Morning Lesson August 9, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we know, we see, we feel how from lesson to lesson we are opening up more and more details in the stages of correction. This is our path, this is how we advance so it is very important to be consistent in this whole process that we are going through. What I would like to say today is pay attention, anyone who can and even one who can't yet but nevertheless, that the Ibur, the impregnation begins when we don't want the impregnation, we don't want to incorporate in the upper one.
In the upper one, each and every one wants to incorporate, even a baby wants to incorporate in it, as a living body, in the upper one from which it receives nourishment. However the spiritual birth begins not from the action itself but from the intention. The action needs to be first before the intention. That we build a 10, the relations between us, we tried to get closer between us it seems to us that we are already somehow connected. However, what we have to add here to our disposition is that we are doing it in order to make the Creator happy. In order to bring contentment to one's maker as it says. This here is the most important component that each and every action that I do with my inclination towards connection incorporating in the upper one, connecting with the friends, it is all in order to make the upper one, the Creator happy.
The fact that we talked of the last few days that the whole earth is full of his glory and that we need to incorporate in him and that by this we actually go back to the true reality it is all true. However the question is only, what do we want to come out of it, what is our goal? So our action will be a complete action only if we add to our inclination, the intention and the right intention because it actually wraps all of our efforts, meaning that, by this, we want to bring contentment to the Creator. It's not that he's great and he fills the whole world and we're incorporated in Him, these are egoistic inclinations, we need to go through them as well. However, after we depict to ourselves this process and now we are incorporated in it, after that we need to actually reach a state where what do I truly want out of it to incorporate in the upper one and to find there a place to hide which is comfortable and good and safe and nice. No. Here begins a scrutiny of the intention already. Here in this action I want to bring contentment, to cause contentment to the Creator and therefore I want to incorporate in him, I want to subjugate myself to him and this is the most important. That is we are talking about the quality, the content of my annulment before the Creator. Then truly the embryo that I wish to build, to exist in will be a spiritual embryo, that is in our connection between us in our incorporation in the Creator, the more we try to do everything truly with devotion, what is lacking, is the right intention the spiritual intention that I am doing it only to bring him contentment. Then we can truly say that we are in stages of advancement towards becoming the embryo.
2. S. (05:42) It's not clear my disposition is egoistic. Where do I get the intention?
R. It will spring, it will grow. Where does everything come from?
S. Where is my addition, right now, artificial one?
R. As much as we try and try to annul in the Creator we don't see Him, we don't feel Him, what is He, but if we nevertheless work towards the friends and from the friends we think that we will reach those actions towards the Creator, along the way we discover that here we are lacking the right intention and otherwise what do I want? I want to enter the upper one as a piece of flesh because it is good for me to be inside of Him. He is great, He is strong, He is everything. There, I will find my shelter and what can be better than that. This is impregnation, it is the action of that piece of flesh, meaning that whatever we have in this world on the animate level that wants to adhere as a baby to the mother it doesn't think about the mother, it doesn't have any interest in that but rather it thinks and it feels only out of its egoistic desire, what should I do. So when we try to perform such actions towards the group and towards the Creator we begin to feel that here we have a necessity to add an intention not that it would be good for me and this is why I want to be an embryo, I want to belong to the upper one in order to bring him contentment. This comes through the order of the degrees, the cascading of the degrees from above, downwards. So when we try to climb them from below upward we discover that this is something that we also have to do
S. As long as I have in me, an inclination to find in the upper one a shelter, a hiding place?
R. That's also good. It happens naturally, don't try to have such scrutinies that in it for the time being we don't have any understanding of them but rather I went to proceed the remedy to below I'm telling you that after we advance and we think about how to be an inseparable part of the upper one, how to be an embryo inside of Him then, here, we also began following the actions that we try and try to do meaning to discover what about the intention. We see that our intention, of course, is in order to receive but rather why else am I doing it? Towards the society, towards the Creator and here is precisely the place where we begin to take care, for the very first time, of the nature, the quality of the intention. That I am not doing it not for my own benefit even though it's good for me and I want it so much, what can be a safer place, something that is more exalted and adhering to the upper one. However that I'm doing in order to bring Him contentment, this is the first time here that we begin to acquire and to actualize the intention of in order to bring contentment. I'm saying that let's begin to think about where that is ahead of us and how do we gradually shift to it. However write it down, think about it, ask about it even though we haven't completed just the inclination towards impregnation, inclination to relate ourselves to there is None Else Besides Him, the good who is doing good, this is seemingly on the animated level just like that piece of flesh wants to adhere to its mother, but nevertheless we should also have that stage as well so it will open up a little bit.
