Part 3
Morning Lesson November 28, 2021, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences from audio
Rabash: The Main Thing We Need
1. R. (04:20) It is a very short and to-the-point article, we have to ask ourselves do we really understand what is written, are we in this or not? Because I was several years in a state where I didn't feel that I needed it, that the importance of the group, no. I was told to connect to several people so I did. I was told to sit with them once a week so I did. It wasn't much of a group really since I came to people when I was 30 and they were 70. They studied back with Baal HaSulam and next to them I felt like a baby. But afterwards when I brought more students to Rabash then the groups grew out of it. I did not feel the necessity for it and also saw on other people that sometimes it takes a long time before they begin to feel the importance of the environment, the group, because it is something that the will to receive subconsciously interferes with the person hearing about such a thing, it just doesn't let him. I remember myself very well that I didn't feel that this was important. I didn't feel there was a connection between spiritual attainment, attainment of the Creator, spiritual feeling, that it can be only in a group. I thought that you study, you yearn and it should be revealed. At first you have to achieve connection with people like you, and in the connection, you have to prepare the vessel for the revelation of the Creator. No, this I did not understand or feel for a long time. That is why I understand you and it is typical of the souls who are revealed today, today meaning in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These are the souls that are ready for the end of correction as Baal HaSulam writes, we are now in the last generation. So this is a problem. That attaining the Creator is possible only in the environment in the vessel you build to the extent that you annul yourself before this vessel for the friends. We have to exert and convince ourselves more and more, and it is a matter of days, months and years before a person is truly willing to connect to the friends in his heart and soul and prepare the connection so that the connection between them will be adaptable, suitable for the revelation of the Creator. I think what I went through some people are going through these things today as well. We will try nevertheless to understand that this is ahead of us and we have to overcome it. This is really the sign of the last generation. The main problem is to bring ourselves to connection. This is our practical work and according to the power of the connection and the intensity of the connection we will be rewarded with the revelation of the Creator in the connection according to the vessel we have prepared for it. If the vessel can be revealed at the level of Nefesh in connection, then the Creator will be revealed at the level of Nefesh as filling the vessel. if we increase the connection between us to the level of Ruach in connection, we overcome a root coarseness and the number one and number two coarseness. Zero, one, two. These are the degrees of coarseness between us and if we can overcome them according to the equivalence of form, we reveal the Creator.
Rabash: (09:54) The Main Thing We Need
2. S. (14:23) How does one enhance the importance of the goal to the 10?
R. Through words and examples and prayer. If I want to convey the importance to the group, to the environment, it could be a large environment like all of BB or a small group, just a 10; so I can do this through examples, my own example to convey the importance. I can make them try to learn about the importance and how to obtain it and how to implement it, and mainly besides this to pray.
3. S. (15:32) What is the sign that I attain the friend being greater than me?
R. When you are willing to do something for him. When you begin to see that you want to do something for him. This is a sign that he has become greater than you in your senses.
4. S. (16:15) The work in expanding the greatness of the environment in my feeling, is there a separate prayer for that?
R. There can be a prayer in everything, it doesn't matter in what way, with what words, style or language as long as you are constantly deficient toward the Creator. When you ask Him to give you the power to connect and rise above your ego, to connect to the group and to Him. In short, connect your dispositions into a prayer and direct them toward Him. This is very important and in this we are actually quite negligent. Our ego puts us to sleep, stops us, doesn’t let us be in constant demand from the ten, from the Creator, just like a little child who constantly demands and wants and doesn't leave you one moment without latching onto you to demand something of you. This is how we have to be with respect to the Creator. He loves it, He has no problem with it, with taking care of us.
S. But if there's already a feeling that you get an answer, that you are praying for the Creator to connect your ten. So do I have to expand this feeling, to pray for this feeling to broaden in me?
R. Of course. Have you reached the end already, keep going.
5. S. (18:24) What is the state in the 10 that we receive or that we give to the Creator like an important person and that’s called that we are receiving from Him?
R. If the Creator is important to me, I will want to give him. This is the power and a law of nature, that the same will to receive, if I find someone who is more important than I am in my eyes I want to give to him because I enjoy giving to him. Just as it is important for you to give something to your little child, you enjoy giving. Why? Because he is yours, he is connected to you, he is important to you so you want to give to him. This is the law of nature that you want to give to the one you love. You want to give to the one you appreciate.
S. The example is clear but he said it in the context of the Creator who is concealed from us.
R. He is concealed because first of all we have to ask for his greatness, this is called faith. The power of the greatness of the Creator that is revealed toward us is called the power of faith, and to the extent that I have faith in the Creator I can bestow upon Him.
S. How to ask for the greatness of the Creator in the ten?
R. This is what is important. Those who pray for the ten are rewarded first.
6. S. (20:22) What does it mean to believe in the greatness of the Creator?
R. Believing in the greatness of the Creator means to try to feel the greatness of the Creator that fills everything.
7. S. (20:42) How today during the day can we bring ourselves to such an importance that we will want to come to the unity evening and serve the whole world Kli?
R. I think during the day about the meeting that we will have and together with us will be friends from all over the world Kli and all of us will unite together and feel ourselves that we are in one place, all the hearts all over the world. We want the whole world to unite this way into the vessel of Adam HaRishon, one complete round vessel, and the Creator will fill us and will rejoice in us.
