Morning Lesson November 02, 2021 Transcription
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Part 1:
Baal HaSulam. Shamati 45. Two Discernments in the Torah and in the Work
Preparation For The Morning Lesson - Workshop Questions:
1. Rav’s Introduction: With respect to man the attitude to the Creator can't be simple, it is always complex because on the one hand, also with respect to parents perhaps we can liken it that there is both love and fear. On one hand there's a difference in the degrees and you are under the rule of the upper one and it is because you are already in the will to receive and it determines your attitude to it. By Nature you depend on it and this dependency is egoistic, even if you transition it to a different kind of attitude you are still dependent, you are not free. Therefore fear, there is corporeal fear that you depend on where you came from, that he will always be initial, that he is first and last, after the detour that passes through us it all comes back to him. Here we have a dependency that we are under control such that we can't even describe.
It is possible that we attain some of him but is it really true, we don't know. It's like a baby who thinks that it is independent but it is completely under the rule of his parents and here is the question, how can it be dependent on the parents and yet in a free conscious way feel that it has free choice, free action. That he can benefit them, it is like about the Creator that is first and last, the created being also should reach a state where he says I'm first and I'm last otherwise the adhesion won't be free, it will be like a master and a slave. In our work, besides the work there is also Torah which means that we receive forces and discernments from the Creator in order to rearrange our attitude correctly to the Creator but also we can't learn who the Creator is. We only learn him according to how he created us, we never attain him. When we say the Creator, Boreh, come and see, we come to attain the connections between us, the relationship between us and this is how we can better and better describe who is the upper force that created us.
This is called by your actions we know you and through his actions in us and human society and everything we get to know the emotion and the mind, the force that created everything. That gives us some attainment of the Creator if we can even call it as such, some depiction of the Creator. In our work there is the matter of Torah that we attain and also work that we do and out of both we ultimately compose our relation to the Creator and when we do from composing it we build the image of the Creator. It's not really the image, it is the Essence of the Creator within us to the extent we build ourselves to adapt ourselves to the unknown force in some subtle ways that we can adapt ourselves. What we end up with one we collect, what we are collecting is the opposites, the differences from the Creator but it is already something that is opposite and we try to convert it, to arrange it correctly. From these shatters we have to regroup them in the right connection and we come to what we realize which is the Creator, his Essence, his form, his relation towards us, what He is of himself we don't attain but with respect to us, that is what we can attain.
From arranging the relationships between us after the shattering that was prepared for us and when we correct that chattering then bit by bit from various points or details of the correction of the shattering is how we come to a state where we acknowledge the essence of the shattering. What was shattered here and how we have to correct it that is to bring it to correction, to connection, to some connection and some relationship and dependency that will happen between the pieces that they will enter a connection and complement each other. This complementation is truly a Godly matter, that this is where we find Godly wisdom, how each and every component is created through the other and how this is a great work that we can somewhat grasp through our universe, looking at how big it is and vast and shattered, yet connected with opposites that are interdependent. We have to see all of it as a single integrated system where there is no surplus, no deficiency of anything, not one atom, not one action is missing.
Everything is orchestrated, even though it seems to us so shattered, when we rearrange our mind and our emotion, when we connect all of that to a system which is a single desire and a single force that resides in that desire, we come to the state that precedes the shattering. This is called He and His name are one. That is why our work is a work that happens in several paths or directions. And that is because we are broken and we ultimately have to reach a state where the light and the vessel are equal, He and his name are one. He is the upper light, bestowal and love that resides in His name, which is the vessel, the will to receive that was created which receives the quality of the light, the quality of the Creator. And even though it is opposite of it, it is in the same direction of work and yearning and connecting as the Creator. These are things that are hard to explain, difficult to explain. What's interesting is that each time it comes out new as a person changes each time.
It is like in mathematics where you do the same equation needs time but the data in the equation changes then sometimes you even end up with a different approach where you need to solve the same formula with a different approach to what you solved it before, it all depends on the data that you are working with. Especially where our data in our case appears on a different level each time, still, vegetative, animate and speaking so it turns out that everything is changing. The Kabbalists advise us, those who already went through this path do not be overwhelmed by it because we are in it and it is not that we can look at it from above, it's not the wisdom of the world and that sense it is Godly wisdom meaning that we need to somewhat participate in it, to somewhat get an impression to understand something but just to enjoy being in it and be grateful to the Creator for this opportunity that we have received. The main thing is the approach that we wish to be included in his wisdom, included in his quality, this is what provides us with new vessels of bestowal that we are missing.
