MALCHUT: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. Study of the Ten Sefirot. Vol. 1. Part 2. Inner Observation. Chapter 7, item 72
Morning Lesson June 3, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World (The Four Attributes, Mercy, Truth, Justice, and Peace, in the Individual and in the Collective)
1. Rav’s Introduction: For now we are studying the foundations of the spiritual structure and let’s keep going.
Item 72: (00:41)
2. R. (00:59) Yes because we have the matter of the screen that does not want to accept the Upper light in the way it comes from the Creator before the restriction, but only after the restriction, it rejects the light that comes to him and wants to build a different kinds of relation to it that he will be willing to accept only in order to bestow this is its purpose and otherwise it cannot implement its purpose. Only when he rejects and then receives in order to bestow according to the intensity of the screen as much as able while receiving to suffer that Upper light in a way that it wants to enter into its desire, so he rejects it in such a way and he is willing to receive it in order to bestow, meaning in the opposite way in thought to feel that he is doing it only for the Creator, only for the sake of bestowal, that all of his desire, all the pleasure, it is all passed towards the bestower, towards the Creator. It’s things that are very special, very exalted, and we still need to think about them and to try and try every time here and there to implement it, clear? If there are questions please ask and we keep going. The detaining force in the screen is the measure of the coarseness of the Malchut are equal that as much as Malchut draws that light to that extent it also needs to reject the light, and then she is free from the pressure of the Creator on one hand, and on the other hand, on her behalf, on the behalf of the desire to receive, she can determine after that her action in a free way, she decides. So let’s start.
Item 72: (03:31) “In Order to Understand the Issue of …”
3. R. (04:34) This is something we can see in our life, as much as I have attraction to something according to that I have to stop myself and overcome that attraction in order to be separated from that thing that I am yearning for, that’s why a big desire has a big yearning and you needed big force of detaining meaning a bigger Masach and so on.
4. S. (05:07) Clearly they have to be weighed and measured equally but he says it’s always that way, what promise is that?
R. You cannot promise that it will be, it happens that way because under all these systems from above, from Ein Sof until this world, that’s why what happens is that we can receive pleasures, that we are allowed to receive in order to exist, these are corporeal pleasures but spiritual pleasures can only be received under the conditions that we receive them in order to bestow, until we have no more forces to receive them in order to bestow, we just cannot see them, we cannot recognize them, but if we will have the force, that is the force of the screen, so that force will be revealed from above, that force of attraction, that bestow that we will be able to work with.
5. S. (06:24) The detaining force of the screen, what is that force?
R. That detaining force in the Masach is that after the lower one decided in the world of Ein Sof that it will not receive in order to receive and rejects all the pleasure that comes to him and stands about it so then there is a development, and he decides that he can receive in order to bestow. If he can receive in order to bestow then to that extent he will receive the pleasure because this is called that he receives, it’s not called that he is receives but he is bestowing beyond the restriction, beyond the detaining force, and that is the work beyond the restriction to receive in order to bestow and that’s called the work with the screen. That to the extent that it is able to receive but not for itself then it can receive and this is not called reception it is called receiving in order to bestow, meaning it is bestowal and it is a special kind of bestowal that stems from him not wanting to work with his will to receive the way the will to receive wants, but the way now he is organizing his will to receive to work with it in an opposite way, in order to bestow.
S. The root of it here is the feeling of the Creator?
R. The result of him not willing to receive for himself in order to receive in a natural way the way he is and only wanting to receive in order to bestow, to give pleasure to the Creator, that is called the reflected light, to that extent that he decides, so he asks the Creator to have such a force, so then the Creator gives it to him this is the force of the Masach as it is called, and then he receives a part of what comes to him, as much as he weighs that he is able to receive in order to bestow, and then that is called a spiritual reception.
S. I always try to describe at least the example with the coffee, you feel that you drink it, and you feel that you are giving simultaneously, what can hold me from just enjoying this coffee and bestowing to the Creator?
