Morning Lesson February 24, 2023 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Congress Lesson 1
1. Rav’s Introduction: Convening in one home. It's all our work, it's our goal, it is the correction that we have to make. To go back to the system of Adam HaRishon where all created beings come together and connect to a single desire in a single source. That all we need. of us will be in a single heart as we call it. That's what we need to achieve and we truly feel that from time to time, from one gathering to another, we are moving closer and closer into this connection to being one group, as one man in one heart. Let's hope that this time we're going to achieve such a feeling that we are indeed together, and that together we will be called Adam HaRishon or Adam, Domeh, similar to the Creator am we will feel that He exist within us, that he clothes within us fulfilling us, and then we will talk to him internally through our internality so the Creator appears within us to the extent that we feel ourselves closer to each other, that we are gathering into one vessel and one home as we call it. This way we will more quickly and intensely achieve our goal, discovering the true state of all of reality.
I remember how this happened many years ago in 1984 when the Rabash wrote for us the first article. That's what he wrote, 'we have gathered here to establish a society for all who wish to follow the path and method of Baal HaSulam, the way by which to climb the degrees to man'. All the degrees of man are to the extent that he is similar to the Creator. Adam comes from the word Domeh, similar. We will advance more and more through the connection between us, feeling that we are connected to each other more and more tightly in a single heart. This way we will feel that the Creator is between us, fulfilling us and we will feel that he is really speaking through our heart, speaking through the connection between us because the internality of the world is the internality of our thought and that is what we will discover. We have a beautiful goal, and all of us will feel as one man with one heart. You can ask questions raise your hands as usual, as will be explained, where you'll get the microphone and how to ask, I'll be happy to answer, we have time, we have all the means and the infrastructure needed and we will discover the basis of our connection in such a way that we can discover the Creator that dwells in everyone together. That's really the goal, convening in one home in order to reveal the Creator that dwells in the home, that fulfills this common heart. That is how we will achieve the purpose of creation. It is not far away, it is simply a common heart, where we all can feel that we are as one man as a single creation and there's no difference between us. On the contrary, to the extent that we first felt detached to the same extent and to the same intensity we will now feel that we are connected to each other. We will not feel any space between our hearts, our desires, our thoughts but we rather go deeper and deeper to the point where the Creator envelops us and connects us and fulfills us, and we become that system of Adam.
Item 2. RABASH, Letter No. 8, Rav reading
2. R. (06:32) “At the end of the day, this is a group of people who have gathered in a certain place, under a certain leader, to be together. With superhuman courage they face up to all those who rise against them." those who rise against them meaning our desires, so that the Creator created as an opposite desire, so that we feel him through the opposite form so we can reveal him. " Indeed they are brave men with a strong spirit and they are determined not to retreat one inch, their first class fighters fighting the war against the inclination to their last drop of blood, and they only wish to win the battle for the glory of his name." Meaning that the Creator will dwell among us and will appear between us and by that we will bring him contentment. This is basically our goal, the goal of our connection. I really hope that we already understand this and feel this, we've made a lot of efforts to get this, and around us there are thousands of people around the world with us doing the same efforts. Let's hope we will come to the revelation of the Creator to the created being, in an emotional way so that we feel that he already appears between us and fills us and is felt more and more as present in our connection.
3. S. (08:59) I'm very very happy because we have this Congress. I see really strong friends and thank you to the teacher and the Creator. My question is, what does it mean, one heart?
R. A single heart or one heart, we all of us are actually just one created being, it's just our imagination that we are separate to many different pieces that are opposite and different and conflicted and it's all because our ego, the will to receive, the evil inclination, it governs us and produces this imagination that we are separate, that we are divided, that we are scattered and each one lives in and of himself. Our entire goal is to force ourselves back against this desire that separates us and force ourselves back to a single body, to a single thought to a single desire and a single heart. We are on our way there and we even feel how that happens gradually, more this time it's really happening more powerfully than ever before.
I'm very happy that I feel in you the hearts coming closer with thoughts, the desires, that you are more aware and agreeing with this whole process that all of creation goes through, and we are the innermost part of all the created beings as we do want of our own accord to get more connected, it's wonderful. What's happening now is really truly wonderful. I'm very moved, it took decades as I was preparing for such gatherings that I haven't felt that I'm working together with my students, and now I feel that we are truly in this inclination towards a single heart that we better understand and feel this goal, that we are moving towards. I want to thank you for this great effort that everyone has made, and we will certainly succeed in this. We will achieve such a connection that the Creator appears to us openly, it is the force that connects us, the force that dwells between us, that we are immersed in, and then everything becomes one. as it is said 'the Lord is one'.
4. S. (13:40) I'm grateful for being here, I'm from Spain. It is written, to be in one place under a certain leader, what does it mean' a certain place'?
