*This transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.*

*Morning Lesson October 16, 2020*

*Parashat Beresheet  (Genesis) - Selected Excerpts from the Sources #26*

1. Rav’s Introduction:

Again, we are in our morning lesson, again the same process. We see that the Creator is pushing us and the world forward, and he expects us to come close to each other, to connect ourselves more to the system of Adam from which we all come, to be as one man with one heart, all of us together. Therefore, every day we need to reflect, to see some change has come between us or not. And our purpose, our goal is to revive, as it is said, to erect the fallen Sukkah of David that we learned about in Sukkot, to erect the system of Adam as all of the created beings are one created being called Adam, according to its similarity to the Creator. It is a system where we are all separate from each other because of our ego and we all want to connect together above the ego and then in the difference in that gap between the ego that the Creator created and the quality of the Creator that we have generated between us the difference between these two systems: the system of the shattering and the system of the sustained connection.  There we discover the upper Force in us, in our vessel and then we reach our correction. On the path, on the way there, we need to scrutinize who we are, who the Creator is and how we can connect these things together, these two things as we learned about in the spiritual Partzuf so it is like Adam with the Tzimtzum, Masach, Ohr Chozer, Zivug deHakaa, the spreading of the light through it and so on in our Partzuf, until we reach an endless form without limitation and so that we reach a state of identifying with the Creator. In otherwise we need to discuss it, we need to talk about it and to come to the understanding that it is only in the connection between us. The degrees of the connection are the degrees of our spiritual ascent, the 125 degrees because when we begin to truly want to connect, then according to our efforts the true ego begins to be revealed in us which separates us and we should already be aware of it, aware that it is deliberate, I have created the evil inclination.  It is what the Creator said in the beginning and so we need to work against our ego to make efforts, exertion and especially in the ten and in our prayer to the Creator, that He will connect us, elevate  so above these separating ego and then we will always be in two systems, one egoistic system below and the system that connects us together above, on top and above it as we say love covers all crimes. The crimes don't disappear, actually from one state to another they become more apparent, they grow and each time we erect above them the system of connection and so we need to see these things in a very clear way as what we must do. That is what we should be drawn towards, all of the time. All of the other things, they will be there, we will need to sustain ourselves in our beastly form because as long as we exist as beasts and animals, as human beings in this world, but actually in the present reality and in the reality where we separate from this life, we have only one process, becoming more connected together to reveal the power of love and bestowal above the force of hatred and rejection. First of all, we need to engage in this, we need to revive this system, to sustain it because there, we will feel the whole of creation, the main thing in this process is that I will read of Noah Elimelech that he writes that one must always pray for his friend as for himself he cannot do so much, no one can help himself. So you can see what is happening now, most especially it is being revealed now in the period of the last generation, from now on if someone wants to sort out something for himself, he can't. Only if we create and establish the connections between us and each one helps the other he will see how by that he is helping himself, that goes against our ego but it is only in that way that the system that we are now in, that we are now gradually entering, that is how it operates, that is how it works. It is bad for me, I don't want it in my ego, I reject it completely but I have no choice. If I want to help myself I need to help others and in that way it returns to me and then I am rewarded with advancement, spiritual advancement in everything, that is what he writes. That one must pray for his friend.  Praying, that word in general means to care for the others as for himself. He cannot do very much for one who is in prison, cannot rescue himself from prison, but he is answered quickly when asking for his friend. And we find that each one helps the other until they are all answered and this is why it is said that Israel are in Arvut with each other Aruvim comes from the word Arev, sweet, because they sweeten each other by the prayers that they pray each one for the friend and by that they are answered. The mainstay, the essence of the prayer is in thoughts because by thoughts, their prayer can be easily accepted. That is what we need to understand and it is very tough. In our egoistic psychology that we need to overcome, this is the overcoming that we need to do by that we build the Partzuf of the soul, meaning the connection between the separate parts, where we have ten parts they can connect to only if they relate to each other in that way, where each one make certain to promote the friends, the friends, the nine friends, and if in that way all of us together want to help each other in that way, when we make unrelenting efforts, by that we establish the system called the spiritual Partzuf.  Then by our efforts, according to our efforts, the spiritual Partzuf, begins to feel how truly between all of us the force of bestowal is revealed which is the Creator, the power of love and connection. Here we need to take into account that our perception of reality needs to be a bit different than what we thought.  When we weren't connected to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the method of correction, because to begin with man who was created, Adam who was created alone and then there was one and then he divided into many parts.  