Morning Lesson May 9, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: Our work is to bring back the broken vessel of Adam to the corrected state, this is our work. We are parts of the vessel and the connection between us, we try to connect the broken souls into one soul called Adam. It is called Adam because then it resembles the Creator, being similar to it and the soul and the Creator become like a couple connected face to face between them in mutual bestowal to each other. The soul gives a vessel and the Creator gives the light and the vessel is filled with light and this is the state of correction until it will be completely filled, the end of correction. We are after all the corrections which we have done through the generations before us, since we are in the end of corrections, this is our state and it is called the last generation. The study itself, the study of Torah is divided into several stages, the first stage is when we know in general who we are, what are we, what we need to do with ourselves, what is our situation in this long chain of souls that come back and reincarnate, what is our individual role and all of us together. We learn about the structure of reality, the form of reality, how it is built, we learn a bit about ourselves, about our nature, we exist in a physical body which is on the animal degree in the form of this world which is still, vegetative and animate.
From this we have additional things to learn, our behavior, how we learn and how we build our life and environment. We are those special creatures even on the animal degree that we change the environment to suit ourselves and from this environment we can begin to rise from the animal degree to the speaking degree. This is the degree of Adam, man, the one who resembles the Creator, this is what we want to do with you, this transition from the animal degree to the speaking. For that we need to do different exercises, changes, corrections on ourselves and by that, this ascent will take place from the animal degree to the man, to the human degree. This is what we need to scrutinize right now in order to learn about the animal degree. We need everything humanity has collected and discover its corporeal state, this is the animate degree and also what Kabbalists think about the animate degree which is like a transition from the animal degree to the speaking degree. Later we have to learn about the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to extract a special force from it that will lift us from the animal degree to the speaking degree. This is what we wish to engaging in, how to extract this force from our study called Torah, the entire study in general is called Torah because it needs to bring us the light, the upper force of bestowal which does not exist in this world.
This force of the Torah that influences us can lift us to the degree of the quality of bestowal which is the essence of the higher degree, the Creator which we wish to be in. We are not leaving this world. On the contrary we are starting to see it, to get to know it in a more transparent way, we understand it more, we feel it more. But the important thing for us is to do all the required actions in order to create a passageway from the revelation of this world which is clear to us in our five senses, to the revelation of the upper world, the spiritual one which is not clear, because we have to discover five new senses of its own, vision, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching but spiritual ones. Let's hope that we are ready more or less and we can do this all of us together, we have to help one another and then we will succeed with the Creator’s help. So therefore in our study contrary to other parts of our study, the most important is the intention where we have to decide, why we are learning, why we are discussing, remembering, asking and replying. Because I might be speaking about technical stuff and they don't influence me the way I rise from the animal degree to the speaking degree instead, it is important for me to scrutinize what it means for my spiritual ascent, what influences me, and what conditions am I performing this ascent. So here we are going back to the necessary conditions before us, which is that we have to connect between us. The ascent depends first and foremost on our connection.
Spirituality is built in such a way that we have 10 separate, different parts on the lower degree as a result of the shattering, when they connect together and their connection as one, they reach a higher spiritual degree. There again on a higher degree they see themselves divided into 10 but that is already a new spiritual force that separates them and they work against the egoistic desire that was revealed between them and then again they connect 10 as one and then again we acquire a higher degree of connection, unity, revelation of the Creator in them and this way we can rise from degree to degree, stage to stage. Let's hope that we can begin to implement it and will be clearer to us, more certain to us and we don't have to speak about it in theory but we are going to feel it in practice, that this is the spiritual advancement, the spiritual path until all the parts of the broken soul will connect together. Of course it is all performed by the reforming light that awakens us and brings us closer and glues us to one another, we just want to reveal the deficiency for it. And how to do it, the upper force does it. The correction is only by the help of the degree which is above us so the intention before the study of TES is something we gradually arrange. This intention will constantly renew itself, build more and in each degree, in each state we will have changes to this intention and we will see the main thing is our intention. Everything is done from above except for how we look for the intention relative to ourselves to the 10, to the group, to the study and to the Creator, how should this be and as much as we can arrange ourselves correctly with a more correct attitude towards ourselves the Creator and the general view of the study.
Accordingly we will succeed in a more beneficial, more intense way and this way we will advance. So this study of TES is special because this is the first time in history that great sage, the Holy Ari, about 500 years ago laid out the entire process, that the broken soul has to undergo in order to connect again as one soul, to exist and accordingly discover the Creator through concealment to revelation. This is why the entire study is a study according to the Ari. Baal HaSulam wrote the study of TES based on the writings of the Ari. He arranged all the parts of the study of the Ari, what he wrote in different text and he did not compile and organize it as a book, although he wanted to, he could not get to it because his seminary existed only for a year and a half. He taught his students and only one of them, Chaim Vital who started to arrange the writings of the Ari and after him, a few generations later until it came to Baal HaSulam and he arranged the writings of the Ari, producing the great composition, the study of TES. This is the study of how to connect them together how to incorporate in them and build the connection between them according to our deficiency, our efforts and the upper light that works from above, meaning to arrange TES correctly to return the broken vessel of Adam HaRishon to its corrected form and for that we need to be partners with the Creator.
We try to scrutinize what it means to be bundled parts, connected together tied up together in one structure called the soul and together with examining how much we are unable to do it but only through the reforming light when it shines to us, specifically when we learn the writings of The Ari, Baal HaSulam and Rabash. We awaken the light from above and this light gives a feeling and understanding of what it means to be in a corrected vessel and how to ask for the corrections and this is how we come to the correction. This is our goal and in the study of TES when we learn about actions of the vessels which is us but the actions of the vessels that we make, these are correct spiritual actions and we are still outside of the understanding, the feeling of what are true spiritual actions should be and we have to learn about the it, and ask, demand and receive an explanation how to adapt ourselves to this system. In our entire study we don't learn in order to know what is written in the book. Learning by heart, it is not considered valuable in the wisdom of Kabbalah, because it is practical wisdom. We make a correction on this I have received which is our entire being and how we correct our desire which is after the shattering turn to in order to receive which is opposite to the Creator to a desire which is similar to the Creator which is in order to bestow. Ultimately through this structure I try to be incorporated in this I tried to pass onto the Creator my desire to bestow and then begin to feel that we are towards the Creator and we start to reveal how he relates to us.
