Morning Lesson April 14, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Passover - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. (For with a mighty hand he will send them #173
1.Rav’s Introduction: We learn with you that basically there is no point of advancement that is more important than the Exodus from Egypt. Egypt symbolizes our will to receive, our ego that we are in. The Exodus from Egypt ,the passing over when we pass over from through the boundary from the governance of the will to receive, which is called Egypt, Pharaoh, to the governance of the will to bestow, which is called outside of Egypt. There are several other phases there but we are coming out of it ,from the governance, when our will to receive no longer controls us, so we can feel other governances, other controls. Even come to the state where we determine which governance will be on us. So the Exodus from Egypt is the most important thing. All of the operations that we do afterwards, spiritual operations, we mark that it's in memory of the Exodus from Egypt. Meaning thanks to our ability to rise above the will to receive, and the ability to come to the aim to bestow.
So it's really the most important point. that we have in our spiritual development. I see that things are arranged in such a way that exactly in these days, we are also celebrating this holiday, Passover. Precisely tomorrow we will be on the date. Although there's not really much importance as much as people attribute to it, but still there's something special about the fact that it just so happens in our spiritual, in the progress of our study, and what happens with people who want not to keep advancing the way the world advances, but want to accelerate their states of development. So we are doing it with you, not by coincidence, according to the times that are written on the calendar. I myself don't know why it happened this way. It's not something I planned, it just happened that indeed in these times we are in these processes. Previously also we started noticing that we had the beginning of the year for the trees and Hanukkah, there were connections suddenly between the physical dates and spiritual states.
So let's get into our topic, it's a very special topic and I think each of us even those who haven't been with us for a long time but are relatively beginners, they too will feel that as we enter the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah after some time we start feeling that it's not really working out, it's not as easy as we thought. But everything would go nicer and nicer and will be more illuminated, on the contrary there are many obstacles along the way and burdening of the heart, misunderstandings, we don't feel and it is as if we are advancing not directly from the darkness of this world to the complete light which is the spiritual world at the end of correction, the next world excetera. But rather along the way there are all kinds of obstacles and stops. So what is happening here? So here he's telling us the whole Torah explains not only Baal HaSulam, that these things are necessary because the advantage of the light from within the darkness so if we want to discover the upper light, the more we discover it before every revelation of the light, there has to be a sensation of darkness and that sensation has to be very intense, the way darkness is felt.
So that's how we have to feel before we feel the light and vice versa, from above we are basically not given darkness, but when we intensify the light we see more of the darkness. The more opposite we are, we see how opposite we are from the light and then we are given the feeling of the light itself as much as we can accept the darkness. It always turns out that they go together light and darkness, darkness and light and in this way where each one summons the other, each one is dependent on the other as the advantage of the light from the darkness and this is what we do. So when we are told that there has to be an exodus from Egypt, meaning not just from one side to the other but disconnection from the will to receive, from the intention to receive, where we cross the border and enter the intention to bestow. So here there has to be some operation, some state that happens to us that is very very special. This is exactly the Exodus from Egypt where we come out, escape and rise above our ego and enter the power of bestowal, the power of the light and begin to settle there and understand what it's like to exist in the new world, the spiritual world.
Before we do it we have to muster the strength to come out and the strength, these forces to come out, are called the mighty hand. What does that mean? The Creator himself gives us a sensation of the darkness, a certain sensation of darkness each time more and more gradually so that we will discover on top of it, greater and greater light every time and this is how they go together darkness and light number one. Darkness and light, number 2 until we come to such a state, such changes between darkness and light that it really lifts us and we run away from Egypt. Before that we can feel how bad Pharaoh is and how it might be good to rise above him but it's not enough for us to run away from Egypt.
We have to come to a state where the darkness of Egypt is revealed to us in such quantity and quality that we will not be able to remain in it in Egypt for one second longer. We will be willing no matter what under any condition, only just to run away from it, from the governance of our ego, from the governance of the will to receive to such an extent that it shows us the darkness in it, the evil in it. If you are noticing what is happening, it really reminds us what is happening to us in this world also, we also have periods in corporeality, periods of darkness, periods of light relativity and then we must advance more and more and more to a resolution, what is the real darkness and what is the real light and what do we really want. How do we choose a more advanced spiritual state on top of these differences that we are shown from above, what is bad, what is good, what is darkness, what is light.
2. S. (11:52) This feeling of darkness that precedes the Exodus, is it present up against the backdrop of the light?
R. It's the same thing, darkness and light, there are two opposites because outside of us there is no darkness, no light it only works its way towards us and this is in order to show us what is darkness, we have to feel the light, and then absence of light will seem to us as darkness because indeed there is no darkness in reality. We only notice, we distinguish the differences between them, that's all.
S. Okay which light should we feel now and to what extent so it will be enough for us to exit Egypt?
R. We need to determine that the power of connection, love, nearing one another, connecting in our hearts as much as we can imagine it, that this is the light. This is what we want and darkness is the opposite.
3. S. (13:36) We heard that there is a very clear process until the Exodus from Egypt until a person can disconnect from the ego but on the other hand how does it work with the salvation of the Lord is the blink of the eye and you need to believe that every moment the Creator can help you, although I don't feel like I could come to the exodus at all?
R. You can if you depict to yourself that remoteness from the Creator, remoteness from the friends, remoteness from bestowing are the darkness and connection with him. Good influence on one another is the light then you are preparing yourself exactly to exit Egypt.
S. But there is a process, has to be the entry to Egypt, all the feelings you have to go through, all those things.
R. Yes, correct and we already learned it, we are in it, and now before the Exodus from Egypt we have to organize these things together, connect them, so it will be clear to us what state we are in and what state we want to be in.
S. The salvation of the Lord is as the blink of the eyes only for the person's current degree or for final correction?
R. Let's talk about this degree and the current situation.
4. S. (15:32) Is the darkness and the light on the same level, you said that the light is the force of connection and love between us, for now the darkness is felt more on the corporeal side, do we feel a different kind of darkness in Egypt?
R. We need to understand that all the light and all the darkness are only one phenomena where we discover and reveal a desire to bestow upon each other as good or receive from each other as bad and accordingly, we advance, we will arrange these things, it will be clear to everyone.
S. So when a person feels darkness in his corporeal life, is it darkness of Egypt or maybe he's not even related to it?
R. It's not like it's unrelated but it's one of the conditions on top of which he also has to determine in what world he is in. It might be that he has problems in his corporeal life, all kinds of disturbances, and troubles. Baal HaSulam writes about it as we learned in this single concealment and double concealment and opposite from that single revelation and double revelation. So there are all kinds and we need to organize and arrange them so it is clear to us. We can refer to this article Concealment and Revelation of the Creator, we will read it and see if we have something of that or not.