Meaning that he began to give birth to many more people and they began growing apart as the Torah tells us, we will soon read about Cain and Abel, Noah and so on or how they multiplied, how humanity multiplied. The main thing we should learn from this, from humanity, humanity was once a small group in Babylon, it was one people and one language as it was said that they were very close to each other and then the egos started growing between them, they began to fight, to drift apart and then there was one leader amongst them called Abraham. Part of the Babylonian, the ancient Babylonian people left behind that conflict that they had in Babylon and they determined that they must return to being as one system, one man in one heart. They began to work on that or they began to fight against the ego that was growing within them and so they tried to establish their group, this group is called Israel. It is not Israel of today, you cannot compare the nation of Israel, the people of Israel who live here where we are with that, that is what it is called in spirituality according to their purpose and their direction, Yashar Kel, straight to God. We have to understand that this situation has not changed, that group went through many shatterings, it went through the final shattering, disconnection from the love of brothers into the will to receive. They fell completely from the love of others to hatred of brothers. These people, there was no inner spiritual connection between them and this happened in the ruin of the second temple, 2,000 years ago and Rabbi Akiva called everyone saying love your friend as yourself, this is the great rule of Torah, we have to observe this rule, the commandment of love, the commandant of the Creator. For us and for this which came out of Babylon and would observe to an extent. would keep the connection between them, but ultimately they fell from love of brothers to unfounded hatred and this is called the ruin and since then we are in that ruin, except for the kabbalists who try to observe that rule between them from generation to generation and the rest of the people fell, they forgot, they don’t feel at all that they have this mission. To be connected as one man in one heart and they observed what is written in the books, only physically as physical actions, corporeal actions and since then, this is how we exist. Despite that, this state is called the state of exile, exile from connection, exile from love and the people of Israel, meaning those who remained as Israel, Yashar Kel, in the direction of connection uniting themselves with the Creator, they have a duty to build between them a vessel, a single desire which unites them and unites them with the Creator, first love your friend is yourself and then love the Lord your God. We have to actualize that, so we went through the days of the exile and now as the kabbalists say we are in the corrections, the emergence from exile and we are the people who were awarded with coming out of the exile, meaning out of the hatred, the rejection, the distance between us and we can act in the direction of love and connection. We need to always remember the system of Adam, the complete system and how we connect and build it.  So we come and after us, we give an example to all of the people in the world, all of the peoples, we give them an example and pull them after us also towards the same goal and on our way there as we do that we need to act towards the connection, especially the connection of the people of Israel here, this nation. To explain to them that this is a goal, this is the purpose, this is the state that we have to reach and that this is what the Kabbalists speak about, this is what the Torah speaks about and this is the purpose of creation. We need to simply see ourselves as a certain group from all the people in the world who need to show the world an example of connection and in that way we will try to draw and pull after ourselves all of the rest of humanity as well. We have two goals in front of us. The first is that we need to connect together ourselves. The second goal is that we need to serve as an example of that to the whole world and to understand that from Babylon and until the state of ruin which came about two thousand years ago through to today is all one single process that we need to go through and to show everyone that everyone came out of Babylon. We need to show everyone that we need to unite and we need to show an example of connection to the whole world. We need to see that the fall that happened to us two thousand years ago from the spiritual degree to the corporeal degree from in order to bestow to in order to receive, by that we became different people, a different nation with religion, a new religion. and with a new outlook on reality, a new perspective. Before that, we perceived all reality as a single reality with a single force operated and we ascribed everything to him.  Gradually as the first ruin approached and the second ruin that came about a thousand years later, we began to separate, from in order to bestow, from connection. And then we started perceiving our lives as we do today. The world, we perceive it only corporeally, only to receive, only in terms of how one connects with himself rather than how we connect with others. Now today we will need to make great efforts to return to the spiritual perception of reality, the true one. So that is what we are facing and of course we must understand that there is a great problem here between our perception of reality and our inclinations and the perception of reality and the inclinations of religion, all religions actually. Each one of them just wants to elevate itself to be proud, to control others and that is what it teaches the people who ascribe to those religions and we see things happening with all sorts of outbursts among certain religious groups in Israel and regardless we need to make public the true destiny, our true goal which is that we need to be connected and by that we will rise above all of the problems and all of our problems are ultimately an outcome of the rejection, the hatred, the unfounded hatred between us. Well we can talk about this a lot, actually, everyday we need to establish this image, this picture in front of us and so to advance a little more each time.

