Morning Lesson March 5, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Winning the War - Selected excerpts to reinforce the World Kli and for peace in the world. #17
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, this is what we need to think and not forget. That with each and every blow as much as we feel it as a blow, it is the remedy, the medicine that comes to us from above. Otherwise our ego, our will to receive won’t be able to change to be corrected, rather only by these bestowals upon him, what we call blows. These blows make a person feel uncomfortable because we are still full of the force of our ego but along with that we have to understand that our work specifically thanks to the blows, because of these blows will organize our hearts directly to a connection between us and the Creator. This is why each one should help his friend. Between us there are many people that are under states of pressure, distress, internally, mentally, economically. So, first of all by this verse each should help his friend, we have to take care of the friends who are connected to us and help each other.
For this we have a system and I am going to ask our friends to explain about this at the end of this lesson, how we can help, how we want to help, how we are willing to help anybody who is in any distress whether it’s a problem with medicine, food, money, all kinds of different forms of distress. We want our friends to feel that it’s not only words but instead we practically want to be all together helping each other where we really feel all the friends as one force. This relates both to the ones who are in Ukraine and also in Russia in this war and let's hope that we are going to cancel this border and reach a state where love covers all transgressions. This is something we really need to help all the friends with. A friend is a friend, it doesn't matter where he is now.
We rise above all of these earthly mundane discernments; they only come from the ego and we want to rise above that and to belong to one heart. Both for Moscow and Kiev we need to really take care of in an equal manner according to everything our friends are missing and will miss until we succeed in correcting the world. We should also see this war, it’s a war and it’s much more of an internal war, a higher war if we can say such a thing about a war. A more important war than any other war we’ve had until today. And we all have to try to take part in it in a way that love covers all crimes. This is why in practice we have to do what I just said. That we need to practically help each friend, men and women who need this help now with whatever they need. In the meantime let’s go into this lesson with one heart and we’ll try, by this, to win the war.
Excerpt 1 (05:45)
2. R. (06:45) Yes, this means that we need to see that in all these blows that we get, each one according to his state, to his root of the soul, and certainly the more we advance we’ll feel in a sharper manner, all these states the world is going through. I just now recall that once I went to this certain Kabbalist called Baba Sali. He was a great Kabbalist from Morocco that used to live in Israel in his late years. He was pretty old, about 100 years old. My friend, who I learned Kabbalah with at the beginning, Chaim Malka, he was his relative, family, and I had this opportunity to join him to meet this Kabbalist sage. So when we were at his place one time we were talking and he was really old, you could barely hear, he just prayed. He couldn’t see anything, he could not see who was before him, he just felt. So he gave us a blessing and was talking in Psalms, in a prayer. Usually he liked to read the Song of Songs, the song of King Solomon and when we were there, he suddenly started crying out and we were told it’s because of the attack that’s now taking place by the Israeli Air Force.
There were departures from the Air Force bases and they started bombing. I don’t remember when it was, it was 1977 or 1978. I do not know what happened at that time, I don’t remember the years but this is what he felt. You couldn’t hear those planes and he was deaf but this is how he was excited. That from this tension that he felt he even stopped his reading of the Shir haShirim, Song of Songs and he spoke out and cried out in such a weak cry until a few minutes past and he calmed down and kept on as usual. So what am I trying to say, that Kabbalists feel these internal things. In their internality they feel what’s going on around us in these frequencies, these waves that the world is going through, the waves of war.
We have to pray that all of this will not just pass, it won’t just pass because it comes from above. If we complete all this war to wholeness, to peace, to connection it will end. Otherwise it will not end. Other problems, other troubles will come and the true results of this war. We have to replace this with connection and love. Then it will truly stop and become corrected and then we can say that the Creator heals with what he strikes if we respond correctly with these blows. The true, the best response to these blows is when we take upon ourselves with faith above reason that connection and love should be above hatred and distance.
3. S. (12:00) Why is there a feeling that the whole world is engaged with this war? How is it different from other wars?
R. Yes. This war although if you talk about the battle it’s not a real war. But with respect to the way it touches everybody it’s broader because the world has become more connected and interdependent. We don’t yet feel the results of the separation that has been done between the nations. We don’t yet feel the new order of the relations between the corporeal nations but nevertheless we have to attain that. As much as it is revealed we should still try to bring connection and even love upon the separation. In the beginning there is happiness of separation or even hatred, all kinds of forces and rejections that are being revealed, this is how the ego is showing itself.
