Morning Lesson June 9, 2021, Transcription
Each Day They Will Be as New in Your Eyes - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we need to understand exactly what is happening with us every day every moment every lesson. We are a result of the breaking of the vessels, there was a complete vessel and the Creator the upper force broke it on purpose so we could, by assembling through our efforts, all of those pieces together, to understand, to be able to understand the structure of the common vessel. Accordingly, how this structure once corrected causes a filling and what is the matter of the filling and by connecting among us and accordingly becoming filled with the upper light, with revealing the Creator. By this we can understand the Creator and feel the Creator, according to the types of connection and intensities of connection among us because in the upper force itself we have no attainment. But when we begin to connect in this way or in that way among ourselves and begin to receive the filling then we can begin to talk about the fillings through the forms of closeness between us, forms of connection between us. Then it turns out that we suddenly have a language we have an understanding of, what we are doing now we are bestowing, we find names to the manifestations of the Creator, manifestations of the light, the types of lights, different intensities of the lights. Although we have no attainment in the light itself because we are drawing the light through the connection, various connections, among the vessels and we can call these lights by the names of the vessels, in this way, we acquire a ready-made language. Which is always like the language of the branches when we talked about the lights in the language of the vessels. In this way we can talk, so talk about the Creator types of manifestation of the Creator, forms, manners of manifestations of the Creator, because we connect ourselves in all kinds of various forms and intensity.
Therefore, our work in connecting the vessels is constant work and it is the only work and only this is called the work of the Creator because by this we put together the complete name of the Creator of his appearance, his complete appearance in the created beings eventually, which is called the end of correction. This is why our whole life, our whole existence should be about being aware that each day and each moment new records of the broken vessels are surfacing and we have to try to bring them all together to connection and to that sublime goal where everything unites as one. This is why it is written that each day they should be as new in your eyes meaning that you need to understand that this is called the renewals of times when broken vessels are revealed to us, to our senses, to our eyes. Of course, they are all broken because the breaking was down to the lowest degree and afterwards, we begin once they appear, we begin to work with them, to identify them, begin to bring them closer, which is really us ourselves and that's how we become corrected. In other words, this phrase that all of our state should be as new in your eyes talks about records that appear in all of our senses from the broken vessels of Adam HaRishon and accordingly, we have to try to turn them into HaVaYaH meaning to connect them in 10 Sefirot. YKVK, with the light that fills them. and as much as we succeed according to the degrees until at the end of the correction as we learn, we will see all of these states connecting together. This is called the great coupling, then we will see one vessel, one feeling which are called “He is one and His Name One” that will be revealed to everyone. In the meantime, we have to try to accustom ourselves at every moment, we should work on joining that moment into adhesion into a state where all the elements in it we want to bring them all together, not throw away any element but connect them in such a way that the complete name of the Creator is revealed. This is really our work. Okay.
2. S. (07:39) How can we connect every Reshimot that is revealed to the HaVaYaH, that's our work?
R. Each and every record that is revealed is a small part of the one complete name of HaVaYaH, the manifestation of the Creator before the created being. Every state revealed certainly is a broken state that we don't want and we don't reveal and have no powers for it, we are weak, we have to understand that all of those elements are correct elements. Only by awakening one another and helping one another to connect and by connecting together, can we overcome the separation, the weakness, the indifference, the apathy and the helplessness. In the beginning of the work, the records that appeared to a person are simple, relatively simple records like for a baby for example and then he doesn't need this society, he doesn't need anything, he moves from state-to-state. Most of the states are worked on instead of him so as to teach him. and give him impressions from states of connections from separation although he doesn't know they stem from the state, the changing of times from states it stems from him being closer or farther from the Creator. But afterwards it becomes clear towards the Creator and the society that a person begins to feel his own ego, how he doesn't want to participate in this and that's the work that's how we grow.
If in our life we don't really understand how we grow, people may end their lives without thinking who accompanies them and who manages them, why and how they go through all those states in their lives. I'm alive, I go to work, I come back, I do something at home, I go to sleep and I do the same tomorrow. They just accept life as it is that's according to the records. because for the time being such records are revealed to him that don't really awake and him to ask where he's from, why am I alive. There are higher Souls that can't, are not separate in the correction of these records and then they all enter despair and we see that the majority of the world is in despair that means we are advancing significantly towards the end of correction because people are asking why I am alive, what am I living for, is it worth living. These are questions of higher Souls, the ones that come to the wisdom of Kabbalah because here they feel internally their internal attraction and also Providence leads them to it. They feel that they can't do without this method because they need to know why they are living and they cannot live without it without answering it so when they come to the wisdom of Kabbalah here. It's a different problem. They have to find the strength that moves them, that promotes them. It's the bad force, it is the force of the broken record. That's how they begin to scrutinize the states until they begin to understand how it works, how it operates and accordingly how they have to function in order to discover their process of life. Realistically.
