Morning Lesson November 23, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.

Excerpts from the sources: “Work in Faith Above Reason”, #32

1. Rav’s Introduction:

All of our work is to build our spiritual world. We were given reason, our ego, the will to receive in which we exist and we have to build the spiritual degree above it, or to discover it, which is the same thing. That out of our will to receive we need to see our world and to create what we call the opposite world. From the will to receive, from the world of reception our egoistic world, to build the opposite altruistic world, the world of bestowal. That way we will advance more and more, time and again, until over every revelation of our ego in thought, in desire, in intention we build the opposite world. As it says, I have seen an opposite world. It is impossible to build the spiritual world unless specifically by building it ourselves out of what the Creator created in us, the will to receive, in this corporeal world the world of reception. This is how from the world of reception we build the world of bestowal and by this we become the owners of it, we understand and we feel we are in control of these situations. Then we bless the Creator who specifically created the whole Creation in such a way. Thus, from lo Lishma we build Lishma, from reception to bestowal. This is man's work, and in this work, actually only a few of the people of the world take part, a small part called Kabbalists. All the rest join them later on, to the extent that the Kabbalists establish in quantity and quality, the suitable quantity and quality the spiritual world for themselves then they can also project their feeling, their attainment to the others. Then gradually the others come closer to them, the degree of people also improves which are the men then the women, then the animate degree and the vegetative and the still. As it is written, the wolf shall dwell with the lamb. From where does that come to the wolf or to the sheep, the ability to live together above their egoistic nature? Only out of the fact that those Kabbalists project their intention to bestow above their will to receive to all the dwellers of the world. This way the whole world, that is all the desires that their Creator created in the still vegetative animate and speaking, all of these desires receive the intention to bestow and if so everyone reaches the end of correction. We are on the way to that, our path is clear, it is becoming revealed, more and more, from one day to the next and today, too, we will try more to locate it to ourselves how to come closer how to enter and pull behind us all the dwellers of the world. This is it, so let's read and go along.

 

Excerpt 32 Reader (04:37 - 06:51)

2. R. This means that our work is nevertheless to see the goal, we want it or we don't want it, we understand or we don't understand, however we need to reach the quality of bestowal. As now we exist in the quality of reception, everyone, however there is a part of the people to whom the Creator gave, awakened in them according to the general system a desire that awakens in them to be in order to bestow. They don't understand that it is in order to bestow, but rather they understand it because that I want to attain the Creator in a way that it draws me and that I want it, I want to know where I'm from and what I am and why. However, indeed in the internality of this desire there is a desire not just to attain the Creator but to be like the Creator. That comes from the root of the Soul this is how it awakens in a few people and then we have to gather them as much as possible through dissemination and when people come like you and I and us, we have to teach them and help each other how to reach the form of bestowal, the nature of the Creator. And it's only by us acquiring this nature of bestowal can we arise to His degree. All in all, there are only two degrees, a nature of reception and above it, a nature of bestowal. There is a reason why we were created in the nature of reception so as to remain, this nature, but on top of it to bring the intention to bestow. That is our nature does not change, we remain created beings, we remain in the will to receive. But with the intention to bestow and by that we equalize with the Creator. That is, there is me and there is Him and always there is a great difference and oppositeness between me and Him but that oppositeness, we cancel it through the intention to bestow and it doesn't hinder us that I am in the will to receive and He is in the will to bestow. The most important is that we connect to each other in our intentions and that is called adhesion. Otherwise we would simply disappear inside of the Creator and we would not exist. In order for us to exist and keep ourselves and  be created beings forever, we must remain in the will to receive that the Creator has created it is an eternal desire and we just change our intention on top of it. This is what we learn in the wisdom of Kabbalah how initially the intention is built that comes from the Creator in order to bestow and then we have a Tzimtzum Masach Ohr Hozer all the Partzufim of Adam Kadmon all the Partzufim of Atzilut until the shattering and later on we learn how from the shattering we begin, ourselves already, to rise from below and to resemble the Creator. There is a part here that comes from the Creator as an example, as preparation and there is a part that comes from a created being, as the implementation and the attainment of the Creator. This is where we are. Therefore, we have to build the upper world on top of all of the revelation of the ego in us, the entire revelation of the ego in us and that is our work. 

 

3. S. (10:52) The body of man has complaints, what is this work, it doesn't want to give the person power to work and then he writes that you can overcome it only through prayer to the Creator. How can you pray to the Creator if the body doesn't give you the power?