But what we need to do is to overcome this and to see this in things that are heading towards correction. If we want to come closer to the correction we have no other means but to see how much we, from one moment to the another, are coming closer to connection. Is this happening? Is the gap, the hatred that has been revealed sufficient upon all crimes that we now cover with love? In the connection between us can we start with this already? When we are drawn to that, then basically by that we are winning the war so it will end in the right way. It’s not that there is somebody beating someone else, that’s impossible. It is only possible under the condition that both overcome their own ego and they look for the point of contact that everyone is in together. This is the victory. Let's hope that we will be able to see these things correctly and to push the whole world towards it a little bit.
4. S. (15:07) I wanted to ask in what exactly do the Kabbalists compliment the Creator in reality?
R. By asking Him to shift, this is how we call it, from the chair of a judgment to the chair of mercy. By asking for all of humanity. All the souls are asking for forgiveness and they are asking for correction and for Him to install His love between all the created beings.
S. Because it turns out that without the response of Kabbalists to what is happening it seems like reality is incomplete.
R. Of course because Kabbalists are like that middle line. Some are on one side some are on the other side and they’re both in wars but the Kabbalists are the ones who understand the connection that should be in between, and specifically in a way that they both connect and rise above the ego of each one because they are both egoistic. It doesn’t matter that one wins or beats the other, one is the aggressor and one has to defend, both are egoistic. That’s why we are not going to discuss who is right here and who isn’t. We’re not having a trial here or calculations.
In that you will never have an end. There is no one here who is right and the other is wrong. Even if you hear differently or ask, this is not the way. The way, the path is the middle line. The middle line is where love covers all crimes. Meaning we’re not taking the crimes from one side or the other side. You can be certain that every side is correct and this only comes to show that every side is incorrect because each one judges the situation from his ego. It’s both in the families, in children, grown-ups and nations. There will be no correct solution here. The solution is to rise above the current state just as we talked about faith above reason. In this way we can win. In this victory, in faith above reason or in connection above all the crimes we can truly attain brave, eternal connection which is called love, only this way. We don’t know what that is. We have to try now under the conditions we have to discover the necessity for it and to pray for the Creator to do this. Because he is a hero of war, He can do that for us. Then we will see what it means to be in the middle line, in adhesion to the Creator. This is the opportunity.
S. How does a Kabbalist keep himself neutral, where he wants to bring the state into completion?
R. He is both on one side and later he’s on the other side and that he has impressions from both sides. The problems, doubts, hatred, he includes everything because otherwise he cannot win. He judges it all to be in the middle line otherwise he can’t do anything. There is no victory. This is something we can say now, even if the Russians go all over the place with all their strength and control Ukraine it won’t help because it will never end. The Ukranians won’t surrender, they won’t surrender. That’s why the solution can be only one, to rise above all the doubts, all the wars and to reach some connection above them. We don’t know how this should happen, how it takes place, how it is expressed in our world but it won’t be in any other way.
Otherwise all the nations will always be in disputes between them and these disputes won’t only be shown between two neighboring countries but between everyone and everyone else. This is a true world war ,where each attacks his neighbor and we won’t be able to come out from this bundle. It’s like sometimes, we see how there are many people who start fighting each other on the street and you cannot see who is who, everyone is beating everyone else. This is why our ego is pushing us this way, to discover it and we should already try to cover it with love, there is no other solution and love is connection between us, in a prayer to the Creator. From hatred ask for connection and love and from the Creator comes the middle line, the spiritual state that covers us and we get rid of all the problems. We don’t know what it is, but only this way is it possible to cause or to bring an end to this egoistic life.
S. If a Kabbalist is incorporated in both sides and experiences and feels everything, what does it mean that he sentences? What does he want to happen? How does he not take sides?
R. He doesn’t take sides even though according to all the signs, we can say that there is someone who is jumping on someone else. The heart seemingly should be with the one who is harmed on one hand. On the other hand if you hear the other side and let's say I can’t clothe on them, but still they may tell you all day long that what they’re doing is correct, etc. But we’re not going into that. We’re not hearing any side, we’re not hearing the reasons for making the decision. We only want one thing, for this to bring us closer to the final correction and this is love covers all crimes. We don’t want any side to win here but rather for love to win.