S. What does the change of perception of reality depend upon?

R. How we regard it, meaning if I perceive reality in a discreet way where only I exist and others exist here and there but without connection, where we connect with our emotions into one, then I perceive reality as I do now, with our five senses. If I connect to another, even one, I need to annul myself in order to connect with him, then I perceive reality with five different senses which isn't eyesight and hearing, smell, taste and touch but rather Keter, Chochmah, Binah, Zeir Anpin and Malchut. I begin to see reality in a generalized way as it exists as a whole, meaning it is not reality which exists within me but the reality which exists outside of me. It is complete and whole, it is not limited by my senses and so as I emerge from my own personal senses, the will to receive as we call it, to the external sense called the will to bestow, I discover the true reality more and more. Meaning inside of the will to bestow that I can build out of my will to receive in that will to bestow, I discover light, the form of bestowal, the form of love which is the Creator.

S. So I have to change from somebody who passively is experiencing reality to an active researcher?

R. Yes of course this is what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us. It's like the spiritual Partzuf, it has a desire, a restriction, a screen of reflected light which is establishes and begins to activate bestow upon the host entering into contact with him in interaction and then it begins to study reality with the host to receive from him to give to him, to check this and that and then you were as God knowing good and evil. There's a lot to talk about here but this is what I wanted to emphasize. Also we should understand that on the path as I told a little bit, there is some conflict between us and the regular religions let's say, where people are active in a corporeal sense they are doing corporeal acts and they want to receive corporeal rewards and we want to act spiritually meaning to create a spiritual connection of love and connection up to the point of love and for that will be our reward.

2. S. (26:53) You said before that when one connects to another, I create new senses. Why are these new senses and not identifying with someone?

R. I feel the other, I feel the other not by receiving into my will to receive those impressions, that perception, but rather to the extent that I bestow upon him and connect to him, with that inclination I feel him and it is a different perception it is a spiritual perception instead of the corporeal perception. It is perception in the sense of bestowal not in the sense of reception.

S. How does it become from identification to a new sense because I'm still preoccupied with myself?

R. You try to come out of yourself, to connect with the other, you want to feel him, you want to fulfill him as we read in Rabbi Elimelech, what does he say? That one must pray, that we need to bestow to another because he can't do much for himself. Look what we try, it seems that we constantly benefit ourselves more and more and we don't understand how by that we are only working without any results. By our efforts if we made such efforts in order to bestow we could have been in paradise already, the end of correction.

3. S. (28:51) The spiritual reality is it inside of me when I connect with the friends or only in the sensation of the friends themselves?

R. The spiritual reality is built in the connection between me and others, the more that we make an effort to be connected in such a way that each one acts in favor of the other, so if we have these inclinations, we begin to feel the spiritual world, the spiritual field, the Creator. These inclinations are built above our ego so I make a restriction over my desire to exploit others and the screen and reflected light, meaning that I want to bestow to him, opposite to wanting to receive from him as I did before. From this inclination to do good to others I begin feel that I identify with the Creator, I generate the force of bestowal and my force of bestowal is similar to the general force of the Creator's so in my force of bestowal I begin to feel the general force, the Creator to the extent that I have this inclination towards others, meaning in my reflected light I begin to discover the general force, the Creator, the force of bestowal, not just the general force but the general higher reality I begin to feel in my reflected light I discover the spiritual, upper world.

4. S. (30:58) You mentioned our role is to show an example to humanity for connection.

R. Yes.

S. We also learned that example is the most practical thing that there is. How do we show this example?

R. Let's do this between us and then we will learn what that example is, out of that, what is spiritual life is that we can establish between us and then from that, from this new reality which will be revealed between us, we will come to know how we can explain something of that to someone who is not in it. But for the time being we do not feel this spiritual reality between us we have nothing to explain.

S. We are still not ripe to play with it?

R. Yes you can play and you can ask, I'm talking about that have been talking about that for a long time now, but until we feel that this force of bestowal exists in reality between us and in that force of bestowal we will feel a new reality we have nothing to show each other, not even to show, not even to explain as we don't ourselves understand what spirituality is. So what we are talking about now is only the connection and also in what exactly? We talked about if we will be connected then we will be able to deal with the pandemic and all sorts of problems, all of the troubles of this world. Otherwise, this world is coming to an actual world war.