R. From the group. Of course, I don't want to turn to the Creator, the Creator for me is something which is detached or opposite or not even felt. It's done so on purpose, so I won't be able to run to Him, truly it is not like religions where each one has a connection with the Creator as if a personal connection. Rather we cannot reach the Creator but only if we do it in the group, because a person who is in religion, for him the Creator is something that he can turn to Him and ask and he's seemingly receiving something from Him. He doesn't have to reach equivalence of form, he doesn't change himself, he is asking from the Creator each time that the Creator will do something for him to give him this, later give him that, in this world all kinds of things. Whereas Kabbalists are ones who already have in hi heart a point that he has to attain the Creator, not to connect to Him in order to receive something from Him but to attain Him. This is why he can turn to the Creator and only in order to receive from the Creator the force of bestowal, the forces of correction. These forces of correction can come to a person only on the condition that he's preparing the place to be corrected and that place is the group. Where I am in my small group and preferably it should be ten and not less and no more. Because this resembles the spiritual Partzuf then I ask of the Creator that he will give me the power to connect with them in the form of mutual bestowal. If I develop between them, together with them mutual bestowal then by that I already bring myself to resemble the Creator. I begin to feel that the connection between us is not just some mutual connection in the group but rather there is some special quality here called The Creator, Boreh, come and see. This is how we discovered Him. This method is called the method of Kabbalah, reception, how to receive the revelation of the Creator to the created being in this world. Whereas in religion a person connects with the Creator he doesn't become by that a bestower a giver to the contrary more and more he develops his ego and this is what we see in religion, how much they develop in religion and the people that belong to it more and more egoistic forms.

 

4. S. (14:42) You said that we begin to distinguish, in the connection between us not just the connection but the quality of the Creator, what is that?

R. I learned from the friends how much they bestow to one another and I want to resemble them, to also be the one who bestows to them because every yearning, craving and honor push me to bestowal if I am in a group, how can I remain not like them, how can I be lesser than them. Therefore, through the group when I reach some appreciation of the form of bestowal then I see that I cannot, then I ask the Creator, look how they are doing and I cannot, how come I don't or cannot. Then the ego itself pushes me into the form of bestowal and that way through envy craving and honor when I am in the ten specifically each one of us comes to bestowal.

 

5. S. (16:05) What is my commitment to the ten and what is my commitment to the Creator?

R. My commitment to the ten is to help the ten to be as one body as one desire. My commitment to the Creator is I want that in the ten that force of the Creator the general force of bestowal will dwell among us, which is considered that we are building the Creator between us. As it says and you have made me. This is what we have to do in the ten the Creator does not exist but rather we have to connect between us with our desires that our form of bestowal above the form of reception will bring us the feeling of the Creator. This is why we work in the state of Bo, come, when we overcome our desires to receive and we reach the will to bestow, and Re’eh, see we see what forces of bestow will we achieve. This is Boreh, Creator. The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks of the realistic world which exists in forces of nature and Elokim God in Gematria is nature, to say God or nature as Baal HaSulam writes, it is the same thing and we want to discover the true nature in which we exist.

 

6. S. (18:05) When we are in contact with other tens, this feeling appears, the feeling of Arvut in the group and I feel the connection with them more. Where do we find this point of connection with other tens...?

R. There is no such thing. Just like until a person is included in a ten he doesn't feel himself towards the ten, similarly if we only exist in a ten we cannot see the ten, but rather when we with our ten want to connect with other tens we feel connection between us as necessary and it is good for us to develop it more and more so it's okay what you see should be.

 

7. S. (19:09) Why is it so complicated to connect with the friends in the ten? When we disseminate to the external people then connection is easy, they have simple desires or something... with the friends you constantly have these scrutiny regarding their intention to bestow?

R. Well, you're going to bestow to other people outside of the ten then you're working out of your ego you want to explain to them how much you have something and you want to give it to them and you feel yourself as greater than them and you have no disturbances, no hindrances because your ego is supporting it. When you go to get along with your friends, you start to see how much you are and you're not in connection with them and therefore you have great disturbances but both this and that, you have to work on these things and you will succeed. We need to connect inside of the group but also connect with the group together to external dissemination so it's good that you feel this way. 

