Morning Lesson November 04, 2021 Transcription
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Preparation For The Morning Lesson - Workshop Questions:
Part 1:
Baal HaSulam - Shamati 47 - In the Place Where You Find His Greatness
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1. Rav’s Introduction: (00:26) Although it is a short article, Baal HaSulam for some reason spoke briefly here, a few lines in all. But it's a great thing that he explains to us about an important aspect. The Creator is the force through which all of creation connects. It's like in our world, I have to be among everyone and connecting everyone. That's how we can imagine the complete system. We're each one, is in contact with all the others, so there are states that He receives from everyone and He bestows to everyone. If we are unable to do it each and every moment and to everyone, this is our limitation; we are limited but in the complete system that's how the work should be. Let's say, if we imagine the corrected system of Adam HaRishon then all the parts, although by nature because of the shattering they are disconnected from one another, but when they wish to arrange themselves, seemingly correct the shattering that the Creator caused, that's why they yearn for the connection between them. Then they correct above the shattering, the separation and they're in connection with one another without any limitation and without any consideration for all the directions and difficulty for connection, but rather to return everything to the complete connection as it were before the shattering. So with respect to ourselves, we divide the work of connection to the part where we reveal His greatness, and the part where we reveal His humility. Because you cannot approach it with these two forces together, just like in our world we get AB SAG, we get Abba and Ima [father and mother]. The force of the father is great, it is ruling, heroic, awesome or terrible and on the other hand we described Him as merciful, one who lowers and humbles himself to be in contact with the created beings, and this is the part of Bina, the mother, who has no coarseness but only desire to be with everyone in connection. That's why all of creation is divided into two parts: the force of Hochma [wisdom] and the force of Hasadim [mercy], Abba and Ima, and we need to construct ourselves accordingly. So each of us will be included of the force of the father and the force of the mother, Abba and Ima, and then we'll be able to arrange the connections between us; going down to the level of each and every friend, how each one is shattered and we are all shattered. On the other hand to have the strength to draw the reforming light from above, the force of the father, the light of Hochma [wisdom], give us an opportunity to rise, rather raise and uplift the friend from below and to that extent, we uplift him, we uplift ourselves. We ourselves have no consideration for ourselves only according to this work; where we have to get down to everyone's level, equalize with them, impressed by what they are moved by, through mingling with their deficiencies, desires and broken qualities and lift them up together. Just as we can see how we save people who drowned in the deep sea, jump to them and you come and grab them and then begin to lift them up. That's what we need to do towards each and every friend. And in each and every friend, there are such states that the Creator arranges for us, those mutual states, so we can embrace and lift one another and so all of us together; eventually in those emotional connection, In our mental communications and with great force will be able to raise everyone to a prayer to the Creator, then with His power will perform the correction. Hence we will need to see both, the work of the Creator on us, in such a way that if we can see how He created the created beings in this lowly, shattered, despicable form, we can seemingly come to Him and complain, how could you do such a thing to us? Why did you make us so lowly? On the contrary we have to understand the point and the purpose of creation. That from the depth, if we climb up, by that we acquire all the vessels from below all the way up, including vessels of wisdom, vessels of mercy and by that we come to the power of Keter [crown]; the Creator. So because the Creator created all the creatures in what appears to us as such a lowly state, this is the correct preparation that points to his greatness. To how He prepared for us the ability, the opportunity, to get to know creation from one end to another, as the advantage of light from darkness. Then we can connect the lowest states with the highest states and the gap between them, there we discover the greatness of the Creator according to the level of the love of the Creator towards us and according to the depth, we come to a state of adhesion with Him. Since we have no forces in which to be grateful, to appreciate His love for us; for creating the lowest things with all His forces, His powers and He is present in them. He is also willing and able and He is actually doing an act of salvation where He jumps into the depth of the nature He created and He is saving us from there, gradually according to our desire. And he's willing to tolerate, suffer, many times more than us. It's like parents that look at the sick baby and how they're willing to take on his sickness and his sufferings, only so he would become well. The Creator is the same. We have to understand He suffers many times more than us, because He knows our entire degree, our descent, our fall everything that's happening to us on the one hand. On the other hand He understands that He has to stabilize it and go through this entire path together with us, because only in this way we can grow up with our mind, with our heart and come to a state where we know all of reality from one end to the other, and then we'll be like Him. This is called “the sorrow of raising children”. We taste it ourselves to a small extent with our own children, but for the Creator this is the complete reality. You can talk about it to no end because all of creation is included here in these few lines “where you find his greatness, there you find his humbleness”. It means that we can get to know the greatness of the creator by getting to know, to a small extent, how He was obligated to create all these lowly states and he suffers from it, He humiliated Himself in order to construct them and He is together with us, in order to show us something of that disparity of form; something of Himself, the Creator and to pull us out of there. Meaning that all of his work is not that we would truly enter the opposite state from Him, but only to a small extent to be there; to be impressed a tiny bit by that, and to be afraid of it, then He pulls us out of that state. And then He does it again in a different style of descent and again he pulls us out. In this way gradually, through money such actions, and it's many because you can't do this work all at once, It would simply not be able to tolerate it. Specifically with his love he's doing it little by little. He brings us into something and He takes us out, He puts us into something and He takes us out, and then when we feel bad He brings us out to a better feeling. Then the difference between the feelings we acquire the intellect, so between these two feelings we acquire the mind and that's how we advance. So everything happens according to this sentence“ in the place where you find his greatness, there you find his humbleness”. We attain the greatness of the Creator specifically when He walks with us, as King David says “if you want to walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I would not fear because you are with me”. Even in the worst possible states I'm not afraid and I walk; because I know, I see, I want to reveal and I'm certain that You are with me. The worst possible places that can be You are also there. Except you cannot show Yourself in order to teach us so we would find our vessels there, first and foremost, and later we'll be able to climb to the opposite States. Meaning from humbleness, from lowliness to Greatness. That's how we grow up and develop.