5. S. (17:38) The introduction I didn't understand the difference between spirituality and corporeality, what's the meaning of the fact that the Passover custom and the Hebrew calendar coincide?
R. No, I'm not saying that it has to be this way and that it will be and also Rabash writes about it that it might happen that you suddenly have the day of atonement, Yom Kippur in the middle of the winter, it has nothing to do with the physical calendar, the astronomical calendar, it is unrelated. It is interesting that it just so happens that at this time just as we are learning about mighty hand, that he will send, yes, the Creator sends those that are called Yashar Kel, Israel, straight to the Creator, from Egypt from their state of being in order to receive into being able to bestow. Meaning across the border into this world and the upper world. So it just happens exactly this way, I didn't plan it this way, it just so happened. This is why I said it, we shouldn’t pay attention to it and be confused about it, forget it, the important thing is our internal state.
6. S. (19:06) Is the Exodus, should the Exodus from Egypt be so dramatic or is it day after day to gather those idols and leave Egypt?
R. It's true, we are advancing in this way, slowly, bit by bit. We are advancing towards the intention to bestow and we have a bigger and bigger intention to receive and the gap between them becomes clearer and clearer and more critical. But at the same time there is still a point where we disconnect from the intention to receive and enter the intention to bestow. Therefore it still happens at some point along the way. Although there are many introductions to it, preliminary introductions to it, from the creation and then from the exit into Egypt and entering into the spiritual world and then from entering into the spiritual world there's a continuation, there are struggles and there are degrees but still that point is a very important point and we in all the operations that we can later do in order to bestow, we say it is in memory of to remember the Exodus from Egypt. That the ability to perform an act in order to bestow between us and to the Creator is because we came out of Egypt, that's why we have the strength to do it.
7. S. (21:20) I'm a really bad student and I never remember asking you this question, in regards to the news media and praying for my friends how can I find myself in praying for others in between what the media is feeding me and what my friends are lacking, where am I in between these two parts?
R. I don't know where you are between those two things and I'm not between those two things, also I'm not in the media altogether, I take the media only because I have to talk to everyone but all in all, in general I don't talk about it as spiritual states, don't be confused, I don't think we need it. We need to learn only about our internal spiritual state and then all the forces we have as much as we have forces little forces, we will place them in the right place which is how to rise above this world and the relation between the worlds, later when you begin to feel and understand, the functionality of the upper world then you will be able to connect it to our lower world. I don't recommend being immersed in both worlds in our corporeality and in spirituality, you will not find connections between them or any correct order or a result from one to the other, so it's not a good idea.
S. So as far as my ten then what should be my focus on the lacks, at what levels for my friends should I be praying for, the lessons, connection?
R. In a deficiency of the ten, when you try to connect and feel where you are drawn, with these deficiencies, in them you have to make the scrutiny and the correction, that's it and maybe go over the articles about the group again.
8. S. (24:24) Should a person or a ten take into consideration that change and the feeling of darkness or light and change the rhythm or the topics they discuss, if we constantly maintain a minimal framework?
R. What does it mean to maintain the framework and interfere with your progress?
S. I see that there are friends where today he feels is hurting and he's running to the ten, he's not hurting then he is swallowed in life.
R. So we need to see that friends are still in these states and help them nevertheless even though they are moving away from the ten we need to help them come closer. I don't understand from what we learn all together I don't understand from where you get these questions. There are movements in, out, forward, backwards, that's normal, that's the way it should be but at the same time there should be constant regular work of how we connect ourselves in such a way that we are constantly advancing together.
S. How important is it before going out to have a clear order, minimal structure where every friend is obligated under his conditions and the entire ten knows what he is committed to? I feel like it's a stage perhaps?
R. As much as you can organize it, as much as you can, you don't demand theoretically that this is how we have to be. We just have to make efforts as much as is possible because we have to organize ourselves along the way but it's not some marginal condition. No, rather we have to tie ourselves and connect ourselves more and more and according to the Articles that are written, we have to advance and besides this even without the Articles, we are advancing. We just need to be consistent. Every day to try to perform the operations together with our world group.
9. S. (27:12) How before every meeting we check to see that we have the best conditions for receiving the reforming light?
R. We have to accept it even without any checking, just as is, that when we come to a meeting, to a lesson, to anything, regardless of how we feel that we are connected or separated. We must still accept above all our checks, accept that we are in the best state for advancement although it may seem to us like it is not such a good state, and it might even be the worst, and that is really what we have to learn about, what does it mean with a mighty hand He will send you out? That precisely before we perform the jump out of corporeality into spirituality through the border between Egypt and outside, there is where all of the evil forces that resist us are revealed and we connect our forces together with the Creator and jump through the border and cross into the enlightened world.
S. Is the correct way to see our advancement, to see the entire ten as one vessel or work in front of every friend?
R. No, every ten, in general every ten.
10. S. (29:10) I heard yesterday it's important to know where we are in our progress, and why is it so important and how to do it in the best possible way?
R. I still can't make these measurements, I don't have an instrument, a vessel where I can measure how empty it is or how full it is. On the contrary, I have to take steps forward without any sensation, meaning without any importance to our feeling to how high I am, how low, in ascent or descent as long as I'm moving forward, that's the main thing in our progress, in our advancement.
11. S. (30:16) Today there was an interesting topic we touched on the common ear in the ten, when this concept of the ten,, our common eyes begin to appear in the ten, does that constitute the Exodus from Egypt to some extent?
R. Dear friend, I have great respect for you but don't bring in something that we didn't talk about and no one remembers it because it may have been yesterday or the day before yesterday don't bring it to everyone because it will be a disturbance. Ask about something that is pertinent and don't distract everyone to where you want. We don't do these things.
Excerpt 173 (31:18)
12. R. (31:49) In other words, people who shift from the sensation of the corporeal world to the sensation of the spiritual world, that's what they have to feel. That they are far from the spiritual world, that they are immersed, totally immersed in the corporeal world, so much so that it is darkness. It is called the darkness of Egypt and in that darkness there is already the future light that they are meant to reveal but in the meantime it is revealed as darkness, as lack of understanding, lack of feeling, lack of perception, complete disorientation absolute darkness and there is nothing to grip. Where am I? In other words they felt the truth, what is the truth, that they are so far from the truth, meaning from working for the sake of the Creator.
Reader continues: (33:05) “ then when they have this kind of demand…”
13. R. (33:22) In other words what should happen there should be a sensation of zero, complete helplessness, impossibility although they want it very much but at the same time, they discover that they are totally powerless, they have no connection to spirituality, nothing. They're so weak, so stupid, so dense that something that never happened before, this is what we feel before the Exodus from Egypt, this is called the darkness of Egypt.
