Morning Lesson June 25, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Rabash 195. The Association of the Quality of Judgment with Mercy
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes we have two forces, the will to receive and the will to bestow. Both of them come from the Creator. One the Creator awakens according to His plan, this is the will to receive which awakens in each and every one and in all of us. The will to bestow is what we can already ask of the Creator, that He will give it to us, that He will have mercy over us, and He will bestow to us all kinds of different forms. These two different forces actually develop us, direct us, and lead us to the goal. With the right association between judgment and mercy, the force of reception and the force of bestowal, coarseness, and refinement we advance.
Reading Rabash 195 (01:46)
2. R. (06:43) This is not simple, there are many details here. We will read it again and we will try to understand what are these states that he is describing to us and later on we will ask questions.
Rav Continues Reading
3. R. (07:27) This means the association of judgment with mercy. These are two opposing forces that exist in nature that give us the ability to connect to the upper one, to a state that we do not feel that exists above our degree. So how is this done? How do we ascend from degree to degree?
4. R. (08:18) Meaning this is our purpose, this is what we should aspire to.
5. R. (08:51) Meaning the upper did this deliberately in order to hide Himself from the lower one so that the lower would think that there is nothing in reality above he feels and attains.
6. R. (10:17) This is what the person has, this is how a person feels. That he is under concealment in something that doesn’t really change doesn’t bring him any new emotion or mind and he thinks this is how the whole world is. The upper one even if He exists at all is not really so different and everything is in a static state, there are no changes. If he’ll remain this way then he will remain. Maybe the upper one will change something in respect to him but usually nevertheless that state that a person reaches, it comes to him so that he will overcome, so that he will change and will demand the change. So we need to see this place as a place for choice.
7. R. (12:12) That he doesn’t feel anything, not now, not in the future and then he begins according to his feeling; this is how he disqualifies his state. All the states of course come to us from the upper one so by this he is seemingly canceling the upper providence that comes to him. He nevertheless raises MAN, then he overcomes, then he asks for a change.
8. R. (15:05) Maybe we will scrutinize something?
9. S. It seems like the mechanics is clear, but I don’t understand how to add the ten into this scheme.
R. It is better if you think only of yourself not in the work but in the scrutiny for the time being on this article. Otherwise you will take a few things which are not so clear what to do with them and then you combine them together and it will become something like when you have a problem with unknown parameters and you are trying to find a solution, so that is not good. So don't bring it into the group before you understand what this is about because the group is one more element which is not so clear and each time we have to scrutinize it more and more.
10. S. (16:24) The article is called the association of judgment with mercy. It is not clear whether mercy is how you see how the upper raises Malchut and restricts. Where is the quality of mercy?
R. Because later on the upper one opens himself up and shines on the lower one. Both the quality of judgment and the quality of mercy are coming from the upper one, and the lower who is down below he only needs to determine his correct attitude both to the judgment and to the mercy. That both of them come from the upper one and the lower is in a state where it doesn’t matter to him what he receives. The most important is that through that he is connected to the upper one. This means that the right balance between judgment and mercy is when the lower one is adhered to the upper one. Again, the right balance, the right solution to this whole process is that the lower one receives both the concealment and the revelation. Meaning for him it does not matter what state he is in rather he is constantly adhered to the upper one. That everything comes from the upper one, it’s all for the benefit of the lower one and this is how he accepts it so that he is adhered to the upper one through all of these states.
S. But it says here toward the end that if he can combine faith and knowledge.
R. But this is the best of the person himself. That he inside of himself can receive darkness and light, judgment and mercy, it does not matter which actions these are from the upper one. If he receives them equally than he builds himself, and this is the middle line.
S. How can I receive it?
R. It does not matter to me what I receive, the most important thing is that I try to remain in adhesion with the upper one upon all of the states.
11. (19:11) In faith above reason what is faith and what is reason?
R. Reason is the will to receive, faith is the will to bestow. That I elevate myself from Malchut to Bina means that I elevate myself from reason to faith.
12. S. (19:46) We heard that it is better if you think about yourself not in the work but in scrutinizing the article otherwise you take several things and it’s not clear what to do with them.