Then we begin to feel and after we feel we understand what we are going through, it's not that we understand first and feel later, we first have to feel. Because the true vessels are the will to receive and to the extent the will to receive participate in actions in favor and against, in different shapes and forms then accordingly it can understand things that it is going through. How much it is connected to that and even respond to it in different ways in favor and against to acquire a new approach above reason, new vessels of faith. We will try to advance this way. The main thing is we need to not long for the goal that much which is important but that we need to enjoy being part of these actions, like a baby being in his mother's hands, the mother is taking care of everything don't worry, she is taking care of it, but by giving ourselves to these actions and as much as we can become included in them, accordingly we allow and give the Creator the ability and the opportunity to enjoy us. With that we will feel “me for my beloved and my beloved is for me” with the pleasant reciprocity, the devotedness, with that we will feel the work of the Creator which is the Creator's work upon us.
Meaning if we think that we are supposed to do the work then our work is only as much as we can to be the right baby in these loyal caring hands and we enjoy the Creator taking care of us. The first concern that we need to have is that we enjoy the Creator's existence, that he is taking care of us and bringing us closer to him each and every moment and we want to first relieve ourselves from all concerns if we have the upper force. So developing a sense of fear is only in how much I can nullify myself against this upper force, do I come to a state, with all the problems and troubles and everything in my mind that I have, can I still be with all of that like a baby in its mother's hands. Do you understand that form of that, how much that is faith, devotion and participation.
2. S. (16:32) We all go through so many different states during the day and the Creator of blesses us with so many different feelings and calculations, the question is how can I even though it's not much of a choice, a lot of times with the hands tied down I want to thank the Creator but my ego wants to please the friends, what is the importance of the states where you have your hands tied down to please the friends as much as possible because there's no love to the Creator without the friends?
R. Even though I don't understand the question that well I still have to kind of put it together and answer, we have to try to first see the end. In the end of this question-and-answer part, I have to achieve some partial adhesion, somewhat so in my state I have to reveal the deficiencies, what is preventing me from that. What do I need to achieve that and how do I need to connect positive and negative things so they interconnect like a plug, and outlet, like something black and something that goes into it, one thing goes into the other and completes the other, so if I try to do that and then I see is that there are many questions and problems and all kinds of things that I can't put together. So how do I do it? By the force of faith as it says it's not up to you to finish the job but you are not free to idle from it, so as much as I can I tried to put together all of these things that I stumble upon in the path in my mind and my heart to justify the providence of the Creator in each and every moment.
Along with that I realize it is not up to you to finish the job, meaning certainly you will be left with some portions, areas that you can't do anything about. What do you do, you keep them, they remain, you let them be. These are things that relate to your participation in the whole global Kli. In each and every individual action that we do there is always a part that does not end, that is open, that is not closed and that is because we have to ultimately connect to the whole global Kli. Then who knows what happens, maybe the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Millennium will open up other worlds because ultimately we have a connection to infinity and so we have to try to do what is up to us and always leave room for the Creator. It says it is not up to you to finish the job, to complete the work that is a law that I do the action. That I do everything to see that this is what I understand, that is what I understand and ultimately what is it that I understand? That I am incapable, that I want to bring the plus and minus together, the opposite forces and it doesn't work out for me, never. It is never going to work out, it is like a child trying to put the square peg into the round hole, it is not going to work, so I leave it to the Creator.
Then that is how we advance as it says it is not up to you to finish the job, correct, not to finish it, not to worry about that. If I have done everything I am capable of, what is up to me. It is not a university or a school here where if I don't know something that I am thrown out ultimately to a lower class or I am expelled from school all together. Here everyone has a place and they come to the purpose of creation, the question with regards to what is up to us is how, whatever you are able to do you have to do and then what you see you are incapable of, fine. The Creator finishes it for me, I don't need to be the strongest and the wisest and more than the Creator, no. The engagement that we were given in this world it's so that each and every degree we will need the upper force and we will rise up to him more and more, feeling that we are incapable. This is also what is happening to us in this world with all of the diseases and crises, climate change and so on. It is in order to feel that we need the upper force that is in control of ultimately everything. That is all. No more than that, the moment we feel we understand that's how it is, let him work.
As it says, and there will be a day when he becomes King over all the Earth and Him and His name are one, this is what we need, not just at the end of the road but also in our work in each and every step. I hear that people can't, they don't remember, they don't know, with your mind and what you are incapable of and what you don't remember, with that you want to enter spirituality? That is ignorance as our mind doesn't even enter the spiritual world, the spiritual dimension, there is a different reality, different laws, another dimension. Therefore we just have to do what we are told and if we can't then the one who gave us this work in advance knew that we can't do it, but why did he give it to us?