Shamati 47 (15:28) in the place where you find his greatness... “
2. R. (16:03) That he can see that because He's in constant adhesion. If he's not in constant adhesion like us, for the time being, we can't see the creator in every place but rather sometimes yes and sometimes no. But this also awakens a person to reach constant adhesion. Meaning the Creator is concealed and He comes closer, and then again more distance and then closer. There are times we do not feel we belong to spirituality at all and there are times we feel that we are on the threshold of revealing the Creator.
Reader continues (16:55) “and this is why...”
3. R. (17:30) When we feel the Creator picking us up, like we take a baby and we dip him in a bit of water and we take him out, we dip him again and take him out; we see how much joy it gives us in the baby, this little game. Same thing here if we feel that it's the Creator doing it to us, then it's possible that once or twice I am afraid of these things, but if I strengthen my connection with the Creator, that in all the movements in my life I feel that he is holding me and he's doing it to me, even the scariest things, then I begin to rejoice that it's coming to me from the Creator; he is doing it to me in order to develop in me the sensation that He's doing it, and I'll be able to cleave to Him on top of these dips, in and out of the water and out of the tub. So it turns out that whatever happens to me I justified the Creator, that everything He does is for me to strengthen the connection with Him. He is giving me an opportunity to be in all the states until we maintain the connection with Him, how long? Until it stops mattering to me what state I'm in, either up or down, I will feel that I am in constant adhesion with Him.
4. S. (19:30) What is the meaning of the verse “who sits on high, who looks down on heaven and earth”?
R. I explained it. The Creator is doing all these exercises with us, in ups and downs. It could be not exactly as it is with the baby, but much greater things such as the economic crisis, health crisis; or the other way around, a beautiful connection that's taking place, and the breaks between the falls, that's what we feel on ourselves.
5. S. (20:44) How to appreciate the greatness of the Rav [teacher] correctly, when he lowers himself to the level of the students so he can draw more light during the lesson?
R. If you're speaking of me, then we always have to depict ourselves as being together. This is our work. I am not greater than you or higher than you, I am together with you, in each and every state. It comes from the fact that I appreciate you and I love you. The important thing for me is how we are together, neither me nor you, but rather together; we will go through the required number of ascents and descents in order to become sensitive to an understanding, in heart and mind of what the Creator is doing to us. So we begin to get to know Him from this recognition, when we grow more and more, like children who are growing up, we'll get to know this supper force and what it's doing with us; until we get from, describing Him to ourselves in our feelings, we will begin to reveal Him more and more. The Creator is not revealed in our physical vision but rather in our internal feelings. How they become more group-like, more human-like, more in bestow, more inclusive, meaning from love of the created beings to love of the Creator, as we say. That's how we will reveal Him and I am hundred percent with you.
6. S. (23:22) How can we feel the suffering of the Creator and his Joy beyond our egoistic qualities that we don't want to suffer but we do envy his greatness the Creator's greatness?
R. We need to talk about it. To imagine it just like I'm talking about it now. We could have read this article several times probably because it's short but not get into and try to make it tangible. Rather what we need from the level of a baby who doesn't understand what is going on with him, then to the extent he knows his parents and when they do these things to him he understands it is for his own good. And when people who love him and he loves them when they do it to him and the attitude of the parents to the baby is one of eternal love and whole love and the attitude of the baby to the parents is egoistic love then in this way we can imagine those connections here. We also need to understand that the concept of parents of the Creator is something we create ourselves. From the connections we form to the extent we tell one another we talk to one another and we depict who is our upper one who's doing all these games with us. To that extent we begin to approach the revelation of the society, the group the 10 and in it, in the group and only inside of it, because without a vessel we will not discover anything. We discover inside the society the Creator. The force that moves all of us that shakes us up that He is the first to everyone into all of our states and that's how we advance.
S. Why does it cause us so much fear to think about our suffering when we see something and we're afraid of something so great?
R. Because you're not connected. We see that even people who are fearful who are small egoists, according to their ego and they are all afraid not to harm themselves. Even if they look to be the strongest bullies around nevertheless when they connect and they think of one another together, then they transform the fear of themselves, their egoistic fears, to worry and to concern and there's a difference, fear is on a beastly level and worry is already that human worry a group worry and that's how we raise ourselves.
7. S. (27:40) In the article it says a person who is constantly in true adhesion, doesn't know what to do, what is that state?
R. Well if he's in contact with the group and he discovers the connection with the essence of the inner group called the Creator, because the Creator does not have a vessel. We have nothing by which to hold on to Him rather when we connect together in the connection together we will reveal the Creator. It turns out that this is how we come to attaining Him. From love of the creative being to love of the Creator. You can't reveal the Creator any more than the connection, the kind of connection that is between friends. It has to be this way, it must, we are still on the path, and we still can't explain ourselves, obligate ourselves that this is happening specifically like that. When we come to a state where we are certain truly inside, when we don't forget that through the connection between us only in this way we come to the revelation of the Creator the feeling of the Creator adhesion with the Creator. This means that we have reached the level of Bina.
8. S. (29:47) How not to let my ego, my habits use the principle by which we as a 10 have to go down to the friend to his lowest state?