5. S. (33:08) We need to perceive the world through the ten, my perception depends upon my connection with the ten?

R. If in the town you execute what you hear from your teacher then that is what needs to happen, the teacher can be alive, the teacher can be dead in this physical world, it doesn't matter. The main thing is that you receive the Torah, you have the books, you have everything and you can continue. Actually, even today let's say if I pass away you can continue if you make certain to do exactly what needs to be done and not to go astray because I correct you everyday.

S. We don't depend upon the connection with you we depend upon...

R. You depend upon me as long as I live, if I don't live in this way anymore, but in a different way then you establish a connection with me by studying everything, learning from me and trying to be connected to me even though I don't appear before you on the screen. What is the difference? We still exist, we are still in contact, but you want to renew this contact every day, if you want to maintain it and renew it you have additional effort that you do. I am with Rabash everyday and I constantly try to be more and more connected to him.

S. Now I am adding importance everyday in the relation to you, can you now do this work towards Rabash?

R. Of course Rabash, Baal HaSulam, the Baal Shem Tov, Ari, yes. But for you I am enough, as we are connected now we must remain connected in every other situation because this chain from the top down for each one of you it exists. It doesn't depend upon life-or-death, it depends upon souls, how the souls are born and how they connect together, how they emerge from one another, this is how we are tied together. You are all like my children and each one of you must make an effort to have his own children as well, students.

S. If we connect correctly, we need to receive the importance, if it is important to you it will be important for me?

R. No, not in that way, stop and listen to what I'm saying. It's not bad. I learned from everyone what is important to them and I want it to be important to me, no. I learned with our friends what is written in our sources, in our texts and what we read there is what becomes important to us more and more everyday according to that we establish ourselves. It's not that from one day to the next I receive from the friend what he finds important. The friend is still corrupted and I will receive from him what is important to him? No. Only what is regarded as important in the books, by that we create a tighter bond between us every time.

6. S. (37:14) How to identify the mistakes, the deviations?

R. Identifying mistakes, deviations, for that we need to examine the connection between us several times a day, am I working for the benefit of the whole ten and I need to organize things better more and more and to understand that anything I do now, if it looks to me as if I have gone backwards, it is not that, I am actually discovering the connection between us in a more accurate way and I am always advancing.

7. S. (38:03) My question is how do I connect in the ten if the only thing that I can give to the group is corporeal things, how do I rise to a spiritual form if all I have is a will to receive?

R. In order to bestow if you try to work for the benefit of the ten, to connect them more and more together then it means that you are acting on them in the spiritual sense, for the time being. Later you will begin to feel this connection and you will feel new spiritual phenomena in it.

8. S. (38:56) You said that we have to recreate our connection in the ten, in the group according to the example of Adam HaRishon and build a Partzuf. What is the essence of the Partzuf  that we would be willing to take upon ourselves?

R. That is the essence of the connection of all the parts of, the shattered parts of Adam that each one has within them, now due to the shattering if we overcome the hatred and the distance between us and we want to connect ourselves together as we were before, meaning not that we feel ourselves as the different parts but that there is no distance between us. Emotional distance that we are all connected together, this is what we need, this is what obligates us to achieve and by that actually we solve all of our problems in this world and in the next. That is the general correction. There is nothing more.

S. All of us together and every friend in the world Kli needs to direct himself towards the purpose of creation, of the Partzuf. 

R. We need to resurrect the Partzuf to reassemble all these parts into one Partzuf, we don't know how to gather them, we just want to connect together and we asked the Creator to make the connection because only the upper force which bestows upon our shattered desires, influencing then he arranges all of these desires together and then they start living as one body.

S. At the root of every connection is a request to the Creator?

R. Yes without that no correction can come because that is only from above, the request, the revelation of the deficiency is from below.

9. S. (41:31) You said that the sources should be important for us more and more from day-to-day, the importance of the sources, does it manifest in how we realize them during the day?

R. Of course, yes.

S. Yesterday, we discussed in the committee that in this modern world where everyone sits in front of the computer that we started reading TES, instead of reading it off the screen you took out the book and started reading it out of the book. The question is, are the books still important  in the modern era?