R. Because you do not yet know all of the elements, the inputs that you have between you and the ten and so you might get confused. Yes, there are some things that are unclear in the article regarding the ten and it turns out that you are putting together a few formulas with states that are unknown and in this way you cannot solve it. Just like in mathematics you cannot combine a few formulas with multiple unknown factors, states, parameters in each one of them. So we want to solve these things in a clear way, this is what I meant.
S. Who am I in this article?
R. You, your will to receive out of which you want to know how you need to work, who you need to connect it with, the will to receive, and what then should you feel, what results in it should you feel.
13. S. (21:55) In the paragraph before the last that he says that the upper is also diminished and this is considered that the screen of Hirik is diminishing the upper one? The Tzimtzum, the restriction?
R. No, the upper makes a restriction but the restriction that comes from the upper one is that the upper one restricts Himself according to how He designs himself in relation to the lower one.
S. It says that the lower receives knowledge only to the extent of the faith. What is knowledge to the extent of the faith?
R. That he will have two lines so that he will be able to build the middle line.
S. Can you elaborate on this?
R. We first of all need to acquire the line of faith, that we are seemingly going with our eyes shut, under restriction, and we try to be in adhesion without knowledge. Later on when we are given knowledge, when the state becomes more revealed than that state we accept as an addition to what we had before. So that even though we have knowledge we rise above it to even greater faith. It’s as though we don’t have knowledge, we restrict it, we don’t want it. Then through such an attitude towards faith, we improve the knowledge, and we improve the faith. So that both of them, if we relate to them in this way we ascend. Meaning we already use our will to receive so that it will be in order to bestow, and this is how we advance. Think about this more and more and you will see how we should approach this.
14. S. (24:32) It says that he regrets and because of it there is room for the lower one to slender which is called raising MAN which the lower one raises. Slandering is raising MAN?
R. No.
S. So how should I understand that?
R. Raising MAN means that the lower raises a deficiency to the upper one and he wants the upper one to help him correct these deficiencies because then the lower will be able to work in order to bestow. This is called raising MAN.
S. When he writes that the lower one slanders, that it’s raising MAN, we shouldn’t understand it directly?
R. Try. Check it out.
15. S. (25:43) How does the lower one create the right vessels to receive the pleasure from the upper one?
R. By being in adhesion with the upper one. By constantly wanting to make the upper greater in his eyes. As much as the upper one will be greater in the eyes of the lower one, the lower will be in adhesion with the upper one and the lower one will want to do everything for the sake of the upper one. Even if he the upper will now give something to the lower one the lower one will not want to receive it for himself, but only for the upper one. This means that what we need to do is to make the Creator greater in our eyes. Here the group needs to work with all of its force, otherwise a person alone is not capable of it. The influence of the environment over the person is especially in that the upper one gives him all kinds of problems, exercises, and by the environment, a person through these exercises makes the upper one greater in his eyes.
16. S. (27:47) Who is the upper one for us which is called AHP, AHP of the upper one?
R. We will learn this later. That AHP of the upper one and Galgalta Eynaim of the lower one, how do they connect, how do they influence each other in order to rise from degree to degree.
S. All the vessels we can acquire are only what the AHP of the upper one can reveal to us, always?
R. Yes, of course, you do not need anything else besides being in adhesion with the AHP of the upper one so the AHP of the upper one will constantly grow.
S. How does He help me when the upper one hides Himself?
R. Because if you're not capable of working with the AHP truly, then He hides Himself so that at least during the concealment you will be in adhesion with it. This is the minimal degree
17. S. (28:58) At the beginning of the article he says that the work is mainly in the choice, and this is why there is concealment, and in the process, in the article, we come to a state where the lower one is seeing the greatness of the upper one and by this the lower himself grows. At that time when the lower one sees the greatness of the upper one then is the choice taken away from him?
R. No, he has reached such a state when he now specifically by going with faith above reason he reaches a state where he knows that this is the greatness, the Gadlut of the upper one in the vessels that he developed within himself meaning he connected those vessels to himself so now that lower deserves to get to know the Gadlut, the greatness of the upper one because he reached that vessel.
S. This is because the lower one is successful in raising MAN?
R. That is also but first of all everything starts with the upper one. The upper one gives the conditions and all kinds of hints and states and the lower one than needs to organize them and connect them correctly and raise them to the upper one and certainly everything is resolved through the help from above, from the upper one to the lower one.
