Morning Lesson May 28, Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: The truth is that giving to the Creator is the whole work we have to do. This is the deed we need to come to because the whole world, the whole of reality is outside of the Creator and he created it with the intent to give us all the goodness and bring us to the pinnacle of the whole of reality that can be, that is to his degree, to be similar to Him. This is why we need to understand that we also, with such an intention, should relate to Him if we need to reach equivalence of form, the end of our correction, that is all the intentions for the Creator to delight the created beings in a perfect way and this should also be our intention towards Him. As it says all that the Creator did, He did for us, for this state of giving to us all the goodness as much as possible according to the laws and the boundaries that he determined for creation. And by giving contentment to the Creator, we should also reach equivalence of form as it says, “I for my beloved and my beloved is for me.” That specifically against all of the disturbances, through them I show myself and the Creator how much I yearn to give Him contentment. By this we can actually measure where we are relative to Him. He wants to give to us 100% and He is giving to us 100%, but however we are hiding his goodness out of our lack of equivalence of form with our intentions to give to Him. This is why we don't quite feel it, we may feel the opposite way and condemn the Creator. However, if we try to discover how to reveal our attitude to Him which is the desire to give to Him contentment, then we discover how much He, in advance, is already doing this towards us and to begin with, He created the world of Ein Sof. This is how we should gradually remove the restriction from this world of Ein Sof and discover in our reflected light Or Hozer through giving from us to Him, giving him contentment, we can discover how much he wants to give us contentment. This is why all our intentions and everything we do, in all our actions in each and every moment in our existence should be only to feel the Creator, with our intentions to give to Him in every thought, speech and action and everything we are capable of doing or thinking, that He will get contentment from it in all the hours of the day. We can see that everything is arranged in such a way with the commandment, thoughts, and actions. Most importantly, all 24 hours we need to be in the intention, in the intention to give Him contentment. By this we reach a certain measure of equivalence of form with the Creator. As He is to us, we are to Him and out of this we realize that everything that was created, and our obligation to be in the 10’s, in the connection between us, is only in order to implement this intention of giving the Him contentment so we can come out of ourselves and incorporate in others and through others, we will establish the right intention to give contentment to the Creator. We need to try to reach a state where nothing besides this is awakening us. We have no other concern, no concern for nothing else besides that and here, each one should help his friend and we need to discover how much specifically these actions in a group, in a group as large as possible and as diversified as possible, can help us 24 hours a day to think only about a single intention. How do I all the time want to do good to the Creator and by this to discover that he is good and doing good and nothing besides those interests me in my life. This is how we need to begin our preparation for the lessons, for the gathering of friends with only one goal, to give contentment to the Creator and through this intention we need to see all our actions and in general, our whole life, are they aimed at that. This is what we have to do in life to determine this and to that extent we acquire our place in the complete eternal upper world, that is, in connection with the Creator. This is what I want to explain in these few minutes, how much this topic of giving contentment to the Creator is an important primary topic. From the beginning of creation, it passes through all the states of creation until it is completely established at the end of correction and besides that there is nothing towards the Creator. From the Creator towards the created being, it exists to begin with and this is why He is called good who is doing good and He does not change and we need to change each and every time in our intention to give Him contentment more and more, establish it more and more, broader and broader, including in this all the good things and evil things all in all as it says, “Love covers also all crimes.”
2. S. (08:19) You said to constantly triumph over the intention to give pleasure to the Creator. How do you relate to the situation to delight the Creator meaning to identify and equalize with some action of creation or it is the creator that we have to give joy to and aim our intention towards the upper force, how to approach this question?
R. There is a single force in the world called the Creator his desire is to benefit all the created beings, all the created beings appear to us and this is how it seems to us, this is how we are built. We see our internal qualities as if they existed outside of us on the degrees of still, vegetative, animate and people on the 4 degrees and it all depends on how much we begin our intention to cultivate, to develop, to increase it, to aim it to a single force which is the foundation of the whole of reality. We want to reach Him and we can and want to discover Him and we can discover Him, on the condition that we relate to Him similarly to how He relates to us and then if we relate to the Creator in a good way, in such a way, we also discover His attitude to us which is good. Then it is considered that one receives one. It is impossible to discover the Creator in a way that we relate to him badly or we don't relate to him at all, only on the condition that we have a good intention to Him to give Him contentment, as He wants to give us everything, all the good things in reality. However, all of His good towards us is hidden. We need to grow gradually by revealing towards Him our own good attitude according to the measure of good from us towards Him, we discover His good towards us, this is called the reflected light which we try to aim towards Him and is the vessel for the direct light. And then it is considered that by giving contentment to the Creator we discover how much He wants to give us all the goodness and this is how we discover Him and enter the upper world. This is all our work.
3. S. (11:55) What does it mean that 24-hours a day to be in good intention to the Creator?
R. It means that I want through all my actions, thoughts, and deeds that they will all be aimed towards giving contentment to the Creator, doing good to Him. I only want to come closer to Him, to thinking in a good way about Him, this is how we want to be. In the end, this brings me to love. The correct intention, which is pretty much the complete intention because in love there are also degrees. But when it is more or less whole in giving contentment to another, it is called love. Then I try to build such actions with the group, of course because without the group I cannot aim myself to the Creator at all, and this is how we advance. However, this is most important, there is nothing else in reality, in all the worlds, unless it is to bring contentment to the Creator and He to us. He, to begin with, wants to benefit from his creations and we need in a similar but opposite way to Him, we have to develop our attitude. This is all our correction and work. and then we enter a state which is like Him -- eternal and wholeness.