R. No, it doesn't matter, I can read from the screen and there's no difference from the screen in the book. It's just that my book is very precious to me. Whatever books of mine you take you can see first of all how old they are with very thick paper and on each and every page there are all sorts of scribbles, on all of the pages drawings, all sorts of additions, also more pages, there are additional pages that I would glue in.  On which I would write things the margins around the original text that wasn't enough for me enough space to write all of these things so I'm very tied to these books. I invested a lot of energy into them, years and years of study in these books do you understand? Today, it is a different world, we don't need to take this as something to study as a thing unto itself, we don't need to understand what is happening there in the spiritual Partzufim, if we connect together we immediately begin to feel these things as things which exist within us. We are learning practical Kabbalah but here we learn things that nobody can feel back then, how it all works. So today, when we come to study TES, we need only to make an effort to feel these things, for them to take place inside of us. Not that we will study theoretically, that we will study this way or that way as something that is detached from us, that time is past. We used to study TES that way but today, because this is the last generation, we must start to discover these things between us.  So let us connect more and more rapidly, more intensively and then these things we read TES, we will begin to feel it will be like learning about our body as in anatomy you can learn about your corporeal body, this way the same way we can study TES  learn about our spiritual body the form of our connection it is called the study TES, where ten connect into one system, that's what it's all about there is nothing else.

10. S. (45:52) You said that each one should Inspire to have students so should we build a system of dissemination which allows each one to teach?

R. If it is possible then yes, it is desirable that everyone will have students and that he will teach them but we already have a system, it is not that I need to talk about it.  Talk to the people who are already responsible for that in our system. I just give the lessons here to this group. If you want to take it forward then don't invent something completely new. We are already doing dissemination and teaching for years so you should approach the managers and see what needs to be done.

11. S. (46:54) How to connect all parts of the Partzuf to one body?

R. This is between the friends, between the friends you need to connect yourself to everyone to the point where you feel that you are all sharing a similar common inclination, mutual inclination to the point that between you, there is always this common force that appears called the Creator.

12. S. (47:36) This whole description, if it is revealed between us, that happens due to the influence of the light, the feeling between a person or the friends?

R. It happens in a person that feels that happens between the friends through the influence of the upper light.

S. That is spirituality itself?

R. Yes. 

13. S. (48:05) With the intellectual study of the text, bringing it into the feeling, I feel there's a great abyss between this and that, how to bring it to the friends?

R. Try to practically do what is written, connection between the people, think more about the connection and then inside the connection you will start discovering different manners of connection and this is how you will advance. This is the main thing for us, is to cause connection, this is the correction of the system of Adam HaRishon which was broken.

S. I certainly love dogs, animals, pets. With people you have ego, you don't want to see their face, you fight.

R. So go to work with animals and make corrections there, fine, what do you want from us? We're talking about love your neighbor as yourself, not cats and dogs. So think about what you're even asking. What degree, what are you asking about? You're already are a certain time here with us, thinking about connecting with the animal level and connecting with godliness through that?

S. You always say that animals are like angels and I want to see this beauty in people but I can't.

R. I understand that it's easier for you with animals as they work instinctively. You step down to their level so it's nice and convenient to connect with them. Please go ahead, continue but if possible please get away from us or maybe you consider us like animals? I don't know.

14. S. (50:05) We are pulling society to the purpose of life but the economy and social conditions of life have become more difficult where we are and exist in our group, so how can we overcome this?

R. You cannot overcome economic difficulties because the Creator is setting up these troubles and it is going to be more, there are going to be more troubles on the path because we are not hastening our connection to draw the light that reforms. When the upper light influences us, it will essentially correct everything and if we don't attract the light it will be bad. There will be hunger, problems, even worse, climate issues, ecological disasters, nature which is the Creator, nature and God are  similar in Gematria, nature is preparing this for us to rise above ourselves so that we feel in our connection with others that we are literally correcting the world.

15. S. (51:43) Connection depends on the effort of all friends, are mainly on me?

R. Your effort and if you want to activate the friends then please, there is your effort to activate the friends. In any case, I mustn't wait to activate the friends. I need to say that everything depends upon me, if I'm not for myself then who?

16. S. (52:24) Yesterday you gave us this exercise of writing all the time when we are in the evening documenting when where that state of evening or day, you said evening is where I don't think about the friends and day is when I do and I found that most of the time I relate to the evening as states in which I am preoccupied with my own things instead of the friends. So how do we come to feel…?

