Morning Lesson March 3, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Winning the War - Selected excerpts to reinforce the World Kli and for peace in the world. #9
1.Rav’s Introduction: A few hours ago we tried to connect in prayer, to scrutinize the prayer, and it's recommended we make an effort also now to connect between us and read these excerpts, they fit our situation, and the effort we need to do. We need to continue, we should not run away from the state the Creator awakens between us, since this is what he is giving us so we will be able to overcome the separation, the shattering. Where everything that awakens in these times, in these days, is after all the shattering between us and above it we need to connect and bring ourselves all the way up to love, up to love. So the fact that we are in the revelation of such relationships, such threats, hate, repulsion, distance, we need to try and refuse to let these states, these relationships increase or even weaken us, but on the contrary each one has to check himself with his relationship to others. First to friends and then to everyone else in the world and we must bring ourselves, all of us, truly all of us to connection, to be as one, our goal is to reveal not simply one ten but rather reveal the entire Humanity as one vessel of Adam HaRishon, nothing less.
Because if we are under the threat of World War, that means we can correct something of the general structure of Adam HaRishon, let's think of that as well. That the war is not simply a war in some streets in the backyards of Kharkiv, Kiev, Mariupol all those cities and villages in Ukraine but rather we have to think how between us we need to correct our hearts, the correction, the connection of our hearts and we want it to be corrected globally, generally, so that all our friends all over the world even if they can't feel it or barely hear about it, such a thing as this war; nevertheless, we need to wake up to grow stronger and to depict the hate that is revealed and how love covers all crimes so that we will cover the place of hate with love.
Of course this weapon is not on the level of this world since if the evil is revealed, you don't have to wake up earlier and kill the evil but add it to ourselves, when we do it in our feelings, in a higher degree, there we need to grow stronger and in our effort we'll determine if we like, if the Creator will help us according to our requests, then we will see a victory that love and connection come and cover all the crimes, all the wounds, everything and returns the world to the good. We feel wholeness, completion and love above the distance, disconnection, and hate. Let's try to see our actions and do it in practice, we cover, we complete, compliment all the bad states with good actions. All the actions a person can awaken from above, there is no better, more correct, more complete action than the action of connection where the Creator broke the vassal and we demand of him, we obligate him to correct the vessel to unite all the fragments.
Excerpt 9 (07:02)
2. R. (07:21) Meaning we can't perform any correction unless we ask, we obligate the Creator to make this complementary action, to connect these two extremes, not to erase the bad things but to cover them with good things. He didn't create the evil inclination and all the outcomes, these terrible outcomes that we see, it's not for nothing that he created it but rather we, and this is called my sons have defeated me, he created the evil inclination, and we demand of him to cover the evil inclination, all those evil things, with the good inclination, in connection, in love.
Reader continues (08:13): “rather man must only commit…”
3. R. (08:50) How much this war needs to last, this depends on how much we will demand from the Creator to correct these broken pieces, to unify them and bring them closer, connect them and then all the places that used to be broken, and are now corrected, we will feel the revelation of the Creator. That He is the one who is winning this war because we ask Him.
Reader continues (09:29): “ yet as long as we are holding our weapons…”
4. R. (09:52) Meaning prayer.
Reader continues (09:53): “we are winning…”
5. R. (10:11) Meaning we need to arrange for ourselves a line, that we are constantly directed at the Creator and we're constantly scrutinizing, what else can I add in this moment compared to the previous moment in my plea to the Creator? What else can we add? What else can I ask for to unite us to connect us? How else can I turn to Him? If I can't feel the inner urge to turn to Him I need to make sure that I will at the very least join my friends and connect to them and I'll worry together with them, and they will pressure me and I'll pressure them and each shall help his friend and we will nevertheless reach a cry for which we will surely receive help from above and help from above is when the Creator is revealed. There's nothing else to do because the reason for all the evil is his concealment and the reason for all the good is his revelation. There's nothing more, only these two actions. That's why he created the world, meaning this concealment and we need to demand from Him his revelation.
Excerpt 9 repeated (12:13)
6. R. (13:44) Meaning the essential thing is the prayer and everything we need for the prayer is to understand that we are broken, our shattering comes to us from the Creator who prepared it Himself, the distance between us, which is the shattering, is calculated on all its details. It is calculated in the Creator by the Creator himself and we have to discover it. This distance between us, and the difficulty to ask for connection from the Creator, this state is called exile. If we pull the Creator to do it for us, through the prayer, then it turns out that we need to reveal the exile, we have to draw the power of the Creator to connect us, to bring us closer to one another which is called to bring the Creator between us.
