Morning Lesson November 13, 2022 Transcription

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Part 1:

Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #5

1. Rav’s Introduction: I'm happy that today women can also ask and to be just like the men in a full participation in the lesson. Also what we are studying is a very important thing, it’s the most important thing in the whole of creation. How the created being takes a step forward towards the Creator and by that he becomes similar to the Creator to some extent, he is matching, equivalent. And therefore the topic is a very special topic and also it is towards the Congress that will happen today so let's read.This excerpt is in itself very special.

Reading excerpt #5 (01:40) “When a person can go with his eyes shut, above reason..”

2. R (01:58) Meaning that all of his thoughts, his desires and his intentions are all aimed towards how to come closer to the Creator according to the qualities to bestow, to love, to connect. Then..

Continue Reading excerpt #5 (02:19) “This is called Ibur, when he has no mouth..”

3. R. (03:58) This means that the person wants only one thing, to resemble the upper one in that he annuls himself like an embryo in the womb of his mother; where nature works the Creator, works and nullifies him towards the mother so that he can receive from her whatever he needs. And this is actually the work of the upper one on him. We also need to let the upper one work on us when we annul ourselves towards the upper one and we want that the upper one will make of us whatever He needs to do. This is what he writes here, that the upper one make of him, will do with him whatever the upper one wants, and this is called Ibur.

Reading excerpt #5 again (05:06)

4. S. (07:44) What does it mean to go all the way?

R. All the way meaning there’s no end to the annulment of a person in the present state. That he is willing to do everything just to annul himself before the upper one.

S. So it’s every day anew this overcoming.

R. Of course, why everyday, every moment.

5. S. (08:14) On our path we see that if we don’t pressure ourselves the Creator will pressure us and that’s unpleasant. So what’s preventing us from leaving everything and devoting ourselves fully?

R. Only one thing, our ego, from the side of the Creator there is no limitation. Of course He did it as we also learn from the wisdom of Kabbalah, He made degrees from the world of Ein Sof, meaning from the highest degree all the way down to this world He makes degrees, 125 degrees. So we have to climb in return from our world, from our degree up to Ein Sof, but this is the work. And we need to try now to understand what does it mean to rise to the first spiritual degree. What is our annulment, what do we discover, what do we annul, how do we get organized in order for us to be able to rise to that? The ascent is in the connection between us, we cancel, annul all the differences between us and as much as we become as one man in one heart more and more we will rise on the spiritual degrees. And according to that we will feel, we will see, we will understand the upper reality which is eternal and complete, and we will live in it.

S. You say the ego prevents us from advancing, from doing it but the ego also sees that if we don’t do it then it suffers, so why doesn't it do it?

R. This is how it is built, if you start working opposite it then you will understand it. To explain all of these things is impossible, there is none as wise as the experienced one.

6. S, (10:31) What is meant by in the passage “The Lord was impregnated in me for your sake, if not for the sake of the Creator then for whose sake?”

R. That the Creator enters into the person, He shines inside of the person so that the person will be able to connect with others, and together with everyone make a place for the Creator to shine his full strength.

7. S. (11:32) it is written that it is very hard work to always do overcome and annul yourself before the upper one. What to want practically? Not to want to be against the Creator when the ego controls us?

R. We don’t need to speak about what we don’t need to do, it’s better to speak about what we do need in a positive way. We have to be connected, the man inside the group of the men, the woman inside the group of the women in such that our connection will be congruent, suitable in its character, in its nature to the nature of the Creator. This is called as one man in one heart, this is what we need.

S. So why is there an emphasis here on the difficulty of the work to annul before the Creator and overcome?

R. Because we have to identify what we have standing on our path.

8. S. (13:01) A question about anger, how not to get stuck on anger like little angry kids so the anger will become a prayer that leads to the Creator?

R. We have to cancel, annul the anger and replace it with love. We need to direct the anger to be against our nature, against our ego, then we will see that we actually need the anger in order to control the ego.

9. S. (13:57) Many times we ask the friends to give us all kinds of explanations because we have some criticism in the heart that we can’t keep quietly within us. How can we overcome this urge and completely trust the Creator?

R. I think that the most important thing is to constantly remind oneself, to imagine, depict to oneself that my ego, the fact that I don’t try to connect with the friends, this is what is preventing me from connecting with the Creator. This is what is preventing me from entering the upper world, feeling it, being in it, annuling my ego. And with my entire will to receive that it remains, however the egoistic nature of it disappears. With all of my will to receive to feel the upper world, this is how I have to direct myself.

