Right now, it is to the lessons, with the words of the Kabbalists. We are turned to it throughout the day, but how do we turn it into an appeal to the Creator?
R. Hold on to one another. We need to come to a state where specifically by holding on to one another we are not afraid to fall along the way from some cliff to some abyss because we are holding on to one another. We have to believe that with the force of the connection between us the Creator dwells among us and we are holding on to Him. What else do you need? Only that.
The other way around is also true. We feel that we have no grasp in corporeality, that everything is lost. This world is heading towards annihilation with the pandemic and everything else that will be revealed. You will see it soon. It is all so we would decisively need to strengthen one another. Only in the connection between us and within the connection between us, we will feel zero space, a vacuum, nothing. Specifically, from that we come to a state of Ibur, impregnation, and we begin to hold on to the Creator, we begin to discover that we are existing in Him. So only go forward and listen to what Kabbalists are saying a bit more.
S. On one hand, we need to reach zero, but on the other hand, how do we not reach a state like the connection of criminals that from this zero because we cannot reach an appeal?
R. If you are present, as much as possible in the morning lesson, with your heart and with your brain and you repeat it during the day, you advance. If you prepare yourself for tomorrow's lesson and have this concern that you're not learning the lesson but rather each day you wish to reach a deeper and more inner connection between you, it's all fine. Eventually everything will be revealed correctly.
15. S. (45:42) Is the true prayer a universal one that we all need to learn or is it unique to each ten?
R. The true prayer that reaches the Creator is the one that comes out of the heart and is managed by the brain. His foundation is called ‘the seat of Glory,’ our honor. This is the true prayer
S. Does the ten need to combine all of the desires from their hearts to create a true prayer?
R. Yes
S. And if they're capable of doing it, the Creator will hear it?
R. Yes, this is called ‘as one man and one heart,’ you are right. You have the right thought towards it. It is good
16. S. (47:18) The will to receive is like a donkey. How can we give it good grain so it will agree to annul?
R. There are two forces in getting the donkey to work. On one hand, you have to place a burden on him so he knows he has to walk the way his owner tells him or to go around in circles. So, once you determine the state for it, you also consider his nature. You need to give him a bag of grains and water and that is enough for him to work. If we relate to our donkey this way it will certainly help us reach the goal.
S. But what is this sack of greens and water in order for it to keep going?
R. You don't need to give him more but it is what you give him. You're not putting your body to death, rather you're putting it to sleep. You're giving it food, you hear it, and you do whatever is needed. It's written that the doctor was given permission to heal. I, by myself, do not wish to determine my corporeal life because it works according to corporeal qualities. I determine the reason for this donkey’s existence above it. Meaning I load it with the Torah for it to carry.
S. And to enjoy a little bit on the path, to give it some pleasure?
R. Its pleasure is by being satisfied with what it needs because that is what is healthy for it. Start feeding your donkey cake and see what will happen. He will be sick. Rather you need to give it what it deserves by nature.
S. You gave the example that Rabash would tell you to buy the best possible cheese.
R. Because I didn't know what to get. So, if you don't know, buy the best, the most expensive one. The price of the cheese was like $3.60 so I bought it. So, what about it?
S. He didn't settle for the ordinary grain with his will to receive?
R. No, not grain. Rabash also writes in this article to give it good clean water and good grains so it will have the strength to work. It doesn't need more than that.
17. S. (50:58) Will this world become sweetened when it's ready for the revelation of the Creator or will it always have a bitter taste?
R. Of course, that's how it was arranged from the beginning.
18. S. (51:28) Is the Creator the center of the ten?
R. If you make it so then He is present there.
Excerpt 19 (52:08)
19. R. (53:36) I was in a store one day and by chance, I saw two young women selecting some garments for babies, toddlers. All they were thinking about was whatever they wanted from the world. Nature was simply speaking from within them, that what they saw was only how good and beneficial it could be for their children. That's how they made their choices.