This is called Aleph, Aluf She Olam, the champion of the world, which is the letter that differentiates exile and redemption and in this way we come to the corrected state; Hence, we need to see in all these states that we are going through right now, all of humanity, the whole world, that this is a war that the Creator awakened because he wants us to bring Him closer to reveal Him and that's why all these bad things that are revealed now is only so that we may pull them towards the good. The evil has to be revealed, that's a result of the shattering that took place in Adam HaRishon, everything is planned and is revealed gradually but the good is revealed only on the condition and only to the extent that we ask for it.
The more that we ask for the presence of the Creator, the presence of the good force between us, then in this way, we'll be able to connect ourselves, to bring ourselves closer, through the force of the Creator that will appear between us and specifically by that we will come to corrections. Meaning the degree of our corrections depends on the degree of the appearance of the Creator between us and although we are still in concealment, meaning he is present among us to some extent or we would not connect, nevertheless He is in concealment. The more we reveal the need for his presence, we need to continue and if we did not reach the revelation of the Creator, it's a sign that our prayers, our requests, our cries, are still incomplete and we need as a result to try to be today more than yesterday, be in asking, demanding, to depict how much we miss the Creator and to see all of the days of this war that is now becoming apparent and that can turn into a World War. We need to see it all as an opportunity, as a reason to turn to the Creator. A corporeal reason, more convenient, closer to us seemingly, so let us use every moment of this war correctly. We are interested in it, we read a lot about it, we need it yah? But the question is how am I using it when I hear, when I see, when I'm interested in the days of this war, how much do I wish to turn my impression here into a prayer? That's what this whole thing is about.
That's how I need to check myself with the correct participation and then I will feel, myself, as a soldier. That is what makes me a soldier, that I turn to the Creator, the revelation of this war. We need to see the war itself and the problems, the troubles, all those things, as revelation of a deficiency for the Creator. Wherever I have even a small feeling of pain from corporeal pain all the way up to spiritual pain, the feeling of separation, the feeling of hate and this is the main thing there because this corresponds to the quality of the Creator, the quality of love. So I need to see that all these things come to me in order to give me a place for prayer. Because I have nothing more with which to correct these states but only through connection together with the friends and specifically the war is giving me an opportunity to connect with them correctly. So we would reveal the common deficiency, the corporeal deficiency, and from this common corporeal deficiency we discover a common spiritual deficiency for the Creator to dwell among us and then we turn to Him and we demand that this will happen. This is how we triumph, This is certainly how we triumph.
7. S. (21:24) What does it mean to constantly direct myself to the line of the Creator?
R. We need to see those things more, in a more advanced way, moving closer towards the truth, where each moment the Creator awakens in us various feelings, although we cannot reveal them truthfully, spiritually, but nevertheless He is awakening it because there's none else besides Him and accordingly what do we need to do? We only need to turn to Him with everything we are feeling, everything we can discover that we lack and in this way we will see that we only lack the presence of the Creator between us. The whole prayer has to be for that. We want the Creator to be revealed and to connect us and we will be as one vessel, a vessel called Shechina, which is the vessel in which the Creator can reside. This is called the revelation of the Creator to the created being. We want this to happen specifically in the correct connection between us here and now.
Excerpt 10 (23:12)
8. R. (23:50) Meaning He awakens both the questions and the problems and also corrects them. Rather we have to respond correctly to the problems he awakens and see in Him the power that comes to the solution and without our request, the solution will not come. We ask about all the problems and troubles that are revealed in the world and we need to understand that it's all because we are not there in the middle between the problem and the solution. Our presence, our correct request, if it will pull the Creator to the problem that He is awakening, then only then, with our participation, we obligate the Creator to correct what He did. In this way we connect the shattering, the evil inclination that is revealed, with the light of the Creator which is the good inclination and then in this way we come to wholeness.
Reader continues (25:14): “in other words why must one fight…”
9. S. (26:05) Yes, there cannot be any victory in this war where we subjugate the evil inclination, even correct it later in order to bestow, rather it can only be when we begin the war. We begin to manage the war, meaning to turn to the Creator and even to awaken the war because it can be small. That's why it says man should always vex the good inclination over the evil inclination. Then he will see how he can awaken the war with greater fire and then as it is written, I will vex the good inclination over the evil inclination; meaning, it comes with such a view where the good force has to rule. We have to look for all the instances of the evil inclination, detect them, grab hold of them and correct them. Correcting them means to seal it with a good inclination. The evil inclination is inside, and the good inclination surrounds it, doesn't let it escape. So all of the evil inclination that the Creator created will be in us, between us, the source of the flammable material. The source of negative energy that we will then turn into positive. That is why the good inclination should vex the evil inclination.
10. S. (28:23) You said we have to be between the problem and the solution and turn to the Creator. What is the solution?
R. The solution in this war is the control of the good inclination over the evil inclination. Later for the evil inclination to join the good inclination and work together with it. Where the goal for them becomes the common goal.