S. Can you say that it is an attempt to bestow to Him, is the attempt to reveal Him?
R. Not necessarily. We don't want to discover the Creator; we want to discover whatever we need to bestow contentment to Him. If in order to bestow contentment to Him I need not to see Him, then I won't see Him. If I have to see Him, okay I can see him but it all follows the same criteria, the same condition that we want to give Him contentment. It might be that I am hiding and I don't want to reveal myself, although towards the Creator it is a laughing matter -- how can I not reveal myself to Him? This is how I may do it, also. That is, the revelation of the Creator does not necessarily go in the same direction as giving Him contentment. The most important for me is specifically giving Him contentment. If I have to hide Him or hide myself, I do it because the most important thing is that it will be good for Him. In this attitude that it has to be good for Him, we discover how He wants through all His actions to do good to us. Here we discover the end result in the initial thought. Maybe we do not feel completely good so we feel it with intentions and thoughts which are not in the direction of giving the Creator contentment. This directs us properly to Him so we can reach equivalence of form and reciprocity -- I to Him and He to me.
4. S. (16:01) The main difference between delighting the Creator and not feeling my own ego, what is the difference? How to examine if I am delighting the Creator and not my own ego?
R. Through actions that are more and more aimed at the Creator through the 10. If it is not through the 10 then you might reach all kinds of philosophies, all kinds of methods where it seems to you that you are already a complete righteous, doing everything for the sake of the Creator, and you’re already in adhesion with Him. But it is only through the 10 that you're using the infrastructure of the 10, holding them, you’re above everyone in order to draw them up and also on the bottom. You are doing everything that Rabash tells us about the work in the 10 and then you are not mistaken.
5. S. (17:25) To add the intention when bad thoughts come from the friends, how to do this?
R. The fact that we get all kinds of thoughts and, in general, all kinds of events, results, and actions and they hinder us from thinking about the Creator and how can we delight Him, give Him pleasure? We have to realize that also comes from Him, ‘there is none else besides Him. And even though I have friends who are embittering my life and confusing me, hindering me from giving contentment to the Creator, I need to realize it all comes from the Creator because ‘there is none else besides Him’ and ‘behind every friend stands the Creator,’ and this is only to strengthen my attitude towards the upper force, the one upper force.
6. S. (18:36) I heard that if I submitted to the Creator, I would do everything in the same way. Where, exactly, is this point of effort?
R. This point of effort, the exertion is that I nullify myself before the 10, and the result of that, towards the Creator. This is the point from which, and onward, I can truly do something which is not to my benefit but for their benefit, the benefit of the 10. Beyond that, as a result, to the Creator. This is how it needs to be done, otherwise, it is just an illusion, a lie.
7. S. (19:51) I need to conceal myself to delight the Creator. I understand it in the 10 but how can I do this in my daily life?
R. Each and every time you have to think that whatever you are doing you want, by this, that there will be contentment to Him, you want to give Him contentment, that’s all, very simple. That is, you can make Him the most important in your life, which is really true but it is concealed from us. But if you are the one who determining everything, compelling everything and doing everything in your life, then you are entirely dependent on Him. You build unto Him. He arranges everything for you. Your whole life is dependent on Him in each and every moment, as much as your body is functioning, to the extent your brain is working. All of your successes and failures in life, He determines it all. If you would know that you are constantly dependent on Him in everything, simply not a thousand things but in everything. You're breathing and whatever shakes you go through and every little moment, in every small cell in your body, He determines it all. This is the field you live in and it is sustaining you, arranging you, developing you, promoting you. All in all, we need to discover this, to start to feel this. This way, to become immersed, absorbed in Him and this way we will reach adhesion.
8. S. (22:12) The effort to nullification is a preferential thing but what happens where the annulment in the 10 stops being an effort? It is just a part of the common work we do and there is no effort. So, what additional efforts can we put in there?
R. If I feel that I no longer have resistance in terms of adding myself to the 10, it is a sign that I stopped growing, stopped rising. There is no such thing that you cannot advance without the will to receive, growing. Only on top of it can we rise and grow. This is why I have to, first of all, be concerned each and every day, do I have a greater evil inclination? Today, have I become worse than yesterday, more lazy, more suspicious, understanding and feeling less and feeling, further away from the friends. I need to see this because ‘one who is greater than his friends, his evil inclination is also greater’. It is a sign of my advancement on the left line. But this has to happen otherwise how can I increase the demand for the right line? To get closer to the friends. If I do not feel everyday towards the friends some new repulsion, new resistance, some kind of new feeling of remoteness, some new manner between us, then it is not good. It is a sign that we are not working enough on the connection between us. We need to increase the thought. Everything is clarified by the thought. This is why as Baal HaSulam says, “I am happy with the wicked ones that are revealed because those that are not revealed, they have zero hope to be revealed or maybe they will not be revealed, who knows? But when they are revealed, I am happy because this means now I deserve to rise upon them to a higher degree. Therefore, I have to be happy in that the Creator is revealing to us additional desires, more corrupted desires in each one of us. All-in all, we need to join all these corrupted desires in order to bestow to each other, together. And by this, we will have a ready, correct vessel for the revelation of the Creator. We build Him. We make Him out of those corrupted thoughts and desires that He reveals to us, in us.
9. S. (25:54) To continue, if I feel the left line constantly, what to do in such a state? Maybe I can somehow incorporate with the friends who feel the right line more?