R. You perform the restriction. Let’s speak clearly and simply, obviously it is not spiritual and it is not real, but it is kind of. You are saying this, he gives us the example, you come to the host, the host wants to give you from the bottom of his heart, but you are embarrassed, let’s say, so what do you do? You restrict your will to receive directly, and you calculate with the host how much you can receive from the host in order to give him joy, to give him pleasure, not for yourself but to the host. Here there has to be an internal work, that you’ll feel those internal discernments as much as you really decide really not to enjoy for yourself but really to give pleasure to the host, that you feel the host, you feel the source of the pleasures, you are about to fill the heart of the host and to that extent and no more you can go and receive from what the host is giving you, and you are sure by that because you are performing a restriction, a screen, reflected light, the attitude towards the host that even though you are receiving this reception is actually giving and then it turns out that you become the giver to the bestower, as if you have something to give to the host even though you are using everything you have from the host, the will to receive he gave, you the restriction he gave you the forces to do, the ability to calculate as much as you can receive above the restriction in order to bestow to the host, there is a lot of calculations. That’s the whole Wisdom of Kabbalah, with that example of the guest and the host the whole Wisdom is in it there, there is no more than that, just to know all the details that are taking place and to know how to implement it and then you are set.
S. He writes here about two forces in the screen, it’s the force of the desire itself and the force that allows detaining the pleasure.
R. You disconnect. There is the will to receive that is drawing the pleasure in, there is a restriction that he stops himself from receiving, then he remains in a state where he closes himself of from the pleasures that comes from the host, and beyond that he can develop the will to bestow, to use this pleasure but in order to receive it for the sake of the host, that’s the entire Wisdom of Kabbalah, no more.
6. S. (12:59) The conscious yearning to think about the friends, that automatically turns on the screen?
R. Yes, it is written from the love of the Creator to the love created beings. By that we advance correctly to the realization of the will to receive.
7. S. (12:23) When we are receiving light for the first time and there is a restriction so there is rejection and then when we reject, the Reshimot remains and then it is already according to the desire?
R. Yes, yes, yes.
8. S. (14:04) Can we say what is the hardness of the screen?
R. The hardness only belongs to the screen, that according to the coarseness of the screen if we want to start bestowing we have to develop in us the force of hardness, meaning just as we say that this is a difficult a person, he is a hard person, we stand against the pleasure and doesn’t want to receive it because we want to resemble the Creator and not to be receivers but to work in bestowal, so this force that we are developing in us, that’s called the force of the hardness, the force of rejecting the pleasures.
S. Are we talking about the hardness now?
R. Also.
Item 73 (15:11)
9. R. (16:05) This means that the light comes and the screen divides the light into two, to internal and external, let’s say that part is received and part is not received, because he can receive it in order to bestow, so the part that he cannot receive in order to bestow remains on the outside and with its pressure on the screen, as the host says to that guest, receive and receive and receive, so then what happens is that this pressure causes the guest, he says no, no, no, I cannot, I have something I need to do and leaves, meaning he cannot be under this pressure of the host, meaning that’s the way the Upper light presses on the screen that detains it from clothing in the Partzuf, and then the screen refines, it comes out of all of this connection with the Upper light and by that it their meeting ends, the Partzuf refines. In order to not to be a receiver he prefers to leave, he prefers to leave.
10. S. (17:32) What I don’t understand is why the surrounding light wants to refine the screen and not that the screen asks for a greater force to receive more, why is it like that?
R. You need to take this example that Baal HaSulam gives, there is nothing else to do. The part of the light that was accepted in that desire just like the guest and the host received part of the treats and part he cannot receive because it would be too much, too much for him, for his force of overcoming, that part remains. Not that he does not want it, he really wants it, he wants the rest of the treats on the table before him but he is not able to, not able to think that it would be in order to bestow to the host, he is sure that he will receive it in order to receive, that he will receive it in order to enjoy, and that’s why he rejects it and leaves the connection with the host and the treats. That’s what he needs to do in his current state in order to not fail, in order to not stop receiving in order to receive.