S. But if we can't see the opportunity, how can we win against the evil inclination?
R. It's the beginning of the war. We don't know what to do but later we know that the main thing we need is to control the evil inclination and not to let it run away, break out or succeed somehow. Every step of the way we try to work only with the force of connection and afterwards we come to a state where we are capable of taking these evil forces and manage them. Using two lines and later three lines when we connect the good to the bad and the bad to the good and we grow them, one at the expense of the other, and the evil force, is many forces within, has the ability to grow and to reveal itself and the good force is for the most part weak as we discover within us, inside of us, but if we connect this good force, to the Creator’s more and more, through our prayer, we are then able to subjugate the evil force and use it correctly. You will discover all of that in your senses, in your feelings.
11. S. (30:16) Why did the friends begin to fall off the tens? When does it begin to happen and how do we help the friends?
R. You need to discover more and more the reason for what's happening in the world, since we live in a very special situation and that belongs to each and every one through his individual fate and the collective fate and to speak before these people, who live in those special times, special states, how we have an opportunity to begin to feel that we must reveal the eternal world where we exist, we already exist in the eternal world but for it to be revealed before us and then these friends will not leave because they will see and they will feel and they will even hear that this is what is before them. How can I leave a method that helps us, helps me, understand and to feel what's happening in the world, what's happening in reality? This reality, this spiritual reality, we need to scrutinize those things between you.
12. S. (32:41) We pray for the whole world and only in it, is progress towards correction. How do we hold the faith now? How do we keep faith above reason? It's very difficult to justify the Creator when children die who are not to blame for anything. Here in Ukraine, I don't know, it’s very difficult, very difficult situations, it's hard to go through them and it creates hatred inside even though I am Russian in my nationality I live in the Ukraine. I don't want to drive politics into here, but it awakens hatred. For the people that are silent, I don't know how to go through these states. Can you advise me?
R. I can advise you only one way, to pray to the Creator on whom it says he who makes peace in his Heavens will make peace on us. The Creator will know how to connect us in such a way that we would feel ourselves with this inclination towards connection, towards love, towards adhesion. If we wish to connect those things with our minds then nothing good comes out of it. We will simply continue with more war. We need only one thing, this is the first time in our history that this means is revealed whereby we can pull the Creator from above and for him to make peace between us. Peace, meaning wholeness or completion so we would all understand that we can be together both from this side of the war and from the other.
Excerpt 11 (35:04)
13. R. (35:19) Meaning from the beginning this should be our goal, that we want to need the help, the salvation of the Creator and even when I don't see war, problems and troubles, I have to imagine them even more so until it awakens me to turn to the Creator.
Reader continues (35:45): “as was said if the Creator did not help…”
14. R. (36:34) Meaning, after all why is this evil revealed? In order to awaken us to approach the Creator and to demand even more of a revelation of the evil, as much as is needed in order to want to leave all the evil and to rise above it and to cleave to the Creator; Meaning, we need to understand that the revelation of evil is necessary and if we hold this before us, we will not need to suffer. We will go through these states consciously with understanding and we will solve these problems even before they materialize before they appear in our world. We can actualize all of these wars spiritually and not corporally and everything depends on how much we will be concentrated from here on towards the purpose of creation and focus on the means, that is the Creator, who both awakens and steers the problems, He is a man of war, and we pull Him into it and He arranges it. We simply need to pull the Creator towards the forces of separation between us and then He will build the separation more clearly, this will be called Shechina, the broken state of it, and then later he will correct it and will cloth in it according to equivalence of form and then we will reveal the peace, wholeness, Shalom and this can be only when all of the bad broken states complement the good states.
15. S. (38:58) What does it mean to exert in prayer?
R. To add forces to the prayer is possible only on the condition that we feel and understand who we are, where we are. This is the present state and where we wish to get to which is the desired state. Between these two states, the gap between these two states, the Delta that exists between them, gives us the forces to turn to the Creator and ask, to pray.
S. Can we somehow weigh the power of prayer or does each one do it personally?
R. We can weigh our prayer relatively speaking between us according to the efforts we invest in prayer. For the time being it's highly unsatisfying. We need to constantly, as if we feel great troubles, not stopping, we have to seemingly be in a request to the Creator as RABASH writes in his articles that a person in great trouble never lets go of the Creator and he begs Him all day long and all night long, like when they tell him that he is sentenced to death. Then the whole problem is for him to turn to the Creator because on that, depends on his correction, the correction of his state.
S. We know that Kabbalists lived in not quiet times, Baal HaSulam, Rabash. I can't compare their prayer with mine, so what at this time has changed which makes our prayer possible at making some change?
R. We are approaching the end of correction. Hence we are more important, specifically small people like us and the Creator is keeping us in this low form, intentionally, close to all of humanity so that in our prayer we will not distance ourselves from it and that we would constantly feel both the troubles of the collective, that we cannot leave, and also to have a connection with the Creator so we'll be able to turn to him and pray. That's it.