5. S. (23:53) In practice those making corrections in the world are Kabbalists with attainment. What can we do?
R. We can do even more. We’re like little children in the hands of the Kabbalists and these children are pointing to the Kabbalist who is holding them saying this is what I want, this is what I want. We understand that usually grownups do listen to such appeals from the children they are holding in their hands and they execute it. So we need as much as we can, to ask from the Kabbalists, from the Creator because He who does peace above will bring peace on us. Peace is wholeness, it is completion.
S. So what should we little ones point to and ask Him to correct?
R. The little ones should only ask for a state where the whole world here is the name of the Creator, is love and peace. That there will be connection above all the crimes where the origin is the sin of Adam HaRishon.
S. So to organize the picture, what does the Creator expect from the people in the world?
R. For them to join the correction as well.
6. S. (25:36) With the example from the Baba Sali with his sensitivity, what should a Kabbalist do, what should he ask when he sees war and suffering? How does he ask the Creator to shift from judgment to mercy?
R. We should nonetheless understand that only the right connection can bring us to the right completion and to the end of these wars, altogether. That reaching the end of all the wars is possible only by us complementing each other so that there would be connection between us, Bnei Baruch, so strong that we will obligate the Creator to dwell in us, to be revealed in us, in such a way that we connect. Not that each and every one of us but rather we connect and from the connection between us, the force of this connection will be revealed in everybody, in the whole world between all the created beings.
This is our role and this is what we are capable of doing; and let's try to carry this out. Meaning I do not do things on my own. I do not act for myself, I act as one out of thousands and thousands of people all over the world that all of them understand that only in the connection between them, they should when the war or end the war, it will only end when we are all in a single heart, which is a single desire that we will be connected and in the connection between us we will wants to be in love and giving one another and this is how we will want to draw for ourselves to ourselves all the people, any person in the world
7. S. (28:23) In other words, the friends who are experiencing this horror, should they grow wiser: how to turn this deficiency into connection? Because when you are facing such danger you just want it to disappear.
R. I understand you, but this is not a solution because all these troubles that come to us, the blows, the problems are all felt in our egoistic desire. We have to raise these blows to higher degrees and there to solve them. Meaning their solution is how with respect to the whole of humanity, as a single vessel, can we see these blows moving the whole of humanity towards the solution, to the final correction.
S. There is this desire and pride to declare that we have not lost one friend, they're all in the system and the lessons, and they make a huge effort to realize what we are learning.
R. Yes, we are also with you in heart and soul and we are willing to help with whatever we can. We are willing to help with whatever we can to our ever growing connection between us. There will be an origin, a center for the connection of the entire humanity.
8. S. (30:28) If we see that above reason and love of others above the hatred it is difficult even for us, what can we demand from the poor rest of the world? Should it come from Bnei Baruch, from Israel?
R. For all of the Bnei Baruch, which are also called Israel, Yashar El, it is coming to all of Bnei Baruch because we received a special desire; and in this desire there is a point of connection. That is what we should emphasize, increase in each and every one, and to connect all these points together. From these ten points, we will have a Partzuf, from the Partzufim, we will have a full world. This is how we should do this.
S. But why is this war outside and not in the Bnei Baruch? Why does the Creator demand the correction from the world? The ego cannot understand this, how can they understand within their ego, they have to rise above their ego; why doesn’t the war not come to us?
R. We cannot know that, we can’t exactly know what is going on with each and every one in his personal fortune. Rather, we have to accept it and to keep on going. Going into all this scrutiny is not correct and we do not need this. We have to accept it because whatever we get, we get from above, and we have to think how we are going to respond correctly from below to that. What you are demanding to understand, in our corrupt mind or intellect, then to start working, we say it is ‘an act of the beast’. We say we should only work in the direction of Adam, a person who wants to get closer to the Creator and to resemble Him. That we want the connection of love and above reason.
9. S. (33:02) I also would like to thank you, Rav, and the friends in Bnei Baruch for their constant support for us both in material they send and in prayers, we can really feel it. I want to ask: after the Second World War, people were also connected and united, at least this is what our parents told us. Now I see that the war is very cruel; everyone is so happy that the enemy is suffering.
R. We do not want to hear about these things; all we want to talk about is the right solution.
S. Yes, but where is the confidence because this war will end at some point, and people will again come to war.
R. If we do what we should do we will advance towards correction and even the final correction; thank you very much for your question, it’s a fun one.
10. S. (34:25) Is the current war, was it planned already in the thought of creation as the war of the evil inclination against the good inclination?