R. You say it correctly, this also helps a lot. To incorporate in the friends who are more successful, they’re stronger, to join them. To try following them, as much as possible to serve them, to help them, etc. Because, then in such a way, you can also borrow forces from them. That’s nice, it’ good. Do it.
10. S. (26:45) To scrutinize my thoughts a little: to bring contentment is not my desire nor deeds. But, rather, a fact that I decide at any given moment as the source of all that happens, is this correct? No matter what I feel or think, the only thing that is important is that I correlate it to Him, as the root of all that happens to me?
R. You can attribute this to Him, that is correct, however what are you doing in that? Let's say right now, we all exist, we’re all in a lesson. We’re all different and listening together. So, let's gather all our desires, thoughts, intentions, actions to the fact that we want to feel ourselves together and from that togetherness to bestow to the Creator, to now give Him contentment. Let us right now try from our force, our heart, our common heart to give Him contentment. Then inside this effort, we will try to feel Him. How He is relating to us. Through such actions and efforts from our side, more and more, they should bring us eventually to the revelation of the Creator.
S. The corporeal actions that are outside the lesson -- the small actions every day that make it difficult to sustain with the right intention in the relation 24-hours a day. What contentment can I give to the Creator if I eat fish or meat, for example?
R. This is also not a problem. If you think that by whatever you are doing even while you are eating in principle you are doing to have the strength to think about Him. To perform certain actions by which you can reach Him contentment. This is, all our actions, thoughts and deeds, it doesn't matter which ones and what, we need to weigh them only in relation to one thing: by this, we are giving contentment to the Creator. In giving contentment to the Creator, we will later learn how we can add to this our desires that are graded into the degrees of Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel in their coarseness and how we can receive from this results in the similarity of form with the Creator, ‘I am to my beloved and my beloved to me’, we’re bestowing to each other. Then we discover the upper light in our vessels, the light of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Yechida, Chaya, in all the different degrees until we reach the final correction. However, we have to realize that just as the Creator started creation by wanting to give contentment to the created beings and this is how He created us in this way and brought us to our present state, so we from our present state need to reach back to the Creator in order to give Him contentment. Then creation becomes complete. . . . . We can rise all the way to infinity.
11. S. (31:17) There are states in the 10 which feel like everything is in difficulty and there are also states where it feels the opposite, there is light and greatness of the Creator in the 10. From which state does the Creator receive contentment?
R. It does not matter. We might think that if the situation is difficult the Creator gives us hard work because we are strong and we can work with it. We might understand differently that we do this hard work and now we have easier work but it does not matter. It’s as it says, ‘you should be cautious, meticulous with the mitzvot in the light mitzvah as well as the strict mitzvah. It doesn’t’ matter because you don’t know what is actually easy or hard and what results you get from this and from that. But we have to relate to everything as an opportunity to give Him contentment. The most important is the intention. And whether the deed is easier or more difficult where we feel disconnection between us or relative connection between us, we, nevertheless, have to understand that the most important is the intention. That we have to constantly be connected to it. And with that intention, how do we add the deeds? Well, as much as possible with all our force, each one of us and all of us together. The most important is the intention.
12. S. (33:08) Does the definition of the ‘vessel’ change for the person under all circumstances?
R. Right now we cannot weigh or measure the vessel, scrutinize and define it to say in this vessel what kind of coarseness do we have? What screen and what force of the screen? In which form does the vessel exist and on what degree? We cannot do this, yet. Therefore, how can we sort the vessel, measure it, and measure it? This is too early for us to discuss.
13. S. (34:10) Throughout the day we have small choices in the connection with the friends in the zoom or all kinds of things. If you respond or show an external attitude to friends, I choose not to do it because I do not yet have the intention to bring contentment, is there any value to respond externally without intention?
R. There is value to this also but we are not talking about this right now. Our topic is how to constantly maintain the intention to give contentment to the Creator? And it is not about specific actions or relations in the 10.
14. S. (35:12) You gave an example earlier about even through the food, I’m thinking about the Creator where I say I am strengthening and this is how I think about Him. Actually, in every action I can do this.
R. This is why we have those blessings. Yes, of course. Regarding food and everything. Especially when we receive something and we enjoy it.
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S. The question is whether my will to receive will deceive me that I’m doing all sorts of actions?
R. That’s not your business whether your will to receive sells you all kinds of stories or not. To begin with I am in a lie however from this lie I have to gradually aim myself to the truth. And the truth is that even out of this lie I exist in I try as if I want to give contentment to the Creator. As if, if I will delve into want, I feel then what I feel is pleasures; and, only out of these pleasures can I turn to Him and think about Him. But nevertheless, it is a study. We are still doing what we call ‘the work of preparation’.’ Our time is called ‘the work of preparation.’
15. S. (36:50) Is there such a desire to bring contentment, or is it enough to say those words with your mouth?
R. We have no desire to bring contentment to begin with. How can you check this? Because in the ordinary state where we don't have this desire, we discover that this as something new, and the desire to give contentment to the Creator appears only when we get some awakening from above or we discover that there is this special revelation of the Creator, or we see it in the friends and then from envy, lust and honor we reach it also, this is called each helps his friend. But from the beginning none of us has this desire to give contentment to the Creator, such a desire does not exist in us, and this is why we have to build artificially such relations between us, such incidents that we can get back to this thought to give the Creator contentment. We remind each other and this is how we progress because only by this thought to give the Creator contentment on that by this we start to rise on the ladder of degrees until Ein Sof, the end of connection, and there is no other way. Each and every time and each time we can discover how much we don't want it, we don't have it and we don't care about it. because this wakes up in us by scrutinizing each time the broken vessel from the system of Adam