10. S. (15:28) When this anger and criticism is revealed in us, is that in order to for us to understand our ego and how much we are not aspiring to love and connection with our friends?

R. Yes, the purpose of this anger is to show us where we still have an incorrect connection with the others because anger and a demand from each other reveals to us the negative connection between us, without which it would be impossible to detect where we have to correct something and get closer to each other. And so the anger, wrath, all kinds of demands and complaints is actually good but we need to understand how to work with it. Each time we need to turn to the Creator and ask that He will help us to replace that anger with connection and love, then it will work very fast.

S. But we shouldn’t try to find this anger, we should just be grateful when it appears?

R. No, no. We have to search only for nearing and when we start to get closer then we start to discover negative forms in everyone and here we have to turn to the Creator and ask that He will nevertheless bring us closer. So we have here both myself and all kinds of forms of the society and also the Creator, and I want to connect them together, everyone, all of these.

11. S. (18:05) In these words but he always he resists therefore how can we find for annulment before the upper one?

R. First of all just realize that if the will to receive would not exist then we would all be angels, we would all be in connection between us, whatever the Creator established and we wouldn’t demand anything, we wouldn’t be able to have any criticisms on the relations between us or between us and the Creator. Meaning the evil inclination the Creator created is something that is necessary, because upon it we can distinguish between good and bad, light and darkness, all kinds of states. And then we can have an orientation in the spiritual domain, spiritual space between light and darkness, otherwise we would be like without our sense of sight.

So the fact that we identify all kinds of flaws in the relations between us it is good, the Creator did that especially in order for us to have the possibility to be oriented to work in the whole of reality. So we just have to just continue and arrange all of our qualities so that they will work towards connection and not towords distance. Try to think about each and everything that we have in us, that first of all the Creator created it, there is None Else Besides Him, He says I’ve created the evil inclination. And I need with each and every quality that exists altogether in the evil inclination, with each and every quality I have to invert it from disconnection, distancing to connection, to nearing. And this is my work.

12. S. (21:24) Still throughout this work of overcoming these forms are changing, maybe the intention is changing?

R. The more I work with that and I feel the support from the friends, and here maybe lust and honour and all kinds of such qualities within us they help me, they push me nevertheless towards connection in a negative form or a positive form. I see that all of these things where built inside of me in a necessary fashion, so by that I will get to know the nature of the Creator eventually. That upon these rejections and the ego and all the negative things I want to live in a positive inclination. And so in that I begin to feel the nature of the Creator in a negative and positive form but I discover it just like anything in life, we discover two forms, the negative form and the positive form and it is one opposite the other. This is how we the created beings can feel reality, only in such a way. And this is what we have before us so try to pay attention to it, this is actually that same point that we now have to acquire, to rise above, to work with.

13. S. (23:27) When for example you give advice to the friends how to advance and not all of the friends agree, there’s anger towords the friends. Do I overcome the anger, keep working or put it aside and just hold on to something else?

R. To overcome the anger because it is the Creator who is revealing within you on purpose.

S. Yes, but the friends have their point, I need to see their point?

R. I don’t know what you mean by their point, your point, this is all how it seems to you within you. You should go in the direction of connection, then you will not be mistaken.

14. S (24:33) How to overcome that not what I want happens, what the upper one wants happens, and it's not my life it’s His?

R. About this is written make your will as his will. That we have to bow down, we have to subjugate ourselves towards the upper force and to take upon ourselves all the kinds of guidance that He gives to us in this way. That’s the first stage of the correction of the ego.

15. S. (25:21) Maybe you answered this question but I didn’t understand it. My question is how to handle thoughts and feelings that sometimes tells us you are doing good and sometimes tells us something opposite, you're doing something totally wrong? Even if you know that it comes from Him but it's kind of impossible.

R. I understand that it’s annoying however there is no choice, you have to relate equally to both the negative discernments and the positive discernments if it’s possible, as much as it is possible in order to get closer in the middle to the Creator. That's it, try.