R. You can be certain about this, we have no doubt about this.
11. S. (34:50) When the pandemic started you said that it is not going to end until it exhausts us completely, all of humanity and this is what happened. It also brought us into a new connection which is virtual, so what should be the connection between us now as a result of the current blow?
R. The current connection between us, now, should be as an example for the whole of humanity, the whole world; and I really hope that by this we will set an example to the whole of humanity. This brings the end of the war closer and nothing else.
12. S. (35:35) This situation has united the whole world. How can we with our common prayer – men and women – also intended to unite the whole world?
R. Talk to the friends and decide together how to connect and how to pray. This is certainly the most beneficial action.
Excerpt 19 (36:19 - 37:30)
13. R. Yes, this is the main thing, the end of this text is the real jist. No war, no problem, nothing happens in reality to a person or to people or to the whole world but to bring us closer to the Creator, read it again.
Excerpt 19 (37:53 - 39:05)
14. R. (39:15) Meaning from his it is clear to us that whatever comes to us, especially the more the troubles are appearing and coming to us, all in all, it all comes for us to turn to the origin, to the source, to the Creator; and we’ll ask, we’ll demand, we’ll beg Him to take care of us and will bring us the right remedy for all the blows we feel.
15. S. (39:52) The difficulty is in the fact that we are not successful in ascribing the things like the war to the Creator or bad things that are related to His actions. We always think that something else causes this. There is this difficulty to connect the bad things that happened to the Creator, why is it so?
R. It is the lack of faith, lack of connection from us between us to the Creator, this is the source of ever misunderstanding until we arrange our system of connection so it is similar to the upper light meaning similar to the Creator. It will always direct us to search for more and more connection, contact with Him.
16. S. (40:50) Still the personal pain blinds us because we are still in the ego but how through the personal pain, how can we be connected to them?
R. Ask, ask the Creator to open the heart and you will begin to feel the connection between the hearts to such an extent that what the friend feels will be as your own feeling, as your own, internal feeling. This is the correction of the system of Adam HaRishon, a very unpleasant correction. It is undesirable in our state. Just imagine that you have to truly begin to feel, in your heart, other people and their desires. But because we have no choice, we have to first of all come to this intellectually in our request as if we want it to happen although we do not want it to happen. Gradually, by pretending, through the efforts we are making, we receive things even that we did not expect and we did not want. This is how we received them, even though we did not really want them to happen, but gradually they approach and become more and more desirable. Suddenly ‘I want’. Why, what happened that you want? Previously I did not want, with all my might, but gradually I see that yes I do agree to this more and more until I say ‘I want’.
17. S. (43:08) Somebody who grew up in Israel I look at my Russian speaking friends and the truth is I cannot really distinguish between the two sides. They always seem to be huge friends, the leaders and the Russian Kli was always the leaders in everything: in dissemination, in connection, in following the teacher. Suddenly this external event comes and I hear that there is a tear, and my heart is really tears up. I could never imagine such a thing to happen for us. I understand that just as now, everything is corrections, as he writes. But what kind of correction is this when this Word Kli, which is the strongest one, the Russian speaking vessel that is one vessel, suddenly seemingly there is a split between us.
R. You are shown what is the shattering. Previously, they did not feel how different they are, they even speak the same language. Suddenly, for some reason – it does not matter for whatever reason, all of a sudden it is revealed that they hate each other. It is the intensification of the ego in each of the people, it is now showing everyone how they cannot be connected, not on the level that they were connected before. What should we do? Become incorporated with them and help them to unite together.
S. But how can that be? It is inconceivable, it is unimaginable that such a separation, such tear can happen?
18. WSQ: (45:22) Try to think right now, right this very minute, what you can do so that our friends on both sides in this war, it is not a corporeal war it is first and foremost a spiritual work, so how can they connect and succeed in sentencing the war to the real victory? Please, it is workshop.
Excerpt 20 (52:30 - 53:21) RABASH, Article No. 15 (1984)
19. R. (53:27) In other words, to the extent that we work correctly on the connection between us, we will know that the reason for the illness is the lack of connection. The reason for the war is the lack of connection and if we, right now, yearn to reach connection despite all the crimes being revealed between the sides: it is east and west, it is all the nations. Everyone has complaints, even towards themselves, but if we know how we need to cover it with love, if we learn how it’s done more and more correctly, and it’s only by turning to the Creator because we will not find the right way. This is why we have to go back over and over again to those problems so we will only return again and again to those problems, those wars. But if we turn to the Creator every time, in the end, small correction by small correction, we come to the great, general correction.