3. S. (13:06) What is the meaning that we discover the Creator to the degree of the connection between us?
R. Who is the Creator of the connection between us is the Creator, come and see, because if we are not connected between us, we will not discover this force. Why are we broken? So, we would awaken and would want to discover the Creator according to his broken records that are revealed in us. This whole world, his whole life is broken records of the Creator, of this system and we have to put them together correctly. In this way we understand him and understand the Creator and work together with the upper force so we can identify with the system and improve the global system. This is how it works.
4. S. (14:33) A new 10 and we would love to know explanation for Zivug and the role of the Zivug in the 10
R. We will learn that a coupling is a connection is usually between things that are opposite from one another and when we want to bring them closer to each other it causes a coupling. Normally a coupling is when we have striking because the internal qualities cannot be together. Those two things but when they overcome the striking, the contradiction between them, the oppositeness between them, above it they come to a connection. This is why it's called coupling by striking, meaning the connection comes through a resistance, a collision, a striking. This is how it happens because inside according to Nature they are two opposites but according to their desire they want to overcome their nature and connect. Say it's like two people who according to their nature cannot connect. They have a striking between them even though they might have hatred between them. They are discovering that there is a higher need. and they can achieve that higher state only if they connect together. They connect between them despite the inner striking then to the extent that they overcome the striking, that hatred, the rejection between them, they can according to this receive the common filling the upper light the filling of the Creator which is revealed and only in such a way.
S. The result in each case is adhesion?
R. The result of it is called adhesion. Adhesion can be a state that exists only between two contradictory that are hateful of each other, rejecting each other intensely but above it they demand of the Creator to receive the power of connection. The glue that attaches them together and glues them together even though by their nature their opposites. That's how they advance towards adhesion towards correction. The end of the correction is when all are adhered as one. This is called having one vessel that connects despite the contradictions in it. In the end, the one light is revealed and then it will be 620 times more intense than before because there is a connection on top of the resistance, the collision, the overcoming, and this is how it happens.
5. S. (19:10) Sometimes it seems like the state doesn't change, it appears the same even though we know that there's no such thing as one minute the same as its previous one so how can we succeed in each state to see it as raw material for work?
R. We have to remind each other that indeed we always have new records as it is written they will be as new in your eyes because they really are new. Even though it seems to us like they are the same, that today is like yesterday and yesterday is like the day before yesterday it is incorrect. I have to, when I overcome it, I see that it's something else. Also, our day today and corporeality how is it different from the day before? I eat, I sleep, I wash myself, I work, I have to do other things and many things we do seemingly have nothing to them but nature by nature because the Creator wants the world to exist, he gives us new flavors every time we eat for example, what's to it? We ate yesterday and the day before yesterday and for several years now we feel new flavors. Likewise, we need to feel new flavors and each and every state even if it seems to us that it is repetitive.
S. We give the example when Rabbi Yossi said went through 400 states a minute or something.
R. Baal Shem Tov.
S. We are also going through a myriad of inner states but we can't feel them?
R. Of course, no moment is like the other like another.
6. S. (21:26) These days we feel active connection in 10, how can we use this state to bring additional connections in the ten?
R. Only by searching how to be more connected. That's it, that's how it works.
7. S. (22:17) The example you gave about coupling and striking, can you give it also with a married couple, is it only about the friends in the 10?
R. Only about the friends. I don't deal with relationships and couples or anything like that, I don't want to hear about those things, do what you understand in spirituality and in corporeality if you can but I don't give any tips on that.
Excerpt 1 RABASH. Assorted Notes. Article No.469. “Each Day They Will Be as New in Your Eyes.”
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8. R. (23:46) Compared to the day before he writes we have to pay attention each day to the new states, new records, new relationships specifically because they're the ones that give us the possibility to rise to a new degree because each day, we must receive a commandment from a higher degree which means that there the greatness of the Creator is more apparent.