R. This comes to us from talking about it in the 10 and reading articles about it. We need to organize additional help between us. Where if we need to open up a certain desk a place, where if I find something good short beautiful from Baal HaSulam and Rabash, then I can put it up there like on a message board of sorts and they will translate it into other languages so we'll be able to the first of all connected with one another and be able to expand the topic. I think that's what we need to do. Try to talk about it, how you can organize it and it will help us greatly, first of all this will bring about greater connection. Which is the principal goal between us. We would feel more and more the internality of the friends and not the faces or a Partzuf and that's how we will advance, it’s time we started to feel that we are connected in the heart. And not that there is a Rosh, the head that speaks.
9. S. (32:06) It says here that the Creator is in the low places, how does a person discover the Creator in these low places?
R. Only with the help of the friends because he himself when he goes down to those states where he feels his loneliness his emptiness, Helplessness and so on and so forth, in those states he doesn't have the strength first of all by himself he can't rise from such states as it's written as a prisoner does not deliver himself from the house of bondage. It's like in our world where friends need to come and help him come out of prison and break free and in this way meaning only the connection, if we wish to improve our state in truth spiritually it is only by forming tighter bonds between us.
10. S. (33:27) A person comes to the lesson, say, kind of absent minded where he is distracted he feels blurry, what does it mean to discover the Creator out of this lowly place?
R. I told you how Rabash used to wake up to the lesson, he would wake up as if he couldn't see and understand. He takes those slow steps to the bathroom and then to wash his face and come back to the table and sit down, put on his robe, get dressed and sit in front of the table. And still he says nothing, he is not talking to me yet or anything. I would put a cup of coffee before him, he would drink a little bit, little bit more he would turn his head around and start to come out of this state and it was a great deal of effort. It would take him many such efforts a long time before he would recuperate. Because he was in these special falls and accordingly, he who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater, so when he gets back to the state where he would say okay let's study and it could be 10 minutes maybe 15 minutes. But I would feel, I can't testify to his inner efforts but in truth, I could see the depths from which he is climbing and this begins and then he begins to recover to read to speak, that's how he would wake up.
S. But after this cup of coffee was there prayer or some efforts some intentional inner efforts?
R. I can't tell you even if I’d known I wouldn't tell you because you have to obtain it yourself but I'm telling you about those external efforts that which you could see.
S. But here Baal HaSulam writes that a person discovers the greatness of the Creator and how can you discover the greatness of the Creator in such a state?
R. Try I have nothing to say. Each and every effort that you put in you will see that it is advancing you, it will take another six months or another year but in the end you too will begin to discover how to arise from a deep hole to a tall mountain.
11. S. (37:18) Earlier you spoke of the feeling of the Creator, it's not clear to me because how can I distinguish or discern the feeling of the Creator. I feel an egoistic feeling like when I'm sitting with my friends now but the feeling itself, of something that is outside of our nature, a different frequency. How can I not make any mistakes and feel and identify exactly the feeling of the Creator?
R. The most correct truest way is to connect all the friends into one image. I don't know how it's done today in cameras but previously with cameras if you wanted to take a picture you had to focus the lens. When you look you had two images and then you had to gradually combine them into one image one picture. I don't know if it's done that way today, maybe according to pixels or numbers or maybe it's not automatically, but you turn these things until what you see becomes from 2 to 1. Then it's clear to you that you are facing that object that you want to take a picture of and that when you take a picture of it, it will fit correctly into your frame, into your lens. And it's the same here if you have in front of you, with the Creator it's a little more difficult, because the Creator is the upper light and when it spreads and permeates the Sefirot until it comes to you, to the Malchut. If you add to yourself as one image all of your friends, that you see in them not images but one desire that yearns for the Creator this directs you exactly towards the Creator, directs you, even though you're looking at them and how they are directed to the Creator. It turns out that by this you come to, you reach the goal. This way through the group specifically thanks to the group and only in this way, can you come to the Creator. To identify Him and start moving closer, of course the more closer you come the more you will have to refocus, how you bring together all the friends into one image into the same frame. In the end they form for you the image of the Creator. This is called the Creator standing behind the friends, right, which you put together and you really do reach Him. You will discover in all the friends all the qualities that are different and contradicting and still you bring them all together until it turns out that you and the friends and the Creator become as one. This is the end of correction, your own final correction.
S. You mean that this focus is my attitude towards each friend, the intention to give, is this the change we have two add between us?
R. Yes. When I want to connect with each and every friend without taking into consideration all of his physical qualities, but only his disposition to reveal the Creator. This is called connecting with Him, bonding with Him.
12. S. (42:53) According to the text that we read the question is, sometimes we feel that we can give more to the friends but we can't do it in practice and we feel in a state of loneliness. Can the Creator appear there and give us strength and push us towards the goal?
R. All the conditions for our physical life the Creator arranges them too. And if we can't help each other in the physical sense, then it should also be that way from his perspective and the most important thing for us is to be connected. As it is called, heart and soul meaning with our desire with our yearning through connection, to discover everyone's connection in the 10 that this is the Keter this is the upper force. And the physical things where we cannot really help each other, we will do as much as we can but the main thing is to constantly connect among us and through us to the Creator. We nevertheless must not forget that the Creator is a spiritual essence that is revealed after I connect my whole group into one. Just as with the example of the focus in the camera.
13. S. (45:09) This new work you described in your opening words, where we have to be and feel that we are included in Abba Ve Ima, and intermingled with the friend’s qualities and save him from the ocean where he's drowning. What does it mean to incorporate with the friends broken vessels and saving him, how does that work out?
