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Hi everyone , welcome to class number two
of Power of Kabbalah 3
today we are going to speak about
what we call the four phases
the subject four phases refer to
how the original vessel was created
and how does it practically connect to our life
more important, we will try to learn today
how to build a true desire
because when we have the real and true desire
the light will be there
one of our biggest problems in life
we don't have real desire, we don't have real vessel
and when there is no real vessel
the light cannot be there
the light cannot be constant
so first let us understand
the difference between false desire and real desire
then eventually we will learn about the four phases
that it took the vessel originally in the endless
to be created, and we are going to learn
those four same phases we need to undergo
in order to be able to build a true desire
true vessel that can reveal the light in our life
the first understanding is that the light is infinate
and there is never shortage of light
As it says, the cow wants to feed the calf
more than the calf wants to drink from the cow
the light wants to help us,
more than we want even to receive
the light want to give us abundance, financial abundance
Any type of prosperity, health,
love, relationship, inner strength
manifesting our potential
Creating miracles, making a difference
All the blessings we are seeking and want to have
the light wants to give us
more than we want to even receive
So, what's missing?
We don't have a true desire
because at the moment there is a vessel
the light will reveal itself
there's no coercion in spirituality,
the light cannot force itself
In the world of free will that we live in
we need to have the vessel to activate the light
all the blessings are already within us
but we need to have our vessel, our true desire
to activate and to reveal that light
and i'm talking about before we
get into the idea of sharing or restricting
it all has to start with a desire
Imagine these infinate blessings in the room
it can be water,
it can be health, it can be wisdom,
it can be money
But as long as we don't have the cup
that can hold that blessing
that blessing does not exist for us
so the idea, how do we create
the real cup, the real vessel
so a few ingredients
from lessons from the Rav Berg
about what is a true vessel versus false one
so the first one is
the idea of continous desire
versus temporary desire
what is a temporary desire?
Yes I want money
Yes I want to change
Yes I want to grow.
Today I feel bad, I feel difficulties
I'm sure I want it,
I'm convinced, I'm motivated, I'm energized.
and than, when things are a little easier tomorrow
when things don't seem to be as bad tomorrow
or when I'm a little too down, I gave up
I don't desire anymore, I don't crave anymore
that's called temporary desire
temporary desire is a false desire.
The light cannot dwell in a temporary desire
so the fact that I'm today saying "I want,
how come I don't get?"
it's a temporary desire, it's very simple
I want the light, I need to be like the light
the light is a constant desire to give
if I don't have a constant desire to receive
how do I hope to connect with the light?
We ask for the light,
we want to be in a world and act like you
and it begins with a true lasting desire
and it's not easy
because there are times,
that indeed I want something
but because we are so affected by our feelings
we don't want it so much the next day
intelectually we want it, but we don't want it so much
but that's the first thing we want to learn how to create
lasting desire to receive,
perseverance in my desire, constant vessel
when there is constant vessel,
nothing will stop me from achieving what I want
that's one aspect.
Another concept is
needy desire versus true desire.
what is a needy desire?
when I'm desperate
to want help from you,
without appriciating you
that's needy desire
very often
when I'm so into myself
and I don't appriciate the light or other people around me
and I'm so needy to get what I want
or to relieve the pain that I have
I'll desperatly will push to get help from that person
or the other person, any type of help
But the reason that it's not a real desire,
because there is no appriciation
from the source that giving it to me
it's just about getting what I want and that's it
and that desperate desire is not truly...
while I'm ruled by this desire
I don't care about the source that gave it to me
I'm not really in a state of appriciation
and I couldn't care less
if it will not be this person, I'll go to someone else
and the same is between us and the light of the creator
I'm going through major pain,
I'm desperate,- "please please God help me"
Yesterday I forgot about God
when I had issues,
but now I need him so I'm desperate
I'll ask for help
and when things will be fine
I'm not desperate anymore, so I'm back to normal
so desperation
that doesn't come from the heart and the soul
and doesn't come from the place of apprieciation
is also not true desire
true desire is knowing that the light
is the source of all blessings
the lightforce of the creator is the source of all
healing the relationship, healing physically,
spiritual abundance, physical abundance,
inner change, it's knowing and appriciating
so when I'm wanting to improve my relationship
I know it's the light of love in my life that I need
or the light of financial abundance
so I know the source, there's appreciation for the source
it's like a person that's penniless
yet appreciates tremendously the quarter
because I need it, is it a true desire?