9. S. (24:33) Can you say that the process of the coupling and the striking is a Mitzva meaning between the revelation of evil and its correction?
R. You can put it this way.
10. S. (24:53) In the excerpt we read is it even possible to maybe have such a question if yesterday's records were not corrected in the 10, what happens with them, it says that each day it has to be as new?
R. Many of our records go through only partial correction. Even if we want, don't appreciate them, don't notice them, it is also some correction. Because even if we don't notice them, don't pay attention to them, seemingly out of our lack of treatment of them, they become worse and more crass, more conspicuous and they stand out and that's why we correct them later. You can't just cast them off and they become corrected by themselves, they will still return every element that participated in the shattering of Adam HaRishon has to appear and we have to work with it and complete its correction. It has to happen if not now then later. but in a different way more included in others in new conditions.
11. S. (26:35) It says that because each day he has to receive a commandment from a higher degree which means that the greatness of the Creator is more apparent, how to do it as an act of action in the 10 to receive the commandment from a higher degree?
R. We get a commandment from a higher degree and it's corrected each time more and more. The correction in each state is a connection between us on top of the records that are appearing and that's it. This is how we have to see it.
Excerpt 2 RABASH, Article No.6 (1991), “What is, The Herdsmen of Abram’s Cattle and the Herdsmen of Lot’s Cattle,” in the Work?”
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12. R. (28:44) It seems to a person that each day he becomes worse because deeper records appear to him out of the shattering because so it is a correct what he feels but it is also because he still received yesterday and the day before and previous time, he received some sort of ability to overcome these states and sort them out correctly and to connect them to the intention to bestow and in that way advance.
13. S. (29:18) Nevertheless how to unify with the friends, the new records that appear in order to be incorporated directly into the correction?
R. That's very simple, a record is the whole of reality. The whole world that I feel is called the present record, the one that is being revealed right now. The whole world, the whole universe, this world, the planet Earth, human planet, everything is only one record of that is revealed. Right now, at this moment I have to bring it to a state where instead of all of those things I see only one desire. which the Creator gave and that desire is broken. I have to put it all together within me through my inner effort, there is only one desire here that comes to me from there is none else besides him. I have to connect all those desires, all those qualities, everything that happens to one source, to the one Creator from which they come to me. When I want and I also want to see in this the manifestation of the Creator if he enjoys my wanting to see reality in this way when he positions reality, he creates reality and he completes it, and receives it specifically from me.
S. It turns out that if I see any revelation of deviation from the unity from this holiness that's a record that is not revealed that I was able to identify?
R. Yes.
14. S. (31:47) In this excerpt it also says that sparks of sanctity ascend and rise. Does it mean that there is a coupling and from it was a restriction, reflected light and as a result, that happened?
R. Not quite, we should wait with these things. Wait, it's not like that.
S. Everyday meaning every moment that's what it means?
R. Yes, yes. it's not the material day and night physical day night it is changes of states.
Excerpt 3 RABASH, Article No. 40 (1989), “What is, “Every Day They Will Be as New in Your Eyes,” in the Work?”
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15. S. (35:48) What is that meal that he writes about?
R. It is as we see it and eat and we feel new flavors each time. It doesn't matter if I ate yesterday or today, it should be the same as the spiritual work.
16. S. (36:20) Is there any mutual connection between the records that appear and me and the records that appear in the friends in the ten?
R. All those records are connected but to a higher degree than our own. That's why it seems to us that we are in our own states, in our own character, in our own moods, but in truth at a higher degree than ours all those things connect together and it is their connection that determines what each of us feels now here.
17. S. (37:06) Before you said that we each day but we acquiring you flavors and we also come to lessen each day but food is something that if I don't do without, I will die but if I don't feel good with the friends I won't die, food seems like it seems like an extension of action but my relationship with the friends is not, how do I turn it into something like that?
R. You have to shift from living through physical food to living through spiritual food and then you will see how much you need it and are dependent on it.
18. S. (38:04) A few friends scrutinized and created a deficiency for the morning lesson. Now the most important point when we show up so what is the relative to new point if the preparation is forgotten?