S. Can I replace this with word contentment to get a grip on it, like to give delight to the friends?
R. No, the friends are friends, if you give contentment to the friends in order to make the Creator happy that is possible. The end of the action is in the preliminary thought, the reason for the action the beginning of the action should all be related to the Creator and the whole world which seemingly exist, as if we had friends and everything else, it is only in order to build our attitude to the Creator so that our intention can happen, so to grip something, to hold on to something, but we don't have friends or a world, it all appears to you only so through all these events and actions as if I can relate to the Creator, so there would be some connection between me and the Creator so I seemingly exist in this world in reality, in the still, vegetative, animate and the speaking levels and through these degrees, I can relate to the Creator. But if I correct my attitude to the Creator, I will see that everything else disappears and all that exists is none else besides Him.
16. S. (40:25) So we can give only through the 10 to the Creator or we need to come to a certain level of connection between us to bring Him contentment?
R. In truth even without the 10 I try to give the Creator contentment, but if I truly progress to the Creator, it turns out for me that my intention, my thought, my desire will be more truthful and more aimed at Him if I connect with my friends. Then I established myself correctly in the right way towards the Creator, because otherwise it may be that I am inside my desire and I am just fantasizing, imagining to myself that I am giving contentment to something or to someone. But on the condition that I can come out of myself by connecting to the friends, by this I begin to picture the Creator to myself correctly, that He is outside of me behind the friends, and then I truly intend to give Him contentment.
17. S. (42:25) How can we define this concept of bringing contentment, is it an action or a feeling?
R. In thought, in speech, in action I want to cause the Creator, the one force who is standing behind the whole reality, through this whole reality I want to cause Him contentment. It is contentment, it is joy out of me, from the whole world. I want to serve the whole reality to Him for His pleasure, whatever I can do. How to do this? To the extent I care to connect this whole reality with the correct nice relationship between them, and in the connection between them to the Creator, this is actually my work, it turns out that giving contentment to the Creator relates to the correction of the whole world.
S. Mostly in action and thoughts?
R. It is mostly in action and in the thought, yes.
18. S. (43:52) How do I know that all my efforts, exertion I perform the Creator feels and enjoys these actions and efforts? Are there any signs that the actions and our appeal reached Him?
R. This is a question about how to work in bringing contentment to the Creator if we do not feel any sign, any feedback in return? Do we do it correctly or not, how to correct ourselves, yes or no, we cannot talk about it right now because we cannot yet connect between us in such a way, that from the good and nice relation between us we could delight Him. The truth is that there is nothing to give to the Creator, it is like a mother who has many children and she wants the children to behave well nicely between them, and the children, if they are good, then they do what the mother wants witch is certainly against their individual ego, because each wants to act as they feel like. Because of the mother they bind themselves and limit themselves, they restrict their desire to receive and begin to play nicely and well and look at their mother as much as they can bring her contentment. We can imagine ourselves in such a way in the 10. When do we know, when is it happening? When we started to receive from our mother, from the Creator some responses. It takes time because along the way we can check if we really want to do this, if our intentions truly only about bringing contentment to the Creator, if this is specifically by the giving up on ourselves receiving either in this world or other successes or even receiving the upper world, if we can truly do some form of action which is truly only in order to bestow? Even the smallest form of this action is already inviting from the Creator the response and it does not depend on the desire of the Creator, because the Creator is complete, instead everything depends on our relation. If our relation is correct even to the smallest measure between us, and we really want to give Him contentment, from that we will feel a response from Him. It is not a force that decides if He wants to respond or not, it is perfection from His part, He is simply the complete nature which is all under mutual bestowal as a one single whole system, this is the Creator and from there according to the equivalence with form we can start to feel a response.
19. S. (47:55) We have states when different friends are artists, very creative, fully immersed in their work or there is somebody who simply knocks on the nail or connect some cables and they begin to feel this force above and they're doing simple work as something very important and still the person does not lose the thought that it is only in order to give contentment to the Creator. So, should the person restrict this internal feeling and search for more for the sort of giving to the Creator, or in his work he is allowed to be emotionally involved?
R. We have to learn that in all of our work and life, everything we do, everything we are in life, how together with this we can be in the intention towards the Creator. One does not bother the other, one dresses into the other. We do it in such a way that in our entire life, whatever you do, everything is aimed only at one goal. This is already a correction and therefore try to be this way.
S. I would like to continue because sometimes I see on another person that he wants to have this energy, I see the friend saying that I want to be like him doing spiritual work with such pure and precise intention. How to take this feeling for the sake of the friend? Does it help, does it contribute in the way to have the right examinations all the time?
R. It helps, but we don't have to be immersed in these examinations, instead we constantly have to see how we are suited to what Rabash says in his articles, the more we progress in life we see and read and hear what Rabash writes. I can see that each time there are new things I can discover, what can we do? It has been 40 years since I have been reading his articles and I see that still, each time it offers something new, as if I were reading it all over again. I have been reading it for dozens of years, understanding, feeling it and really advancing, advancing, and you are advancing very well, now we really have to make an effort to rise to the next degree of knowing the Creator in practice.
20. S. (52:05) Should we relate separately to the Creator or feeling that He is hiding behind the entire reality?
R. The Creator is standing in the center of the ten or behind the friends, but relating directly to the Creator is not possible, I can start like this at the beginning, when we relate to Him as if we had personal business with Him, as I still can't tie the Creator and the group together, but slowly I have to establish these things in such a way, that there is no Creator without the created beings. I have to imagine Him and picture Him in the vessel of the created beings, meaning the way we are connected, in what manner we are connected, in that way I can discover the Creator, as the creator has no form, nothing. The vessel I reveal Him in, this is the 10.