maybe yes, maybe no
but when that person became rich
who cares about this quarter
but when a person has a true desire
he has one dollar to his name
or has a million dollars to his name
he will crave to connect with that quarter
because he knows the light of the creator
is inside this money
so it's not about comparing to me
desperate desire, it's all about me
it's not about appreciating light and vessel,
giving and receiving that's circutory
so when there's no appreciation
and it's all relative to my problem
or my 'no problem' now
it's not a real desire, it's desperate
Kabbalistically when a person is healthy
he should beg and pray for health
like the time he is not healthy
because the light of health is given to us daily
the fact that I am healthy
doesn't mean I don't need the light of health
it's a constant gift of being rejuvinated on a daily basis
but desperate desire is
'I don't need health, I have money issues now
I have relationship issue'
those are my issues God
I don't care about God, it's all about me
I don't realise that the light is the source of all things
so true desire,
my intensity of my craving
to connect with the blessing of the light
will be the same when I have a problem
or when I don't have a problem
because I realise that the fact that I feel good right now
it's still the light is gifting me right now
and when that connection will stop, I will loose it
and it's back to the idea of continious desire
the light does not force himself,
at the moment there is no desire
there's no appreciation of the source
the light cannot be there
because there is no coercion in spirituality
it will be bread of shame
so that's another ingredient
of true desire versus false desire.
Another aspect of true desire
which is connected to the other two
is the idea that a true desire can never be full
we can never be truly satiated
because if I'm satiated
I'm limiting the light, is the light limited?
The light wants to give me endlessly
so if I'm really connecting to my true desire,
my desire gradually in life will expand
and expand and expand
and one of the reasons people would have
chaos in their life
because they allow themselves to be
so content with themselves
and so full and so limited
so there's no more room for the light to come in
so when I'm really connecting my true desire
it's total expansion and expansion
especially when we speak about the seed of old desires
which is the desire to grow spiritually
how can it be limited,
how can I ever be satisfied with myself
and the question is
how do we build a true desire?
What are the steps?
And before I'm answering it
before I'm going in to the process of the four phases
it is important to know, that in every area in my life
and I want you as you're listening to these words
to look in your life
in every area in our life that we lack in
relationship is not the best that I wish
financially it is not the best that I would wish
spiritually I'm not as excited as I used to be
I'm feeling far away from my potential,
I'm feeling blockages and disconnected
the first thing we need to ask ourselves a question
if there is a blockage, if there is an issue
my desire needs to be truly built
there's no shortage of light,
there's shortage of vessels
there's never shortage of light
and as I'm saying of course eventually
things have to be for the sake of sharing
with the right consiousness
but I'm talking even prior to that
first let's build the true and real desire
so if we can look at our life
and we can see a blockage
or something not satisfying
that's one of the ingredients
that don't have a real desire in that area
and what do I need to do to build one
so in order to learn that I would like to go over
back for the idea from the study of
Rav Ashlag called "Ten Luminous Emanations"
which is based on Rabbi Issac Luria
"Tree of Life" with commentary of the Rav Ashlag
and I had the merit to study about six hundred lectures
with the Rav Berg from the Ten Luminous Emenations
and we'll open
at the page that discuses
the whole idea of how originally we were created
how the original vessel,
the original desire to receive were created
what is the step that we had to undergo
I'll start to read in Hebrew and translate
What Rav Ashlag is very important
saying the reason why the vessel
had to under go four stages
until it became established as the real desire to receive
is because when the light initially manifested the vessel
created the vessel, the lights only desire is to give
and it created the vessel which desires to receive
originally the vessel was created
and as it was created it was filled with entire light
but it was not a real desire!
Why?
Because a real desire, the vessel has to want
because I want it not because I was created that way
and if I'm receiving only because I was created that way
it's not real desire, the desire has to come from within
the craving has to come from within
so the vessel has to undergo a process
until the desire comes from within.