Reader continues: (34:02) “but I do not demand that you will be able to walk…”
14. R. (34:35) In other words what does the Creator need? For us to feel that we cannot do anything. Absolutely. We have no understanding, no feeling, no understanding of where we are, only a sensation of darkness, that we are incapable of anything, we are totally unrelated to spirituality although we want it very much but we have no chance of gripping spirituality in any sense. Just like in our lives, we used to hold something in our hand, with respect to spirituality it is hopeless. What do we do? This is what we have to come to, this is what the Creator says. I'm not demanding that you'll be able to walk on the path of truth and bestowal, I just need you to have a vessel to receive the abundance, the deficiency.
Therefore when you begin to work in order to bestow, you will see that you are incapable of this work, that you don't belong to spirituality, you don't belong to bestowal, that you have no basis, no beginning of any giving, any disposition to love, to connect, nothing. Each one will feel that he, what he never felt before, how egoistic he is, individualistic, alone, disconnected from everything. Then you will see that you're incapable of this work, bestowal, connection and then I will give you what is called with a mighty hand he will send them. Meaning then we will begin to receive from the Creator all kinds of vessels, instruments, powers, understanding to come out of Egypt as it is written.
Reader continues: (36:43) “and I also had the groaning of the children…”
15. R. (36:57) Precisely in the sensation of darkness, helplessness where we can't do anything we don't understand what is spiritual work, absolute zero, that there never was such a state without any understanding, any feeling, any direction, nothing. Precisely when we come to that state we feel that we are nothing. Because the Exodus from Egypt is really called a spiritual birth. Then it's like a newborn baby, it is born out of zero, there is a Reshimot, a record there like sperm that comes not from itself but from the Creator and from this he is born.
Excerpt 173 again (37:55)
16. R. (39:38) We see on the friends and on ourselves how we sometimes come into great despair and think we have to quit the path, it's not for us, what is going to be and how can I, and look with the Creator’s doing with me. We have to talk and explain to one another how the states are actually states that promote us and advance us. That they have to accumulate in us and bring us to his state of the exit of disappointment of helplessness, powerlessness, inability, that there is no future because I feel my future in my will to receive and now I am discovering that the will to receive is totally unsuitable and cannot help me take even one step forward. It ends at the border with the Exodus from Egypt so I feel like I have nothing with which to continue. To go back to the regular life like the rest of the world, here is the biggest disturbance which is called with a mighty hand, I will send it and that is the point. This is the point.
17. R. (41:22) WSQ: What does it mean, the point of the Exodus from Egypt?
18. R. (47:46) We just need to understand that our entire work is close to the Exodus, is becoming more and more difficult, we are being pushed back more and more from coming closer to one another, from coming close to the exodus, to in order to bestow, we are more confused. We feel less and less that we can continue the spiritual force, that is the state. So we're going to have to get used to that state and build it then continue until this thing will be entirely built.
Excerpt 174 (48:38)
19. R. (49:28) That's like in all the laws of nature when one force is coming up against another force and that's how it works so in order to break through the fence between corporeality and spirituality between this world and the next, we need a great force, in order to have a great force, that we'll be able to accumulate it and set it up, we need like with athletes to do all kinds of exercises, how do we all crystallized that power, how do we give that power in order to break through the fence, this boarder? Therefore we need to understand that all those exercises the Creator is doing with us is only for us to connect more to want more, together. This is not about how strong each one is that there are no stronger people.
Each one has one unit of power but these individuals connect and they want to work together, they succeed and for us to do it the Creator is sending those disturbances and not so each one will have the strength to do it but will have the strength of the connection between us in order to break through the fence and cross through to the spiritual world where the difference between the corporal and spiritual worlds is that in the corporeal world each one is thinking of himself and in the spiritual world each one is thinking for the sake of everyone in Arvut. Therefore the Creator will send in more and more darkness so we would be able to detect the meaning of the light.
The light means the connection between us the light means Mutual bestowal between us and from us to the Creator. If we understand it, if we feel it somehow are prepared for it, then we are ready for crossing the border between the corporal world and the spiritual world and then we come out of Egypt to the enlightened world, the upper world.
Excerpt 174 (52:28)
20. R. (53:15) It's like you remember we used to read these articles by Rabash that if one is taking a stick the other on is also taking a stick, if he's taking a machine gun the other one also is taking a machine gun and if he’s taking a cannon, he's also taking a cannon meaning those states are revealed one against the other and therefore the Creator constantly raises the resistance so that we will connect more and raise our resistance against him. That at the end of such an article he says what? My sons have defeated me, they are more powerful than me, because through these exercises he is doing with us we came to a state where he's letting us break through the border and we enter the yet upper world.
21. S. (54:18) In the workshop we discussed it not only with relation to the force and its essence but something complicated that's revealed here, despair, prayer, the mutual responsibility we have to accumulate and gather all those states into one point?
R. Correct all of our efforts for and against we have to collect them together and with this point, which includes in it all the negative and positive forces, we need to break into the Creator and then we'll see that there's nowhere to break into or the minute we organize ourselves in this way he opens it up and he says oh finally I waited for you to come to it and then we enter. It's simply the condition, it's like in science, in physics, anywhere else. We come to a certain state with multiple potentials and then we cross this barrier and we go further.
That's how it works from one degree to another but the main thing is that first leap beyond the threshold, this potential leap and then in each degree of coarseness that we climb we'll have to do the same but we understand that now we are accustomed to it we know how to arrange ourselves, the path becomes more familiar. Whereas now we are not arranged for it yet. That's why Kabbalists explain to us how we need to arrange ourselves to be as one man in one heart where we are all aimed at the connection, from the connection between us to the connection with the Creator against all the forces of separation.
These forces of separation of Pharaoh, of Egypt, they are revealed in all their strength and validity between us and we have to try nevertheless to connect. I hear something from the friends and what I feel towards them, it's not important I work only in the direction of connection, only towards connection. If something comes out of my mouth also in my thoughts I have to check, will I strengthen the connection between us through the mutual guarantee between us because only when we assemble it to a certain measure we then break out into the road.
22. S. (57:20) It seems like you just answered this question but still I will ask it. Can we define the exodus from Egypt as the opposite side of the part of Moses?
R. Yes, you can say that, we will scrutinize it further.
23. S. (57:41) After what actions of Moses does this strong hand appear? What is this blow of the mighty hand of Pharaoh?
R. After Moses Brings each time different counsel to the people of Israel how to come closer, how to overcome, how to grow stronger and they come to the border, standing as if on the border, this is the strongest point of resistance between the Creator and Moses if you could say it this way. The people need to be more connected, they didn't have that connection ever and although there is resistance when we see that the nation is not capable of any connection and we see it is very weak and not able to connect, they were never so weak as now and that is why they are in a state of helplessness. So how can they advance any further? And then they cry out where are we? Where did we come to? What have we done?