R. You have to see, to worry with your prayers first of all with your prayers, to save all of the friends and to raise them as much as you can to pray for them. If you pray for them by this you are doing the greatest good, the greatest benefit, the greatest favor to the Creator. Because you have nothing to give to the Creator what are you going to give Him, you have nothing to turn to Him with unless you pray for the friends.
S. I take the friends deficiency and I raise it to the Creator I raise it in a prayer?
R. As much as you can yes. This is called helping one another.
S. And if our friend does not disclose his deficiency then this won’t help?
R. You don't need to reveal his deficiency by force, you need to reveal your deficiency to help all your friends connect them to the Creator. You don't need to go to him and open up his deficiencies this is not what we do. It all depends on how much you want it.
S. The more I yearn for it the more I discover deficiencies?
R. You don't need to discover to reveal the deficiencies of the friend, you need to reveal your own deficiencies to help the friend. Do you understand?
14. S. (47:39) It says a person is in true adhesion to the Creator, how to know that I'm adhered to Him in eternity?
R. If you're connected with a group in such a way that you feel no difference between you it is considered that you are with the Creator to the same extent.
15. S. (48:15) How you said we have to nevertheless combine the friend’s tendencies to the Creator to reveal them and connect them, how do we locate the friend’s tendency towards revealing the Creator? Do I locate that in my own vessels or does it open up from above?
R. I don't know, as much as I can because according to my feeling to the extent that they are all in a disposition or an inclination to connect us and with the Creator. So I went to connect all those dispositions and with my effort to connect them with the Creator and likewise each and every one of us.
S. This is a very internal thing it's hard to see?
R. Yes it's very internal.
S. That makes us impressed by it?
R. No, even without examples for now but it can be without examples but it's done humbly in a concealed way.
S. How does that become apparent in my senses, how can I feel, how can I sense that tendency so I'll be able to work with it?
R. If you make efforts you’ll begin to feel it, there's no such thing as a person not being able to feel if he makes those efforts.
S. The efforts are in trying to help them and then I'm showing this deficiency?
R. By trying to imagine them standing in your heart.
16. S. (50:16) How should a person lower himself towards the Creator through the 10?
R. When he wants to help everyone, by this he feels he is willing to serve everyone as long as they connect, as long as through their connection they will come closer to the center of the connection which is really the Creator, we build Him, we make Him. This concept of the Creator, it doesn't exist, it exists only on condition and to the extent that we build it. You have made me, it is written.
S. Why can't you discover the Creator without feeling lowliness?
R. You don't have the vessel.
17. S. (51:40) The Creator appears to me like the greatness of the friends outside of me and like my lowliness, my ability to act, my helplessness, powerlessness?
R. The Creator is revealed through a person's complete relinquishment after all the concessions that I can imagine that I am doing after that I discover the Creator. It's not the same as seeing images in our world, it is rising out of the internality of the concession.
18. S. (52:54) How can we or can we ask the Creator to give the friend an opportunity to feel his greatness?
R. Yes this we can ask. Perhaps it needs to be clear to us that we can feel the greatness of the Creator only to the extent that we annul ourselves and in that place where we find his humbleness, His greatness, there you will find his humbleness. We can't give it to the other but to pray for the friends is possible.
19. S. (54:03) No matter what efforts I do, what work I do, I will not be able to feel the Creator if I'm not in a relationship like the 10 or at least one other person. Like from one point in the heart to another point in the heart?
R. Yes. If you can’t annul before the friends then you haven't the vessel to reveal the Creator because the Creator stands behind the friends, that's true.
20. S. (55:03) How do we connect the whole 10 into one in practice?
R. Talk about it. It's the matter of a person's control over his heart. Of course we don't control our hearts so we need to pull in here the upper force so we have to turn to it. Turning to it doing a group activity, for this is called a group prayer. So we have to decide that we are turning to the Creator and we ask him to cancel our ego and give us even, if just a little bit, to feel ourselves closer to each other. Not in a physical sense, without faces, without knowing each other's bodies and the distance between the body's etc., but only internally. With our yearning for the Creator. We have to first of all develop in us a yearning for a connection among us and in connection among us we have to develop a yearning for the Creator. This is called from the love of people to the love of the Creator.
21. S. (56:48) It says even if I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil and you said the Creator has given us an opportunity to be in all of the states, it doesn't matter if I am up or down, what does it give us?
R. You are kind of going off tune in what you're saying, it is written, if I walk in the valley of the shadow of death I will not fear because you are with me.
S. Shall I repeat it?
R. Say the whole sentence. Even if I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear because You are with me, that is the main thing, why is he not afraid, why is he not afraid of making mistakes? He's not afraid of anything on the contrary he exalts the situation because precisely by going with fears and he's got these fears and he's failing on the path on the obstacles, and he's trying to distract him to divert him to deflect him and he's not afraid because precisely through these distractions, disturbances he gets stronger with the Creator. I will not fear evil because you are with me.
S. What kind of state is that we have to justify?
R. It's the state of King David, 3000 years ago that he wrote about.
S. Can we reach a state that even if I feel bad, to say I don't feel bad?
R. You're thankful that you have these bad states because specifically they direct you to the Creator. So are they good states or bad states? Are you going with your feeling of being afraid or with your goal of approaching the Creator and getting an even stronger grip on him?
S. The goal of holding on to him, that even if I feel bad I say no I don't feel bad?
R. Then it's not bad it's not bad. When you frighten the child and he runs to you because he thinks he is going into some danger so you frighten him. Because you think he's going into something dangerous so you frightened him so he runs to you to hide. So are you doing something bad to him, you are saving him. You're teaching him by that.