S. The first phase he describes is this the phase called Katnut, smallness or infancy? The first stage, when he says in the beginning when he describes the matter of concealment when the lower one cannot see the greatness of the upper one.
R. This is Katnut, the smallness.
S. When do we come to Katnut or are we in Katnut already?
R. That you are already in Katnut? I do not know. Katnut means that it is already a state where there is a connection with the friends, there is a connection with the upper one. Let's say, maybe it is in all kinds of other manners but there is a connection with the upper one and you are in Katnut between you because you have no possibility for the time being to increase the connection between you and become in Gadlut, greatness towards the upper one.
S. How do we know that we are in Katnut, how to achieve the first stage of Katnut?
R. The first stage of Katnut is when you are in a state when you already feel that you cannot work with the vessels of reception in order to bestow, instead only to be under restriction between you but you do connect between you and in such a way you discover the upper one in order to be connected with him. Just like a small one connected to the great one. In the connection between you, you build this degree of Katnut which already scrutinizes its connection with the upper one and therefore towards him it exists in the form of Katnut.
S. So that means that at the end of the first phase of the connection between us we will not scrutinize the connection between us, but we will be scrutinizing the connection with the upper one which we still do not feel.
R. No. You also scrutinize the connection between you. How come it is not scrutinized? You are scrutinizing the connection between you and the connection between you also have to be in a way that it is in a form of bestowal as much as possible, that you are connecting between you that way.
18. S. (33:16) The lower tastes the bitter taste in the work and then he raises MAN and then he puts a restriction on it? It is not clear.
R. What is not clear?
S. Why are we restricting something when I receive an answer from the upper one? I received some flavor in the work and I am restricting it, I am not wanting to receive it?
R. Of course, if you cannot receive these things in adhesion with the upper one then you do not receive them, you restrict them. This is according to the same example that he gives with the guest and the host that we are in a state where the host gives but I refuse to eat and I refuse to receive not because I do not want it and it is not that the host doesn’t want it but rather because I have a goal before me to being identification with the host, in equivalence of form with the host, so I refuse to receive. This is the first action from the side of the lower one. We build such a connection in the group where we want to be connected with each other and in mutual giving to each other we establish our attitude to the Creator as the host that this is how we want to be connected between us and him, so that we do not receive anything from him, even though we want it but rather only to be in a standby state, waiting if we will be ever be able to receive in order to bestow but at the moment we are not able to.
S. What is the state of bitterness from which you start acting? Why not stay in that state? Why should we ask to improve?
R. It is a bitter state because the host is not pleased with that state, and we are not pleased with that state. In that state we are seemingly disconnected from each other, we are not giving or receiving from each other and what should come out of this we are going to leave the meeting with the host, and we just go home? This is a bitter state and the host keeps on pressuring us meaning he is raising in us a greater desire to receive and we are drawn to receive as much as possible and we have to raise our restriction, and the connection between us in order to withstand the host and tell him that we do not want to receive in order to receive from you but only with the condition that you give us the possibility to receive in order to bestow. So he tells us I am willing to give you, but you are willing to receive or not and then we have to enter an even stronger connection between us in order to establish the screen and then after we felt that we are able to go to him in such a state to receive in order to bestow then we do it. This is already called Zivug de Hakaa, coupling by striking then inside he very much wants to receive but on the outside we create this prohibition for ourselves that it is forbidden to receive in order to receive instead we are going to receive only in order to bestow. What does it mean to in order to bestow? First of all it is the connection between us that has to be the first and then through the connection between us take into consideration the desires of everybody and we are connecting together and out of this connection together we begin to feel how we should relate to the pleasure that we receive from the host. That I acquire a small screen between us and out of that we put together my screen towards the host and then it turns out that the connection between us it is not simply a connection between us, it is not just the ten but instead the connection of the individual screens that exist between each and every Sefira in the Partzuf builds for us a common screen, the screen of the Partzuf and this is how we start to relate to the host, to the Creator. This is why the relations between us begin to be relations in practice, it becomes very practical and actual and from that we already know how to relate to the Creator. This is called from the love of people to the love of the Creator that first we have to use all kinds of relations that we have in order to wake up and feel the desire, the restriction and after that we will know out of this complex we will know how to relate to the Creator.