Are we advancing towards spirituality? It seems to us like we are going backwards because all of these wise ideas that we are learning about for now, for the time being, for the time that we are about to face a great obstacle all of these wisdoms disappear they get forgotten and we see that we are unable to do anything those are the conditions. So what do we do? And here comes that critical point and it is all so we must nature's law because after all the wisdom of Kabbalah is the wisdom of nature, Elokim in Gematria is HaTeva, nature and the wisdom of nature is simple the force that goes for has to be met with a force that goes against and in the middle you find man. Our society is in the middle between the positive force and the negative force and we need to be included of these two forces because we take all the vessels from the Egyptians from our ego.
We take all of the vessels except that we begin to work on them, gradually turning them into in order to bestow but we come out of Egypt with all the desires to receive. We carry them on our backs and later over time until the end of correction we constantly correct these desires in order to receive to become desires in order to bestow so it is impossible to advance in spirituality without going through Egypt a person needs to enter into his will to receive all the way in and then he can come out of it and continue to correct it and advance towards the end of correction. That is why it is called the end of correction by the way when we correct all of the desires, all of our egoistic desires, the ones that we are taking out of Egypt.
24. S. (1:02:14) Can there be a state where a person is given where they are allowed to see through, to peep inside to turn the key or run away?
R. But how can you see it? You are now present in the spiritual world, it is not concealed, you are now concealing it with your own vessels. You think that there is a barrier, a boundary? Baal HaSulam writes in his letter that there appears to be a wall or a door, it is nothing but it is you with your own power, your qualities you are building this heart, this is a wall inside your heart just like now you cannot feel the other, try to feel the friend in the way that you feel yourself, where is that border where does it lie? In your heart. So how can we see what is in the friend's heart? Only if you open up your heart. Same thing here, you can see the spiritual world if you want to see it go ahead it's present you're in it, it is right here the spiritual world until the end of correction all of the worlds are right here but how to discover them?
How to see them? Open your heart. The will to receive has to be corrected to the extent that it is corrected in 125 degrees of its desire you will discover the will to bestow and in it all five spiritual worlds. It is not in one eye or through a small slit that you can see it, no. It is all according to how much you can open yourself. There is no concealment from the upper one, only the concealment that exists in us and as much as we can come close to one another we break the border between us and through it we see the upper world. Only this way. Try to do it and succeed.
25. S. (01:04:52) What should I expect from our attempts to give? To give up? I cannot do it.
R. We need to keep going, each one whatever satee he is in must continue and his tendency should be only to connect to everyone. All of us now all over the world are one group. We must feel ourselves as one Mass, men, women, all of us that we wish to come out of this world, this negative feeling of this world, into the feeling of the spiritual world. To see all of reality from one end to the other so it will be clear to us, understood, that we can work with all of those things. This is all right before us and now is the time where we learn about this border and how we cross this border, the border is inside of us it is a psychological border. It is not a border which looks like a wall and you have to raise the gate and then you cross, no. There is no actual border, no. Nobody is checking your passport, nobody is asking you where you are headed and for how long, nothing. You cross the border and it is automatic. You come closer if you can come closer according to your qualities to the border you approach it and then you cross it. It all depends on your qualities, the qualities change and prove this means that you are crossing over. That is it. The preparation for it is the society that we have and how we need to work on our own qualities in order to come closer to one another to that extent we approach the border and we can make that very first connection and we cross the border.
26. S. (01:08:04) What does it mean to open my heart because you have said this many times and I really don’t know what it means. Does it mean to want something badly?
R. It is to want only one thing that the friend will be inside of your heart. There is nothing more to add. Let the friend enter your heart, that’s it.
27. S. (01:08:48) Can you advise us please what is the Practical work that is important at this moment in the group and in the world so we can strengthen ourselves in it together?
R. We can’t hear you speak clearly.
S. Which practical work is important to do specifically now in the group?
R. Only the connection between you. Connection to such a degree that you would feel that there are no borders, no partitions, no barriers between the friends. This refers to the yearning for spirituality, the connection in the group the way that Rabash writes about the group. If we uphold what he writes about the connection in the group then you can say that we are on the border of Egypt to exit.
28. S. (01:10:07) We are talking about the point of Moses. What does it mean to grasp the point of Moses correctly? When we yearn to build connection between us or is it already a result of some connection between us?
R. The point of Moses is the connection between us where after this connection we are drawn toward the spiritual world; this is called the point of Moses.
S. Can you say a few words about the darkness. We learn that the darkness is a state where the light was and then left and we also know that darkness is when there is light but we cannot grasp it, so how do we work with the light in the state of darkness correctly? Do we accept the light or do we accept the darkness?
R. What is lack of connection between us? Darkness is the lack of connection between us. That is it. Do not be smart. We don’t need big thoughts. Lack of connection is Darkness.
29. S. (01:11:35) It seems to me like we can hold on to you and you will do the rest from Egypt?
R. No, no, of course I am with you and I'm not letting go of you even for a moment but it is not good because you leave the work and you trust something else, that is forbidden. In this work we need to count only on ourselves and the upper force and if I'm present I'm present but if I'm off to the side nevertheless I'm not together with you and don’t think that if you will think of me this will help you. What will help you is only annulment, each one towards his ten and the connection of everyone inside of the ten and then turning to the Creator from the ten. The revelation of the Creator in the ten that is already beyond the barrier. Clear?
30. S. (01:13:07) How do we overcome the fear or disappointments from despair and confusion?
R. You sit and cry.
S. I'm really asking because even before you perform an act of connection you already feel the difficulty so you do not get into it entirely because you are afraid.
R. Sir, what can I tell you? What should I tell you? Fear of course, disappointment certainly, all kinds of anxieties, also, problems, yes. So what is the problem here? The biggest problem is that you'll die? So you'll die. What's the problem
S. How to get into it even if you are afraid?
R. So I’m telling you the biggest problem of death, is the death, so you'll die. Just give up your ego and you'll see that we can talk about it in this way that he should die, that is it. I remember Rabash was pointing at himself and saying, let it suffer, let it suffer. That is it. The main thing is the decision that there is nothing truly dangerous, there is nothing truly difficult except for the decision itself. If you decide, you cross, but decide in truth.
31. S. (01:15:08) Can the point in the heart be likened to exiting Egypt and are there different levels of awareness in exiting Egypt on the path?
R. In the Exodus from Egypt you have 125 degrees when you are processing it, this vessel, this will to receive that you are taking out of Egypt when you process it in order to bestow until the end of correction that is the next stage. First we have to cross over, we have to take a step outside of Egypt this is called Pesach, when we cross. We cross the border, there is a border here and you take one step across it. That is the meaning of Passover and then how to go forward we will learn about it and then we will go.