20. S. (55:07) One of our friends asked if we could have a congress, a few workshops for a few days.
R. I am ready for anything but we have to think if it is accepted by everyone, is this the right decision, will it help us because habit becomes second nature as it says. So we might see that we are becoming empty, tired, we won’t have the strength to continue. So we have to see where we are wasting energy, but if you want I will follow your lead.
S. To continue the previous question many friends in our group identify themselves with their nation and experience everything, things in corporeality. Naturally there are preferences and I guess the situation is similar in Russia in what they discover about themselves but how can we have it in a way that the spiritual connection will control us and what is the way to reach this?
R. It’s a problem, it’s a big problem and I can’t tell you because there is also a problem here that the governments don’t want connection above the war and if they do one connection it is under their terms so I cannot tell you what to do. I recommend not to publicize the tight connections between the groups of Bnei Baruch although it is clear to them immediately that it has nothing to do with the war itself but with the correction that we think is a correction of love above the hatred. But this too maybe they don’t want, the government's of those countries. So I recommend doing these things in our channels in a way that we are used to doing it.
S. Yes, what I’m talking about is Bnei Baruch. How can we do this between the friends? It is unexpected that suddenly a national feeling appeared in us.
R. I think that the fact that different relationships are awakening in our friends besides connection is in order for us to increase the connection. So I might suddenly discover that my friend is Ukrainian or Russian or Jewish, and the Jews are stuck in between them, and there’s a reason for it. We have yet to discover what’s happening here, what kind of game the Creator is playing here, even symbolically that he placed a Jew between the Ukranians and the Russians. So we have to relate to this seriously and connect this only to the purpose of creation because this is where we are drawn, the calculation comes only from there. It descends to us from there and this is how we will advance. But again I am saying that through correspondence between you, do this in a way that the alien forces will not be able to use it in a way that harms us.
S. Is there a need to keep trying to build platforms to connect these two groups?
R. Yes, of course it’s better if we all begin to connect more and more.
S. Meaning that maybe we should put the emphasis on that. There is a situation where each one brings his own.
R. Both, I cannot say. These are very emotional things. We just have to see the general connection as the purpose, the goal of the world and this is what we have to come to.
21. S. (01:00:30) To want to understand and forgive, to be in the place of the enemy is right?
R. It is written, do not judge your friend until you are in his shoes. On the other hand when I come to his shoes when I come to his place and I see that he is opposite from me and has every justification to be the way he is. How do I gain from that? I feel myself on my side and him in his place so then what? Where is the middle line, love will cover all crimes? So my crimes or his crimes that I have to rise above and reach love. Or do I connect both crimes and then how do I do that? In other words here we have very big problems if we are going by these discrete solutions, partial solutions, each one from his perspective or from the other’s perspective. We must not disconnect from ourselves in order to connect to the friends. Rather it’s very simple, all of us together are drawn toward connection, toward the center of our connection and there we want to adhere to the Creator so that He will be revealed in the connection between us. That is it, there cannot be a more correct solution. In the connection between us to reveal the Creator He awakens disentanglement and He is doing it so that we will discover Him specifically as the center of all the scrutinies.
S. What is this feeling of gloat?
R. It is being happy when a friend is suffering, is in trouble. It’s something very egoistic. It is “I do not want you to die, I want you to live and suffer.” This gives me greater pleasure.
S. That is terrible. Friends asked us to say that there is a problem with the Arvut system in Russia. There is a doubt if egoists from all over the world can bring us out of the trouble that the world is in. Can we build a Sanhedrin, like a parliament from friends all around the world that can show the solution to the whole world? What actions can we do all around the world to show an example of connection of the correction of the relations between us?
R. Well it’s obvious what is happening, there is no question here. Show the whole world the connection we obtain on top of the remoteness, love over hatred, and then you are giving the world a solution. The world only needs to reach correction, the quality of love. It needs to come to a state where the wars, troubles and problems stop. So give them an example, they don’t need anything else. Give them an example. That’s it. It’s all in your hands.
22. S. (01:05:00) In Bnei Baruch we were seemingly separate from all the nationalities and we were always one. Here suddenly there is a situation where seemingly it caused a separation between us even though it is not ours. Does it come to show that the connection was not good? What is the problem?