R. One place means one goal and one desire and one heart. That we are all going back to that structure of Adam HaRishon and we want to let go of this imagination that we are billions of people, billions of separate pieces attached from each other and far from each other. We want to go back to the true state of reality, that if we get rid of this imagination, we will feel that we are indeed one man with one heart. Now under a certain leader, one leader refers to the Creator there is no other leader, it is the upper force of nature, it is nature itself that governs us and conducts us, and wants us to agree with its governance, with its path, which is connecting together to become as one man similar to the Creator. The goal of our gathering is how much can we feel together as one man, one heart, one thought, and one desire, and under one leader which is the upper force. He gathered us and He holds us and brings us closer to Him to the point that we are all together included in Him. That is the goal of our gathering and I truly hope that we will feel about our meetings how we are gradually becoming absorbed in Him, in the Creator and as if to fill the Creator and that will be felt in us emotionally and intellectually and all our feelings and desires that we will discover it.
5. S. (17:00) I am Germany, Rav. You said that this is a miracle that's happening here and I'm convinced it's a miracle. There's so many people from so many countries and you've prepared for it, with so many friends who for decades are working on it and for that thank you from the bottom of our hearts and to all the friends who paved the way here. Thank you.
R. I thank you very much and I'm also thankful to all the German Kli, that this time is really very much present here. I'm very happy about that, and compared to what we had more than 40 years ago, it really is so delightful to see that people from all corners of the Earth are coming together, connecting. We feel that this is really all of creation and it has to be realized and it's becoming realized through us, so we will do it together
6. S. (19:11) It became clear here in our work of connection with many friends that we've already made some connections, and I love you, you said that the Creator is happy about the connection between us, is happy with us, how is this pleasure of the Creator expressed? How is the feeling of pleasure the Creator gives when we dissolve into one another? How is that expressed?
R. We will feel it, He brings us closer and we become further incorporated into each other. To that extent we incorporate into Him which is really the same. Later,,it follows that the more we connect, we connect with Him, as it says the Creator said ' you have made me'. Meaning that the Creator is actually what we are building, from detachment and from our shattering, what we then build. we build a system that is called Creator, BoRe, come and see. We have to come and then see. what that single unified upper force to all of us. we will discover it.
S. Are you in at the friends greatest deficiencies, I learned that when he shares his deficiencies With me, I determined that I cannot give it to the friend, and I've uncovered and discovered the true deficiency, and then I'm asking together with a friend from the Creator to fill his lack, is this the single heart you are talking about?
R. A single heart, it's difficult for us to explain because it comes to the feeling. When I feel that all of us feel the same thing. That when I now feel in my heart you feel in your heart and each and every one of our friends all over the world feels the same thing. It's not even describable with words because it's understood from the inner sense of the heart, and that's what we need to achieve. I think we are on our way there and I can feel from the people who are here that they are on the way and they are feeling it, and when we get to a state where it truly becomes one heart, then we will feel how the Creator appears in it, and how on top of the forces of separation, those opposite forces that work within us, we will also feel forces of closeness, and that's like what we learned that through Aviut, coarseness, as the root, Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet (1, 2, 3, 4) we discover the upper light and the vessel as the light of NRNHY, Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida, and that's the intensity of the revelation of the Creator to the created beings and that's how we will discover it.
S. Do I have to ask a friend what kind of requests he has? What lacks he has?
R. We mostly have to speak through the heart. When I want to turn to someone I turn to him first from my heart to his, without even saying the word, and this way we better and better connect and that's how we will succeed.
7. S. (24:42) Awzulla from Turkey. What should this new intention be in this new state that we have entered into, all brothers and sisters who are here in one heart, under one roof in the center of Bnei Baruch? I feel as if my soul has passed from one state to another: I feel emptiness. And I want to know what I have to do for my comrades and what to demand? What is the right requirement?
R. The correct demand is that we feel connected to each other, and that we have a single desire, in that single desire we reveal the Creator, and He fulfills all of us together, and this feeling that we are a single heart is actually our goal, to reveal that single heart. I think that there are people among us who already feel it, they are who are on the way there partially. I really hope that we will feel in a short time that we are working as one man with one heart, all of us together and we are filled by one upper source, and that is our goal, this is what is actually called to enter the single home or a single heart, it will happen. If we focus ourselves in that direction we will succeed.
8. S. (27:33) I am from Kiev, Ukraine. It says in the excerpt about the people who have a determined decision, what is this decision we need to make in this Congress once and for all? How determined do we need to be?