16. S. (26:45) How can we achieve complete annulment?

R. Complete annulment, we can reach that gradually, bit by bit in each and every degree, in all of the degrees of coarseness that we have within us, that’s the coarseness of our ego and it’s revealed gradually one after the other. And in each degree we have the coarseness of root, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, five degrees in five Partzufim in five worlds, this is 125 states that we have to go through. And also in every state we have additional sub-states this is how we will have to rise upon all of the states and acquire more and more forces of annulment towards the Creator on the one hand, and on the other hand the force of receiving His nature. And this is how we will equalize with Him.

17. S. (28:31) Baal HaSulam describes so beautifully the degree of the soul when it enters the conception stage. I wanted to understand in life, in the life of this world when a woman is impregnated ultimately there is a child born. So in the spiritual world when a person achieves the degree of conception does that ultimately lead him on the way towards the final correction?

R. Yes, a person who enters spiritually the degree of Ibur he starts to grow and then he has Ibur, Yenika, Mochin in each and every degree and this is how he grows until he completes his correction.

18. S. (29:29) The Ibur is a great miracle that happens. What are the conditions required in us, in every ten in Bnei Baruch to merit this miracle, that the soul will be impregnated within us?

R. To annul oneself before the friends, men or women, to annul because that same ten becomes the womb for the spiritual embryo. When I annul myself towards my ten then by that I enter impregnation and I grow there, and how do I grow? As Rabash writes annulment towards the society even more, that as many zeros as we add before the one it is considered that by that we are actually greater, as much as we are able to diminish ourselves. And therefore the embryo, the impregnation is in that, as much as we agree to be annulled towards our group.

S. In order for the Ibur to happen and develop it requires a lot of subtlety whether it is a man or a woman. What is that subtlety that is required of us?

R. It is the feeling of how much I more and more can annul myself towords my ten. It is something very subtle, very special and not many people can tolerate it. Indeed it requires great help from the Creator in order for a person to understand it, want it and agree with it and to actually, practically annul himself towards the society. it comes over a long time as we know even from our world, the entry to conception it is truly called a miracle. Even though in our times it doesn’t appear to us to be so but nevertheless it is something that does not exist in nature, it’s the beginning of the new life. So let us try to give such examples of annulment of a person towards the ten. So that by that through his efforts he builds the ten as a womb and himself as a drop of semen inside the womb and he starts to develop.

19. S. (33:06) When you spoke about the possibility of using feelings like anger and simply directing them in a correct way, is it like feeling something and then immediately having a thought like I'm angry because I'm not praying correctly? Can you stitch this thought to the emotion in a way that it did not exist previously?

R. Direct them towards yourself, towards myself, towards ourselves and ask the Creator that instead of the feeling of anger He will give us understanding of where we truly are and how we should behave in such states. Ask of Him, request from Him.

20. S. (34:44) How can I understand if we have reached the degree of Ibur? How can we know if we have reached it?

R. The degree of conception. One who reaches it feels it, he feels that he has the strength to annul himself towards the upper one and to do whatever the upper one wants from him. This is called the beginning of the Ibur.

21. S. (35:30) What does it mean to ask the Creator?

R. To ask of Him, inside of yourself, instead of the person.

S. I don't have a Creator within me.

R. If you don't have a Creator inside of you then don't do it, what can I tell you. You again have your complaints.

S. If I don’t feel then how can I ask?

R. One who feels the Creator can ask, one who doesn’t feel the Creator shouldn’t ask.

S. Until you feel Him what do you do?

R. Try to detect Him, to feel Him, to feel Him inside of you.

S. I don't know what that means.

R. I don’t know what to tell you. You have such questions that I have no answers for.

S. What does it mean if I don’t feel the Creator?

R. Don't turn to me, you have whom to turn to, to the Creator.

Reading excerpt #6 (36:39) “ any overcoming in the work is called Walking in the work of the creator..” twice

22. S. (40:30) What does it mean a part of the will to receive, how can I separate a part?

R. Check your desires, sort them out, which desires you can ascribe to the Creator and which ones you cannot and then try to direct yourself to divide yourself in this way.

S. How can I know which part I can take and what I can work with and what I can’t?

R. The part that is closest to connection with the friends, you should work with that and the rest don’t. There are such desires that are against connection, leave them aside, use those that are in favor of connection. By you strengthening those desires later on you will be able to work with the other desires and maybe they will disappear altogether and become unimportant.

23. S (41:42) Taking all of the foreign thoughts and raising them above reason, how do you it practically?

R. All the thoughts and desires that are against connection I raise them. I try to raise them above or for the purpose of connection.

