March 3, 2023 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Zohar for All. "Introduction of The Book of Zohar". The Fourteenth Commandment. #250
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, that is the introduction to the book of Zohar according to Rabash. It includes in it the entire book of Zohar in short and now we are coming to the last part of this introduction, to the 14th commandment. We are going to read it and see what we can understand in it and even if we do not understand the reading is extremely beneficial for the correction of the soul.
Reading 250 (If he had given precedence…)
2. R. (05:45) This means that we have to see how much these forces are The Good & Evil forces are necessary for the world to exist and also to progress to the desired correction. These forces have to be balanced with each other one against the other.
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3. R. (07:04) The evil forces and the good forces have to be balanced so that men would be in the middle and have free choice, the ability to choose and to understand the role of the evil and the role of the good as the world cannot exist without these opposite forces.
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4. R. (09:19) This means that although everything comes from the awakening of the evil force, this evil force comes to ultimately highlight and point to and reveal the good force in creation. Since, without it we cannot bring the sanctity to the world. For this reason…
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5. S. (12:26) We are learning everything in the 10 and trying to connect everything to the 10. Here we are reading about all kinds of connection, closeness between the wise and a coupling that is drawing the souls. What are these forms of connection?
R. First of all the quality can come, the unity can come only when the will to receive and the will to bestow connect, come closer, unite, to form a common, connected vessel for the revelation of the Creator. Only this can be the goal. As much as we use the evil force in order to add it to the good force and for the vessel to grow 620 times then this is how much the Creator will grow in the eyes of the created beings. That is what we need to see here. Now what you are saying here that there is a coming close of the masculine part to the female part is that they have to come close in this way, hold onto one another, and they grow and develop one another until the darkness will shine as light and they will be as the two great lights, meaning the force of darkness will shine like light because without darkness we cannot see light.
S. What are light and vessel in our work?
R. Light means revelation of the Creator as unity as connection as love as adhesion and the darkness is the opposite since as much as you have one against the other in a very clear form then accordingly you can see the light and the darkness and the light becomes many times more than what we had at the beginning of creation because the darkness highlights it to get a possibility to exist before everyone. The created being is not capable of seeing the light without darkness only in the difference in the contrast between the two, and that’s it so, creating the darkness is a very important creation and we bless it.
S. I just wanted to refine this. Is darkness a necessary condition in our work to build a vessel or can we simply build a certain desire in the ten towards the light and importance of the night or does it have to be darkness?
R. How can you say anything about the light if you do not know what is the darkness? How can you say anything about it? I can see, what do you mean see? Before that you did not see or you see something compared to darkness, you cannot have one without the other, the created being cannot exist in one quality it must be included in two opposing qualities. You understand this is our work to create a balance between light and darkness. It is like in our corporeal life you cannot have one without the other, rather all of our work needs to be not because this will be more than the other or the other will be less, rather because the revelation of the Creator will be a result of both of them, as clear as possible, one is included of the root of light and darkness together.
6. S. (17:41) It is not exactly a question but what do they mean when they talk about the fact that they have epilepsy? It seems like something that is very powerful. If you could explain what this very powerful thing when he talks about such a harsh thing what he means.
R. We will scrutinize it further it is still ahead of us. The main thing that we have to see is how he scrutinizes light over darkness, darkness over light, and he teaches us about the balance between the two because we need to know how to correctly use the light and the darkness and that is our art form. Although the Creator is light He gave us the darkness so that specifically through the darkness we will reveal the light.
7. S. (19:17) Adam is born in the balance of good and evil, so why were the worlds of Klipot created and the Sitra Achra and evil and it is easier to feel them than to feel the good. Why is it more difficult to exit the evil than from the good?
R. Because our nature is evil so it is hard for us to leave the evil. It is also hard for us to be attracted to the good because in order to approach the good you have to first leave the evil, so our work here is double, that is why we perform a restriction, a screen, reflected light, all kinds of actions in order to rise above evil and only after that can we approach the good.
8. S. (20:48) Why is it shown that the Sitra Achra is preceding the sanctity? What are they saying, that if it is the first clothing in the body, it tells here about the Sitra Achra being able to proceed sanctity. Why does it seem like that, or is it revealed like that, or it seems like the Sitra Achra had the chance to proceed things?
R. what do you mean the Sitra Achra could proceed things?
R. We have two forces, the force of the Creator and the force of the created being. The created being comes after the Creator. The Creator is the one who controls everything, he is the first and he is the last, and after that comes the evil inclination, the evil force. We need the evil force only for the created being to exist, and from this evil inclination to be able to reveal the Creator, and place him correctly. Seemingly, for the created being to have the ability to seemingly create the Creator as if he was the first, as if he did not exist before because he did not have the evil force, but from the evil force is revealed, then through it the created being can establish the Creator before it, this is what is happening really.