19. S. (39:29) What is this concept of judgment and mercy? Is this a vessel we have to build, or do we receive it from above?
R. This is something we have to establish inside us, in our relations to the friends, in relation to the Creator, out of the desire to receive we build these relationships, the association of judgment and mercy.
S. It sounds like two extremes both judgment and mercy at the same time.
R. Yes, because on the one hand if you get help from the Creator and on the other hand we also receive all kinds of burdening, and this is how we grow.
S. Is this wholeness and perfection if I managed to attain this state of both judgment and mercy together in the same vessel, is this considered wholeness?
R. Yes, of course.
S. Is it the three lines and everything related to that?
R. Yes.
20. S. (40:48) What is, what it says here that the lower one restricts the left line of the upper one?
R. It is when the lower one wants to enter more into connection by this it restricts the influence of the left of the upper one on itself.
21. S. (41:36) When five out of ten friends create a field out of those small screens does this influence the whole ten or the whole ten have to bring their small screens into this?
R. It is both, of course you can work with five out of ten, but you also do not want to forget about the others.
22. S. (42:14) It says in the article to choose life. Where is the choice here?
R. The choice is in choosing adhesion to the Creator even though we do not have open providence, and we are going for this in faith above reason even though we raise the judgment up to our eyes and we cannot see but we are going for it and in such a way that we choose life.
23. S. (43:05) Why is it that when Malchut ascends to the Eynaim, the eyes, there is concealment?
R. Because we cannot see the states in the vessels of reception in order to bestow what does it mean that Malchut raises herself to the Eynaim we are not working with the vessels of reception.
24. S. (43:50) Can we say that every new degree is a new perception a new grasp of the upper a higher degree of his love towards the created being?
R. Yes every new degree is more love and more effort more action we could say.
25. S. (44:20) What independent action can the lower one perform if everything is done by the upper one?
R. An independent action of the lower is that even though the upper one does everything the lower should seemingly organize and arrange the work of the upper one and the created being says and the Creator does as the person says and the Creator does it.
26. S. (45:05) Does the lower one receive the deficiency thanks to the work in annulling the ego of the upper one?
R. Annulling the ego of the upper one? I do not know what that is about it does not sound right.
27. S. (45:29) Does the restriction or concealment that happens after the faith becomes in the lower one knowledge is this by the lower one or the upper one?
R. All the actions are done by the upper one if the lower one is ready for it.
28. S. (45:53) It says in the article that it is not his fault that he doesn't feel taste or liveliness but according to his view there is no liveliness in spirituality what is this state?
R. That he is in nature and can do as he decides, and the results will be as he decides.
29. S. (46:18) I want to justify the Creator and see him as great what to do what is the first step where do I begin?
R. You have to annul yourself to the group.
30. S. (46:32) What is the relation between agreeing with everything that the Creator gives us and working in faith above reason and adhering to the upper one.
R. Again.
S. To agree with everything the Creator is giving us is this the same as going with faith above reason and adhering?
R. Yes
31. S. (46:58) Why is there a contradiction between the right line and the left line when the Gadlut appears in the upper one towards the lower one?
R. Because we are already beginning to work with vessels of reception.
32. S. (47:16) Is the judgment realized when the lower one is not working in annulment?
R. If the lower one does not work in annulment then neither judgment no mercy are realized it’s just the degree simply does not exist.
33. S. (47:39) It says that the upper one is also diminished later on by the lower one this is regarding as Masach de Hirik, what is the Masach de Hirik?
R. Masach de Hirik is the middle line when we diminish ourselves and come into contact between them when they are diminished and come into contact between them then it increases the place between them.
34. S. (48:12) How to feel myself both as the upper one and the lower one with respect to whom does this happen?
R. These questions are more complicated, and we cannot scrutinize them ask it again.
S. How to feel myself both as the upper one and lower one in something and towards whom does it happen in relation to what?
R. What does it mean upper and lower and together in one person and what state he is in I cannot understand your questions be a little more concentrated on what you are asking.
35. S. (49:21) Is annulment in the ten does it mean to accept the view of the ten in each and every state even the rules are violated, or people are behaving improperly what exactly is annulment in the work?