Excerpt 12 (42:20)
16. S. (44:31) Why is it so difficult to pray?
R. It's difficult to pray for two reasons: the first reason is that you don't feel the bad, it doesn't hurt you. The second reason is you're not sure that through connection with the friends and turning to the Creator, because it's all concealed, it's all unnatural for your ego, so you don't see that by this you can achieve anything or get anything. Especially when you have to think about what you need to attain. Which are spiritual things, a little bit, at least a little bit so it will be to some extent in order to bestow above the ego, that's why it's difficult. We have to think about why it is difficult, speak to the friends, and in this way you will understand what is ahead of us.
17. S. (45:55) Why, faced with the pain of our brothers in Russia and Ukraine, why with all the prayers that we are doing, we did not reach the state where we enter the war with our evil inclination?
R. Because we have not yet reached the revelation of the evil, that the evil has to re be revealed in all of its size, depth, power, intensity and then we'll be able to cry properly to the Creator and he will correct it.
18. S. (47:00) We always hear from you that we're not doing enough, we ourselves think this way, but now when we look at this war it looks as if it will never end and that a certain measure of effort simply doesn't exist. Is it a trap of the ego to think that we have not done enough? Maybe all that we have to do is to stop hoping, lower ourselves and accept this new reality from the Creator?
R. You must not forget what we are learning. I'm not going to go back and tell you, do this and do that, you've been through all of that. You can look up all of the material that we have been through and repeat it and understand what to do and not advise groups and people, let's do this or do that etc. Kabbalists write for us, we change every moment, our egoistic desire is constantly renewing itself so we have to maintain ourselves in the right direction every single moment. This is our work so we must go back to the material over and over again and connect ourselves and direct ourselves to the purpose of creation and when we see how much we are not in it, it gives us a reason to turn to the Creator and in this way advance.
19. S. (48:57) About excerpt number nine, it says as long as we are holding our weapons meaning the prayer, we win. How long do we need to hold on to these weapons in order to see victory?
R. I don't know how long, and I don't ask about it, it's in the hands of the Creator, if he gives it to me it means I have to be in this and my work is to reveal the evil as much as I can in the connection between me and the friends and turn to the Creator to correct the connection between us. Then I draw the Creator into the connection between us and in this way we advance towards more and more connections. Of course we will constantly discover more subtleties and more intricacies in the lack of connections between us and these are the degrees of our advancement. Love will cover all the crimes.
S. This is considered that we're winning?
R. Yes.
20. S (50:10) Is the act of bestowal and the act of prayer the same or is bestowal the direction and prayer the expression of that?
R. The prayer is when we ask for the strength to connect and this is really all we need.
21. S. (50:32) If we are the will to receive, do we also enjoy, even the suffering?
R. Enjoying the suffering is possible only on condition that you connect the suffering to the goal. That the suffering awakens you from your Slumber, from your sleep, to return to the Creator to connect the friends and then you see how the suffering is necessary because without it you would not wake up.
22. S. (51:08) It says one should always vex his good inclination over the evil inclination. What does it mean to vex?
R. Vexing, how should I put it other than angering? Vexing means to create some kind of a friction, collision between them, hatred, revealing the contradiction between the good inclination and the evil inclination. How connection is desirable on top of the state of disconnection. That only through those two states can we distinguish between good and bad and bad and good.
23. S. (52:02) What should we feel when we demand of the Creator to respond?
R. To feel that we are at war between the bad and the good, the good and the bad and we can't combine them correctly so that the good inclination and the evil inclination will work in the same direction to bring us closer to the Creator and the Creator closer to us.
24. S. (52:40) How important is it that the prayer on the inside will be built on wholeness and not because we do it out of suffering and then maybe the Creator does not hear it?
R. Of course the prayer begins from suffering, we can't awaken without suffering but once we awaken, out of the suffering we come to the Creator, receive some sort of influence from the Creator and then we can measure our suffering also correctly. That indeed the bad, we will see it as good as well, is awakening us to the good. The Creator who awakens us, awakens us from the smallest things, revealing the distance, the gap between us, the smallest friction between us and if we don't respond, he awakens us more. Meaning the gap between us, the collision between us becomes more and more and more intense, burning, until we end up in war. Why do we come to it?
Because we were not alert enough to the problems that were before. If we corrected the states between us in previous states before the war there would not be a war. But we covered all of the crimes between us, not with love, not with corrections, we simply silenced them and suppressed them, suppressed them, and suppressed them until it burst and that's the problem. That's why we need, as it is written, to vex the evil inclination. That's the good inclination over the evil inclination and in such a way that we will not let them fall asleep. It's better that we awaken the friction, the conflict, the hatred so as to correct it because in that way with this intention, we've, from the beginning, we look with this flashlight. Where is there more hatred in the darkness? When we look for it, in this way, we know where to find it and how to correct it.
