Morning Lesson February 13, 2023 Transcription

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Part 3:

Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #9

Reading #9 “One must believe that he did this..” Twice

1. S. (04:13) How does a person determine that There Is None Else Besides Him?

R. Out of checking himself who he is operated by, if he more and more and more understands each time that there is a force that operates him, then he probably comes closer to there is None Else Besides Him.

S. But what is that determination because we hear it, there's like a feeling we also get it from the friends but how do I really reach that point that I said I did this for her and now here after I did it there still is none else besides him, there's not me who did it.

R. Yes.

S. This determining of none else besides him, what does it give a person?

R. That everything is surrounded by the Creator, even the questions, even the doubts, also everything that I have for and against his Unity, his governance, I still have to accept everything as coming from him and who am I? I am the material, the ugly material through which pass all of the thoughts, all of the desires, the doubts, the intentions and nothing more, but in my material there is nothing that I can attribute to myself.

S. What's in that point in that essence that you determine there's none else besides him?

R. In that Essence where I receive there is None Else Besides Him, I receive it from the negation of myself. That there is no me to think there is no me that speaks, that represents anything, rather all of it is the Creator from the beginning to the end, where am I, I am in this very sentence and it says there is none else besides him, but I do it.

S. It's not clear what the benefit the Creator gets by concealing himself and not for her sake.

R. In order for us to reach for her sake, for us to demand for her sake.

S. We are obligated and doing something not for her sake and we want to move away from Him? How to be sure that we can really go to that?

R. We have many friends. If we are all-in-all acting towards everyone and are positioning ourselves properly in front of everyone, then out of everyone we are building an image that we are cleaved to Him, adhered to Him. The Creator does not exist. He is on the most highest level of concealment than anything else. If I don't understand any one of the friends, it doesn’t mean I don’t understand them. I don’t understand them because of my nature, etc. but the Creator is even higher than that because he is behind them and is concealed behind them. I have to reach concealment that I agree that I don’t reveal the Creator, and my not revealing him has already become so clear that it is like, like work.

S. (09:08) Question from the ten, you answered this in general but what is the meaning that the Creator conceals himself in a clothing of not for her sake. What is the clothing of not for her sake?

R. He wants us to attain him like we can attain anything from a matter and its opposite and that in this way he is playing with us. We need to make efforts, we need to try and see how we position ourselves in order not to confuse ourselves.

S. (10:18) When a person reaches adhesion with the Creator so he is in a constant inner conversation with the Creator and through that he feels like he works in the world.

R. Let us say it is so.

S. That’s the confidence and that action because he feels the Creator is speaking to Him?

R. Let’s say it is so. I am specifically on purpose giving you this type of answer so that you accept it only partially and will be able to continue onward.

S. (11:27) Gratitude towards the Creator, is that coming closer to the Creator or revelation. What force is there in gratitude?

R. Gratitude toward the Creator is gratitude that he exists, creates and revitalizes us every single moment.

S. (12:00) Can a person, he can say there is none else besides him, adhere to the friends but there is another part of this like his plans that can know everything in advance, influence everything, secure himself. How to combine all this, also that there is none else besides him and also that a person always wants to always check everything and be confident and sure himself?

R. I didn't understand what you are asking.

S. There is none else beside him. That is the Creator's control that a person wants to increase but there is a control of man. How to combine the two?

R. In order to combine it, the person has to merge with the Creator; otherwise, it will always be one against the other.

S. Let us say if a person has plans in life, how should he put these plans into the control of the creator.

R. I don’t know. Otherwise, he will not be able to.

S. What does it mean to annul? A person has to make a decision in life?

R. Cancel yourself, annul.

S. Towards what?

R. Towards the Creator.

S. And what about the decision, how to bring it to the connection.

R. Annul.

S. Not to make a decision?

R. Make a decision that you are annulling it.

S. (14:08) In none else besides him, what is our responsibility in it?

R. In there is None Else Besides Him, there is 100% of our responsibility that we want to annul ourselves towards the Creator. That we want to determine truly that there is none else besides him in practice. And if we do so, we are certain that what we receive after that is coming from the Creator that there's None Else Besides Him.