S. Still I can’t understand. Like the first time we received the screen for a great pleasure, why for the surrounding light he has to depart from the meal?
R. The surrounding light that is outside of the vessel is a great light, very great light, that’s why he does not have anything to do but only to leave the table, he can’t sit down next to the table, let’s say, and smell and see all these treats that are on the table before him, all the food, because it is too much, it does not give him rest, it is so tempting that he’s afraid that he is going to start receiving it in order to receive and it doesn’t want to do it in any way.
S. In the first time he receives at maximum, that screen was maximum at first?
R. Yes, if you are going in order to bestow you have to measure yourself and the receive as much as you can in order to bestow otherwise it is not called bestowal because if you receive even one more gram with the intention to bestow to the host you must also receive it, the bestowal must be whole in all of its force, as much as you have a screen for it.
S. It turns out the Creator always has more to give than what we can receive, that’s why there is surrounding light?
R. Of course. Don’t be embarrassed to think, that to ask, it is a very essential thing, this is the whole wisdom of Kabbalah, how to receive what comes from the Creator with the intention to bestow.
11. S. (21:33) If the screen was at maximum at first?
R. As much as he can develop a screen to calculate for the host, as much as the host is great in his eyes, that is what he does.
S. What now awakens in him that he thinks that he can now maybe receive more?
R. The surrounding light is pressing on him because by receiving a part yes and a part no he divided the direct light that came to him into two, the inner light that he received in order to bestow and the surrounding light that you cannot receive in order to bestow and then it remains outside of him. When it remains outside of him and there is a process that let’s say I received from all the portions before me from each and every portion I took a small part and let’s say 10% from each treat and 90% of the treats remained on the outside, and I feel it, I can smell it, it is in me, because I got 10% of every treat and I’m weak already. I am trembling and I cannot withstand what is, what was before I was restricted, I didn’t receive anything. To say No when I don’t taste it, or to say No after I tasted it, it is two very different states, that’s why here it is already great work after you receive a part of the surrounding light and made it internal, and now he has two kinds of pressure from the inside and from the outside and they both press on the screen, they want to annul the screen, and then it turns out that he is weak. That’s why he decides that now I am going to leave it, I’m running away.
S. This is the nature of the will to receive that after it receives it wants to receive more?
R. He already has records of his previous reception, he already has inner pleasure from it, the tastes, the flavors, that’s why he knows what’s waiting on the outside, as much as there is another 90% compared to what he has received, 90% actually it is much more, because it is called a thin line standing in the whole vacant space, so all he received was a thin line and 99.99% is waiting on the outside, so he is very weak before that light that is standing here now and he is left with nothing to do but with all of his forces to a resist and run but by still deciding to run he receives an extension from it, it keeps going, there is a good continuation to it.
12. S. (24:54) You said that when the light pushes the screen from the outside and then there is a light that pushes from within and the decision is to escape, where does he escape, what’s that place?
R. He closes himself from receiving more, that Masach is refined. We will learn about it in a second, you are right, that is something we have to learn. It actually starts it in the next line.
13. S. (25:38) The hardness of the screen, why does he say that he wants to cancel the coarseness?
R. The surrounding light wants to annul the coarseness and it feels itself opposite to the pleasure. We will learn that too soon.
14. S. (26:06) Through which action can we see or build the Masach in the ten?
R. Through actions that between us we are connecting, we need to connect more and more until we will start feeling that we are standing before the Creator. These are actions that are concrete, these are actual actions that if we connect more and more, and come closer more and more, and want to strengthen between us more, even though there are all kinds of egoistic calculations between us, we want to still be above them connected. We don’t take into account everything that comes, he has that kind of character or those kinds of habits and this and that, we are above it, love will cover all crimes. We connect between us, still and we want to build an umbrella, a mutual umbrella between us, and that’s what is important. The moment we somewhat start yearning for this umbrella, we start feeling that we have a connection between us and also that the Creator is before us, it’s very close and all depends as much as we build this relationship between us that will be directed towards the Creator.