R. We have to understand that he writes a lot about forgetfulness. How there is a special angel called the angel of forgetfulness, He causes us to forget because the changing states that we go through has to happen. These states that we went through have to be deleted, erased and they have to require a different form, helpless. There are many states in it, many operations that end, forces that operate on us so we will learn how it works but you can't talk about it, our language is very primitive, difficult. It can't contain these states clearly. It is not suited even for what is happening to us in our corporeal mind much less to explain what happens in the spiritual vessel. This is why we have to shift to the language of the branches. From the language of the branches to the language of the roots and from the language of the roots to still higher roots. This way, we will begin to understand one another even without any clothing in external words.
S. It's better to come to the new state without experience. I'm sorry trying to bring something from the preparation so it's better to forget.
R. Right now you can't understand anything truthfully, you have no identification and similarity. You don't have faith above reason, you're not in the same qualities as those operations that you want to talk about. You are repeating those names, those spiritual operations, you are repeating them like a child like a baby who doesn't know what he is saying he's just repeating regards. But what are those words? He doesn't know. Everyone says them so I say them too. That's it, that's what we are like. For now, we are not aware of all those spiritual phenomena. that we call by various names and talk about. We don't know what they are but we somehow awaken an awakening from above and that illumination awakens us to know that things as they really are.
19. S. (41:44) It says here that not everyone feels it so what depends on my sensitivity in my ability to scrutinize new points and on the way to adhesion?
R. My sensitivity to scrutinize the shattering and of course afterwards to correct it that sensitivity depends on how drawn I am to connection. Because our whole correction is increasing connection in each day more and more and more and if I see in front of me a society and its corrected form more than I can currently depicted it, it is regarded as being on the right path and awakening the right records and in this way, I advanced whereas if I don't see in front of me these states as necessary, then I don't work towards connection. and I don't detect it so quickly and directly the essence of the records. end their purpose.
20. S. (43:22) How important is it to identify and scrutinize each new record or is that enough to continue in the direction of connection?
R. No, of course we are drawn to connection, I have to do it as much as I can, this is mandatory. Otherwise, I am not on the path but scrutinizing to what extent I am not in the broken records, broken Reshimot and I do want to be in the broken record and what exactly is this broken record and why it is one opposite the other and how I opposite that I have a corrected state. If I ask If I scrutinize all that then I truly do correct the situation.
21. S. (44:38) What does it mean to sort out new discernments from the shattering?
R. It means that whatever is awakened in me on top of these records that are awakened in me that push me away from corrections I need to overcome them and actually add them to this new correction, this new correction, this new growing correction.
22. S. (45:12) What are we revealing in the empty state in the work?
R. In an empty state I discover in my work new records that I need to realize.
Excerpt 4 RABASH, Article No. 799, "The Birth of the Moon"
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23. S. (48:33) What is unity?
R. Unity means connection between two opposites where above the opposition between them they come to feeling and understanding and acting as one.
24. S. (49:01) In our states we feel ascents and descents similar to that of the text, we talk about but it’s all corporeal land connected to this world to my life in this world. Is there a connection to the process that is talked about here revealing the records?
R. I think it is the same, besides that we need to see more clearly that our whole life is exactly all those states we are learning about which is the revelation of the records end their realization we have nothing more to do in this life in this form of the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking level in a person. This is how we need to maintain it and name them all at one connection. There's nothing more. Just pay attention to what you're doing from morning to night where everything you are doing and you wish to do only in order to reach a new state, to scrutinize new records, another degree, another state, and another state and attach them and add them, put them together so it will be clear who you are dealing with. What is the importance of the group, what is the connection with the Creator and so on and so forth?
25. S. (50:47) Is this burden a vessel?
R. It is not a vessel yet but those are broken records that your connections you must convert into a vessel that above all those broken records that you are asking for correction than the opener light comes and this upper light comes and is building through a screen and then from building it for you begin to understand what is being talked about what is happening and why we are drawn to it. The light has to open your eyes. The introduction for it, the reason for it is for you to demand this. the record itself must awaken you for that.
26. S. (52:04) What should be the discernment the person feels in order to come to a new state house with it to feel what deficiency should have awakened?
R. The group must be in such a feeling that each and every moment something new is happening to it.
S. What is this new state, what's new there?
R. New records each moment. From the shattering and we don't pay attention to where we are existing but if we wish to relate to reality correctly, then we always need to have such an attitude where this is coming to me from the Creator. This I am getting from the Creator and each and every time how to react to it, how to respond and how to connect to him. There is never a state from which we cannot rise to a higher degree.