This is the revelation of the Creator to the created beings, this is the entire purpose of the wisdom, the revelation of the Creator to the creatures in this world. The person who discovers this discovers the entire creation and does not depend, is not restricted by this world, time, space, life or death but starts to feel the states which are part of the eternal nature. The people can grasp within his beastly egoistic form and this perception is called the perception of the soul, the purpose of the study is to reveal our vessel called vessel of bestowal also called the soul and in this to feel according to the level of the vessel to feel the Creator. Then in our vessel we discover him and this means that we come to unity with the Creator we will learn a little bit about the preparation the intentions before the study of the 10 Sefirot there is a lot of material we have to go over it but each time when we start studying the study of the TES again we will work with the attitude towards the study, the intention before the study the different approaches to study this is a whole world in itself in our physical world it can be forgotten and that everything is for it to take us to the spiritual world where we would like to be incorporated, to be there and to arrange ourselves there, so let's say answer a few questions.
2. S. (19:10) What is unique about the intention specifically when we study the study of the TES?
R. Whenever the person does something in life he has an intention of what he is doing it for otherwise what is he doing. Either he does not understand and feels like a baby who also wants something but does not know, he does not understand, attain what he is after, or of Kabbalah, the main part of it is the study of TES. And, here, we have to understand that our entire study is as Baal HaSulam writes, ‘to bring the upper light.’ If we can bring the upper light differently, we would engage in it differently. The important thing for us is the light that reforms, that awakens each one of us to see how opposite we are, distant. And the more we can rise above this difference between us and connect, and what can we attain with this connection. Meaning here is the entire study.
S. What does it mean that we draw the light during the study?
R. We are in one world and we divided into different worlds, different levels but in truth, it is jus. One world. Therefore what we need is to awaken in us this upper higher influence. I’m drawn to this phenomena which is higher than me, and with my deficiency I awaken its influence upon me. Accordingly I advance toward that phenomena which I want to reach. This is not only in spirituality but also in corporeality. When I study music, for example, I try to understand and feel what I'm learning. I crave to reach it and the phenomena is simple, I awaken a deficiency for something that is above me. And from there, with my deficiency, I pull on to me the same degree, the same phenomenon that shines on me from afar. This is one law for all reality, corporeal and spirituality. But here we have a problem because we cannot say with certainty what we want, we do not know what to grow, what to yearn for. That's why we have to carefully read what Kabbalists are saying and try to do what they are saying. Accordingly we will advance.
3. S. (22:49) The intention stabilizes the Kli so we have to expect the result is reception or action?
R. You’re asking what should we expect? What should we pray or demand? We need to demand that the upper force correct us. This is called the reforming light. It reforms, returns us to the good. Now we uncover our desire something bad, egoistic, by which I reject, repel everybody. I feel myself more distant, more willing, ready to maintain this distance and the result of the influence of the upper light is to show us how much we do not want to reach the connection. And contrary to this, we have to ask for the connection, we have to pay for it as much as possible and then for the upper light to influence in this manner. It will awaken the separation between us so that when we connect and we learn together, when we begin to discover this distance, then we would specifically want this connection. We’ll ask for it, we’ll convince the upper light, the upper degree, the Creator which is always considered a higher degree to us that we are asking for the force of connection. To the extent each time we become more connected, we’ll understand, feel and reveal more of that phenomena that is above the material, the matter spiritual phenomena which is the result of coming closer in connection these are referred to as ‘spiritual phenomena.’
4. S. (25:14) When we say that ultimately the light comes and makes the change, where is the boundary between this and the creature finishing his role and then the Creator has to work?
R. The created being never completes its role until the end of correction. We don’t know exactly what’s happening afterwards but we will see what happens there. There are additional things, more degrees, you know the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th millennium. There are additional degrees but for the time being, we have to continue and not stop anywhere. Here we discover what it means ‘each shall help his friend,’ when in the state that I don't find myself, how to act correctly, I have no desires, I have no clear revelation of the place of work, then I use the help from the friends. They are in different states and we work together.
5. S. (26:29) In one of the previous lessons, you said that on the animate level, right and left work together. Can you explain this?
R. No, this is not what we are talking about, now. Why are you bringing personal questions, here?
S. We talked about the animate level?
R. We can talk about the animate degree for thousands of years, focus on what we are learning, the direction what we are learning and don't confuse the others.
6. S. (27:14) In the study of the TES, how will it help us to rise to the speaking degree?
R. In learning TES, we are learning about spiritual actions we can perform only in the desire to bestow. The desire to bestow is the Creator, the created being that wishes to resemble the Creator needs to apply on its egoistic desires, its will to receive, a restriction, a screen, a reflected light. And then, it can bestow meaning to perform an action that is opposite to what it actually wants. Then he will resemble the Creator. The study of the TES explains to us about these actions that are already arranged, set up after the restriction and the screen that each vessel inside is egoistic, the created being. But there is a correction over it, restriction, a screen and reflected light over it and with this action towards the others, he appears like the Creator, the one who bestows. So we need to try, based on our study of TES, to try to portray these states: how capable are we of being in those states? How much we can pray to have the ability to perform such actions? For our entire work to be where we learn, read, speak about our own corrected states. Although we are not in it but we wish to be in it. From those states we learn about and discuss, we can receive a small illumination called reforming light. This light will correct us until it puts us into those states we are learning about. It will change us and make us into spiritual vessels. Let's try to talk about it to during the study and then we realize it.