S. So to be above reason is what you're saying?
R. In short hide in the group and then you will see. In the end this is the final state of all of us. Hiding in the group means annulling in the group.
22. S. (01:00:13) If the 10 discovers that another 10 is in a descent, how can you help them?
R. I don't know, only example. Only example and to awaken such states as we are doing now during the lesson. That's it so we all talk about it and become incorporated and learn from one another in this way.
23. S. (01:01:02) What is the consolation as you sit?
R. That I am connected there is nothing else here.
24. S. (01:01:20) When we are in a descent because the Creator lowers himself by showing him his lowliness at the same time his great?
R. Yes of course only from the states where we awaken and we awaken only by feeling bad. Then first there has to be some desperate state without any hope and in this way we can hear what is being said to us.
25. S. (01:02:12) What work in revelation of deficiency is done by the intellect or the mind and what's done by the light?
R. The work for the intellect and the work through the light.
S. In disclosing or revealing the deficiency?
R. What's done is done, there is no difference in this and it doesn't matter to me. Who's the wise guy who's asking this?
S. The Creator created the lowliest things and he had to create them this way, what or who forced the Creator to create us this way?
R. The purpose of creation is to bring the created beings to his level.
27. S. (01:03:08) How to reach constant adhesion with the Creator?
R. Through what we're talking among us now.
28. S. (01:03:21) What does it mean that he will lift the poor from the dust?
R. That from the lowest degrees from the worst states specifically from there, we come to the greatest state. It is said that before the final correction, the last ascent, the final ascent there will be the lowest fall and the worst state will happen.
Shamati 47 (01:07:02) the place where you find His greatness. Reading again
29. R. (01:08:16) In other words we have to relate to all our states, if we accept them all of them as coming from the Creator they all come from the Creator. Then we have to relate to all of those states as complete states. Meaning that they are all directed towards the goal of the final correction, the end of correction, to bring us to it. So we have to work on ourselves to accept every single state as a perfect state and it doesn't matter what state we are in. Even if I walk in the valley of the shadow of death I will not fear because you are with me. If a person works on being adhered to the Creator always, because you are with me, then the Creator takes him through all kinds of states and the valley of the shadow of death, something awful, he is not afraid. He accepts these things as the opposite, as good states, special, sublime.
Reader continues: (01:09:39) “First one must see that he has a lack…”
30. S. (01:11:13) Where the writer has such forces of overcoming and certainty that the Creator will help him and everything will work itself out and it doesn't matter what he is going through, he has the strength. The goal is strong, is aimed in spite of everything that's happening to him?
R. Well that you understand that they are in a different state from yours.
S. Yes but the aspiration is to reach there. I'm not the one who wrote this book. The aspiration is to reach it.
R. You understand that it's possible only by asking? What do you need in order to ask, what are you lacking?
S. You connect and you want to bestow to them, you want to lift them up, but you don't have these heroic forces that he's describing every day. The Creator is with you and when he drops you where do you get that confidence?
R. Make efforts to set an example, so they will understand that they have to do like you do, give them an example, set an example.
S. If they don't respond?
R. It's not that they are not responding, it is the Creator arranging it in such a way that you will see them as if they are not responding. You should try to feel yourself standing opposite from the Creator.
S. I know but I'm telling you I'm putting in the efforts?
R. So what's the problem?
S. No reaction, there's no connection you're talking about, it's not working out. People are growing weak, it is not working as it's written in the book.
R. It means you're demanding of the Creator to do something.
S. It's not as its written here that he comes and he heals and it's all good.
R. Well what can you do, Baal HaSulam made a mistake, that's what you're trying to say. Look, we have no choice, we have to try to depict to ourselves the real picture and how much we can get into this real picture that's it.
S. How can we awaken him to help us in practice so it will happen?
R. Do what you can from your part and turn to him to help because it's certain that what you do, when you do what you have to do, you will see in this that there's a part that you cannot do. You just can't.
S. I want, as it's written, to build a house, to protect the city, to dwell in purity but to do it, that's the problem?
R. The problem is that you have to participate in this, you have to participate. It's like when you bring a baby some bricks, and it sits there and cries, why did it get these bricks and not a complete house. Start building and you can see again and again and again that it's not working out this way or that way. When does it turn to his parents, when he sees that he can't. When should he turn to him, when he should understand the Creator's answer, so if the Creator shows him you should have done it this way. You should have put the brick that way and then it would work out but you would have to work a lot before that to develop his mind, his deficiencies to understand the Creator's answers.
S. You see the ones next to me, I want to take care of them, I went to love them but it's not working.
R. Why is it not working out?
S. I don't know, there is no answer, he is just weakening and separating between us for months.
R. It's probably that you're demanding something of them.
S. Correct.
R. Why?
S. So not to ask?
R. What should you ask? You should only awaken their hearts as much as you can and that's it. Why are you coming with demands to anyone? No, no, no, only awaken them, elevate them. Lift them up so they'll be more inspired, feel more but without pressure, without pressuring them, without force. Words of the wise are heard in peace, in quiet in the end it will be okay, when that's the question but it will work out.
31. S. (01:17:28) What are the states that we need to gather in order to annul before the friends? What are the opportunities that we need to use in order to annul before the friends that I should not give up on them, lose them and miss out on the opportunity and how will I use it to come closer to the feeling of adhesion to the Creator?