S. So a new state necessarily is related more to connection with the Creator?
R. Yes, by connecting and putting together all the Reshimot connecting all of the records we connect ourselves and on top of the records and on top of the separation between us we come to a cry and request and then we rise. Then you can say they shall be as new in your eyes not new according to the records but according to what you attained.
27. S. (53:57) How do we maintain our joy, our happiness in this process?
R. Why can't we if I am constantly developing and this my development is always towards the end of correction. Each day I am coming closer to it more and more, although the path might be long but it all depends on me. In a sense it’s not so important for me to get to the end of corrections. I don't have a deficiency towards the end of correction. I have a deficiency each time to correct myself in connection with friends and in connection with that to reveal the Creator for the time being called BoReh, come and see, and they should be as new in my eyes as new vessels, new Reshimot records, a new Creator. It's as Rabbi Zusha said each day I have a new Creator, it sounds like a heretic to someone who is not connected to the Torah. What does it mean if there is a new Creator each day? You're throwing out what you had yesterday and now you established before you a new Creator? No. today he feels him, he attains him more clearly and that's how we advance. There is no problem here, the only problem is that we are not pressuring each other in the 10 towards realizing it together. That is the only problem. It is the source of all of our failures.
28. S. (55:59) Part of the characteristic part of the broken record is that now that is new in your eyes it seems that it is in the same state as routine?
R. No, there is no routine you don't know just how much the states change except we don't pay attention so it doesn't seem new.
S. Is it as a result of the broken record that has been corrected?
R. The broken Reshimot record is the Reshimot, the system of Adam Harrison so how can yesterday be like today?
S. Clear, but the feeling that the current moment is the same moment, is it characterized as a broken record that has not been corrected?
R. I'm not sure what you were referring to, there are many things here. Let's keep it simple, we need to awaken the friends each and every moment, to connect again and again in order to discover the inner spiritual state until the Creator appears in it. We need to see in each and every state of ours that what we are doing now is a greater connection. Until the Creator is revealed between us. That's it and who is the Creator? YKVK, we can compile a vessel the 10 Sefirot and the tip of the Yod, even before the letter Yod, there is the Creator there is the upper light it comes and it fills us.
29. S. (57:55) This scrutiny in the 10 should we do it and if so, then should we determine certain actions as a result of this group?
R. We're talking about it for an hour and this is what you are asking? what else do we need to do except for this scrutiny I don't understand your question.
S. I mean do we really have to talk about it?
R. Yes, we need to talk about it, we need to talk about it, we need to scrutinize it, yes. I'm not getting into the bottom of your thinking what do you want with it.
30. S. (58:56) You said that the only problem is that we're not pressing each other in the 10 to realize it together that's a source of all our failure?
R. We don't pressure meaning we don't set an example for it we don't weather towards the scrutiny.
S. What example should we be giving here?
R. That I'm interested in scrutinizing the current state with friends and in this state, scrutinizing all the details of our connections.
S. What does it mean to pressure in what way?
R. To awaken and let's say to pressure my diction is very narrow.
31. S. (01:00:02) You spoke about the broken records; I want to know how to correct broken records and what's the connection between a broken record and non-broken records?
R. Very simply, you're in the group Italy four is a group?
S. Yes.
R. Good, now is it a broken group or a corrected group?
S. It is a group that is working for the purpose of correction.
R. I didn't ask you how it works, I asked you if it was corrected or broken.
S. Broken.
R. Broken, good so you answered like a mother about her children that they're crying and dirty and she says they're all so pretty and so smart that is how you answer, it's good. I understand you but nevertheless, we need to work on the connection between us so that between us the Creator will be revealed you understand it simply, the level of connection, the quality of the connection between us, according to the intensity, the force of the connection we have to come to a state that would bring us the feeling of the Creator. That's it no more than that, this is what we have to work on, you wish to discover the Creator to reveal him so do it in the connection in the group. It is in practice between us that we have to do it but it is not all at once it takes a long time. But every day more and more, there should be an everyday as new in your eyes, as new records that appear from the shattering and you have to attach all of the pieces of the group together as much as possible. That's our work, it is very practical. There's nothing philosophical, artificial, spiritual nothing in practice. Let us contract to such an extent that the Creator will be revealed. He is in there but we have to have such a contraction between us that he will reveal himself.
32. S. (01:03:28) The spiritual structure and the records, where they connected in the common soul or do, they also pertain to individual qualities?