R. The Creator is making us understand that although it seemed to us like we were connected, we yelled that we were one, we sang, we did workshops, we had all kind of events of unity, and now the Creator is showing us that first of all you are not one. You are many, many groups and even within the groups there are many egoists and the whole world is the same around all of you. So now we have to scrutinize the situation, we have to correct it on a higher level. He awakens this whirlpool, this turmoil around the world and also within us in our own groups and we have to learn how without hiding, concealing the contradictions between us, Russians, Ukrainians, Jews all kinds of other peoples divided by their nationalities or other differences between them; over all the crimes love will cover instead of hate.
This is what we need to learn. So go ahead, try to do it in practice. You will also see at the same time how to the extent that you succeed in providing a solution of connection above the distance, love on top of the hate the world becomes corrected. The world starts to see that precisely in this direction there is the solution. You do not need anything else, this is the best dissemination. You are pushing the whole world towards correction. We, on top of the disconnection between us, in all kinds of ways, if we yearn for connection we are inviting and summoning the Creator to appear between us and then we ask the Creator to fight instead of us. Fight with what? Not one against the other but to fight against our ego which pushes us apart and instead we’ll connect and the Creator will be revealed to the extent, to our nearing to one another.
23. S. (01:08:24) In Bnei Baruch it is clear but in our family where all the sides of conflict are manifesting there, how to respond correctly? Should we talk like everyone or say that everything comes from the Creator?
R. With whom do you have to talk about it? You have to explain what is happening in this. That our ego is growing from generation to generation and now it’s grown to the form that we see. And on top of this ego in every generation and in every day overcome toward connection. Because in the end the connection is the balance between all parts of nature and especially among people and if we come to balance everything will be balanced, ecology, everything that is wrong will be corrected if we overcome our egos. This is why we talk about it so much because it’s the solution to all the troubles, all the problems.
24. S. (01:09:55) Is it beneficial to have a Ramchal duty, meaning to read around the clock, all of the friends so that we can understand the lack of connection between us is something that we should work on and that is the only thing that will be the true remedy, taking care of that?
R. I never saw next to Rabash that he was drawn to such actions. Everything needs to be in good measure, something we can do and draw correct conclusions from it. So I am not for it, around the clock 24 hours a day like little kids who want to do something, to run around. It stops very quickly and leaves not a good impression. We have to keep going with what we are doing. You can add another meeting during the day or something but in truth don’t overdo it. Okay?
25. S. (01:11:31) He writes that all of the states you go through if you ascribe them to me, they are all corrections.
R. Yes, it’s already a correction if you are saying that the Creator is the one who creates all the problems. That all those problems are not problems but the revelation of the shattering that happened before and now as Baal HaSulam writes it is already a great correction that the wicked who are revealed, it’s a part of the redemption.
S. What does it mean that you ascribe them to me? What does it mean to ascribe to the Creator?
R. That there is none else besides Him in the good things and in the bad things. How can you bring correction if you do not bring the Creator into a state where you demand something from Him as my sons have defeated me. You demand of Him to perform the connection.
S. It’s clear that there is none else besides Him but what is it considered that a person ascribes it? Is it enough to say it, to think about it?
R. The Creator broke the vessel of Adam HaRishon where we were connected initially and He broke it on purpose so that we would see that we cannot stand the separation. That it’s against the Creator and we in order to reveal the Creator, in order to bring Him contentment we ask Him to correct the separation. Not because we feel bad egotistically but because we want to bring Him contentment and this is why we ask for correction and then the correction will happen.
S. Ascribing everything to the Creator has to end with a request, with a prayer?
R. Yes of course, this is why we have so many verses that talk about everything being resolved, only through the prayer.
26. S. (01:14:10) The truth is that there is great despair from the lack of an opportunity or the possibility to come to love between us. It seems as if even the Creator cannot help. What are we missing here?
R. We forget that the most important thing in where we are is the state of lack of love, lack of connection and this is the only reason that everything that’s happening is happening.
27. S. (01:14:49) In the connection between us can we end the war immediately or should we always pray and never know when it will end?
R. To the extent that we are drawn to the right solution and approach it, the problems disappear and perhaps new problems will come instead which will direct us to something more accurate, to a higher resolution toward the goal.
28. S. (01:15:24) The more we make efforts in connection it seems like the corporeal world is getting worse. Could the corporeal state be an indication to our work?