For example:
a baby's born to a very wealthy family
and he's worth, the baby's worth, one billion dollar
Does it belong to him? Yes
Does he have it? Yes
Does he have true desire
that comes from within, with true craving
I want that billion dollars
the answer is no
so there's no real desire, there's no real fulfilment
and the reason the light of the creator
wanted to allow us to go through steps
until we build a true desire
Because the light, what does the light want
it wants to share infinitely with us
so the only way the light can share with us infinitely
and will cause us happiness and joy, if we truly want it.
For example:
does it make you happy, right now,
that you don't have a toothache
most of you that don't have a toothache
it doesn't make you happy. Why?
because you didn't feel the need
for relief from a toothache
so yes, intellectually I don't want to have a toothache
but does it really make you happy
the only way I'll be happy, or fulfilled by something
if I have a true craving
"Wow I don't want to have a toothache"
and then I'm getting the relief from a toothache
and that union between desire and craving and fulfillment
creates joy
if there's just
ownership without true desire it's not a real desire
so what Rav Ashlag tells us:
the vessel has to undergo a process
that is started from receiving robotically,
just being created that way
to going through a step of developing not having
or disconnecting, or lacking
and then building Yes I really want that pleasure
I really want that light, I really want that joy
so we needed, and we still need daily
to undergo the four steps that our desire,
our process, our consiousness needs to undergo
until we're in a place
we truly crave
if I'm just born with blessings,
it's tough, just those blessings stay forever
it's really tough to crave them, to desire them
but remember the light doesn't want to curse us
the light wants to share, the light wants to cause joy
and the only way joy, or fulfilment or happiness
will be caused,
if I feel the lack
of these blessings that I want to receive
so initially the vessel was created without lack
the vessel had everything
but then the vessel had to go through a process
of developing a lack
not a chaos lack, healthy lack
wow, I really want it, I appreciate,
I remember it, it's amazing
I would love to connect with it
and that lack, that's when there is a real desire
that I feel that I want from within
because even from the light point of view
if the light is a sharing force
and I'm receiving robotically
without truly craving it, I just get it
so the light is not a sharing force
even with your child, or with your friend
you give when they don't even ask, they'll take it
but they don't even ask, why not, I'll take it
do they have any appreciation,
is it a lasting connection
to the blessing that you give them
not at all
so when you help someone,
the help will be real if they're lacking
if they're craving, if there's appreciation
and if there's a need
they know they need it,
I know you need it so you'd better receive it
it is not enough that I know you need it
You need to know,
that's the same relationship between us and the light
I need to feel I need it
without it is not true desire
so that's the bigger picture
well it has to be a process
it cannot just be
the vessel was born and the vessel have it all
so that's another thing that Rav Ashlag says
it's getting a little deeper
what Rav Ashlag shares with us
that of course the light of the Creator is one force
but it consists of two elements
and it's saying whenever
I'm receiving directly the light of the Creator
that's called The Light of Wisdom
the light of wisdom
whenever me as a vessel
interfering in the direct receiving and saying no
I want to share I'm not interested to receive right now
I want to give outside of myself
in that moment
I'm not connecting to the totality of the light
maybe later as a result I will,
but in that moment that I'm focusing on sharing
and giving
and I don't want to get anything for myself
in that moment, I'm drawing an aspect of the light
that's called The Light of Mercy
because actions of giving
considered to be merciful action
so when I am
drawing, when I act as a giver
I'm drawing aspects of the totality of the light of wisdom
let's say one percent of it is called The Light of Mercy
the goal is to be filled with the totality of the light
the light of wisdom and the light of mercy
when we allow the light to share with us and receiving it
and I'm wanting it and appreciating it
I'm connecting with the totality of the light,
named the light of wisdom
when I'm focusing solely on giving
in that moment I'm concealing
99% of the light
and I'm getting just 1% of the light
called the light of mercy
The goal is to have both.