Excerpt 1 (30:33 - 31:10)
7. R. Meaning why am I studying? What is the benefit from studying? What am I drawn to in the study? The person works not only according to his instinct like an animal but according to his intentions. He aims himself to certain phenomena, a certain results that he wants to see as a result of his efforts. You get up and come here. You sit down in front of your computer, you are speaking about the connection which is not in our nature. We make all these efforts but what for? What am I hoping to get out of it? Each one needs to ask himself and try not to continue superficially like yesterday but constantly renew the reason. And see this reason more and more clearly, one that obligates the person more.
Reading again Excerpt 1 (32:31 - 33:02)
8. R. First of all, our entire study will be like a prayer, a request where we wanted to attain something. We try to arrange for ourselves the desirable state as clearly as possible before us, so we would be able to measure the starting state and the state with which we end the lesson and this way, we’ll advance. Let's try to extract from our study the reforming light, this is the upper force that shines on us if we are learning correctly. This force comes through the study of Torah which is called ‘light.’ When we awaken the higher force, it comes to us from the soul that was before the shattering and from there the light can shine on us, shines on our broken vessels. This light awakens us a little bit, raises us a little bit to that state before the shattering, the corrected state. And in this way we correct it, this is the reforming a light that pulls us to our corrected state and through that we return to the one soul. This is why we have to perform actions also in corporeality to be connected, to help each other, and to awaken the upper from that higher degree to shine on us, and this is how we advance. This is the actions in connection and turning to the higher light, to the Creator. Two states which we have to establish before us that will help us to correct ourselves and then come to corrections. We will discover our eternal state, our whole states, as it says ‘you shall see your world in your lifetime,’ and the main thing is not to forget what we have to do for this which is connection. And from the connection, a prayer that the higher light would come and correct us.
9. S. (36:05) How will we build our intention and how will we know that our intention is correct?
R. This we will discover through the study as well, the upper light corrects and fulfills everything. Those many actions are done by this force which is called light. This is the influence of the Creator.
10. S. (37:04) During the study of TES, we don't really understand what it is about. What if we are confused and we are afraid of how to use this huge device? How do we use this fear to bring maximum benefit?
R. By incorporating in the friends, veteran friends, in everybody. By this, you will be able to advance even when you don’t understand anything of what’s happening. We see this in our corporeal lives, the same goes for the spiritual degrees. Everything starts from conception, Ibur. You’re incorporated in everyone, everyone is greater, bigger than you, you want to incorporate in them and see your life through everything you receive through them.
S. 11. (38:01) You said that during the study, the reforming light shines on us from the initial soul of Adam HaRishon? How do the souls of the previous Kabbalists participate in this illumination of the Light?
R. It seems to us that we are broken, we’re disconnected from everybody, we don’t know where we are. But we are in the same system of Adam HaRishon. What we refer to as broken is because its individual parts received this concealment, as if they were not connected and darkness is working on them. But darkness working on them doesn't mean that they are not connected, it is simply their sensation, in their feeling this connection does not exist, but the connection is present. The Creator is controlling everything. Everything is present, we simply have to return ourselves to the true reality where the Creator fills everything.
12. (39:24) How do we help each other from different state, in practice?
R. We are not speaking about helping one another because that is already many kinds of actions, it is a separate study. We learned how to help each other, we can read about it in the Social Writings and other places where Rabash writes about it. We just need to know how to help each other but in order to come closer, to understanding spiritual actions for them to take place in us.
13. S. (40:20) The intention is very evasive. It slips through every moment. What happens is I can begin with it but then I’m immersed in the lesson, I listen to you, Rav, and the friends. How do I keep renewing the intention?
R. I try to flow with everybody and try to be in the same intention with everybody. I don't keep myself in what I wanted before the lesson but the most important thing for me is to be incorporated in everyone. If I now try to protect myself, somehow, isolate myself from everybody, I don't get any benefit from the lesson. The benefit comes only when we connect together in one heart and in 10 Sefirot. When we arrange ourselves like that, by the upper light, by the reforming light. So with these 10 Sefirot, through them, we will understand and feel our degree as a higher, more advanced, more spiritual. I am not keeping my position, not moving from it, on the contrary, the more I’m incorporated into everybody, and like the example of the Rabbi Yosef ben Akiva, I’m incorporated into people who seem not so great to me, initially. It does not matter. If I’m incorporated in them, the smaller they appear to me, the more benefit I can receive from this.
S. The moment we exist together in the flow of the lesson, incorporating together, should we still always inspect what intention I'm in or just simply keep flowing together with and dissolving into the mutual preparation we did?
R. During the lesson I try not to criticize. If people are asking a question, I have to see things this way or another, but the most correct form is to be incorporated and enter into everybody, to incorporate into everybody. There I am like an embryo and in this way, I absorb what is in them in the best possible way.
S. In this tendency to integrate into the friends, do I always clarify each moment what is my intention?
R. I try to annul myself in this way that I would be in them, first of all. As if I don't exist personally, individually, rather only to be included in them as an embryo. This is the healthiest, most beneficial state. Later we’ll learn about other states but for the time being we don't yet have the vessels.
Excerpt 2 (43:59)
14. R. The Torah can reform the person towards giving.
15. R. The desire to receive in the person remains about his intention to receive will be replaced with the intention to bestow.
16. R. These are pleasures from bestowal.
17. R. So the higher light influences us from a higher degree which we wake upon ourselves and then this higher light which is called Torah which will perform different connections in us.
18. S. (45:59) How does working with the intention can the friend draw more light by working how does this friend affect the others?