S. Can we as a ten pray for the whole world Kli or for a different ten?
R. Of course, because it is all yours, it is just for now that you don't feel that it is yours but in truth all created beings are your vessel. You don't reach the end of correction before you connect all of them in your heart.
S. How do we do this practically and pray for the world Kli also?
R. We begin with such connections, such limited partial connections until we come to the complete connection. Let us hope that we will succeed soon.
8. S. (22:29) In our prayer we usually put a prayer together after the lesson, can we also pray for the success of the world Kli?
R. Of course, and also in the prayer you take from the prayer books you will see it says about the righteous, about these, about those, and only about us in the end. But you pray for everyone including all of the wicked, everyone, so that everyone will come into correction.
S. The order is such that first that we pray for them and then for ourselves?
R. Yes of course, how can I pray for myself first, that is egoistic. All of our prayers are such that we pray for the great ones, and then for the medium ones, and then for the wicked, and then for us. We are only the ones who are pushing the world toward the Creator so the Creator will tend to the whole world because this is our vessel, what is not to understand here? This is our vessel, these are parts of my soul.
S. Usually we pray for us to connect first?
R. Yes, this is how we pray but the real order of connection is to pray for the whole world and I want everyone to achieve correction and reveal the Creator and I am the last. This is the law of bestowal as it dictates to me. We will get to it. For now you see that even this is not very clear.
9. S. (24:33) If I want to bestow to a greater one because of my egoistic nature, my corporeal nature...
R. I don’t know what you’re saying. Where I am now, I have to nevertheless try to connect to everyone as much as I can and this includes dissemination, study, anything that I can give. I connect to the center Bnei Baruch, maybe I join some dissemination activities there, whatever I can do in order to participate in the general correction.
S. Can we reach greatness of the Creator before we reach greatness of the friends?
R. No I can't reveal the greatness of the Creator if I don't first come to reveal the greatness of the friends. To the extent of the greatness of the friends the greatness of the Creator is revealed within them.
10. S. (25:55) What is that feeling of the greatness of the Creator? How is it revealed?
R. I can't explain to you how it feels. I can only say that it is one force that is revealed that contains all of reality, fills all of reality and can also correct all of reality.
11. S. (26:30) What is needed in order to turn self-love into truly loving the environment?
R. This comes gradually through the reforming light. This gradually emerging from oneself toward the environment. It doesn't come by itself. A person has to work on it and gradually through all kinds of activities he awakens the upper light which brings him the sensation of connection, a certain sensation of connection to his ten, to the group, his dependence upon them.
12. S. (27:36) Can you explain what the difference is between greatness and importance?
R. Greatness and importance, I'm not certain about the semantics but there is a difference. Greatness is a value that you can weigh, importance is more emotional. Greatness is in the intellect and importance is in the feeling, in the heart.
13. S. (28:23) How to feel the greatness of the Creator?
R. Within the greatness of the friends. We need a Kli, a vessel. The light is everywhere, it fills all of reality. If we have a vessel we will feel it, we will discover it. The vessel for the revelation of the Creator is the ten, and to the extent that my ten is important accordingly I will be ready to feel the importance of the Creator.
14. S. (28:58) How to appreciate and protect the group and the goal if the greatness of the Creator is revealed just for a second and the rest of the time it is concealed?
R. It all depends on the receivers. If the receivers can be connected between them and work on the greatness of the Creator, to the extent that they are working on it the Creator will be revealed in them.
15. S. (29:30) Should we scrutinize constantly if we are still working with the intention for ourselves without the greatness of the Creator, or can we turn it to the intention to bestow a little bit or just shut our eyes and do what we can to increase the importance of the Creator?
R. It is important to raise the greatness of the Creator in our eyes.
16. S. (29:58) Can we put an equal mark between the greatness of the Creator and the greatness of the ten, or are we still serving the ten for the sake of the Creator?
R. That is not important. The main thing for us is that we have greatness of the friends. Once greatness of the friends will be in somewhat equal to the Creator, we will feel the Creator in the friends.
17. S. (30:40) If I grasp everything within my ego and I receive everything within me how can any perfect act toward the ten come out of this?
R. We need to try like children to do what we are supposed to and all the rest it says, the Creator will finish the work for me. That all of the actions we start, the Creator organizes them, takes care of them and finishes them and then is revealed. The main thing is for us to begin.
18. S. (31:25) Does annulment before the society only happen through the breaking of the heart that is constantly in prayer and breaking or is it a constant effort?
R. Didn't really understand the question. We constantly need to try and locate where else we can add connection between us and then from this annulment we connect. I can't connect only through annulment.
19. S. (32:10) Is there a difference between participating physically in Petach Tikvah or is it okay to connect to the internet?
R. That depends on a person's importance for connection, and there's such that because of the coronavirus they don't want to come and there are some that can't come because of the distance or because of money. So I can't say, I cannot obligate or awaken a person. Each and every person that studies with us needs to make a calculation on his own. What is good for him, to be at home and watch us or not even be in this evening at all, even virtually, or to be with us virtually, or to be with us physically. If a person is not overseas, he has a question whether to come or not. If he is overseas there is no question, just to be in a virtual connection or not at all. That is all a person's choice.