R. Continue today and tomorrow and the day after work that you can maintain the thought about the connection while you are doing mechanical actions. Whatever life necessitates, you to do. This is how the system is built, that we can be in this corporeal existence and yet in spiritual existence, this is called man and animal will be salvaged by the Creator.

17. S. (53:42) We learned that we are the last generation and that this is a very important time now that we live in and everything depends upon us, how to truly help the friends come to feel responsibility?

R. Show them your responsibility. This is, Rabash writes about it in his social articles, if you are asking about the society, the friends, me towards them and then towards me, first look into Rabash, he writes about it.

*Excerpt 26 Reader (54:29 -  56:44) reads twice*

26. Genesis 1:6-10

And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”  And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.  And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.  God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

 

*Excerpt 27 Reader (56:45 -  57:54)*

27. RABASH, Article No. 2 (1987), "The Importance of Recognition of Evil"

It is written in The Zohar, Beresheet Bet (Items 218-219 in the Sulam [Ladder] commentary): “‘Let the water under the heavens gather unto one place, and let the dry land be seen.’ ‘Let the water ... gather’ is the Torah, which is called ‘water.’ ‘Unto one place’ means Israel. It is also written, ‘Let the water … gather unto one place,’ where water means Torah, and ‘one place’ means Israel, the recipients of the Torah. Conversely, the nations of the world did not wish to receive the Torah, hence the land remained desolate and dry. The Torah is the settling of the world, and in it, it exists. The nations of the world, who did not receive it, remained desolate and dry.”

18. R. There is clear difference here between the will to receive with the screen and the intention to bestow which it is called Yashar Kel, direct to the Creator, there is a screen there, Aviut, a reflected light so they discover the direct light which is the revelation of the Creator, then there is connection between them, this is called reception of the Torah, by those who yearn to bestow and those who don't they are outside of the Torah, outside of the revelation of the upper lights, outside the revelation of the Creator and in darkness. Bit by bit all of us are advancing towards the state where we are in connection between us and the Creator and so everyone as it says that everyone knows me from the greatest to the littlest, that my house shall be a house of prayer for all nations and all nations shall stream on to him meaning everyone comes to the revelation of the Creator, within them according to their correction and we need to make it happen both for ourselves and for others.

19. S. (59:04)  In this work, in the second day we read about the water in the things that he talks about. What is that?

R. For this you can check in the Zohar and read. Rabash writes about it in one of the articles as well, that we start recognizing the Upper light that organizes us, to start organizing the relationship between the Creator and the created being so that the created being begins to recognize the operating forces in the system. This is the whole action of Beresheet and this is how we advance each time, more and more we know better the system that we are in.

S. Connection is a necessary condition for the establishment of such a connection?

R. Without at least connecting one with another where you put together a desire that consists of two individual desires, where each one cancels his ego to connect with the other without putting together that system, you cannot connect with the light, with the Creator. With what desire will you connect to the Creator? You have to have a desire to bestow just like the Creator bestows to you, like the guest and the host. Where, if you don't have a desire to bestow to the host, you don't even feel the host, therefore you have to have a connection between you and the ten where you build a system of bestowal towards them and with that system, if you approach the ten, even in the most slightest way, if you have established that system, then towards them, with them you can feel the Creator. According to the force of bestowal between you and the friends and how you feel the attitude of the Creator towards you, this is called from the love of the created beings towards the love of the Creator.

S. So now we are studying the operations of Bereshith, Genesis, of creation and we say that this is all in the connection between us in the ten, so yesterday we talked about the states of darkness and day and light. 

R. No, we don't yet work with it in such a meticulous manner, accurate manner we don't yet have the inner discernments to feel that we are in it yet. So we don't go through it day by day, but in the Zohar, when we read there, yes it talks about day after day but it is also talking about the forces, but light of Chassidim, the light of Chochmah, the Aviut, the Masach, this is how it talks about it. The Zohar tells you a story but then below Baal HaSulam tells you about it in measurements, how much desire, how much coarseness, how much screen and how much light is revealed and so on, practically how we have to realize it in order to be and understand what is the day Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and so on but it's not relevant to our of growth.  Our growth should simply come from the connection between us in the ten. What we are told in regards to those days, the first day, the second day, the third day of the action of creation it is essentially trying to explain to us the upper system that works on us. Then, we, from below upwards, when we learn how to resemble it, we learn that through the form of connection between us. How else can I resemble the system it is complete bestowal?