S. Where is the person's self in this?

R. A person's self is in the same point of connection with the Creator, that he is shaping that there is none else besides him. That all that there is, is the Creator alone and other than Him there is nothing. The world is full of His glory and this is how it is.

S. How not to feel that I am relieved from this? It is like I have no responsibility about anything, about any deed. Everything comes from Him, so I am not guilty about anything?

R. No, no, no, no. Everything that comes from Him, there is a decision. This is He is doing alone and this you determine on your own and this you determine on your own. You're coming every day to me. You speak a few minutes and as much as you speak, you want to determine something on your side that will be connected to me and to the Creator and all of this will be as one. This is called that you are acting.

S. (17:14) He says here that the Creator concealed himself in the clothing of not for her sake, the friends and so on, that a person has to listen to the Lo Lishma. I want to say something without insulting or blaming anybody. I don't want to blame my wife, but I am exploding I cannot uplift from it. I'm in the ground. Can you advise what to do, but you say that the friends, my wife, it is all the Creator. How can I uplift above it? I always fall there under the ground, I am exploding. You also say the friends are like my Creator, so obviously they are not perfect. I'm not perfect. What should I work in order not to explode and fall every time?

R. You need to be with all of this determination that you are determining that you need to be in a consistent way, in a consistent way always connected to them and connected to the Creator.

S. I remember we learned from Rabbi Shimon that they had a knife between their teeth. I always asked, ‘What is that hatred? How can they uplift above it? How can we in our tens uplift like Rabbi Shimon did with that, a knife between their teeth. How do you do it? How can I overcome above that knife between the teeth? I don’t want that. I don’t want to be struggling all the time?

R. Yes, yes, yes but this is how it also was between the students of Rabbi Shimon.

S. What did they do in order to uplift above it?

R. They simply didn't agree to the desire that is awakened in them each and every day. They didn’t agree to it.

S. I also don't agree to be there. I've become sick from it.

R. They accept it as their daily work. A person got up in the morning. He begins his daily work, if it's a man. Meaning a man, that he understands that his work is in overcoming. Gever, a man from the word overcoming. L’hit gever, I'm going to work. I'm going to overcome against my desire to receive, that I am disregarding everyone and I am going to see how I can respect everyone. This is it.

S. Where do you take these forces from? It happens to each one that we just fall there. Where do we take these forces from in order to uplift above it and not fall there every time.

R. From the society, together everything depends on the connection, connection.

S. And if the others don’t cooperate, only you are doing it. Suddenly you find yourself alone, only dealing with it on your own. So what about when the others do not cooperate?

R. There are many people of our friends who are already in connection. Don’t say so, don't say that.

S. Also at home, also on the outside there are people that don’t cooperate with me. I feel like I'm exploding on my own. What do I do in order to deal with it?

R. Because you don't want to be a friend to others.

S. It depends on me?

R. It only depends on you, only on you. You have to run after them and every time try to offer your friendship. I want to be your friend, I want to organize everything for you, I want to serve you. I, I, I, everything, everything, everything for you, for you, for you.

S. To humiliate myself before them?

R. Yes. Really pour yourself out.

S. To be a zero. That is what you are telling me.

R. Yes.

S. That’s my difficulty.

R. And in that moment you will begin to realize that this is truly your role and you have to fulfill it, and to that degree you begin to acquire the Creator.

S. So, that is what the Creator is expecting, that I humiliate myself?

R. That you are like water. Water is Torah.

S. And then I can advance?

R. And then you advance.

S. Thank you.

5. S. (22:31) If there's none else besides him why should we restrict ourselves or correct ourselves. Is there anything to correct? It’s like the Creator trying to work on us and we are trying to work on him?

R. We are trying to come close to his nature to resemble him and this is our work. The efforts that we are extracting, exuding the Creator helps us. The efforts that we are activating, we activate among us and then from between us, to turn to him, raise our head to him and scream to him, yell at him help us and in this way we advance. We have great forces. And this is how we advance.

6. S. (24:06) To continue what you were talking about, by devoting ourselves to the group, we are devoting ourselves to the Creator and from that we take ourselves out of the issue and then He can take care of our evil inclination. We just have to adhere to our friends?