9. S. (22:58) He says that the sages that know this go from Sabbath to Sabbath, how is that possible and what does it mean and can we live in a permanent Sabbath?
R. Permanent Sabbath means that the evil force and the good force unite and support each other, until all the lights are revealed specifically through the darkness and the darkness supports the light and this is what is called a day, that is entirely Sabbath. Why, because the darkness, it begins to highlight the light and to grow It and to build such states. Whereby it is all relative to the created beings so the created beings need to see and begin to see the entire process, all the pleasure, all the greatness that we have in the light specifically thanks to the darkness. Why did the Creator create the darkness, because without it relative to the created beings, they cannot reveal the light they cannot attain only the light, but only in the seam between darkness and the light can they attain creation.
S. In this state, when darkness and light unite in the world, is there Creator unity and no fear?
R. Yes, if we reveal the light and the darkness and able to support each other, then all of creation comes to correction, and there is no preference from light to darkness or from darkness to light, there is nothing preceding the other.
10. S. (25:44) It is mentioned in the text it is talking about the Sabbath and the weekdays. We know that in spirituality there is no time and space, so what is the concept of time here in the text?
R. Time means the changing states between light and darkness. Hence, time does not exist in and of itself, if it is all light there is no time, if it's all darkness there is no time, when there are changes between light and darkness that shine intermittently, then we have time.
11. S. (26:40) This guy, with the candle and Asimon who wishes to receive everything within reason, because he's constantly trying to hold the candle where it is not appropriate?
R. Yes, let's wait a little and we are going to talk about him more. In a while for the time being we do not have enough data to discuss him.
12. S. (27:25) When the forces of darkness illuminate like the light, is it talking about the final correction?
R. Yes.
S. Because all of creation needs to be in balance in the light and darkness, and the final correction creation won’t exist in this way?
R. The darkness will shine as light, you are not going to feel any difference in the importance between darkness and light.
13. S. (28:05) I also wanted to ask about this person, Asimon coming closer to the candle, what is the candle in the hand of this person?
R. Candle is symbolizing our work, we need to reach a world that is entirely light.
14. S. (28:40) Does it mean that we are before an object that appears before us …And with the understanding that we need this evil to balance it somehow, we ask for the light that kind of neutralizes and performs a restriction on our evil. Therefore, we need the evil because we always start from the bad?
R. Yes, it seems like this is how it is happening, but we are going to clarify further.
15. S. (29:53) The women of Turkey connected into a single ten to strengthen the men. What is the next stage, what do we need to do to strengthen them?
R. In our lives if we are talking about practical life, then we need to treat the light and darkness completely as complete equals. That we need both and as much as we discuss the light from darkness and the darkness from light, we come closer and closer to the Creator who is the origin of everything, as you said that he forms the light and creates darkness. Everything comes from him and if we relate correctly to both, then we come to the correct form of perception of reality.
16. S. (31:14) Wanted to ask about the Sabbath. What is the Sabbath in the four phases? Is it the 1st or the 4th?
R. It is in the fourth phase.
17. S. (31:28) What is this matter of skipping over that he writes here? That something is not in order in the system of the world that it is called skipping over something. How can it be that something is not in the order of degrees?
R. We are going to see for the time being he did not give an example for this but skipping over something means that we are not correcting the degree, but we wish to use it in order to reach the degree above it.
Reading on (32:05) " with the explanation…"
18. R. (40:30) Meaning that they are the corrections that we can receive on the condition that the hide ourselves from all of the harming elements that can come and we should understand the conditions that are specified for us how to keep our distance from those harmful elements They speak about the condition of Shabbat and so on and so forth, since then and so on then our actions truly become corrections.
19. S. (41:16) What is this condition that v can be protected from the harm doers?
R. This means that we ourselves maintain the laws that can help us, it helps us move away from the egotistic movements of ours and this way protects ourselves from the problem.
S. What are these rules by which we protect ourselves?
R. There are many rules of which they are speaking here. They are the last corrections all the preceding ones are included as well. It is very difficult for us to scrutinize it, because let's say that through the past 10 years let's say you work very hard to become a big scientist. Now everything that you learned and you have to know and keep and apply it. Otherwise you cannot be a great scientist and this is where the problem is.
S. If it is possible in simplicity for the Ten when we want all our friends to be protected from all kinds of harm doers and we will go in a direct way on the way, what laws do we have to observe?