15. S. (28:04) The force of the Masach, the screen, is it how much it can reject the light 100% that rejection, is that an act of giving, of bestowing?
R. No, the fact that the will to receive is standing before the pleasure and can restrict himself and not receive, just like in the example of the guest and the host, that you decide not to receive. Why? Because you are embarrassed. Even though you are very hungry and exactly to those treats the host wants to give you, you still cannot receive, and here there is a lot of calculations we do. Let’s say I want to protect my will to receive, myself, my ego, my “I”, myself, that I do not want less than the host because he is the giver and I am the receiver or all kinds of other calculations I do, but all in all I am working with myself with my shame. So that is why these examples are all in the will to receive, shame, rejection, things that we can all understand but the in spirituality it is not like that because if I won’t receive from the Creator because I am embarrassed or ashamed so the shame is more important for me then the Creator, than giving him contentment, that’s what’s important for me so that’s what I’ll do, meaning so I am even more proud than I was before, meaning there’s a lot of thoughts and calculations and I do not want to give you solutions but that you yourself will search for them and find them.
16. S. (30:43) What is the pressure of the surrounding light in the work in the ten?
R. We still don’t have these things, I cannot say, you can say that we want to connect and there is social pressure but no, let’s go let it go.
17. S. (31:33) What is the significance of the reflecting light and what does it mean and what does it reveal to me?
R. The reflected light reveals as much as the guest wants to give back to the host what he feels that the host is treating him, that’s called reflected light. He can’t bestow more to the host but at least what he can receive is what he can give back. Well we are just starting to scrutinize these things, wait and we will keep going.
18. S. (32:29) The yearning to receive from the host can be increased from the pressure of the surrounding light or what you prepared for the meeting with the host is what you will eat?
R. We did not learn that yet, that I prepared in advance my yearning to bestow to the host.
S. I’m asking about the longing, the yearning, in this lesson and in general in TES lessons it feels like everything depends on the power of our longing so how can we increase that power?
R. By thinking about it, by speaking about it, and in this way we increase the will to receive, the importance of the friends, importance of the host, that’s the main thing, that’s what we need to nourish, to grow, and that’s from speaking, from man will help his friend, and that’s what we will have to learn from the environment.
19. S. (34:19) To what extent do we need to recognize the lowliness so that shame will come?
R. As much as possible, as much as possible, that we need to scrutinize in deeds, let us go forward.
Reading Item #74: (34:55) “The Reason for it is That …” Twice
20. R. (36:15) Meaning the treats that remain on the table standing before the guest pressing on the guest and the guest feels it that he wants to receive it and then…
Continues Reading …
21. R. (36:55) Just like before the restriction.
22. R. (37:09) It is like that I decided that I’m not going to eat some food and then what is on the table I can take this and this and that but where there is let’s say something sweet I’m not going to take it because I am not receiving, and this pressures me. I want it and I really like it but I cannot, so this pleasure wants to clothe my will to receive and I by the screen make an action of resistance.
Reading Item # 75: (37:55) “In the beginning the screen intensifies and …”
23. R. (39:05) Meaning that the refinement happens from the smaller number of the screen to the bigger one and this is how it refines it gradually. We still do not let go, we are always in these actions, that’s until the final correction, till the end of our path
24. S. (39:47) According to these movements or these actions that the surrounding light is performing on the screen, it means that the screen is refining, it means that it is getting weaker, so it is elevating itself?
R. The surrounding light wants to annul the screen because it wants to clothe in the desire, and the Masach stands and prevents the surrounding light. Let’s say 90% of that it has left to receive, stands on the outside and it does not receive.