25. S. (56:07) Can we demand the revelation of evil?
R. Yes, we can, and we are summoned to demand and reveal the evil inclination, yes, why not? If I can and want to correct it then I go and check, where else can I find evil inclination? and it is present from here until the end of correction. This whole distance between me and the end of correction is entirely the evil inclination which is currently hidden from me. So I wanted to be revealed gradually from lighter to heavier and I will constantly turn to the Creator with a request to correct it.
26. S. (56:59) In excerpt eleven it says a person must start the war so as to have the vessels and the need for salvation and the help of the Creator. What is true salvation?
R. The true salvation is connection so that we turn all the bad forces into good forces so that all of this hatred becomes love because only in this way can we come to the qualities of the Creator so they will permeate us and govern us and then we will be like Him. That's the goal. Our goal is to rise up to the level, the height of the Creator in adhesion, in connection with Him.
27. S. (57:55) Is the evil inclination only in the ten or in the whole world?
R. The evil inclination is the whole world itself. It fills up and organizes everything that there is between people, it is all the evil inclination which on the worldly level is called egoism, the ego. But the more we advance in our corrections and scrutinize the relationships between us, we will discover the evil inclination in more and more, in clearer and clearer forms and then we will see what a great monster, terrible monster, it is and that it has the same power, the same power as the Creator.
28. S. (58:54) What is the role of Kabbalists specifically during times of war?
R. At a time of war the duty of the Kabbalist is to be like a man of war, soldiers, the generals who are managing, coordinating the battle.
29. S. (59:20) What is the role of Kabbalists during a corporeal war?
R. Kabbalists don’t relate to the physical war. We have no way to influence it except through the spiritual war.
Reading Shamati 209 (01:00:00)
30. R. (01:01:41) We see what conditions we have in order to come to the correct real prayer and the main thing is that we need to use everything we have today, that is revealed in the world today, so that we take it and begin to turn to the Creator from this. There is a reason why He awakens in us, and in the whole world, these states. We should turn to Him already because otherwise these states might develop more and more. Not develop in the battlefield but develop in the shattering between people so that by this we will feel how we are deficient of the most necessary things for existence, how broken we are in supply chains because we are all dependent on them etc. Today humanity cannot provide itself with anything, but now, specifically now, it will become revealed how dependent we are on Russia and Ukraine and all the countries that provide to one another. Of course it is not because of bestowal, it is in order to profit, but for now these are our supply chains, in order to receive. But afterward humanity will begin to feel that it does not satisfy it and it has to shift to different supply chains more and more in order to bestow. It is as it is written, go and live off of each other, that by this we at least come into some connection in the meantime. Then, if we will build it, in an egoistic correct way, and not by suppression but by mutual profit, benefit, and then we begin to check this mutual benefit, mutual profit, and we begin to feel how it can get more and more mutual, better, and better, and more qualitative and in this way we will increase, improve, elevate the connection between us from our level to the spiritual level. There are many things here.
31. S. (01:04:28) This faucet, the supplies that every country provides to other countries will have to be turned off completely before the change?
R. No, it’s impossible, it's impossible today for the faucet to close. We won’t be able to exist today if you close the supply chains between countries. Only afterwards you will discover how dependent we are on each other, what we have come to in the in the previous century, in the 20th century, is an egoistic connection all over the world and that connection is necessary for us to exist and in recognizing the corporeal connection between us we will be able to rise to the necessity of a spiritual connection because you cannot have one without the other. There is no life without flour and there's no life without Torah. There's no life without Torah and there is no Torah without bread.
S. I don't know if it's related, but they are activating many sanctions on Russia. They are turning off the faucet on anything a person might use. Will it bring these people to a change in attitude?
R. It is correct. What they are doing is correct because it forces people to move towards peace, to move towards complementation. Both Russia and Ukraine, and in general all the countries, if we want to live we have to understand that life is only through mutual provision, mutual connection.
S. So, by both countries suffering…?
R. Let them suffer until they discover that they need each other correctly. That there is no more correct connection than causing lack of provision, of necessary things, staples, when children suffer and women, that is it. They should feel that without it they cannot live in this corporeal, physical way. If we feel that we cannot live without each other, without any good feeling. It is just that there is no provision. Let us say that Russia provides wheat to the whole world and sunflower seed oil, such basic staples, and yet it is millions of tons. The same goes for Ukraine. The whole world will feel the lack of it and by this because we have no choice, because we have nothing to eat, here you cannot succeed, you cannot win with guns, with cannons, you are not going to eat guns so from this we see that we have no choice. Because we have no choice we come to realize that we have no choice, but we need to be in connection, in complementation because we cannot live without each other.
S. This understanding can develop only between Russia and Ukraine while the rest of the world looks at it differently?
R. For the time being. For now but in the end we have to discover, in our physical life and in our spiritual life, how much each one is essential for the others, necessary for the others.