21. S. (53:24) As much as we are in the intention to give joy to the Creator, what does it mean in terms of quality and quantity in the work?
R. I want to aim everything we do in the 10 and between the 10s and in dissemination to humanity, all those degrees, all these 3 degrees the 10, and in between the tens of Bnei Baruch. and the group of Bnei Baruch as it is in bestowal to the whole mankind, I want to see this as one single vessel, where we are trying as much as possible, with all our hearts and might, we want to try and bring this whole Kli to a state where the Creator can connect and be revealed in, we are raising this vessel more and more to spirituality, because the time has come for this world to rise to spirituality, this means to be in The Last Generation. This is the last degree, the last stage of development for the world, beyond this there is only spiritual elevation and here we have to digest this transition and present this to whole mankind to help them rise to the next spiritual degree.
22. S. (55:13) In the beginning you said that the reflected light is the vessel for direct light, I understand it is like the 10 which connects like a concentrated lens which can reflect the light so then we can see the direct light, which is the revelation of the Creator, so this is his contentment that He can reveal Himself? What comes first?
R. First comes our intention to bring contentment to the Creator and then we search by what can we do that, this is it. The main thing is from us to connect between us which is through the nullification of the ego when we connect and out of this, we start to bring contentment to Him and this is above us.
S. So regarding the direct light with the four phases where are we with the 10?
R. We do not yet know this and don't get confused in this, just do that with your feeling and intellect as much as you understand, and don't imagine that you are in the four phases and in all kinds of things it will just confuse you. This is why I have a great problem to start to work with the Study of the 10 Sefirot because we will start to do all kinds of philosophies, we will start to fantasize. So, all in all in the 10 we have to connect and from that aim ourselves to bring contentment to the Creator this is it, not 10 Sefirot and not NRNHY not Behinot, just do the connection and then you will start to feel, know what exactly you are in in actuality, and then you can also work on your spiritual elevation there as much as we attain the real definitions and give names and words to them.
23. S. (58:06) What you said is confusing that only in our feeling there is so still vegetative in adamant that really only the Creator exists there's nothing else besides him but we learn there is also creation, something that is separate outside of the Creator so I understand there's no one else besides him but there's also all of creation?
R. Creation is depicted in us which is divided in such states of Shoresh Aleph Bet Gimel Dalet and, in these desires, we depict the bestowal of the Creator in all different ways of the still, vegetative, animate, all different people, all desires to receive powers and this is how they are depicted, ascribed towards us and this is why we need to bring all of creation back to connection between them and with the Creator. That is our work and this is actually assembled only into one, if we, Bnei Baruch, those who yearn to bring contentment to the Creator then the whole world as much as we will succeed in advertising this then even more without our advertisement they will be drawn after us and column also to the same state together with us. We will take them to follow us with us as our AHP.
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24. R. (01:04:29) Meaning we need to make some kind of exercise to do a calculation about the extent to which we enjoy ourselves or maybe our friends enjoy. To Creator or not we can say that it's something abstract but it is most important, that it is certain for our actuality which is me for the friends as much as I can bring them contentment and for me that should be more important than me bringing contentment to myself. It can be a physical action it can be through thoughts or all kinds of internal ways as little as possible. We lie to ourselves because it is not to our benefit. If I lie to myself then I am in some kind of bestowal and it is not right all together. This is where man's work is as much Rabash writes on the matters of the group, as much as one belongs and invests to the group and feels himself as incorporated in them, helping them, guiding them from above and below. Through this we can actually measure to the extent to which one is in bestowal to bring contentment to the Creator because it is like a mother. We cannot bring contentment to the mother unless we do her commands, her request that we would be good children to one another and bringing contentment to one another we bring contentment to the Creator. Also, all of reality and all of the world needs to come to this as well. Now we are entering a very serious calculation on the last stage in the last generation and as much as we only through the correct beautiful connections between us bring contentment to the Creator, to nature and if we don't do this as much as we are harming and creating damage.
25. S. (01:07:16) You aim yourself towards the friends trying to bestow to the Creator and you discover that the Creator starts to give you all kinds of surprises, gifts, things that are toward your ego and it makes you kind of addicted.
R. That is his work with you so that you will see you as much as you are in your ego and your calculations are egotistical and we will see that this is a matter of degrees and as much as I am in a certain degree and I see that I am good, that I am bestowing toward my next degree that is Klipot , it is corrupted in such a way that I need to rise to the next degree. When I see that I am corrupted in my current state and that I must improve my states and qualities, then I rise. This is why when we discover each time ourselves in our state as not good, it is a sign that I need to rise to a higher degree. It's not that I am not okay, it is that I am already not okay in the current state which means I need to acquire the quality of bestowal in a higher degree.
S. I'm supposed to bring this back to him when I discover it as an attitude on his part?
R. You cannot act and give something back to the Creator as he has no vessels of reception and you don't need to do anything, you can raise your MAN, your request to receive the forces but to implement those forces you can only do this in the 10 or the general the Kli of Bnei Baruch. To the Creator himself you can aim that you are bringing contentment but in the action itself you must do it only in the connection between people.