3. S. (10:55) I wrote down that it is not like a piece of flesh that thanks about being incorporated in the Creator, what do you take the intellect of the Creator?
R. That has nothing to do with you that is not our business. We, out of our place, always according to my place, I relate to the upper one as much as I am capable of, as much as I can I arrange myself like a baby towards the mother, this is how I should relate myself to the upper one. However, with the intention, so that the mother will enjoy from me. This is what it is all about; this is the difference between corporeal adhesion and spiritual adhesion. We will see it take it slowly, I don't want to run too quickly because we will end up with confusion. I'm just telling you that we were thinking throughout all of the stages thus far that we want to adhere to the upper one and I told you yesterday that we need to imagine that there is None Else Besides Him, His glory fills the world, and we all have to adhere to the Creator, He fills up everything, so what else do I need to do? Just to adhere to the one who is filling up everything and ruling everything, it is true. However we should also ascribe to this our intention, what were you doing it for, of course it is the safest place, of course there are all of the pleasures, the fulfillments, the goals it is all there. However I want by this, is that by this I am giving him contentment. From this point onward, we are not actualizing yet, but let's say, from this point onward we will begin to count the spiritual degrees. As much as we can with our ego to adhere to the Creator, to make out of our ego specifically the right intention, the right force to bring him contentment by annulling our ego in even inverting it into the giver, just like the Creator. That I, upon the ego, I think about him, by this I give Him contentment and by this I attain the NRNHY of my soul. We will work on it more. It's not for now, gradually. You will get each and every day a new portion and we will try to work on it.
4. S. (14:26) When we build an intention to bestow contentment upon the Creator we always say we can turn to Him through the 10 but how can I incorporate the 10 in this process?
R. The fact that I hope to bring contentment to the Creator, this can be only by me causing a connection, that unification more in the 10. How else? We need to think about it this should be something that is truly alive that I have no other option of holding a spiritual action except if I do it inside of the 10 if I do those actions only and out of our success in being connected as Adam HaRishon in our 10 by that we are causing contentment to the Creator and according to that we are incorporated in Him.
5. S. (16:07) I can know what is happening in my heart. I can act in front of my friends and say that I want to bring contentment to the Creator, but does He really get contentment, even if I don't really feel that I want it?
R. You should act as much as you can and ask from the Creator that it will be true, this is how it will happen.
S. When a baby relates to the mother, it is very clear to it what it is receiving. What should I feel when I want to give to the Creator, just a relation, say whatever comes is the relation?
R. Yes, the Creator wants a connection with us because He can bestow into our connection that is all nothing besides that does He want, for us to go back to the vessel that He created through our own effort against all of the disturbances that emerged out of the shattering.
S. So in practice what I need to do is constantly act before the friends that I want this thing, despite everything I have I am happy with whatever the Creator gives me?
R. Yes, keep going and you will see along the way it will all open up, but in that direction. We need to begin to discover that in truth through our actions in the 10, there we are truly building the spiritual system and we are discovering the spiritual laws and this is how we advance that it is not just some nice game between children in the kindergarten.
6. S. (18:05) Before the yearning to satisfy him to please him is there another feeling here that you appreciate the quality of bestowal, you want to be like it? Only then does it happen?
R. There are additional conditions here and we will talk about them. We will wait until it will become revealed more and more.
7. S. (18:43) Does annulment necessary opposite from connection? How can we be annulled before the 10 and at the same time work on the connection actively? And I'm also asking, does the Creator prefer for me to annul or to connect or is it the same?
R. It is the same, it is the same because without self-annulment I cannot connect with the friends and without connecting with the friends we do not make ourselves into a single vessel towards the Creator so that the Creator will be able to bestow to us and correct the connection between us and to fill it with his presence.
