Morning Lesson October 18, 2023

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Part 1:

Rabash. Article No. 4, 1991. What Is, “The Saboteur Was in the Flood, and Was Putting to Death,” in the Work?

1. Rav’s Intro: (00:40) I don't have so much to say, we simply need to realize that our enemy is in the flood and we must think of how do we put it to death before it puts us to death. That's all, so let's see how we do it.

Reading Article: (01:18 ) “It is written in the Zohar, Noah:...”

2. S. (36:52) Rabash writes that there are three stages with the first two he writes to want specifically for the greatness of the Creator and two, to reject the yearning. The question is when? 

R. On one hand, we need to yearn for the greatness of the Creator. Without it we wouldn't be able to pray to bow down before Him to receive Him and accept Him, to feel that we are dependent on Him, that He is in connection with the Creator. Alongside with that we need to maintain our independence, our independence. Although we yearn for the greatness of the Creator we want to see that we are in this. That it depends on us. It comes to us not do not as a result of pride but that we want to show the Creator that it's us doing it for Him, for His sake.

3. S. (39:03) How to use the flood practically in order to defeat the saboteur and not fall into the state of death?

R. If we work together, then we can receive all of the required discernments in order to correctly advance forward. That's what we first of all need to make sure that we are going together. Each one hears what the friend says, so by that we all reach this disconnection one with the other. Then we won't have anything to fear. On the contrary, we can be certain that we are receiving the Creator correctly.

S. This means that first we have to build a ten?

R. Yes, first of all we build a ten and then we start doing all kinds of actions with it. 

4. S. (40:48) What does it mean that I fall to the authority of the vacant space?

R. This vacant space means that you have nothing to correct the cling to nothing to grab onto nothing, not yourself, not in your surroundings and you don't see where you are.

S. Is this is total disconnection?

R. We can't even say detachment because you can't say what you were detached from.

S. How do we overcome such a state if you fall into such a state and you have a grip on nothing?

R. We go back to the friends like we did in the beginning and start again more and more together.

5. S. (41:46) He writes that when the Creator wants to hide himself from a person which is certainly for the person's best because the person is not worthy of revelation. Then He gives the person some darkness, meaning that He takes away his spirit of life and then He necessarily falls into the place of darkness where the light of Kedusha does not shine. The question is what makes the person worthy of revelation?

R. To extend to connect with the friends even though we don't know anything, he's among them like a baby but he's connected to them he feels dependent.

S. Is the revelation that he talks about here, if a person reaches 99% of being worthy but 1% is still not worthy, he will not receive the revelation?

R. I don't think so, it's worthy of revelation. It doesn't depend on what he knows even with the strength that even if he has the strength, it is to the extent that he subjugate himself towards the others.

S. Is this the whole quota that has to be filled?

R. Let's say.

6. S. (43:24) He writes that in the beginning of the way we should yearn for the greatness of the Creator specifically now. We try to pass on the Creator to each other the greatness of the Creator in the workshops, we talk about the greatness of the Creator. There is a certain stage where it becomes difficult for the friends to hear it already. I'm asking which other actions?  I want  to pass to the friends the greatness of the Creator. What else can I do? How can I persuade him? What other means do I have?

R. Example example.

S. How do I give an example to the friend that the Creator is great?

R. I have to give an example with a friend otherwise I won't be able to shake him up to help him get up and from that I get strength. I ask the Creator to give me strength in order to help the friend.

S. What is an action that we can ask? What is an action that shows the friend that the Creator is great? When I get up for the morning lesson or I persist on the path?

R. Yes, yes.

S. By from that the friend understands that the Creator is great if I persist on the path?

R. Because he sees how the greatness of the creator influences you and then why would it not influence him?

S. This means that he sees the importance from me?

R. Yes.

S. This is as long as we have at least spiritual attainment while we're still in the perception of our five senses ?

R. Yes, yes, this is before spiritual attainment. This is from only being connected in the group as friends.

7. S. (45:58) You answered one of the friends that we have to keep our independence from the Creator seemingly, Are these not things that the ego is? To agree with the Creator but still remain independent?

R. No, I didn't even say anything like that, no. 

8. S. (46:36) What does it mean that the Creator takes away from a person his soul?

R. Connection with Him.

S. But sometimes a person has a connection with the friends?

R. Yes, that's possible but that's the friends, it's not connection with the upper one it's connection to the friends and above all that this is preparation for a connection with the Creator but it's possible that it's only a friendly connection.

9. S. (47:39) By what power is a person rewarded with serving the Creator and unconditionally?

R. What force with a person's desire can be connected to the Creator regardless of the conditions as long as it's connected to Him. When he looks at others it seems that the Creator is more connected to the friends than he is with himself and from that also comes a desire to connect with the Creator with greater force.

10. S. (48:37) What does it mean to see a small king as a great king in the work?

R. In the beginning the Creator seems like a small king and through his work he grows in a person's eye and he becomes a great king dominating everything.

S. If I understood correctly, we see him as small or we seem as great so it sounds a little bit different so maybe I'm missing something. We see his greatness is something small. We see a small one as great even though he is not great? What does that mean?

R. That's what we see, will try to attain it.

S. Because it sounds like seeing something incorrectly or I don't quite understand?

R. So wait and you'll get a more correct impression.

11. S. (49:54) What is the difference between the greatness of the Creator and the forces by which a person can advance without the greatness of the Creator as it says in the article. What is the difference between the greatness of the Creator and those other forces by which a person can advance without greatness of the Creator? That's exactly what's unclear how to see advancement if he doesn't receive the greatness of the Creator from such a high level where a person could advance without the greatness of the Creator I just don't understand.