 

8. S. (20:35) If I lose my contact with the group, can I reach faith above reason?

R. No, you won't have a place where you can check yourself and you won't have enough forces to support you and how will you actualize faith above reason with the Creator? How do you know that it is with the Creator and not with your own ego? Because you truly exist in darkness only the ten where you feel how much you're connected with them or not connected with them gives you in our world, the ability to check if you're in bestowal and reception. This is why the Creator first created the will to receive, which is called the system of Adam HaRishon prior to the sin and he broke the system so that each and every broken part each and every broken desire will have the ability to see itself whether it is broken or it is becoming corrected and we have no other demonstration, no other test unless we're in a ten. A person then receives himself he doesn't know where he is it seems to be that he is already reaching the end of correction and actually he hasn't even started working on himself and years go by, complete lives,  incarnations and finally he reaches a state he starts doing the work inside of the group and that way to advance.

 

9. S. (22:48) I wanted to know how can I differentiate between being locked within my ego and the taste of being in bestowal?

R. It's only by being included in the group we talked about it now by this way you choose and you look at the friends you see that they are connected between them and it seems to you that you are not in this connection and you are put aside a bit and this provoked you and through envy you advance to them. Out of lack of choice you want to get in there and be like them and this is how you advance. Try, only through the work into ten mechanical work whether you want to or not try to get in as much as possible and as much as it is against your desire the more that you should be happy you are specifically going here for spiritual work.

 

10. S. (24:11) What is that point where a person reaches the state where if the Creator doesn't help him he is lost?

R. It's through many efforts that he makes, he sees that he, by himself has nothing he doesn't have spiritual forces he doesn't have a spiritual desire and then it turns out that this is how he has to start praying. It comes later, at first it comes through the group and by his own work and by the study kind of things that will be enough. Then until he sees it's not enough and he truly is in a descent, in a fall having no forces, having no hope and out of that he reaches the state he has no choice but rather with the group and with all the states that he went through he must turn to the Creator, open up his heart and let the Creator work with all of his internality. That the Creator will do everything on me because I, by myself cannot do it but I want it. I gave this example of how I ran to the surgery table so that they can operate on me as quickly as possible.

 

11. S. (25:54) If I don't feel envy towards my ten, does it mean I need to work above reason and receive the strength to continue from there?

R. You cannot work above reason if you don't achieve any envy in the ten is considered you haven't even started being in the ten, you have to invest more forces in the ten and to justify yourself less.

 

12. S. (26:31) What does it mean to be a part of a ten?

R. If a person has a ten it means that he has a soul. That he connects with his friends in such a way that he doesn't feel a difference between them internally, emotionally that all of us had a single goal, all of us have the same desires, all of us in the same inclinations of course to each one individually so that I cannot feel them, but all of us together have the same feeling that we have a single Creator, a single goal, a single intended and aimed desire that is considered that I have a ten, that I included all of them inside of my heart and I'm willing for that to give them everything.

 

13. S. (27:41) You know that by yourself you cannot do anything. There's this very clear situation where you're willing to accept any transformation that He gives you?

R. Do whatever possible until you see you cannot do anything then you'll realize that only together with the friends by turning to the Creator, you can achieve something.

S. Together with the friends it seems that only together we can truly succeed?

R. You must all realize that this is how it is.

 

14. S. (28:44) It is known that we are Reshimot from the shattered vessel, the remains of the reflected light, so how in these two states do we build a new MAN, how?

R. Specifically from these two states we build a new world because we have a Reshimot, a record of the Aviut, the thickness and a Reshimot of the Hitlabshut, the clothing let’s say. For now, it's the beginning of the will to bestow, and the beginning of the will to receive. We have a will to receive. We have a will to receive but from the will to bestow we only have a broken Reshimot, broken record. From the two of them we yearn to reach the goal. This is how we build the Kli each and every spiritual state we have two forces two discernments which are opposite to each other.

 

15. S. (29:42) 

R. We are all particles of creation under the Creator’s control and only after we enter spirituality, we reach a restriction screen and reflected light and to the extent that we will grow in that we will realize that we, there, are becoming independent. For the time being we have no independence rather everything comes from above.

 

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16. S. (34:54) I hear you say more than once that the word pray, Tefila, comes from the word L’hitpalel, which means to judge oneself, so in that context of faith above reason, what is the meaning of praying?