8. S. (20:24) What does the embryo want the mother to have? What is the relation from the embryo to the mother?
R. An embryo in the waters of its mother wants to be connected to its whole group because this is his spiritual body, his Guf and as much as possible in each and every place under all conditions and by that it wants to bring contentment to its mother to the Creator. He understands that if he will connect with the friends, then he will bring contentment to the Creator, to the mother so that she will be able to bestow to them, to the all of the friends in the group and to connect them together and later on to develop them and the fill them, etc. This is what each and every friend in the group should try to depict these things in such a way. Eventually we reach a state where we are all connected. Our material bodies disappear and this is what we call, ‘the imaginary world’, and we are connected only in our desires that are corrected with intentions to bestow and from that we end up with one complete system called Adam. We need to think each time that by this specifically we are giving contentment to the Creator.
9. S. (22:27) Without reforming light, what work can I do on my ego with the intention for the time being?
R. You need to do work without light with light. It doesn't matter as we are talking right now, as much as possible, connect with the friends so that as much as possible to bring contentment to the Creator, and that's it.
S. Think about contentment to the Creator. How do we do that? What does it mean to think about it when I don't have any?
R. That you want to do good to him.
S. How do you think about it?
R. I don't know if you're not capable of it, don't do it, if you ever do something good for someone?
S. I hope I did.
R. You hope so, that's why I'm saying forget about it let it be just continue the way you are continuing flow along it will come to you.
S. Thinking about the Creator when you have no Creator in your vessels, what does that mean?
R. That you are depicting to yourself a force that is filling up the whole of reality and you want to get closer to this force that is it. I have nothing else to say, it is a matter of feeling.
10. S. (24:23) Do I have to feel the right intention and bring contentment to the Creator. Is it something that we all feel personally individually in the 10 or is it something that all the friends feel in the same way?
R. Each one feels it individually however by this we also help one another.
11. S. (25:01) How do we calibrate the intention by seeing how much we are not in it and then do we have to pray for it?
R. That is very true. We discover how much we are not in any intention all together, we just want to be close to the Creator. Why, because instinctively we feel and we understand that it is good and He is strong, it's worthwhile to belong to Him, later on, we begin to check but what should truly be my relation, my intention towards the Creator, is in order to be good for me. By this I'm distancing from Him but rather, I need to change my essence of inclination towards the Creator so that then I will truly come closer to Him because in spirituality coming closer or moving away it's according to the intention and then we begin to work on the intention. The entire letter of degrees then we begin to understand that it is all about intentions, intentions, intentions, only that as much as the Ohr Hozer, the reflected light my attention towards the Creator I can increase it. This is how we already enter the right path, the right trail towards the goal. Gradually each and every lesson it's a bit more a bit more. Just try to go over what we are talking about during the lesson about this innovation that we are opening up a little bit each time. Try to truly, like with your teeth, to chew up on it and to swallow it in order to implement it so that on the next day you'll be ready for the next stage.
12. S. (27:34) Does our common prayer, should it be only with the right intention to delight the Creator?
R. Yes, our whole progress in spirituality is only through increasing intensifying the intention and making the intention greater, strengthening the right intentions so that it is always more to the Creator, towards the Creator more powerfully from the person and from the society and even from the whole world. We seemingly want to serve it all to the Creator on a tray. These desires that want through connection to bring Him contentment in what? That we are trying to connect so He will be able to be revealed and enjoy. His pleasure is being revealed in the lower ones and then we need to try to do it. Then we will see how important it is for us to also explain it to the whole world and then to cause that, this is still ahead of us, we have stages ahead of us
13. S. (29:12) Why exactly making connection in the 10 brings connection to the Creator?
R. We're bringing the Creator that place where He can bestow where He can be revealed and He has no other pleasure than Him being able to arrange the broken vessels that are ready for Him to arrange them, that are asking of Him to arrange them and to fill them. Contentment to the Creator is in that, that he is doing, that he is actualizing so give him the possibility to do, he can perform the corrections to the extent that the lower once raised MAN, deficiency for correction, this is our work and by this we become the partners of the Creator.
14. S. (30:20) What is the reason behind feeling such resistance to connection prior to the Ibur?
R. Resistance to connection, we will feel it each and every time, all the wars that we read about in the Torah, those stories it is all out of the resistance to connection. There is nothing else that we need to do. Out of the fact that we try to reach connection then we can activate a prayer towards the Creator. That's it for Him to perform the connection, for Him to correct the connection, for Him to feel this connection with the light of mercy, so that later on we will be able to receive the light of Hochma and it is all done between us.