R.We are under the upper force and our work, our entire work is to be as close as possible to this upper force and accordingly to the extent that we keep his desire for us to connect, to be a vessel that he can fulfill. Accordingly, we will reach the realization and the orientation of our goal and that's ahead of us. Our success depends on that, all of it as much as we can connect between us to be one heart one single heart. I have nothing else besides that, only to be in a single heart with everyone. Then in the connection of the hearts we will reveal the Creator, the one force operating through reality that there is 'None Else Besides Him' at all, and for it and for Him to manage us, and control us we are in a very special state of transition together in humanity's history. A transition from what we call the vast history to the final history, if you can say it this way. We need to reach a single structure, a return to Adam Ha Rishon to combine all his parts together, so we are such that on the one hand, all those separate pieces that are revealed in us are foreign to one another, distant to one another on the other hand we can connect and be drawn to one another, come closer to one another,, hence when this rift is revealed, this division between connection and separation, we are right there in the middle. In a very strange or very clear way either in war or in peace or in disconnect, this is what's happening today in our time, on various levels of humanity, and people and families and everywhere. I can see that all of it is coming to an end very quickly and we are starting to understand and to enter the connection between us with certainty. Thank you especially to your country who is actively participating in it.
9. S. (32:02) This is my second time here. We feel at home and we love you so much and we are happy to be here. In item 2, it mentions war and the war is within everyone's heart, we want to win this war, what would you recommend us to do and what's the advice or the tactic that you think that we should follow in order to win this war and I love you.
R. To win the war it's possible only in love as you said that you love me. Truly only true love, and there's nothing else. I came to Turkey last time, about 5 months ago, 2 months ago, and suddenly I discovered hundreds of people who are connected to us who study with us, who know us, it was a miracle, a wonder, a revelation like nothing else. I never discovered a country or Nation who suddenly was born as a group. They came with such an awakening, it was a great and true wonder and great joy and ever since then we only hear about Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, Let's hope that we only hear good things and let's pray for it. Everything is ahead of us, I love you.
10. S. (36:56) We know each other for many years, and we know that there are many friends who stayed in their tens, and there's a strong demand between us. We want to turn to the Creator together. The question is, how to do this correctly and how to push this prayer upward?
R. We don't need to raise anything upwards. If we connect our heart, the common heart, the mutual heart we discover that the Creator is there, the Upper force. And we don't need to raise the hearts, to lower the hearts. Rather, only to feel that we are in one heart and that the Creator needs to fill this heart. And we need to discover that, feel that, and respect that, that's it. It's actually very simple. It has to do with the sensitivity of the heart. There is nothing closer to us then to reveal the Creator, to feel Him, and to connect with Him. Let's delve deeper into it. We have to do different exercises about it, more and more to feel how my heart is filled by the Creator. And then I can bring all of the friends into my heart because they are parts of my heart and the Creator fills us together. That's it.
11. S. (39:20) How can we be the Creators' partners and allow Him to manage us?
R. This is up to us, only up to us. As much as we connect, He will be revealed in us. As much as we want to be connected to Him, He will appear as connected to us. It has to do only with our desire. The Creator works as surrounding light, as inner light. He works in all kinds of ways around us. But, what we do need, is to discover that He is in us, and all of us want to include Him in us, that He will fill us. And we will surround Him, hold onto Him, feel Him in our desire. The one desire, the one heart of ours. As much as we can think about it, exert in it, we will pass these things into our inner feeling. In this inner feeling, we will then begin to feel degrees, world's, ladders, different states, and all of it. All in all, it is only to come closer between us and from between us to the Creator. That's the entire wisdom of Kabbalah, how to receive the revelation of the Creator in the one heart of the created beings.
12. S. (41:59) You were sick in the last few days, we worried that you might not be well enough to be in the Congress, so we prayed for it and we are thankful that you are with us in this convention. My question is: we gathered here, a group of people, to be together under a certain leader and the question is: should we look for lack of connection in order to achieve a single heart or a greater connection?
R. Only the connection between you as much as you are going to be tied together in one heart. That's what will save all the created beings, the whole world. And the Creator, as He says, you need to save Him to raise Him above every above where he is now in the attainment of the created beings. Only the connection between you, nothing will help you. Everything is in your hands and don't expect anything, don't wait for any other force that can help us. But only the connection between us, each shall help his friend. And this way, we can reach the one place where the Creator is revealed. After all, everything is up to us, to the extent that each one will pull the others towards connection.
13. S. (45:35) In this gathering, through what actions can our ten become a single heart?
R. Let's want it together. To connect into one desire, one heart, where the one Creator will be revealed. And for us to want nothing besides that. Everything we do in our lives, all of it is only to reach a state where nothing will help us but connection. So we are approaching it in an opposite way. We move away from it, we do all kinds of actions to discover that they are not going to help us. So we can come back and then we can start looking for what can help us. Let's go directly towards it as the wisdom of Kabbalah is telling us. Stop dealing with imaginary engagements and all kinds of states that are opposite to the purpose, and you will see how everything is right here. And in the single action, you can rise to a connection between you and a connection with the Creator. And then you will feel a new world, a different world, not those systems that we know. For the time being, we have to reveal our feeling and our intellect disconnected from the connection. Rather simply, let us connect. And in the connection, we will discover the truth.
14. S. (47:49) You spoke in the beginning about forcing ourselves. How do I force my environment, not just my ten but people at work, at home to go back to that desire?