R. I should try in my heart even not physically, but rather in my heart I want to connect with my friends and to work with them, support them so we'll all be one in one heart. This is what it is called as one man with one heart without any external physical pressure. Only by my heart's effort, if I want to perform spiritual action I have no other vessels. I can't with my hands or feet or commands that I will write for them or any pressure. The pressure has to be from my heart on them, in a negative way, in a positive way but nothing changed. By that I want to elevate them in the connection between us and the Creator, meaning all in all, I act in the force of love because I want to bring all of us to connection. In the connection we discover the result in which we can discover the Creator.
32. S. (01:20:55) When the friend is in the descent and we can, how can we help a friend to always be present?
R. First of all we should all pray, ask the Creator to shine a little bit of upper light to this friend because we pray that we have a deficiency, we become a pipeline through which the upper light comes from the Creator to that friend. This is called he who prays for his friend merits first, he is rewarded first. This is how we should do it first of all.
33. S. (01:22:09) It seems to me that there's a contradiction or discrepancy in the article, we start with one who is in adhesion with the Creator sees that he is present in low places and later he sees that one first see that he has a lack. How can one be in adhesion with the Creator but also find himself in a place where he has a lack. It seems that the Creator is giving something in advance for free?
R. The Creator doesn't have to give anything in advance because to be in adhesion with the Creator is possible for you to the extent that you need nothing. Adhesion starts when you are like an embryo, in the Creator. Meaning that you have nothing to demand, you have no place to demand because your mouth is closed and you are receiving everything you need in order to exist from the Creator. If you settle for that only to be in order to be in connection with the Creator you are in Ibur, conception. Try that
S. But a person has to work to get to the degree first because you can even begin to talk about an addition or having a lack that you will pray for. so we are always already talking about something where we you are in a degree before you can become aware that the Creator is with you at all times, that he is playing this game that he's showing you all the states, you have to come to adhesion at least to at least some small form initially, is that not correct?
R. No, first you should only know that adhesion, constant adhesion is your goal at least for the beginning of adhesion that you want to reach now and that is only by annulment, just like being a drop of semen in the womb. When you annul yourself and this is why you are there.
S. So what is the lack that he should pray for first one must say he has a lack and pray for it what is the lack?
R. You should have the strength to go into the womb, you have seen these movies where the sperm goes into the womb. What does it come with, it is fighting just to be attached to the upper one that is all it wants. All the rest, everything that stands in its way and all the others that are in competition, there are millions of sperm. These are all these other desires that are corrupt and he wants to reach in order to bestow, and to annul himself with all of this force that is how he can make it, he annuls and attaches to the womb. What is the attachment to the womb? The womb is in order to bestow any specifically because he fights them all and he comes to that and gets rid of along the way of all these egoistic desires that can be and he's the only one that makes it. All the rest, the egoistic desires do not make it and that is how he adheres and starts developing, that is what we need.
34. S. (01:26:59) This is about the suffering we talked about it a lot in the introduction. What does the suffering of the Creator do for me? I know you said that you equate it with our parents in this world. how they suffer and I know that because my dad used to say this hurts me more than it hurts you but I didn't feel that. I didn't feel that it hurts my dad more than it is hurting than me, I didn't feel his suffering so how can the Creator suffer when he created us and he knows the outcome and he knows that everything will be okay?
R. The Creator's suffering and the fact that he's above time you can say that maybe that is one excuse or reason but the other reason is that the Creator is the degree of Bina and that is in the wholeness even though it is completely in deficiency, we cannot understand this but one day we will find out. We will discover that the spiritual degree even though it is completely in deficiency, nevertheless it is in wholeness. How could these two things exist, we will understand this, we will discover it. That specifically the greatest deficiencies appear towards the final correction and you can only compliment them by rising above them with faith above reason to adhesion with the Creator. In our world we have to solve the problems, the same place where the deficiency is, in the spiritual world we solve problems above the place where the deficiency appears. Meaning in the degree of bestowal above it.
35. S. (01:29:37) What Commandments does the article speak about?
R. Only the commandant of connection, of love, nothing more than that. We only have one commandment just as Baal HaSulam writes in the article One Commandment.
S. How can we reach recognition of the right deficiency, if my ego conceals the truth?
R. The ego doesn't conceal the truth, there are no things in the world that are disturbing, everything is an aid, we have to overcome them to discover the truth and that is simply something they have to do to disturb me, so that I will discover and understand the truth.
36. S. (01:31:01) How can we see that the Creator is lowering himself if we're building the Creator?
R. We first of all are talking about the upper light being in complete rest. From the final state of filling the entire reality he bestows on us, this is with respect to the upper light. With respect to the Creator that you build, that you make him, out of you building or making the upper light, the force called the Creator you build within yourself, that is something else. Meaning the Creator means Boreh, come and see, when you build the force of bestowal, love, connection and that is what you discovered according to the extent that you can build him in your vessels. Above that we have the upper light that created the entire reality and is sustaining the entire reality that is not the same, that is not the Creator. The Creator is with respect to you but the upper light as it is in complete rest that is above the Creator. So it depends what you are talking about, do not be confused between the two.
37. S. (01:32:48) In the article it says that someone has to see that he has a deficiency and if he doesn't, he has to pray for it. Why doesn't he have one, he didn't have a deficiency because he didn't have awareness, so the question is so what is the diminution of the awareness?
R. It is when a person cannot discover all the conditions to reveal the Creator on his own and even to relate in the right way in the whole way. He has to be in this tendency, in this connection with his group, you have to discover what he has in favor or against the connection between them, he can even make a list. This is what I am lacking in the connection between us, and this is what we are attaining bit by bit with this is how he can examine himself in a practical way and then it will become clear to them where they are.