S. So this blow has to develop like the corona was? That everyone should experience this lack?
R. Of course everyone will experience this lack. If you don't have those provisions now that Russia, which seemingly adds control through its provision, now, everyone will feel and it will feel that it is gone, that it does not exist, that it cannot determine its force and impose its ideology by not providing wheat. It cannot. Of course not wheat, not oil, not gas. It cannot play with it to force the whole world to agree with its ideology. It does not work anymore. This is why the whole world is moving forward and extracting all of its powers from it, all of its instruments that it uses to fight against everyone, through the banks and other forms.
S. Existence?
R. Not existence but those micro schemes. There are many things that have still not been revealed of how we are all dependent on each other.
S. So we are approaching a world war in the sense that, what do we want to do, how do we try to…?
R. The correct world war is that we all discover how mutually hateful we are, and how much we cannot live without each other. The war should reveal two forces: I need the other or I would just go away and leave, so I need the other, that I cannot live without the other, on the one hand our relationships do not let us be in the right connections. This is why now they are seemingly cutting off the connections between them. look at what America did and now look at what Russia is doing. But it is good, it is the recognition of the good. The recognition of the good in the sense that we know the bad. This is called the recognition of evil, how egoistic our connections are. How each one wants to control each other from these connections, so now it is becoming revealed. These are very interesting things. There has never been a thing ever.
S. Is there a chance that from recognizing the hate towards the situation, towards Russia, countries will start to ask themselves how to correctly connect?
R. Of course what are you going to do if you have no bread?
S. Maybe they will think that with more power and by subjugating...?
R. No, no. No force or power will help here. At war you cut supply chains and we are all totally dependent on it. That is it. Animals in the forest can manage but we cannot.
S. You are saying that it is clear to everyone that if you go into a place where you want to subjugate the other one, you die with them?
R. Of course. Of course. You see what is happening. No one can exist the way he existed one hundred or two hundred years ago. When people were connected to their homes or their land. Everything today is artificial. We have come in our connections, we've come closer to spirituality, so everything depends now on the essence of the connections between us. If it is good, if we understand where we are but we do not understand. Our bad force is far more advanced than the recognition of the good so we cannot build good, correct, relationships between us. We are like bad kids for example, you tell them, connect and everyone will have it, you can get along and he says no I'm not going to give to you, I'm going to hold both toys but not give you one toy. That is it.
S. So what will lead humanity in this global world to act not through sanctions?
R. Anything that leads us forward is the recognition of the bad, we have no choice. Either we suffer on the corporeal level or on the spiritual level. It all depends on the success of dissemination and to what extent humanity is attentive.
32. S. (01:14:54) About what we just read in Shamati, the one sentenced to death after he prayed. It’s felt very precise here when the missiles are falling, you don't know when the next missile is going to fall or where. Sometimes we still feel a deficiency in the forces to pray, not even speaking of others who don’t feel all of this, so what should we do with all of this? Should we somehow awaken this deficiency?
R. We have to try and justify the Creator in any bad thing, the worst that happens, that He is awakening us because on His part there's no other choice but to awaken us to turn to Him but in this way because otherwise we cannot turn to Him. So He has to bring us closer to the correct state and there's no other means to bring us to connections between us and connection with Him but only through these states that we are going through. There's no other choice and in that regard each and every one surfers according to the root of his soul.
S. I more or less understand that, and I’m not complaining, I just want to understand practically; connection, do we have to feel each other through the connection?
R. It’s worthwhile, yes. If we raise MAN as inclusive as possible from all of us together it brings us closer to correction, to the final correction. We have to see ourselves doing the actions of the final correction.
S. When we try to be heard, to listen to each other, we always have contradictions in ideology between us, even not nationality, just ideals. Should we understand the others' complaints?
R. There shouldn't be, between us, any complaints and demands, between us, between the friends, except for one thing that I ask from everyone to awaken me and I see in me also a reason to awaken the others, that's it, that's the only way. I know many Ukrainians who are thinking like Russians right now and I know many Russian who think like the Ukrainians. It is really a wonder how apparent this is, it’s a wonder. There are many people who are as if they are on the other side of the border between the two nations and it is good, it is good. Because all in all we have to become as one man in one heart, in one intention, seeing the corrected state, all of us as one and that's it. So look at what the Creator did, how he arranged the feud between these two nations, that this is what is happening between them. This is a special thing. We will be talking about it later on but just see how this feud on the one hand is very deep. It extends throughout the whole history of these nations and how it’s correction has to induce correction in the whole world.
33. S. (01:20:13) Same topic. This phenomenon is revealed in part of our tens. The strong friends, the experienced ones that are here, we also have from Belarus from Russia. They are in very difficult states and we are trying to support the friend that still has his eyes above himself, to be in the ten and have our approach above reason and not in our ego. So, he gets this external attitude of unfounded hatred specifically from the ten?