So that we ultimately discover that we can't and that we need him like a child who is doing some things and then he cries to his mother and says it's not working out, that is the desired result. This is what we as humanity, all of us are like a child trying to do something with her own mind and look what is happening, another mistake and another trouble and we try to develop and invest so much, talking seriously about the things that we do in the world, in our plans and our programs for the future, we're going to build this or that and do this or that. In truth we come to a point already where what can we build, what can we do, what is going to be the result? The same as the past? The more that we understand how to approach the upper force, that is our success and how we will succeed.
3. S. (26:44) How does the perception of the corrected system influence one and the whole system and how is it important for each of us to desire for the state that is corrected for the whole system?
R. In the shattering each one is included with everyone else if so there is a matter here, if you correct the 10 then to some extent you are correcting the whole Kli, that is why first of all the group and the connection in the group is important for each and every one of us, By that we already correct the whole of Adam HaRishon and to that extent we already are registered in the final correction. That is what each and every one does, from the whole Kli that was shattered, now what is becoming revealed is a part of that Kli that can make the action of connection, if our tens, let's say we have 1000 tens in the world, how many do we have all over the world? About 700 tens, so the Creator sorts out all of this and with that we are going to advance.
If we are advancing then we are first, our problem right now, the challenge right now is how are we going to connect ourselves inside the tens with all of the troubles and these troubles are not just our troubles but they are troubles that exist in all of humanity. Still when we connect each time we achieve a certain connection in Adam HaRishon, and then we separate because new records appear in us and then we do it again, we think we are unsuccessful but it is not that we are unsuccessful. If new states arise from the shattering of separation, something opposite it, is an indication that we have succeeded in this state before and so we are given new problems. Each and every time more and more we have to work on that and that is basically for the whole of humanity. It is for the whole of humanity.
4. S. (30:09) How can we define the part of the work that I need to leave to the Creator and not be stubborn and try to do everything with my forces?
R. What kind of work you mean that you don't need to do, you have to do as it says whatever your ability allows you to do, you have to do but you do what is up to you and what is up to you is do something simple that is right in front of you. You have a 10, organize them in your heart so that they are all connected. Try to relate to them in such a way that they are standing in your heart, of course each one stands there in his own different way, different from the others and you wish to discover The binding force, the common force between them, the common mind and desire, inclination that is what you wish to renew each time not that it is constant each time. You recognize that these things become corrupted each and every time and therefore they go through changes and that is why each and every moment there is start and stop, there is disconnect and then you work on connecting, another disconnect and you work on connecting. Like Baal Shem Tov said 200 to 400 disconnects and connections that happened within minutes this is like it is within our technology if you are moving forward you're moving to a higher frequency.
5. S. (32:12) In the introduction I heard you say we have to come to this state like the Creator who is the first and the last, what does it mean to be the first and the last?
R. in a simple way there is a lot because in each and every moment our whole vocabulary changes, first and last meaning that everything comes from the Creator and he accompanies us in the solutions that he provides to the problems that he is bringing us as well as leading us to the outcome. There is no place where we are alone which might seem to us to be the case, the adhesion with the Creator in each and every moment in life doesn't matter what happens but that I wish to do everything only to the extent that I can be bonded with him with the conditions that he is giving me and it could be very bad conditions for adhesion where I have nothing and I am confused emotionally and I feel bad even yet I have to make an effort. Then it turns out that I reached a stage where the Creator is first and last and there is none else besides Him and he transitions me from state A to state B, from the first to the second state. In this I advance. That he is first and last means I tried to be an adhesion with him and all the states.
6. S. (34:22) The Creator himself, we do not attain only what we managed to attain inside of us, it sounds and feels like it is too little, how can we work with that and give myself as a baby to it?
R. I will ask you in return, show me an example in feeling and understanding, or attainment that we have here in our world where we all feel and experience, show me that we attain anything differently? How? Even our attainment in this world comes from something that we experience in our emotion and we attain whatever it is that we feel.
S. How do I cancel myself before something that is not attained in me?
R. There is no problem, I have a group and I cancel myself toward the group because I understand if we want to achieve some perception higher than myself, a higher perception than myself is a collective perception, a collective perception not that I am some egoistic spike but that rather a group of people who can cancel their ego and connect above the ego through a common mind, and emotion, they are greater than me. I am speaking about this in a rational down-to-earth manner, why can't we? The question itself is unrealistic, think about it as we are always speaking about this.