38. S. (01:34:08) Why is it so hard for us to remember or to feel that he is good that only does good, why is that so hard, is this what the will to receive is?
R. Our problem is that we confuse the mind and the emotion. We are willing in our mind to accept that the Creator is good that's good but when the emotion comes and it is not exactly the good that does good so that erases everything for us. That is why all the spiritual concepts we can truly accept them, feel them, locate them, establish them only in the connection between us. Because when everyone adds something to the sum total of the group by that we build a concept in the group that doesn't disappear anymore. We hold it like holding a ball in the air when 10 people stand, 10 friends stand and play with the ball and each one is trying to pass on the ball in a nice way, in a good way and you can be sure that the ball will never fall. This is we have to care and be concerned about holding ourselves all the time and by that we who are holding the group.
39. S (01:36:08) Baal HaSulam writes that he brings into such a low state that the wicked one doesn't want to remain in such a way so a person, so the Creator's forcing the person to run away from the lowest state but before that, it says that we have to take every state as if it is the best state. So what is the right effort in a low state to ask for the change or to ask to agree with it?
R. We should in each and every state, try to be connected to each other and to the extent that we scrutinize the connection between us, how much, how good it is, to that extent we can already understand how purposeful this connection is and this is how we will advance.
40. S. (01:37:22) In what vessels inside of us can we count on the Creator?
R. In the connection between us we can count on the Creator. Because only this way we discover him.
41. S. (01:37:54) What is there any connection between us that can bring him to us, that we can see him?
R. That we are building the vessel between us, a common vessel, in the connection between all of our opposite qualities. However they're all in the connection which is above the contradiction in them we establish the Creator. The Creator is as we say, come and see, we build him. So how do we build him, by wanting to connect between us even though we are all opposite, we hate each other, we are all pushing each other away, but above that we want to connect. Then this way we have coarseness and we hate, when we push away in purity nevertheless we want to be connected in order to give him contentment above our nature and then we built this state we call come and see. Come, is the coarseness and see, is seeing that is the Zakut, purity and the cleansing. That is how we discovered him
42. S. (01:39:23) The Creator brings us to low state, recognition, awareness of the state that is such, that it also comes from the Creator or is it a result of our work?
R. Everything comes from the Creator, everything is only revealed from him that is all I can say.
43. S. (01:40:00) On what does the force of patience depend so that I can take every state as perfect and that it is coming from the Creator and not to keep slandering him?
R. Trying to sustain myself to hold myself that everything in my mind and my heart and body, everything is there is, it all came from the Creator that there is none else besides Him. So I am willing to accept every state, that it comes from him and along with it in all states I want to be adhered to him. Meaning in each and every state, I demand one thing, to be adhered to the Creator. In that adhesion, it is not that I'm getting some prize, it is that I will bestow to him contentment. Even though I will not know exactly that I'm getting him contentment, that too is right and good and I agree to it. Even more of the Creator shining to me and showing to me that he is enjoying to me. To the extent that I can be with containment to the Creator I will feel the Hassadim, Mercy and even that I will later rise and I will be able to discover the pleasure I caused him it will seem to be the light of Hochma that I will also will receive this revelation in order to bestow, the revelation itself. Meaning I always maintain myself in zero and all the rest it is not zero both in Hassadim and Hochma is all to bestow contentment to the Creator. These are things that we have to scrutinize.
S. Being in the state of zero that forces us to withstand all states that also comes from the Creator from the group?
R. Of course, where else is there anything else besides Him?
44. S. (01:42:53) What is the state of not being in awareness?
R. Meaning that I do not want anything except the strength to hold on to the group and the Creator in the form of a point. Meaning like a drop of semen in the womb.
45. S. (01:43:18) What does it mean to overcome let's say the suffering?
R. Means that it is not that I'm running away from the suffering but I am running from my own approach that brings me the state of suffering.
46. S. (01:43:59) You said to make a list of what you are lacking about the connection, if we decided a simple action in the group and we can keep it and we are divided into two parts, who am I complaining to the Creator, myself or the friends?
R. Maybe you should write all these things that you are feeling now and later come back to it in two or three weeks let's say? If you see that by some discussion you are growing further away from each other in such a clear way. You should let go of it and go back to it in a few weeks.
47. S. (01:44:56) When we see that we don't have the power to build the intention in order to bestow, is that called the state of lowliness?
R. Yes, that too is also called a state of lowliness.
48. S. (01:45:23) It is written he brings me down to the netherworld and brings me up and he sees the greatness of the Creator and lowers the heavens to the earth, who does that and what does exactly mean?
R. Everything is done by the Creator, the upper force. But what is required from man is to give it his response already.
49. S. (01:45:57) From what point of connection to the group and relation to the Creator I can look at the friend from a psychological point of view?
R. I don't think this is something you should do at all. Kabbalah below does not respect psychology. Maybe a bit of materialistic psychology as Baal HaSulam writes but these things you should learn them. We are not yet capable of it yet it will only confuse us. Don't connect any psychological concepts or methods to the wisdom of Kabbalah that should be very clear.
50. S. (01:47:20) You mentioned that we need to depict a true picture, what is that true picture?
R. That we are all connected, man, woman, everyone and we in our connection are in a perfect state in the final correction. As it is written that in the final correction we will discover that we were as dreamers as if we were in the dream. Real life was around us but we felt it as we were dreaming. It wasn't real. So we have to try through the dream of this life, what we feel now, to feel the real life.