R. This is something we do not know yet how to talk about this how to discuss it without being confused simply try to be together and draw together the higher light the reforming light to correct our relationships from receiving to in bestowal. By this we gradually make the 10 with the help of the higher light meaning 10 Sefirot connected through mutual bestowal and when they build such an attitude between them then the Creator can be revealed in their connections for the higher allowed will dress into the day created between them. According to the measure of bestowal between them they can reveal the Creator in the degree of bestowal. Meaning that the Creator is always, come and see, come and see how much we are prepared for this and then we can discover him.
19. S. (47:41) The light that reforms that comes from the state that is before the shattering and the higher light from the higher degree does it have a different place?
R. We received influence only from the degree which is the closest to us above us, that's the degree we receive the light from.
Excerpt 3 (48:19 - 49:10)
20. R. This means that we do not have any other source for the force that can correct and arrange as that puts as into the higher world, into spirituality, into the correct structure of our soul but only the force of the light which we can draw thanks to the right study according to the wisdom allows us to do. So the purpose of the wisdom is the revelation of the Creator to the creatures in this world to build the vessel for Him so to such an extent that man should reveal his higher degree which is called Creator relative to his low degree which is called the creature.
21. S. (50:11) What conditions determine the intensity of the light that reforms on the person studying the study of the TES?
R. We will learn about this on many articles we will learn about this in many articles the force of the reforming light influences the person first of all according to the person's deficiency as much as he feels that he needs correction, not simply deficiency. According to our deficiency we are constantly calling out give me, give me give me by that recently moved further away from the higher light. If I incorporate into the 10 and I try to be included in the others, to be like everybody else even smallest of all and help and serve others as much as a possible care for them and from that I ask for the other from the higher force to give me the strength to support for them, to care for them, even work to serve them even more to discover how many corrections I still need in order for me to be able to tie the others together more and more in my heart in order to nullify myself towards them. So in this way I can progress better and use the study, it is written for us in many articles of the Sages because they write only the about this because all the only corrections are in the 10 everything the correct ourselves is happening on the in the 10 so we must not forget about this each towards the others we have to remind each other of this.
22. S. (52:40) The study of TES can we consider it the highest spiritual action to bring the connection back between us?
R. Certainly by studying the TES we have to feel ourselves as connecting more and also moving further apart the connect more and we move further apart each time more and more. Because that is the result of the influence of the higher light on us since it influences us in both directions. On the other hand he who is greater than his friend his evil information is a greater, our selfish desire will keep growing more and more until as it is written about the students of Rabbi Shimon who wanted to kill each other this is on one hand on the other hand on top of this we wish to connect with the help of the Light.
23. S, (54:03) Where does the strength to study of TES come from, that Torah that connects us?
R. It comes from the broken vessel of each and every one, if you try to correct your soul you feel this deficiency that you want to receive this light inside the broken vessel so that you come to a method which tells you in what they you can correct your broken vessel so the light could fulfill it, this is it this is what's happening.
24. S. (55:07) What is the measurement for the 10 engaging in the Torah correctly?
R. To the extent they come closer they move further apart they come closer and move further apart this is one sign there are other signs as well but this is first and foremost also as much as they understand these changes that exist between us that they accept it correctly as necessary for spiritual progress.
25. S. (55:43) It seems that it is very difficult to put the intention on the sensitivity for connection during the study, still it says that the light in it reforms and if we engage in it. It reforms so a person can just focus on the light, the person can just focus on the light, study the TES and thinking about the light and the measure of connection is very elusive, there is no connection to each.
R. You think more and more that the connection is the correction of the broken vessel after this sin of Adam HaRishon and we have to understand it, all need this as before you and as much as you tell me about other things I do not care about it we need to do only that connecting the broken vessel.
26. S. (56:48) How can we realize during the study of TES “each one helps his friend”?
Only with the right intention, it is not that we are helping each other to explain what is happening in the study just like when we learn mathematics or physics, instead we need to help each other to be more aimed at the connection between us, this is called each is helping his friend that I am concerned, I care like a doctor with his patients, I care about everybody to be connected because our success depends only on the connection between us, if we connect we start to reveal the Creator between us, if you do not connect nothing will happen.
S. What can I ask for the friends during the study?
R. You can ask, and everybody can ask, that as much as it depends on you, you wish to work for their connection, to serve them as much as possible, this is what Rabash writes in the social articles.
Excerpt 4 (58:23 - 01:00:03)
27. R. Before the study a person has to be aimed, concentrated, guided entirely in the right direction with all his desires and intentions.
28. R. That's clear.
Excerpt 5 (01:01:47 - 01:03:22)
29. R. Meaning there is only one action by which we can succeed and that is to receive from the Torah the reforming light. This light that comes to us, this light that comes to us from the correct study brings us the force of faith, the force of bestowal. With that according to the force of bestowal they have we begin to feel, understand all the actions of the Creator and He bestows to us and we let nothing other than the force of bestowal that we received through this study.
30. S. (01:04:12) What is intention?
R. I think about what I am doing it for and I later tell you what do I wish to do in order to reach something. So the intention is why am I performing an action and this is called an intention, but what is the reason for doing it and what is the result I wish to reach? The action itself can be done by a machine or something, what matters is the intention, what do I want to have happen as a result of my actions.
31. S. (01:05:22) What is the action of bestowing correctly the direction, what is the correct bestowal?
R. To bestow correctly means to connect in the group correctly, and your connection with the friends you are giving the Creator a place, a space in which to work and to reveal himself and you need nothing but to connect. You do everything within your power to be connected to the friends.
S. What is it to do everything?
R. Everything you can do, it is written: the power, the might of your hand you should do.
32. S. (01:06:30) As much as I know Rabash told you that this is the most important part. What is it about, that is most important?