R. I think this is mutual work. As much as I awaken a desire in others, in this way I awaken myself. I am not going to wait for others to start awakening me. It's here on the path, when I receive an awakening from the other. On the way to that, stands my ego, who raises me above everyone that I want to receive directly, quickly and emotionally what they're telling me. I resist that. However, if we are working together and I accept their work as my work in connection then in this way, we can overcome the separation between us. Meaning, what we need as we can feel now these waves of nearing and distancing, warmer, colder in the relationship between us. Let us each and every moment all the time, let's invest ourselves in how we need to be in a single embrace in coming close in such a way that there is nothing to do, nothing left to do, only to bring us closer to one heart and we reveal the Creator. The revelation of the Creator to the created being is our entire purpose.
15. S. (50:57) If our perception of one another as separate pieces is imaginary, then why the unification of the pieces in one heart is not imagination? Or why is it considered faith above reason?
R. Above reason meaning above our egoistic feeling. When we want to connect, although our ego resists this. As much as I try to be in connection with the friends, and act against our nature, then I actually have two parts in my perception of reality. On the one hand, I resist, I reject all of reality. On the other hand I want to bring it closer. So it turns out that we are in the ability to be in reason and in above reason, in connection and disconnection. The more we help one another with these things, with connection and disconnection, accordingly we are building the true reality. Which is made out of too but what determines here is the connection, the connection between us, where we are forcefully projected above the disconnection. And in this way, we come to faith above reason. We will talk about it, it is not simple.
16. S. (54:16) How do we come to a spiritual reality and be certain that that is the true reality and not an imaginary reality as well?
R.This is almost impossible to explain. I would just say that if our reality is built up on a thing and it's opposite, those two manners, then we can find that that is some real, true reality. If not then we are talking about an imaginary reality. Therefore, when we come to a spiritual perception of reality, then we have two things together: both the imagination and the truth. The truth and imagination are always in a special connection between them, at which point I discover between them, the actual truth. But we will go over this, we will talk. It's actually a very nice and correct question.
17. S. (55:49) Yesterday, we got together here on the roof. More and more of our friends came. There was an amazing connection. I could feel the love between us. I had to think about Rabash’s article that we are like soldiers. But what was missing for me was an intention, a clear intention. How do we come to a clear intention in such a situation?
R. We build the intention gradually, slowly, slowly with the help of the friends that are around us. No one can build anything alone. But if I am in an environment that pressures me in all kinds of ways, negative ones, positive ones, then by that I am built. I am made by the influence of the environment, just like Rabash writes about the importance of the environment and the importance of the influence of the environment upon a person. And therefore, we have no choice but to continue as much as possible in being closer to the environment and to the extent to which the environment doesn't seem like maybe good, nice, wise, advanced etc.
But if I nevertheless go in subduing myself and bowing my head before them, then accordingly I advance. Meaning, my entire advancement in the environment is to the extent in which I am incorporated in it; I am integrated with it. Because actually what I receive, I receive the influence of the ten Sefirot upon myself. And if I learn from myself, not from one person alone, that is not enough. I must truly, it's desirable for the environment should be like 10 people like Rabash writes, and I will receive through them all. And it doesn't matter what degrees their in just like Rabbi Yose Ben Kisma, where we learn the main thing is there to be in an environment and its environment when it influences me, it eventually impacts a whole matter.
18. S. (59:30) Yesterday you talked about sensitivity and today you also used that word. We are here at the center and we are aiming for the center with all of our hearts because we know that when we are united we have a huge force. That huge force is made of hope and courage. Is this what you are aiming for by the word sensitivity, or what is the sensitivity that you're talking about?
R. The sensitivity that I refer to, is that inclination in one's heart to open up and to receive all that emerges from the heart of a friend. That's called sensitivity, meaning that I open my heart and want everything that comes out of the heart of a friend without any corruptions along the way changes along the way will enter my heart and then in the connection between the hearts in such a way we will come to one Kli and in the connection between us that we receive we will feel between us the Creator.
19. S. (01:01:40) Concerning the soul of Adam HaRishon, the personification of the soul with our corporeal body is this the will to receive? Is our body the will to receive of the soul?
R. I don't know what you mean when you say our body. Our desire, the desire of a person is called one's body. Not the corporeal flesh and blood body. We need to connect with our desires in such a way that we won't feel a difference between one another. That we are like Kabbalists, say you say, basically being covered by one blanket and then we will feel that the Creator is covering us.
20. S. (01:03:27) In general when you come here and you forget who you are, if you are Ukrainian, Turkish, it doesn't matter. The heart is open and loving and you can see it on every level from tables in the assembly of friends, the food we eat and most important the question: We ask, we ask ourselves, we ask the Rav, we ask the Creator. Our Ten, Moscow 6, came here, 5 people. Yesterday, we were walking, seeing how people were responding to us. We were doing workshops and people noticed and started participating and talking to us. Now the question, we want everyone to think not only of ourselves but of the whole world, that the world will be rewarded with it. How can we be a conduit for His light? We want it and we ask for it. Can we want it now?