R. Annulment in the work means that I am annulling myself before the connection in the ten not before all kinds of marginal states that are not related to connection I bow before the unity of the ten in the center of the ten.
36. S. (49:58) Are restriction screen and reflected light is it possible to do it only over spiritual pleasure out of connection?
R. Usually yes. How can it be otherwise we need to see before us all kinds of good results from what we are going to attain and with respect to that and towards that we have to position ourselves.
37. S. (50:34) How the work between a few friends can awaken other friends towards the study?
R. We need to show all of them how we work and how we succeed and how we are happy about it and how we are advancing to a spiritual state compared to them and then because of envy lust and honor they too will want to advance as we do.
38. S. (51:07) In the example of Rabash in the preparation to the lesson Rabash said that a person receives an orchard, but he does not have the strength to work it is a very tangible example where do we get the strength to work with these orchards the Creator is giving us and what are these orchards?
R. Only from the society from helping one other whereas there is no power in society, but each can act before the others and when the friend sees it for him the acting becomes truth and then through envy lust and honor he begins to become similar to the friend who is acting and then for him it's no longer acting and in this way they help each other where nobody has anything but each through the efforts can awaken everyone.
39. S. (52:03) How do we rise and overcome states that hurt the inner connection in the ten?
R. It is really a problem it is really a problem only by gathering and beginning to clean ourselves up from all the trash that exists in each one meaning in all our desires to receive the egoistic desires to receive and throw them away and cleanse ourselves from them and then bit by bit and bit by bit just write down on a piece of paper what we want to get rid of and erase and the paper should be before us so we do not have to go over it every day although every day it will be revealed again and again but we’ll already know that yesterday we did something and today we only need to do it on a new level.
40. S. (53:19) How is it possible to give inspiration in the ten who doesn’t see that the rest of the ten are connected and advancing?
R. It is written that envy lust and honor bring a person out of from the world we have to try to advance in such a way that each day we are building ourselves every day as if nothing happened yesterday whatever happened I do not remember I do not understand and today it is as if I am going into a completely new state new phase and precisely, so we advance. This is why it is written it is not the smart one who learns or a person who feels that today he is clean from everything, and it is as if he really is starting to learn from scratch again this is the one who advances.
41. S. (54:28) What request needs to be in order to build a common screen in the ten?
R. Connection the connection at least in some way we have a goal however we turn it maybe understand maybe we do not but the Creator organized us in a group Baal HaSulam writes that our world is entering all of it is entering into a state called The Last Generation where all of us will have to become connected to each other whether we want it or not but now providence will constantly be revolving around connection between all the people in the world you will see how countries and societies all kinds of parties in all the countries all kinds of blocks socialists different societies everyone will be in this turmoil in this whirlpool of connecting and influencing one other and conflicting with one other and these things each day they will become juicier and more burning because everything will approach connection among everyone so scrutinizing what state we are in how contradictory we are how much we do not want to hear about each other how much we engage in things that are seemingly different from each other until they see through the collision between them that there is no difference between them but in fact it does not matter what they do what they engage in because all in all we are talking about the levels of connection between us like in a family each one has his own duty and role each one grew up in his own profession or occupation but we have something that connects us which is the family so we would grow together and understand one other better and feel one other better and build an atmosphere and an environment where we can advance when we can exist from day to day and it does not matter what mommy does what daddy does where the kids go and what they do but there is something besides the personal engagements of each one there is a connection between and that connection is called family and it does not matter if each one of the family members has his own engagements elsewhere but inside we are connected and this is also how we have to see in the connection between us there are thousands and thousands of societies and parties and all kinds of not to mention countries in the world and all of us have to nevertheless feel that we are in one system one family even though each one has his own engagements outside of this system but there is something that unites us that we are one family and in that family we do not decide what personal engagement each will do what is important for us is that we nevertheless feel ourselves as a family as something that is dependent on each other connected to each other and from day to day we should see how providence nature our evolution are tying us together more and more and we are becoming more and more dependent on each other and we have no way to escape from each other and this way we need to feel ourselves in this inclination we have to write about it more and more until humanity sees that there is no choice nature is pushing us to know the system that we are one family and then we will truly start to see in each one of the people in the world how much he does belong to this family and out of this we will establish new relationships between us it will solve many problems in our spiritual development because this is really what the Creator requires of us.