R. L’hitpalel, to pray means that I see what is happening to me where I am, what am I getting from the Creator as my nature and what am I getting from the Creator right now as the state in which I exist with my nature, that it all of these things they come from above, from the environment. It doesn't matter from where the Creator is establishing this state for me. Out of this state I need not to judge this state, not to check it the way it appears but rather with which intention, which purpose the Creator has established for me, my qualities that are now being revealed to me and what is He giving me right now in my surrounding state, where I am. That is what is happening inside and what is happening to me around me on the outside. Why is the Creator arranging it for me, what should I do out of that, towards my ego or towards the purpose of Creation. That is according to my desire or the Creator's desire and then I choose in which direction I should be aimed. This actually is my test. After I checked all of these directions and what is it that I need to do and then if I did it all correctly then I turn to the Creator and I ask of Him to help me to take a correct step forward, because the correct step means towards bestowal and I can't do it by myself. I have no force of bestowal and I need to ask for it of Him and I do ask. Then it is clear to me that I received all of these internal states and external states from the Creator through the world, through the group, it doesn't matter in which form I received it from Him, then I have to turn to Him in return so that He will help me reach a more advanced state.

S. Before that you said that a person cannot turn to Him by himself, so this is from an opposite state which exists, so the question is after all these scrutinies that I have performed, what will compel the need to turn to the Creator?

R. Not immediately, but after working with the friends you begin to be included with forces that are outside of you and then the habit already, to turn for help to the friends to work together with them, this appeal in the spiritual state to turn to someone outside of you also awakens you to turn to the Creator. If you are not with the friends your appeal to the Creator will always be egoistic. If you are with your friends your appeal will already include their desires. It won't be so egoistic anymore but rather it is then considered the prayer of many. Notice whether you are turning to the Creator out of a desire that comes as a result of connection in the society or only your desire, If it is only your desire then it is not, it doesn't promote you so much towards success, it nevertheless needs to be out of the ten.

 

17. S. (39:46) We see that we can really feel that the friends are great, they're full of desire and we ask together and still we see that Rabash says that we need to ask for mercy and next in the article he discusses despair and torment. So where should the mercy come from?

R. No, everything comes from above. From below from us the only thing that comes from us is the lack. When from above we get some response, some answer a new state we need to realize that this state is a more advanced state even though it seems to us that it is worse than before but it nevertheless does advance us.

S. And still the outcome of the work between us is... well, failures revealed in our vessels.

R. It is true that it is a lack of success, it's good that it's a lack of success. Otherwise how will you turn to the Creator if you will succeed? Then you will be like a gang of heroes... so where do the forces come from then? I'll return to the Creator out of despair out of lack of forces, otherwise you will not turn to Him. You turn to the Creator out of the fact that you cannot do it and the ten cannot do it and you together this way reach a state that only one who can help us is only the upper Force. He established us, He arranged us, He is now awakening us to turn to Him.

 

18. S. (41:53) What is that condition where a person needs great mercy not to flee the battle?

R. There are many people who fall along the path, they can't hold on, they add to them an egoistic will to receive and they cannot overcome it. I don't want to start saying names there are such who go to dissemination, they go out and they start to feel there among the external people that they are great, that they can become good organizers, great Sages, they can determine things, people listen to them and then they leave our group and they continue there with some external group. What is happening to them, what do they get out of it? It is simply their ego showing them how much this is worthwhile. That the advancement in the group is not so important that they are equal to you or even above you but rather what is important is to feel good in a group that is less than you, this is how they advance. Advance in what? Advance in their egoistic desire more towards the Klipa, the shell we have such as examples, recently we see them. What can you do.

 

19. S. (43:43) And how do we defend against such a thing?

R. We keep ourselves by holding on to the group by the teeth. By the teeth, truly. A person goes out to some external group and he's included there and he sees that there it's worthwhile for him to be like a big Rabbi, a big saint, etc. he receives control there, he receives respect, honor and he just disappears there.

S. And the power of the group when he gets that external power from the public, the power of the group, the power of the public, the power outside is a stronger Force, the force of the ego gives them confidence and pride?

R. A person is never given an obstacle that he cannot overcome, you're always elevated in sanctity, not lowered in sanctity. However, a person doesn’t want to use these things and I've seen it in the groups before us recently. We don't see the Turkey group we used to have three or four of them, where are they? Others as well, what can you do, what can you do? Now we see that they have come but we have all kinds.