R. Yes you said it well.

7. S. (24:37) If the Creator is on the highest degree of concealment and our purpose in the Congress is to attain the degree of a home, our home. So the question is how to attain that degree because there is none else besides him?

R. Precisely by us connecting all these components together, we can reach a state where There is None Else Besides Him and in there is none else besides Him are included all of the desires and all of the qualities and all of the relationships towards the attitudes towards us.

8. S. (25:47) What does it mean, a commandment and how do we want the Creator that He wants us to do it?

R Commandment is in Mitzvah. Mitzvah is a command, a command that he wants us to do. It turns out that this commandment is an action that we do which resembles the Creator as it is written make your desires his desire and as we do more actions like that, in that we will resemble the Creator more.

S. How should I know it is his desire?

R. So all of the Mitzvot, they are all aimed at love the other as yourself.

Reading 10 “One must always try and adhere to the Creator, namely that all his thoughts..”

9. S. (32:12) When they say believe, sometimes they mean to attain and sometimes they say believe like we mean believe.

R. A person needs to be sure. Forget that word to believe for a second there are always problems with that word. A person has to be sure that everything he does comes from the Creator, it clothes in the mind of a person and that is how the Creator determines that the person will do that thing.

S. How to be certain before you are in attainment.

R. I don't know what attainment is, leave me alone. I don't know, I'm telling you simply.

S. This is the result of all my work or can I be certain every step of the way?

R. Yes, that is what we have to get to. To feel that we are together with the Creator and he, not only together, that he is the one that determines. He fills me and determines everything that happens in me and whatever is around me all of reality also he fills and organizes. He establishes it, all of reality.

S. But how to be always in this certainty?

R. Not certainty, you always need to be in an effort to accept this picture that you and where you are, it is all established through the upper force.

S. (34:40) What you mention now is the individual's feeling of trying to cleave to the 10 and wanting to be in this sensation.

R. We all have to get to that.

S. What is the connection between this and helping the friends? What do I do now with the sensation of where do I work with the friends? How do I help them?

R. Wait. You establish yourself with the Creator and all the environment, now you're speaking about the 10.

S. The question is if I even have to position myself or be concerned with the ten.

R. No, it is all one world. But first you have to take him and piece it together fragment after fragment.

S. So how do I form this feeling, this work? How do I form this feeling, this work from now, from here I go out to the 10.

R. Except for this, before you you have a group. That group is a special laboratory where you, in your actions, in your research, in your checking towards the internality of creation on a more inner degree. So you reach the group and start working with them. Just like what we were saying before. Before we said how you accept the world and the Creator. And this all comes out from you towards the outside. So how do I work with the ten, with the ten. I work in a mutual way, me towards them and they back to me.  How do we reach a connection? So we were saying that the Creator establishes and reveals all of reality. In the group I say that I establish my reality in that group. That this ten I am now building it as one system, not the Creator, not nothing, me. It is my obligation.

S. These are two different separate works?

R. Completely different. The fact that I say that the whole world is the Creator and the Creator is establishing this whole world and there's none else besides him and so on and so on. That is a fact for everyone. That has to be supposedly a fact to all humans, but now that I want to approach the 10 that is my personal work. It is personal, private. I come to them and I start working with them.

S. And this I have to focus on?

R. Yes. That is eventually my work after I put my attitude, establish my attitude towards reality and now I'm starting to work towards the 10 and the 10 is something that belongs to my soul. It is my inner work.

10. S. (38:40) How do we share in the suffering of our people, the suffering of the people in our country, and pray for them, each prayer helps them.

R. Try and pray quietly in thought in your heart and it doesn't matter which words you use and it doesn't matter which texts you are going to say there but you want the people, let us say the Turkish nation, after everything they've gone through that they recuperate and understand that what they went through something good can come out of it. There are blows and there’s a time of suffering and there are other times too that now we need to reach those other times and you are praying that these times come, times of connection of building.

11. S. (40:23) I have a question. Sometimes it feels like it is just me and the Creator in this entire world and everyone else is just there to show me what I need to correct to come closer to the Creator. Is this a correct feeling?

R. I think so. That except for you and the Creator nothing exists.

S. In the ten we have to see the ten as perfect, but in the world when others try to take things from you I find it challenging. What should I do? Should I just pray for the correction because that is the only relationship I have with them.