R. No, absolutely not. The corporeal situation can happen however it happens, we don't know how it happens. We are getting into all kinds of - the parties have their own interests so they are telling us this or that. We must not believe them whatsoever, all the sides or take them into consideration. We have to take into consideration only the level of connection between us. Is the connection between us becoming more and more powerful every moment and demanding the revelation of the Creator?
29. S. (01:16:16) Two days ago I felt that our prayer as women was very strong. Yesterday a bit less. Can I even measure the force of our prayer according to my feelings?
R. No, but we have no choice. For the time being we measure it according to this. We have to speak among ourselves in the group and try to measure to what extent we are close to each other and have an open heart and that is how we will speak.
30. S. (01:16:56) We say that Kabbalists always complete the Creator. What does it mean to complete this picture of the world against the war?
R. In our desire that it will end in a good, beautiful, correct way. Today we see more openly what existed before, before the war but it was concealed. What is a war? There are all kinds of states between us, bad states but we are used to maintaining them, being in those states.
Then some more light shines and we see the same state as a worse state. It is not that the state itself became worse but we see it like that. The state itself did not become worse. This is what is happening. Today we have war. It wasn’t there yesterday? It was there, it was just not apparent. and today it is more apparent because the light shines more. We are advancing. We have to see things properly. We are advancing towards truth, towards the revelation of evil in order to correct it. This is what is happening. Let’s understand in what way can we correct the evil so that we can truly advance forward, not by revelation of evil but also through its balance with the good and that already depends on us.
31. S. (01:18:52) I'm getting very difficult states from the Creator and I believe it is a cure from my ego given from above but how can I keep receiving it with gratitude but also get the other remedy, the pain of humanity except for my personal pains?
R. This is difficult, it is a matter of sensation. A woman needs to be as integrated as possible with what we study and with all the women in the world Kli and then it will fall into place, it requires time.
32. S. (01:19:33) You said our prayers need to include all problems and troubles the way they are. In our ten, everything seems calm. We are making no special efforts to connect. Should we search for the hatred like the wars and the connection between the friends in order to ask for the correction?
R. We do not need to look for anything besides connection and love. That's it. Whatever appears, appears and then we will have to search again for connection and love.
33. S. (01:20:10) Thanks to our prayers. We are learning to love others, to identify with their states but what to do with the shame and suffering that so many people have to suffer for us to learn how to connect?
R. There is nothing I can add, we talked about it already. We need to look for connection between us and give support from each one to everyone else as much as possible not to go into scrutinizing the negative things but only that love covers all crimes. Work on that, by that we are correcting the world, that you are changing the whole process that we are going through in this war.
34. S. (01:21:04) We are in a very extreme state and we are always in prayer because of the events. What does it mean in our state to add effort?
R. An effort to connect and you can always add and that there is no limit in love.
35. S. (01:21:23) Is the role of the Kabbalists to ask for the good of the world so that there will be peace in the world or between them to connect above their egos?
R. We can act between us in order to bring peace in the world. Not by winning, defeating or forcing someone against their will but only by love, by connection, by incorporating with the others and doing good.
36. S. (01:22:02) You said that the Creator hears even if our efforts are not true and from the heart. Are we obligating the Creator with every little prayer or only when we reach the prayer?
R. On the way we are also making great corrections.
Excerpt 21 (twice) (01:22:37) RABASH, Article No. 30 (1991)
37. R. (01:25:26) All the things that appear must become revealed since the shattering of Adam HaRishon and we have to understand that what appears was already there and it becomes revealed in order for us to correct it and we should have the forces to correct it, to correctly accept it. That is how we need to unite and add more and more conditions to our connections in a way that we invite new states towards correction and when they appear even though it is unpleasant, but when they do we are already prepared to receive them in order to correct them.
38. S. (01:26:24) First of all there is a desire to give gratitude to all the friends that are organizing and participating in the mutual prayer. It’s a miracle that happens every day, it gives a lot of support. Our ten is very diverse like in every ten from MAK. We have friends from Russia, Ukraine, from the US, Moldova and now the different states are revealed as it is written in this excerpt. So what is the right way to really find that I’ve covered my hatred and not that I just suppress the ego temporarily?
R. When you see your friends and although they're all over the spectrum in their attitude toward this war and from different sides of this state the Creator awakens, but you see that you are with them and a single heart even though the Creator keeps inciting each one towards the others. He ignites the fires of hatred in between you and you all understand that He is doing that in order for you to overcome, rise, grow and turn to Him, to ask Him to correct all the crimes that He awakens between you.