25. S. (49:45) How, what is the purpose to clothe in phase four to such an extent that he remains on the outside?
R. According to the Aviut, the coarseness in its entirety the light appears. The light wants to fulfill the whole coarseness, the whole desire. The host does not put just anything in front of the guest, it is exactly what the guest wants in quantity and quality according to the desire of the guest, when the guest makes a calculation how much it can receive in order to bestow to the host and not to receive for himself then this calculation becomes like a thin line, and accordingly he receives. The host continues to pressure because it only relates to the desire of the guest, the guest relates to his screen, that he cannot continue to receive and remain in bestowal towards the host, and this is how it stays. This is the state we are in now, that’s the state we are discussing.
26. S. (42:20) If suddenly I am lucky enough to feel a lack of the force of resistance so this feeling should bring me to a prayer. What’s the right thing to ask for the force to resist or still to turn it into the lack of connection with the friends and yearning?
R. It’s the same thing, at the end of the day you will come to a state where together with the friends you are going to pray, connect and pray for the common screen.
27. S. (43:04) What does it mean that there is more surrounding light, reforming light around the screen and less of bestowal and relating to the Creator?
R. Repeat, say it again.
S. When he refines the screen so he bestows less so can you say that the host is before the guest?
R. Yes. Yes.
28. S. (43:52) When the light presses on the screen I do not have a choice, I will definitely want to receive, is it something I cannot prevent?
R. If you wouldn’t want to receive the light you wouldn’t have felt any pressure, just like we, for now we do not feel any pressure from the Upper light, from the Creator, from the Upper system, because we have no screens, we have no resistance. The moment we have resistance we begin to feel the relationship with the Upper spiritual system upon us. That we have to connect to a ten, to the group, and start working with the Upper light to bestow to the Creator, to actually bestow together to the Creator, and then we will begin to feel how much he is pressuring us and how much we can pressure him in return, but first of all it is connection between us and in the meantime there is no connection so then there is no way to start working opposite to the Creator.
S. Our connection, the adhesion between us, when we press as a response that we do not need the light, take it back and give it to the nations or the friends or whatever.
R. We want to receive this Upper light but in order to bestow contentment to the Creator.
S. I mean how can I aim that light to go towards the friends and from the friends to the nations of the world, this is what is called press back, this is what I want?
R. I cannot do such actions. I can only not receive the Upper light if I feel that I’m going to receive it for my own pleasure, or I can receive it in order to pass it on to the friends, or together with the friends I can reject the Upper light back to the Creator. Everything depends on how connected we are and how much we want to make the action of spiritual rejection, which means not to receive for ourselves.
29. S. (46:54) What qualities do we carry from phase three to phase four and which one is the most important?
R. We haven’t learnt that yet and I do not want to answer that. We did not learn it, where does he read it from, they are not with us.
Reading Item #76: (47:35) “You Already Know that with any New …” Twice
30. S. (50:04) What does it mean that phase four does not become absent but just adds a form?
R. There is a rule, there is no absence in the spiritual, meaning nothing disappears every form that is formed, born, is from what existed before and then it adds on top of all of the previous forms, therefore there is no absence. Phase four always changes so it is not absent, instead of it come all kinds of other forms and these forms clothe the previous phase each time, and thus they are gathered and gathered and accumulated until it comes to the final correction, and in the final correction all of those things are, that’s what’s called Rav Pealim mKabtziel it means that there are many actions in Behina Dalet, phase four and then mKabtziel which refers to gathering them as one, collecting them into a single aspect.
S. Practically when a Kabbalist will receive some part of the light from the screen and then advances on the same tract, so it always works in such a way, how does it practically happen?
R. We are now learning the actions that are done by the influence of the Upper light, restriction, screen from below upwards, and there is from above downwards from Ein Sof to this world, which is this unfolding and the actions we do ourselves are actually opposite from this world and up to the world of Ein Sof and there are there are some changes there. We will talk about that.
31. S. (52:35) A moment ago you mentioned that there are quite a few things that we can do to pass the light onto the friends. How exactly do you do that?
R. Connect with the group and with them together begin to turn to the Creator and do a spiritual action, in mutual bestow between you and that this action of mutual bestowal be aimed at the Creator.