 

20. S. (45:23) This feeling of the need to be among the friends all the time, should it scare us or make us happy?

R. Why should it frighten me to be always with the friends? If I go out, if I leave the friends then no thought I have is spiritual even though it may seem to me that I can delve more deeply and to sustain it more it's not true, if I'm not with the ten and amongst all of our tens there is no spiritual foundation.

 

21. S. (46:22) There's a statement there he says it's between despair and confidence, is there a state that's the worst state to be in other than despair?

R. Despair is not a bad state, it's not a terrible state, from despair, you turn to the Creator, why is it bad? If it's a state that brings me to Him, I break, I fall, I reach Him with tears and I want to adhere to Him and ask for help, then despair is a good thing. The fact that I don't feel the time of despair that it's comfortable and I feel that I'm not happy, that I'm not confident that's true but on the other hand that's the true state. It's a state where I begin to recognize that I don't have the powers to attain the nature of God by myself. I cannot discover him, the upper nature, it's not from despair it's not from feeling small. That's why without despair it's impossible.

 

22. S. (47:50) If a friend receives disturbances and the result of that if he takes a decision that he invested too much in the society and this is why he's getting disturbances, how can he receive support later on, is that ever a correct decision?

R. It can never be that I give more than what's necessary to the society, because the society is my soul, later I discover it to be the ten Sefirot of the Soul. So how could it be that I invest in the soul too much? There's no such thing, I don't need to look at their faces, but rather the desires, thoughts, the intentions. All those are the closest to me from all of reality in general, all of the souls, the vessel of Adam HaRishon, these ten friends included me and they are the closest to me in order to create the connection in which I discover the Creator. So it can't be that I come too close to them and that's too much in that, it can't be because that is my soul. Investment in it as much as possible, that's actually the salvation.

 

23. S. (49:31) How to do the right work with suffering and torment?

R. Where does the suffering and torments come from tell me?

S. Say if I lost their states of friends, they're sick and I see the difficulty in the environment?

R. Kabbalists used to live in much worse situations all over history and what the Creator arranged for them such situations in life, such ways of life that it's impossible for us to live through the things they lived through. These situations in which Rabash lived, it was something terrible, so what do you want to say here, each generation had its problems. Each generation has its own conditions that it can withstand. We are very weak, very small. We cannot withstand harsh situations we are given a little. They especially suffered from corporeal problems, we suffer from spiritual problems, spiritual condition and this is how we advance that's our way.

S. How can I bring in hope?

R. You have friends ?

S. Yes.

R. Speak to them and get hope from them.

 

24. S. (51:26) Despair from one's own forces I do understand, how a person through despair can reach a prayer, but how does the ten reach a prayer? How do you reach collective despair in the ten?

R. We never want to reach general despair, that's not the way what do you mean why should a general despair we need to reach a general state of awakening from that we will reach a general despair. But that's not the intention, that's not where we want to get.

S. So how do we arrange this collective awakening as one heart to raise a prayer? How do you reach that state of one man in one heart?

R. What's the problem you're all in a lesson now you've all come each one can be grateful for the fact that he's in the group and the group aims in towards the Creator inside of the group he's about to discover the Creator there still lacks some tension in which to discover with which to discover the Creator in the group.  You're making the foundation the infrastructure and what's the infrastructure of power of bestowal between everyone in the ten, this is called the field the Lord has blessed. In which the Creator is revealed in you so begin to execute and apply it despair, no, it is the other way around.

S. No happier state than when one is despaired of its own forces, then seemingly the ten should also reach a state that he can do everything it can…

R. Yes, but it doesn't yearn for despair it's also written, those who sow with tears will reap with joy, it's not that we want to get there through that, we get there through the states themselves. No God forbid, one should never yearn to ever be in despair, in a fall in a descent powerless, no only through awakening.

S. For despair I didn't mean to yearn for despair, but there's always one friend who is uplifted or a few friends who are uplifted or a few who are coping with the disturbances?

R. It's like a wheel turning.

S. What does it mean a ten, together, raises the prayer to the Creator?

R. Every prayer also includes a request, a part that is gratitude. You can't have one without the other, two sides of the coin. It's very good that this is how we all feel, it's a sign that your ten is full, is complete, you have this and that both always and when we get to the end of correction, those does our will to receive vanish? No. Is it corrected, no. How corrected, no? We correct the intention that rides on it, but if the will to receive disappeared then the intention above it disappears also and the created being would disappear. That's why nothing disappears. We need only to change our intention every time towards connection and maintaining everything we have in us. That's why it said that Abraham was old and lived many days. Good days, nice days, bad days, everything. Through the Aviut, Masach and reflected light, when you have these two forces that go against each other which are in opposition by that, from that you build the complete vessel.