S. Can a person, a single friend, exit Egypt or is it a group of ten?
R. Egypt we cannot come out of it alone because our whole correction is in the connection of the vessel of Adam HaRishon. We have to connect ourselves together to a single vessel and even approaching the Exodus from Egypt we cannot do alone. Only together, only through mutual nullification, mutual connection in as strong and broad a vessel as possible.
32. S. (01:17:10) You just said that it depends on the decision. If you really decide, you come out, what should that decision be?
R. That I have to leave my whole attitude to spiritual life, even corporeal life maybe, in order for the force of bestowal to grow between us, between the friends and in such a way I will feel that I transcended my ego and exit my Egypt.
33. S. (01:17:56) What does it mean to go in, all the way into the will to receive?
R. The more we want to advance towards the will to bestow the will to receive opens into more and more depths.
34. S. (01:18:17) How can we understand that it is written that the vessel to accept the abundance in the Exodus?
R. The will to receive that grew before the exodus from Egypt opened after the exodus from Egypt as a vessel for the reception of the upper light.
Reading 175 (01:18:47)
35. R. (01:20:13) So we see how the Creator here advances us specifically by making difficulties in us, revealing a greater will to receive within each of us by which we feel that we are growing apart from the friends and it shows us that our friends are not exactly on the path not exactly drawn and not good knowledge friends and so on. The Creator does everything here so that we will feel that we are under the rule of Pharaoh that our ego controls us and does not let us see all of those things when we are in the spiritual world, instead we see this corporeal world becoming worse and worse and ourselves becoming worse and our friends as weaker and worse and lowly. So here we have to very carefully understand that only through mutual work between us when we connect between us more and more by that we can overcome all of these disturbances put in front of us by the Creator and only by that, only on that we can hinge our success. So the group can also show each and every one what conditions we have to be in in order to advance, in order to really feel ourselves in a way that we advance towards the goal. So here the main thing is the connection between us becoming greater and greater this becomes towards the exit the most important thing there is.
36. S. (01:22:45) How can I understand that I have to awaken the friend to come out of Egypt?
R. We have to try to do whatever we can to awaken the friends and if we see between us that there are friends who do not really understand already that we need to be connected between us then we need to work on them. We need to somehow speak to them, read some material from Baal HaSulam and Rabash and all of us work together on each and every one of the friends in order to awaken them, to guard them so we have to understand that it is not the work of an individual here it is the work of a group. That if some friends in the ten, friends that we feel that they are not yet drawn in the same direction as us, then we have to gradually awaken them in different ways until we feel that we are coming towards the same goal, the same common heart. We cannot disregard that, on the contrary.
We have to understand that if the Creator reveals to us some friend who is against or does not want or is weakened it is all to give us work to advance and it is not a problem with that friend it is a problem in us that we need to work on and it is not really a problem it is a place for work by which we will come closer, closer to the Creator. So there is no concession here for each and every one, on anyone. Sometimes I hear people say okay we cannot continue with this person we will just throw them out and that is it. It is a very last resort, the very last resort and you also don't need to go there because the Creator will do that. So we have to understand that each and every friend in the ten has a place and we need to keep him with us and carry him with us until he is then motivated to advance with us together.
37. S. (01:26:01) When I think that I feel myself I see that the Creator conducts me. The feelings are given to me by the Creator so how can I feel my friend here? Should I feel the Creator or my friend?
R. Both. In order to feel the Creator I need to feel all the friends close to me and all in all the feeling of the friends has to give me the feeling of the Creator this is called from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator, otherwise I will not reach the Creator. The Creator resides behind the friends.
38. S. (01:26:52) If the friend doesn't participate on purpose.
R. But he is in the lesson?
S. Yes, here he is here with us.
R. Okay so maybe it is difficult for him to reach it yet, I don't know. These are things that are truly difficult I also feel it on myself sometimes during the day when I have to connect to the ten I am busy with such tasks that are important, of course connection with the ten is more important but one thing hinders the other thing so you have to try to put it into some sort of a schedule in order that it is acceptable for everyone.
S. So it turns out that the Creator invented something very interesting when somebody approaches the quality of bestowal, sorry for saying it, in order to not just kill himself and become dust so he wants to kill the friend instead and that person is left alive in order to ask the Creator.
R. I do not understand what you are talking about.
39. S. (01:28:39) How to use the world vessel correctly, the world group? You said a lot of times how important the group is, what is the importance of working in the ten?
R. I want all of our friends, men and women, all the world vessel to connect together because we need all of the power, all the powers to connect. So that is what I am drawn to because I need all of these powers. How will I cross the barrier without them? It is like when you come to the airport in some country you reach the border control they give you your passport and then you cross and then you say all of those are with me, right? They are asking you, each of you, so who is standing behind you all of Bnei Baruch, ultimately it is all of Bnei Baruch that is what you have to feel.
S. I think I have this force that everybody is with me.
R. You have to feel ready and willing to connect everyone and they depend on you and belong to you. You go through border patrol and they all pass with you. You, as if, let them pass under your authority and everyone does that towards the others, this is called mutual guarantee.
40. S. (01:30:54) All the tens gather two or three times before the lesson every single day. We feel like there could be a really good opportunity for the next 24 to 48 hours to gather these forces to create the border patrol practically. Is there something we can read or implement into these practical meetings of ours that we could be as one with one intention during the next 48 hours to leave this Egypt?
R. That only by all of you feeling that you are together you then cross the border. Only when you feel together. You reach the border control and you are passing it when you are connecting as one man in one heart. That is when you are admitted.
41. S. (01:31:54) Is there a time where we are feeling, other than just the suffering, or is this just what the Exile is?
R. If you feel suffering then you feel the Exile from spirituality and if you feel Exile then you feel suffering. One, as if doesn't belong to the other but one determines the other. It is impossible that I am outside of spirituality and I feel great and the other way around that I feel great and I am outside of spirituality. Those are the kind of exercises that I need to make and this will advance me greatly to passing the border.
42. S. (01:33:20) When we try to scrutinize a question in the ten or a question for a workshop and a friend doesn't really stick to that question I feel like he is speaking about what he feels like how should I relate to him not sticking to the question?
R. He needs to be explained, needs to be told what is important to you as opposed to what is important to him and then he should shift his attention from himself to the group.
S. Sometimes it seems to me that he wants to say something that I don't feel like hearing that is more convenient for me that he speaks about things that sound good to my ears, so I have a scrutiny that I’m not comfortable with.
R. I cannot get into all of these subtleties. You are right but ultimately you have to reach a state where you have one ear, one heart as close together as possible.