7. S. (36:47) You said the Creator is letting us feel that every single degree we need to be dependent on him, the Creator doesn't want us to be independent. Why should we be dependent?
R. He gives us a seemingly independence but we above the independence that he gives us we have to be more connected to him. Connected or dependent on him doesn't mean that we completely nullify, we nullify above the qualities in mind and heart that he develops within us, I become stronger, greater, wiser, more sensitive and more knowledgeable. All of these things I want to arrange in such a way that I will relate them more to the Creator and direct them to the Creator so that all of my growth is toward the Creator, for the Creator himself. Why do I want to understand and feel and grasp him more and more? In order to give myself to him above what I feel and understand, above the mind and the heart. Then I discover him there.
S. In the process the Creator wants us to be independent all together without being dependent on him?
R. The Creator wants us to be independent as if without being dependent on him, let's say so. It's not that you are independent from him, you want to resemble him because you have nothing else to take an example for there's no other force than the Creator you have received everything from him and you take an example from him. So build yourself to be like him and then you become Adam, man, human.
8. S. (39:45) In this regard what does it mean the Creator finishes it for me?
R. All the actions we do the Creator will complete for me that eventually I don't decide anything, I don't understand or feel anything, that I receive it all from the Creator and I come specifically through my intellectual and emotional development in fear and love into such states that develops myself through the steps. Altogether I understand the extent in which I have to nullify, but this nullification I acquire according to the extent of my understanding and feeling and the extent of my attainment and as much as I understand and feel more and am adhered more to the Creator. Specifically, according to that we attain adhesion, we were all babies and then children and then we were youths, we grew, we have families and children and now we think about our parents, about our mother let's say to the extent she invested in us. So when can I be more adhered to Mother where I, let's say now I am 75 and I am reminded of how she cared for me with loyalty and love. Until we come to such degrees that are similar somewhat to being like our parents, we cannot appreciate their work and certainly it is the same with the Creator. Only to the extent we grow can we resemble him. Maybe you can take such an example.
9. S. (42:38) You said we come from the shattering in order to connect to reach the quality of Adam we have to reach the desire to connect with everyone?
R. We cannot be in the general connection of Adam, meaning the one big will to receive, it needs to be completely shattered and intermixed completely with the desire to bestow as this desire enters into the will to receive under the control of the desire to receive and then the desire to receive uses the desire to bestow in all kinds of forms for the benefit of reception. We start to feel dependent on one another and connected as each one is to benefit from the other and we open all kinds of businesses as we say to go and earn off of each other and from that egotistical connection between us we begin the corruption which is actually the first degree of connection. We build throughout the Millennia, human society where everyone battles and kills each other and tries to lie to one another. Then we come to a state where it's better for us not to kill each other because when I kill I don't have who to work with egotistically, so on the contrary I only want them to be below me and I feel that it is not good because they you can't work properly and give me what I want, they need to be more developed also. So I start to care for the company and the societies in the world, the nations on the earth to develop and begin instead of quarreling and killing one another, to start trading with one another to go and profit off of one another. A certain intermingling starts to take place between those two shattered forms from external ways to more internal ways. International trade begins, science and so on until we come to our world which is actually according to our intellect, we need to understand that we are not allowed to battle or to kill one another because we are actually delaying our development, we are not reaching the purpose of creation. If you look at Earth its purpose is for everyone to mix and to be codependent as much as possible and people don't yet understand that. Development happens with us according to the laws of nature and not according to what people decide there and all kinds of committees and organizations. We are coming to a stage where people will understand that the best incorporation between everyone is where each is like in the form of a family, the right final egoistic form is where we all behave like in a family, where I bring home the money that I earned and the whole home enjoys from it. That is how it can be in all of humanity that we all care this way or try to care this way and then from this we will come to the next degree. Our ego is constantly growing and we will need to take care of it eventually but together with the connection between us.
10. S. (47:49) We are praying to build our prayer that the Creator will corrupt us in the lesson preparation. But let's say nothing happens, is there a way to rise to the degree of the operator that I will be the operator and then something will change? Is it possible to rise to that level?
R. How can you compel the Creator to connect between you? Think about it, as this is the main thing. How can we obligate the Creator to connect between us as he broke us and we are demanding from us to connect between us and when we succeed in our demand for him to connect between us this is called that my sons have defeated me. I broke them and they are asking for me to connect them, this is the whole point and what happens between the shattering and the connection that we get to know the Creator every step along the way as we move from the shattering to the connection. Throughout the whole path we need to understand who we are and who the Creator is and how we connect, whether we make mistakes or not, we scrutinize these things by what we can unite the force of bestowing is not enough.