26. S. (01:09:55) Can you explain what it means that the smallest act is still considered a commandment?
R. He obliges us to come to the force of bestowal and from these acts to come to a connection between us and all of us together that will bind us together in return as in the Kli of Adam HaRishon. So, connecting between us in order to bestow one another in order to bring forth contentment to the Creator is actually the only commandment that we have which is divided into many individual parts of its commands.
27. S. (01:11:12) You said delighting my friend should be more important than delighting myself and in the same time it is important to be honest to myself and not be like myself, to take into account who I truly am and what it is we are doing for the sake of correction, what should I build and trust more which option, to want from the depths of our soul to bestow to the friends out of satisfaction that you are raising this and one wants to share with the friends or faith in oneself?
R. I would recommend to you not to use what you are talking about because all of that is also a lie and not correct, it is wrong and you will just get confused from it, do exactly what Rabash tells you to do in the ten and do not start developing your own philosophies here. So read exactly what Rabash writes and implement it in the 10, otherwise now you will start to write books for us on how to do this and you will leave the path altogether.
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28. S. (01:17:20) What is the state where he is in order to receive but engages in the Torah and Commandments and yet is becoming corrected?
R. That is Lo Lishma.
S. What kind of engagement is he talking about here?
R. He tries to do all the connections we are talking about now prior to Lishma and therefore all of our actions are eventually only for our own pleasure as much as we think that this is in order to bestow but it is not in order to bestow except only to ourselves and not to the Creator and this is how we want to come to a state in which through Lo Lishma we come to Lishma. Let us hope that is what will happen.
S. It is that he tries to reach bestowal to the Creator?
R. He is trying as much as he is capable and even more than that trying in the right way with the friends and wants to correct the world this way because our state now where we are trying to think of the whole world and in such a way returns to us from the big system of Adam HaRishon not like it was in the previous generations. This is why we began to receive bestowal from above, from the Creator which is already aimed towards the general correction of all reality. Where we will correct ourselves in the true vision, observation of the reality, not the state where we are feeling ourselves right now. The Zohar says we are similar to creatures whose eyes are aimed inwards, where we see ourselves, what is inside of us and accordingly we carry out our lives. The whole result of our study is the upper light will do the action in such a way that we will turn our eyes, our vessels, our desires to be aimed towards outside of us, towards others as we say. Then we will start to relate to others as we relate to ourselves.
29. S. (01:20:14) Seemingly this act of giving contentment to the Creator in the best possible way
Is it out of concealment?
R. To bring contentment to the Creator in the correct action as if I can reveal the Creator but I hide him from my ego and above my ego I do an act of bestowal.
S. That is not clear?
R. That is a matter of the screen.
S. How do I translate it into an action?
R. By words and actions we progress towards this.
S. The Creator enjoys that the person is in revelation or concealment more?
R. The Creator enjoys from us being in bestowal and this cannot be unless it is above the desire to receive and when we are in concealing our will to receive in a direct manner from the pleasures, but rather to build for ourselves such a system in which we are enjoying only bestowal and this is where I delight from. To the extent I am in love towards the Creator,
S. In which manner can we try to get a grip and to exercise this in our state?
R. Just like they write towards the friends, what do we have friends for? Why did the Creator shatter the vessel so that we need to reconnect to them in the 10 in order to rid ourselves from looking inside our desire to receive, inside the Malchut and look into the upper 9 where we arranged for them from the side of our Malchut where we bestow through there to the Creator? This is at the peak of our connection towards us.
S. What in the work of love our friends as ourselves can help us to exercise this matter of taking the concealment upon ourselves and giving the Creator pleasure from the revelation?
R. In my work with the friends I accustom myself to relate to the others as more important than I am and, in this way, slowly more and more we discover our vessels of reception which are ready to be vessels of bestowal.
30. S. (01:23:34) The more I invest in the 10 the more I feel how much my desire to receive is contemptible and loathsome causing me?
R. You need to go through all of those things, to continue and whatever will be along the way, that we will be and it shouldn't stop you. This is how it needs to be.
31. S. (01:24:14) How can we say if my friends in the 10 get contentment this is the closest I can get to give in contentment to the Creator?
R. Yes, because the Creator all together is the inclusive of all of your friends which you reveal behind them, that behind every friend stands the Creator, if you connect and bestow to them just Rabash recommends for us to do in the 10 and by that you are doing so to the Creator.
32. S. (01:24:56) What does it mean to hide the desire to receive? Can you be more precise about this?
R. I don't want to work with the desire to receive in a surest way, for me to feel pleasure in it, but rather to the contrary, let it suffer. All of my work and all of my calculations will be above my desire to receive, meaning above my suffering, by me not receiving in my desire to receive what I would like. This is also a sign for me that I am rising above my desire to receive and I am asking the Creator for the forces to be above. This is under the condition that I feel pain in me not caring for the desire to receive, not feeling it. Then I ask the Creator for the forces to be above, to be opposite of the desire to receive and then I receive forces from the Creator, the forces of bestowal.
S. Does this mean that we can bestow contentment only if I feel suffering in the desire to receive an unpleasant feeling?
R. It is always like that, how else can it be if you don't feel it then you are simply at 0 and if it demands of you something and you are not filling it, instead of that you are trying to be in order to bestow then will you have the forces to bestow, how can you leave the desire to receive empty? There are several actions here we need to do in order to work correctly. This is already where we are coming closer to the structure of the spiritual Partzuf, where there is a restriction screen and reflected light, the spiritual actions of what I do with my desires as this is something we will speak about soon.
S. When we study in TES the understanding at least is that the restriction is over the good that the Creator is giving us, he wants to give to me to bestow to me and I make a restriction over that, are we supposed to make a restriction over the good feeling and not the bad feeling so the experience should be felt as good or suffering to come to bestowal?