24. S. (42:22) What does it mean that we take a part of the vessels of reception and bring them in?

R. The part that can work in order to bestow.

S. Now foreign thoughts come to me. This is what we're talking about right?

R. Of course that’s not good but..

S. So foreign thoughts come into the lesson which are not related to our issue at all so how do I take these things and add them to the vessels of bestowal?

R. if you think with the egoistic desires you can think about the group and the Creator even though these are desires that are against connection, against the goal. However if you can turn them such that nevertheless it will be towards connection, towards the purpose of a life then it turns out that through the evil inclination you are truly getting close to the purpose of creation. What is it that we do? We have desires that we can change in a way that it’s not so difficult, let's say towards bestowing in order to bestow. And we have desires that are very difficult to change them from receiving in order to receive all the way to receiving in order to bestow, it requires a few steps and then we reach the correction.

S. So here the task is actually to take this part and to try and direct it towards the goal or simply restrict it?

R. if you are able not to think about the egoistic desires then for the time being don’t think about them. Work with the desire with which you can work on connection and later on, bit by bit once again renew those desires that were against connection and work with those until you will be able to bring all of them into a connection.

25. S (44:56) To continue the previous question these foreign thoughts will they keep increasing as we advance so that we will have room to work?

R. Yes.

S. So the work is always against, right?

R. Yes.

S. And this is the evil inclination?

R. Yes.

26. S. (45:27) Regarding foreign thoughts if a friend in the ten overcomes foreign thoughts does this increase the Kli for the entire ten to receive the light?

R. Certainly, each and every one adds a lot of strength to it.

27. S. (46:09) The correct construction of the screen, will it enable us to see the good side of the friends instead of their faults?

R. Yes of course because the screen means that you can use all the forces of rejection that are revealed for the time being for the benefit of connection. And out of the connection you can draw besides the reforming light also the upper light that will clothe in you so that the Creator will be revealed in you, and not only in you but also in those that you are connected with. We by that enter practical Kabbalah.

28. S. (47:22) This means that I should always relate to my desires immediately from above as if I'm observing my desires?

R. Yes, yes.

29. S (47:43) Where do we receive the forces and nourishment in the state of Ibur?

R. From the upper one, from the upper one. That’s where you receive both force and direction.

Reading except #7 (48:16) “ this is similar to a flame that is tied to the wick..” twice

30. S. (53:09) I wanted to ask about faith above reason, is this the end of the calculations of the will to receive?

R. No, faith above reason is all the way until the end of the ladder, until the complete correction. Where we each time receive more and more burdening of the heart and disturbances from our ego and we have to go by faith above reason more and more until we rise to complete faith.

S. It happens that when the distancing comes and the body refuses I have to know above reason that I have to accept it, that this is the work of connection. However I still don’t manage to correctly accept this distancing.

R. Try to divide yourself into two where one part is where you work with your ordinary desires, what you’ve always been working with and the other part is where you work in a force of bestowal, of love, connection, against the previous part, the first part. Then you will see how these two parts can both be in favor and against each other within you. And this will help you better orient yourself around what is in reason and what is faith above reason meaning the force of reception and the force of bestowal. Try that and you will see how you can advance.

S. How can I correctly manage these two forces because they’re truly great? Should I always ask from the group, from the ten for the power to manage them or does this management happen inside?

R. I didn’t understand the question so much. You have to build all those things inside of you where in one part you do everything the Creator wants from you and in the other part you try to see what is your own egoistic part wanting from you. Then you will have one against the other, two parts and you will be able to better learn one from the other.

31. S (56:56) What is the commandant of faith?

R. The commandment of faith means that I have to accept the Creator as the single force working on all of reality through me on everyone and through everyone towards me. And I'm now learning how I can get closer to Him, understand Him and be in contact with Him.

32. S. (57:46) It is written that although he suffers from the foreign thoughts that inflict him when we’re in these states many times we try to get rid of this uncomfortable state of suffering. How according to the method we don't throw away these states but rather use them, use the opportunity to mitigate these things in order to realise this joy of Mitzva.

R. This is what we learn, that everything we receive is in order to strengthen the force of bestowal and even when the force of reception increases in us we have to relate it to the force of bestowal, and more and more be in the giver. Try that.