R. All of our personal individual qualities are included inside the qualities of the 10 and in this way, we come to the general structure called BoReh, Creator.
Excerpt 5 RABASH Article 468, “This Day, the Lord Your God Commands You”
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33. R. (01:05:30) The new data, new records from the shattering and on top of that record we connect we learn we scrutinize, all the lights and vessels and connection between us, the Creator who fills us with the upper light that fills us with everything and comes from this anew every day and should be new in your eyes, completely new truly new. Truly because after the scrutiny if we fall again into the shattering and we start not only from 0 but from minus from the negative we start to ascend and the more we correct before, it causes us to descend even deeper and deeper descent helps us because it helps us rise even higher and this zig zag, where lower and higher lower still and higher still and that's how we advance towards the end of Correction. That's why he who is greater than his friend rises higher, his inclination is higher and he falls lower and that's how it is in the whole group. So just imagine that we will connect together what kind of great ascents we will have, descents. We will have such deep descents. Those are very difficult states that it says, Don't Judge your Friend until you are in his Place. Since you're not in the place of your friend don't judge him because you have to understand it is not so simple and it is possible that if you're in his place you would have been weaker.
34. S. (01:07:32) How can we awaken the friends and pressure the friends without doing it too hard, to do it with love, without causing a friend to move away like for example friends who are not coming to the lesson or do not disseminate enough, how do we do it?
R. I don't know, that is a question that I myself do not have an answer to. How to awaken the heart of the friends so they will want to come to the lesson, at least to the lessons. They would feel themselves obligated to do it relative to others, to the Creator to humanity, it is a problem. It's a problem you see, in order to sustain himself in this life and he knows it's going to be finished soon. He gets up in the morning he runs to work. He is looking and searching and thinking how to pay and all the means to arrange his life. But an eternal life he has an opportunity to arrange himself in this exalted beautiful degree. No, not important he doesn't have a need for it, we only act according to the desire, you understand? So let's say if I was in the place of the Creator during the pandemic I would notice that if not the Covid19, I would bring such pandemic to the world that everyone, that it would be so not difficult but such that from it, people will get shocked into thinking what are they doing about their lives, what's happening with their opportunity in life and I am also among them by the way, I can't say that I am corrected. So, when I'm looking, all we have to ask is for the Creator to awaken us even more. One thing we are lacking, is if we see friends who are unable and they get despaired and they are weak and they fall, a prayer for them is what we have to do, we have to practically, in practice they don't come to the lesson. You are in the lesson and the connection between you, take 1 minute and think about asking for something together for them. Since they are at home asleep or doing something else and raise a request to the Creator for those friends who are not capable. Please do it and you will see how much it can help them and it can help you.
35. S. (01:11:36) Do we have a certain quota of the records we have to complete in our work in connection in this life?
R. According to the records there is nothing more. It's a certain quota you could say but it is according to the records of each and every one.
S. But do we have to complete this quota and does it depend on the connection between us?
R. Only on the connection between us all the records that appear, all the states that appear because we have to correct them and this correction should bring us a feeling of connection attaining the Creator everything, maybe I don't get your question.
S. Is there a certain quota that we have to fill up in our lives?
R. Of course, because all of the records come from all the records come from all the shattering and until I correct all the Reshimot, I can't come to my own correction, to my own end of correction and it is the same for each and every one.
36. S. (01:13:37) The Reshimot are revealed and how can we synchronize our activities in the 10 so we can come together to the revelation of the new Reshimot?
R. The synchronization is not important, our problem is to yearn together to the state where we are united.
37. S. (01:14:05) Does the 10 have a collective Reshimot?
R. There are all kinds of Reshimot just like there are infinite forms of connection between each one and the others around him.
Excerpt 6 RABASH, Article No.29 (1986), “Lishma and Lo Lishma”
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38. S. (01:16:33) Gratitude to the Creator for giving us the opportunity to perform corrections, are these excerpts with the ten together what corrections are we working on personal or the general correction?
R. We wish to keep the connection that is broken and Reshimot appears from nowhere, but from between us where we have a connection between us in the system of Adam and this connection was shattered and we need to demand this connection, we are asking only for that as we care only for that. We can do something only around this broken connection between us.
S. Thank you, you have managed to make us bring more love between us.
39. S. (01:17:46) What is the connection between the bodies, the friends I sit here between me and the shattering, the pieces that were broken? When Reshimot awakens, what does it mean that it is between the pieces of my ten? Why is it not between me and a friend in another location?