 

25. S. (56:00) How not to confuse the friends in the work with intensity that we want, to yearn to do it, and pride. How not to give a wrong perspective? 

R. I don't understand.

S. I want to show the friends that this is the best thing to do, but how not to show it the other way around that this is pride?

R. That could be but it's on the condition that you intend the best for the group and you, within the group then it won't happen. The main thing is that you need to all bestow to each other, to influence each other from that you will learn and you will see how much you will advance. You truly have a spiritual opportunity that opened up before you. We are entering now, the door is opening, you can say it's truly opened up now and we all just need to enter the spiritual world. We need to understand now something works there more or less this way, that way, we are right before entering but the entrance is open to spirituality and this is yet ahead of us and I'm very glad of what we've accomplished in a very short time, usually this takes many years. From the beginning of this pandemic the way we advanced is very good, very nice. We just need to pay more careful attention to the thoughts, to our emotions, our intentions and not the mechanical forms we are in. That's the difference between Kabbalah and religion. Kabbalah discusses the intention of the person that she needs to acquire, through the group from the upper force and then he can work in it. Religion speaks only about the physical actions or actual speech and so there's no difference in the wisdom of Kabbalah even between men and women. There's no difference in the wisdom of Kabbalah the still, vegetative, animate and speaking there are all desires to receive and we need to correct them all. A person needs to correct within himself all the levels of these desires. As it is written that the wolf lived with the sheep. What is that about? It's about how we human beings correct ourselves in all of our desires in which we are included in and exist.. Then indeed in all of reality the egoistic will to receive vanishes. I'm constantly asked by women, what is the role of the woman in the correction, in spirituality, how can a woman attain divinity. The same way is a man. That's what a woman should do as well. Each and every person has this inclination to attain the Creator, to discover the Creator that exists only with the person which includes men and women, both. Each person can attain it without any difference with respect to race color or gender as Baal HaSulam writes, this is intended for everyone and the distance, difference between everyone it's just like difference in the will and in the desire. Because we all come from the vessel of Adam HaRishon, which is one man which later split into male and female. To begin with, it was a single person and you need to reach a state where again it's one Adam and he needs to bestow in all his desires. So the end of correction is the same for every, for men and every and women and the general correction is such they all the desires in the world the still, vegetative, animate also, they will receive the intention to bestow from us from the human beings, sons of Adam in Hebrew, and then they all rise up to the degree of bestowal and connection. We all see it, in society, in religions, each one has its own style each, each one works in order to separate between these people and those people and the whole problem is that in the final times at the end of correction, it will be the great resistance of the different religions against the wisdom of connection, the method of connection, from all of them, because each one thinks it's just and right and better than the others. While the wisdom of Kabbalah comes from nature, the integral nature, because we all belong to one system. Baal HaSulam writes you can stay with your own religion, as these are customs, habits. It's the same way you live in your family where you have all kinds of customs as we call them, behaviors, but it’s not that they replace the connection between everyone.

 

26. S. (01:03:07) You said that we cannot change from group to the extent that we give to them but what can we do to friends, if they are going through hard conditions?

R. We need to try to accept them into the society into the group into the ten and to speak to them about the unification of creation as everything that is revealed comes from a single source, a single force. All these states that He brings He wants us through them He wants us to connect to Him to hide in Him and so we will all reach the connection between us and with Him. By that we can go through all these states, the very hardest states, the hardest states become the best state.

 

27. S. (01:04:30) We learn many times that a person is never given an obstacle that he cannot overcome and we are raised in sanctity and not lowered, how can we completely imprint in our hearts and also pass it on to others so it can give us the strength in our daily work?

R. You all need to read the articles of Baal HaSulam and Rabash where you can find these things other than that in our archives we have whole long chapters, where it discusses the states of descent, ascent, despair, lack of confidence, lack of connection and so on. Open it up and discuss it. Read it and discuss, search for what's worthwhile to read, to integrate from the writings of the Kabbalists and then you can read it throughout the day for 10 minutes, 15 minutes and you will see a completely different world that's what I recommend. And certainly you have people here who are responsible for your groups, for your tens, turn to them for help to help you find the proper materials that are appropriate to the state of the group. I try to build our lessons in a way which progresses more and more towards the goal, more and more towards above reasons but not everyone is situated in this so you need to complete it throughout the day, maybe using all sorts of verses and excerpts, the materials of Baal HaSulam and Rabash.