R. He needs to work with both this and that, where does he have the feeling from, from the fact that he will fulfill his desire to receive then he does a restriction upon that and then he works to bring contentment to the Creator which is beyond the restriction in bestowal.
S. This is what we study in TES.
R. Yes.
S. But now we speak about the fact that we can only bestow from a stage where we feel emptiness in the desire to receive?
R. That is for the time being, not in practicality yet, it is the initial action.
33. S. (01:28:37) Where the Creator opens the eyes for the person and he sees the world filled with utter perfection. Is this the middle point or the final point in the work?
R. It is the beginning, this is how it is and each and every degree and each and every state where a person feels his state from Keter to Malchut through all the actions and this is how he decides, establishes himself in each degree. It is not the first or the last state, it is one degree out of many degrees altogether.
34. S. (01:29:39) In order for me to be able to give to my friend should I discover all of the evil in me?
R. No, don't think about yourself and don't want to reveal the evil because that is completely not our work as our work is to rise above the bad to the good and not to be immersed in the evil, run away from each time to the good things.
35. S. (01:30:20) How should we work in a state of happiness from a state of bodily and emotional torments?
R. When you feel you are suffering and you rise above the suffering into bestowal then you need to enjoy being able to bestow even though your realistic desire is suffering. Because your egoistic desire is your enemy. Your hater, so it is good that it suffers but that you are above it in your desire to bestow which as a loyal friend and this way you will advance.
36. S. (01:31:15) The decision not to enjoy, let it suffer, isn't that to cause torment to yourself?
R. Yes, but you relate yourself to the group and through that to the Creator and even though you suffer this suffering is a suffering that takes you out of the disease, out of your ego. Like when you pay a lot of money to doctors even though they operate on us or they give us injections, but we pay them. Because ultimately, they make us healthy.
37. S. (01:32:20) If we pray for the deficiency and not for the fulfillment, are we overcoming the desire to receive and bestowing contentment to the Creator?
R. If we pray for the deficiencies that I will not have bestowal that I will have a desire to bestow this is an ascent in the degree of course.
38. S. (01:33:22) It turns out when you discover a degree in the perfection of the Creator and in the end of that degree, we see we see this degree is not whole?
R. Of course, we have 125 degrees and we discover here first the ascent to the degree and we recognize and work with it, to raise these inner states to the degree until we completely realize it. When we finish it, we discover that we have no more need for that and we rise to the next degree because what we did in this degree no longer satisfies us. Your desire to receive appears greater, just like at school when we go from one class to another class.
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39. S. (01:36:11) Is it possible to use gratitude as a mechanism which bestows contentment to the Creator, if I am in a gathering with the friends and I do any action whether simple or more complex and in that moment the intention to express my gratitude to the friends, is this enough to say thank you with that yearning you were speaking about and bestow contentment to the Creator?
R. Yes, that helps also when you ask the Creator to be a partner in your actions.
40. S. (01:37:48) What does it mean to know the Creator in practice?
R. That you begin to feel that you are making an option and he is making a corresponding action and by this you become partners.
S. Does this feel like you're standing before the king who are the friends?
R. Sometimes you may feel that, yes, on the way we go through many states and emotions.
41. S. (01:38:51) What does it mean to give contentment to the Creator should I ask for the friends?
R. To bring contentment to the Creator means we raise ourselves in levels of correction, levels bestowal, levels of love. This is called bringing contentment to the Creator as he himself doesn't need anything but rather when we show ourselves as more and more corrected, that means that we are bringing him contentment. Just like children towards their mother.
42. S. (01:39:45) It is written that he needs to reveal a desire for suffering of love, meaning a desire to acquire this craving, what is craving and suffering of love mean in the desire to acquire it?
R. It means suffering from love, that I am in sorrow and suffering because I love and yet I still can't come close to the one I love. It's also like it is in this world and we should think about it like this in the meantime. See if you can envision it differently by saying, I love someone but that I can't bestow contentment to that someone as I am incapable. That also is called suffering of love. Let's say I am in some prison and I can not to give anything of myself to them, on the contrary like parents who want to do everything for their kid but the kids do not want to its like Baal HaSulam writes about a child who is diabetic and can't eat anything and he also has a problem with his brain as he can't learn things and see beautiful things. On the one hand there is love and on the other hand that love cannot be realized in any action on behalf of the mother towards the loved one.
S. You were saying we aspire to give contentment to the Creator or pretending, I suffer it is not real?
R. You still don’t discover that so how will you go into suffering, as if you suffer from it is completely false. We have to keep working and working and the more that you try to do good to the friends, by that you do good to the Creator that is for certain and through that you can process everything.
43. S. (01:42:42) It is not working out for me I go into a spiritual degree. I see the wholeness of the Creator I finished the degree and then I see the lack of perfection meaning I start criticizing and then I have to go to the next degree. It is not working out for me, first I see the wholeness and then the lack of wholeness?
R. Did you go through the whole first degree of the ladder already? You are saying things that are completely and totally incorrect, so let us wait, first speak from experience, then your words will be correct and not an illusion, as the words you spoke were completely incorrect.
44. S. (01:43:54) A friend comes to the lesson, he needs to wake up early and I want to thank him for his exertion, on the other hand I don't know, he doesn't need it but I want to show him that when a person comes to the lesson it is a benefit for everyone and I ask myself every time, should I give gratitude to the friends?