R. He connects to the friends and with them he begins to feel that draws him forward this force called the greatness of the Creator.

S. It's exactly the same power by which a person can advance or is there some additional force which is without the greatest of the Creator that enables the person to advance unconditionally so that he doesn't need any greatness of the Creator I'm simply capable without any conditions and capable of annulling and serving Him.

R. Only if there is a good connection with the friends.

12. S. (51:47) You it says in this article, a person must ask the Creator to give him the strength to love the Creator even when he takes his soul away and he has left lifeless to be able to overcome with the Creator under any circumstance, with what would we love the Creator when he takes away everything and we're left lifeless?

R. The question is correct, we love Him because even by the fact that He takes life from us we can be tied to Him.

S. Even feeling lifeless, we can still feel tied to Him?

R. Yes, yes, adhere to Him. 

13. S. (53:05) What does it mean this is the meaning of ' inside of the flood there is corporeal suffering and later on he reaches spiritual suffering'. What is the spiritual suffering that he is referring to?

R. Spiritual suffering is that I won't be able to come close to the Creator according to my qualities and I realize that is so. That is the spiritual suffering. 

14. S. (53:59) When the Creator takes away from a person his connection, that's the time to find the right connection and correct it? Then the connection with the Creator grows stronger and there's degrees in it?

R. The connection, of course, has degrees in it. All of our degrees are degrees of connection with the Creator.

15. S. (54:45) How can we treat the saboteur in the spiritual work?

R. The saboteur is the smartest and most concealed entrance, the saboteurs is what hinders us from connection between us, from the groups, in the tens, into one worldwide group.  It is the  force of separation.

S. How do we identify it, the saboteur?

R. We need to look at it, we constantly try to monitor it, track it and see how it is manipulating us.

S. How can I help the friends so they can identify the saboteur?

R. You have to give them an example of how much you hate all the forces of separation that exists between the groups, even between these forces in the ten that separate from each other. 

16. S. (57:02) The greatness of the Creator can we be felt only in faith above reason?

R. Yes.

S. How in our connection between us do we feel the greatness of the Creator as a certain force?

R. It's a force that begets us, shapes us, connects between us, this is all the forces of the Creator and what we have is only the power, the force that can determine what he is doing with us.

S. I didn't understand what it means?

R. In order for us to feel that he's doing something with us this is our power and all the rest is the Creator.

S. We can just feel Him? Doing what he wants? To just start feeling what He is?

R. To a state where we will be in solidarity with Him.

17. S. (58:29) I wanted to ask on these three stages. In the ten at the beginning we asked the friends to feel the greatness of the Creator. It’s like yearning for the greatness of the Creator, that’s the first step. Then to no longer yearn for that but to ask for the vessel which will connect as one together with Him. We feel this love, where are we attracting it to and when does the Creator reveal that I truly start living the friends?

R. Well there are other things also.

18. S. (59:20) How do we escape under what conditions do we run away from glory?

R. It’s through love. If we try to hurry up and reach love then we escape the honor, run away from the honor..

19. S. (59:48) You spoke about the state of preparation. How is it to be in the state of preparation in order to later on reach this overcoming?

R. We need to be in preparation in our connection with the friends so that through them we get forces for the Creator and then we can overcome. We are unable to overcome by our own strength. We do not have anything, or to receive from the friends, we also cannot, but only through the friends from the Creator.. 

20. S. (01:00:43) Working for the Creator unconditionally. How can a person find taste in bestowal and what is this flavor, this taste of bestowal, what is it?

R. Flavor in bestowal is when a person bestows and he feels a flavor in it, what else can I say? You have to try, then you will feel what it is. We can understand it, it’s like a mother that enjoys feeding her baby.

S. How to be saved from a corporal dependency which seems to us more important than something in spirituality? How to ask the Creator for someone else to save me?

R. There is nothing you can do about it but you can ask from the Creator it will not free you from the corporeal problems. You have to understand that we have to relate to all of the problems.

21. S. (01:02:17) How to hide the greatness of the Creator? How does a person do these actions of bestowal himself?

R. It is a difficult question. Usually it is by getting closer to the friends, connecting with them, and in the connection with them we seemingly cover the Creator, we cover the Creator.

22. S. (01:03:04) How can the ten resist the one that harms in order to unite as one ten?

R. Connect as one.

23. S. (01:03:36) How does the reflected light come from the ten and how does this reflected light prepare us?

R. We just have to connect more and more between us, the light grows and it shows us its actions.

24. S. (01:04:17) How to ask from the Creator to rise above the forces of separation?

R. How? Only together. If you will connect more together and you will ask of the Creator, He will not be able to turn you down.

25. S. (01:05:02) How can we develop the attainment in our hearts in order to uplift the friends so that the friends will feel that there is only absolute goodness?

R. It is only through connection between us. Here we lack nothing besides that.

26. S. (01:05:41) Many times we heard that we need to believe that everything comes from the Creator, both good and bad. Here it says that to feel the bad that comes from Him it causes spiritual death so how do we need to act?

R. Only through extra connection, more and more and even more connection, by this we shape the vessels in which we can feel the degrees of nearness or the Creator in a greater and greater manner.