43. S. (01:34:30) In item 175 that we just read, Baal HaSulam writes that there is a slight rejection that add a big desire for spirituality and then there is a strong rejection that the Creator sends Klipot, shells and chariots to deflect them from the path. How can I discern what the chariots and the Klipot are and when does the Creator specifically deviate from a person?
R. It all depends on your attitude and how you depict it. We still need to overcome that's ‘mighty hand’ and to understand that the ‘mighty hand’ is intended for us to connect better, then this ‘mighty hand’ we will feel it as an embrace; that the Creator rejecting us from entering, and when we stop rejecting each other we discover that he is not rejecting us from entering, when we stop rejecting each other we discover that He is embracing us. That is what is happening.
44. S. (01:36:11) Eventually what is the difference between a mighty hand and a soft hand? The gentle hand means that you get a desire for corporeality but a mighty hand what desire is sent to you and what exactly is the Creator of rejecting a person with?
R. When we will advance more we will see how He rejects us with all kinds of pleasures possibly, and this is not now there is the matter of Klipot but we could have desires and such possibilities of enjoying spiritual attainment in order to receive. But that is still far from us.
S. If I understand correctly, rejection with a soft hand…?
R. What do you mean? Cannot hear you. Ok we lost connection…
45. S. (01:37:55) How can we hug the friends because there are like thorns between us? How can we hug when we have these thorns between us?
R. We want to embrace each other in that each one feels the thorns between us as his own thorns, not the friends. It is only his own thorns. so, then I hug the others and the more I feel thorns from everyone's rejection, it is my rejection, not theirs. Even if I really feel it in all my senses that it is coming from them but it is mine. It is mine. That is how we nevertheless connect.
S. So even though we still hug with all of our forces?
R. Yes, this is called ‘above reason’ we nevertheless embrace. First by force and then by desire.
S. And then we hug so the thorns disappear?
R. Yes, when you work on it they disappear and not only do they disappear but they become fuel; they become glue between us.
S. I don't have control of the friends' desires because first you said we have to awaken each other.
R. You have to awaken in the friend a desire, you have to awaken love in the friend even though it takes a long time and the friend does not feel it and his heart is stiff and hard and you want to enter it but you can't and he doesn't understand or feel. On the contrary, he rejects you, you need to continue trying as much as you can to enter his heart. It is very difficult, but it is actually the most important work there is, because the more you can penetrate into the friend you are penetrating into your own spirituality.
S. How do we do it all together so that it happens parallel to one another?
R. I do not know what you mean by together. Each one should do this towards his friends and then you will see how it connects by itself. The Creator then gives assistance. What's working then is the totality, the total force.
46. S. (01:41:20) Rejecting with a slight hand it's a friend's rejection from the friends and the strong rejection is…?
R. No no no it is all before the barrier. After the barrier there is nothing. We will have to learn what to do there, it is different principles of work.
S. So it is not clear this thing about the mighty hand. The mighty hand of the creator…
R. Let It go, you do not understand these things yet. You always want to understand what the klipot and chariots are and so on. You are told that it is still a different kind of work, as if now you have the shells and chariots, why are you going into things that are unrealistic? Let us work with what is right in front of us because if we don't work with that then everything else will just disappear anyway, and then that's it. Let's start working against our disturbances and these disturbances are actually only about connection. The people of Israel in Egypt were all separated, disconnected and when we begin to approach The Exodus from Egypt all of the problems, all of the troubles in front of us, it all appears in order for us to unite above it, and the more we can connect with our ego above our ego, that is basically what we have to do. There is no other problem for us, only connection.
47. S. (01:43:37) To penetrate into the friend's heart, you said it is very important and even essential. How can we go deeper in that maybe some study material?
R. Only to discuss it among you about how necessary it is, how urgent it is. And, envy among the friends greatly helps, when I look at the others and see how much they are already coming closer to each other and probably to spirituality along with that, and I look at them and I am envious of them, that is really helpful to me.
48. S. (01:44:30) You said we come out of Egypt and take a sack of other desires with us, that we will correct later on. It seems that we had to leave them there?
R. You haven't corrected these desires. Nothing can be corrected inside of Egypt. You only correct by coming out of Egypt. Then, with them they take all the problems, all of their desires, everything in Egypt is taken. Egypt is left empty. Then outside of Egypt you correct it; that's our whole work, after Egypt. that we go to the desert and so on, and all those things that still are ahead of us; it is all corrections on corrections, of the same vessels that we take out of Egypt. when we take them out of Egypt we detach from in order to receive. Also, on the lowest degree that appears, then we take to further and further correct them in order to bestow and that’s after Egypt.
S. So, if I understand you correctly we shouldn't be concerned about taking them if it happens automatically?
R. They are within us. These desires don't go anywhere, they don't disappear, a person carries them with him. His ego is still with him, it is still not apparent in a way that can be corrected. Detaching from it, from in order to receive what we can already do, this is called “Exodus from Egypt”, that detaching. But using the same desires instead of in order to receive, to use them in order to bestow, that’s our whole work, that’s all the corrections, that's the work we do outside of Egypt until the final correction.
S. So, it turns out from what you are saying that the desires remain?
R. The will to receive never purifies, only our intention changes; form in order to receive to in order to bestow.
49. S. (01:47:24) Does it help us to imagine that we are connected with our friends by believing like children?
R. We, by making efforts to envision our corrected state, we draw the ‘light that reforms’ from those already corrected states that already exist in spirituality.
Reading 176 (01:48:22)
50. R. (01:50:02) Meaning, it's impossible that will transition in a smooth way through this whole development of the will to receive until it will be transformed to the will to bestow. There are a few stages that we're going to have to go through. But, everything must be attributed to the Creator, that what our effort is about, that’s what our struggle is about, that there is None Else Besides Him. He does everything to us both desires, against and in favor of progress, also what appears to us in our desires are Impressions from the lights, the influences of the Creator upon us; all those things we have to relate to Him. The most important thing for us is building an environment like Ball HaSulam and Rabash wrote about it, “the matter of environment”. The main thing is the environment and the collective effort as much as we men and women can come together and realize that we are on track towards exiting from Egypt and what is important here mostly is the common effort. These collaborations, these connections between us unifying all our efforts, all our strength; that is our main work before the exodus. If we do not connect in our efforts we will not exit. The moment we connect we are ready to exit, then the Creator opens up the exit from the will to receive to the will to bestow and we enter the upper world. Clear? Ok.
51. S. (01:52:50) You mentioned that Rabash pointed to his body and said, he should suffer. You say it is a point of decision that a person has to take the decision in the ten. The question is, how when we are still in Egypt can we really take that decision, to at least come closer to this decision to let it suffer?
R. I don't have more to add to what I already said: All of us together in prayer, in trying to understand the excerpts we are reading, we are getting closer to a state where we can get ready for the Exodus, that is it, no more to add.