We need to see the world like that as well. We wish to take from the world only those things that we wish to bring and to ascribe to the Creator and until we empty the world of everything. We advance by having no preference finding each and everything the Creator created in the world. There's nothing redundant, rather we can bring it to Him by our intention and see that those are our good and necessary things for connection. That's what he tells us here. Everything he receives in the world is only to bestow to the Creator. That's what we discovered that everything in the world is there for that. You can take it and use it to bestow to the Creator, and for yourself you need nothing. By that we come to the end of correction.
20. S. (56:03) Does a situation benefit the Creator come from demanding it for my friends?
R. Yes. We will learn how balanced these relationships should be for the benefit of the friends and for the benefit of the Creator later. This has to be the middle line between them. Relative to the friends I am constantly reacting to and receiving a reaction from them and that reaction works on me in several ways. On one hand, to raise my ego and the importance; on the other hand, the fear of being hurt and harming my own importance and so on. There are many things here. The Creator constantly plays with those things and that's why we have to say the importance of the Creator or the importance of the friends is one and the same. You can't simply relate to them equally. There are many discernments there.
21. S. (57:33) What does he mean by ‘one who is proud, we cannot dwell in the same abode’?
R. The tendency towards the Creator and the tendency towards the will to receive cannot coexist. I am the will to receive right now and the will to receive cannot coexist if I am working towards the Creator. If I am working towards the Creator the will to receive can be on the way with me to the extent that it supports me and helps me reach adhesion.
S. Does this bring us out of the annulment? What do we have to do to maintain this point of annulment?
R. We enter dangerous states that take us out of the annulment the more we advance. These forces might push us off in different directions, but specifically by adding to that same goal we can advance. We advance only when we know how to attach these opposite forces to the goal. We have to collect all the forces, all the disturbances, and aim them to the Creator. This is truly all of our spiritual work. We will not receive anything from above and we will never get any power that simply draws us and pulls us towards the goal. We will have to always scrutinize those forces that are revealed in us, how opposing and confusing they are, and how they pull us from the goal in various directions. This happens daily with everyone. A person’s success lies in the extent he manages to connect these forces that interfere with reaching the goal, arranges them in order to reach the goal, overcomes them, and associates them with reaching the goal. It all depends on the extent to which the group can influence a person and build the atmosphere around a person. This is our work throughout the entire day.
We receive all kinds of confusing things, but even if we don't receive anything, we are in a state of confusion because the noise of the world is upon us. We need to collect all of these sources of noise, assemble them together, and make them into one force that is aimed at the goal. This has to be the work of the group. Here it is clear that each shall help his friend. The entire group must help each one who joins because otherwise a person will spend years around all of these noises, meaning, amass different desires, different thoughts and he won't be able to assemble them and aim any of them to the Creator. That is the work of the group, and it's the main work of the group. We can very quickly come to mutual strengthening and to the goal. If we know how to collect, assemble, be in it and be impressed by it. Think about what we just discussed.
22. S. (01:02:50) What does it mean that one who is proud creates two authorities?
R. It says, ‘pride separates him from the Creator,’ and that's a different authority. The in order to receive of a person separates him from the Creator and that is called two authorities.
S. How should we relate to the feeling that when we work, we feel that we have achieved something?
R. Yes, you attain something, but in such a way that you discover it negatively each time and you have to go back to the positive form. It is not so simple.
23. S. (01:03:38) How can we help a friend whose pride or honor is truly hurt? You know it's his work but is there anything else you can do for him?
R. Here’s an example let's say one person is hurt by something. We have to have a talk for him and we use that to give an example. This way we shouldn't directly talk to the friend about what is happening to him.
S. What do we do if it goes on for some time and we see that he wants to but he cannot overcome it?
R. These are typically heavy, difficult souls, potentially great souls, but they require special treatment. The group needs to do it if it is capable because eventually it will be for its own benefit, if it is not capable, then just let it go. Gradually he will understand and connect with them and if not, he should leave. There are those who have no choice but to follow their individual path and there's nothing you can do. Ultimately, we can't all advance at the same pace and the same style. There are certain individuals that are very different from others. Sometimes they leave and they advance at their own pace. You get all kinds. We have to do what's required of us. This is above our intellect for now.