S. Does this happen, I mean I understand the more I am engaged in the friends, and include them and enliven, apparently that is how I will pass that on. From what we are reading now, most of all of these different phases that the lights have that we are going through with the Light, are these things happening on a conscious level?
R. Of course it is conscious, if it has to do with the human being then it is with a feeling and awareness that he understands and feels everything.
32. S. (54:01) To what extent is the feeling that…
R. It all depends on the person and the group that holds him.
33. S. (54:29) Let us say that you are really praised in the group, the friends, and you just want to disappear. That is a lack of the screen. What if you do have a screen?
R. When a person has a screen he weighs only everything only for the benefit of the group and the Creator and not for himself.
34. S. (54:58) We say that there is no absence in spirituality.
R. You are still not in spirituality, what are you demanding here, that spiritual laws will take place in you? What do you have to do with spirituality? Where do you have the restriction, screen, reflected light, connection with the friends? You demand to already have spiritual discernments. First carry out the restriction after the restriction, then we could talk about all the other things.
S. It was a question from a friend.
R. It does not matter, you should hear it too.
S. Can you explain what happens from phase four to phase three if we said 10%. What does it mean now that it refines in phase three?
R. Basically it is now less.
S. Left on everything or…?
R. It is both. I cannot just take this example and interpret it, based on that, but in spirituality a change, even the smallest one, is a change in the entire system. It is a whole new ten Sefirot.
Item 77” Immediately, is it refined immediately into phase three…”
R. Yes.
Reading Item #77: (57:77) “It has been Explained Earlier…
35. S. (58:48) It is known that yearning towards the Creator has the greatest pleasure in the world, greater than the contact of a man and a woman. The question is how will we be rewarded in realizing and feeling it?
R. By what we learn from the Wisdom of Kabbalah, that we need to make connection between us build a spiritual vessel, through the spiritual vessel aim it to bestow to the Creator, come into contact with the Creator, this is called coupling by striking with the Upper Light, and then it by that we will begin to feel how all of these pleasures are so much greater than all the corporeal pleasures of this world, and receiving them as possible as only if to begin with you have an intention to bestow.
S. Amen. Thank you.
36. S. (59:46) What is this new emanated being?
R. Each and every phase that becomes clearer from the previous will to receive. It is as if born anew in the spiritual world and it exists and acts in and of itself now. This is called a new emanated being, so everything that we see and learn is the birth of new created beings that gradually come out of each other, one out of the other.
37. S. (01:00:38) Every time he awakens and yearns as it is written here, yesterday you said that that yearning is above the desire. How can we do it so it is not in us. How can we awaken this yearning?
R. From connecting to their friends and learning from them, looking at them, and then that brings you a longing that is above your desire.
38. S. (01:01:20) What am I lacking in order to actually practically feel the work of the Light in order to build an attitude towards the Creator?
R. What am I missing? I am only missing a Kli, a vessel, and the Upper Light is in complete rest, it fills up the whole of reality, the only problem is that I do not have a Kli, a vessel to feel it, so there is nothing to be pressured because I do not have a Kli. That Kli I have to put it together from all the desires of the friends, all of their longing for the Creator and with it, in that Kli I need to put together a screen, so to the extent that we connect to each other in the correct way we can turn, we will turn, to the Creator. That will give us the right connection, with a screen, so that we can bestow to Him. Because from bestowing upon the friends, the created beings, we will each have some desire to bestow to the Creator, and then it turns out, that we thereby achieved a state where we have both desire and restriction over the desire to receive in order to receive and a screen to receive what we will receive from the Creator in order to bestow, and in such a way we will come to contact with the Creator. The whole Wisdom of Kabbalah explains to us how we build contact with the Creator, how we connect between us more, and with a Creator more, but in order to bestow, in a mutual reciprocal way. Meaning my beloved for me and me for my beloved, as it says.