R. We can’t ask the Creator for the connection between us until it influences all of humanity and in that way we will be able to come closer until we truly embrace together. The world really needs this greatly. Look at what powers of nature we are being brought to these decisions to such a necessity, what's happening in Europe, where again and again we can't exit this hatred, this mutual hatred that is being revealed. We just need to ask, we need to ask the Creator to help us be in such a connection, to such an extent until we influence, we decide and tip the scale of decision of everything to connect and participate in a positive way, in the whole world Kli. We are capable, we have a small force but it is a very qualitative one, so let's ask so no evil forces that are being revealed in reality will have any influence or bother the true correction of reality. We will succeed.
21. S. (01:07:19) I am from Holland. This is really amazing Rav, this process that we are in and I really love the word love, love, the embracement, the care. Yesterday, we experienced with friends and we had Turkish friends, Italian friends. They were all friends and there was an amazing feeling of love and that word love is also related to the French word 'la coeur', the heart, so why do we need.
Reading excerpt # 6 “Let them make me a temple and I will dwell within them..”
22. R. (01:12:35:) A temple is a place where there is connection between the different parts and amongst them when they connect. Despite the resistance when they connect then specifically from the resistance, thanks to the resistance, a house, a home, is created called a temple. Holiness, Kedusha is giving from which they can come to mutual bestowal to one another and this is what is called 'that they make me a temple and I will dwell within them' where within them inside your hearts I dwelled. This pertains to the point in the heart which should be a Temple, a place of a temple where the light, the upper light of the Creator dwells, as it is written and I have 12 within them. Hence, one should try to build a structure of Kedusha and the structure should be able to contain the upper abundance which is called abundance poured from the giver to the receiver. That is to the extent that we want to come closer between us and to build a common vessel within which the upper light will be able to dwell, being one for all. To the extent in which we will all be one. Then accordingly this temple will be built in us and the Creator will be revealed.
23. S. (01:15:00) You know there are many friends from Ukraine who came here. They overcame huge obstructions to come here. There are other friends in Ukraine, maybe by the broadcast, can we show them so we can support them? They are making great efforts right now. Next to me there is a friend from Moscow standing next to me. I love her very much and we are living examples that love covers everything. Today is exactly or exactly a year since the war in Ukraine started February 24th. We all came here with great hope for peace in the world. I'm not sure if it's a question or request. To be in this feeling that love covers all the crimes and that there will be peace in the world. Can you give us some direction?
R. I am certain that it will end soon, relatively and that it will end in the right way for everyone for all the sides correctly. Such that the result of this war, as a result of each and everyone will take on the correct right direction for development. I am certain that this is going to be the last war, the last big war in Europe and everything will work out. The main thing in war is the heart and the mind of the person where a person needs to understand the extent in which the state that is happening is happening only to teach people to be human beings. For them to rise degree by degree and understand that they must discover the essence of creation, the purpose of creation, the purpose for a person's development in what manner a person should develop and how to exit the degree of animal to the degree of Adam. That's the main thing. As we rise above all of these habits of animals and understand that it's not with the might of or rather control can be only upon one's own heart so that it will be open to the other.
I really hope that the people who are at war now will understand that the war needs to be different, against oneself against one's self in controlling others. It seems to me that this solution might be able to work this way. I think that people are starting to understand. Of course there's still all kinds of edges here that need to be dealt with but the main thing is that people are beginning to understand that the forces, even the nuclear bombs that were made that were created and all those things that wanted to be used. We will notice that it's impossible even the upper providence operates them in this and the Creator won't let us bring ruin to the world and to let this crude evil force to control the world. I really hope that we are already in the final stages of the war and soon we will see the last stages after which there will be a new order, a new order. For people to understand from this that there is no more room for battling and that's simply all those weapons are not beneficial. I really hope that we discover this in our times and how it will end. I can see how there will be changes for the good both in Ukraine and Russia and all over Europe and all over the world. As we are assembling here now. It is such a special day of the beginning of the war that sits on that mark, we also want to define the end of the war for that to happen.
24.S. (01:23:00) I want to continue about what was said to fight the war against the evil inclination. To shift the war, do we need let's say to come to that love because I was trying to find out what is this love which you can fight the inclination but you can also do love. They are related somewhere. And also there are the words the English say courage that's from heart so you need somewhere you need the courage to fight the evil inclination but as the English say courage. You also need courage to go into love with each other somewhere there is also a barrier, our ago or something like that, there are things going on. You explain how to use this courage, but what is this courage? How do you use this courage to come to love and to use the courage to fight the evil inclination?
R. We need to balance our observation of things by looking at reality, understanding that both the force of good and the force of evil comes from one place from one source. The Creator says I have created the evil inclination so what else can you say after that? That the Creator said I have created the evil information. I prepared for you the evil inclination wonderful, now you have a reality beautiful, a new one that you need to live in. We need to use both of them and this is what the wisdom of Kabbalah is actually teaching us. There also needs to be the coarseness and the restriction and the screen and the reflected light the calculation of how to c. There is no bad and good but rather it all operates for the sake of one unification. This is what we have to discover, see and learn how to do but in truth there is no bad in the world.