33. S. (59:13) To say that whatever the reason says is correct is also considered annoying before the upper one?

R. Yes, you can nullify to the upper one by saying what my will to receive says is correct but what’s next? You’ve only made one step based on your nature created to the Creator who gave validity to the evil inclination, so you nullify before the evil inclination. Now, do you nullify because it feels pleasant to you or you nullify because the nature the Creator created in you forces you, obligates you, and therefore you understand what you're doing with the evil inclination and you bend yourself towards it because it also comes from the Creator, try to be in that way. Yes, as you want to start saying and if, it’s not, you can't start saying if you can’t depict that it also comes from the Creator, the evil inclination, then you are not listening to Him. Meaning you are making actions that move you away from your desire altogether.

S. If I do succeed in detecting that it comes from the Creator but it’s unpleasant if I suffer from it.

R. So you start to think, “why is it so unpleasant, what's going on here and so forth;” and then you have to try to correct yourself, to calibrate yourself, change yourself.

34. S. (01:05:27) How to overcome states of anger when you can only see your own will to receive and how to rise above it?

R. Only by prayer, only by prayer that the Creator will arrange it so in His influence upon us and His light upon us, and we’ll understand that it all comes to our will to receive and nothing else; and therefore, we have to correct our nature so as to rise above the anger. Even though anger still exists within us on many different levels because we are still connected to each other dependent on each other, but bit-by-bit, it becomes more and more to the point.

35. S. (01:07:14) In this excerpt, it is written as if it is something easy, sometimes there are foreign thoughts that cause you rejection from the spiritual work, and I'm not able to separate myself from it as it is written in the excerpt. It takes a lot of time and I need a lot of help from the friends and also prayers from me.

R. So what?

S. So the question is it what is the advice to make it quicker, maybe not so deep, maybe something I can do?

R. No, no, don't look for things to be easier, look for things to be clearer so you could do things more correctly. Your direction of how you want to solve the problem is incorrect.

S. So maybe there is something to do while these foreign thoughts don't control me so much, when there is an ascent, maybe we could do something then?

R. So we have to understand that the more we advance the tougher our problems will be and more complex, it's like, say for a scientist, if he solves problem then the problems become more and more complex and he's got a greater and greater work to do, so what? And then that’s how he moves forward; a smaller person has smaller concerns, a bigger person has bigger concerns.

S. So just to be in gratitude?

R. Yes

36. S. (01:09:15) What is the joy of mitzvah mean in this article we just read?

R. That if I am capable of doing actions of bestowal that are light by and in the eyes of the Creator then that makes me happy, then I receive a special elimination from the Creator in exchange for that mitzvah meaning a correction I made in the system, that is called ‘the joy of mitzvah’.

37. S. (01:10:13) We reach our root through faith above reason, does it happen because we overcome the pulling force of this world?

R. Yes, we overcome the egoistic force that is of this world.

38. S. (01:10:50) What is in faith above reason that enables us to fill this state of joy, the joy of a Mitzvah?

R. Because on top of the will to receive the Creator created in me, me being opposite of the Creator, I have managed to achieve equivalence of form with the Creator, and then I understand one thing through its opposite, which is the only possibility for the created being to achieve light out of darkness, sweet from bitter, one thing through its opposite. That's how I understand creation and become truly similar to the Creator, close to the Creator, this is our entire purpose.

39. S. (01:12:29) Beyond the prayer, is there anything else I can do in order to support the friends so that they will be able to work above reason?

R. Set an example, nothing more; this is the most important thing. Each one wants to set an example for the others, that’s it.

40. S. (01:13:05) Lately all the women are feeling very stressful with the Congress to make sure everything goes well and we want all the friends to reach Lishma. We feel stressed and lack of time in order for us to do everything that we want to do?

R. It’s a very exalted goal to reach Lishma but if you would want it, it’s possible, it's possible, the only problem is to want it together, to want it together, and let's try. You have an entire day until the evening where we will think, each time as much as we need to be close to one another ,so that through are nearing, against our nature, against our desire, where we will nevertheless come closer to one another.

This way we will invite the reforming light, we are drawing the light by each being opposite to the other but we want to come closer to one another. And then the light bestows to the extent that we want to connect but to connect above the rejection. Here there has to be just like we learned in the spiritual Partzufim, where there is Aviut, coarseness, and then there is restriction where I don't want to use the coarseness but I want to use the coarseness specifically with the masach or the screen and the reflected light. And then I become similar to the upper light, somewhat, to the extent in which I can stabilize myself in this way. If we were to try to build these kinds of states between us, it is with certainty that we will receive the quality of faith above reason.