S. When will we feel spiritual pleasures in order to restrict the screen?
R. When you will have a common desire, and the desire will want to bestow through the friends, through everyone to the Creator. By that you will begin to feel spiritual pleasures.
39. S. (01:03:59) You mentioned in #75 that first the screen increases and rejects the light. Then the light increases and refines the screen. Is there change in the light? What does it mean that the light increases?
R. That is how it is felt in the vessel, that if there is a screen for the vessel then it responds differently to the light, it begins to feel the light as a giver, that it has a goal and how it wants to change the desire then it starts getting into contact with Him.
40. S. (01:04:40) Why does the pressure from the hosts on the guest to keep receiving isn’t an obstacle or a trap?
R. The host works according to the will to receive in the receiver, it doesn’t pressure the receiver more than the desire in the receiver, therefore on the part of the host it doesn’t mean that he kills him, or destroys him, or makes a transgression, He just wants to fulfill the vessel of the guest with all the good there is, and by that He also allows the guests to resist to build himself and similarity with the host, also in order to bestow.
41. S. (01:05:41) Can I ask about what you said about the connection with the friends who need a screen?
R. Of course you mean a screen. I do not want to connect with the friends to be better off, I want all of us to be better off.
S. The screen is on my connection with them?
R. The screen is always over my personal will to receive.
S. How can it be that I need to receive? How could it be in order to receive if it is outside of me? If I’ll be able to connect with them and bestow to them.
R. I didn’t understand.
S. We learned that the friends are outside of me, and this is what lets me connect to them, not in the will to receive, otherwise I would see it as myself.
R. And?
S. How can it be that connection with the friends will be in order to receive to ask for a screen above it?
R. It can’t. It doesn’t exist, it doesn’t happen. If it exists in order to receive then it does not exist and spirituality.
S. Connection with the friends is the screen? That’s the same thing?
R. That depends on how it is done. The connection with the friends is also a corporeal connection without any screen or anything, it can be a spiritual connection with all the spiritual discernments.
42. S. (01:07:43) In this depiction, who has the main role, the host, or the guest?
R. Everything depends on the guest, not the host.
43. S. (01:07:45) Can we use the abundance of the surrounding light to do good for the friends as well as for the world? How can we do that?
R. We will learn how to do it.
Reading 78 (01:08:14) “The Reason Why Phase Three Lacks…”
44. R. (01:10:11) Meaning everything depends on reflected light the extent with which Malchut can develop the reflected light and accordingly the reflected light devices from Malchut, it clothes the Sefirot of direct light and to that extent we have the reception of the light in the Partzuf in the created being and no more than that. If the Masach is refined and each time becomes lesser than before, then the reflected light becomes lesser than before, and also the inner light that enters the creative being becomes lesser. That is what gives us the descent or the decline of the
Partzufim.
45. S. (01:11:33) What is the mutual rejection of the Upper light in the ten?
R. To the extent that we want to connect we develop our common will to receive, in that common will to receive we work like the Partzuf works with its Malchut. Then by that we can reject the lights from above, say pleasures coming to us from the Creator and develop reflected light. In that reflected light will begin to feel the Creator.
46. S. (01:12:15) How can the screen let us feel the attitude of the system towards us and how does that attitude of the system appear in the connections between us?
R. We are not talking about the relationship between us, the relationship between us builds the restriction, screen and reflected light and to that extent we get in contact with the Creator, we get in contact with Him and therefore accordingly we determine our degree.
47. S. (01:13:01 You said that eventually we will ask for the mutual screen, what is the mutual screen in the ten, how is it expressed between us?
R. The common screen means that to the extent that we relate correctly to each other, and all of the friends connect together, by that we develop our common desire and towards the Creator we can use it in order to bestow to the Creator. When we reject all of our individual pleasures and instead of that we want to connect with the Creator to bring him contentment, that means that we work from our common screen.
48. S. (01:13:49) How do you perform a restriction so it will not seem like pride and resisting the host? Meaning how to restrict correctly so that the host will not be insulted?