S. Yesterday, you gave us this assignment and with great excitement we accomplished it and we would like to develop it today. Maybe you can give us a continuation?

R. Day and night, and day and night also changes in between us both within each one of us and was all of us together and we will have to try to organize our work in the most effective manner both when I feel day and night. To the extent that my exertion will be complete both in the day and the night. At night because then at night we prepare the deficiencies and when they arrive at the correct deficiency we receive the light from above and this is called day. The day does not come, the light will not come if we don't prepare the desire for it. The deficiency that we prepare during the state called night, which is what? It means there's no connection there's no force of bestowal which is what we want, if we don't want connection, if we don't want the force of bestowal then we haven't yet realized the darkness. How can we expect the day, the day means the power of love and bestowal and I don't need these forces, then you understand that the work has to first be about preparing the right deficiency for the revelation of the lights, the Creator. It is only according to equivalence of form.

20. S. (1:06:21) In item 27 where we read, Rabash said that the water is gathered and this is Torah and the place is Israel and he adds that it's not just Israel but Israel that received the Torah.

R. The intention to bestow between us and the Creator is called Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator, we want to receive the force from above that will connect us and arrange us in such a way that is correct between us and the Creator. This is the whole thing, our whole correction.

21. S. (1:07:14) According to Item 26 where the Creator separated the waters above and the waters below what is this action where we separate the waters?

R. In Partzuf where we differentiate between upper water and lower water which means that we build a Parsa, the boundary between the vessels of bestowal and the vessels of reception Galgalta Enaiyim and AHP,  this is called the firmament is in the waters. We will learn that the most important thing is to do it in practice. 

22. S. (1:08:12) In item 26 “God saw that it was good,” what was good?

R. I don't want to get into arguing about each and every word when you don't understand what's written we're starting to research this and that is not suitable to our feelings or emotions, our mind where we are and what the Torah speaks about.  And the Lord saw that it was good how can I explain to you what is Elokim, Mi Eleh Galgalta Enaim and AHP,  what does it mean that he saw that it was good it refers to the light of Chochmah that affect Partzuf, these are questions about the actual system, go to the study of TES  and see what it says or at least the Zohar.  Don't ask me about this right here now you’re not in those systems yet, it's talking about a system where they upper lights, the abstract infinite upper light goes through a system called firmament and through that it works on us, creating us, arranging us and to the extent that we respond correctly it brings us closer. When we come closer we discover all of those things and if you don't connect between you then how can you come closer? How can you discover the upper light that will influence you? What can I say, what does it mean that God saw that it was good? That a person will see that all the influences that are coming at him are good, how will he know that because he is in the force of bestowal, of love, in which case he sees that there is only one force working in the world and it is a good one. That's all. You can ask these questions but I don't have more answers for them because we haven't built the system between us yet, a system in which we can feel all of these actions that are mentioned in the Torah. The Torah means light, the light that is revealed according to how we arrange the vessels. If we arrange the vessels we will see it.

23. S. (1:11:47) A question regarding day and night, night that is the feeling that you are disconnected or the feelings that you hate the friends, feel rejection?

R. Let's say that the night is discovering the separation and the day is discovering the unity.

24. S.(1:12:21)  How to synchronize the corporal and spiritual body?

R. You don't need to synchronize anything, they are not connected to each other. You just need to take care of your spiritual body and as a result you will also feel in the corporeal body. But it's not that you're synchronizing them, you don't understand how this would work so stop thinking about it. This is not written anywhere so why are you asking me about that, about things that are not written anywhere, you want to solve a problem which is not even mentioned that you need to engage in that.

S. We live in two different pictures, we live in the corporeal world and we make an effort to do spiritual work.

R. Therefore give you a corporeal body what it needs and no more harms it if you try to inflate it with all sorts of surplus, and put all of your attention in building the spiritual body, the spiritual body is connecting with all of the friends into a single system.

25. S. (1:13:47) Item 26 speaks about our connection, how is it possible to bring everyone to the same focus as it's talking about here, only about our connection and nothing else?

R. How to bring about connection between all of us?

S. How to bring the focus of all the parts as a single focus to see what he's talking about in verse 26 where he's talking about the firmament, the restrictions that are only between us?