41. S (01:16:04) There are friends in the ten that are relating to the work very callously and frivolously?

R. No, you have to annul not before bodies but towards that desires that is in each and every friend.

S. How do I relate to the friends that are not plugs into the ten, they don’t feel the happiness or the joys of the ten, they don't come often, they ruin the mood. What is my correct internal relationship to these friends?

R. We need to first try and accept them patiently because they don't yet understand where they are, what are doing here, and how we can bestow upon all of reality, upon all of the worlds, upon the Creator. Therefore, we need to forgive them since they don't yet understand, just like babies let's say, where we don't relate to a baby like to an adult because he is allowed to do everything because he doesn't yet realize where he is and what is he doing. And we should also do so towards new friends but slowly, slowly we need to explain to them, and this sometimes takes months and sometimes years. Therefore, see the extent in which it is a great problem but there is nothing you can do, this is how the Creator arranged this for us.

There’re are people who have a great inclination towards spirituality but together with that, they don't digest, they don't understand that it comes through connection, that. they can't grasp. Their will to receive is so greatly egotistical that they don't understand that it comes through connection. To this study, yes, to talk about all these things, yes. But to connect with others, no, to them it takes sometimes years until they understand that there is no choice, I must and specifically in the way of self- annulment connect with others and then I come to spirituality. And it's not the connection like we thinking about in this world, let's hug each other and something else, rather it is an inner inclination towards connection, heart-to-heart.

S. In the end, this is all for us, as exercises of sorts, to rise above reason and learn how to do it.

R. Yes.

S. But all of these things that you’ve described happening along the way are very challenging and we go to them but there is a fear but there are people who need years in order to understand that we need to connect.

R. Don't you worry, that’s all in your thing, then you’ll see you don't know what form it is, you don't know what way we’re bestowing upon another, investing, that's all nonsense. The thoughts, those so-called smart thoughts of yours.

S. But other than internal actions we’re also doing some external actions.

R. You need to do all that you can to connect with the friends.

42. S. (01:21:05) Does the joy of mitzvah mean to justify the friends and the Creator and not myself?

R. Let's say it is that way, yes.

43 S. (01:21:30) At the beginning of the article it mentions how difficult it is to bring yourself to the point where the Creator does with you what He wants but the Creator always does whatever He wants, so what is the point where the person rejects or pushes back against the Creator?

R. That is all our work to be heart and soul, connected to the Creator is called, ‘the giving of our soul’, until we agree with all that the Creator does with us, heart and soul fully.

S. It’s only a matter of inner agreement, this is our choice?

R. It's a matter of agreement, yes.

S. And how today in the Congress we can bring ourselves to maximally devote ourselves?

R. Talk with all of your friends in the world and try to connect in such a way that you agree to all the conditions except for one thing, you demand from the Creator to connect your hearts, that's it. Besides that, you are capable of doing everything and you are ready for it, He can demand everything from you except for one thing, what do you want to receive in reward: the connection of the hearts, as one man in one heart.

44. S. (01:23:37) How do we annul to our friends? We listen to them, we're quiet, we try to understand their desires, we love them, we lift them up and we raise their spirits but then it gets to a point where it comes back and there is a feeling of oppression and demands.

R. We need to nevertheless continue to constantly be connected as tightly as possible between us until we feel in the connection between us the Creator. That the Creator needs to connect between us to be revealed between us.

45. S. (01:24:58) How does this concept of above reason and faith and Lishma complete one another?

R. When I come to a state of Lishma I begin to feel what faith above reason is.

46. S. (01:25:25) We had a very powerful connection, we all felt an inner embrace, very, very close to one another and suddenly we got such a disconnection that I can't even describe. How to hasten the time so that the disconnect with be briefer, shorter and the hugs longer?

R. That depends on us. To the extent in which we don’t pay attention to our egos but are only concerned about connection under every condition, every state that will be.

47. S. (01:26:29) He mentions that when you have the foreign thought you can take advantage of this opportunity and rise above reason. In practise what happens is when you have the foreign thought after an hour you remember that you could have risen above. How can we do it together, what is missing so that we can really do it?

R. That you need to be in mutual concern, mutual connection, mutual prayer for the Creator to sort this out. The connection is always under the condition that the Creator does it. We always need to demand but to implement the connection only He knows how to do. He shattered the vessel of Adam HaRishon and He reconnects it or observes it.