R. The student pledges prior to the study to strengthen himself to get guidance from the Creator in reward and punishment, this is my intention, this is my desire, this is my goal, this is the entire direction of my study, I wish to reveal, I wish to grow stronger, I wish to hold on to faith, to providence to reward and punishment. It's short through the study I wish to grasp the Creator. I don't want to feel good or bad or for me to understand. To feel. I lack none of that although I do. I wish to myself in such a way that through this study I will uncover the attitude of the Creator toward me and I will discover that His attitude towards me changes from time to time according to my attitude to Him, and from that I will learn how to correctly relate to Him so that He will relate more correctly to me. That is the meaning of “I to my beloved and my beloved to me”. In this way we will begin to understand and arrange things correctly.
S. We are with the friends in the study right now, how do we hold on to the Creator?
R. The best thing is for you to be constantly concerned that your friend will understand and feel the power and depth of the study, the result of the study. You want them to absorb it correctly like a sick person who needs his medicine, you ensure that they get this medicine because among them you too will also grow. This is the meaning of I dwell among my people, and then we will reveal the Creator and if they don't connect we will not reveal the Creator.
S. You said that it is also to have desires that we discover our desire is changing.
R. Not in the direction but different types of attitude. Because of that we feel the world changing. In truth the Creator arranges all of those, the Creator changes all those states: time, motion, space is the Creator's attitude toward us, we are simply the will to receive in the sea of the Creator’s will to bestow.
33. S. (01:10:38) What is punishment?
R. Punishment is when a person forgets about the Creator. That is the punishment. We learned about it from articles. This is the worst punishment, for the Creator to be concealed from a person.
34. S. (01:11:18) How can the 10 use the power of the whole world Kli correctly to draw the light that reforms?
R. The more that we are concerned with the world Kli and humanity we are all parts of Adam HaRishon, to the extent we wish to bring back all these parts to the connection so the Creator can be revealed in them and will rejoice from us. By that we are bringing everyone closer, our forces maybe not great, but we have to understand that by being at the bottom of the ladder we can activate the ladder in the most beneficial manner.
S. You said yesterday that on my own I will never attain anything, you said it many times. In this preparation for studying TES can I say where I want to go in my relation with the friends, but I can't really come to this feeling. What is missing in order to feel that this direction of the study should direct us right?
R. Try to study together and see all that you are learning from one desire. Then you begin to feel a great change in the quality of your perception. You'll see how you are disconnected from one another individually and compared to how much he wants to feel connection with others and he sees what he studies in the common vessel, the common desire in the common mind as much as possible, you will see a substantial difference between an individual, corporeal perception and a mutual spiritual perception. We must scrutinize it each time tenaciously, and we turn ourselves each time to change the perception of spirituality, otherwise it's not spirituality.
Excerpt 6 (01:7:42 - 01:18:21)
35. R. Not that it is not important what we are learning but how much we are approaching the correct result from the study. That is a big difference. It is not the wise who learns as it is written. There are people who understand seemingly what is written in the study of TES, they learn it by heart, there are people who have photographic memory of pages and they can tell you page 1850 it says so and so. It says nothing about a person's inner knowledge, reason, because it's not the wise who learns. The one who learns the wisdom of Kabbalah means he feels what is happening, not what is in his brain, but in his vessels, and his corrected desire, this is what this whole thing is about. A person needs to remember the goal in the study of Torah which is more important than the study itself. The goal that he cares about it and it should always be in front of his eyes and in part importance of the Creator, meaning after the study I feel myself filled with the greatness of the Creator and the actions and goals of the Creator on me then I obtained the correct result on me. It is possible I do not quite understand with my intellect and the mechanical actions and we about the important thing is the impression I get of the Creator. How great he is toward, how direct and how consistently he is working on us.
36. S. (01:20:40) What is the art required to obtain the wisdom we are studying now?
R. Constantly think of the goal it has nothing about the amount of knowledge it is not the wise who learns. But only devotion to the matter I wish to resemble the Creator. It's like you look at someone and you really want to be like him. That's it you come closer you want to be like him, you wish to learn what are the actions of the bestower. It is not something you imagine, it is something that he does so that you asked him to teach you and show you examples of bestowal which is a different world. You cannot portray bestowal from our world. It's completely not like in our world, it is not spiritual that's why you see them with corporeal egoistic eyes. Meaning you wish to come closer to the Creator, to learn from His actions of bestowal and to resemble Him means to be like Him.
Reading 7 (01:22:16 - 01:24:11) Twice
37. S. What is bestowing when you don't feel anything when you feel a wall between you and the friends?
R. So what? Say you work on something and you can, I give you a task and you have no desire for nothing. You do what is demanded of you in order to receive a salary. Same thing in spirituality, we have many states to work where we have no desire so that desire we will change. This is called first in coercion and then desire; none of us wants to bestow we have no data about it, no foundation but we do various actions the result of which is the beginning of the feeling that there are forces and some benefit to bestow and that is how we advance.
S. How does a person during the study find some vitality, taste, flavor through this whole tiredness and confusion?
R. You have a point in the heart and it is time for you to correct it, to glue it once again, the broken piece to the Creator. When the time comes when you suddenly want to attain spirituality. Therefore you have to make efforts. Why efforts? Because what you do is contrary to your desire. You have to understand that spirituality goes against desire. Spirituality is in order to bestow we have no inclination for it, no beginning of it. It is all the quality of the Creator. It is to emanate ourselves outwardly as it exists in our nature only the opposite. To pull in to demand to fill ourselves. Consequently we have to perform various actions in order to bring the upper force, the upper light and give us the opposite form. That means that over our will to receive, there should be the intention to bestow. The intention is to bestow to give although our desires to receive. So it can't be that I will use these two opposites, so there is the desire and there is the intention and we can use them together, and I restrict my desire, I develop the intention to bestow and then and only then according to how much I am able to realize the ability to bestow accordingly I activate the desire. Meaning I restrict the desire, I receive from above the intention to bestow and as much as I am incapable of activating the desire with the intention to bestow, that is how much I use it and not more, and by that I go and correct my desire. Meaning the problem is never the desire, it's the intention and the intention I receive through the informing light through the force of the Creator. As much as the Creator shines to me to that extent my intention can grow stronger and then I connect to the growing intention my desire and that is how I grow up. I have a bigger vessel, a bigger will to receive in order to bestow its time more and more.