R. If you don't understand that is our work then why ask about it?

S. He's asking how to bring everyone in to know that this is what we are focused on.

R. That also I don't know tell me about how you get it, I've spoken about it for years how are you getting it or not? Maybe all of my words and everything I do or for nothing, what can I do? We need to work as accurately as possible according to what Kabbalists teach us and see how much we succeed and even if we don't succeed that much we have to continue, because what can you do? That is what we are. I admit that before everyone I'm probably not that successful that I've been teaching for so many years and still it happens in different ways on the one hand, on the other hand how can I just throw everything away and stop doing whatever I can? So everyone can do whatever they can.

S. I don't know how to thank the Rav,  I have nothing in me to express and add to my friends and I feel such a great lack to bring my ten together to realize this together.

R. Excellent, if you feel that way then you have an opportunity to work through prayer, cry to the Creator ask the Creator that you want the force of bestowal to bestow to everyone. On the contrary, if you feel that you don't have anything then turn to the Creator with that in general, always turn to the Creator and then you will feel what you do have. That you are working and that he is giving you an opportunity to work.

26. S. (1:17:03) The text says that the nations of the world did not receive the Torah and they remain desolate and dry, so we see that we also don't understand what is written so much. Are the nations of the world inside of us?

R. The nations of the world mean our desires that are not aimed in order to bestow, Israel means desires within us that are aimed in order to bestow this is the whole difference. The difference is about intention over desire, intention to receive is called nations of the world intentions of bestowal is called Israel, straight to the Creator. It turns out that each and every person corrects himself from intentions called the nations of the world to intentions called Israel and that is it. We need to detach from what we are used to in this world and live in spiritual discernment.

27. S. (1:18:24) To what extent does having a camera on during the lesson help the ten?

R. This I don't know you'll have to look into it and see I think the more we feel each other the better, the Creator didn't create things for no reason and if we have an opportunity to be closer and to feel each other more than we need to use it.

*Excerpt 30 Reader (1:19:21 - 1:20:50)*

30. RABASH, Article No. 23 (1990), "What Does It Mean that Moses Was Perplexed about the Birth of the Moon, in the Work?"

The “firmament” is the “separating Masach [screen],” as our sages said, “And God made the firmament, and it divided between water and water,” and the lower water cries, “We want to be before the King.”

The moon that is in the firmament at the time of the birth is in concealment of the face. The Creator said, “This measure that you see during the birth, such as this, see and sanctify. Although this is utter lowliness, which is completely above reason, since all his actions are still compulsory, still, if you attribute this work to My name, I enjoy it as though he were pointing with a finger.”

 

28. R. Only one thing we want to say here if we relate all of our states to the Creator by that we already have some Dvekuth, adhesion, it could be the worst state, confused, unclear, but if I say that this state also that I feel, I receive it from the Creator than I already have some initial connection with him.

*Excerpt 31, 32 Reader (1:21:20 - 1:23:25)*

31. Genesis 1:11-13

And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants^[e] yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

32. RABASH, Assorted Notes. Article No. 28, "The Earth Feared and Was Still"

Eretz [earth/land] is called Malchut, which is a vessel of reception. Eretz comes from the word Ratzon [desire], as our sages said about the verse, “Let the Eretz [earth] put forth grass,” that she wanted to do her Maker’s will. And what is her fear? It is that she might not be able to aim in order to bestow, since Malchut is called “the assembly of Israel,” which means she includes the whole of Israel, for all the souls extend from Malchut.

By all creations being extended from reception and the judgment that was sounded from heaven—that it is forbidden to receive in order to receive, but only in order to bestow—how can the lower ones aim in order to bestow?

It follows that all the works of creation that were with the aim to do good to His creations, the creatures cannot receive from this Kelim [vessels]. This means that all the works of creation will be in the manner of Tohu ve Bohu.

29. R. Then we have the correction and we do the action of bestowal as it is done from above and then we come to the revelation of the actions of Godliness towards us. Then the land and the soil begins to grow grass.  Meaning that the will to receive alone cannot do anything, it is like sand, meaning nothing can grow back from it. Only if we receive water and water means desire to bestow light of Chassidim, then out of the soil begins to be grass. Meaning grass, crops, trees can only come from the connection between the soil and the water. The soil means the will to receive iand the water means the will to bestow in the right connection between them the crops can emerge.

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