R. I'm not getting into that, read the articles of Rabash and understand what you need to do, not to learn mistakes from one another. It is better that you read the sources of Baal HaSulam and Rabash and accordingly you start behaving, not according to how you pass each other's wisdom to each other.
45. S. (01:45:25) It is written here that men should reveal the yearning to words of the Creator even though he doesn't feel it, can we do this through the friends to acquire such a deficiency?
R. Yes, possible and in general we need to try to determine in front of us that all of our states are altogether, composed of two. One state, that I want to bestow contentment to the Creator and I do this in every action doesn't matter what I do in life. I think well about the Creator and I want him to benefit from that, that is one. Second, where I can't think of the Creator, I can't do good to him. There are only these two states, light or darkness, plus or minus, it doesn't matter what you call it, this is the only thing that I have in life. In a neutral state. This is a descent, a fall, a Klipa, that I don't want to be in, at least to be in a feeling that I don't want to bring him contentment or an intention that I do want to bring him contentment. These are clear states that are spiritual states when I don't want to bring him contentment. That also is a spiritual state, anything that is directly connected to the Creator is called spiritual.
46. S. (01:47:22) If man doesn't determine the measure of his craving, how can he strengthen it?
R. By connection with the friends you have no other way to strengthen anything except through strengthening the Kli, and our Kli is the connection between us.
47. S. (01:48:06) How can I know that I am giving contentment specifically, in what is this expressed and how not to fall into the egoistic trap that is a result of the shattering and conflicts?
R. Try to realize this in the 10, without the 10 you don't have anything, you can certainly go wrong without even knowing how and in general it is not a practical or beneficial action towards the Creator as the Creator feels what is in the 10.
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48. R. Meaning that we need to understand that this system of Adam Ha Rishon where all our parts, all of our desires are from everything where we are and that the Creator dwells on them, scrutinizes them, breaks them apart and connects them is all one system. Don't run into any other reality we need to try to connect between us and try first connecting too many 10s and one single 10 with 1 creator. And the more we describe this corrected state to ourselves, accordingly we will feel we are in spirituality.
49. S. (01 :51:01) You said earlier that we have to enjoy, that you are suffering and uplifting above your suffering into bestowal, how can a person who suffers at the beginning start spiritual work? Isn't this a lie to begin with?
R. We are talking about people who receive an attraction towards spirituality, that they want to recognize and understand what spirituality is, that to them knowing the Creator becomes very important. Then accordingly, the more they realize this in the 10, which is a copy of Adam HaRishon, that they try to be more in the 10 and they realize themselves in the vessel of Adam HaRishon when they want to advance themselves and all of humanity from the connection between them the Kli they build between them will be for the Creator for the light, until the light begins to appear in the Kli vessel for us to have the ability to know the Creator. What happens is the creator gives us a great opportunity to advance towards him, by breaking the Kli vessel of Adam we need to understand this is true salvation for us. If this vessel were not broken but just detached, just pieces scattered it would be sufficient. But it is broken, meaning that we see and feel we are broken and that there is an evil inclination between us which has appeared through them which is exactly like the good inclination that we had given by the Creator before the shattering and we have to return to that good inclination from the evil inclination. We get all of the data to collect ourselves in tens in from the tens to a singlet 10 that takes us to a complete correction.
S. I don't have any desire to give contentment to their creator, can I even ask him to give me such a desire?
R. You of course can ask from the Creator but it will be better if you do it with the friends, work in the group, try to bring contentment to the friends and by that the Creator will come closer to you as you will feel suddenly , it happens in a certain way as a result of many actions before, but suddenly the person feels that as it is said, you shall have no foreign Gods, meaning the Creator will not be foreign to you. You will start feeling that bringing contentment to him becomes a demand, a necessity internally for you. This is how it happens.
50. S. (01:54:52) First you said there is an intention to bestow contentment to the Creator and then an action on how to do this, do we choose this action or does that come from the Creator?
R. The actions through which we can bestow contentment to the Creator is what Rabash writes to us about the group. There is no other option but to collect ourselves in a 10 and bring contentment to the Creator and accordingly the Creator comes closer to you to be revealed to you. This is how it is, it is simple and there is no more, especially as we are in the last generation as if we were to discuss this in a previous generation before this last phase that we are in and we would be in all kinds of other actions and worth, other systems. Now we are in the last campaign, the fourth phase where we have to collect all of these shattered pieces together and make the right vessel from revelation of the Creator.
51. S. (01:56 25) Our 10 wanted to ask when we are speaking of giving contentment to the Creator with the example you gave about the king who has all of the best but no guests, doesn't this mean we are humanizing the Creator, is this not a flaw on our behalf?
R. No, I don't understand the flaw in us. All of the flaws we think of them have flaws. These are what the Creator artificially is creating in us, opposite the completeness so that we want to come from the flaw to completeness and from another flaw to completeness and these each time or more qualitative it is not just that there is a small flaw or a big flaw in their quality. The more that I hate or suffer from little things, it is not that there are big things or small things it is how we evaluate, how we assess and weigh these things because we're there is a matter of love, even in the tiniest detail could be a disturbance and this is how we need to advance, that love covers all crimes, each time further and further.
S. Is it as if we are giving the Creator human qualities like the sorrow of divinity or contentment?
R. This is in respect to the person...
S. How do we rise above that degree that a person doesn't think of himself but the Creator, some form that comes out of himself?
R. It is that we want to do this in order to bestow with faith above reason. We receive a special force from the Creator by which we can bestow above our ego, this is the matter of coming out of corporeality into spirituality but it is still not what we are facing.