S. What I experienced yesterday was the sensation that there was no resistance when we met each other in this gathering. What happened there then? There was no evil inclination there was nothing else it was so great a huge feeling of friends, people caring for each other. Where do you need courage for there? Where do you have the evil inclination to fight there, because this is unity I don't feel anything of fear in this great community we are all friends and love and care.
R. Because one completes the other, the good information and the evil inclination go both together and you cannot have one without the other. That is what we are trying to discover here in our convention and in our relations between us and let's hope that we will discover it this way in the whole map of occurrences that are taking place in Europe. Let it happen.
25. S. (01:27:11) How do I awaken the desire of people who are not still learning our wisdom?
R. We should try as much as we can, to show people how happy we are and by this we will be able to draw them to this wisdom too. In the end it will be revealed. Humanity will see that it can't find how to discover in this world, how to live in this world, how we can emerge from our situation. What are we going to do? Only the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us in the end what we must do in order to come to a state where everything is balanced. But through dissemination just like we did before we have been doing this for 40 years now what can you do?
26. S. (01:29:15) I hope our unity will succeed. If I heard correctly we have one soul, one desire. Because of the sin of Adam HaRishon we have come to the shattering into being 600000 souls. Should a person regret it or be thankful for the sin of Adam HaRishon?
R. Yes, that's true you are right.
27. S. (01:30:15) Are we permitted to assume that the evil inclination doesn't exist here?
R. In each and everyone there is the evil inclination. In each of us there is the evil inclination. The question is only how do we balance it with the good information and for them to work together in the direction of one goal of revealing the Creator because we cannot discover anything with one quality we need the quality and it's opposite. In that contrast between the two, that's why we cannot work without the evil inclination. Especially in order to reveal the good inclination we need the evil information.
S. I am asking because a friend and I came to a conclusion that we need the prayer before the prayer, the prayer of many. It is written that the evil inclination should actually be pushed aside. We were praying to the Creator to put out the evil information and then we know that we can't raise a prayer until the Creator removes basically the evil inclination. Is this correct?
R. No, I don't want to get into the whole depth of these matters but even in the temple work and in all those things, we had to raise our offerings, our sacrifices to the evil inclination in order to, well-meaning that we can't do anything without it. We cannot without the evil inclination, we need balance and therefore nothing in the world and this Baal HaSulam writes in many places, there is nothing in the world that takes place rather than where there is a balance between these two forces. Therefore, relate nicely to one side, relate nicely to the other side, and find the connection between them, such that each of them exists in order to support the other. And thus lead us to the purpose of the creation which is exactly in the middle.
S. Thank you very much. Now we can work together.
R. Thank you.
28. S. (01:33:57) A question from letter 8: there is an example there about a very powerful decision, a powerful great confidence, and we are aspiring for this at the Congress. It is said in the excerpt that they are fighting against the inclination to the last drop of blood. What does it mean to the last drop of blood and what is blood in our work?
R. Blood is from the word Domem, or inanimate/still. It is the last degree, the lowest possible degree. Hence, we need to battle until we complete all the discernments that are in the evil inclination, and balance it with the good inclination. That's what's called until the last drop of blood.
S. How can we obtain such closeness that is beyond blood relation at the congress?
R. I think if you were to measure your common feeling with which you entered yesterday, let's say, in the connection between you, compared to now, today; then you would feel the extent to which you are already in some common feeling. The feeling of one. More and more, such that there are less and less differences between one another and you are in a state which you start feeling and understanding one another more. And that there is a certain cloud that engulfs us all and covers us together. It's what's happening to us now. That's called convention, a convening, connection. That's what the Creator is doing to us. This connection is gradually operating on our hearts.
And soon, we will feel how these hearts are becoming one heart in which the upper force fills them. And this is how we will feel the return to the vessel of Adam HaRishon. There is no more than that and this reality, it will leave this reality and it will just dissipate. It will simply, in this cloud, everything will disappear and we will feel ourselves inside a world of our feelings; and this physical world in the wisdom of Kabbalah is called the imaginary world. It will simply disappear from reality from our feelings, it won't be. And this is how we will come to the true world, the world of truth. We will discover ourselves as existing in a different reality. Humanity is approximating this in all kinds of ways as far as matter, as far as the forces, and from feeling. We will discover this quickly.
29. S. (01:39:15) It's already my second day here, and the feeling I have is that it is like everyone just popped out of the screens. As if we all made a step forward and we are truly living people, and that we are all connected constantly in love. It's like we were comatose and we returned to life. We are simply remembering the connection between us, and with that, I have a great pain that we will lose someone. My pain is that we won't separate and it is very hard for us to feel that we will separate this way.