We don't have it, we turn to him and ask and demand to arrange this before us as we want this in order to be connected, in order to bring him contentment, to return to the state Adam HaRishon where he and his name or one. Where we together as one with you are together and complete final adhesion and this is how we go through the stages of development together. So see how he is arranging for you the new conditions may be more difficult. But for you to need to ask him, just to demand and connect from him, between us, this is what a 10 needs to do. Then a 10 operates on a 10 that way as the upper light is in absolute rest, just like you are on a frying pan on the stove, on the hot fire it all depends on how you flipped yourself on the fire that is how you are preparing yourself. The upper light is there and it is operating on all sides, it all depends on how we want to be connected and the upper light to the extent we are connecting between us accordingly operates. That is according to what works and it all depends on the preparation.
S. We can mention in the prayer the names of the friends who came to the preparation of the preparation?
R. You can do everything you decide and feel will help you in a more beneficial appeal to the Creator and eventually everything boils down to the prayer and the address to the Creator.
11. S. (52:05) What should the group add to its collective something to increase longing for the Creator?
R. Yearning and love every day he needs to add that is what I search according to yesterday what I can add today, add demand to the Creator. Add feeling understanding and awareness without the Creator we won't be able to, that he is actually first and last. He broke the vessel and he has to erect it.
12. S. (53:12) You said to read again the articles of Shamati between us and to share between us. That when we share between us, our views and opinions we can't confuse each other so isn't this dangerous for our soul?
R. We don't talk so much between us about what each one feels and understands, we talked about how we can connect between us, meaning I'm not looking inside what I have inside of me I am looking on the point of connection that there is outside of me, to the friends, that is what we talked about more.
S. He related to how we read the Shamati articles between us during the day so when we read the article and then we speak and we share our discernment about what we read, can my personal discernments confuse the friends?
R. It could be that it's confusing but it also connects and it can't be that we will talk in a nice and some kind of clarified finite way between us, no. Rather what can we do as we are all in the shattering, each one speaks from their shattered vessels. None of us is corrected or right or righteous. Nevertheless, we need to understand this and relate to each other in the correct way as this is our vessel. Let's say if my friend is talking nonsense then first of all I need to see in this two things, first of all that it is natural that he is talking nonsense and it is also natural that I hear nonsense from him and also it is a natural thing that in such a way we still relate to one another because we are in the shattering.
I have yet to hear from a mother that her baby is a fool or stupid, really I have never heard that. On the contrary I hear he's wise, he understands, he feels, he is really trying to answer me with all of his movements he can't even talk yet but you look at him and see the eyes and the expressions. Look at what a mother thinks when she looks at this lump of flesh, something that you buy in the store like a piece of meat. But how impressed she is by him, it all depends on love. So if you look at your friend and you understand that you are seeing in him repulsive forms to you then your ego is not letting you see the beauty in the friend. Because if in place of you, the form of Bina, the upper Ima would be here, she would be impressed by him of how beautiful and wise he is and how much he is growing and you are like that. We need to see these negative things and to picture positive things that need to be. This is called love will cover all crimes in the gap between that which I depict in my ego, in Malchut and that which I can picture in my desire to bestow in Bina, if I can cover, make a sandwich with Malchut and Bina, then from that I grow and raise the friend as well. This is how we left ourselves, therefore this is how I work.
13. S. (58:46) To what extent if we relate the right relationship above reason can it bring the world to a state closer to a state of peace?
R. Above reason really leads us to peace as peace is Shlemut, completeness, it can't be that we want to sign some documents or contracts about climate or peace, we understand that there is no concept of peace there. As peace is called perfection where we can depict it to ourselves the next state that we want to reach and we agree on the steps that we can use in order to get to that state and we call this whole, complete state, meaning that we complete each other as we each concede for in the connection between us we can build a more whole state and this is called peace.
14. S. (01:00:24) How can we be happy even during the period of yearning and longing?
R. There is an article where he says a person that perceives blows maybe it's from the introduction to TES where it's too bad that he gave me five blows instead of 10, as if I know through the blows that I benefit, if I know that through these tears I am advancing and coming closer, then for me the blows and tears are medicine. Just like we pay a doctor that performs surgery and cuts open your body and starts doing something there like some kind of mechanic with the machines he cuts and throws out and connects, we understand that this is how it needs to be. Therefore for that suffering we pay and we only consider the result of that work. We have many such things in life that if I go to study now, I studied for 20 years, so what do I have in this life in those twenty years? Did I enjoy that? Certainly not, for what? So that later I will be able to use it, same here I can't be any other way, you can't do it any other way.
