Part 2:

Conduct War Like King David - Selected Excerpts from the sources. #4

Reading excerpt number 4 (00:16 - 02:56) I will lift up my eyes to the mountains..” twice

1. S. (03:07) I want to push every desire in my heart out, besides revealing Him and bestowing to friends, however in the situation of fear for one's future it becomes hard, how to pray for friends when I'm scared about my own future?

R. If you're sure you have a fear that's disturbing you from reaching complete bestowal through the friends and the Creator, so you need to pray about that. You already have a way and a path that you can reach the goal and it's very nice! The Creator is already shining on that path for you so go ahead and succeed!

2. S. (05:08) There are states in which the Creator convinces me fully that a certain friend is not good or honest or right, how can I be merciful and gracious to such a friend?

R. Still try and give them an example, how you relate to him and how you are expecting him to relate back to you.

S. Sometimes I really suffer from these states, I'm asking whether it's correct as far as to process these states, is it right to separate between the evil inclination that I feel projected from the friends and his point in the heart, meaning the friend himself? And I connect to the point in the heart of the friends to say the evil inclination is something that belongs maybe to the whole ten and I have to deal with it and separately and I connect to his point in the heart?

R. That's what you want.

S. Is that how I need to process this situation?

R. But his evil inclination won't let you.

S. Okay, so what do I do?

R. You need to pray.

S. That what?

R. That you with your heart can reach his heart and that there won't be a disturbances in between the two of you.

S. Okay, and another thing: the evil inclination itself that we discover, that I discover in him, it doesn't matter, yes, do we need to ask for that inclination for a correction, let's say a quality of being a liar or stinginess, or is it enough that I'm connected to a friend and that's a correction already?

R. That's already the correction.

3. S. (07:23) No Translation

R. Don't pay attention too much to the suffering but only yearn for connection and then you will see that the suffering just falls and disappears.

S. But does it bother sometimes?

R. Yes, it's done on purpose to disturb you, that you will be able to weigh as much as you prefer the connection upon the suffering.

4. S. (08:24) What characterizes a prayer that is accepted?

R. That it's accepting that a person feels that it was accepted and then he has forces.

S. Can a person feel that the prayer was received?

R. Of course, according to what he feels, reads and that he sees what's happening before him.

S. What do you mean, if I pray right now that I can feel that it's being accepted right now?

R. Also.

5. S. (08:59) To continue the friend about those scrutinies that they're experiencing in the group; when these scrutinies take place, in my opinion, it can't be that one friend will beat other friends. On the other hand, he's doing all kinds of gestures, how to relate to such a state?

R. In order to relate to the state you have to connect to everybody and not, supposedly, push everyone to the place that you think is this place, but to do it in a way that you can show everyone how you can love everyone and stabilize the state in that way.

6. S. (10:15) I'm trying to be here, to do the work, and I see all the disturbances are like the movement that the Creator is giving me to correct myself, so I'm asking what does the Creator want from me, what does He want from my ten?

R. The Creator wants from you and from your ten to participate in all the connections of the world Kli, what's the question?

S. The question is why all the disturbances, why all these difficult times, I feel like I can't do, this I feel far, I feel that I can’t advance?

R. Because you don't see those disturbances as an invitation for a good connection.

S. Maybe I don't know what to say, maybe I'm not a good student.

R. There's no such thing, you see how you're answering: that the Creator is inviting you to come close to Him and you're saying that you're not a good student, meaning that I can move further away, there is no such thing! Your response is opposite then what it should be.

S. What must I do, teacher, what must I do?

R. You have to stand on your wishes and ask the Creator to direct you correctly, how to approach the goal. That the Creator will show you the path and the way how to reach the goal, that's it. And you are putting your hands up, “whatever I have, I have”, no, that is not right.

7. S. (13:09) King David says an amazingly famous things he says, “I will lift my eyes to the mountain, where shall my help come from? My help will come from the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and Earth”. What does he mean here, meaning there is no Creator, seemingly from what we understand, so who is he turning to, “I shall lift my eyes to the mountains, from where should my help come from”, what does he mean?

R. That the Creator seems to have higher up above the mountains above, all the contemplating, above all the disturbances, and he turns to Him because from there the force of the Creator comes and He is conducting the Heavens and the Earth.