24. S. 01:06:22) The two authorities remind me of an orchestra when I can completely annul before them but I cannot be zero because I have to constantly make sure that my musical instrument is calibrated, in tune, and that it's in harmony with the other musicians. Annulling myself completely could cause a problem because I would disappear. How can we search for the right balance between annulment and human nature?
R. Only incorporate in the group in total confidence and without any fear because then you will discover the Creator dwells in the group. It is the only thing I can tell you.
25. S. (01:07:33) What is the meaning of the state of Ein, absence?
R. Ein, absence, means annulment, zero. Either all the forces are balanced and they cancel each other, or a person is above his feeling. That's how it happens.
26. S. (01:08:32) How can we develop a dependency on life with the ten through awakening and not through the blows?
R. Try to connect between you before getting those blows. That's it. There is no question here. We learned about it. We are advancing, but we can add more and more to our pace. It all depends on the thought of each one and on our collective thought. We can hasten time and ourselves if all of us care about advancing towards the goal, where all of us are together and the Creator is revealed between us, in this mutual bestowal. Let's think about it as our primary concern. Look what's happening with the world. Look what's happening with us. We can advance at a much greater pace compared to where we are right now. Let's worry more about the connection between us and how the Creator needs to be revealed between us in our connection. Let's think about it throughout the day as much as possible. First, connect between us, then, connect with the Creator within the connection between us. Then we will quickly succeed.
27. S. (01:10:26) What does it mean to serve my maker?
R. TO serve my maker just like our server assistant, a butler and you wish to serve your master.
S. He said more than once that we need to behave so that the Creator will be our partner. Is this what it means here?
R. No it's not about partnership it's about doing anything you think that could give him pleasure and is pleasure because he doesn't have a deficiency is to see you connected together and ready to receive his revelation in order to give Him contentment, meaning you wish to connect so He will be able to reveal Himself in you and all of it is in order to bestow contentment to the Creator our process will be in order to bestow.
28. S. (01:11:43) In the sentence before this it says that the whole world was created for me and me in order to serve my maker or what does that mean?
R. It's because I have to think this way that I am responsible for the correction of the whole world. The whole world depends on my correction so I have to do everything in order to cause the connection of the whole world until the Creator will be able to be revealed in that connection, there. That's the reason for which I was created.
29. S. (01:12:28) On the question of building a complete prayer, maybe it sounds so huge to incorporate our thoughts and desires and discernment when we're in our will to receive yet when we're annulled, does it happen automatically?
R. Yes, of course, of course. That's on the level of annulment and later I need to open up all of my desires and ascribe them also to connection but that's not the first point.
Excerpt 20 (01:13:31) Twice
30. R. (01;18:24) You will need to get more into this excerpt and then ask questions, we will continue and tomorrow, ask questions on that excerpt.
Excerpt 21 (01:18:32)
31. S. (01:20:22) We have a question about the previous excerpt. What does it mean in the 10 we attain the greatness and exaltedness of the creator?
R. We measure everything according to the 10 and besides the 10 we don't have a vessel to exist, to feel or to measure, nothing. We are in the light of infinity that we don't feel it as much as we can inside the 10 to realize the qualities of the light between us of mutual bestowal and support then accordingly, we will build the upper light. You are an architect, you are a technical person, you understand how the devices are built that way used to feel something and to measure it in by this way from inside something which is outside and then according to the equivalence we can measure. Here is the matter that if we in the group formed a state that is similar to the afterlife which fills this whole space around us, that we don't feel it but within our vessel, within our 10's we are arranging such things that are similar to the upper light which is outside of us and similar to this nature we have root 1 ,2, 3, 4 phases of coarseness and thickness of how much we can connect them together and then these are incorporated in these and those and then from this entire package of connections between us we reach a state which is similar to the nature of the upper light and we feel him. We don't feel the light itself; we feel our qualities that we can make resemble the upper light. We don't ever touch the upper light but through the changes we do on ourselves these changes are similar in something to the upper light and in those we measure and feel and can say that this is the phenomena like the upper light. It is never the upper light, we have never any contact with the Creator in such with the upper light, only in our corrupted and improved quality. Then we check measure and feel is this is called by us the upper light, the wisdom of Kabbalah the wisdom of how we reveal the phenomena that to begin with the creative being could not receive but the Creator prepared this shattering and it's breaking our ego with all of our egoistic qualities when we arrange them between us in the 10, we can begin to reveal phenomena which is in the Creator, which is in the upper lights. This is called that we attained the Creator and only in such a manner. We have no opportunity to touch the Creator himself because it is written in many places.