The light of mercy and the light of wisdom.
the light of mercy even though it comes while I'm sharing
it's only one percent of the light of wisdom
but as we're going to learn
without the light of mercy
I cannot receive the light of wisdom
I need both
But when we are speaking about the life force
the energy of miracles, blessings,
joy, health, abundance
it's the light of wisdom that we all want
so this is just an introduction
to the idea of The Four Phases
that every time the vessel focusing on giving
light of mercy being drawn
when we finally receive the totality of the light
it's called the light of wisdom
now before I get to the details
before I get to the details of the four phases
another thing from the Rav Berg I've learnt
the usual way for most people creating a craving
because the idea is to reach a level to truly crave the light
don't just desire, o.k. why not
crave from within
it's a process of first I have the light, I have the blessing
For example:
I have money, I have relationship, I feel spiritual
I feel connected, I have love in my life
and then I'm going through a period I'm lacking
I'm suffering
I'm undergoing chaos
and then comes a stage
Wow I remember what I used to have
I crave it, I love it, I want it back
that's one type of craving
which is painful
because I have to undergo chaos
in order to realise that
I'm craving the light, craving the blessing
and I appreciate what I used to have
and if you look at our own life
very often only chaos is the one that awakens us
to appreciate the blessing that we use to have
to cause us to crave them again
what we want to learn from these four phases
how do we build desire
without needing to go through chaos
how do we build appreciation
without needing to go through chaos
but definitely has to be a process
that the lack is being created
because the only way
a person can ever desire something
if he doesn't feel it
so always will be a process of having a blessing
disconnecting from the blessing
and craving the blessing
in everything in life
and if we look at our own life
that's a cycle we are all going through
the only thing is what we want to learn
is how when we inject consciousness into it
we don't need to go through chaos
we might need to feel the lack of the blessing in our life
but it doesn't mean we need to undergo chaos in our life
the goal, which will never achieve it just tomorrow
it's an infinite goal
it's to be able to crave
every aspect of the blessing of the creator in our life
love, relationship, health, spiritual growth
crave and appreciate everything
but in practicality
it's a constant process of four steps
that will build a desire
and we lost it, and we build it again,
and we lost it and we build it again
if we do the real spiritual work we can avoid chaos
as a teacher to help us to crave and to desire
so what else do we need to do
if it's not chaos, to feel the lack
just think about it,
if I don't feel the lack why would I grow
if you run a business
and things are ok and you fulfil a desire
and you don't have a lack,
you don't feel, I have to go to the next level
You will not grow
and it's just you're not going to grow
because you don't feel the lack
or you don't feel a strong desire,
even what you've got you might loose
and the same thing in relationship
I crave it, I wanted it,
I connected to that person, my soul mate, my connection
and gradually I'm loosing
that interest, that craving
I love her but there's no major motivation and craving
to make things better
because there's no desire, I'll have to undergo chaos
and chaos may awaken me back
again to appreciate what I have
we want to learn a different process
and we are back here now
of how the original vessel in the endless was created
and it's saying step number one
was the step when the light
created the vessel,
and the vessel was instantly was filled with the light
that's called step number one
is it a real desire? No it's a passive desire
the vessel doesn't crave the light
he was born like a baby, born with the wealth
that's step number one
the vessel has no awareness of itself
I don't know if the vessel didn't have awareness yet
I want and I get and I'm so happy. He's born that way
with the infinite light
so that's called step number one
step number four will be
I'm getting the same light and the same blessings
but now I crave it, I appreciate it, I yearn it
have tremendous desire to it
and it's a totally different experience
step number one is a passive desire
I want, I was born that way
but I don't really appreciate and feel
and connect with the blessings
step number four it's the same energy but now I'm alive
I went through a process,
I didn't have it, I felt the lack of it
now I really appreciate and crave it endlessly from within
the question how do we get to step number four
what are the steps number two and three to get there
so what was the second step,
the second phase we went through
it was the second phase
second phase is, in the vessel we're filled with the light
the light has a desire to give
so that's the first awakening, we're the vessel
the first time we started to be aware,
from being a baby born with light
to any desire,
suddenly there's a desire to express the light in me
which is the desire to give
and that's the second phase of the vessel
I've a tremendous desire to give,
a tremendous desire to share
tremendous desire to impart
everything, I don't want to receive anything
the light in me is an infinite desire to give
and that's what I want
endless giving
that was second phase
if you remember we said when the vessel desires to give
what type of energy we draw-
light of wisdom or light of mercy?