R. This I have to do opposite the friends and towards the friends and then towards the host. It is impossible that I relate to the Creator without relating first to the Friends. I have to care about the friends and to that extent I can care for the Creator. I have to try to fulfill them as much as possible, to that extent I will manage to turn to the Creator correctly to fulfill them.
49. S. (01:14:46) What are the pleasures that we have to refuse to receive in the ten?
R. These are the pleasures that do not push the ten closer to the Creator, it’s better to not be receiving them.
50. S. (01:15:09) How can we begin to implement the matter of the restriction and the screen?
R. By connection between us, if we have connection, then from the connection we will have restriction, that we do not want for ourselves but only for the Creator and to the extent that we work that way we will have a screen.
51. S. (01:15:33) How do we define the coarseness and the screen and what is connected to the coarseness of the creative being or is it the same thing?
R. The coarseness and the screen and the coarseness of the created being are the same thing. The spiritual created being is not the person, it is the ten, the group that works in order to reach the Creator.
52. S. (01:16:07) Can we say that the first time the light will come to us, then the right thing at that moment would be to pass it to the friends? Will that actually be a restriction?
R. Prior to that, if we do not build ourselves in a way that we want to pass all of these things between us, in the group the light will not come. It will only appear under the condition that we have a desire to connect in order to pass to connect and to help each other.
53. S. (01:16:46) How does the restriction and intention to bestow to the Creator, how are they expressed in our actions in the group?
R. In us connecting and aiming ourselves to the Creator until we start feeling Him in the connection between us.
54. S. (01:17:10) What to do if after the calculation we understand and feel that there is no strength to restrict, and the pleasure is bigger than you?
R. Pray. Pray for the Creator to give you strength. Of course we do not have the strength to restrict ourselves however for us, when we try to turn to Him we will get strength from Him.
55. S. (01:17:46) To get the benefit from the bestower I need to feel Him but the Creator, we do not feel. How can I aim all of my thoughts and desires for His benefit?
R. Through the friends, there is nothing to do but learn everything from actions between us, among the friends as much as I can bestow on them, through them I can bestow on the Creator.
56. S. (01:18:23) What is so special in the yearning relative to desire and how do you work with it correctly?
R. Yearning is still not a true desire, it is only yearning which comes and when it comes to be realized in society, the yearning becomes a desire.
57. S. (01:18:50) A common vessel of the ten we create through our connection and the restriction I perform on my personal desires. How do we perform a common restriction before the Creator, how to connect our personal work to a common vessel?
R. We cannot bestow to the Creator if we are not connected, that is why first, we need to attain the connection and then to aim the connection to the Creator. Then in this work we will do the restriction, the screen, the reflected light and all these things. First connect, turn to the Creator and then we will feel how much the Creator helps us and how much we ourselves perform actions and effort.
58. S. (01:19:48) How to convince the Creator that I want to do good to the friends in the ten?
R. Convince the Creator? That is if I make good calculations with my ten I can be certain it comes to the Creator. How do I know that? When I get the response. All in all we are building the Upper world out of us building relations between us, that is the Upper world basically. We see on the background of the white light, we see our relations, that is called the spiritual world. Beyond that we cannot see because it is only our actions of bestowal. When we do not have actions of bestowal that is what we see, we do not see that and that is what is happening now.
59. S. (01:21:28) How to make the friends in the ten more important to me than myself, than my desires and how will that enter the emotions, the feelings?
R. Try it, there is nothing to do, I have nothing to say here, we have to work on that. Talk more between yourselves and specifically connections, connections, and actions. We talk about something, immediately do it until the next meeting. The next meeting discusses again, what did we do, what didn’t we do and how we continue. Gradually this is how you will come to the right action and there you will feel the Creator.
60. S. (01:22:16) What is the rejection of the upper light in our work?
R. The upper light fills everything in our work and we through our actions can resemble the actions of the light and then we discover that He is clothing in us in these actions.