R. I don't understand what you are asking. You confused me.

S. Yesterday somebody tried to take things from me as if they tried to steal something from me, that is how I felt it, and I was angry, I then felt like it was me and the Creator as though I was being tested again, but these are not people in my ten not in the Bnei Baruch group, people in the nations of the world. How do I respond to them when I feel that way?

R. It is a lot of studying. It is long but it is not for now not for now.. Actually if you recognize that he stole from you so you have to relate to him like a thief, call the police, or if you have the forces so beat him up, but then the police will come and beat you up. Okay.

12. S. (43:09) We are nearing the Congress but still there's no connection between all the friends, so what is the intention and action we need to do to truly reach connection in the congress?

R. We need to think about it all the time and every success we have only depends on connection and we must reach the congress with an open heart towards the connection and it's an issue. Imagine to yourself that God forbid we are before a disaster like what happened for our brothers and Turkey, and that we could prevent this disaster from all the earth that in those same shakes, the earthquake that happened in Turkey, it can go over the whole earth such a thing.

Can you imagine what happens, what could happen? Even scientists say it will happen and it should happen a few times but for some reason it didn't happen, so let us try and glue all the pieces of the earth together so they will not shake in such a way. Let us try to glue them in our desires because with our desire we are in much higher degrees, still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, if from the speaking degree we want to adhere towards one another as one man in one heart obviously we will not let the earth explode, otherwise we will feel such a phenomenon it will be a disaster, so it all depends on us.

Now except for that it’s not just want to annul earthquakes, each and every negative thing in this world we want to annul, anything negative. Let us say we want to cleanse the earth from garbage from all the pollution in the water and the ground and the air and everything, if we cleanse our heart, if we cleanse our heart that is on the highest degree, also in pollution from thoughts and desires, if we do that everything will be cleansed. We think how can we clean the earth? Very simple there's no problem. In nature there's all the forces you need, it all depends how we activate them. If we activate our heart and start seeing the whole world is starting to become fresh, pure, clean, airy, it all depends on our desire. So we have a few more days until the congress and we will try to fix ourselves to correct ourselves and come to the congress with an open heart of each and everyone and then our congress will be a pure place, purity of the world.

13. (48:00) How to take these external earthquakes to inner?

R. A person needs to feel that it depends on him, it depends on him, and in this way he can now correct. If we all come closer together those vibrations will calm down, we will calm them, if we are connected together there is nowhere for the vibrations to take place. You know what an earthquake is, it's where the parts, the plates, the plates in the ground where they start moving because they're not connected so they are one on top of the other but if we connect ourselves everything will be connected the whole earth will be connected it will get stability and nothing will happen. We’re in a world that is all shaken.

14. S. Two days ago I heard you say that in the preparation that we did for the congress in the desert and and then we moved this congress to our home it’s like we've gone through that state so how do we utilize that time as if we’ve gone through another congress?

R. We’re speaking about it now too we’re preparing for it now too. It’s very simple, only to bring the hearts closer and closer, no more than that. Bringing the hearts closer, that is what corrects the world.

S. What does it mean to come with an open heart to the congress?

R. That I am willing to accept in my heart each and every friend from each and every place he comes, and also the ones that aren't coming physically that can’t for all kinds of reasons, I'm willing to accept everybody, I'm willing to accept all of humanity eventually into my heart into each and everyone’s heart can accept everyone in there, and in this way we will hug the whole world and then there will not be anyway to enter those vibrations or any kind of diseases or bad influences, everything will be good.

14. S. (51:30) These tectonic plates that lead to the earthquakes?

R. We want to connect ourselves with all the desires of all the intentions together and aim them to one Creator to one source. By that we are stabilizing our world and there will not be any shocks, bad shocks to it, it will only move towards more of a balance in a soft, gentle slow manner, that’s what we can do. It all depends on man will be one and not billions of people that do not know what to do and they do the exact opposite.

15. S. (52:50) It comes out that by strengthening faith in There is None Else Besides Him, it gives us strength to unite into one heart with a world vessel and in that we strengthen our desire to bestow and attract closer the Creator to the world destroyed by that Sitra Achra?