R. Well actually it's easy what you are asking. If we are talking about one vessel in which we are all gathering together in one embrace, all of us, then what could happen here. Of course we are not moving away from each other, and even if we are in the corporeal world, it becomes blurry on us. It blurs the spiritual reality for us. Still, it only seems to us to the time being that way. Actually, we are all incorporated in one vessel and we have nothing, no reason to fear the distance, nothing to be afraid of, no reason to be afraid of the distance. Even if we don't see each other physically and feel each other in our physical senses, it doesn't mean anything. We are still all connected together. That's the matter of souls, so don't be afraid of a situation where we are separated, and disappear, and become disconnected. No, there is no such thing in the spiritual world. In our spiritual state we are always connected together in one vessel of Adam HaRishon. That's it.
30. S. (01:43:01) We gathered here from all over the world. And in the sources, it is written that there are 70 nations of the world that are dispersed around the world. Each and everyone of us feels some closeness to some nation, to some tongue, or dialect. In the spiritual development of a person, he starts to discover more and more a unique quality that is revealed in him. Meaning an attitude towards a certain nation, or that one discovers inside a person all 70 nations and discernments that imbalance him? or does one discover a relation to a certain one of those 70 nations?
R. Without any doubt, we will discover that we belong to one humanity, one humanity and we have no relation to any one nation. We are simply people belonging to that Adam of whom we are parts, and to the extent that we connect to that system, that is called Adam from the word Domeh La BoReh (similar to the Creator) to that extent, we become more and more connected to each other as parts of one body. Those parts don't feel separated from each other, but that each one does its own role. By this, the whole body of Adam HaRishon exists. This is where we should reach. Therefore, the whole division into 70 nations of the world, stems from the structure of the soul being made of 70 parts, 7 Sefirot, Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malchut each of which has 10 internal Sefirot, altogether there are 70, but when they work together, they become one. We raise ourselves to the state of a body, to the state of the Rosh, and then we become GAR, first three Keter, Hochma, Bina. There, we return to the structure of Adam HaRishon before the breaking. Therefore, this whole division that we can now talk about for the time being stems only from the breaking. The minute we correct the breaking, we return into a single structure. There's no reason to fear, or think that the structure of Adam HaRishon will remain as it seems to us now in its broken state, disconnected, divided. No, it will be as one desire as one man with one heart.
31. S. (01:48:05) There are people friends that have been with us for dozens of years and a certain point that sensation that sensitivity disappears and I remember what you have been saying to us for many years that the Creator gives us help and then we make these steps there are many friends that are connecting and they are evoking this sensitivity. There's a desire for this warmth, for this sensitivity that we are feeling here, that awakens here, and breaks these barriers between us because there, in that barrier behind the barrier, you forget everything you don't ask for anything. I'm asking for help for our friends that can give us a great force to feel the connection and advance forward.
R. I am very happy that I see you here. I understand the pain you are feeling in your heart through the connection between us. We are acting in a very real and important way for everyone's sake, for the sake of the whole world Kli and I am certain that by this we will feel results. We will do it, even now as we connect between us here, we are operating on our entire Kli and on the entire world and all of reality so we will see the changes thank you.
32. S. (01:51:05) In the last excerpt we read I want to try to build this building of holiness. What does it mean to try and build a building? How do you do it?
R. To be connected with everyone with as many connections as possible with good desires, bad desires but connected. By this I will try to build some connection that will always work. As we see in all of our systems that we build, there is no you can't have good without bad, light without darkness etc., this is how we have to build the relationships between us. We need to try to tolerate each other and take into consideration every person. In this way be connected.
In other words in our study initially, we learn that there is a bad force and a good force but the more we, even in our own lives, the more we connect between us we see that there is no such thing as just bad but that the bad is also working towards the good and there is no good except in order to bring us to respect and know the bad. The older we grow in life we understand that you can't have one without the other. We will continue and I'm sure that we are getting a lot of wisdom, a lot of understanding, a lot of feelings from such meanings of ours that we are all incorporated with each other and by this. This is really our benefit, it is a real gain.
33. S. (01:54:10) I am from Bulgaria. We have an international Ten from many nations. We have a very deep close relationship. We are seeing each other here, in our common home. It is becoming more and more difficult to ask a question because the words are just ending and you can't convey the emotion. The days that we are living here in this common home, the duties we have already cleaned up. All this it is amazing that we don't even need language anymore. Soon we won't need regular language. We will discover the language of feeling and the wall will melt in the connection between them.
R. Yes we will continue to fight against the bad, against the separation against the hatred and we will succeed.
WSQ: (01:59:55) What was our impression from the lesson? What touched our hearts mostly? What do you want to take with us for the work from here onwards? Workshop: in summation of the lesson.
34. S. (02:01:46) The biggest impression is the friends. We all started as tired, we all started with this unusual sensation because it’s been a while since we’ve all got together physically like this. So it started rough but all of a sudden we all felt like home, we all felt like a single heart so thank you friends for this sensation.