15. S. (31:33) What is the connection between annulment and intention?
R. Annulment is the action or the state to which I want to reach and the intention is what do I think about that state.
16. S. (32:05) I feel I am like a lost child trying to find its mother, unsuccessfully. It doesn't even know who exactly it is looking for, so it sits and cries and it is told ‘stop crying, if you want to find your mother you have to not deal with your pain, but want something for her. But how in that state, if this picture is correct, how can this child do this, it is hurting and it wants to all at once to stop this pain, so what's wrong with this intention?
R. You must nevertheless, you have to realize that what we are doing requires time and besides that it is all done inside of the action even though I don't understand it and even though I don't want it, if I do it out of the doing, I begin to understand how it needs to be and I begin to want it, what needs to be. We exist in the world of action which is outside of spirituality. In spirituality all of the actions are different, they are all intentional in thought and desire but for us it is with the external vessels, with our hands and legs and why was that given to us in such a way? So we will enter the spiritual world cleanly. Out of the fact that I perform spiritual actions, I gradually begin to feel in these actions a need. An inner thought. A necessity, that it's worthwhile, as it says a habit becomes second nature. This is how we advance and therefore you are asking correctly, you have a good soul and it's not a light one, it is a heavy deep one so you need to have more forces. So keep going and you will see. We need much more to perform actions that are above our desire. I don't want to but I am doing it. Why am I doing it? Because this is what it says, this is what I need to do but how can I do it against my desire?
I look at the friends in our world through envy, lust, and honor. I obligated myself to do something like my friends. I don't want it, however they're dragging me to the Yeshivat Haverim, I don't want to but I need to do something for them because it won't be nice that is those egoistic discernments of mine they help me to be in the society, to be influenced by them and to bestow to them and this is how we start. Until later on we discover that there is benefit to it, gradually from corporeality, we shift to spirituality, you do and do and do many times, something with your hands and later on you begin to feel that matter that substance how it needs to be arranged even if you are, let's say, putting blocks together from blocks building blocks your putting together a wall in some building so you're beginning this work where you have no understanding of it and you start to feel the matter of this building block, its desire, how you can place it this way or that way and you begin to work with the matter and you are entering a connection with that matter. Then inside you already have a feeling, a mold, the feeling of that matter that you are working with and it is the same with the group. We need to work more with the group, still inside you begin to feel that it is. Later on that group it will no longer be in the image of the bodies, that one has this kind of hair and the other has this kind of ears and the other one has this kind of nose, this one is big and this one is small, this one is smart, no. You will stop see in these things and you'll start seeing behind them their ass since their desire for spirituality and then bit by bit it will simply transformed into a new structure where there are no bodies and this was just an imaginary world and everyone is connected together and the combination between the desires and intentions of all of the friends you will start to see the Creator truly had prepared them and this is how we therefore need to work between us and it is good that he was holding us and he didn't let us run away from one another and we reach already the spiritual system. It takes time however from one day to the next we are going along following the plan.
17. S. (38:50) Talking about the intention I know that I tried to put the intention but I never make it, how this intention process works. Should I be aware of the intention before I start doing any action or do I remember putting the intention later on to add this process work?
R. I will give you a tip to everyone, to the whole world Kli, you do as much as you can, you're inside in the morning lesson and you go over it again, over the material of the morning lesson, and if you can even twice. Then you will hear what it talked about. I try in every lesson to insert to inject a lot more than you can hear. If you make a bigger effort towards it you will hear more. But still either way it will work with patience and you will get it.
18. S. (40:25) With one blow you canceled a lot of points that were blurry. Is this the reason why you are insisting that we shouldn't use our blocked brain a lot but simply perform actions? Because through these actions were activating a different mind which is not our mind but rather it is a common mind, a common spiritual soul mind of Adam?
R. Yes, of course, our intellect should explain to us that with the corporeal intellect we cannot advance much. It was given to us only in order to prepare a framework for our spiritual connection but the most important is the prayer which will bring us spiritual discernment.
Excerpt 8 (42:08) Twice
19. R. It's all in order to bring contentment to the Creator. This has to be the prayer and the cry all the same. Simply, I do not activate myself. I don't act unless I bring contentment to the Creator.