R. This is not suitable for you yet. You cannot beyond the degree of this harm doers. You understand that in such conditions we completely understand them.
S. Maybe on the high degree I cannot see them but I see that differences have all kinds of difficulties, something that repulses them from the path. These harm doers we are talking about here?
R. No. This is much higher, much more much sharper and much more clarified. It is not those things that we feel today. Today we feel such selfish collisions between us, head-to-head but here we are talking about a great number of subtleties. For example the collision between the qualities of a person's internal nature and the notice and feel of it and here we speak about our lives that we feel it in chemistry, biology, zoology. Its and the eats thanks to the connection and the connection and the lack of connection between the parts of the vegetative, animal, or speaking levels. This is too early for us but we will gradually reveal this and it will become very straight forward, extremely normal without even paying attention to it when we can reconcile all the contradictions and we see that specifically from them and above them he can build a completely new world.
20. S. (45:20) When we-connect we build the Shabbat? When we are connecting correctly?
R. Yes.
S. Where should we hide if we do not do this work?
R. If this work does not exist we are not going to feel it.
S. Each time that are two components him and his name.
R. Yes.
21. S. (46:00) How can we implement the idea of bodies and souls entering the Sabbath on the side of good in the work of the Ten?
R. Repeat.
S. How can we correctly implement the idea of the bodies and souls and the awakening souls that are on the side of good and then and not on the side of evil and the Shabbat in the work of the Ten?
R. Only through the connection between us. The solution is always the same. It is always one. I am sorry but I have nothing else to add after all everything should reach a connection. Where each friends the other and each feels his integration with everyone and that we are truly as one man in one heart. These are all the corrections as much as we can remember. We are going to approach this formula and then all the questions will be solved.
22. S. (48:05) What does it mean to clothe the body?
R. All these desires over which we lack restriction, screen and reflected light. We need to connect to another through clothing. The clothing is mostly reflected light and when one reflected light and another reflected light fit each other then in this way we can become as one man with one heart.
S. Why do we need to cover the bodies?
R. Who told you that?
S. It is kind of how I understood it from the text.
R. No, do not remove any clothing during the Zivug. Rather we enter the Zivug with all of the Zivug with all the clothing that we have. Our bodies have covered with the restriction, screen and reflected light.
23. S. (49:58) In 252, it is talking about an unstamped coin. What is an unstamped coin?
R. When it is unstamped, it is called Asimon. It does not show and marking of its value, but rather we can exchange that value for something that is suitable. We are going to talk about it, how it can be in the power of man to change the coin that he is holding.
24. S. (51:03) It says that the blue light turns into white light. What is it talking about here?
R. The Azur is a very special color which is close to white, we will talk about that.
25. S. (51:35) What is the role of Lillith? What are we doing with this? Is there something to do with the Lillith? Kill them or not kill them? What is Lillith?
R. Lillith is a very harsh and very evil shell that needs to be ridden of. For the time being, there is nothing more to add here. We are yet to read about her in the Zohar many other times.
26. S. (52:21) It speaks here about a coupling that is taking place in front of the candlelight, is there a matter of judgment here? What does it refer to? To the will to receive or bestow? What is the coupling? The coupling in front of the candle light?
R. There is a certain revelation, but this revelation’s only enough for a certain connection where the light of the candle illuminates. We do not need less than that and also for the time being, not any more than that.
27. S. (53:24) It looks like that on what we call the Sabbath, we are protected against the evil inclination to be able to connect correctly. So they are talking about coupling let's say or connection on weekdays and coupling on the Sabbath day. So what is the difference in these conditions in connecting correctly? Between, let's say, on Sabbath or on weekdays what they are explaining here.
R. The difference is very simple. That all the actions that we managed to locate through the week, we scrutinize them and the collect them to the day of Sabbath. And on the Sabbath, we are performing the big coupling because all the shells disappear and on the Sabbath we have the ascent of the worlds in which we talk about those who are in the worlds of ABYA. Therefore, we need to realize that we are rising to the world of Atzilut and there we receive the coupling in the light of Atzilut, which is why that Sabbath is an answer to all that accumulated and joined. This is what we worked on the whole week.
S. How are you protected during the Sabbath? Are we protected against the evil inclination during Sabbath before the correct connection?
R. By the illumination of the Upper light in the place where we ascend, which is called the Sabbath, it is not in our place. We need to rise to a higher place, to the world of Atzilut, and all the shells blossom from there. We are found to be corrected in the desire to receive in order to bestow, at which point we can perform corrections. I am explaining this in a very simple way as simple as possible in a very primitive manner. For the time being, understand it this way, the Sabbath is when we rise above all will to receive and this way we can feel the upper force, force of the Creator which dwells in us, and this is how we ascend above.