38. S. (01:29:26) What is the point in the heart included inside itself?
R. The point in the heart contains the desire. And we all desire and we have nothing but desire but the point in the heart is that desire in which there is some spark of the state that existed prior to the breaking and that is why it is called a point. And that point awakens and draws us back to the state that was prior to the breaking.
39. S. (01:30:09) It is written that then he is told that he has to ask for the vessels that he will have vessels of bestowal. How does a request for vessels of bestowal seen in the 10, I have to ask it for everybody?
R. Yes, but we have to help each other as one man and what heart. This is regarded as connecting in love upon and for each other and out of this to the Creator.
39A. S. (01:30:51) I heard you say that according to study we thank for my mutual mind. Will you elaborate on that?
R. I can't elaborate on that, you have to try to get closer to each other until you discover that it is possible. How can I explain about a feeling, question the ceiling is what you obtain on your own, the feeling is what you would pain on your own.
40. S. (01:31:32) You said that a smart person cannot learn spirituality. How can we test our success in the study of TES?
R. How can you ask like that a wise person cannot study in spirituality? From where did you take that a smart person cannot learn spirituality? It's open to everybody the smart and the stupid and everyone. The important thing is intention in your heart which is why anyone can achieve corrections. But that is a smart person cannot learn spirituality? This I do not understand. It is written that it is not the smart one who learns. Meaning the learning does not depend on the intellect but it depends on the directness of the heart. This must be where you have this misunderstanding. It's not the smart one that learns names that you do not need intellect, IQ in order to work to learn the wisdom of Kabbalah, because in the wisdom of Kabbalah you learn your attitude in order to bestow and in that relation in order to bestow you receive the Creator, the power of bestowal, and from the power of bestowal and through the power of bestowal you begin to see all of reality. Because in this power of bestowal which is called the light of Bina, the light dresses in it and then you see that is the light of Hochma which dresses in it and then you see all of reality as transparent. This is why it is written that it is not the smart one who learns but rather a person learns the actual reality of all the worlds including our world only by wanting to bestow, to resemble the Creator so we study the Creator, so that we become like him. Clear?
41. S. (01:34:25) What is the difference between a spiritual wise person and a corporeal wise person in corporeal life?
R. A spiritually wise person receives the light of Hochma inside the light of Hassadim and this is why he is wise, but a corporeally wise person is someone who learns from books or something. But he has no understanding of the actual situation internally, the forces that govern the world.
42. S. (01:35:07) When studying TES, does mutual inner work happen between us in the lesson?
R. Yes, during the lesson when we learn each person must feel himself as belonging to the others and together in connection between us we receive the learning, we receive degrees, discernment and revelation of the Creator to the created beings. If a person is not connected to others during the learning then why is he with us in the first place? The learning that we are now approaching is the learning of the wisdom of Kabbalah a lot in practice and someone who is not in it, I'm not saying that he is redundant but how will he get any benefit from the wisdom of Kabbalah, he will remain a beast and that's it.
S. What determines our ability to create an intention?
R. This we will worry about during the learning all the time, the correct learning will force us to be equipped with the right intention.
42. S. (01:36:54) How do the states that we have been going through lately help us when we study TES?
R. We went for over a year of a program of preparations for what we are approaching now. The learning of TES. Besides TES we are to learn a lot of Baal HaSulam articles. There is a lot more material but we want to begin to try, to learn TES correctly. If we succeed that will be the best. If we don't succeed then we will go back to material that we haven't learned and we will prepare ourselves for learning TES even more. But of course our work is the learning of the 10 Sefirot correctly, meaning that each and every one of us will want to be connected to others, to the rest in order to create the right network of connections with a Creator clothed between us and we will see that this is what the 10 Sefirot talks about.
Excerpt 8 (01:38:53 - 01:40:37) Twice
43. R. If we start thinking about the goal in terms of what we are studying, what we want to achieve, what form we want to attain through the study, it's like working hard and constantly thinking about the pay, the salary. I am not thinking about my work I am thinking about what I will get in return for the work.
Reader continues (01:41:09 - 01:41:32)
44. R. To give the intention to bestow.
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45. R. Yes, because he doesn't have the right end, that it should have periods that it brings a person the power of bestowal.
46. S. Why is this means of Torah not only does it work but it can harm as he writes, why is the intention so critical?
R. Meaning how would you do it?
S. Like a remedy I go to the doctor, I take antibiotics, I become healthy.
R. You don’t need anything?
S. I take the medicine.
R. Meaning that by taking the medicine this way you will become a giver, bestower and then you will be called an angel. Meaning the force of this still, vegetative and animate that gives. Just like you have forces in this world, you have positive forces and negative forces, you have two forms of forces. So what is the benefit of them? That the Creator wants you to be above these forces. This is why it is not just about being healthy you have to be above the system.
48. S. (01:43:44) How can we test whether we acquired TES?
R. When you begin to read TES and you feel the powers that happen that work in reality, and how you are in them and work with them, then you are regarded as learning Torah. Meaning that you yourself in practice are performing these actions. Entry and exit of lights, degrees, Reshimot, records. You begin to feel and you how they change, how it works.
49. S. (01:44:52) You said in the beginning that spirituality is connection.
R. Spirituality is not connection rather spirituality is revealed inside the connection, within it.
S. When studying TES it is harder for me to remember because it is harder for me to remember because it's more technical. So why is this study important?