R. This world is called the imaginary world. We can be in different states of connection although we lack the spiritual connection and it helps us to come closer to the truth. Even if we don't understand, that's we don't know exactly the laws of connection between us in spirituality but that in awakening we can have some connection with them, like a baby who knows nothing about his life but he is being cared for, we give him everything he needs and this is how he advances and we are the same.
S. Reshimot, is this something that exists from the beginning where there was a vessel that broke,
so why does its correction happen inside the ten regardless of who the friends are, is it a friend's representation out of the breaking?
R. There is only one ten and for the sake of correction it is divided into many many tens and in truth it doesn't matter in what connection we perform the corrections. This ten or another ten we don't want to decide on it and it is not important to us because at the end of the day we are correcting one ten where we are all incorporated as one man and one heart into ten bodies, one body, it all appears to us. It is not important to me, but if you say this all of the 10s, you'll have a big mess the day after, so this is why we determined the ten and we decide on our behavior towards connection and we need to be drawn toward it as there is nothing more than that. The spiritual work is only in that and it is hard for us to digest it, to agree with it as it is truly difficult to aim ourselves towards it. We come out of the lesson I am by myself, what then? There is nothing, nothing. It is a problem you have to try and help one another and not forget about it.
40. S. (01:21:14) How do I convey the right intention to the friends, our actions are part of this?
R. Yes, in ascents our work in the ten is performed in actions written by the Kabbalists and you can see that these physical actions we can take in order to perform spiritual actions. Our world is actually very special, we can perform corporeal actions and not to cause, but to make some spiritual corrections, to bring about some spiritual corrections and not to do them ourselves. It's not like I'm doing something, but that I am a catalyst for it that I advanced myself towards inner spiritual corrections and the difference between spirituality and corporeality is that spirituality takes place in the desire to bestow and this is called faith above reason.
Excerpt 7 RABASH, Article No.27 (1989), “What is the Meaning of Suffering in the Work?”
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41. S. (01:24:40) What is the difference between a descent in this world and a spiritual descent? How can I help a friend turn that into an ascent?
R. For that you need Rabash’s articles, but in a word, I will tell you, you can help a friend through an example that is the most beneficial as you are setting an example for the correct behavior.
42. S. (01:25:42) How do I make the ten pressure me to be corrected, do I have to ask them to show me where I'm wrong or should they always be nice to me?
R. No, you also have to have some criticism, different states as so there won't be such, that you erase all of the problems and you wish to be only in a pretty state. You need to know, it says, A Wise Man has his Eyes in his Head, what does it mean? It means that he can see that he doesn't hide from himself, where is he, what is going on with him and that is how we need to behave.
S. So I can ask this of them also?
R. Yes, but it is better that you read about it.
43. S. (01:26:57) According to what it is written here, what does it mean that a person has to look for deficiencies in the spiritual states that he is in?
R. I'm not going to criticize the others but rather I need to see by myself where I am still not finished according to the work, in a complete way. This is the meaning of the old person who is walking hunched over as if he'd lost something, as if he's looking for something that he's lost, there's an article Rabash about it you should read. It is very beautiful.
44. S. (01:28:06) It is written, (translation missing)
R. For a person to truly have the correct deficiencies he needs connection, he needs a screen and then, the Creator gives him that and if you have a deficiency and it is covered with the screen the Creator fills it with His presence, with His light.
45. S. (01:28:55) We meet friends during the day to read from the materials and some friends do not come to the morning lesson. Does this show that our prayer is not complete?
R. What can I tell you, try nonetheless to affect them as much as you can, but I don't know why you call them friends, what makes them for when do they connect with you in the ten?
S. In our intention.
R. What do you mean in your intention, they don't come to any connection in the group so they are not in a group. If they don't come to the morning lesson, what do they come to? To what assembly do they come to? I don't understand why you think about them being your friends.
46. S. (01:30:28) It is written that if the Creator won't help you will be lost?
R. Yes.
S. So it turns out that in any state a person goes through darkness, anger, if the Creator won't help him, meaning the Creator gives him a reminder to turn to Him?
R. The Creator always helps, it's just not in the way a person thinks and that means if He doesn't help him that he is lost. It is simple, we need to demand from the Creator what we deserve according to the direct line to the end of correction and then we will also feel that the Creator accordingly relates to us.