28. S. (57:30) How can our evil inclination hold onto the Shabbat and harm us? After all, the Shabbat is a day of rest and peace when we are inside the Creator.
R. Yes, and therefore on the Shabbat, we also talk and I am talking about the spiritual Sabbath not the corporeal one. Don't confuse yourself, between the two. In physical life it is something completely different. It depends on human beings and what they do. But in spirituality, if we are already in the world of correction, then we have no possibility of causing any harm or crime but instead only to perform the corrections of the Shabbat which is all we are learning about. It is not that something has to do with the correction of the nullification or transgressions.
29. S. (58:45) Can I ask about the intention during the reading of Zohar? I wanted to ask that this time when the world on the outside seems like it is falling apart and crumbling before our very eyes. It is felt that the mutual guarantee between us during the lesson and in general, all the time, plays a critical role. But during the Zohar, I am torn between trying to understand the material mentally and between thinking about the friends constantly, trying to come out of myself. But they’re really two opposing efforts if I am in my mind I'm not for the friends I'm not praying for them. And if I am for the friends, I do not understand anything with my mind so when I am in one I think should I be here or there? It is really difficult to renew this mutual guarantee.
R. You just need to be in connection with the friends. Embrace them as much as possible, more. Even though between you there could be huge distances between you that separate between you. But try to feel that you are embracing them and you are truly as one man in one heart, and the Creator is then in your connection. If you think that way, you are performing a great correction for yourselves and for the whole world. You have nothing to be afraid of the future because it will be a good future, and the world will be arranged nicely.
S. We wish to pass our support to the world group they're holding you. We are altogether.
R. Excellent, thank you.
Reading 253
30. R. (1:04:40) This is something that we are going to scrutinize. It is clear that we need to be cautious, and remain as much as possible within the Shabbat. Meaning, there is no problem extending the Shabbat for a few more hours or days. I am not even talking about the days and hours that are astronomical that we use. We are not talking about the Shabbat but we are talking about the state where we are all connected together and we are all connected to the Creator. This is the state where the worlds rise to the world of Atzilut from the word “Etzlo” - “at His place” (at the creator's place). And if we want to be like this way, then we do not enter into any harm doing.
Reading 255 (01:05:42): "There is a place in hell…"
31. S. (01:11:15) Is it true that my place in the collective in the general vessel is determined during the Sabbath or during the state of the Sabbath?
R. It is determined before you were born ahead of time from the beginning of creation.
32. S. (01:11:47) He says that those who slight the crumbs that are as in olive they are not rewarded with the satiation of the meal. You kept repeating before that the condition for the Creator to be between us. What is that condition? What does it mean that the Creator will be between us? What is that concept?
R. That we are collecting these crumbs and want them to receive a volume, a size as the size of an olive.
S. What does the day and the night in the ten mean? What does it mean in the night that you feel terrible and then we have day? What does it mean?
R. We collect our scrutinies, the crumbs, our discernments. We collect them together so that they will be apparent as something, as some tangible manner like an olive and then we can in such a state identify ourselves, the Creator, all of Creation in a sufficient measure of correction.
S. What are those crumbs that you need to gather? What are those crumbs in our relationship?
R. In our system of relationships these Crumbs are scrutinies from our relations that we want to connect together to the measure of an olive.
S. I still don't understand what it means to collect the crumbs, the attitude or the behavior what is that?
R. These crumbs are measures that we cannot be precise with but in order to connect them together to a measure as an olive that is what we need to work upon on the connection between us in which we don't disregard any crumb.
S. Yes, I hear what you're saying, I just want to understand. During the Congress I felt really good there's no crumbs, no olives or anything. The minute I came out of the Congress I became sick with crumbs and everything. I can't even do scrutiny. How do I do the scrutiny when I went home and I heard this one is sick and the other one is sick, even the scrutiny is not possible. What kind of scrutinies can I use? We closed down the center again. What kind of scrutiny can I do with myself about what happened? Why did I become sick once I left the Congress? What kind of scrutiny can I do myself, would even happen?
R. During the convention we were in mutual bestowal upon one another, what was was. After the convention we return to a completely different state where each on one hand feels itself as existing apart from everyone on the one hand and he has the ability to be connected with the others, and here it is all the work of a person, if I want to be connected with others, even though we are no longer in the convention so I try to do that, or maybe I even connect to them through the different Communications means or I don't think about them but I am drawn towards connection in the current state. What happens from the time being at the moment and this is how we connect, that is it and this gives us a great big correction as those things that I was connected to the friends during the convention somewhat by the Creator now I make an effort in order to be connected with them with my forces and it really helps with a general correction of my soul and by this I truly correct the soul, revive my soul.