S. Yes, but we learn that we actually build the Creator through the friends, so how does he make such a leap?

R. I don't know, I'm not going to go and find solutions to all your answers.

S. Okay wait, so he comes to say that he's not missing anything to receive the delight, and all of it will just come to the equivalence of a form with the Creator in the form of “as He is merciful so you be merciful”. How does He how do we come to that, how do I build that?

R. I still didn't meet a person as confused as you.

S. Wonderful, that's why I'm asking you?

R. Don't ask me, I'm despaired already from you, completely.

S. That's it, I'm asking seriously, how can you come to equivalent to form and he just tells you turn to the Creator, up to there he says to the turn to the friends. How do I know turn to the Creator without the friends, according to what he says here?

R. Turn to your friends and adhere to them, annul yourself, receive their qualities for bestow, for love, and in this way, you will reach the goal.

S. What's the essence of the action that I'm doing before the friends to come to the goal?

R. Connection and conceding.

S. Annulment and connection?

R. Connection and conceding.

S. Thank you.

R. If you would write down what you hear and you'd go over it sometimes, you'd be a great wise one already.

8. S. (15:53) Do those corrections and scrutinies always involve the Masach and scrutiny in the Masach?

R. Yes, yes, the scrutinies are part of building the screen.

9. S. (16:25) I want to know if there can be an evil inclination in a friend that does not come from my own perception?

R. Again please?

S. I want to know if the inclination is not from my own perception of the friend?

R. No, no, we see it all through our evil inclination.

S. So it's for me to correct, it's my correction?

R. Yes.

Reading excerpt number 5 (17:58 - 19:43) “ King David always attached himself..” twice

10. S. (19:49) Is the prayer of King David seems to be the prayer for the correct vessel to bestow and nothing else, is that correct?

R. Yes, yes.

S. That should be the only thing that we asked the Creator for because that's all the Creator is waiting for us to ask, for connection?

R. Yes, you are right.

11. S. (20:56) How to be so devoted to the Creator that you need to adhere to Him, to dissolve in Him like a baby that adheres to his mother, for it to be eternal?

R. Ask, nothing else but that, ask that that's how you want it to be.

12. S. (21:36) How to realize what is written in excerpt five?

R. What to do?

S. Yes, I wanted to know how to implement what is written, “how to adhere to the Creator with all your soul”?

R. Through prayer, what else could you have, except for prayer we have nothing; a person doesn't understand that he needs each and every moment in life to be directed to the Creator through prayer. Constantly to be connected to Him with a request, with a plea, with a prayer like a child.

S. Why did I think that I've overcome some of my desires, instead I think that the Creator is sending me the same desires that I had?

R No, the Creator doesn't send you those desires, no, He is sending different, new desires every time, you just don't pay attention to them that they are different.

13. S. (23:29) According to the rule, ‘he who comes to kill you, rise earlier and kill him first’; if there's this country or organization whose sole purpose is to destroy you, are you compelled to go and destroy them or only when they attack you, you have to battle them?

R. That, we can't answer that, the difference between intentions and deeds, in our world it's pretty far from one another, I can't be precise about that, I can't answer precisely.

14. S. (24:21) It's written that “he didn't care about other things in the world but to cleave unto Him with his soul and desire”, what is “to cleave to Him desire and his soul”, is there a difference between this and that?

R. We still don't know what that is, you're right for asking but I don't have an answer.

15. S. (24:47) It is written about King David that he attached himself or adhered himself, it says ‘to adhere to him in Dvekut’. I wanted to ask, you always say through personal examples, can you take a personal example from King David and adhere to him and want to be like him?

R. Yes, please, sure!

16. S. (25:24) This article talks about asking for help from the Creator, clinging to the Creator, always turning to the Creator, and my friends to me are the Creator. My question is, what help am I asking for from my friends?

R. What help can I ask from the friends, for them to give me an example of how they address the Creator and ask for help so I too will be able to turn to the Creator and ask for help like they do!

17. S. (26:28) What does it mean that “he didn't care for anything else in the world”?

R. It wasn't important for him to do it, but only how he can cleave to the Creator, that was his problem.

S. You said that if you have a corporeal fear, you're asking the Creator, why is that?

R. Because that's the structure of reality.