Question: You say that each one has his place in a lesson, even if someone sleeps, it is wonderful.

Answer: I am not saying that it is wonderful, but if a person sleeps, it is a sign that this is his state.

During those 12 years when I was next to my teacher, I had a period of a month and a half when I slept. I was very ashamed to admit this; I tried to create the impression that I was not sleeping. I was in all kinds of intentions, but basically I was sleeping. Sometimes Rabash would push me with his foot: “Well, what?” and I would wake up.

Sometimes it is necessary to go through states like these in order to understand the others better, to be integrated with them. Even for a moment it is necessary to know how to move towards other people. And therefore there are no threatening, terrible states that a Kabbalist would not go through. You must pass through all of the states, still, vegetative, animate, and human, all of the desires, all of the thoughts, that exist in creation.
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From the World Zohar Week “Integral Education Convention”Day Three 2/4/14,Workshop 5

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