47. S. (01:31:39) You said our biggest problem is this pressuring and all of the friends are asking questions from different 10’s. I’m wondering if it would help us all together, all of the tens together, to gather and start brainstorming, what can we do to overcome this situation?
R. Overcoming is very simple, only by example and when every ten has to be an example for the whole world Kli, for all of the tens, for all human beings, be an example that is the most important thing. Try to make an effort to build yourself to be this.
S. How can we show that we are the example, not in hiding, we can't show this example unless we're together with all of the tens?
R. You don't understand what I am saying, with whatever you do in the connection between yourselves, when you are connected, that you do want to reach a connection, a spiritual connection between yourselves, that you learn together, you meet during the day, at this, be an example and show this example to everyone, to others as much as possible and it doesn't matter if the others are also into it. Whenever you give an example to the others this way you strengthen the vessel and you also awaken Reshimot between the tens as we also have to reach that.
S. Would it be good for our ten to pray that the other tens achieve this?
R Of course what would be better than that, asking for someone else. If you and your ten will start connecting and praying for other tens then you will advance a lot because He who Prays for his Friend is Awarded First.
48. S. (01:35:02) The ascents and descents that we go through, are there corrections being made during them?
R. Of course, there is nothing in the world that happens without corrections, everything is corrections.
S. How do we recognize these corrections as happening as most seem to happen without our recognition?
R. You should accept them as is, as you hear it, if you see it, you will corrupt it because you would do it according to your ego and the fact that you don't see it helps you to relate to them in a way which is a bit more spiritual, in bestowal.
S. Is that like annulling before it?
R. Yes.
49. S. (01:36:18) What should we do with the knowledge that our path takes many years, that this won't slow us down, how do we overcome these thoughts?
R. We have to work on that and this is why we are together, this is why the Creator broke the vessel so that you don't even have a ten, that you can bring the shattering up to the tens because in spirituality 1 means 10. So why did you do that? So that we will have the opportunity to personally work on it, each and every one.
S. So how to postpone the implementation?
R. That is by each one pushing the others, each one pushes the others to realize.
50. S. (01:37:42) How to search for new deficiencies?
R. If we connect between ourselves, we are in the right direction of connection between ourselves and by that we will cause the new records to be revealed. That is how it works.
51. S. (01:38:43) In our group there are many friends that participate in the 10s connections during the day and we're about 15 friends, part of them are also the connection duty but they're our friends that don't come to the lesson every day or they come a bit maybe for an hour, so it is not clear what our attitude to that should be?
R. I don't know what to tell you, it barely happens. I think maybe it was twice during the twelve years with Rabash that I didn't attend the lesson, twice. All the rest of the times I was always in the lesson, all the time in the lesson.
S. There is a question about how to organize the ten, let's say there are two friends who come every day and some that come every now and then and if I'm one that comes every day what should be my attitude towards this?
R. It is a problem because our lesson is not simply studying physics or mathematics, we are learning the spiritual actions that we have to go through and later when this is what we engage in during the day we are talking out of what we have learned in the morning lesson. The materials that we study here in the morning lesson we can't go over in any other place or in any other way because it is an assembly of excerpts that are organized in a very good way. The friends have worked on it for many hours and if we don't go over it together and together with the teacher there is no benefit later. I can't just read it later and understand to be impressed internally, not at all. I don't know what to tell you. In such a case I raise my hands and tell you that these people who don't come to the morning lesson, I don't take care of them. I don't take care of these people who don't come to the morning lesson, they can do whatever they want to do of course that is their business. But we must not hear them as they can come during the day and start organizing all kinds of things and tell us, but I don't want to hear these people. If he is not in the morning lesson, he is not a man for me, he is not a friend, not a student for me.
S. So what do I do now, I come every day and I hear you saying this, that whoever doesn't come every day or partially comes to the lesson he is not a friend, he is not a man, should I leave my ten, go to a different ten?
R. I don't know, these decisions are not mine and just as I haven't connected to you and the tens I don't know, there are guys in charge, ask them. I don't want to be connected to a person ….no translation ... I'm not saying that we should throw them, God forbid, wait and give them time until they assemble and they somehow take part. But as a friend, Haver, is from the word connection Chibur, there is no such thing that he is my friend, how is he my friend, what actions is he doing? There is nothing to do about it, just to move on to TES.