S. Before me there are friends in my 10 see, what is the closest form of equivalence of form with the Creator?
R. To cancel all the borders between you that you understand that you all exist, that each and every one of you, this is just a wild imagination as a result of the shattering of the corruption that the Creator intentionally did and if you guys above. This phenomenon reveals a connection between you that is similar to the quality of the Creator, similar to the quality of the light. That way if you are measuring you always measure in the vessel and in between the vessels and the phenomena of the vessels this is what you called a light but it is never light. It is how in our world do we measure electricity? Now we measure some phenomena of something called electricity that awakens in these coils, but wires and different things but not the electricity is cells. The electricity itself we don't know just like about the Creator. We measure everything only according to the relations between the vessels of reception in us and us and when we reveal the 10, we reveal the mechanism by which through all kinds of things we can form such states from which we can attain all of the phenomena of the light. We are broken, distant from one another and each and every one of us there is a measure of this alienation, of this distancing that the Creator made in us and when we begin to get closer to each other and scrutinize these states among us we begin to scrutinize these phenomena from within the vessels that the light made. Then from this we have a sensation, an attainment in the light, there's light, sparks, vessels, many discernments that we truly reach very deep states in revelation of the light that comes to us by the scrutinies of the vessels of reception. Pay attention as also in our world in all sorts of machines and measurements and things that we have attained in this world. We are always talking about the matter as it seems to us that we are talking about some essence, some forces. No, we can't measure forces come out we are measuring ultimately the matter and from within this we talked about the force and so it is precisely written in your actions we shall know you that we can come to know the Creator but from within our actions we can check and understand and from within this already, in this manner that is round, indirect that we reveal the Creator.
32. S. (01:28:50) Mountain means thoughts means or doubts, meaning first he brings us the doubts of his holiness and then he writes about bowing down and subjugating the body. There are two states, one after the other so what is the transition from one state to another in the 10?
R. Just like each one of you is ready to let go of yourself, relinquish yourself to connect with the friends as much as the Creator is dear to you compared to the corporeal world as such you are ready to sacrifice yourself, to lower yourself, to bow before the friends. In this you are only benefiting just like it is written that you are a zero compared to the ones in the group. Only in such a manner can we measure according to one's endurance as there is nothing else in reality either a zero or a 1. Such as the result from spirituality that there is only a Creator and creature and according to how much the creature can lower himself to the friends and to the Creator accordingly, he can measure the Creator. This is our mechanism, the zero 0 and one that is written is just the beginning, he doesn't get deeper into there but this is the foundation for all the measurements in spirituality as there is nothing more. Later in the Partzufim we can see the levels, the degrees of coarseness and thickness see, that's the lights rise and descend, rise and descend all according to the same principle.
S. These thoughts are in every degree?
R. Much more than now, before the big corrections you won't be certain of anything.
33. S. (01:31:18) The question is also with respect to the previous excerpt that speaks about us only needing to agree, only needing to subjugate ourselves to thoughts of holiness, how can we manage our thoughts?
R. It is only by this that I increasingly connect more with the friends and by this I can form, I can set myself, as such that I can begin to measure where I am, what is happening to me and how I can begin to work. First of all, it is that I am in a wrapping, some wrapping between us in the Kli with many thoughts and desires that are all in some one idea, one direction and towards this I need to stabilize myself as much as possible and make an effort to soak up the sensation that will be with me and leave me over the course of the day until the next lesson. Later on, over the course of the day I will listen to the lesson again, I will read the excerpt again and advance accordingly.
34. S. (01:33:44) When a person in his heart decides on complete annulment when does this happen?
R. When is a person ready for each change of the heart is whenever the Creator agrees with it and when does the Creator agree with this? When the person truly wants it. So, let's go, demand, request as we are going to make a transition to the next part of the lesson.