R. That is a direction.

16. S. (53:25) There's nothing but me and the Creator and everyone including you exists because I exist, this is how I see it. But I don't like the Creator and he doesn't love me either, we both hate each other, what if there is no one else?

R. You built some kind of image for yourself that I recommend to let it go for now, and start only reading. Only read what Baal HaSulam and Rabash are writing and then you'll start seeing that your depiction of the world changes and you will reach a truer observation. Otherwise because you have a lot of things that you are adding to your own mind into there and it is not correct, it is not correct. Read more.

17. S. (54:54) I heard that Sodom and Gomorrah were also also overturned by an earthquake and now you're saying that the events can be dramatic and it seems that now we are in a worse period then it was before pre-pandemic where Humanity had this break to breathe. How can we focus on this united intention because it seems that we have ten days and on the other hand it feels like the world has changed, how in the time do we need to focus on that moment?

R. I think you are ready, you just need to be shaken up a bit where you all turn around towards one direction and that is what we are going to do in the Congress.

18. S. (56:26) There's a question about this adherence because it appears that you are already adhered but you are slipping. How to secure yourself where you are adhered to the Creator because it says here you have to try here all the time to be adhered. Is all we have just trying the attempts or how can we secure ourselves?

R. Hold onto only your friends. There's nothing else, there's nothing else to grasp onto, to hold on to. We only have to hold on to the parts of our soul which are close to us and those are the friends.

S. When you slip you find someone to put responsibility over?

R. No nothing like that should happen, no thought about that, you have to hold onto them and constantly hold on, like a baby holding a mother.

S. And then will be in adhesion with the Creator?

R. Right.

S. And that'll be holding on in security?

R. That'll keep you stable.

19. S. (58:03) In the Israeli society it feels like the home is burning, everything is very tense.

R. There's a problem with your microphone. Now it's okay don't touch it.

S. I wanted to ask about the situation in the Israeli Society because it feels like the home is shaking, there's a big feud. How can we embrace and enter the Israeli Society and to bring peace to the home?

R. We have to speak about love and connection without getting deeper into all kinds of our own inner earthquakes, that we will start arguing about who is right or not and that's a problem. There is no right and wrong but everyone has to be united connected and no one can take upon themselves to hold a flag that he is going before everyone with that flag and only he deserves to be the manager and the one who understands or feels and so on. That's a problem.

S. There's something in our inner work and our prayer that we have to do?

R. In our prayer, yes there is something. We need to understand that there is a war here, an endless war between people who constantly only think of control. Then, according to the desire to control, they pull science, philosophies, psychology, all kinds of things and they start speaking about one another who is right and who is wrong and more and more. Democracy, all kinds of words that Humanity for a long time already does not even look at these words. It's clear to them that what we actually have in life, that's what really says what is right without all kinds of words and definitions where we are and what we have to get to. We are in a period where everything is destroyed more and more and let us hope it will get destroyed all the way in a way that we will start building the world from new.

S. If only the Creator is in front of me, what change do I need to demand to see change for the better?

R. Only connection without it being controlled by all kinds of ideas.

20. S. (01:02:52) How to come out of this interest of caring from one friend to taking everyone into the right direction towards correction, you're saying the connection between us?

R. No one can be indifferent and not participate in the connection. That's what has to raise us to the next degree, only connection without any solutions from science, nothing. I think we're coming closer and open to this, that in the Congress we will reach some first fundamental implementation of this. It will be and it is before us.

21. S. (01:04:12) How can we come to everyday being a new beginning, and not continue with these wars?

R. We can have a daily war, but against the evil inclination. And that we will know from day to day as much as we defeat it more and more. Meaning, turn all of these wars into wars of man against himself.

22. S. (01:05:04) How do the young students on the path contribute to the success in preparation to the Congress?

R. They need to be connected to the Congress, be in all the actions we’re doing. Study with us, speak, gather relate to this if they're close to us so they can come as much as possible. At least for an hour or two. Day or night, or the evenings after the work. Even though it is on free days, days off participate. And also to understand that our studies, except for studying, we are spreading the wisdom around the world so come here take books and spread them out as much as possible.