So you have to have an open mind and an open heart. That is what is important to you, whatever He does, we have to keep ourselves embracing each other, connecting with each other and turning to Him each and every moment, and not letting go. Both not letting go of each other and all of us not letting go of the Creator. In that way we will win. In that way we will win this war and advance toward the final correction.
39. S. (01:28:58) A question about the excerpt we just read. If I'm asking I'm not only asking I'm praying to be shown the true measure of the bad. How is this different with revoking the left line?
R. If you awaken that in order to correct that is one thing. If you awaken it for any other reason that is not good, only in order to correct. Therefore you must first be connected with the friends as much as possible and then discover what is the upper degree of your connection. You discover that you are not there, that it’s a degree that is above you and then with them you need to pray, to come together in order to rise to that degree. Just envision this process to yourself, this ascent from one degree to the next and see what needs to be done. All in all we’ve already covered all these elements more than once.
S. What is the state that is in front of us right now because I think there's a lot of…?
R. Yes, of course. Of course we are together in this state right now. And this state will not stop, this state is a long-term war and hatred continues until the final correction. It has already been there for hundreds of years and it will continue until the final correction. Until we come to the complete perfection it will not end and so we have a field of work.
S. We are trained not to evoke the left line but this is also like the sensation that spirituality is concealed in such a way in our tens, that we need to reveal it if we want to change the outcome. So are we here at this moment now talking about how we can evoke the left line in order to rise above it?
R. I think the Creator is doing that and if you don’t feel the left line that awakens it indicates that you do not want to be connected according to the conditions that the Creator awakens. I have to check myself, do I have an open heart with love towards everyone and is everyone else feeling closer to my heart, in my heart and it's not just words but that’s how I relate to all the sides in this war and these processes that the whole world is going through. It is not that we didn't engage in it before.
40. S. (01:32:55) The previous century brought humanity to a new form in wars and terror. That the enemy threatens in ways that don’t hold weapons. That people, elders, children, women and now the enemy is bombing gas and water sources, what does it mean on our correction? Where should I concede?
R. We do not need to let go of any side or go against any of the sides. We need to suffer only because of the increasing ego and so our entire work should be as a prayer for complementation, for love to cover all crimes. I understand that this is difficult, it is not so easy to say it from here sitting in Israel, but I know what it means to be under fire with bombs and war. I know it is not simple to say that to people who are now in those places, Odessa, Kiev and so on. But this is the state the Creator sends us and we have to accept it as a condition for connection between us. Love covers all crimes, we have no choice. if we relate to that as the sages of Kabbalah require from us then we have to really learn how to accept this as I am seeing and feeling all of the troubles and plights and suffering that the people are going through next to me.
41. S. (01:35:26) The left line is always revealed in the way of concealed mercy?
R. There are different styles.
42. S. (01:35:47) We always search for signs in the work of the ten in the state of the ten. And here it is revealed that there is a state between tens. In this case it is in the Russian-speaking Kli. Is this a sign that we need to start working between tens?
R. Of course. We have been talking about this for a week now. That we need to work between the tens now as well because reality necessitates us to.
Excerpt 22: (01:36:36) Baal HaSulam, A Sage’s Fruit, Al HaTorah, (Twice)
Excerpt 23 (01:38:21) Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 5
43. S. (01:39:22) I wanted to ask about the phenomena but I am personally inspired by. I see that the Ukrainians united so much, by the way that they are speaking that they are experiencing a feeling of unity and their nation that is bringing happiness even though they are going through all the problems they feel that we have never felt and that we never knew were like this.That we could be so united, that this phenomenon erased hatred towards one another or jealousy. Is it really such an essential state happening to that nation and if so when it will be easier later on to explain to people there, why it happened and for what? That it is a really divine phenomenon?
R. I do not think it is going to happen in such a simple way and that the situation will start going back to the way it was more or less, and that the people will also go back to what they were and that the ego will go back to the way it was. What is happening now is under the forces of war and it is a different story. Afterwards things go back down.
44. S. (01:41:15) As much as we are speaking about how everything happens for us to do internal work, that we will know that evil and really want to overcome it so the attention just runs to the externality. Is there advice about what we could do in the ten to really concentrate on the true spiritual work?
R. Focus on the inner work of our connection and that is exactly how we correct all of reality don't do anything except besides that. You do not need to listen to the news, you know they are all lying, you do not need to think about anything besides connection. Basically, it is the only action, the only thought that we need to maintain. That is it.