52. S. (01:53:43) As we see that everything we feel is the result of the light, we can feel sweet, bitter, good or bad in our vessel but you always say that a person is his reaction to what he feels. So can we say that we are building the reflected light in a reaction to what we feel?
R. Yes, but it's not exactly reflected light yet according to spiritual definition, but yes that's how we respond. Our response is also according to the influence we receive from above.
S. In spirituality, how many degrees should a person pass in order to reveal the true might or true glory of his soul?
R. After The Exodus from Egypt, 125 degrees, that’s it. That is what we have from this lowest world all the way to the uppermost world: The World of Ein Sof.
53. S. (01:55:33) These excerpts we just read 175 and 6 which is from Shamari 70 they are very touching because they remind us of very dramatic states that a person goes through on the path and friends always send these excerpts and they really strengthen and I feel today that they are touching in a different way because they are speaking about the ten and not about one person, or one friend going through a dramatic state because it is really felt in the ten that we are all going through a state. The question is, how when we have a dramatic state in the ten that there's a mighty hand and fury is poured out, what is this point of outburst of the effort that now we need to make? What is this persistence that we have to do when we feel that the Creator on one hand is hitting us and on the other hand really bringing us closer and exposing the Arvut between us?
R. If we were connected correctly between us then we would feel that we are working harmoniously. Everyone moves in a direction like some mechanical system one goes right and the other one goes left in all the directions but everyone understand how to work harmoniously according to the collective principle but because we do not have a connection between us we don't feel each other and that is the problem and that's why there's misunderstanding. The problem is that if we accept that the Creator is the connector, the Creator is the organizer between us, so then we need to leave the work to the Creator, the work of connection, the work of correction and from our part we make an effort to advance as much as we can. So there are friends that are completely disconnected from the group but we have to keep them, not to throw them out, not to do anything because they have a special work to do, a different pace of progress and we don't understand the kind of actions that they are supposed to do but if the goal is important it is important. If they are on the path with us they are on the path. If they are disturbing us? Maybe they are even disturbing a little bit but it's a disturbance because we do not understand their work, possibly, so we still have to be patient towards each other and give each and every one a place to advance. The correction of the soul, it is a correction over many actions its thousands of years if you want to put it like that. So we have to use all of our abilities to agree with what is happening and not let anyone determine things outside the borders of what we study.
S. The question, if I may? When a friend in the ten gets a dramatic state as it is written here that the Creator, there is fury poured out on him in a corporeal way but the whole ten is uniting and feeling the Arvut and the connection What can we do onwards to serve the wold Kli and the Creator through this state and bring us to that state of outburst?
R. To pray for the friend, to take him in with all the disturbances he has and cover, compensate for all of these disturbances with the general force of the group. That's it. The more we develop the more we will understand that we have no ability to do anything besides hug everyone and bring everyone into a single heart.
54. S. (02:01:00) When we connect in to ten as much as I have intention to bestow to my friends I attract the light of Hassadim and the light of Hassadim is correcting us, right?
R. Yes, let's say.
S. And there is also pressure of the light of Hochma in the vessel that we sometimes feel darkness in the work, some sort of states. Can we say that it is the pressure of light of Hochma that we can’t feel in our vessel?
R. Let's say so.
S. But all the lights are the same light, they just change according to the position of my vessel, right? So how can I accept the Hochma clothed in Hassadim so I can really accept what the Creator wants to give me?
R. That is under the condition that your intention will be in order to bestow. Then you have enough Mercy to reveal the light of Hochma that comes from the Creator. That's it.
S. How much do I have to go inside bestowal for bestowal? Because I cannot really understand what is receiving for bestowal?
R. We can’t speak about it yet Mister. We have not gone through the restriction yet. We haven't gone through that border, we still didn’t come out of Egypt and no more than that.
55. S. (02:03:38) Why does the Creator have to reveal this mighty hand?
R. In order for us to reveal the true desire for spirituality.
56. S. (02:03:56) How much Fury will the Creator pour on me until he agrees that I will come closer to him?
R. That comes from the will to receive and your soul.
57. S. (02:04:11) Why did Rabash say let It suffer if there's no commandment to suffer?
R. He said that of the will to receive. Not on the will to bestow. In the will to receive, let it suffer. Otherwise he won't surrender.
58. S. (02:04:38) How can we exit Egypt if even now we each sit in a corner and cannot come closer to each other?
R. So you can’t come out Egypt if you don’t want to connect. Not that you can’t but If you still don't understand that the connection between you is necessary for coming out of Egypt so you are not ready to come out yet. The Creator does everything. The Creator will finish the work for me as we say but I must prepare myself as much as I can, I have to want it to happen, not that it will happen but to want it to happen.
59. S. (02:05:30) Is the decision to leave the ego a personal or a group decision?
R. Both.
60. S. (02:05:43) I suffer horrible physical suffering due to a terminal illness. How to connect this state with the darkness of Egypt in order to use it for spiritual progress?
R. Take your mind and feeling as much as you can into spiritual actions to such an extent that you’ll feel that you are disconnecting from all of corporeality and the pain, try. Try and be in it and have good health.
61. S. (02:06:19) You talked about the border before, is that the point of the Exodus from Egypt, what is the difference between the two?
R. Yes the point of the border is the point when we come out of Egypt. Yes.
62. S. (02:06:37) I understand and feel that I'm very far from the states that are written about in the excerpts. How can I at least not prevent the friends who advance in the ten to exit from Egypt?
R. As much as you can annul towards everyone and by that you cross over the border as a baby, as a small one. That's it and grow later, but everybody can go through.
63. S. (02:07:19) Are all the incarnations and all the efforts and all the work just to reach despair, that is the filling of the quota?
R. Yes, but it only comes after a person does a lot of work, great work, where he reaches a state when he is disappointed from all of that work and then he cries out.
64. S. (02:07:53) How to open the heart towards each and every friend equally?
R. Equally? I don't know, I have to check if it's equal. We have to open ourselves towards each and every friend because I want to build inside me a spiritual vessel to reveal reality. That in those connected hearts somehow the Creator is revealed and gets contentment from our work.
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65. S. (02:08:33) What to do if there is a wall of hatred that is one directional, do I close my eyes? How do I open my heart to a friend that hates you?
R. It doesn't matter if he hates me or rejects me. That is the Creator making these relationships. He is creating the evil inclination. He's doing it on purpose so we will want to connect even though and ask Him to connect.
S. What is opening the heart in such a state?
R. I am opening my heart to the friend, that is it.
66. S. (02:09:16) There is such an impression that the Creator gives work to the ten. It is not always pleasant. Many times the ten chooses not to enter this work. What to do? How to work with the rejections?
R. Remind everybody that that is what we need to do, to search for some materials, what is speaking about the right work?