R. Every ten must be concerned with its own connection, every ten must talk about it, talk about it.
34. R. (01:24:22) I’d like to continue. There are several groups, not many but several, in which there are people who are under the influence of one side of the war and the other side of the war so in that group it is very felt what's going on and I think that we must not let friends who feel such a feud or even internally feel some coalition between them, we can’t let them just flow with it. No, we have to scrutinize this, and love covers all crimes. We have to see how there is conflict, contrast, hatred, resistance, separation and how much we can cover that but not forget about it. We have to cover that with connection between us, with this reciprocity, this mutual understanding that we have to be above it, that's like faith above reason, that is the form that should lead us to the spiritual perception.
So, let's start working on that, that even though I hate someone I recognize it's coming from my ego and I don't see the other only through my ego, I want to connect to the other, above my ego after all. This is called, love covers all crimes, this is called faith above reason, the force of bestowal above the force of reception and then we have to see that we have an opportunity here to achieve peace, Shalom, that comes from the word wholeness, completion. That there's both a negative force and the positive force and the negative force dominates or covers the negative force. Like we learn about the spiritual Partzuf. There is Aviut, coarseness inside, it’s being kept by a Masach, on top of that Ohr Hozer, reflected light and that is what keeps us in touch with the Creator. That’s our work that we have to do. So, let's transition this from the incorrect form that we are in right now, where we are governed and directed by the evil inclination and shift only to the good inclination where we use the recognition of evil only to build a good connection above it; otherwise, the evil has no reason to become revealed.
It becomes revealed because we are able to transform it into a good connection but if we cannot, don't open it up, just leave things the way they are like they were before without that revelation. You understand? So, I am asking in all the groups where you see that there's some contracts, distance, lack of connection as opposed to what there was before between the friends who have all kinds of difference of opinions, it could be such that it really touches each and everyone's heart but they can’t come closer. We have to help them transcend, rise above, not just come closer on the same egoistic level, that's impossible. If we try to put them in agreement this way, the Creator will awaken an even greater dispute because the evil inclination that He created has to become fully revealed so there's going to be more and more disputes, more hatred and so on. What we have to learn is how we constantly go by faith above reason, the force of connection and bestowal above the force of disconnection and reception.
35. S. (01:29:06) Yesterday there was a meeting with the world Kli, 650 friends participated to raise a prayer to the Creator for peace. Same thing two days ago and today. My question is are such prayers to the Creator, can they decrease the suffering and really bring the world to peace? Because if a physical war starts it’s very hard to change something already. It’s a big number of people praying for peace, can they turn the evil angle to the good one?
R. This is given to us only in order to change the situation, nothing appears in our world if not for the sake of correction, so that it goes through us, and we will determine in more correct form as opposed to what is apparent.
36. S. (01:30:28) I want to understand something. This love development that you say that the evil has to be entirely revealed on one hand, and on the other hand as much as the evil is not revealed if we are not ready for this revelation, so it supposedly comes in a negative way like war? I don't understand what it means to work with it in advance before it is revealed and how to manage this process so that there won't be an explosion?
R. I have to care about how the correction will be the most efficient, the most powerful, the closest to the Creator and in what way will it happen doesn't matter to me. Because that's already an egoistic calculation. We have to always think about how we can be in faith above reason. How through the force of bestowal we can develop a relationship between us greater than the force of reception and only that will determine my attitude to the situation, only that.
37. S. (01:32:02) According to what you just said, yesterday we had a meeting and we talked about all kinds of political opinions, we just want to stop all these politics in the group.
R. You still have all kinds of political discussions about who's right and who's not and how can that even be? You should be talking only about the revelation of love above the rejection, the hatred, the clash, only that way. What politics, we can't have politics between us. It can’t be. If we hear about it a little bit like Rabash used to listen to the news for a minute, that is just to rise above it. So, I'm asking you to stop with all this political talk, no politics, there's only talks about the connections. You can talk about what is happening on the ground but just mentioned that in a sentence in order to discover above it; connection and love and shape it to the right way. Alright?
38. R. (01:33:55) I just want to say one more thing, I know that we're now going through these states because of the war and at some point it will end, and we will go back to our ordinary study. That is incorrect because this is the most affected state for our spiritual progress and we are deteriorating towards war because we cannot advance in spirituality, in an efficient way, and that's why the Creator awakens these states. But in truth we all have to be part of such discussions and scrutiny and strengthen each other and only for the sake of connection and correction and not that we are covering up the problems and arguments between us. No. We are highlighting them in order to overcome them; “love covers or crimes” , in that way.
39. S. (01:35:08) I heard that we can prevent the evil in the world by revealing the evil in spirituality. How can we do that?