 

Excerpt 34. Reader (01:06:51 - 01:08:32 )

28. R. We talked many times about the candle? What is the candle? It's where you have oil below and then wick and then above that you can have light fire, why is it so? Because the oil cannot light up by itself, it's only if you have a wick which also isn't lit itself. Ptila, from the word, Psula, rejection or something which is disqualified. It resists the light because the wick isn't flammable that way if it's connected with the oil, we can bring in the fire and then the candle is lit. The more flawed things we have which reject, resist the fire, that's exactly how they connect the fire with the oil, and then it becomes a candle. The candle comprises three parts, the oil itself cannot be lit. The wick itself is also not flammable but when the when the wick absorbs the oil then it becomes flammable, it becomes a source of light, a source of fire. The more we discover thoughts, questions, which go against spirituality, against the will to bestow, they cancel out our spiritual work. By that our wick becomes thicker and stronger and if we overcome, it absorbs the oil more and more and then the light comes from Above and it is lit. As soon as the wick is ready and the oil rises enough through the wick it feels that there is light above it and then it is lit. There's no problem about the light which comes from above which will light the wick, the problem is in the wick itself. In how although these are thoughts and desires which go against spirituality, we want to use them together to connect them to spirituality, to connect above them so that is how the fire the Menorah is built.

 

Excerpt from the Sources. Rabash. Reader (01:12:13 - 01:13:25)

It is similar like a flame tied to a wick. That is that the alien thought is considered a wick that wishes to insert a flaw in one’s work. That is, the alien thought lets him understand that from the side of the intellect and the reason there is nothing for him to do in the work of the Creator. And while he gets this alien thought and he says that he doesn't wish to give any answers, but rather everything that reason tells him is correct, however he is going by the path of faith which is above reason. It follows that the flame of faith is tied to the wick of the alien thought. It follows that only now he can keep the Commandment of faith properly. It follows that the questions have become as merits otherwise he wouldn’t be able to receive any merits in the sense of faith. 

 

29. R. (1:13:26) This is why we cannot do without the foreign thoughts, without the rejections which reject us and drive us away from spirituality. There cannot be ascents if we do not feel that we hate each other, that we hate the Creator, that we don't want anything. All of these things also have to come to us. We have to feel them and to sort them, to understand why they exist in us and all of this is because the connection between spirituality and corporeality is made especially through the rejections from spirituality that we receive, we maintain them and we hold them. With that we connect to the Creator, that is the rope that we hold on to, with which we tie this world to the spiritual world, ourselves to the Creator. Don't be afraid of all the foreign thoughts, all of the flaws and the problems. All the pennies add up to a great sum. We discover a very strong connection between corporeality and spirituality, and we have no problem with that, we need both. The Creator created it in such a way.

 

30. S. (01:15:02) What is the state where the body doesn't object doing things for the sake of the Creator?

R. Physical actions we have no problem doing for the sake of the Creator for the sake of the created beings, for everything. If we can add personal profit to these actions, I am willing to do anything if it is worthwhile, profitable and then I don't care what action it is. We see people going into some business, working from morning till night all night long all day long. No problem at all. Because they feel the profit in order to receive. On the other hand if you remove from each and every person, even the best person, his personal profits he won't be able to lift a finger, he won't have the energy, he won't have the power to do anything. So, what to do? That is why we need to receive power from above in order to perform actions in which we don't bestow upon ourselves, but rather bestow upon others, upon the Creator. We need to receive power from above and that is all of our work actually. How to reach a state where we receive power from above for that we need to be equipped with a lack for this power, the power to bestow. I don't have a desire to bestow so why do I need the power to bestow, that is why we are in tens. The Creator didn't break the vessel of Adam HaRishon into many parts for no reason. And us when we are together, through envy, lust, honor, which each one has egotistically, we look at the others and then we also want to be like them. That means that this is where we say envy, lust and honor bring one out of the world. Meaning from the corporeal into the spiritual world, but from where do I get this impression, the impressions of envy, lust, and honor, it’s only from being within the ten. So that is our work method, in the ten to try to be envious of the friends and to try to develop a measure of envy that is such that it brings me to want, to desire to ask for the desire to bestow. Even if it goes against me, seemingly but if they have it but I don’t, then I want it. We will reach a state where I want to be the bestower. I want to be loving. In a ten when we act it out, when we play it's not the real thing yet, by that way to evoke the reforming light which shines upon us and when it shines upon us, then we truly receive that quality of bestowal and immediately we feel that we are in the spiritual world. The opposite reality, the upper reality as there is another reality above this world, the true reality the Eternal one and we are born there. All of that we need to do to apply, to actualize in the near future.