S. Sometimes I'm really turning crazy because you shattered me the Creator and I want to be corrected. I want to be in constant connection with you and I don't want to be separated even one second. I want this and He has to fulfill me.
R. Nice, do you come to states where he can do that? According to what I understand of the Creator he is willing, the problem is that you don't have a vessel.
S. How can I have a vessel?
R. The correct desire, a vessel is called I want to be filled with that which the Creator wants to give see, the Creator wants to give only the force of bestowal because that is what there is as the force of reception only existing us, this small force of reception, so we will feel how disconnected and contradicted we are and that we will want to invert it. The force of bestowing the fulfillment is actually the fulfillment of the Creator, opposite of our world so we need to prepare ourselves for this. Our preparation is in the 10 as it is written about this in every place, look in the Book of Zohar, love your friend as yourself everyone in the world agrees to that first. I don't have anything more to bring to you, only the things that you can read everywhere. Other than that if you read in English as I understand then you have the entire Wisdom of Kabbalah in English translated. You can take all of the Zohar books in English and see there everything, to correspond in English also there with them.
S. You say the main thing is connection in the 10 so I have to turn to them to serve them with intention to my 10 and then in that place I get the frequency?
R. Yes, specifically in the 10 even though it appears to us as the path that leads us to the spiritual world what is there in the 10 for the spiritual world, none of it is spiritual, they're all broken, they all appear to me as less than me. Automatically everyone feels that way to the others and the situation is known that this is how it is with each and every one so what can the 10 add for me? In truth in the 10 none of them can add anything for me as the connection between us that we want to build, that is the new thing that does not exist in reality. In it we need to build above the rejection between us as each of us has different forms of rejection to others and we need to understand that we must be in one desire to the Creator, in one yearning to the Creator. Only in such a way will we build the vessel that the Creator will begin to fill and to be in this more and more, try like this a few days and you will see the extent that you also discover that you are building a new reality that didn't exist before.
15. S. (01:07:43) From our lesson I understand that we will never reveal the Creator himself but only his relation to us?
R. You can reveal the Creator, it is a concept that is called, Boreh, come and see, where if you build the vessel of bestowal and you work with it you will discover what the Creator is and to that extent you are adhered to him, because you made him. The Creator doesn't exist, he only exists to the extent which the creature makes him, invites him to be revealed otherwise the Creator does not exist.
S. So what is the difference in discovering his relation and Him, the Creator?
R. You can discover his attitude without revealing him because he spins all reality, you reveal him to the extent you build qualities that resemble him and then you discover that you build something that is called Boreh, come and see, Creator.
16. S. (01:09:18) Is opening your heart in the 10 despite anything that can appear between the friends is this showing the Creator how much we want to make the connection?
R. First of all it is best to be with an open heart in the 10 no matter what, don't worry whether you're giving an example that maybe it's not correct or something, open and see what is happening to you with this. The friends also will receive this gradually. Just do it in a way that is accepted.
17. S. (01:10:06) In what constant search do we have to be like a radar to perceive reality correctly to get to know the Creator?
R. No, I don't need to be like that towards reality whether I know or understand, like the astronomers who are looking up in the skies four things amongst the stars, I don't need to work that way and there's nothing to search there for. I look inside the society and want for us to come as close as possible to one another and of course every moment I feel the extent to which we are distancing from one another and then I understand that I am in this work with the Creator. We're more am I in contact with the Creator, by me wanting to bring all the friends closer to be as one man in one heart and by the Creator constantly making our hearts tougher and harder and distancing us in such a way. By distancing us from one another he is doing his work and the fact that we are in the group do opposite work by bringing ourselves closer to one another we are against him. Therefore this concept is called a help against him where when the Creator distances between us in such a way he helps us to invest our forces in connection until we will accumulate all of these forces and he says that's it, the sons have defeated me and we have reached connection and the total of the Creator between us.