R. Isn't spiritual evil enough for us? That we can’t talk to each other, support each other and care for each other, that we feel how different we are, that our desires are in separate bodies from each other's; so, you don't touch me, you stay away from me, you keep your distance and so on. That's a problem. This is a problem. So, it's worthwhile for us to pay attention to how much we can be more connected between us, in our desires, thoughts, intentions and in discovering the goal of connection and by that we will win against all these wars. We have to understand the war that is happening now it's not in some corner of the world between Russia and Ukraine. It is happening within us, in our hearts and it just surfaces and appears in this external form. The truth is that is happening in our souls, in our hearts and we have to correct it through the connection between us, only.
40. S. (01:36:48) Do we need in our ten to speak about the evil being revealed between us?
R. Yes, we do. But in a way that it’ll be effective; that we recognize the evil in order to connect to the good above it.
41. S. (01:37:05) Is the corporeal world revealed because we have contradictions in the ten and we silenced them instead of taking care of them?
R. We were able to bring a connection between us without seeing this in such a lowly corporeal form that we go out and fight each other. Even though we see that all times starting from the times of King David and further, let's say 3000 years ago and even before people will go to war but I'm talking about after the Exodus of Egypt and all of that, we always discover the war in a corporeal way and the correction of it. We don't see it right now, but we have to understand it's always only spiritual, it’s the only way. So, if we now make a correction, a spiritual correction in consciousness, in our desires, in our prayers, then we will truly win.
42. S. (01:38:24) Is the Creator correcting the evil inclination and we just need to ask for it to be revealed?
R. I will certainly say that the Creator makes the corrections and not us. Our work is only in prayer. The prayer has many conditions: How do we ask? How does each one asks from the bottom of his heart? And, how does he ask it, as deep as possible in his heart, in both shape and power? Accordingly, we correctly use all the evil that unfolds, and it becomes revealed; the only thing for us is to ask for connection.
43. S. (01:39:22) Can I perform corrections outside of the ten?
R. Through the ten. Through the ten. We can also sometimes connect with other tens but still the primary correction for me it’s inside the ten.
S. 44. (01:39:48) If contradiction awakens between friends. Should they deal with that state on their own or should other tens help them?
R. First of all the ten itself must help and if there's still arguments between the friends in the ten, then even other tens as well. Just don't let go of these arguments until we can hold ourselves in connection.
45. S. (01:40:22) The dependency between countries is the evil inclination hiding there. Should it become a good inclination?
R. Yes, that's exactly how it should be. We only have to change the quality of connection between people and countries and then in that we will discover that we are truly in a good work.
46. S. (01:40:50) What is the difference between a prayer before prayer and the prayer itself in the brain itself? There is a feeling that we still are not reaching the prayer.
R. The prayer before the prayer is that we asked for all the conditions so that we can come to the Creator with our main request. That's the scrutiny of the prayer and then the prayer itself.
47. S. (01:41:20) It seems that the war is between the leaders, what is the role of the nation?
R. The role of the nation's is to come closer to each other. The head of each nation is the most egoistic force that represents the whole nation. That's why he achieved his level of status, of control because in our world the ego is in control. So, we have to understand that all and all, everything depends on us, on the people, on how through our prayer to the Creator we influence the leaders of the nations. As it says, “the hearts of the ministers and kings are in the Creator's hands”, so He will arrange the connection between them. In the meantime, we see that the people and most importantly us, don't influence the Creator sufficiently so He will win this war for us.
48. S. (01:42:47) I started feeling a wall in the last few days about this war, I'm just getting lost before this war. Is this feeling of the wall the right moment to raise a prayer?
R. Yes, it is exactly the time to raise a prayer.
49. S. (01:43:07) There is a feeling of despair that I’m just willing to give up and die? What should I do about it?
R. Continue. This is a good feeling, and it will bring to a solution.
49. S. (01:43:28) About 1,200 women from around the world met yesterday for mutual prayer. What is the difference between the prayer in the ten and the world prayer?
R. It is much more powerful, more significant. I participated in part of these gatherings, both the men and women. I received some reports from both and am very happy there is a beginning of correct connection between the groups, between the tens, across countries, nations, everywhere. And, I hope that our connection will become much more homogenic, more mutual in a way that there will be no difference between where a person is from. It doesn't matter to me who or what, what’s important is their hearts. I don't look at the language or external appearance or anything, only the person’s heart, and, in that way we have to connect correctly and then there also won't be a difference between men and women and who belongs to what nationality, age group or anything. Like Baal HaSulam writes “black, white, yellow, red, they all belong to a single vessel”.
50. S. (01:45:15) there is an update that the women opened a Zoom for prayer working around the clock, always open. The question is these days the attitude towards prayer changed in the world Kli, Is this new attitude should be just necessity and constant?
R. I don't know. Let’s allow these things more time to stabilize.
51. R. (01:45:50) Let’s not forget that through the connection between us we bring the correction of the world, the correction of the souls. From all the times, we are living in a special time, where by our prayer to the Creator we can cause correction to the whole of reality.
Thank you. I really appreciate what you’re doing.