20. R. (45:14) In other words, now we don't see anything real in this world, which is the imaginary world or in the spiritual world which is hidden. We don't understand ourselves or feel ourselves truthfully, or even the Creator, we are really in this absolute complete unconsciousness of reality. So in what way can we start opening up reality and start existing in it, feeling in it, existing in it, only to the extent that we unite among us with the intention to thereby please the Creator and bring Him contentment. Just like good children are willing to connect above their egos in order to please their mother and they constantly think about the mother, the minute they drop that thought they'll start fighting, beating each other up and then the opposite happens.
21. S. (46:30) What should we focus on as a 10 right now: the intention for the Creator, or annulment for the Creator?
R. I don't see a difference between them. It should all happen together. What the 10 needs to do is to thoroughly absorbed the material of the lesson and go over all of the excerpts of the morning lesson several times, not over the whole document but only what we read in the morning two or three or four excerpts not more and to try to find themselves in these excerpts in all kinds of connections and manners even if you get confused in it, never mind as long as you absorb and absorbed and chew this material and in this way you advance this is what I recommend to everyone.
S. What does it mean to find ourselves inside of the study materials?
R. When you feel that it is written for you and you carry it out as much as you understand what you should carry out.
22. S. (48:09) Does the Creator enjoy? Well, I can't change of course but it is my intention correct to bring Him to contentment, is this the indication for joy?
R. Yes along the way this can also be so but the main thing is your activities in connecting with the friends in order to give by this a place for the Creator to be revealed and then joy.
23. S. (48:51) What does it mean the two desires in both mind and heart?
R. We have a mind and a heart. The heart is a desire and the mind is the intention. The mind or the brain should be connected to the heart and then the brain to the heart and a person feels he says his mind and heart are equal and then he works out of this.
S. But it says so long as one has multiple authorities or two desires he cannot reach the revelation so what I understand from what is if we have to forces, right and left, so until we unite them is this what it means?
R. We have to unite in our spiritual actions, all of the thoughts and desires and intentions, everything we have inside when we are in what is called ‘devotion to the Creator’. This will be clarified in us more and more. You are actually making good progress and you are advancing correctly.
24. S. (50:06) Today’s innovation is that we need to connect, and in every action to give the Creator contentment. So what is the action that precedes this intention if I want to evoke myself towards this?
R. I search through what physical or spiritual action through prayer or gratitude or connection or what by which can I bring contentment to the Creator and then it turns out that it doesn't really matter what I do but rather my intention and then I start measuring my intention according to the intensity of the intention and not according to the power of the act itself. In other words, I start shifting myself from judging myself according to my intention rather than by my actions.
S. How do we measure if we're giving contentment to the Creator how do we measure our daily progress in that?
R. To the extent that I check it more and more, I am in it, I am worried about it, but the main thing is the concern, ‘a concern in one's heart he should speak of it with others’. So the important thing is how concerned I am with pleasing Him just like a mother is concerned with doing good to her baby. In any way you can and accordingly she scrutinizes and so should we.
S. What is the feeling that precedes the intention to give contentment to the Creator?
R. When we in a group awaken one another that our main purpose is to be in a direction of pleasing the Creator. This is the direction of our development as much as possible and then each one can bring some ideas and this is what we will do. So this should be our constant concern just like a mother towards her child and by this we will not go wrong if we are together we will be able to pull into it all the friends explained how important it is this is the purpose of creation to bring contentment to the Creator and to that extent he can bestow to us. Then we begin to understand the more we and all before him we bring him to contentment and by this we open ourselves up later on with the vessels of reception in order to bestow. Because we don't need to receive, we don't want to receive and we are doing it only to please him so he can bestow upon us and satisfy us and fill us and it is all in order to bestow.
S. Through the process of Ibur, impregnation?
R. No, no, no, don't rush it. I'm just saying this is the way, going deeper and deeper into it and we're beginning to scrutinize what is important here, what is the most important. This is why I am asking you to listen to the morning lesson again during the day.
25. S. (53:55) Do you mean that each and every friend is doing in relation to his friend so it turns out that each friend is in plural are doing or should we do the action together?