18. S. (01:12:23) What does it mean that the Creator works with us, what is the work of the Creator?
R. He is engaging in us all the time, it depends on our sensitivity to this as much as we want in the connection between us to build the image of the Creator, the force of bestowing, love, connection and participation then accordingly we will start to feel how he gives us also forces against it. That evokes our ego. I have created the evil inclination and then in the connection between us, as we want to unite on one hand, because we are told that this is the solution for our lives. We also feel together with that, the extent to which we are opposite and don't want. In these two forces, one is that we want to come closer to one another because by that we are closer to the Creator and the second in the rejection and that we get from one another because that's what the Creator does to us. He wants to bring us to a state where we will increase the force of connection between us to the extent we will have the force of rejection and above that the force of connection in a sufficient way to the spiritual degree and for us to persist in this. Then between these two states of rejection and connection is called the force of clashing, the force of coarseness in a degree and above that the force of restriction, screen and reflected light in a degree, upon these things we are included by those two we will start to discover contact with the Creator and in that we will understand how we can be connected to him. You feel how we gradually are building our attitude to the Creator, our relation and connection between us and the Creator so that the matter of our work, our spiritual work is coming closer, more and more to the work in a spiritual Partzuf.
19. S. (01:15:18) Why does the will to receive have so many forms?
R. We need to see the structure of Adam HaRishon, there are four phases in there, and then 10 Sefirot. Afterwards these 10 Sefirot are divided into spheres of bestowing and reception and they are interconnected and intertwined between them until we reach their shattering. When we reach their shattering they are in the mixture between them in different kinds of incorporations. Then we need to correct them. These phases, these discernments, how do we connect? According to the qualities in them and to the extent that they could be above those qualities; that is why here we have many, many states. The qualities are not much but the states are. We need to try and aim all these states into connections between us. Why is it so many? Because the vessel when it wants to reach an adhesion with the Creator it must be shattered into very, very small parts. Except for that it needs to be mixed, that we will do work and scrutiny of what connects to what, and suits what? And then how we start connecting these to those, You understand it's like you're being in front of a big box with marbles or little blocks but here, it is millions of them. You start sorting them out. These are circles, these are squares, these are triangles, these are those and such and such and after you deal with them for a bit you understand why they are so different. Specifically for them to be able to connect between them, but what can teach one to connect?
Because once you start sorting them out, you understand that no one can connect to one another so what will be there? Only when each one annuls himself towards the other in that point of annulment between them, can they connect. Otherwise there will be corners between them and there cannot be a connection there. So each one is willing from that little point, that corner that doesn't want to connect to the other, he is willing to make it into a socket; here please come into me I'm willing to accept you, and the other does that too he is willing to accept the first one and In such a way that is called the recognition of evil, that is already a very great and exalted state where they ask for the forces of Correction that they will be given an ability, all those forms and shapes in that big box, that they will have an ability to connect to one another. When they start connecting they understand that they don't know how to connect.
Where will I find my partner now to connect with him? How should I do it? Then the work of scrutiny starts and then the work of Correction and in this way, eventually we all connect. But this is all under the condition that we don't throw away that connection between us but understand that our future is in that connection, between us; I do not need to love his face and the way he expresses himself and his language and so on, I only want to locate in myself where he has desires that I can fill, also to open myself to whomever wants to feel me. That is it. Then it turns out that on one hand of creation, on one side of creation there's the Creator sending all the fillings through us, and we are connected between us, and through us all this light flows and goes back to the Creator in order to bestow to Him. That is how we are incorporated in Him.
20. S. (01:21:39) They say that the Creator is permanent and unchanging, how can our prayers influence something that is permanent and unchanging?
R. The Creator Himself: there is none else besides Him, is a constant force and we cannot cause anything to It. But we affect ourselves and our prayers on ourselves. That is what it means to pray, Lehitpallel, in Hebrew that word comes from the word to frame myself, to judge myself, that I'm correcting myself, that I am bringing myself closer to the Creator. That is what the word Lehitpallel means. It’s not that we are asking from Him, who can we ask from? He's entirely the good that's good to begin with. You cannot do anything with it; you prepare yourself to accept from Him, that is actually the result of a prayer. Did you become worthy of getting corrections and fulfilment from Him.
21. S. (01:22:55) How can we correctly depict the purpose of creation to do good to the created beings if from the beginning we are in the wrong perception of reality?
R. Obviously we do not need to know what the purpose of creation is and they do not let us see it, because we would not be able to understand it or attain it. No. The thing is if we now would feel and understand the form of the purpose of the creation, the form of the final correction, everybody would have run away. Everybody would run away because that is called that I am working for everybody and I'm not demanding anything for myself and I am willing to be devoted and serve everyone, without any compensation; that is how I see my work, my purpose, my life. That is why, in that way we advance. I'm telling you I'm not afraid that you will run away because I know you will forget about it in a second. But still to come closer to that state and to practice meaning to just relinquish everything in the next moment. That is something that we need the upper force, the upper light for it and then we will be ready for it.