 

31. S. (01:19:24) Now, With the example of the candle the wick is not flammable to burning it is against spirituality so the oil in the wick they are against spirituality?

R. Both the oil and the wick are not flammable within themselves, you cannot ignite them, but only when the oil enters the wick then the vapors of the oil which rise above the wick, they are lit. It is an example for spirituality.

S. If you look at it from the perspective of the inner state so I have resistance to spirituality we're inside of this resistance, what is the wick and what is the oil there?
R. The wick is the resistance against spirituality and brings you all sorts of foreign thoughts, it's not worthwhile, why should you do it, it's not worth reason, the oil is just the will to come to fulfillment, to pleasure. So, the pleasure doesn't care whether it's in order to receive or in order to bestow the main thing is to fill itself up. The will doesn't change, the intention changes.

S. By overcoming, with that example of the wick of the candle, what is it?

R. It is where you want to connect all of the thoughts that go against spirituality to connect them to your life and to light them up, meaning that you're not afraid of the flaws from the foreign thoughts. You go along with them then these foreign thoughts with your material, the will to receive, together they become worthy and ready to be lit, to be a source for light. We have whole articles on this, in the Zohar and also Rabash, how can we provide articles?

S. Everything related to Hanukkah coming up shortly.

R. We have the holiday of Hanukkah, the holiday of light.

 

32. S. (1:22:19) We have to reach a state where we want to reach the desire to love, to bestow is this the best possible state or when I will see the friends want to love and bestow? 

R. Certainly it is good if I see my friends want to love and bestow so that I would be envious of them and also want to be like them.

 

33. S. (01:23:01) What is the expression of overcoming between us in order to make it more smooth and pass on to the light?

R. The manifestation of overcoming, the expression of overcoming is where I agree with the wick, with the flaws, where I accept all of these foreign thoughts as things that are crucial on the path, I offer blessing for the bad as well as for the good as I do for the good. All of these things that are revealed are components of the general Kli that needs to be revealed in its final form, and its complete form. So, all of these states which I now see on the path of development, along the way I see them as imperfect, that's natural. When you look at a baby, a newborn, is he perfect? What does he do? He cries, he’s dirty, doesn't understand anything, but gradually you grow and all of these forms are necessary for us to grow that way.

S. If we see a friend in the ten in a state, where like Rabash told you...

R. But he is present in the ten, he doesn't want to leave, he doesn't disregard the ten he just doesn't have the strength, so you need to help him. As much as you can be sorry for him, pray for him, the main thing is prayer, and you will see how helpful it is and how it is so with each and everyone.

 

34. S. (1:25:24) There are states that come where there's no way to take it above reason to associate it with the Creator you're just waiting for the situation to go away because you don't even know how to approach it. What can I do

R. It is not true, you can't or you don't want to take it above reason?

S. Maybe I don't want to because I don't even know how to approach it?

R. Approach it in such a way that everything comes from above, even though you don't agree it don't want it, that's on one side, on the other hand you need to say that it all comes from above nevertheless, I just cannot agree with it.

S. But I don't know how to work with it, what does it mean to agree, what to do next?

R. What to do next do everything you can until you agree.

S. What does the agreement matter, let's say I agree but I don't know how to take it with the wick to light up that state?

R. That is a different kind of work. This is if it's higher work but at least you need to reach just some yourself like Rabbi Akiva on the board floating on the sea right, at least what you receive your receive from the Creator but you cannot justify you cannot understand that maybe they will be revealed to you in time but what you receive, you receive from above at least by that you do not violate the uniqueness of the Creator.

S. Isn't this considered running away from work?

R. You don't run from it you try to be in this mix to the best of your ability, you say this is the Creator’s doing, the finger of God, but i cannot agree with it more but at least to maintain the thought that it comes from Him. 

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