R. You have to be in connection with each other, that's not the main purpose of the work that's so you want to build something so each of you build the part that you agree you should build but you have one goal, one intention, and you feel that you are doing one operation and you want to achieve something. So it doesn't matter where you are all over the planet, it has to be agreed by all of you and decided we know what we are doing as much as possible, as clear as possible, as connected as possible. We not only see each other in the little squares in the morning lesson in rectangles there, rather we really want to see ourselves connected in a spiritual vessel where the Creator is revealed and enjoys.
S. The fact that I approach the 10, I tried to perform the action the intention to prayer, there's the desire, a deficiency and this is how each and every friend is doing it opposite that then so it turns out that we are doing it together, meaning the same action that each individual, does it means that all of us are doing it together?
R. That's not enough, the fact that each one understands that if he doesn't do this operation from his heart by this he weakens everyone and all of his friends will also be able to give the right intention towards connection and in the direction of the Creator as they should and by this we weaken the friend and we even steal their ability to advance.
26. S. (56:37) Yesterday in the meal it really that one felt as though you wanted to entirely get into the 10 and give up everything, it was really strong and why is it impossible to have more meals like this, this is what we want?
R. Too much takes away the taste you need to do everything according to the necessity, according to the necessity. If diamonds were like gravel then they would be worth as much as gravel. You can't help it, precious things must be rare. A little bit of them. Look at how with the desires to receive, look how few of those desires are in the world which the Creator has made in each of us can do? It's enough, it's enough according to the pyramid there needn't be many people who are trailblazers, breaking through the barrier and entering spirituality they will pull everyone else along and the same goes for a meal you need to be impressed by the meal and try during the week to also somehow continue with all of the energy you received there.
27. S. (58:43) How not to fall emotionally into an allusion in the spiritual?
R. What work in spiritual illusion? If each moment you think about how to bring contentment to the Creator, you are not in an illusion, you are in spiritual work, that's it. What illusion can there be here, think constantly that you want to bring him contentment that's it.
S. About the persistence in this thought about the Creator all the time?
R. Yes, that's all you need.
28. S. (59:26) When you are talking about us always checking, how can we trust what we are checking when the ego is trying to trick us into believing something that is not?
R. Only through connection among the friends can you establish, direct and calibrate yourselves correctly. This is why we are in the corporeal world and in a corporeal connection between us.
29. S. (01:00:20) I made an effort to give contentment to the Creator and I failed so what intentions should I build so that my next effort will be stronger?
R. What did you fail in? Were you in this intention and fell from it? Or would you like to perform some operation? We are talking about the intention, when I constantly try to be with the intention to bring contentment to the Creator and that's it. Then I need the friends, I need the world Kli, I need the study, all kinds of means in order not to fall from this intention, to bring contentment to the Creator, in this quest you are constantly in it. The absence of this intention, the failures with its intention, will actually direct us forward, towards the goal because in the end what is the purpose of the correction, the purpose of creation, the end of correction? It is for all our actions, all of our desires to be directed to bring contentment to the Creator and by this, as in a vessel, you will receive his revelation to bring contentment to us and then we achieve complete connection.
30. S. (01:02:07) Understand the importance of hearing the lesson throughout the day but I don't have time because of work and other constraints?
R. There's no such thing as a person not wasting a lot of time traveling, all kinds of things, standing in line somewhere, there is no such thing. You need to record the lesson, he doesn't need to be next to a computer in an office and watch it, it is enough that you listen that it constantly plays in your ear.
S. There was a continuation question: we have twice a day, two meetings each and twice a day what should we give them?
R. At least one of the meetings should be dedicated to it.
S. Meaning to listen to the lesson for half an hour or to have excerpts also?
R. Yes, for half an hour. Read these excerpts, talk about them, process them thoroughly.
31. R. (01:06:30) We will continue. I'm not sure if it follows what we just said about changing our intention and directing it specifically to bring contentment to the Creator, we’re talking about connection, about nearing the Creator but does it follow the intention? Is it according to the intention, I'm not sure, let's go and see.
Quote 3 (01:07:08)
32. R. (01:08:15) Yes, except here, he doesn't really bring out the matter of intention to bring contentment to the Creator which prevents us from entering the Ibur, the impregnation; meaning there is a desire but the intention is complete incomplete
Excerpt 9 (01:08:39)
33. R. (01:10:18) That's how it works in spirituality the more we try, as much as we can, to cancel our ego, to that extent we are greater and there is no other law according to this we can measure ourselves.