R. Because they're you are learning about all kinds of oppositions individually very precisely by which you received reforming light. That shines for you in all those states and then if you want to attain the essence of those states it helps you.
S. How does that work? It is not the wise who studies, that is not what you were studying.
R. Yes it depends on the intention exactly what I said.
S. If it depends on the intention then why do we have to study about the system?
R. Because by learning the text that talks about your soul end to it there's an element to you. By this, by learning when you mention these things the light from that corrected state that exists shines on you from a far and brings you closer to understanding and feeling.
S. What does it mean that I mention these things?
R. When you read it. Look what he writes about it in the Introduction to TES.
50. S. (01:47:04) We are coming close to reading TES. If I go to the doctor he gives me medicine and I don't care left right good bad I just want to overcome that. How do I feel it? How do I know?
R. You will discover it all for yourself. I cannot tell you no one conveys this feeling to another. That is it. You can but each one must obtain it on his own.
51. S. (01:47:56) In that famous reading 155 from the Introduction to TES, he says that a person needs to aspire, to understand what is written. Why doesn't he write attain or something about intention. What does it mean to understand?
R. You understand it is a degree of Bina. Bina is the power of understanding, it is not our intellect we cannot understand anything with our intellect we cannot understand anything spiritual.
S. You also said a few times that we need to penetrate and imagine or grasp the mechanics that are written in TES.
R. Yes that too we need but still it is in order to try to see spiritual actions within these actions. But it is not like one is greater than the other. Superficial learning can hide from you all of spirituality. It will make you start playing with definitions and examples and behind it you will not see the spiritual lessons. It will not pull you toward pre-action but toward knowledge it will not pull you toward correction but toward knowledge per se.
52. S. (01:49:44) You answered that we come to the lesson to get remedy. So what do you get from this? So you become an angel? And then you said we need to be above the system can you explain that?
R. We talked about it all the time. I don't know what else to explain. We have to demand corrections. To receive the understanding of the text with the forces of bestowal just like the one who wrote the text otherwise we won't understand it. He writes to me from the level of the spiritual world and I want to understand it on the level of the corporeal world. So what will come out of it? It is completely incorrect what I am perceiving. You understand that I must I am forbidden to imagine spirituality in a corporeal way, it is called do not build a statue.
53. S. (01:15:10) What is unique compared to Zohar and TES?
R. Other writings of Kabbalah besides those of Ari and Baal HaSulam don't speak consistently systematically about the structure of the spiritual world and therefore it is difficult for us, very difficult to learn according to other texts. To learn the structure of the spiritual reality becoming integrated in it and demand the reforming light from it because we don't feel the system through it. Here we began to study TES we will want in every single operation we will want to discover ourselves opposite from the Creator how He influences us and how we respond to us.
S. He mentions in 155 that we don't have to understand. Even though we don't understand that because of the desire to know, so it is more precise.
R. You are right, thank you very much. I cannot keep repeating everything we have learned and read, I understand that you forget and it's natural but what can I do?
54. S. (01:53:11) Where does strong desire come from?
R. Strong desire comes from the point in the heart. If it exists in a person it exists if it doesn't it doesn't he may be incorporated in society and his small desire will grow but basically it comes from the root of his soul. Just as we learned that people come to us, why does one come and another doesn't? One comes and stays and leaves. It all depends on the root of his soul. Clear?
55. S. (01:54:09) What's the concealment as an example for us? How can it help our group to be in concealment?
R. I don't know, ask the friends to explain it to you. You asking something that I can't explain, what is concealment? Concealment is what the Creator did on purpose so that we will watch it discover Him and develop desire for Him. Just like a bride hides herself from the groom in order to stimulate him, in order to increase his desire for her, his passion for her, this is the passion of concealment.
56. S. (01:55:10) You said before that the point in the heart is from the root of a person. Can it turn off during our mutual work in the 10 and if so how to ignite it again?
R. Anything can happen, we can come to this state when it becomes put out quenched or we can come to this state where it burns the point in the heart it all depends on the environment and how you connect to the environment and you are constantly set on fire through the environment.
57. S. (01:56:04) How can we constantly keep the right intention during the study? Is there a technique that can help us?
R. Yes, you need to try, write it down in front of you. You need to see that the friends also think about it even if they don't speak but the thoughts operate on one another and you have to try carefully to ask the Creator to renew your correct intention during the study. All kinds of names. The right intention during the study is the main thing, not what you are learning but with what intention you are learning. This is what is important. Previously there wasn't the study of TES the writings of the Ari, the Kabbalists still learn because they had something, they had enough intentions with the books that they had. The more corrupted souls appear overtime the more we need study material that is more complicated and stronger with greater reforming light and then it can gradually also achieve something.
58. S. (01:57:52) Can we concentrate this on one point that actually the Creator wants to know all in all what he wants to know, can we do it in such a way? That he wants to see as much as we connect and want to resemble Him, that doesn't matter what we're doing, is that the main point?
R. The Creator knows it and He knows in advance and he has no concept of time, no middle or end, beginning or end, the whole process is all focused in Him. The whole point is how much we grow and accept all those things in time, space and motion in the right way. This is how we need to worry about it how we relate to our learning in such a way that on top of everything that is revealed we develop a disposition to Him to the Creator, do we need to connect for this let's connect. If we need to connect our ego or will to feed, let's take it out of the warehouse we have plenty. Anything we need only in order to get closer and closer to the Creator. Because my soul yearns for you.
S. You mentioned time and place, how do you relate to that?
R. Time, place and motion are discernments that we are in, time meaning times that change, states that change, the place is a more external form that changes and motion means that we are in constant changing of our internal records. Our records change all the time and in those records we feel a new world and a new place but it is all basically Reshimot. Besides that light and the Reshimot there is nothing. But we will learn this and TES.