Indeed the light of mercy
and we've learnt the light of mercy
is one percent of the light of wisdom
because at the moment I'm just focusing on receiving
I'm not really have a craving for the light I want to receive
which is part of the process necessary
but when I say I want only to give which is second stage
it will bring the third stage
which is the result of the second stage
which the light of mercy is revealed in my vessel
we feel the light of mercy
we feel aspect of the light of wisdom
we feel one percent of the light of wisdom
now what does it mean
what does it mean
it means that now for the first time in the third stage
I feel the lack of what I used to have in the first stage
the first stage we had the totality of the light of wisdom
but we were passive receiving it
we were not aware we even had it
but we were born this way
second stage we say I want to share
and as a result of that sharing
we ignited that we revealed the light of mercy
which is only one percent of the light of wisdom
so ninety nine percent of the light is concealed now
because I'm only focusing on sharing
and I feel the light of mercy
but in that third stage now I feel wow
I used to have a hundred percent of the light
now I've only the light of mercy
which is one percent of the light
I want it all
it's amazing, it's everything
which is what the fourth stage is about
I crave the hundred percent that I used to have
in the first step
so stage number four
as a result of the lack
of experiencing in stage number three
stage number four is: "I want it all
I crave all the hundred percent
I realise I didn't appreciate anything in the first phase
I realise all the blessings that I have
wow, it is amazing!"
but the only thing that allow us to have stage four
which is true craving for the light
is stage three
which is lack, which is void
that's the only way to appreciate
the only way to appreciate light
if I feel aspects of concealment of the light
darkness, or a little bit of light
it's the only way to truly appreciate
things that I used to have
King Solomon said there's nothing new under the sun
so we already had the entire light
all the blessings in the world
it's said that when a person is born
actually before a person is born
in the womb of his mother
the little baby knows everything
all the wisdom, all the light, all the Torah, all the teachings
my soul mate, my lessons, everything
and then when we come out of the womb
an angel touches our lips
that's the reason we have a little split
and causes us to forget everything
then we go through a process of trying to reconnect
to what we used to have
stage number four
is craving what I had in stage number one
But what allowed us to reach that level of craving?
Connecting to the light of mercy
what brought us to connect to the light of mercy
second stage, the energy of giving
that's stage four
in the story of the endless
is when our desire was totally manifested
total craving and when we received the endless light
we had everything
and the fact that afterwards we decided
to use all for the sake of sharing
that's now what we are focusing on now
here we're focusing on a true desire
our origin
had to go through four phases
now you know all life
how do we translate those four steps to our own life
how to build true vessel in our own life
how do we translate it
what does it mean
stage number four we had all the light,
stage number two we're just giving
stage number three we feel the lack,
stage number four we're now craving the blessings
that's great, how does practically it goes
with relationships, with money, with love,
with spiritual growth
in every aspect of our life
how do we translate it
so before I answer this question
which will probably be the next session
I want each one of us, let's summerise some basic ideas
number one
the light is infinite
all the blessings in my life are already within me
if I don't have a real desire to connect with them
I will never get them
and that's the first question I need to ask you
do you really want to build a true desire
do you want to go through the steps,
the four steps in your life
to build a true desire
and if you don't feel naturally yes I want
there's a step before as the Rav Berg would say
to have a desire, to build a true desire
if you have a desire to build a true desire
you are in the right place
it's a good beginning
so first identify in your life
in what areas your desires could be much more stronger
much more craving, much more real
much more constant
step number two
those four steps, from having the fulfilment
to the fulfilment becomes concealed
because I'm becoming a sharing
until I have a true craving
I want you to think what does it mean in your own life
how do you translate these four steps in your own life
before we were just feeding you with the answer
I want to build a desire in you
what does it mean to you in your own life
give me examples in your own life
think about it
when you have phase number one
have the fulfilment, have the love, have the spirituality
and then you undergo some process of building a desire
think hard
how do you translate it in your own life
and then how do you build a true craving
so I would like you to really think about it
write it down for yourself
and in the next session
we will see how to practically connect it to our own life
Thank you very much