S. At the convention itself you said that if you can give gifts to friends it would be wonderful, what gifts are you talking about?
R. When you smile to him when you love him, when you're happy to be connected to him. What other gifts can we give each other? I have from the Congress maybe 20 boxes of chocolate they gave me so these are gifts, I feel the gifts and the hearts of the friends.
S. It doesn't need to be anything physical like to give them portions?
R. Physical, that is also possible. I don't know, you can give something physical. I didn't get anything from you.
S. Why didn't you ask?
R. I didn't ask, i'm not asking and i'm not expecting but what I'm saying is that after the Congress I should show others, everyone that I am in love and have the expectation of connecting to them again and it has nothing to do with coming with an airplane to some country and connecting there. We can be connected now and it's much more beneficial for the correction of the soul then when we fly in airplanes from one country to another.
S. Give an example, let's say the Russian group, they spoke to our ten and they said they made some clip and they sent it to give a good impression, is that a gift? Is that called a gift to be in contact with them in such a way?
R. The truth is yes, if you're in contact with them and you're doing what they ask of you then yes.
S. So in the tens between the world's and it's like giving us portions to each other and blessing each other?
R. It's possible but it depends on the person's desire, for if a person wants it then it's worthwhile, if he doesn't want it it's even more worthwhile.
S. So then you force him to give a gift?
R. To give a gift.
33. S. (01:20:33) What is a candle?
R. A candle is that force of bestowal we have in our heart from which we can ignite a bonfire.
S. What does it mean to light a candle before Kedusha?
R. It's when we ourselves want to wake up to the fire between us, the fire of love between us, the fire of connection before it's ignited from above.
34. S. (01:21:38) When we returned after the Congress there were several actions in all kinds of gatherings and this conference at the end of the week, and we also have friends who are sick and we integrate with them but there is no time to be sick or should we give time to that?
R. True if you don't have the force and the time to be sick and you have a lot of work you will not be sick.
35. S. (01:22:30 What is breaking the rules of Shabbat?
R. Breaking the rules of Sabbath is when I don't want to be connected to everyone with faith above reason, that is called breaking the rules of Shabbat, because Shabbat is like the final correction and we are all Incorporated within each other, okay?
36. S. (01:26:15) Why do we see the Congress as something mutual and sickness as something individual, doesn't the Creator want to show us this mutual deficiency between us?
R. The sickness is also something common because we get it from each other. When a person used to live in a jungle he wasn't sick but when he used to live when he started living with other people he started becoming ill because his connection with others is not a good one.
37. S. (01:24:53) What is so special about the spiritual Shabbat if blue becomes white and the other side doesn't act on us anymore, why is it so important to not light a flame on Shabbat?
R. A spiritual Shabbat is a kind of the end of Correction. It's part of the end of Correction and that's how we should accept it and be happy about it and to use it and that's it.
S. If so, the system stops working in relation to the other side because the other side doesn't act on Shabbat so the system enters into a state of Shabbat?
R. The system of the other side also enters the state of Shabbat when it subjugated itself to the state of Shabbat.
38. S. (01:26:16) Why did Kabbalists divide the prayer into three, gratitude request and prayer?
R. We haven't learned that yet, we didn't read it so ask when we do read it.
S. Okay I will do as you say. We will do and we will hear, thank you.
39. S. (01:26:50) In the excerpt it's written a few times that we need to be careful not to ignite the flame before Shabbat exits. What is this caution? What should we be cautious of doing here?
R. There's a fire that you ignite before the Shabbat and you keep it going and there's a kind of fire you're not allowed to turn on on Shabbat. We will learn that we just read it and that's it
40. S. (01:27:37) In excerpt 255 he writes about a person who curses himself, what is he talking about?
R. He's talking about the scrutinies, from the place of Hell until the place of Shabbat, so what are you asking exactly?
S. The person who curses himself, who is that person?
R. We can say that a person that curses himself, a person is not pleased with himself thinking that he is to blame, and what he did and what he came to is because he is the one that arranges his life. That's a big crime and it's a sign that you don't think that the Creator owns everything and everything happens due to Him.
Reading 256 (01:29:33) “He is Unfit for Lighting the Candle...”
Reading 257 (01:30:50) “When the Sabbath Enters and the Day Begins...”
Reading 258 (01:31:57) “And Yet They do Not Govern From the Lights...”
Reading 259 (01:32:47) “However if He Waits Until the Service of Kedusha...”
Reading 260 (01:34:12) “Happy is He Who Wises the Poor...”