67. S. (02:09:52) What do we leave in Egypt?
R. What do we leave in Egypt? Nothing. We come out of Egypt with as it is written in the Torah, we don’t leave even a Parsa.
68. S. (02:10:18) We have learned that if there is no friction with friends there is no progress in the ten, now we learn that connection with the friends when we open our hearts is a sign of progress the question is whether these two ends always go together or are we in a different state now?
R. There is no difference. The method is the same method its the general law of nature. That's why we have to reach the connection between us even though we have all these collisions when we reach Gmar Tikkun all the big vessel is revealed with all of its inner collision and we connect above it in a way that we are all connected.
69. S. (02:11:16) What does it mean to show my passport at the border and say they are with me?
R. That you are in the head of the group, the rest are like your children counting on you. That's why we need your passport to cross the border and you will be responsible about the rest this is called mutual responsibility. Mutual Arvut.
70. S. (02:11:46) There are such layers of ego in me that I cannot even come closer to them and I certainly can’t disconnect from that. To exit Egypt I have to make a decision over the whole ego or just the layer I feel I can disconnect from?
R. The ego that is revealed in Egypt and even more that will be revealed onwards, all that ego is the Creator awakening and sustaining. That’s why if you are connected to Him, you want to come close to Him, He is in charge of all of those things that he built in your ego and don’t worry. It is his problem, He takes care of it. We just have to decide that we want to adhere to Him and annul ourselves.
71. S. (02:13:13) In what degree are we in now? It looks like we are standing at the border and everyone is trying to go out first but no one then can actually go out. Where are we from your perspective?
R. First of all you have to decide that each and everyone has how should I say it? Border guard, let's say a TSA guy has the forces to open that entrance door into spirituality, each one. There is no line behind you. You are responsible for everyone. Each one is responsible for everyone else, no problem. The vessel in all its desires is ready and invited to cross the border, there are no hours or times or anything. The moment we are ready, each one of us when he is ready to take his group with him, at least his group so, please, he is invited to cross the border. See you have nothing to be afraid of.
S. Meaning I do not detain the friends?
R. No, obviously you are in charge of your ten you are responsible for them and each one in the ten is responsible for everyone else. Every ten must, as Rabash writes, has to be a complete vessel at least on the lowest degree that you are ready for it.
72. S. (02:15:48) Today in the workshop I felt for the first time the darkness, not from me but darkness from the friends. That we are together in that state. It is a very strong feeling that united us on one hand. On the other hand I feel kind of helpless. I relied on them to take me out and I kind of don’t know how we are supposed to advance from here, what are we supposed to do from this complete darkness that we are in corporeality?
R. Discuss it between you, still try to see how to connect because in that connection we locate the exit point, the demand for the exit and how to perform that exit it is all in the connection between us even the exit, crossing the border, receiving the spiritual world that is beyond the exit. It is all in the connection between us, it is all revealed in the connection. For now we are separated and from separation we have to go to connection. That is why, we also learned it today, that is all with the mighty hand. The fact that this bigger disturbance is revealed between us, very colorful, very diverse between everyone to everyone else. It's help from above that helps us to think very well about these connections between us above these disturbances in order for us to come out of Egypt.
S. How do we as a ten differentiate between a personal action and an action that comes from the ten?
R. I don't think there is such a big difference. It could be that there is none.
73. S. (02:17:47) The feeling of coming out of Egypt when I truly love the friends with all my heart willing to serve them all my life, that means coming out of Egypt?
R. Yes and more. That too. Actually my connection with the friends and in that connection I reveal new qualities that's coming from the connection because the connection is the vessel and the qualities are revealed as the fulfillment, as the light, that's the exit.
74. S. (02:18:57) Last week you said to remind you, the question, what is the head of Moshe. Is it qualities that us in the ten, with that passing the border and saying everyone is with me?
R. Yes, Moses is the extent of mutuality between us.
75. S. (02:19:43) Today I had two pieces of advice and I want to know when to work this way or that way, one time I understood I am working towards the whole ten and the other is to penetrate each friends heart in the ten, when do I work one way or the other.
R. I don't think there's a difference between, I just also want to enter the friends heart and I have to open my heart for the friend to come in there as a result we get mutual heart.
S. But what does it mean to work towards the whole ten and not each friend as an individual?
R. It is as inclusive as we say, that we want from our work with the friends to reach a vessel where the Creator can clothe, where the Creator can be revealed, for us to get a contentment. That's it. That's the general heart
S. How do I describe that I need to do the work towards the collective heart and another time towards the friend’s heart?
R. So first the heart of the friends then we connect them together and we present it to the Creator.
S. When I do this work do I need to think about penetrating each and every one heart in my ten?
R. Yes.
S. What does it mean to work for the whole ten?
R. The whole ten isn’t the hearts of the friends, it is the general heart, how I depict to myself how everyone is working in Arvut.
S. And do I need to do this work after I penetrate each and every friend’s heart?
R. Usually yes, but it can be, sometimes this way or that way.
S. When do I do this, when do I do that?
R. It depends on your work, start working and then you will see, is like in any profession you start working and then you learn how it works.
S. So it's according to what is more convenient for me or if it is more possible for me right now?
R. Start from doing what you can.
S. You mentioned that each one needs to feel that the whole world Kli is after him and in general you emphasizing recently a lot of the work towards the whole Kli. A couple of weeks ago you gave some advice to meet with other tens. Yesterday we met with Hadera One, it was a great upliftment and huge inspiration. What is this power that now exists in meetings between tens that we do say once a week?
R. I don't know about it, you do it, I don't understand.
76. S. (02:23:10) In the lesson you said that the main thing is decision, to make a decision. Can you define what is exactly the decision that person makes?
R. I don't know what we are talking about. How can you ask me?
S. You said that in order to enter bestowal a person needs to make a decision that he's going for it.
R. Yes.
S. I am asking how does this decision happen? How does the person make his decision?
R. I don't know what to tell you now. I am not in the same thought or in that same feeling. I don't know. It disappeared from me. It happens.
77. R. (02:24:28) That you will pass the border and go beyond Egypt. Still we have a week to study this, that is through Passover that you don’t pass over at once but efforts and efforts that we gather and then we can come out and run, escape. and also the exit isn’t at once until you come out of Egypt itself and you go through the Red Sea. It is a process that we will learn about it and let's hope that each one will discover himself in it and together we will connect more and more until we reach a state called receiving the Torah. The upper light that is called Torah can appear on us under the condition that we start uniting in one heart. So, we have a process before us and let's hope that we will go through it in a quick way, for sure we are going to go through it, let’s just wish good luck to us with the help of the Creator. Let's just go ahead, let's gather throughout the day to read the excerpts, study, speak, each one strengthening the friends and by that we advance.