S. When a person is already in this foreign thought does he have an opportunity of himself to do something or only an external force like the friends, the Creator will give him the strength to overcome?

R. Yes of course, he has to receive from the outside. What does a person have within him? Nothing.

S. Meaning every overcoming that ever happens is thanks to one of the friends.

R. Yes.

48. S. (01:28:03) How to turn the work of overcoming to an easy work in make the ego agree?

R. Only through connection with the friends, one will help his friend. There cannot be here any hard work if you are connected with others.

S. And how is my overcoming influencing the ten?

R. The ten is impressed by the efforts of each and everyone. Concealed or revealed efforts, the ten is impressed by that and advances through them.

S. The rise above reason helps me understand the Creator?

R. Of course, because it’s the upper force. Faith above reason is the force of Bina that operates above the Malchut and already gives us a feeling of the force of bestowal.

49. S. (01:29:37) How to differentiate between faith above reason and and faith in religion? Inside me I feel that religion wins all the time.

R. Continue, I don't have what to say here.

50. S. (01:30:00) How can we know that the challenges we receive come to us because we advanced on the road or we swerved from it?

R. That’s not important. Deviating, advancing you can’t for the time being discover them and understand them but you must constantly solve them in the connection between you. Connection solves everything in the right way.

51. S. (01:30:36) To what degree the anger and the complaints link back to the advancement in the ten?

R. The main thing is to skip over them, to jump above them in a serious way, a clear way. Where I am doing this because this is the only solution that I can overcome the anger with.

52. S. (01:31:08) Does the evil inclination exist in me or between me and the friends?

R. The evil inclination is in each and everyone, towards each and everyone.

53. S. (01:31:25) Is the conception a stage that we enter after the full annulment of entire ten?

R. Ibur, impregnation comes to each and everyone, yes, to each and every person in the ten.

54. S. (01:31:49) After dividing myself into reception and bestowal what is the measurement that I’m doing it correctly and not just in fantasy?

R. I think that we simply need to continue. We’re at the beginning of the path, at the beginning of the entry into the upper world and therefore we cannot receive yet any correct feeling moreover any correct information that we can work with. We simply need to continue a few more steps and then we will be able to understand where we are.

55. S. (01:32:40) In a time where a person can go with eyes closed in faith above reason and believe in the sages why do they use eye as an example and not a different sense?

R. Eyes mean vision, sight, it’s the most important instrument in recognising the state I’m in.

S. Why is it called eyes shut and what does it mean in spirituality?

R. That he doesn't need to see anything it's enough for him that he has faith above reason.

56. S (01:33:32) Why is Ibur the degree of Malchut?

R. The smallest Katnut is called Ibur, that is the definition of it. The point from which the embryo begins to develop the drop of semen.

57. S. (01:33:57) How to work with the thoughts that come to serve the Creator?

R. We need to continue with them. This is simply missing for you, you're missing experience.

58. S. (01:34:43) Can the yearning for Lishma happen from the side of the desire to receive for myself?

R. No, no, it can’t be. Lishma cannot be from the side of the will to receive for myself.

59. S. (01:35:01) Can we give examples what are thoughts that are against connection?

R. Besides the thought for connection all the rest of the thoughts are against connection. What's not clear?

60. S. (01:35:23) Is a Kli built from the thoughts that are repulsed from the Masach?

R. I cannot imagine such state for myself. Thoughts that are repulsed from the screen, that’s what the Kli is built from? The desires and thoughts that a person wants to assemble in order to present them to the Creator, that's what the spiritual vessel is constructed from.

61. S. (01:36:07) In excerpt 6 it is written that all the overcomings are joined to a certain measure that is required for the reception of the bounty. Are all of our overcomings at a stage where they are finished already almost? Are they compiled into one to reach Lishma?

R. Correct.

62. S. (01:36:42) There are thoughts that are not against connection but how to improve connection organisationally for the benefit of the group and it brings a certain anger that it could be organized better. Does such an anger need to be directed towards me and annulled towards the organisation or should we improve the organization organizationally?

R. Eventually what we have is what the Creator arranges and we can change this or improve this only by turning to Him, even the smallest of things. So try first of all to turn to Him.

63. S. (01:37:29) Will we be able to say that annulment before the friends is the ladder that leads us to the Creator?

R. Yes.