59. S. (02:00:27) We're starting to learn TES from a new period, so it will be like these are our life and should we discuss this in the 10 even though we won't understand it during our meetings?
R. In the 10 you need to discuss what we are learning in the morning lesson so that this lesson will go deeper in because when you listen in these hours you are not impressed, you are not incorporated you are not fashion within it. It does not establish you enough, this is why you need to go over it more and more. I who have already memorized these excerpts a long time ago. I went over them dozens of times but I still go over them again and again. Because this is really the extract of the message and Kabbalists have made for us have sent for us.
S. So what you are saying is that we don't need to elaborate on this during the day, but what we are learning from you in the lesson that is what we should speak about.
R. Yes, that is the most important. Not to start going all source of other places because here it talks about one topic that the excerpts are focused on this way.
60. S. (02:02:15) How to combine between the intention to draw the light?
R. Ask for it to happen and you will see how your qualities, desires, will change just ask and they will change.
S. We are studying but our final intention should be to give contentment to the Creator, how does intention set together?
R. I didn't understand, but we have to come to a state where we think only about bringing contentment to the Creator and everything we do we do only for this.
S. And now we're saying that our study should be aimed at how to draw the light, how to correct a desire.
R. No, the illumination I want to receive from above, the force that I want to receive from above is the means to correct myself and be directed to bring contentment to the Creator. In our actions there are the means and there is the goal. More correctly, reason, means and goals.
61. S. (02:04:18) Can failure to apprehend TES slow down, harm the structure of our soul?
R. We are still under the control of the Creator. It is like a child playing games when the adult has taken care of him and we are also taken care of by the Creator and we cannot cause any harm in the system, only to ourselves. We can maybe accelerate or stop it. Slow down in our development no more than that.
62. S. (02:05:52) How can we convey the importance of our connection with in the 10 and between the tens because I feel that in relation to TES that the Creator wants, I feel pressure from the Creator to come to incorporation is this the right feeling?
R. It all depends on as much as you connect in as much as you inspire one another and as much as you'll feel that only together you can work in spirituality. It all depends only on the connection between you, that's why it's written that it's not the wise who study, not the wise one.
63. S. (02:06:50) How faith in the Rav helps us when we study TES?
R. Faith in your Rav means that you accept what I am teaching, you also see these things that Kabbalists have written about in the writings. Part of what you hear, you can check according to your mind, and all in all what you need to subjugate yourself by us towards my advice, what we need to do now, the actions of connection, and how the study of TES will reveal the spiritual world to us.
64. S. (02:08:06) To what extent can we create the right intention even before we achieve attainment?
R. We will already see, the Creator will do what depends on Him and we will do what depends on us, the rest you can see what the Creator is doing as an addition upon you.
Excerpt 9 (02:08:55 - 02:11:41) Twice
65. R. That is a very strong excerpt. So we need to make sure and be concerned if our desire and the light that reforms, that in that depends our and how we advance it doesn't depend on one person but on all of us together as much as we awaken it. Let's now have a workshop.
WSQ (02:12:29): All of the Bnei Baruch, please, what do we want to scrutinize in the workshop, what is important to us now? What is important to us now? When turning to the study, to the Creator, to the group and establishing ourselves correctly in order to receive the light that reforms that we are all depending on. Our whole future depends on the light that reforms. How can we extract the light from the higher degree, how do we use it correctly, please. That is the workshop. Come on, good luck.
66. R. (02:16:30) We are coming to the state, our future state that actually exists already because in spirituality nothing changes. It only changes according to what man is attaining. All forms, depictions that need to take place, it all exists. All these frames are there already, this movie is already there.
WSQ: So how do we have to accept it if we know that everything that will happen will happen and it only depends on our attitude, It depends on our intention toward what is being revealed. How do we stabilize ourselves in a way so that whatever has to be revealed is revealed in the most beautiful way and not just let it go and happen randomly and we'll just suffer and accelerate that we are in this process. Please.
Excerpt 10 (02:19:52 - 02:21:32) Twice
67. R. That means that it doesn't matter, that as much as we understand, and what we are studying, it is not the wise who studies, it is how we know how to use the state we are in. But I want to advance toward bestowal, towards connection, towards revealing the Creator for the created beings and I'm helping everybody, as much as I want to be connected to everybody and only by that can I receive the new spiritual states and in them all the states are clarified but say from TES. That's why it is not that wise that studies, for this you don't need wisdom, even if a person only comes once a day to study if he knows the right approach tomorrow he can start studying TES.
68. S. (02:22:55) It's written that if a person is rewarded and I thought comes to him what can I do to get a thought?
R. The thought that you came to us is already a sign that you were brought here, as it is written that man is brought to the good fortune and it says take this for yourself. What you think you came here on your own? You think you do anything on your own? That you have freedom of choice, that you are so smart, that you chose all kinds of tasks, what do you think about yourself? Everything is aimed from above and directed from above and here it is explained that as much as through all of these states that the Creator has given you, that you need to be, you need to add something on this path on your development. You need to give a very small response like a baby who adds something, you have to add something like a smile or an agreement, something, that is enough. Don't think that you chose the path and now you are between us and just like tomorrow you feel like leaving, also that comes from above, everything comes from above. You have something to say about it but in the end or in the beginning - the Creator is the first and the last, He will decide. And in that I think that I want to let you still give you 10 minutes if you can now you should speak between you.
WSQ: What you will be doing during the day in order to strengthen the lesson. Very important. There are a lot of excerpts, 10 excerpts and each one of them is very important and each one should go over them a few times during the day and speak about it during the day. So please.
69 S. Summarize the lesson: how do we strengthen the lesson during the day? Discuss what you’re doing during the day in order to strengthen the lesson.