34. S. (01:10:41) How do we make this shift, this transition from the inclination to perform egoistic calculation towards the friends, to every action to truly be for the Creator? How do we get used to working in this form?
R. You said it correctly, getting used to it, habit becomes a second nature. When I convinced myself that spirituality is opposite from corporeality and the more I give to others it is for my benefit. Start from this and gradually you will do more, more, and more. We see it in life, look at politicians, how much they give and give and give to the people so that they will be elected, right? So you first have to do these operations in order to receive and then you will see that there is also some new power in it, the force of bestowal. This is how it works and this is how we shift from corporeality to spirituality. Try it.
Excerpt 10 (01:12:09)
35. R. (01:13:10) Most important is to try in the group to think about the whole group about how much we unite because the Creator takes into consideration the sum of our efforts, the final form of our efforts and in this way we will approach the correction.
36. S. (01:13:39) Out of everything that we study, we know that one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater, now among the friends those who think that they are bestowing more than the others are bestowing, how can we connect?
R. I wouldn't get involved in all of these things. What do I care what each one thinks. They each think from within their flaws? Why now to start arguing who is more or less, who is higher or lower, worse or better, for what? We all need to know one thing: that this is what is written, that we are making an effort to perform what is written, this is for us instructions and guidelines for spiritual work, that is. Why are you discussing who is more or who is less, what lowliness, what stupidity there is in this.
S. One thinks he is bestowing… (Cut off by Rav)
R. What everyone thinks is their matter but why do we need to know what they are thinking about, we need to talk about what the Kabbalists are writing.
S. Then I say this is my opinion… (Cut off by Rav)
R. I don't care about your opinion and how do you even dare to bring your opinion before everyone; you are confusing everyone with your faulty opinion, why are you opening your mouth and explaining what is in your head. We need to understand what the Kabbalists are writing to us.
S. How do we come to… (Cut off by Rav)
R. First we shut our mouths and we read and not argue with what we are reading. Rather we try to understand what we're reading precisely. The words that we are reading even go over them a thousand times, the same text and not to speak because everyone is corrupted. Why should we pass the corrections from one to another? Are you all wise one in the group, arguing as if someone there has a correct opinion, who does that? We shut our mouths and open our eyes and read what is written 10 or a thousand times, to go over the same lesson, every lesson from this excerpt and look at what the Kabbalists are writing until it will enter us forcefully into your brains and turn you from beasts into human beings
37. S. (01:17:18) What is the place of work in annulment in the matter where I depict that everyone is in this work for the Creator?
R. I always depict to myself that the friends understand and are present in all this work more than I am, that I envy them, but I feel shame and I'm scared that they will reveal how much less I am than them. Look at what Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma writes.
38. S. (01:18:27) You said to read this excerpt for half an hour and on the other hand you said to shut your mouth so the friends want to understand when we do talk?
R. Read what is written and not any more than that until the brain will scan and format itself according to what is written.
S. That is reading, what about chewing and talking and workshops?
R. That is later and not so important, a thousand or two thousand years ago they didn't even have books, maybe they had books but what form were they written in, even 300 or 400 years ago how many books did human beings have? There was let’s say one book, one in 10 families and they would read every one would already read the same book and it would be enough to read spirituality.
S. It is still not clear and I see for many friends it is not clear. What we do is we read the sources and some add in the workshop what they understood through certain discernments what they heard from the teacher. Is there a place for a second?
R. There is room for that after they read and scan it well with their mind, but not before, if it is before they take an image of the text then what they are doing in them is like some doctor at work?
S. With what caution do I need to come to the friends when I open my mouth?
R. That you have something truly to add to what is written. A unique point like today see, one must cancel one's authority before the authority of the Creator that one does not want to live for oneself and the only reason that he wants to exist is in order to bring contentment to the Creator. These are the keywords in order to bring contentment to the Creator. In all of our actions, in all of our thoughts and everything that we do we need only to bring contentment to the Creator. When I catch myself that I forgot about the Creator, that we are in connection with him, then I think where am I, that I got disconnected and confused, that I am already getting distance from being an embryo. “I”, “I”, “I”, I am only thinking about myself, by what actions am I bringing him contentment and not where I am. This is what we spoke about yesterday. How do we exchange from the egoistic corporeal intention although it's tied to the Creator to the spiritual intention that is truly tied to the Creator and not myself.