35. S. (02:02:15) There is love and light, nothing but love and light, that's what it is.
36. S. (02:02:27) I was very much impressed simply by all the impressions of you, very deep and serious questions, but the bottom line I think, the remedy for all of our problems is basically unity, uniting the hearts that should do it.
37. S. (02:02:53) The friends are using all kinds of ways to find means to come together more and more and overcome barriers as well. The foundation has been built over the years of this sensation of being together and lots of circumstances like the war that friends are talking about because they’re using it to come closer to overcome those barriers. They are really trying to feel one another.
38. S. (02:03:37) Our teacher said that to the extent we feel the separation we will begin to feel the unity, the connection and that's what we’re moving to.
39. S. (02:03:50) I don't even know how to say this. There are two things, one what our Rav said about the last drop of blood as being Domeh and the other thing is that when we reach a certain stage the world that we see around as well actually cease to exist. There is no time to delay the friends but there is so much out there and talking to them in science and such which supports this is terrifying, just things this year, there’s no time to explain it. But what we can do here is very, very, very real, it’s terrifying real.
40. S. (02:04:33) Yes and you can kinda feel the pain of the whole world from the friends coming from all over, from Turkey, from Kiev, you can definitely feel the regions that are in pain and suffering. But there is this confidence that we we are on the right path and that we need to balance this. The only way to balance it is for us doing the work in connection and then striving for bestowal and these two forces will be balanced.
41. S. (02:05:14) Wanting is for real, that this connection is alive and no matter how many years have past this connection is there and you just connect with the friends no matter how much time elapses. And the spontaneity of this connection is really amazing and then you just link up with the friends and so it’s real it’s beyond everything else.
42. S. (02:05:53) It is very moving to see all the efforts that the friends have made to come in the physical group and see all the efforts the friends made to come to Petah Tikva. In particular a very moving point for me was to see the sisters from Kiev and Moscow standing together asking the Rav about the situation in Kiev and what the future holds and his answer that hopefully the war will be over; actually he did say the war might be other very soon with a solution that everybody will come out with understand from it, very moving. L’Chaim.
43. S. (02:06:43) I think what stood out for me most was the realization that the states that I’m in, that we are in are a gift to work with despite whatever they feel like, whether they’re pleasant or not. Sometimes it often seems unpleasant and it’s actually an opportunity. I see the efforts the other friends are making and realize that this is something that's not the real deal, the real deal is above that and I’m thankful to be in this with you all.
44. S. (02:07:33) The impression that I have is that it’s good to see that the world Kli is still able to unite and draw in this light to bring to the rest of the world. There were standard moments at the beginning, trying to overcome the ego, to join into the connection but once we were in the environment it's like everything goes automatic and the stony heart softens up a little bit. You get all these different memories of friends and listening to the teacher giving us more and more light to absorb. All in all we are definitely on the right path.
45. S. (02:08:38) I can't add too much more, it’s an overwhelming sensation for the friends to rise above and be able to feel the other friends' hearts.
46. S. (02:09:15) As our friend said you enter the room it doesn't matter what the room is you enter the room and you feel like a Rabash article only not on the page but the actual material rises right in front of your eyes. This is exactly the sensation of the lesson, right? It's like we are making it true, we are gather together for a single goal and it’s felt everywhere…
47. S. (02:09:48) We want her friends from the world Kli, from here and in the Arvut system. So whoever has a specific impression that they want to share with us, raise your hand. Who’s ready to share your impression from the end of the lesson?
48. S. (02:10:17) For the majority of the lesson I was waiting to ask and the question was clear that the house should contain all of the friends. So what do we focus our labor at this time, that was my question. I came here, we did the summary and my answer is to see every moment as new. Meaning you labor now you have the next lesson and that’s your new labor. And the second thing is everyone makes an effort, we’re not aware of it. There are people that came from afar, people who came from near, we’re unaware. Let's give the credit to the people we love and we love each other. Amen.
49. S. (02:11:27) We were talking about the fact that a few years ago the whole convention could enter into the top floor and the place was big enough. Then we started to come downstairs and the whole convention would take place here on the inner floor and now the convention already emerged outwards and there is no place outside. The only thing that remains in my head is that next time the convention will probably be in the streets already, all over the streets because there’s no more room. So L’Chaim Bnei Baruch, may we succeed.
50. S. (02:12:46) Like Rabash says, we all help each other. Today we understood that whatever you have is yours and whatever I have is yours as well. The Creator is really softening our heart and the Creator is here in us together, we can really feel it. For this Congress we are really thankful and grateful for all of the world Kli, for all of you. The Creator is with us, to life!
51. S. (02:14:14) We feel what you feel. We see that we are very close and between all of us we’re building every degree of closeness. What we have is endless happiness, we can't stay with serious faces, we keep smiling because we want to convey the great joy, we all feel together with the whole world Kli. L’Chaim friends.
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