That is why it is concealed from us and thank God that the Creator hides the spiritual World from us, because otherwise we wouldn’t have any chance to reach Him because our ego would show us; look what they want to give you that is what you want? And obviously we would not want it, and we would agree with the ego a hundred percent. So the concealment is for us, it is a correction. Clear? It is like a child that goes to first grade in school, he doesn't know that he has 10 years before him, he cannot even imagine it. He is not able. But if he was able, what he would tell his parents, you didn't tell me that there will be 10 more years of this that I would have to go through every day. What is this, it is not school, it is prison. I don't want to be there. I have a yard where I can play my ball. What do you mean I have to go to school and sit there all the time? That is why all these things are concealed from us; everything that is concealed from us, is for our good.
22. S. (01:26:42) I heard you talking about this common mind, what is the common mind that we have to use in our 10 in relation to the Creator?
R. Common mind. Well we don't have that yet. Common mind, common feeling, that what comes later on, when we start connecting between us and build the Sefirot of the Partzuf. Soon.
23. S. (01:27:21) Are we getting the force to bestow when we correct our intention towards bestowal? Can we receive the force of bestowal when our intention is still for ourselves?
R. Either this is a very sneaky question or whoever is asking it, doesn't understand exactly what he's asking. We have to go simple. Try and ask for the forces to bestow for anything possible, and do not do any calculations on it, because if I start calculating about the force of bestowal so I ruin it. It has to be in faith above reason. The moment I see that I am scrutinizing bestowal; so I have to rise above it towards bestowal without the scrutiny. I don't know how to say this. I don’t have the words right now.
24. S. (01:28:55) If we build, make the Creator and He doesn't exist, then who are we asking from?
R. It is not that we are creating the Creator and that he doesn't exist for now. So what does exist? The Creator, in the words Bo Re [come and see] that we need to build Him from our bestowal; that doesn't exist, that form. But still, there is an upper force that we turn to and with His help we build that upper force in us, to the extent that He is in us. That is what we are saying about Bo Re [come and see]. Usually when I say Creator, God, all those names I turn to the force which is above me. And when I turn to the Bore, when I mean Bo Re, I'm already speaking about the force in me. Building the quality of bestowal in me, Bo Re [come and see].
25. S. (01:30:13) Is the condition for coming out of shattering, a common feeling for everyone?
R. No. We do not go out instantly and together from the shattering. Each one according to his exertion. Even though we could be in one 10
26. S. (01:30:45) How do we scrutinize in the 10 whether or not we are making a mistake?
R. It doesn't matter to us if we are making a mistake or not. The important thing is to check the exertion, as much as we invest. Not as much as we succeed. A person can be very unsuccessful supposedly, on the outside but does a lot of inner work, and he is not giving the feeling that he is successful. There are all kinds of roles in the system of Adam HaRishon [the first man] to each and every one of us. That is why we can't see it like in our work in this world: that I'm doing this and this, and this, then I get a certain rank and if I do a few more things then I get a bonus in my salary. It doesn't have to be that way.
27. S. (01:32:00) If an action is spiritual it brings me closer to prayer?
R. Yes. Of course.
S. So how can we turn every action in this world into a prayer?
R. Usually, if we try to connect between us in a 10, we very quickly understand that except for prayer we have no other action. And all the actions that came before it, we're in order to bring us to that prayer.
28. S. (01:32:45) In the state of a baby he only needs to give pleasure to his mother, what actions in the 10 do we need to do in order to delight our spiritual mother?
R. To bring joy to the Creator, we can only do according to the equivalence of form; as much as we are in the forces of bestowal, the forces of Bina. That is the thing.
29. S. (01:33:21) Is the Creator only seeking a request for the connection between where is there more to understand the essence of the correction the form of connection questions
R. The essence of connections not really given to us now. We need to grow more and more like children who grow, when do they start understanding where they really are, or they really are or what they are doing. All of our work should be that we value our states. We understand that the Creator is beneficial here, he is leading us and that is the work. To give gratitude to the Creator for leading us.
30. R. (01:34:28) Tell me what do you do to prepare those questions?
S. We get a lot of questions and some of them need more translation and sometimes we need precise translation and there's a whole team that sorts them out according to the order according to groups one question from each 10 and if there's time will sort according to the content we asked for the topics that if we are discussing and we leave the other topics to the end.
R. I want to ask the woman, which part of you participates in the Preface lesson. Let's say now we were going to have the second part of the last how many women will remain for that second half and how many leave. And also from the men how many remain how many leave. Maybe they already have to go to work, or all kinds of errands. It doesn't matter, it doesn't, let's not get into the reasons. Let's have a survey here.
S. There's the story that the majority of men and women stay for the Preface.