51. S. (01:48:32) It is written that in every commandment everyone has to pray: why doesn't he have the recognition that he is not doing the commandment in wholeness. How to do the commandant in wholeness?
R. The whole commandment is that each and every moment the Creator puts us in internal or external conditions, internal and external feeling with respect to reality and what we need to make of all the states is to build the right connection between us and through us to the Creator. Everything in this world, it was given to us so that from this moment we will start aiming ourselves to the Creator. That's it
52. S. (01:49:31) How can we check that our mind and heart are truly adhered to the Creator?
R. That is only through the 10. To try to make such changes in your 10 so that you will start feeling how the world you feel is changing. We have these states where we were in very bad internal states and then something changed then we reach a state where the world seems different, the world seems nice and this is seemingly how we change the world. Nothing changed, it is just as we see it differently.
53. S. (01:50:44) How to increase the frequency of the connections to the Creator and keep a constant connection to him?
R. We learn from the wisdom of Kabbalah that the records are from the shattering of the vessels until the final correction each and every moment they renew themselves and with infinite speed, at the speed of light. Every time the records are new. That is how inside of us, in all of us, in each one of us, from one each one of us to everyone and from everyone to each one, the records are all the time renewed and are incorporated and connecting and this work is done in infinite speed within the broken vessel. We have to, according to our own rate, to try to bring these records to the right connections. That is all. This is what we want to happen.
54. S. (01:52:20) I do not know the deficiencies of the friends and I'm also not supposed to tell the Creator what to do, should I still feel the friends in my heart that they need the help of the Creator and from every state that they are in to ask for them?
R. What we see, our state is given to us from the Creator in order for us to read our state in the right way. Meaning that we will understand and try to feel that all our states are the result of our relation to the world. That is why we are asking from the Creator to give us the right perspective on the world, on us and that we will be able to connect in the 10 in such a way that if we connect in the 10, through the 10, we will be able to bestow on the world. If we work in the right way we will start feeling that actually the world and the 10, they are all inside of a person. The more we connect between us, we discover more and more that everything depends on the connection between us. The connection between us causes us to see the world in a more real way. I can’t explain more because it will confuse you.
55. S. (01:54:44) I heard you say that the work of the Creator is to make us fear the low state. But we should not be in fear because the Creator is always with us and how to connect these two states?
R. If I discover myself in an egoistic way then I'm supposed to be afraid to remain this way. I should connect to the group as much as possible so that they will take care of me. I have to cause their connection to such a connection that through it, the upper light will come to me and change me and correct me and it will make me more spiritual. That is why my relation to the group I am basically determining the Creator’s relation to me. Because his light is in complete rest. The more I come closer to the group wanting them to bestow upon me the correction, the upper light. By that we will take care of ourselves, we will correct ourselves.
56. S. (01:56:25) Why is it easy to connect with the corporeal qualities of the friend but to connect with a friend's yearning for the Creator it seems impossible. It causes a rejection, how to work with that?
R. You should justify the friend, each and every friend actually. When all of them are in the yearning for adhesion with the Creator. He who judges he does it by his own flaws, if you do not see it that this is how it is, it is because you are corrupt not that they are. So it turns out that if you want to connect with them in order to reach the Creator you really have an open path for that, so do it.
57. S. (01:57:21) Is revealing the lowliness before the 10 is revealing shame from lack of equivalence with the Creator?
R. That is correct on one hand, on the other hand when we are in our development on our path, I don't think it is that you have a matter here of shame between us, because we are all created beings we are all tiny. None of us is capable of doing anything. We are only performing the commands of our egoistic nature that is rattling us. That is why I have nothing to be ashamed of. Humanity is discovering this bit by bit. What is coming out of it, out of that I have to try to discover in me qualities, other qualities that are not, that I did not get them directly from nature, egoistic desires, qualities rather I want other qualities to speak in me, to take care of me in order to bestow, love and connection. If you try to talk about in the 10 and pay attention to that. You will have this spiritual life in the 10 more important than corporate life then you'll see how much it will help you advance.
58. S. (01:59:27) In what way do I ask for the friend if he is completely corrected compared to me?
R. I can ask for the connection between us, I want to be connected to him in a way that I will see my correction, that he will connect me to the Creator.
59. S. (02:00:10) If I understood correctly by moving away from the Creator one acquires vessels?
R. Moving away from the Creator yes, but it's not that a person does it. I only have to work on coming closer, if the Creator throws us that is a revelation of the spiritual record that is how it happens. But if we increase the distance that will be a Klipa, the Sitra Achra, other side already. That is not something that you should agree with to perform such things.
60. S. (02:00:55) It is written that the person sees the greatness of the Creator and then he lowers him, that he lowers the heaven to Earth, what does that mean?
R. That the greatness of the spirituality becomes like spirituality.
61. S. (02:01:13) You said that the Creator knows our whole degree, that he suffers more than us, can you explain the term degree. You said that he suffers more than us in that low state, can you explain what it means that he knows our degree in that state?
R. That all comes from the Creator and he organized that situation for each and every one, it is not that we organize that state but it always comes from above, always. And that is how we do exist. I cannot go deeper into that state now.
Reading Shamati 47 again (02:02:40) “In the place where you find His greatness…”
Baal HaSulam - Shamati 51 - If You Encounter This Villain
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Reading Shamati 51 (02:05:11) “If you encounter this villain draw him to the seminary…”
1. R. (02:05:58) Everything is above reason that is why there are no complaints that come from the ego, the will to receive.
Reading Shamati 51 again (02:06:09) “If you encounter this villain, draw him to the seminary…”